Chapter 518 The male protagonist's cannon fodder cousin (41)
In the house, Sikong was peeling peanuts and drinking tea.
Seeing him throwing twenty or thirty peanuts into his mouth in a short while, Xu Yin couldn't help but ask: "You haven't used your lunch yet?"
"Lunch? What day are you asking? Yesterday, I haven't used Qian'er's lunch boy yet. Otherwise, do you think my feet are so fast? No matter how good my Qinggong is, I can't shrink into an inch.
I’ll rush here from the capital in the next day.”
"Then you didn't tell me earlier?" Xu Yin sighed helplessly and went out again, asking Hong Qian to bring a dinner.
Sikong added: "Just make whatever is ready-made in the kitchen, even soup noodles."
"..." Do you really think that my sister's place is a restaurant?
"What, the former emperor really died?"
Seeing that he had just returned from the capital, Xu Yin asked questions politely.
"He is the mastermind behind the scenes, right?"
"Prince Rui has become the emperor, so doesn't Xu Kui become the prince? I used to let him run errands, be the shopkeeper, and do so much work for me. Will the new emperor come to hold me accountable?"
Sikong: "..."
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Look, you have to answer so many questions just for a simple meal. Tsk!
That's all, if he doesn't tell her the truth, he will be treated to a vase next time he comes.
After the sumptuous meal was served, Sikong talked about the whole story while eating.
Xu Yin was stunned when she heard this.
The brothers, the former emperor and Prince Rui, had been fighting since their father appointed the prince, and they were not as harmonious as the outside world said.
In fact, the former emperor's throne was not so open and honest, and he might have been snatched from Prince Rui. Therefore, there was always a thorn in his heart. Unless Prince Rui was completely suppressed, the throne would not be secure.
So, while Princess Rui was in the palace for a banquet, she mixed in safflower powder to induce labor into a soup she liked.
Unexpectedly, Princess Rui was very healthy during her pregnancy. I thought she could give birth to a baby in the womb. If the baby was a boy, the midwife would do it to cause it to be stillborn. However, Princess Rui showed no signs of giving birth until she left the womb. Instead, she gave birth to a baby.
The palace gates began to move, and the child was born on the road.
At this time, it was too late to cause the stillbirth. The guards sent by the emperor to keep an eye on the baby pretended to be robbers and took away the child.
If the emperor had killed the child directly at this time, there would be no such thing. But he was very scheming and came up with a bad idea. He handed the child to his confidant and asked the confidant to send the child to the Seven Star Gate, the most evil sect in the world, as a child.
It must be very exciting to train him as an assassin and send him to assassinate King Rui when he grows up.
Unexpectedly, no one in the Qixing Sect had experience in taking care of infants, so they lost the baby after participating in a martial arts competition.
Just throw it away, they won't take it seriously.
Until three years ago, King Rui did not give the emperor any face in court, and the emperor was so angry that he thought of the child, so he asked his confidants to go to the Seven Star Gate to bring the child back. It was time to launch the assassination plan. He was waiting to see the father and son massacred.
Unexpectedly, the confidant returned empty-handed and reported: Qixingmen lost the child.
The emperor was angry and lost it? Why not find it if it was lost?
After seeing the imperial token, the Seven Star Sect realized how big the lost child was. In order to protect the entire sect from being hunted down by the court, they had to spread their disciples around to look for the child with a plum blossom-shaped red birthmark on his calf.
"The people from Qixingmen pretended to be bandits and killed your parents. I thought they were murderers and silencers before." Sikong had eaten and drank enough, and poured himself a cup of hawthorn tea, which is good for digesting and relieving tiredness. He drank it very comfortably and did not hesitate to say more.
Point, "It wasn't until the old emperor was captured and the truth was told that he knew it was wrong."
"Isn't it?" Xu Yin asked doubtfully, "What's the reason?"
"The old emperor always thought that the owner of Qizhen Pavilion was a disciple of Prince Rui's Mansion. Seeing that Qizhen Pavilion had made countless fortunes for Prince Rui's Mansion, he had long wanted to get rid of it quickly. When King Rui summoned your parents, it happened that the people from Qixing Clan were here.
If you are looking for Prince Rui's heirs nearby, hire them to kill your parents to vent your anger."
Xu Yin was shocked: "It's actually like this... So is my ancestor really a member of Prince Rui's palace?"
In fact, there is a question that has been bothering her for a long time. If Qizhen Pavilion is so profitable, doesn't the imperial court covet it?
If it is backed by Prince Rui's Mansion, then all this makes sense.
"I can't call you a close friend, but Mr. Xu had an acquaintance with Princess Rui's father. The two had a very happy conversation. They once wanted to invite them to tea, and were seen by many people. King Rui wanted to have a good relationship with the older generation.
Please take good care of the Qizhen Pavilion."
Xu Yin suddenly realized: "So that's it..."
Then tell the housekeeper later so that he no longer has to bear the psychological burden. The former emperor was the real culprit in the death of his parents. Now he was forced to take poison and died by King Rui. This can be considered as revenge for his parents.
"When did King Rui find out that all this was done by the former emperor? Was it after he recognized Xu Kui?"
"Before this. To be precise, after your parents were killed by someone pretending to be a bandit, he came to our Qianji Pavilion. Either Qianji Pavilion didn't accept the mission, or there was no failure if it did. No, the former emperor
It came to the surface. Many unclear ideas were easily solved, just like peeling off threads and cocoons."
Xu Yin watched this guy boasting in silence, and couldn't help but say: "It's really wronging you. You have to disguise yourself as an accountant to accept a task. By the way, if I hadn't kept you because of my soft heart, you wouldn't have been able to enter the Xu Mansion.
Xu Kui cannot be found, but the people from Qixing Sect have spies all over Luo City. They have people in every village in Xu Mansion, so today's ending will be completely different."
"..." What this girl said is very heartbreaking!
"But the facts prove that Qianji Pavilion did not fail!" Sikong looked at her proudly.
Xu Yin: "..."
Forget it, what's the point of competing with a martial arts master?
Isn't it a shame to turn around and make someone angry, so you can kill yourself with just a twitch of your little finger?
"What position do you hold in Qianji Pavilion?"
Touting your own company so hard? At least it needs to be from the top, right?
Xu Yin asked curiously: "You are so powerful, then doesn't the Pavilion Master come and go without a trace, without showing his face, and can kill whoever he wants with a wave of his palm from a long distance away?"
Sikong was amused by her description and laughed dumbly: "The master of the pavilion is my master, but he is really not as powerful as you said. But he likes to hear what you say. The old guy has no other hobbies except studying martial arts.
He likes to drink and brag, and it’s best if someone cheers him up after bragging. The praise makes him feel comfortable, and he is happy to do things for others without taking any money.”
Do you want to work hard for Prince Rui's Mansion? It's all a debt of praise you owe when you are praised so highly!
Xu Yin tried not to laugh out loud, thinking to herself, master and apprentice, you two are very compatible, don’t you also like to play?
But she only dared to say these words in her heart.
Sikong raised his head and looked out the window. The sun was scorching hot. He was too lazy to go down the mountain at this time, so he asked Xu Yin for a guest room and went to rest.
It's not an exaggeration to say that he has been traveling all the way from the capital without stopping just to answer her questions this morning and give him a guest room to entertain him, right?
What else could Xu Yin say? Let Wang Huyuan take him to the front yard to choose a guest room, and he could stay for as many days as he wanted.
Just think of hiring a skilled nursing home care provider who provides food, accommodation, and no need to pay.
"Master Sikong, please come here! Thank you for your hard work, Master Sikong!" When Wang Huyuan saw Sikong, he was extremely attentive.
"Wang Huyuan has betrayed!" Hong Qian said angrily, "I don't treat girls like this to Sikong... Hey, his name is Sikong, right? Isn't it a pseudonym?"
Sikong could even hear the faint sound of breaking through the air, let alone the conversation between master and servant. After hearing this, he turned to Xu Yin and blinked: "Sikong Jin, I will change my name if I want to, but I will not change my surname!"
Xu Yin: "..."
My feet felt weak.
Yaoshou!
"Girl? Girl, what's wrong with you?"
After Hong Qian helped the girl steady, she saw her staring blankly in the direction of the front yard. Looking along her line of sight, there was nothing.
"Girl, do you have anything else to say to Hero Sikong? How about I invite him again?"
"No, no, no!" Xu Yin came back to her senses, returned to the room, and leaned on the couch, "I'm a little sleepy and want to take a nap."