Attack Jade (攻玉) - Chapter 87

[Chapter 57: Grandpa, I want to know…]

“Yes.” Teng Yuyi boredly picked up a chess piece on the chessboard and played it.

Teng Shao quietly looked at his daughter, a while ago her daughter obviously treated him a lot more intimately, but today at this sight, the long-lost sense of alienation in her daughter’s eyes came again.

He suppressed the doubts in his heart and sat cross-legged on the seat opposite his daughter: “When that powerful ghost broke in last night, did you let someone send news to the Chengwang Mansion?” The

tone was very casual, but Teng Yuyi still caught a hint of unusual meaning, in fact, he didn’t blame Grandpa for being more careful, and last night’s incident was indeed easy to cause misunderstanding.

She threw the chess pieces back into the jar, pointed to the Xuan Yin Bell and said, “Oh, it’s because of it.”

She said the cause and effect.

“Only when the evil spirit comes, the Xuanyin bell will ring, and last night Lin Chengyou helped to set up the formation, but also to prevent being noisy in the middle of the night in the future.”

Teng Yuyi said, shaking his wrist in front of Grandpa’s face, the small bell that was round and rolling like a peach, there was no bell sound at all.

Teng Shaowei looked at Xuan Yin 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 over the years, the four different people have donated many Taoist treasures to the saints, and the letter is not a lie. This string of xuanyin bells alone is a treasure.

Teng Shao sighed for a moment, “Since it is the treasure of Qingyun Temple, you should keep it properly first, Cheng Wang Shizi can’t take it down for a while, qing xuanzi Dao chief may not know the reason, until Qing Xuanzi returns to Chang’an, Grandpa personally takes you back to return the bell.” So why did that powerful ghost break into the Teng Mansion last night, and do you recognize the woman?

Teng Yuyi shook his head: “I don’t recognize it, but I heard that several pregnant women in Chang’an have been killed recently, and the cause of death was all caesarean section, and last night’s woman was named Shu Liniang, who was one of the victims.”

Teng Shao’s eyebrows furrowed deeply, there were corpse demons in front of him, there were powerful ghosts nearby, his daughter had only drowned once on the way back to Chang’an, why did she encounter these strange things repeatedly.

“The abbot of the Great Hidden Temple will return to Chang’an in the near future. I remember that when the Great Demon of Chang’an was doing evil, it was the combined efforts of the Abbot of Yuanjue and the Daoist Leader of the Qing Void to smoothly put an end to the chaos, his Dharma was boundless, and I may be able to see why you have always encountered evil spirits lately. As soon as the abbot returned to Beijing, Grandpa took you to the Great Hidden Temple to find the abbot of Yuanjue.

Teng Yuyi jumped up in his heart, the Buddhist family was most afraid of ghost tricks, if the abbot of Yuanjue saw that she was carrying a wrong, it would be impossible to stand idly by and help her get through the er, in case she was “where she came from” it would be bad.

Moreover, in her previous life, she had heard the bad news that Grandpa had been attacked at the Great Hidden Temple, and the three words “Great Hidden Temple” were equivalent to “ominous” in her heart, and she did not want to step into that place unless she had to.

Teng Yuyi cleared his throat: “Grandpa, don’t bother so much, in fact, I already know the reason, because since the last time I fell into the water, I always had some strange dreams of predicting what would happen.” “A

strange dream of foreknowledge?” Teng Shao drank tea in an action.

Teng Yuyi stirred his fingers in the chess box, and the pieces collided with each other to make a crisp clucking sound.

“Last time I told Grandpa that on my way to Chang’an, I once dreamed of Sister Ah in distress in the forest and dreamed of a high school leader surnamed Lu, and these were all fulfilled one by one later. A while ago I dreamed that I was killed by someone with a dark weapon as thin as rain, and when I woke up, I asked Grandpa about it, and as a result, even Grandpa had never heard of this kind of dark weapon, I originally thought it was ridiculous, but it didn’t take long for me to see this silver wire-like dark weapon in the Cai Feng Lou. When Peng Yugui asked me to return his skeleton to his hometown before he died, he told me the origin of the hidden weapon, so today I will go to Xishi to find the skin called Zhuang Mu.

Teng Shao listened carefully, a while ago his daughter had nightmares he knew, but the so-called “dream foreknowledge of the aftermath”, he did not believe at all, this time he heard his daughter talk about this, he was originally perfunctory, but listening to it, the look was complicated.

On that day, her daughter asked him about the situation of this dark weapon, at that time she had not yet taken refuge in cai feng lou, it was impossible to know that Peng Yugui was the murderer, although he ordered his subordinates to find this kind of dark weapon, but in his heart he did not think it was true, even if cai feng lou appeared this rare silver wire dark weapon.

One or two coincidences with the dream can be called coincidence, and each piece coincides…

“In addition, I also dreamed about several strange things about Grandpa. I dreamed that Peng Sishun of Huaixi Province died of illness, and his son Peng Zhen took over Huaixi Province, and soon after, Peng Zhen gathered troops in the neighboring clan town to rebel, and Grandpa was ordered to rebel and was killed by thieves outside the Jiafu Gate. Those people knew magic and used the mist to trap Grandpa and his men before they succeeded. Speaking

of this, her heart trembled uncontrollably, remembering that in her previous life, she had rushed to see the last side of Grandpa, and the large blood stains on Grandpa’s robe set off Grandpa’s face as white as paper.

Teng Shao’s face changed drastically, his daughter’s so-called “dream affair” suddenly stabbed the most secret worry in his heart, Peng Sishun’s health deteriorated, as early as two years ago he officially handed over the affairs of Huaixi Province to the eldest son Peng Zhen to take care of, Peng Zhenzhi soldiers did not lose his father, huaixi province in the past two years became more and more powerful, and now both inside and outside the government and the public know that Peng Zhen is the actual leader of Huaixi Province, just wait for the imperial court to write an official document, Peng Zhen can naturally become the emissary of Huaixi Province.

A year ago, when Teng Shao’s generals were transporting Huai grain outside guanwai, they caught a Hui Qi Xiao Zuo in Wonju, and under a search, he actually found a large number of money tickets for horse trade on Xiao Zuo, and when he looked down, Teng Shao realized that peng Zhen had been secretly buying horses from the Hui people in recent years, and Peng Zhen himself never came forward, borrowing the name of small countries such as Nanzhao and Bohai. It happened that the general recognized that the “merchant” of the transaction was the wife and brother of a certain general in Huaixi Province, and it was determined that it was a person from Huaixi Province who bought the horse.

Huaixi Dao already had more than 100,000 soldiers under its command, enough to dominate one side, and it was self-evident what the purpose of secretly expanding the troops was.

However, based on this alone, it is impossible to conclude that Peng Zhen has the intention of rebellion, if he rushes to play, the imperial court may not accept it, Huainan Province and Huaixi Province are mutually defensive, and accusing the Peng family of misconduct without evidence may instead attract the suspicion of the imperial court against him Teng Shao.

But if people let people scrutinize it, Peng Zhenzhi is harsh, Huaixi Dao is now like an iron plate, if you want to grasp the actual evidence, you must go deep into the heart of Huaixi Province, if this is the case, it is difficult to guarantee that you will not hit the grass and startle the snake.

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

Teng Yuyi said while observing Grandpa’s look, she thought that Grandpa would not think so when she heard it, but she did not expect Grandpa to be shocked, more contemplative.

A thought flashed through her mind, would Grandpa have long suspected that Huaixi Dao had a different heart? It is possible that Grandpa may have secretly reminded the Imperial Court, so when the Imperial Court issued a decree in the previous life, Peng Zhen’s gang was the first to deal with Grandpa.

That night, the Man in Black broke into the mansion and took her life, would it be because she was Teng Shao’s daughter?

No, Grandpa’s death shocked the whole government and the opposition, the saint was grieved, and ordered to pursue the murderer day and night, the officers and men of the town navy were bent on avenging the commander-in-chief, and even more so they helped the imperial court to search and arrest day and night, and it didn’t take long for Chang’an to be turned upside down, and almost all those who came from unknown origin could not escape the open trial and secret investigation, and thanks to such an overwhelming search, they quickly swept away the Peng family’s rebellious party in Chang’an.

The Man in Black broke into the Teng Mansion after that.

At that time, the Peng family’s Yu Party in Beijing had been cleaned up, the imperial army had also been mobilized, Peng Zhen was busy dealing with the battle, and it was difficult to say whether he would have time to deal with her.

Even if it was really sent by Peng Zhen, these people went to great lengths to re-infiltrate Beijing and gather so many martial arts masters who knew evil arts, risking being captured by the whole city, just to kill a little lady who had no power to tie chickens?

Thinking about it, she still felt that the man in black was coming for something in the house.

The man in black who killed her that night may not have been Peng Zhen’s rebellion at all.

she recalled the man in black who exuded a cold atmosphere, and subconsciously set her eyes on the Duobao Pavilion behind the book case, where a stack of letters from Nanzhao Guo was hidden, and the cover was signed “Wu Mou Knock”.

The letter was like a mystery, and like a thorn in her chest, and today she had already spoken to Grandpa about this step, so what was the hesitation?

Teng Yu was confused, Teng Shao was not much better, nothing else, the daughter of the courtiers rebelling would never be nonsense, Ayu said that she might be killed by the man in black, could this happen? Distraught, he got up and paced a few steps around the room: “You said you were killed by a man in black.

“I dreamed that after Grandpa’s death, a group of people dressed in black came into the mansion to kill me, and those people seemed to come to Grandpa’s study, and Grandpa’s study hid a stack of letters sent by Nanzhaoguo.”

Teng Shao’s footsteps suddenly stopped, and his face flashed with shock, shame, doubt, and other expressions in an instant, as if he had been slapped head-on, and it was like he had suddenly been stabbed in the chest by someone.

Even if Teng Yuyi was mentally prepared, she was still secretly surprised to see Grandpa’s expression, Grandpa seemed to be pinched by someone, the whole person was frozen, she could almost hear the violent heartbeat in Grandpa’s chest.

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

Teng Shao could hardly see a hint of blood on his face, so he looked at his daughter like that, except for himself, no one knew the existence of these letters, originally he had taken them with him, and recently because he had repeatedly entered the palace, he was afraid of making a mistake and personally made a secret check in the Duobao Pavilion in the study, but he had not yet had time to put those letters into it.

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

Hearing his daughter’s words, he was shocked beyond belief, is there really a so-called “dream of predicting the aftermath” in the world?! Otherwise, how could the daughter predict what he was going to do next.

What disturbed him even more was that he was worried that his daughter had seen the contents of the letter, which was a heavy secret that he had carried for many years, that she was still young, and that he should not and could not let her see those things.

“You—” Teng Shao’s voice suddenly darkened a lot, “good boy, tell Grandpa, what did you see in the letter?” Teng Yuyi

secretly clasped her palms, she guessed correctly, Grandpa was really afraid that she would see those letters.

If her death had nothing to do with these letters, Grandpa had no reason to hide their origins.

“Why didn’t Grandpa himself say?” She said angrily, “All these strange things I dreamed about have happened, and this will not be an exception.” Those people killed their daughters for these letters, and Grandpa knew that this would happen, but didn’t he intend to tell his daughter the truth? Teng Shao’s

face became more and more ugly, and he clenched the screen rack with his back hand, trying to calm himself down as soon as possible, and when he looked at his daughter again, his eyes were calm for a few minutes.

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

“How dare Grandpa guarantee?” Teng Yuyi looked directly at his father, “Just because the letter writer is Nanzhao Guo Wu Mou?” Teng Shao’s

face changed a few times, but he immediately thought that if he saw the contents of the letter, this child would not be as calm as he is now, and if he wanted to ask him, he would not be just a “Wu Mou”.

He walked to the front of the book and personally took a set of pen and ink: “The portrait you handed over to Grandpa last time was too sloppy, Grandpa sent someone to find these days, there has been no news, you think about the person’s appearance, moves, as long as you can think of a little clue, draw it to Grandpa.”

Teng Yuyi was stunned, but in a short moment, the resolute Grandpa had returned, and the gaffe just now seemed to have never happened, and Grandpa had begun to calmly think about what to do next.

She knew that no matter how she asked, Grandpa would not answer her own questions head-on.

She was determined to look at her father, and Teng Shao also looked at her daughter silently, and the eyes of the father and daughter were just as stubborn and the same as the candles.

We all know what the other party wants to hear, but neither father nor daughter will give in.

Tonight Teng Yuyi cut the words apart and said that she wanted nothing more than to get the truth from her father’s mouth, and she preferred Grandpa to tell her what was going on with all this in person rather than to go around and seek answers elsewhere.

She was convinced that once she learned that these letters might bring disaster to them, her father would be honest and honest.

But she was disappointed after all.

That secret, like a mountain that could not be pushed upside down, stood between her father and her.

In a past life, she didn’t have time to ask for an exit.

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

It made her wonder.

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

Does Grandpa want to guard the secret of the letter, or does he want to guard the person who wrote the letter?

The two words “Wu Mou” on the envelope roasted her heart like a charcoal fire, but she was indignant and resentful, but she did not forget the complex expression of Grandpa who flashed by, and the way her father just looked, it was like someone had caught her lifeline.

This feeling is not quite right, Wu Yingying is no secret to their father and daughter, if Grandpa is only to cover up his private affair with Wu Yingying in front of his daughter, will he be so out of shape?

People say that her grandfather Teng Yuanhao was a well-deserved famous general, in order to resist hu rebellion, with two uncles to defend Huaiyun, and finally due to the exhaustion of the city, unfortunately died under the knife of the rebels, but also successfully blocked the hu rebellion’s southward offensive. Mention the name of the Teng family, who in the world is not convinced.

The portrait of his grandfather is still hanging in the Ling Yan Pavilion, which symbolizes the “special honor and grandeur”, 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 martyrdom, and at the age of seventeen, he became famous in a war, and he could kill thousands of Tubo soldiers on a single horse, and his military strategy and martial arts were omniscient, and the name of divine might was spread in the sea. A person like his father would not know how to hide his emotions and make his father so out of shape —

Teng Yuyi’s heart was vaguely uneasy.

Perhaps the contents of the letter were far more complicated than she had imagined?

At this thought, she was shaken.

To say that her state of mind is different from before after she was reborn, that is, she knows more about “cherishing” than before, she will always remember the snowy night in her previous life, she resolutely decided to leave her father’s study because she hated her father, how uncertain the fate is, and when she meets her father again, it is his father’s bloodied corpse.

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

Remembering grandpa’s eyes in the past life that could not be closed because of the concern for her, her tight fingers slowly loosened. Perhaps, she should trust her father once.

After tonight’s conversation, at least my father began to pay attention to her so-called “prophecy,” and he asked her to re-paint the look of the Man in Black, presumably preemptively.

She knew that as long as her father formally intervened in this matter, progress would be made by leaps and bounds, perhaps not muchAfter a while, they will know the true face of the Man in Black.

Thinking about it, his father seemed to be in order to illuminate the paper and ink on the case, and he lit the horn lamp at hand, and when the light suddenly lit up, Teng Yuyi found that Grandpa’s white hair had increased a lot more than before.

She remembered that Grandpa’s hair was originally as black as ink, but in the year of Ah Niang’s death, in just two months, her father’s head was like a large amount of salt flowers, and white hair grew one after another.

This year, Grandpa was less than forty, and half of them were white hair. Teng Yuyi was a little shocked, but also a little sad, how many things does a person have to carry, will he grow old so quickly.

The unevenness in her heart instantly subsided, and she decided to ignore Wu Yingying’s appearance for the time being, temporarily ignore all the concealments that Cheng Bo and her father had made from her, and temporarily ignore the “rain canopy flower fall” that should only belong to Grandpa and Niang.

She took a step and walked slowly toward the bookcase.

Teng Shao caught the change of his daughter almost instantaneously, and his resolute eyes slowly revealed an almost sad relief.

For the daughter, the death of Hui Niang is a difficult obstacle that cannot be passed in a lifetime, and anything related to Hui Niang will arouse a strong reaction from the daughter, and many times,

as long as she is mentioned, the daughter will be like a small beast that loses her temper, eager to erect a body full of spikes in front of him.

But no matter how much he felt sorry for this child, he did not know how to untie the knot between father and daughter, because he was ashamed.

He had thought that tonight the father and daughter would break up again, but he did not expect that the daughter would finally compromise in a subtle way.

His chest swelled indescribably, and his daughter grew up overnight. Father and daughter are connected, and his daughter’s worries can certainly be understood, but the things she asks, the father can never let the child know, and he can’t think of anything, even if he bothers to hide, fate still jokes with him, and the daughter actually glimpses a corner of the letter in her dream.

Was it really just a few strange dreams, he wondered in disbelief, could someone have secretly done something to his daughter? But even if someone knows about the past, why can they let their daughter know in advance what has not yet happened?

He fell into contemplation.

Teng Yuyi drew a few strokes of dissatisfaction, and simply drew up one move at a time: “That person’s hand was hidden in the cloak, and I didn’t see him move, and the silver wire popped out… Twice against me and Duan Fu, neither of them moved their feet.

Teng Shaozai carefully looked at the next plate: “This person is very stable in the next plate, and the internal strength is not lost to DuanFu.” Such a master as Chang’an City could not find a few. If you think about it, the silver wire came from the right side of his body, or from the left side.

“Right.”

Teng Shao bowed his head: “When this person moved his hands, did you smell the smell on his body, or heard the noise of the accessories on his body?” For example, ring pendants, or fan pendants and the like. “I

didn’t smell it, I didn’t hear it.” He was silent when he appeared, and he was silent when he passed.

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

Teng Yuyi was stunned, in fact, she already had this suspicion, because when the person appeared that night, there was only one Duanfu left beside her, the person had a cloak to cover it, and he held a murderous invisible weapon in his hand, and when facing their master and servant, there was no need to be scrupulous at all, but this person was cautious enough not to wear even an accessory.

She had thought about everyone she knew, and she really couldn’t think of anyone who was close to this person’s physical appearance.

“I’m not sure, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone like that before.”

“What if the man is trying to cover up?” Sound can be disguised, and such a large cloak, in addition to covering the face, can also disguise the body, just sew on the shoulders of the cloth, you can widen the shoulders, feet put on thick boots, you can increase the weight, which is not a difficult thing for people who have been practicing martial arts for many years, but such a dress, for a person who needs to hide his identity, has a miraculous effect. As long as the cloak is not taken off, no one knows the man’s true face. Teng Yuyi’s

eyelids jumped, his martial arts were superb, he was armed with evil arts, he wanted to take her life, and he was afraid of being recognized by her…

She thought about it for a moment, but for a moment she couldn’t think of acquaintances who matched these characteristics.

Teng Shao frowned tightly: “This person should have made preparations for a long time before he started, he had thoroughly explored the habits of everyone in our house in advance, and he even knew Duan Fu’s strengths and weaknesses very well, so he used a dark weapon as soon as he appeared, on the one hand, he may want to make a quick decision.” Another reason may be that if you fight in close combat, you may not be Duanfu’s opponent. The

father and daughter worked together to comb through, and the characteristics of the man in black were much clearer than before.

[End of This Chapter]