Attack Jade (攻玉) - Chapter 87

[Chapter 57 [Jia Geng] Grandpa, I want to know…]

“Yes.” Teng Yuyi picked up a piece from the chessboard and played with it.

Teng Shao looked at his daughter quietly. A while ago, his daughter had treated him a lot more intimately, but today, the long-lost sense of alienation in her daughter’s eyes reappeared.

He suppressed the doubts in his heart, and sat cross-legged on the seat opposite his daughter: “When the Specter broke in last night, did you let someone send a message to Prince Cheng’s mansion?” His

tone was casual, but Teng Yuyi still caught a trace of something unusual. Means, in fact, I don’t blame Grandpa for being over-hearted. What happened last night was indeed easy to cause misunderstandings.

She threw the chess piece back into the chess pot, pointed to Xuanyin Ling and said, “Well, it’s because of it.”

She repeated the cause and effect.

“Only when there is evil, the Xuanyin bell will ring. Last night, Lin Chengyou helped to set up the formation, and it was also to prevent the noise in the middle of the night in the future.”

Teng Yuyi said, shaking her wrist in front of Grandpa, that round and round like a pulp Tao’s little bell has no sound at all.

Teng Shao looked at the Xuanyin bell in surprise. If his daughter didn’t talk about the twists and turns, this thing looked like a string of ordinary golden bells.

I heard that the sages from all over the world have donated a lot of Taoist treasures to the sage over the years. Just this string of Xuanyin bells is rare.

Teng Shao pondered for a moment and said, “Since it is a rare treasure of Qingyun Temple, you should take good care of it first. Prince Cheng won’t be able to take it down for a while. Daoist Qingxuzi may not know the reason. When Qingxuzi returns to Chang’an, Grandpa will take you to put the bell in person. Go back. So why did the Specter break into the Teng Mansion last night, can you recognize that woman?”

Teng Yuyi shook her head: “I don’t know, but I heard that several pregnant women in Chang’an were killed recently, and the cause of death was taken by Caesarean section. Baby, last night’s woman’s name was Shu Liniang, and she was one of the victims.”

Teng Shao’s brows furrowed deeply, there was a corpse in front of him, and a ghost was close by. encounter these strange things.

“The abbot Yuanjue of Dayin Temple will return to Chang’an soon. I remember that when the big demon in Chang’an was haunted, it was the abbot Yuanjue and the Taoist priest Qingxu that worked together to calm down the chaos. I always encounter evil spirits. When the abbot returns to Beijing, grandpa will take you to Dayin Temple to find the abbot Yuanjue.”

Teng Yuyi’s heart jumped in a hurry, the Buddhists are most afraid of ghost tricks, if the abbot Yuanjue sees that she is wearing a Because of the injustice, it is absolutely impossible to stand by and help her get through the trouble.

Moreover, in her previous life, she heard the bad news of her grandfather’s attack at Dayin Temple. The three words “Dayin Temple” were equivalent to “ominous” in her heart. Unless she had to, she didn’t want to step into that place again.

Teng Yuyi cleared her throat: “Grandpa, you don’t have to be so troublesome. In fact, I already know the reason, because since the last time I fell into the water, I have always had some strange dreams of predicting the future.”

“The strange dream of predicting the future.” ?” Teng Shao paused while drinking tea.

Teng Yuyi stirred the chess box with her fingers, and the pieces collided with each other and made a crisp clucking sound.

“Last time, I told my grandfather that when I came to Chang’an, I dreamed that my sister was in danger in the forest, and I dreamed of the high school leader surnamed Lu, all of which were later fulfilled. A while ago, I dreamed that I was being Killed with a hidden weapon as thin as raindrops. After waking up, I asked my grandfather, but even my grandfather had never heard of such a hidden weapon. I thought it was absurd, but not long after, I saw it with my own eyes in Caifeng Building. When Peng Yugui asked me to send his skeleton back to his hometown before he died, he told me the origin of the hidden weapon, so today I will go to the West Market to find that pooch named Zhuang Mu.”

Teng Shao listened carefully. He knew about his daughter’s nightmare a while ago, but he didn’t believe the so-called “prediction of the future in a dream”. This time, when he heard her talk about it again, he was perfunctory. Listening and listening, the expression becomes complicated.

The day when his daughter asked him about this hidden weapon is still vivid in his mind. At that time, she had not taken refuge in Caifeng Tower, so she would never know that Peng Yugui was the murderer. Although he ordered his subordinates to find this hidden weapon, he did not take it seriously. This rare silver wire hidden weapon appeared in Zhicaifenglou.

One or two matches with the dream can be called a coincidence, and all of them match…

“Besides, I also dreamed of several strange things about my grandfather. I dreamed that Peng Sishun of Huaixi Road died of illness, and his son Peng Zhen took over Huaixi Road. Soon after, Peng Zhen assembled an adjacent town to rebel. Grandpa was ordered to retaliate and was killed outside Jiafu Gate by thieves. Those people knew magic and used the fog to trap Grandpa and He. Only then did my subordinates succeed.”

Speaking of this, her heart trembled uncontrollably, remembering that she had rushed to see Grandpa for the last time in her previous life, and the blood on Grandpa’s robe made Grandpa’s face as pale as paper.

Teng Shao’s complexion changed greatly. His daughter’s so-called “dream thing” suddenly stabbed his most secret worry. Peng Sishun’s health was getting worse and worse. As early as two years ago, he officially handed over the affairs of Huaixi Road to his eldest son Peng. Zhen took care of it, and Peng Zhen managed his troops as well as his father. In the past two years, Huaixi Road has become more and more powerful and fertile. Now both the court and the public know that Peng Zhen is the actual leader of Huaixi Road. It is logical to become Huaixi Jiedushi.

Peng Zhen took the initiative to pay various taxes and was loyal to the imperial court. A year ago, when Teng Shao’s generals were transporting Huai grain outside the customs, they caught a Huihe Shizuo in Yuanzhou. Teng Shao found out that Peng Zhen had been secretly buying horses from the Huihe people in recent years. Peng Zhen himself never showed up, but borrowed the names of small countries such as Nanzhao and Bohai. The general recognized that the “trader” was the wife and brother of a general in Huaixi Road, and only then did he determine that the person who bought the horse was from Huaixi Road.

Huaixi Dao has over 100,000 soldiers under his command, enough to dominate one side, so it is self-evident why they secretly expand their troops.

But based on this alone, it is impossible to conclude that Peng Zhen has a conspiracy heart. If he rashly reports, the court may not accept it. Huainan Road and Huaixi Road prevent each other, and accuse the Peng family of wrongdoing without evidence. Maybe it will attract the court’s suspicion of Teng Shao.

But if people were to investigate carefully, Peng Zhen’s army was strictly controlled, and Huaixi Road was now like an iron plate. In order to grasp the actual evidence, it was necessary to go deep into the heart of Huaixi Road.

Therefore, although he secretly guarded against Peng Zhen, he was unable to make a proper countermeasure.

Teng Yuyi observed Grandpa’s expression while talking. She thought Grandpa would disapprove of it when she heard it, but she didn’t expect Grandpa to be shocked and more contemplative.

A thought flashed in her mind, did Grandpa suspect that Huaixi Dao had a different heart? It is possible that Grandpa might have secretly reminded the court, so when the court in the previous life issued an edict, the first person Peng Zhen’s group dealt with was Grandpa.

That night, the man in black broke into the mansion and took her life. Could it be because she was Teng Shao’s daughter?

No, Grandpa’s death shocked the entire court and the opposition. In the grief of the saint, he decreed to pursue the murderer day and night. The soldiers of the navy were determined to avenge the commander, and they helped the court search day and night. It didn’t take long for Chang’an to seek revenge. It was turned upside down, and almost all people of unknown origin could not escape the open censorship and secret investigation.

The man in black broke into the Teng Mansion after that.

At that time, the Peng Jiayu Party in Beijing had been swept away, and the imperial army had also been deployed. Peng Zhen was busy fighting, and it was hard to say whether he had time to deal with her.

Even if it was really sent by Peng Zhen, this group of people went to great lengths to sneak back into the capital, gather so many high-level martial artists who understand sorcery, and risk being arrested by the whole city, just to kill a chicken with no hands. Powerful little lady?

After thinking about it, she still felt that the man in black was coming for something in the mansion.

Perhaps the man in black who killed her that night was not Peng Zhen’s affiliation at all.

She recalled the man in black with a cold aura all over her body, and subconsciously turned her attention to the Duobao Pavilion behind the bookcase, where a stack of letters from Nanzhao Kingdom was hidden, and the cover was signed “Wu Mou knocks on”.

That letter is both like a mystery and like a thorn in her chest. Today, I have already talked to my grandfather about this step, so why hesitate?

Teng Yu’s mind was confused, Teng Shao didn’t get much better, and nothing else mattered, her daughter would never talk nonsense about the rebellion of the courtiers, and Ayu said that she might be killed by the man in black. Could it be possible for this to happen? Confused, he got up and walked a few steps in the house: “You said you were killed by a man in black, what the hell happened.”

“I dreamed that after Grandpa died, a group of men in black entered the mansion to kill him. Me, those people seem to be heading for Grandpa’s study, and there is a stack of letters from Nanzhao Kingdom hidden in Grandpa’s study.”

Teng Shao stopped suddenly, his face flashed with shock in an instant. , shame, suspicion and other expressions, as if being slapped in the face by someone, and like being suddenly stabbed in the chest.

Even though Teng Yuyi was mentally prepared, she was still taken aback when she saw Grandpa’s expression. Grandpa seemed to be pinched by someone’s heart, and her whole body froze. She could almost hear the violent heartbeat in Grandpa’s chest. Voice.

She held her breath for a moment, and said calmly, “Grandpa, who wrote those letters?”

Teng Shao barely saw any blood on his face, and just stared at his daughter like that. No one knew about these letters except himself. Originally, he took them with him. Recently, because he has repeatedly entered the palace, he was afraid of making a mistake and made a secret box in the Duobao Pavilion in the study, but he hadn’t had time to put those letters in it.

That is to say, no one except himself knew that Duobao Pavilion had a secret compartment, let alone that he was about to store a batch of letters in it.

Hearing his daughter’s words, he was shocked beyond measure. Could there really be a so-called “dream of predicting future events” in the world? ! Otherwise, how can the daughter predict what he will do next.

What made him even more disturbed was that he was worried that his daughter had seen the contents of the letter. It was a heavy secret that he had carried for many years. She was still young, and he should not have allowed her to see those things.

“You—” Teng Shao’s voice suddenly became hoarse, “good boy, tell grandpa, what did you see in the letter?”

Teng Yuyi clenched her palm secretly, she guessed right, grandpa was really afraid of her See those letters.

If her death is inseparable from these letters, Grandpa has no reason to hide their origins.

“Why didn’t Grandpa say it himself?” She held back her anger and said, “All these strange things I dreamed about happened, and this incident is no exception. It was for these letters that those people killed her daughter, Grandpa knew very well. So, don’t you plan to tell the truth to your daughter?”

Teng Shao’s face became more and more ugly, he turned back and clenched the screen shelf, trying to calm himself down as soon as possible, and when he looked at his daughter again, his eyes became calmer.

“Grandpa can’t tell you the content of the letter, but Grandpa can guarantee that no one will hurt you in the future.”

“How can Grandpa dare to guarantee that?” Teng Yuyi looked directly at his father, “Just because the person who wrote the letter is Nanzhao Guo Wu?”

Teng Shao’s expression changed a bit, but he immediately thought that if he read the content of the letter, the child would not be as calm as he is now, and if you want to ask him, it is not just a “Wu” a”.

He walked to the desk and took out a set of pen and ink in person: “The portrait you handed to Grandpa last time was too scribbled, Grandpa sent someone to look for these days, but there has been no news, think about it again. As long as you can think of a clue about a person’s appearance and moves, you can draw them for Grandpa to see.”

Teng Yuyi was stunned, but in a short while, the Shen Yishan Grandpa came back, and the gaffe just now seemed to have never happened. However, Grandpa has begun to calmly think about what to do next.

She knew that no matter what she asked next, Grandpa would never answer her question directly.

She fixedly looked at her father, and Teng Shao also looked at her daughter in silence.

They both knew what the other party wanted to hear, but neither father and daughter would give in.

Tonight, Teng Yuyi cut the story apart, she just wanted to get the truth from her father, and she would rather her grandfather tell her what was going on than go to other places to seek answers.

She firmly believed that once she learned that these letters might bring disaster to them, her father would tell them frankly.

But she was finally disappointed.

That secret, like a mountain that cannot be pushed down and shoveled down, lies between her father and her.

In her previous life, she didn’t have time to ask.

In this life, she still can’t hear the truth from her grandfather’s mouth.

It made her wonder.

Is the secret in that letter more important than the lives of the father and daughter?

Does Grandpa want to protect the secrets in the letter, or does he want to protect the person who wrote the letter?

The word “Wu Mou” on the envelope scorched her heart like a charcoal fire, but she was indignant, but she did not forget Grandpa’s complex expression that flashed by. Hold the lifeblood.

This kind of feeling is not right. Wu Yingying is no longer a secret to their father and daughter. If grandpa just hides his affair with Wu Yingying in front of his daughter, will he be so rude?

Everyone said that her grandfather Teng Yuanhao was a well-deserved famous general. In order to resist Hu’s betrayal, he took his two uncles to defend Huaiyun. In the end, because the city was exhausted, he unfortunately died under the sword of the rebels, but he succeeded in strangling Hu. Rebel’s southward offensive. When it comes to the name of the Teng family, no one in the world will be convinced.

The portrait of my grandfather is still hanging in Lingyan Pavilion, which symbolizes the “great honor”, which is the supreme glory of the Teng family.

When his father grew up, he was worthy of his grandfather’s name of loyalty and heroism. At the age of seventeen, he became famous in battle. He could kill thousands of Tubo soldiers on a single ride. A person like his father would not know how to hide his emotions, so he could make his father lose his temper like this—

Teng Yuyi felt a vague sense of unease in his heart.

Perhaps, the content of this letter is far more complicated than she imagined?

Thinking of this, she was shaken.

To say that her state of mind after her rebirth is different from before, that is, she knows how to “value” more than before. She will always remember that snowy night in her previous life. Because she hated her father, she resolutely left the scene of her father’s study. When she sees her father again, it will be his blood-soaked corpse.

She didn’t even have time to say a few words with her father calmly, and the father and daughter were separated forever.

Thinking of Grandpa’s eyes that couldn’t be closed because he was worried about her in the previous life, her clenched fingers slowly loosened. Maybe, she should trust her father once.

After tonight’s conversation, at least my father began to pay attention to her so-called “prophecy”. He asked her to repaint the man in black, presumably planning a preemptive strike.

She knew that as long as her father formally intervened in this matter, progress would be made by leaps and bounds, and perhaps soon, they would know the true face of the man in black.

While thinking about it, father seemed to light up the paper and ink on the case, so he lit the shofar lamp at hand. When the light suddenly came on, Teng Yuyi realized that Grandpa’s white hair had grown a lot more than before.

She remembered that grandpa’s hair was black as ink, but in the year when grandma passed away, in just two months, her father’s head seemed to be sprinkled with a lot of salt flowers, and white gradually grew out. send.

Counting that this year, Grandpa is still less than forty, and half of them have gray hair. Teng Yuyi was a little scared and a little sad, just how many things a person has to carry to grow old so fast.

The injustice in her heart subsided in an instant. She decided to ignore Wu Yingying’s appearance for the time being, all kinds of concealments from Cheng Bo and her father to her, and for the time being, the “flowers falling from the rain eaves” that should only belong to grandpa and grandma.

She took a step and slowly walked towards the bookcase.

Teng Shao caught the change in his daughter almost instantly, and his resolute eyes slowly revealed a kind of sadness and relief.

For her daughter, Madam Hui’s death is an insurmountable hurdle in her life. Anything related to Madam Hui will arouse a strong reaction from her daughter.

Many times, as long as she mentions her mother, her daughter will be like a little beast who loses his temper, wishing to stand up full of thorns in front of him.

But no matter how much he loves this child, he doesn’t know how to untie the knot between father and daughter, because he is ashamed.

He thought that the father and daughter would break up again tonight, but he didn’t expect that the daughter finally compromised in a subtle way.

His chest was stuffy and unspeakable, and his daughter grew up overnight. Father and daughter are connected, of course he can understand his daughter’s worries, but the things she asks, the father can never let the child know, and he can’t think of it, even if he tries to hide it, fate still makes a joke on him, My daughter actually caught a glimpse of a corner of the letter in her dream.

Is it really just a few weird dreams, he wondered, could someone secretly do something to his daughter? But even if someone knows about the past, why can he let his daughter know in advance of what has not happened yet?

He was lost in thought.

Teng Yuyi drew a few strokes of dissatisfaction, and simply made gestures and gestures: “The man’s hand was hidden in the cloak, and he didn’t see him moving much, and the silver thread bounced out… Twice shot against me and Duanfu. , this person has never moved.”

Teng Shao carefully looked at it for a while: “This person is very stable in the next game, and his internal strength is not lost. There are not many masters like Chang’an City. You can think about it again. , did the silver thread come from the right side of his body, or from the left side.”

“The right side.”

Teng Shao nodded: “Did you smell this man’s body when he started to do it, or did you smell it? Did you hear the sound of the accessories on his body? For example, the ring pendant, or the fan pendant.”

“I didn’t smell it, I didn’t hear it. When he appeared, he was silent, and when he made a move, he was silent.”

Teng Shao’s face Strange: “Yu’er, have you seen this person before?”

Teng Yuyi was stunned. In fact, she already had this suspicion, because when the man showed up that night, there was only one Duanfu left beside her. The man was covered by a cloak, and he held an invisible weapon in his hand. When facing their master and servant , there is absolutely no need to be concerned, but this person is so cautious that he does not even wear a single accessory.

She thought about all the people she knew, but she couldn’t think of anyone who was similar in appearance to this person.

“I’m not sure, but I don’t seem to have seen such a person before.”

“What if the person deliberately concealed it? The voice can be disguised, and such a large cloak can not only cover the face, but also disguise the figure, Just sew a cloth ball on the shoulders, you can widen your shoulders, and put on thick boots on your feet to increase your height. This is not difficult for those who practice martial arts all the year round, but such a dress, for For a person who needs to conceal his identity, it has a miraculous effect. As long as the cloak is not taken off, no one will know the true face of that person.”

Teng Yuyi’s eyelids jumped. She recognized it… She thought about it

, but couldn’t think of an acquaintance who matched these characteristics.

Teng Shao frowned: “This person should have prepared for a long time before he started, and he has figured out the habits of everyone in our house in advance. He even knows Duanfu’s strengths and weaknesses very well, so he used it as soon as he appeared. Hidden weapon, on the one hand, I might want to make a quick decision. Another reason might be knowing that if I fight in close quarters, I may not be Duanfu’s opponent.” The

father and daughter worked together to sort out, and the characteristics of the man in black became clearer than before. a lot.

[End of This Chapter]