"Grandpa, if you are playing chess against yourself, no matter how good the game is, what's the point?"
After she put away the chessboard, she pushed one of the chess boxes in front of him.
"You want to play chess with grandpa?" Feng Zhenhai looked surprised. In the impression, she had been crazy and stupid for the past ten years. When did she learn to play chess?
"Didn't you go down with your grandfather when you were a kid?" Feng Jiuer's memories were so confusing that even she couldn't sort them out.
The memory of these ten years is very blurry. The memory of ten years ago, even though I was still young at that time, I remember many things clearly.
The chess game has begun. Feng Jiuer was completely defeated at first and couldn't even remember the rules. But soon, he started to become more comfortable.
Naturally, the old man intended to give in, but later on, he had to start thinking more seriously.
The little girl's chess skills have improved rapidly. It seems that she just forgot how to play. Once she figured out the way, her ideas immediately came out.
She... was really just like she was when she was a child, and in the blink of an eye, she became the old man's favorite again.
"My ninth girl is really back!"
After one game, although the old man won easily, he became more and more interested: "Girl, let's play another game!"
"good."
In the second game, Jiu'er still lost, but the old man knew that it would be more and more difficult for him to win.
In the third round, Jiuer still lost.
In the fourth game, I played for a long time, and even after the dinner time, I still didn’t finish the game.
"Jiu Yatou, you are trying so hard to win against grandpa!" Although the old man was struggling, his mood was getting better and better.
Jiuer smiled slightly: "Yes, Grandpa, I'm working hard. If I win, can Grandpa answer my question?"
"What's the problem?"
The smile on Jiu'er's lips faded a lot. She held the chess piece and hesitated for a while before putting it down.
"I want to know where my grandpa and uncle are now."
Ever since he learned that his grandfather and uncle's family had been framed by Nanmen Rong and sent to the frontier, Jiu'er asked Xing Zizhou to investigate the matter when he returned home, wanting to know where they were now.
But I didn't expect that there was no news about the Long family at all in the place where they were assigned.
Xing Zizhou was searched in several surrounding border towns, but there was still no news at all.
Who can remember clearly what happened more than ten years ago?
At that time, her uncle was just a handsome young man of sixteen or seventeen years old, but like her mother, he became famous on the battlefield. What kind of honor was that?
She was thinking about her uncle's strange illness, and desperately wanted to find her grandfather and uncle, and wanted to know how they were doing now.
But more than ten years have passed, and the Long family, which was once so famous, has now disappeared from the world.
Feng Jiuer looked at Feng Zhenhai, and Feng Zhenhai's expression suddenly darkened as she expected.
"It has been so many years since the incident. They have long since left the imperial city and are missing. What are you asking for?" Feng Zhenhai said calmly, clearly intending to avoid the topic.
However, since Jiu'er raised the topic, it was impossible to stop there.
"My mother did not die of illness, she was trapped and died on the battlefield because the queen at that time deliberately withheld reinforcements, right?"
"you……"
"It was Nanmen Rong who said it himself." Feng Jiu'er stared at him, not allowing him to evade anymore, "Grandpa, Jiu'er knows that it is rare for the Feng family to be at peace now, and Jiu'er doesn't want to break everything in the Feng family."
The Feng family cannot afford to offend the Nanmen clan, and she knows it in her heart.
"Jiu'er just wants to know how my grandfather and uncle are doing now? Grandpa, please understand Jiu'er's feelings. They are all Jiu'er's closest relatives."
Feng Zhenhai turned away, and Jiu'er immediately walked over and knelt down in front of him: "Grandpa, if something happens to grandpa today, Jiu'er will definitely get to the bottom of it. Grandpa, please understand!"
Feng Zhenhai sighed helplessly: "Grandpa understands your feelings, but... alas!"
He sighed again, and then said quietly: "What's the use of knowing it? Grandpa doesn't want you to live in pain for the rest of your life."
"Grandpa, even if it's useless, Jiu'er still wants to know. Please tell Jiu'er, how are my grandfather and uncle now? Where are they?"
Even if he was sent to the frontier, there should be records, but why couldn't Xing Zizhou be traced at all?
After the last incident where he pretended to be the Nine Emperors Uncle and went on an expedition, Jiu'er already recognized Xing Zizhou's investigative abilities, but he couldn't even detect Xing Zizhou. Isn't it weird?
How can such a big family just disappear without saying a word?
Feng Zhenhai was really in a dilemma. Regarding this matter, he would rather Jiu'er didn't know anything.
If she could still be as silly as she was in the past, maybe her life would be easier.
But now Jiu'er... is so smart and such a good granddaughter, how can she continue to be stupid?
Feng Zhenhai really didn't know what he was thinking. After struggling for a while, he lowered his head and looked at the girl who was still kneeling on the ground.
"It's not that grandpa doesn't want to tell you, but grandpa is afraid that if you find out, you will... get into trouble."
"Grandpa!" Jiu'er grabbed the corner of his clothes. Since grandpa said this, it means that some unknown things happened that year.
At least, not known to her.
"Grandpa, please..."
"The Long family is on their way to the frontier..." Feng Zhenhai clenched his palms tightly, and his knuckles were faintly white.
His face looked very bad, and there was a trace of invisible anger hidden in his eyes. After the anger, there was a burst of melancholy and regret.
Finally, he let out a long sigh and said in a deep voice: "On the way, they encountered bandits and were... wiped out."
"How is that possible?" Everyone in the Long family was born in martial arts. How could ordinary bandits kill them?
If there were a large number of particularly powerful bandits, it would be even more impossible. Which bandit would rob a group of prisoners being taken to the border?
What is the plot of bandits robbing prisoners? Who doesn’t know that the prisoners have nothing on them? Is the plot fun?
"Impossible, absolutely impossible, this is a conspiracy!"
Feng Jiuer stood up suddenly, her nails almost penetrated her palms!
Is this actually the truth of the matter? The whole family was wiped out? By a group of bandits?
"No way!"
Feng Zhenhai knew that once the matter was told to her, it would definitely happen like this.
Who doesn’t know that this is a conspiracy, but no one investigated it back then, so it’s easier said than done now.
Suddenly thinking of something, Feng Zhenhai grabbed Feng Jiuer's wrist and lowered his voice: "Grandpa knows what you are thinking, but I'm afraid this matter has nothing to do with the Queen."
Feng Jiuer was stunned for a moment, with a look of surprise on his face: "Grandpa, why..."
