Ji Xiu looked at what was written on the letter and unconsciously clenched the paper tightly.
"Father, who is this Feng Liang?" Ji Wanyou couldn't help but ask when she saw her father's expression was wrong.
"Many years ago, before our Ji family came to Beijing, there was a servant named Feng Liang beside me..." The color in Ji Xiu's eyes was uncertain: "But when your eldest and second brother had an accident, this person was clearly
already……"
When he said this, his voice paused slightly.
But it is true that I never saw the body on the spot...
However, it was a time of war, and there were many unidentified corpses. Afterwards, many corpses of soldiers whose original appearance could not be identified were recovered and buried. He thought that Feng Liang must be among them - he had just lost his body at that time.
With two sons, he really didn't have much thought to pay attention to the whereabouts of a servant's body.
Therefore, if the other party is still alive, it is not completely impossible...
But how could the person be in the hands of the Xu family girl?
"According to this, there may be something strange about this person..." Ji Wanyou's eyes showed thoughts after hearing this.
Ji Xiu asked, "Is this letter really sent by someone from the Xu family?"
Could it be that someone deliberately used Feng Liang's story to lure him there?
He had just experienced an extremely dangerous slander and frame-up, and his current situation was not easy, so he had to be more cautious.
Ji Wanyou thought for a while, nodded firmly and said: "It shouldn't be fake. Others don't know that I have ever interacted with Miss Xu. Even if you really want to use someone else's name to deceive me and my father, I will definitely not choose Miss Xu."
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Wouldn't it be simpler and less troublesome to just use the name of a colleague who is closer to his father?
He added: "Besides, the meeting place agreed in this letter is the Yuan shop, which presumably belongs to Miss Xu's maternal grandfather's family."
Ji Xiu thought about his daughter's words for a moment, then stood up with the letter in hand.
"I'll find out if it's true or not when I go see it."
Ji Wanyou said hurriedly: "My daughter will go with you."
She was inevitably a little uneasy, firstly about her father's safety, and secondly about his father's temper.
After Ji Xiu considered it for a moment, he finally nodded: "That's fine, it won't be too late. Just prepare a few things and I'll send someone to prepare the car."
Ji Wanyou nodded and took the maid back to the courtyard to change into a simpler and less noticeable evening dress. Then she followed her father in the car and went to Yuan's shop.
It was already getting late at this time, and the city had not been peaceful recently, so it was not a particularly prosperous place. At this time, the bustling scene would have disappeared early, and many shops on the street had closed their doors.
The carriage stopped in front of the shop, and Ji Xiu and his daughter got out of the carriage. Ji Xiu glanced at the shop's sign before stepping forward.
The waiter who was about to close the door came up to him with a smile: "What a coincidence, the shop is already closed."
Ji Xiu looked at the situation in the shop without trace. Just when he was about to speak, he saw a maid come out and said to the waiter: "This is the person my girl is waiting for."
The waiter understood, turned sideways, and made a polite "please" gesture.
Ji Wanyou had recognized A-Zhu, and she felt more reassured. After exchanging glances with her father, she walked in.
Under Ah Zhu's guidance, the father and daughter walked through the front hall and arrived at the backyard.
When Ji Xiu stepped into the room, the first thing he saw was King Yan sitting in the chair.
He couldn't help but immediately became alert——
Why is King Yan here?!
Looking aside, I saw that besides the Xu family girl, there was actually a Wu Shisun?
What is this going to do to him?
"Your Majesty..." Ji Xiu's eyes flashed and he calmly raised his hand to salute.
"Ji Shangshu."
King Yan stood up and returned the courtesy with his hands raised, but his eyes looked to one side.
Ji Xiu subconsciously followed his gaze and saw in the dim light, besides a few boxes and cages, there was another person sitting in a chair.
When their eyes met, the man moved out of the chair with some difficulty, knelt down in his direction, and said hoarsely: "Master..."
Looking at the man kneeling on the ground, Ji Xiu's eyes were shocked.
"Feng Liang?!"
It's really him!
We haven't seen each other for many years, and the other party described that his attire has changed drastically. If you meet by chance on the road or you won't recognize him at a glance, but you have been mentally prepared in advance and know who you are about to see,
It will be much easier to recognize people again.
"It's a villain..." The numbness in his body disappeared a lot, and Feng Liang lowered his head, not daring to look directly into those shocked eyes.
He has been a slave of the Ji family for as long as he can remember, and his servants' fear of his master's family is almost engraved in their bones.
After Ji Wanyou's eyes flickered back and forth between her father and the kneeling man, she walked towards Xu Mingyi and silently blessed her body.
Xu Mingyi nodded lightly.
No one said much.
While the atmosphere was stagnant, Ji Wanyou's eyes returned to Feng Liang.
"Back then...you didn't die!" Ji Xiu still had a sense of surprise in his tone.
"Yes, the villain was lucky enough to escape from those men in black and save his miserable life..."
Man in black?
Ji Xiu frowned: "What man in black?"
Aren't they the enemy's pursuers?
"I don't know what I know. Back then, I and the two young masters followed His Highness King Yan to raid the enemy camp, but for some reason the enemy seemed to have prepared a response. We were surrounded and killed as soon as we got close... After desperately escaping, the situation became critical.
Your Majesty, in order to divert the pursuing troops away, His Highness the King of Yan divided his troops into two groups and asked us to take a shortcut to escort the two young masters back to the camp. However, who would have thought that a group of men in black suddenly appeared on the way..."
Even though he had roughly said these words to King Yan just now, Feng Liang still could not say them calmly when facing his former master.
At this point, his voice was hoarse and hoarse: "Those men in black were deadly. When we escaped, we were already injured and had no power to fight back. The two young masters were killed by those people's swords."
Down……"
When Ji Xiu heard this, his mind was even confused.
The death of his second son was a wound in his heart that would never heal, and he couldn't even mention it or hear about it.
But……
In order to divert the pursuing troops away, the King of Yan and Qingyun Qingcheng's troops split into two groups?!
How is this possible?
The fact is clearly that King Yan escaped alone and returned to the camp, leaving his two sons behind to delay the enemy troops!
If not, he wouldn't be so resentful about this matter that he can't let it go!
Feng Liang was still talking: "Later, I heard the conversation of those men in black and found out that they had ambushed here in advance to cut off the possibility of His Highness Prince Yan returning to the camp alive..."
But unexpectedly, His Highness King Yan took another route in order to divert the pursuers, leaving the shortcut back to the camp to his young master.
"That's enough!" Ji Xiu's clenched fists were trembling and his lips were livid: "If such an incident really happened, why didn't you come back to report the news? Instead, after so many years, you suddenly said these nonsense without any evidence.
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Seeing this, Ji Wanyou hurriedly stepped forward to help him: "Father..."
Ji Xiu's eyes were fixed on Feng Liang.
Feng Liang's eyes were slightly red, and he was filled with shame: "In the final analysis, he is a villain who is greedy for life and afraid of death... After he had a chance to escape, he was seriously injured, and he was afraid of encountering those men in black who were searching everywhere again, so he hid for several days.
Recuperate... After the injury has recovered a little, I will lose the face and courage to go back to see the master..."
This is the case with some things. If you fail to do it at the time and "calm down" afterwards, you often lose the courage.
He had injured his legs and feet at that time, and he only wanted to save his life and stabilize himself, and never wanted to return to the military camp to live a precarious life.
In addition, he only thought that the two young masters were dead at that time, and that those people were going for King Yan, rather than deliberately targeting his master. Of course, there would be no use for him to go back. He never thought of the two young masters.
His death will be misinterpreted and even made a fuss about.
His tone didn't sound like he was lying, and Ji Xiu's mind was buzzing with many voices mixed together.
If this is true...
His two sons did not die at the sword of the enemy, but died in a conspiracy and became victims of other people's plans?!
Thinking of this possibility, Ji Xiu even felt unsteady for a moment.
Ji Wanyou held her father's arm tightly.
Naturally, she had heard her father talk about the old stories of the two brothers more than once.
But could it be that the reason that my father had been so convinced of for so many years was actually a misunderstanding with ulterior motives?
"Do you know who ordered those men in black?" Ji Wanyou asked Feng Liang.
Feng Liang shook his head: "The villain can't be sure..."
"The same person who leaked the news that we were planning to raid the enemy camp at night should be the same envoy." King Yan looked at Ji Xiu and said, "And the two traitors who were later found out were just used by the other party.
Just a cover-up scapegoat."
"Father, do you still have some memories of what happened back then?" Ji Wanyou asked softly.
If what Feng Liang said is true, then the estrangement between his father and His Highness King Yan must have been deliberately guided by someone with intentions, and the person who took the opportunity to guide him was probably the mastermind behind the scenes.
Ji Xiu's face turned pale and he clenched his trembling teeth.
The troops returned to camp in two groups...
He vaguely remembered hearing King Yan say this.
But at that time, he didn't believe it at all, and just regarded it as a lie used by the other party to shirk responsibility.
Because of this, he felt more and more that the death of his two sons was not worth it... Two sincere children lost their lives because of such a hypocritical and irresponsible person. How could he be willing to do so?!
And the reason why he was so convinced that King Yan was lying was not just out of narrow speculation...
At that time, someone secretly 'revealed' with him how King Yan asked his two sons to cut off the queen and delay the pursuit of troops. There were even soldiers who could testify...
Are those all fake?
Looking at Shangshu Ji who expressed excitement over and over again, Xu Mingyi sighed slightly in his heart.
When people are in great pain, if a hateful person appears, it seems to be a way to vent their grief. Because of this, it is easier to be deceived.
"Ji was just an unknown person back then...who would go to such trouble to provoke Ji!" Ji Xiu squeezed out a sneer from between his teeth.
Ji Wanyou opened her mouth to say something - if she said that she deliberately killed her two brothers just to provoke her father, this reason is indeed unconvincing. But her two brothers were already dead at that time, and if she could go along with the flow and win over her father,
Being hostile to the King of Yan is just a matter of effort, why wouldn't the other party do the same?
But she didn't speak.
Because she knew that her father would not have thought of this. These subconscious rebuttals at this time were just because deep down in her heart she did not want to believe other possibilities...
My father must have done too much for this...and all of this was most likely used by others.
And the person who took advantage of her father may be the person who actually killed her two brothers...
How could my father admit and accept such a sudden and cruel fact in front of King Yan?
King Yan probably understood this and did not refute anything at this time.
However, Ji Xiu could not suppress the turmoil in his heart: "...so many years have passed since the incident. How can Ji be convinced by just a few words from Feng Liang! Moreover, the prince mentioned this matter again and again and tried his best to find this person.
, it’s nothing more than trying to get away from what happened back then... I don’t know if it’s another plot and instigation against Ji!”
He couldn't believe anyone at this moment!
These words were undoubtedly arrogant, and they also indirectly admitted that he was resentful about this matter. However, King Yan was not angry at all, and only said calmly: "I have never thought about taking anything away from this, nor have I ever thought that
I have no responsibility for this matter. It was never like this before.
I think it's even worse today - in the final analysis, I was involved in what happened to Qingyun and Qingcheng back then, and there's no escaping this. And the reason why I keep pursuing this matter is because I don't want the truth to be buried and the people to die in vain.
Unable to rest in peace, Master Ji was deceived again and again."
Facing those magnanimous eyes with no escape, Ji Xiu's eyes even alternated between light and dark.
He almost gritted his teeth and said word by word: "These words I heard tonight...Ji doesn't believe a word of them! Wan'er, let's go!"
Before he finished speaking, he turned around suddenly.
While Ji Wanyou supported her unstable father, she hurriedly nodded to Xu Mingyi and others.
Behind him, Feng Liang, who was kneeling in the room, kowtowed heavily and said in a hoarse and trembling voice: "Back then, I was greedy for life and fearful of death, so I failed to protect the two young masters with all my strength. I really failed to do what the master asked me to do! In order to avoid punishment afterwards, I never reported the truth to the master.
The truth has caused the master to be deceived for many years, which is an unforgivable crime... Today, the villain will make his knowledge clear, and he will be able to rest in peace even if he has to die to apologize!"
"You dare to die and try it!"
Ji Xiu suddenly turned around and said in an aggressive tone: "If you leave two words that you don't know whether they are true or not, you will rush to die to apologize. If you really have this intention, why are you hiding so far? What's more, death will prove that what you said is true.
Is that so! Before I really find out about this matter, you'd better keep your head tied tightly, otherwise I will just think you are lying and die out of fear of crime!"
Naturally, this was not just for Feng Liang.
King Yan just watched Ji Xiu strode away.
Whether it was true or false, he thought Shangshu Ji had already made a rough judgment in his mind.
Ji Wanyou helped Ji Xiu leave the shop and get on the carriage.
As soon as Ji Xiu sat down in the car, he said to the driver in a deep voice: "Go to Mingkangfang!"
Mingkangfang?
After Ji Wanyou reacted for a moment, she couldn't help but be shocked.
