Moon Emperor

Chapter 141 A Confused Pursuit
After hearing this, Su Yan frowned, damn the court, damn the pursuers!
But at the same time, he had two new doubts, one was how could the old lady run back to the old house of the Su family?Isn't this self-inflicted?
The other is, who are those mysterious people?People who have been favored by the Su family in the past?

Seeing that the conversation between the two had come to an end for a while, the Taoist Zhike at the side said, "Why don't you go up and talk about it? Sit down and discuss it first, and then decide whether to go down the mountain or not."

Su Yan thought for a while and nodded, he must go down the mountain, but at least the head teacher and Gu Zhenren must be notified about this matter, so there is no rush.

Uncle Yan who was on the side also said: "The old lady knows it well, she has left enough time for her return and return, as long as the young master can rush back within ten days, I will definitely see her for the last time."

While agreeing, Su Yan asked the Taoist knower to inform the two elders.

In the empty Shangqing palace hall, after Su Yan took Uncle Yan to his seat, he immediately asked about the two doubts just now.

When Uncle Yan talked about this, he was quite puzzled, "Seven years ago, I went down the mountain to find the old lady to return to my life, but I was surprised to find that the old lady actually returned to the Su family's ancestral house."

"Although the old lady's surname is not Su, and she is not the person the court wanted to arrest, I was still surprised that she ran back rashly."

"What surprised me even more is that the ancestral house was not taken over by the court, and even other servants in the mansion went to work as usual, and everything seemed to be nothing happened."

"In the end, I took a risk. I returned to the house late at night and met the old lady secretly."

"Actually, the old lady was also very puzzled at the time. She told me about her being besieged and killed, and about being rescued."

"According to what she said, the people who rescued her were a group of masked women. They were highly skilled and well-trained. Everyone had martial arts cultivation, and there were plum blossom marks on their wrists."

Female troops?Plum mark?

Su Yan suddenly thought of a big inner guard—the plum blossom inner guard. This is a deadly soldier army formed by the empress after she ascended the throne. She is only loyal to her, and no one else can mobilize this army except her. .

The functions of the Plum Blossom Internal Guards are similar to those of the Jinyi Guards of the imperial court, but the scale is not so large, it is said that there are less than a thousand of them, and they are the absolute confidantes of the Empress.

But the empress was the one who sent people to hunt him down. How could it be her who saved the old lady of the Su family?
Seeing the young master's expression, Uncle Yan continued: "I believe you have already guessed, young master. At that time, the old lady also thought that it was very likely [Plum Blossom Internal Guard]."

"And they actually sent people back to the Su family's ancestral house, as if they thought it was a safe place."

"Holding the attitude that if you come, you will be safe, the old lady did not leave again, but sent people out to inquire about information; while waiting for me to return to my life."

"When I returned to the ancestral house, the old lady's news was almost done."

"Master, you probably didn't expect that the order to pursue you has been revoked, and even the Li family of Zhaojun who was in charge of this matter was severely punished, and many people were dismissed and demoted."

"In addition, in order to show compensation, the saint decreed that the past crimes of the Su family should be forgotten."

"That is to say, in the future, you can set foot in the capital at will, you can obtain fame, you can join the army, and the descendants of the Su family will not be implicated in the crime of treason back then."

When Uncle Yan said these words, he was quite cautious, and he didn't mean to be happy at all.

After all, this imperial decree did not vindicate the Su family, it was only because of the wrong arrest this time that the subsequent impact of the incident on the Su family was avoided.

He raised his head to carefully observe his young master's expression, and sure enough, the young master didn't show any joy, but just frowned and thought.

At this moment, Su Yan reorganized in his heart the whole story of this inexplicable pursuit.

The reason is that seven years ago, the old lady received a secret letter, which mentioned that Qin Tianjian had predicted an ominous omen during a horoscope:
The fire meteor collided with Ziwei Emperor Star, and the main demon star came to the world.

The letter also said that the imperial court and Qin Tianjian agreed that the orphan of the Su family was the magic star, so the empress personally ordered that Su Yan be taken back.

Although this secret letter was not signed, it only said that it had been favored by the Su family in the past, and I specially reminded it today; but after reading it in detail, the old lady thought that it should not be taken lightly, or that the Su family could not afford to gamble.

So she made an escape plan overnight, and asked the old servant at home to take Su Yan to flee to Mount Qingcheng.

In the follow-up, Su Yan and the others were indeed chased and killed by people from the court. Most of the pursuers were policemen in official uniforms, and even the regular troops stationed in the local area were mobilized to surround them.

Even the Duan Laosan whom I met in Shanshen Temple back then, although he didn't wear an official uniform, he was still a ninth-rank military officer with serious official documents.

Originally, there should be no doubt about the whole matter, but now the follow-up given by Uncle Yan made the situation confusing.

The old lady almost died in the siege because she helped Su Yan and the others stop the pursuers. When she was in despair, a group of women who appeared to be the internal guards of plum blossoms rescued the old lady and sent them back to the Su family.

Afterwards, the entire hunting operation was urgently stopped, and even the person in charge was held accountable and demoted.

By the way, Su Yan has an impression of the Li family of Zhao County, because the old lady explained to him back then, telling him to be more vigilant in the future.

When the Su family was prosperous in the past, it could be said to be extremely prominent in the court. When a family has reached such a height, there will naturally be no shortage of political enemies.

As for the Li family of Zhaojun, even during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they had old grievances with the Linjiangsu family.

In the past, Su Yan's grandfather, Su Wenyuan, served the Great Chu of the Southern Dynasty; and the Li family of Zhaojun was one of the top families of the Great Yan of the Northern Dynasty.

In the battle that laid the foundation for the unification of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Dajiang Tianchao, Su Wenyuan killed all the three heroes of the Li family. From grandfather, father, to son, the three generals of the Li family died in the first battle.

Afterwards, the members of the Li family in Zhaojun naturally hated the Su family and Su Wenyuan extremely, but after the battle of Dajiang, the Southern Dynasty's destruction of the Northern Dynasty has become unstoppable.

In less than three years, the army of the Southern Dynasty marched northward, completely regained the old land, and established the current unified dynasty.

Although the Chu Dynasty destroyed the Yan Dynasty, it did not kill all the old officials of the Yan Dynasty. You must know that from ancient times to the present, aristocratic families have been a very important backbone force.

Even the royal family can be regarded as one of the biggest families in the world.

According to the rules of the Central Plains, as long as the aristocratic family does not intervene in the succession of dynasties and the struggle for the throne, they will not be liquidated afterwards, and they can continue to the next dynasty. It is nothing more than changing the emperor's respect.

300 years ago, the dynasty was divided, and the civil war was fought for hundreds of years. After 300 years, the dynasty was unified, but the [seven surnames and five surnames] of that year are still standing.

There is even a saying among the people that "it is better to marry a woman with five surnames than enter the emperor's family", which shows the status of the family in the Central Plains dynasty.

(End of this chapter)