Be an emperor from drawing cards

Chapter 77 I trust King Taihe as much as I trust the general! 【4000 words】

In the winter of the sixth year of Huangfeng, the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

The cold wind howled, and the heavy snow last night dyed the whole world a white.

As the sun rises, many traders and travelers who are preparing to enter the city early have gathered outside the four gates of Shenjing City.

As they clapped their hands, they complained why the city guards hadn't opened the city gate yet.

Among the crowd, a middle-aged man in ragged clothes looked at the majestic city wall and murmured:

"finally reached."

In the past three months, he traveled across mountains and rivers from the southwest border, and finally made it here with just one pair of legs.

"Father, your grievances will be redressed immediately."

He tightened his tattered padded jacket, tightly held the jade pendant in his hand, and let out a soft breath.

Two long white arrows sprayed out from his nostrils, more than ten centimeters in length, causing the surrounding people to cry out in surprise.

Ignoring those curious people, when the city gate opened, he followed the crowded flow of people and stepped into the city of Shenjing.

"Father said that he had an old relationship with Fan Zhen and Fang Chao. Now Fang Chao is following the old thieves north to resist the Jin army. Fan Zhen is the only one left in this sacred city. However, now I am an imperial prisoner, and the other party is a hand of the imperial court. It would be difficult for the general who held the real power to see him directly. It seemed that he could only act according to the circumstances. Fortunately, he was walking on a mountain road that was rarely visited, so he saved a lot of money and found a place to change it first. Let's talk about clothes."

The middle-aged man thought so in his heart, but kept walking towards a clothing store.

Not long after, a well-dressed man walked out of the store and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

That night.

A black shadow quietly moved towards the direction of Fan Zhen's mansion.

However, when he climbed over the courtyard wall and just landed, there were bursts of sounds of swords being unsheathed around him, and the next moment, a voice sounded in the courtyard.

"What a little thief, you broke into Commander Fan's residence without permission!"

Oops!

The man in black tensed up, but before he could make a move, all the lamps in each wing of Fan Zhen's house were lit.

In an instant, the entire Fan Mansion was like daylight.

Looking at the dozens of guards surrounding him and the hounds barking at their feet, the heart of the man in black sank to the bottom.

He had no idea that the Fan Mansion would be so tightly guarded.

But he has a heavy responsibility, and even now, he can't hide everything. He immediately exhaled and said loudly:
"General Fan deserves to be a famous general under the prince's arm, I admire him! But, when an old friend comes to visit, won't General Fan come out to meet him?"

"Oh, I don't have any old friends who dare not show their true colors."

With a cold snort, Fan Zhen, who was wearing casual clothes and carrying a short spear, came out of the bedroom.

"Don't do anything bad, and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door! A villain like you, it's kind of me not to let the guards take you down on the spot."

As Fan Zhen said, he felt a little puzzled.

The other party's voice was somewhat familiar, where did he seem to have heard it before?
"What's wrong with you? I've never done anything wrong!" The masked man snorted coldly and said, "General Fan, do you dare to talk to me alone?"

Why does this person's voice become more and more familiar?
Fan Zhen thought secretly, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his heart, and he remembered someone.

not……

impossible!
Suppressing the astonishment in his heart, Fan Zhen remained calm and snorted coldly:

"Don't use tricks to provoke me! I am on the battlefield, and I am not afraid of facing thousands of enemy troops, let alone a mere thief like you. Don't stop him, little thief, if you have any If you are brave, just follow me!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked towards an unused wing room.

Seeing this, the man in black looked around and saw that the guards put their swords back into their sheaths, and just stared at him.

"You, General Fan, are not afraid, so why should I be afraid?"

The masked man stabbed the long knife in his hand towards the ground, and followed behind Fan Zhen with his bare hands.

The two of them entered the wing that had been idle for a long time.

Fan Zhen turned around and whispered:

"I heard your voice familiar. Now there are only you and me in this room, and only you know what I say. Heaven knows, God knows, and ghosts know. If so, why don't you let me see your true face?" ?”

"General Fan is really brave!"

The masked man laughed, raised his hand and took off his mask, fell to his knees with a plop, and cried:
"Wu Kan, the son of an old man in the southwest, pay my respects to my uncle!"

Fan Zhen had a look of horror on his face, subconsciously took a step back and exclaimed: "You, are you really Brother Wu's son?"

"With my late father on my side, Yi doesn't dare to change his name privately."

"The one I killed with my own hands back then..."

Speaking of this, Fan Zhen's face faintly showed pain.

"Back to my uncle, my father guessed this day back then. He asked the dead man to pretend to be a boy, and then secretly sent me out of Wujiabao before the officers and soldiers encircled me. The boy was lucky enough to save his life."

Wu Kan was sobbing at this moment.

"Wait, you said Brother Wu already knew that the government army was coming to suppress, so why did you rebel?"

Fan Zhen asked subconsciously.

"Uncle Fan, my father said that you and him are old friends, don't you even think that the rebellion was initiated by my father?" Wu Kan blushed, and hissed, "The Shangguan has an order, so I have to obey, and my father is also ordered by my father." Forced!"

"You mean..."

Fan Zhen felt a surge of fear in his heart.

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

"Uncle Fan, this is a blood book written by my father. Uncle will understand the cause and effect after reading it." Wu Kan took out a neatly folded silk book from his arms and placed it in front of Fan Zhen. He untied the jade pendant from his wrist and handed it to Fan Zhen, "My father asked me to bring this jade pendant, saying that as long as Uncle Fan and Uncle Fang saw this jade pendant, they would understand the cause and effect. Originally, my nephew was He wanted to find Uncle Fang, but he went north with that old thief and was not in Shenjing, so he had no choice but to venture into Uncle Fan's mansion at night, hoping that Uncle would forgive him."

Fan Zhen no longer had the heart to listen to Wu Kan's last words.

He opened the silk book with trembling hands, and the first thing that caught his eyes was the handwriting that he was all too familiar with, "Brother Fang/Brother Fan personally".

After pursing his lips a few times, Fan Zhen looked down line by line, and his tiger eyes gradually became moist.

That's the way it is, no wonder you and I met again after breaking through the Wujiabao that day, you would say the phrase "I didn't expect that it was you who came"...

I originally thought you were lamenting the impermanence of life before you died, but now it seems that you are lamenting that I have become a butcher's knife in Huang Jingming's hands.

A butcher knife for slaughtering friends!

Wu Cheng, brother, I'm sorry for you!
"Uncle, when my father started the rebellion, it was all under the secret instruction of the old thief. Afterwards, he led the troops to put down the rebellion, and even killed people to silence him."

Wu Kan on the side wanted to continue speaking, but was interrupted by Fan Zhen, who had a look of pain on his face.

"Nephew, don't talk about it." He picked up the jade pendant, saw the character "Yellow" engraved in the center of the jade pendant, and he no longer had any doubts in his heart.

He had seen this jade pendant before at Huang Jingming's place.

"I really didn't expect that the truth was like this that day...I was blind," Fan Zhenqiang endured the grief in his heart, gritted his back molars, and said word by word, "Huang Jingming, I want you to do it for Brother Wu and for the deceased." Miao Min pays with his life!"

Respect yourself!

He never expected that Huang Jingming was such a person!
He thought he had found the bright master, but he didn't expect that it was just a joke in the end, and he was one of the clowns in the joke!

From today on, he and Huang Jingming'en are no longer friends!

Seeing Fan Zhen like this, Wu Kan was overjoyed, and asked, "Isn't Uncle going to raise troops to attack that yellow bandit?"

To his surprise, Fan Zhen just shook his head.

"All the elite of Shenjing were brought to the front line by Huang Jingming, and their own cultivation base is profound, how can a mere Fan Xun raise an army to defeat them? What's more, I, Dachu, can't stand such internal friction."

"Uncle, what do you mean, my father and others died in vain?"

Wu Kan said subconsciously.

"Young man, on this battlefield, the most taboo thing is to be impatient. Your father's revenge is naturally to be avenged, but it's not now. Now Huang Jingming is leading the army back to Beijing, and he will be able to do something when he returns to Shenjing. A chance for Brother Wu to take revenge. However, during this period of time, I can only trouble my nephew to live in my official residence for a period of time."

Fan Zhen, who had recovered from his grief, said lightly.

"Let my nephew live with you, uncle, for a while? Why is that?"

Wu Kan didn't understand Fan Zhen's intention.

Fan Zhen smiled and said, "Don't you really think that when you break into Fan's mansion like this, others will know nothing about it? Letting you stay with me is also to cover up this matter as much as possible, and don't want to show any flaws." Come."

After Fan Zhen explained it like this, Wu Kan finally understood.

"In this case, my nephew will obey my uncle's arrangement."

Fan Zhen nodded.

Not long after, Fan Zhen came out of the wing and said to the guards:
"Give me a good look at this room. If that kid escapes from inside, I'll wait and ask! Just give him three meals a day, and he can do whatever else he wants."

An assassin didn't know why, and asked, "My lord, who is the assassin?"

"The son of an old friend, he learned some superficial skills outside, and came to show off in front of me. He wanted me to recommend him to the prince. I have seen many such frizzy boys in the military camp, so I will give him some advice first. You'll have to suffer a lot, and then we'll talk about the rest."

Fan Zhen said angrily.

"I'm not afraid to tell you, I made a bet with that kid. If he escapes from this wing within ten days, I'll recommend him to the prince. If he can't escape, he has to obediently obey my officer's orders and get out of the barracks." From a small soldier."

After all, Fan Zhen went back to the bedroom to sleep with his hands behind his back angrily, leaving only a group of energetic guards guarding around the wing.

However, Fan Zhen couldn't fall asleep on the bed, and the scene of Wu Cheng and countless Miao Min dying in front of him always appeared in his mind.

The twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month.

After Zhao Yu went down to court, when he was reviewing memorials in Zihuan Hall, he would smile so much from time to time that the corners of his mouth almost reached behind his ears.

No wonder he was so happy, it turned out that when he was staying in the Qingqiu Palace last night, Bai Qing'er twitched in his ear for a while, and then Fang Jiang planned to spend more than half of the savings at the bottom of the box in Tianyin Pavilion to help Zhao Yu through this difficult time .

"Your Majesty, Master, she said that the nearly 70 taels of property should be regarded as the dowry of Senior Sister Qing'er and Hou'er. The slave family has given His Majesty even the heart and soul. I only hope that His Majesty will have a newcomer in the future." , don’t forget the kindness of the old man, other servants don’t dare to expect anything more.”

Thinking of Bai Qing'er's shy, coquettish and coquettish expression last night, Zhao Yu subconsciously licked his mouth.

It has to be said that this operation of Tianyin Pavilion has greatly increased Zhao Yu's favor towards the Demon Sect.

When he regains power in the future, he will need to make amends to Tianyin Pavilion.

The longer it drags on, the more troublesome it is to owe favors to others.

In Zhao Yu's heart, this kind of favor should be repaid as early as possible. If it can be solved with money, then use money to solve it.

"Your Majesty, Commander Fan Du is asking to see you."

Gao Lishi's voice came from outside the door.

Fan Zhen is here?

Why did he come to me at this time?
Although he couldn't figure out Fan Zhen's intention for a while, Zhao Yu hesitated for a moment and asked Gao Lishi to bring Fan Zhen into the palace.

After Fan Zhen entered the hall, he bowed down to Zhao Yu and said, "Fan Zhen, the guilty minister, see Your Majesty!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Yu was full of doubts.

Fan Zhen, or Huang Wenbo and Huang Jingming behind him, what tricks are they playing?
He could only help Fan Zhen up with his own hands and asked with a smile:
"Fan Qing please hurry up, I don't know, Fan Qing is loyal to the country, what crime is there?"

"Your Majesty, it was the guilty minister who was blind and unable to discern loyalty and traitors. Only then did the civil uprising in the southwest of the past... The criminal minister regret it!"

As he spoke, he took out Wu Cheng's blood book and the jade pendant.

"Your Majesty, after reading this letter, will know the meaning of the guilty minister."

Zhao Yu took the silk book and read it carefully, with a look of astonishment on his face and said, "Is this so?"

"Your Majesty, everyone knows about Taihe Wang's wolfish ambitions." Fan Zhen bowed his head and bowed again, "If there is a change in the capital, I would rather die for Your Majesty than become a running dog of the Huang family!"

"This……"

Zhao Yu spent 100 imperial prestige points to check Fan Zhen's attributes.

In Fan Zhen's attribute column, his loyalty has been increased to 83 points.

But even so, Zhao Yu still didn't dare to make a judgment.Because this matter is too important, if he is not careful, he will lose everything.

In this matter, he believed in his own judgment more than the system.

Zhao Yu had no choice but to help Fan Zhen up again, and comforted him with words:
"While King Taihe was at fault, I believe that he did so for the sake of the state of Chu. I believe that King Taihe is loyal to the state of Chu, just as I believe in Fan Qing's loyalty."

Seeing that Zhao Yu could not believe him for a while, Fan Zhen was not surprised and just said:
"Your Majesty doesn't believe in the guilty minister at this time, and the guilty minister understands. But if things change, please notify the guilty minister in time. If there is any change in Huang Jingming's side, the criminal minister will also find a way to notify your majesty, so that your majesty can prepare early. .”

After all, he bowed and left.

After sending Fan Zhen away, Gao Lishi came to Zhao Yu's side and said in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, can you believe General Fan's words?"

"I don't know at this time." Zhao Yu shook his head slightly, "However, I think whether he is loyal or not will soon be verified."

As long as the Taihe Wang Yi faction makes some moves, Wang Pu will definitely find a way to pass the news to himself.

At that time, after comparing the news from the two sides, he knew whether Fan Zhen had completely fallen for him.

　Thank you to book friend [Mr is Doomed] for the reward of 100 starting coins!

　　PS: The foreshadowing of this chapter is in the first chapter 7.

　　
　
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