Jiangshan Ji

As long as I can remember, I know that my father doesn't like me.

When my ten-year-old brother was still acting like a baby in his arms, I had already been sent to the army for training.

At that time, the one who taught me martial arts was General Yu Wensu, who treated me very harshly, and he didn't give me extra favors because I was the son of the general.

I often fell on the battlefield with a bruised nose and a bruised face, covered in blood.When my father saw me, he didn't say much, he only told Yu Wensu not to relax his training.

When my mother came to see me, she couldn't help but shed tears when she saw that I was covered in mud.

I asked my mother, why doesn't my father like me, but only my eldest brother?

Mother turned her head away in silence, not answering my question.

When the elder brother had his hair tied, my three younger brothers and I were also required to be present to watch the ceremony.

According to etiquette, on such an occasion, a fortune teller should perform routine divination to determine good or bad luck.

I watched the fortune teller throw a piece of turtle shell into the fire.Then there was a lot of confusion in the mouth, and I didn't know what to say. In the end, there were only eight short words on the silk: from the top to the bottom, and the brothers fought against the wall.

My father was furious after seeing it, and asked the fortune teller to divination for me and the three younger brothers one by one. The final result was that only I had a different divination.It is a hexagram that soars into the sky and is so precious.

In any case, this sounds like a good thing, but I don't understand why my father is not satisfied. It is not enough to order someone to kill the fortune teller.It's a bit cruel to insist on skinning him and throwing his body into the wilderness.

I went to ask Yu Wensu, why did my father do this?

Yu Wensu was wiping a trident. When he saw me asking this question, he put down the halberd and said, "When you were just born, a fortune-teller told you that you would kill your father and brother in the future. Now, your eldest brother Na Lishang Duixia, comparing the hexagram of brothers fighting against the wall with your hexagram of soaring into the sky and being so precious, doesn't it confirm the hexagram of killing father and brother back then? Why isn't your father angry?"

Killing father and brother?

I am a little funny.

I, Yu Wenchang, don't want to be a good man who stands up to heaven and earth, but I still know a little about the principles of father and son.How could I do such an outrageous thing?

I told Yu Wensu my thoughts, he smiled and said: "Second son, the world is impermanent, and no one can say for sure what will happen in the future."

Later, when my eldest brother and my father died under my hands, I couldn't help but think of this sentence that Yu Wensu once said to me.It was also at that time that I realized that this veteran official who had gone through three dynasties had already predicted the end.

When I was 15 years old, I was ordered to go to war for the first time.

On the night before leaving, I promised Luyao that when I returned from victory, I would tell my father and mother about our relationship and marry her.

I went out for the first time, and I was given the rank of deputy general, but I knew that the generals in the army would not accept me, thinking that I was too young and had no experience in fighting on the battlefield, so I would definitely lose this battle.

When fighting the enemy in Luohe, the [-] cavalry led by me were attacked by surprise, and I was shot with three arrows. When I was close to death, Yu Wensu ignored the opposition of the lieutenant general.Leading the army alone to support, the two sides fought bloody day and night, blood stained the lower reaches of Luohe, and we finally broke out of the siege.

That was the first time I cried, I asked Yu Wensu, am I useless?

He was shot in the back by an arrow.The blood couldn't stop no matter what, but he still came to me and sat down: "Second Young Master is the most cunning person I've ever seen, it's just bad luck right now, one day, when you become a great treasure, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains will be trampled by you How can you be a useless person under your feet?"

Honored as Dabao?

I have always known that my father has the desire to seize power and usurp the throne, but what does this have to do with me?

Even if my father becomes the current emperor, he will not make me the prince.How can I have a chance to ascend to the throne?

Yu Wensu told me that as long as I get the treasure left by my ancestors, I will definitely have the opportunity to become the person who dominates the world.

I know that for many years, there has been a legend circulating in the Yuwen clan.

It is said that the ancestors used to be from outside the Guan. After settling in the Central Plains, they buried countless gold, silver and jewels accumulated outside the Guan.

However, this legend has been circulating for more than a hundred years, and no one has really found the treasure.Therefore, its credibility is also greatly reduced.

Seeing that I didn't seem to believe it, Yu Wensu looked at me with firm eyes: "I have found clues. The treasures left by the ancestors have been guarded by the Yuwen people of the Fuling lineage. They are the last generation of descendants. They are the daughters of the Fuling clan. Yuwen Linglan."

Yuwen Linglan?

That was Empress Yuwen who had married Jiang Guo far away, the wife of Emperor Xiaohuiming.

It is said that she has a daughter who was expelled from the country to destroy the palace at birth, so she was sent out of King Jiang's palace early to be adopted by the people.

This couple is somewhat similar to my father.All because of an illusory prophecy, there was a estrangement between the flesh and blood.

Thinking about it this way, that folk princess and I seem to have a certain fate of being the same people who have fallen in the end of the world.

I said to Yu Wensu: "Jiang Country is thousands of miles away from here, I'm afraid we won't have the chance to ask Empress Yuwen about the treasures of our ancestors."

Yu Wensu disagreed, and told me that the key to obtaining the treasure was a piece of jade pendant passed down from generation to generation by the Yuwen people in Fuling. As long as he got the jade pendant, he would be able to mobilize people to find the whereabouts of the treasure.

I laughed at his whimsy. Since it is the key to finding the treasure, how can it be so easy to get that jade pendant?

He offered me a plan to marry Empress Yuwen's daughter and ask for the jade pendant in the name of his son-in-law.

I have already made a promise with Luyao, how can I marry someone else and let her down.

I declined Yu Wensu's proposal. He looked at me and just shook his head. Then he mentioned it a few times, but I used other words to prevaricate each time. Gradually, he stopped mentioning it.

With the help of Yu Wensu, my first command ended in a relatively decent way.We reluctantly went back to court in a graceful manner.Not too harshly criticized.

Back at the mansion, under the auspices of my mother, I greeted my father's new concubine.

When I knelt down to salute, Luyao stood there awkwardly, neither standing nor sitting.

I showed her a wry smile and kowtowed respectfully, but she shed tears on the spot.

Later, my mother told me what had happened and asked, "Ayong, do you resent your father?"

Ho, resentment?How dare I!

After that, I went back to the mansion less often, and mostly stayed in the army, staying with the soldiers.

After his father forced the Xishan Emperor to Zen, he finally became the rightful Lord of the World.After ascending the throne as emperor, the first thing he did was to issue an imperial edict.Canonize the elder brother as the prince, and fully participate in the handling of military and political affairs.

At that time, I had already set out many times in succession, won many battles and made numerous military exploits.My father obviously didn't consider my face when he did this.

All the subordinates and ministers complained about my grievances, and even my mother, who has never been involved in court affairs, came to comfort me.

In my heart, there is naturally grievance, but there is nothing I can do.

Right now, although I have some prestige in the court, I don't have the hole cards to make myself invincible. Resisting rashly will only lead to an ugly death.

I went to Yu Wensu to discuss the implementation of the plan he had suggested.

In the end, I decided to go to Jiangguo myself and try to get the jade pendant.As for how to get it, I didn't think of any good way.

I was frowning, and an accident disrupted my plan.

I was poisoned, it was a kind of extremely venomous Miaojiang Gu poison.

It is not difficult to investigate who the poisoner is.

It's just that, without conclusive evidence, it's not easy for me to directly tear myself apart with the other party.What's more, even if I sue the emperor, I'm afraid it will be dismissed in the end due to the lack of real evidence.

After thinking about it, I decided to bet my life once.

I asked my father to marry Princess Jiang.Although the father was surprised, but under the strong persuasion of his mother and Yu Wensu, he reluctantly agreed.

Afterwards, I asked to go to Jiang Guo in person on the grounds of visiting a famous doctor in Lanling.

Perhaps because everything was too coincidental, the father was a little worried, lest I would do something out of the ordinary in a place as high as the Jiang country, so far away from the emperor, so he appointed Guangping to go with me.

In name, Quang Binh followed me on trips, but in fact, I knew that she was the "supervisor" sent by my father to secretly monitor my every move and report to my father at any time.

At that time, I never thought that it was because of Quang Binh that I would meet Princess Jiang Guo whom I was going to marry in advance.

Guangping lost the jade pendant, treated Huaijin as a thief, and clamored for me to be the master.

In fact, the look I met with Huai Jin was enough to make me conclude that she was not the one who stole the jade pendant.

I don't know why I am so sure, maybe it is intuition, maybe it is other reasons.

In short, that look is something I will never forget.

Later, many years after she left, I realized that I fell in love with her just by looking at her.

Really evil.

However, at that time, before she took off the jade pendant and showed it to me, I really didn't know her identity.

I only regarded her as an ordinary woman, and I never thought that I would have so many entanglements with her later.

When she handed the jade pendant to me, I just glanced at it and turned pale with shock.

Yu Wensu has described the shape of this jade pendant to me countless times, and I have drawn countless pictures related to it in private. Now that I hold it in my hand, I quickly know that this is the jade pendant I am looking for.

At that time, I was very surprised, how could the treasures of King Jiang's palace be in the hands of an ordinary folk woman?I didn't know until the police investigated that she was the Princess Huaijin who was fostered among the people since she was a child.

Presumably, Empress Yuwen felt guilty for this daughter, so giving her such a precious jade pendant probably meant to make up for it!

Originally, I thought that Huai Jin knew the value of the jade pendant, but when she was gathering medicine on the mountain, she took off the jade pendant from her waist so easily and asked me to hand it over to her uncle. Only then did I realize that she didn't know about the jade pendant. usefulness.

To take advantage of an unsuspecting woman, I suddenly found myself so despicable.