"How is this possible?" Lan Qiao said emotionally, "You mean, Uncle Xu has been yours from the beginning?"

"Do you still remember the Dongling Ferry outside Jingzhou City?"

"Of course, for me, that's where everything started. At that time, Uncle Xu and Dad were still on the boat having a debate about reducing the vassal status..." Lan Qiao suddenly paused, widened his eyes and said, "You are

explain……"

"Yes, at that time the Erqihui had decided to disrupt the world by promoting the reduction of vassalage. That debate was actually our last attempt." Hua Yuxi said regretfully, "Unfortunately, Uncle Dingyuan firmly opposed the reduction of vassalage.

Mr. Xu’s persuasion was fruitless, so he secretly told the hall master your whereabouts.”

"Is that why An Xiaohan challenged me on the roadside later?" Lan Qiao recalled the cause and effect of the incident and murmured: "No wonder An Xiaohan said before he fell that he and my father were both killed by his own people.

I didn't understand what he meant at the time, but it turned out that the 'one of our own' he meant was actually Uncle Xu."

"Uncle Dingyuan was betrayed by his most trusted old friend, and the hall master became an abandoned son of the Erqi Society. That's why he lamented about the reincarnation of heaven before he died."

"But in this case, An Xiaohan and Uncle Xu should stand on the same front. How could Uncle Xu kidnap An Yixin and take us to Yueyang to deal with An Xiaohan? Does this do him any good?"

"The inside story here is extremely complicated. Are you interested, sir, in listening to me tell you a story first?"

"Tell me, I learned more truth tonight than I have in the past few years combined, and there is not more than this story."

"If this story begins, it must start with the Battle of Poyang Lake in the 23rd year of Zhizheng, that is, 38 years ago. That year, Chen Youliang's Han army and the late emperor's navy fought a decisive battle at Poyang Lake. Chen Youliang

Sitting on a more powerful warship, he was ultimately defeated by the late emperor and defeated at Poyang Lake."

"That was the key battle that the late emperor established for the Ming Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to say that he became a household name."

"After the defeat of the Han army, the late emperor took advantage of the victory to cover up the attack. Han general Zhang Dingbian led his most elite three thousand victory battalion to protect Chen Youliang's youngest son Chen Li and broke out."

"At that time, Zhang Dingbian was known as the best master of the Han army. Only Master Shen on the late emperor's side could beat him."

"Chang Yuchun pursued Zhang Dingbian on the order of the late emperor. Although he experienced several twists and turns, he finally surrounded the Dingsheng army near a small fishing village in Hubei. That night, the proud Chang Yuchun drank a lot

Liquor, decided to launch a general attack at dawn the next day."

"Since it's a story, something unexpected must have happened that night."

"Just after three o'clock that night, a sentry came to report that he had caught an enemy spy. Chang Yuchun saw that the spy was thin and his head and face were covered with a sack, so he took him into the camp and planned to interrogate him personally. He uncovered

After opening the sack covering the spy's face, I didn't expect that the spy was actually a beautiful woman."

"So he just..."

"He had been marching out for a long time, and he was drunk that day, so he didn't think much about it and left the beautiful woman in his tent overnight. It wasn't until the next day that he found out that the small fishing village that Dingsheng Camp was besieged was actually the

Zhang Dingbian’s hometown, and the beautiful woman he left behind is Zhang Dingbian’s youngest daughter.”

"I heard that the soldiers in the Dingsheng Battalion were personally recruited and trained by Zhang Dingbian in the villages near his hometown. If the two armies really fight, they will have nowhere to retreat. They will fight to the death and refuse to surrender.

.”

"If we follow common sense, the Dingsheng Battalion will fight to the last soldier. But Zhang Dingbian couldn't bear to see his father and fellow countrymen stained with blood on the battlefield, so he tried to ask Chang Yuchun to spare his side."

"He just gave away his biological daughter as a bargaining chip. He is really cruel as a father."

"Later, Chang Yuchun turned a blind eye and let Zhang Dingbian and Chen Li go, but left behind Miss Zhang and the three thousand surrendered troops of the Dingsheng Battalion. He knew that if the incident happened one day, he would

Unable to escape the serious crime of collaborating with the enemy, he took advantage of the late emperor's opportunity to attack Wuchang and secretly moved the soldiers of the Dingsheng Battalion to an unknown secret place to rebuild their homes and let these people live there for generations."

Lan Qiao finally understood her story and blurted out: "The secret place where Dingsheng camp can rebuild its home is Chushui City!"

Hua Yuxi nodded, and continued: "Zhang Dingbian took Chen Li back to Wuchang. After holding on for several months, he had no choice but to surrender. The late emperor admired Zhang Dingbian very much and wanted to reuse him. Unfortunately, Zhang Dingbian lived in his own life after what happened.

Amid the responsibility and guilt, he no longer had the heart to go to war, nor could he face his daughter again. Not long after, he became a monk and traveled around the world with bamboo sticks and mango shoes, and no one knew his whereabouts."

"What happened to Miss Zhang next?"

"Miss Zhang and the soldiers from the Dingsheng Battalion were placed in Chushui City. Chang Yuchun was unable to visit often due to military affairs, so he asked his brother-in-law Lan Yu to take charge of Chushui City. The following year, Miss Zhang was

Chang Yuchun gave birth to a son, but Chang Yuchun was always worried that the matter would be exposed and did not dare to give him the surname Chang. In the end, it was Miss Zhang who came up with the idea to name the child An Xiaohan."

"It turns out that An Xiaohan is Chang Yuchun's son." Lan Qiao thought of the three portraits hanging in the deepest part of the Chushui City ancestral hall, "So the three portraits in your ancestral hall should be Chang Yuchun, Zhang Dingbian and

Miss Zhang."

"It was them. A few years later, Chang Yuchun died of illness, and Lan Yu became the master of Chushui City. While waiting for the opportunity to serve the court, he raised the master of the hall and put his martial arts skills without reservation.

Teach it to him."

"It turns out that An Xiaohan was Lan Yu's adopted son. No wonder later Lan Daoxing and Lan Xiangzi, among the Thirteen Taibao, were willing to work for Chushui City."

"A few years later, Lan Yu began to be used in important roles by the military. He didn't have time to stay in Chushui City all the time, so he found his apprentice who was eight years older than the hall master and asked this apprentice to take care of the hall master on his behalf.

Until the hall master grows up."

"Eight years older?" Lan Qiao was keenly aware of what Hua Yuxi wanted to say, and lost his voice: "So Lan Yu's apprentice is..."

"He was the later Mr. Xu." Hua Yuxi nodded, "Compared to the hall master who specializes in swordsmanship, Mr. Xu has a wider range of interests and has a deep understanding of medicine, military and politics."

"I didn't expect that Uncle Xu and Chu Shuicheng would have such a deep relationship." Lan Qiao sighed softly: "I think it was precisely because of this that An Yixin was easily deceived and abducted by Uncle Xu."

Hua Yuxi nodded slightly and agreed with Lan Qiao's words: "The hall master took sole control of Chushui City after he was sixteen years old. Mr. Xu, who was twenty-four years old at the time, joined the army as a general under Lan Yu's ingenious arrangement and followed Lan Yu.

He made many military exploits and made good friends with the later Marquis of Wenchang, Uncle Dingyuan and others in the army."

At this point, Lan Qiao finally understood the origins of Chu Shuicheng and Xu Qiuyu. He breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "You said that you also learned your medical skills from Uncle Xu. When did that happen?"

"Although Mr. Xu often goes to war with Lan Yu, he is also stationed in the capital when there is no war. Because of his medical skills, he is often invited by dignitaries from various governments to diagnose patients in their houses or with connections. It is said that even

The current Emperor Jianwen was also treated by him. Of course, my family is one of them."

"Is anyone in your family sick?"

"That's me." Hua Yuxi said with a bitter smile, "I suffered from a strange disease when I was young. I often fainted suddenly for no reason, so my father invited Mr. Xu to diagnose my pulse and prescribe medicine to nurse me back to health."

"He cured you later?"

"It's considered stable, and I won't do it again under normal circumstances." Hua Yuxi seemed unwilling to mention this past event too much, and said lightly: "It took a total of six or seven years, and Mr. Xu and I met a lot.

I also learned a lot of medical theory from him and became a doctor after a long illness. Later we moved to Jiangpu. When I was depressed, I liked to go to his medicine shop. He lent me medical books and discussed with me the treatment of some difficult diseases.

As time went by, I became more or less familiar with the ideas."

"You are too modest to say that." Lan Qiao didn't know whether he was worried about her health or wanted to know more about Xu Qiuyu, so he asked further: "You said that your condition is stable rather than cured. Could it be that you still have some symptoms?"

What are the side effects?”

"If I think about something extremely difficult and my mind is too exhausted, I may faint again." Hua Yuxi glanced at Lan Qiao secretly, bit her lips, and said timidly: "And, because when I was a child

I used so much medicine that when my feet sweat later, there will be a strange smell like medicine."

By the end of her speech, her voice was so low that it was almost inaudible, and she wished she could find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

Lan Qiao recalled that when he and she were warming up by the fire under the misty mountains, the shoes and socks she took off would keep the mosquitoes away. He couldn't help but laugh and said: "It turns out that there is such an unknown reason behind the barefoot display of the Hua family.

This shows how hard it is to live in the world with another identity.”

"Young master, stop talking. This is the last thing the slave family wants to mention." Hua Yuxi covered her red cheeks with her hands in shame, puffed up her mouth as if she was angry, and said angrily: "Young Master is still laughing! The slave family is so embarrassed.
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