Hearing this, Nan Yanxi couldn't help but raise her eyebrows: "You mean...the cause of my mother's death?"
Seeing Feng Yucheng nodding, Nan Yanxi smiled disdainfully: "Although I don't know the cause of death very well, I can guess a thing or two."
"The killer is powerful and comes and goes without a trace. It is simply not something that ordinary people in the world can do."
"From the time the emperor issued the decree to when my mother's accident occurred, it only took two short days."
"Those rumors, vendettas and assassinations from previous dynasties are totally wrong."
"So... the person who assassinated my mother was probably an official, and I guess it was in the court, right?"
Hearing this, Feng Yucheng was stunned for a moment, and then affirmed: "Yes, your guess is correct."
"I can tell you all the truth about that year and bring your mother to light, but... I have one request."
Nan Yanxi touched her nose: "Tell me and listen."
"It's simple, I want to live!"
Feng Yucheng raised his head and said with piercing eyes: "I know that you got the secret left by your mother."
"But as a son of a man, you have to find out the truth about how your mother died, right?"
"In this case... you give me some gold and silver and let me leave the South China Sea, and I will tell you all the truth about that day."
"How's it going? Isn't that too much to ask?"
"Not too much, not too much!" Nan Yanxi nodded with a half-smile, and then muttered: "But..."
"This palace now has great power and the entire South China Sea is under our control. Why should I ask you?"
"I don't believe it. No one in the entire South China Sea knows about this."
"Because it doesn't mean..." Feng Yucheng was still very confident: "No one knows this matter better than me."
"Besides, I am almost 70 years old. What use will my life be to you?"
"You are still young and have a lot of big things to do. How can you have time to look up these old things, right?"
"Pah...pah...pah..."
After hearing these words, Nan Yanxi couldn't help but applaud him: "Ning Guo Gong, Ning Guo Gong, I didn't expect that you are not only far-sighted..."
"This three-inch tongue is also very tight. These words are really reasonable."
"I can't help but really want to agree..."
After saying that, the conversation suddenly changed: "It's just...do you think the truth is that important?"
"Just now, I killed the crown prince of Nanhai Kingdom...but people will only know that he committed suicide out of fear of crime."
"Because I have the ability to create the truth."
After saying that, he stood up, walked a few steps outside, stood at the door with his hands behind his back, looked at the bright starry sky and sighed.
"Back then, my mother was in trouble and was killed by thieves, which also caused me to live overseas for many years."
"What now? I have returned to the South China Sea and taken charge. The mystery of the previous dynasty that you have been searching for your whole life is also in my hands."
"If my mother knows something, she should be smiling. Is the truth... so important to her and me...?"
"Even if you tell me the truth about what happened just now, what can I get except crying?"
"Mother, can he survive? So... it's better to be more practical."
"I'm going to kill you now to avoid future troubles. Don't you follow the principle of cutting the weeds but not the roots, and the spring breeze will bring new growth?"
"As for the truth..."
After a pause, Nan Yanxi continued: "If I ascend the throne and proclaim myself emperor tomorrow! I will tell the world immediately!"
"My mother was posthumously named the Empress Dowager of the Nanhai Palace."
"And tell the world that my mother wanted to implement the New Deal for the sake of the country and the people of the South China Sea."
"In the end, he offended the powerful and was assassinated by thieves!"
"When the time comes, I will also record her deeds in the annals of history and in school textbooks, so that she will be respected by everyone."
After saying that, he turned his head and asked Feng Yucheng: "I wonder what Ning Guogong thinks..."
"Which one is better, my truth or the one in your head?"
"You...you..." Feng Yucheng was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
Pointing at Nan Yanxi with trembling fingers, she stuttered for a long time, and finally sighed heavily.
He extended his thumb to him and said in admiration: "I didn't expect that at such a young age, you actually developed a dragon spirit. You are truly a hero!"
"Your father and your brother are not as good as you. The South China Sea is in your hands, and nothing could be better."
"It seems... I can't escape death today."
"That's not necessarily the case..."
Nan Yanxi on the side suddenly smiled: "Although what happened back then is not important to me or my mother, I am very curious."
"You and I have nothing to do now, so why not let me guess, is it right for you?"
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Feng Yucheng to agree, he started analyzing on his own.
"Actually, recently, Old Uncle Zhou, Prince Li Yu, Sister Yun Xi, and several elders in the palace have all talked to me about this matter."
"I summarized all the information, combined with your performance just now, and made a bold guess."
As he spoke, he turned around, stared at Feng Yucheng with sharp eyes, and said word by word: "My mother... died at the hands of your black-clad guards, right?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked instantly, and everyone looked at Feng Yucheng.
At this time, Feng Yucheng was looking at Nan Yanxi in disbelief.
After a long time, he said in a dry voice: "How...how did you guess it?"
"Haha..." Nan Yanxi smiled lightly: "Not only did I guess that he died at your hands, I also guessed..."
"The person who ordered you at that time was probably the one lying on the bed now."
"Your Highness...you mean the Emperor? This...how is this possible?"
Lao Zhou on the side couldn't help but asked: "The emperor loved my old master the most back then, how could he..."
"Why not..."
Nan Yanxi waved her hand, signaling Zhou Zhicheng to calm down, and continued to explain: "Twenty years ago, the Nanhai Court seemed calm, but in fact there was an undercurrent."
"After my father was firmly on the throne, he gradually began to suspect and persecute all the meritorious officials."
"After all, there is an old saying that goes like this: A good bird hides itself in the air, but a cunning rabbit dies in the dog's cooking."
"These meritorious ministers have great abilities and influence in the government. For a suspicious person in power, this is fatal."
"Especially those who followed him to seize the throne in the early years, either their families were confiscated and their clans were exterminated, or they were demoted to civilian status and demoted to the frontier."
"At that time, the only person left in the entire hall was Mo Jun, the King of Zhennan."
"And I guess the reason why my father didn't touch him was not because they were sworn brothers."
"It's not because he married King Zhennan's sister and Yun Xi's mother as his wife."
"These are simply insignificant to a suspicious person in power."
"What he is really afraid of is King Zhennan's elite army on the border, and King Zhennan's huge influence in the army."
"He was afraid that if he intimidated him too much, he would force King Zhennan to rebel, so he asked me to arrange a baby marriage with Sister Qing... Qingyan."
"The purpose is to stabilize King Zhennan. It will not be too late to take action when the time is right."
"Besides King Zhennan, you are the only one, Ning Guogong, who is one of the senior heroes back then."
After saying that, Nan Yanxi paused and said with great interest: "I checked and found out that in the year when the incident happened, Ning Guogong was very prosperous."
"If anyone can hide it from everyone and secretly send a team of black guards out of the city to kill people, you are the only one who can do it."
"Because at that time, you were the Minister of the Ministry of War, the Admiral of Gyeonggi Defense, and the Superintendent of the Black Guards Department."
"In addition to the Royal Guards, mobilize all Kyoto defense forces."
"The Garrison Department, the Patrol Department, the two Forbidden Forces, the Gyeonggi Yamen, and the Black Guards Department are all under your control."
"I checked in the archives of the black-clad guards that on the night of the incident, a group of nearly a hundred black-clad guards did leave the city."
"The case file says it was a secret mission, but there is no record of what it was."
"It's just...after that, this group of nearly a hundred black guards died one after another for unknown reasons."
"I felt something was wrong early on, but that time was during the purge season, and it was normal for the guards in black to be transferred frequently, so I didn't pay much attention."
"Until..." Nan Yanxi reached out and took out the letter from her arms: "Until I find this?"
Feng Yucheng raised his head and looked at it with some confusion: "This matter...the letter left by Li Shuwen?"
"But Qin Ge has also seen it, and he told me that there are no valuable clues in it."
"No!"
Nan Yanxi nodded: "But when I connected these things, the answer slowly emerged."