Qiu Jiang was stunned for a moment, staring at the face that had been unrecognizable in front of her. Suddenly, she found that when she saw Mrs. Ruyi on the first day, she saw a fake face. It had been more than ten years, but she didn't know what she was like. Just like she didn't know that such a tragic past had happened to her aunt.

"I hate the Ji family, but I can't get rid of it. Especially after your mother married the patriarch, the patriarch, my cousin, obeyed her words. She kept ordering me and commanding me as the hostess. I couldn't help but think--why?"

Qiu Jiang's eyelashes trembled. She had never understood why Mrs. Ruyi refused to trust her completely and refused to pass the throne to her. Pincongmu said that it was because Mrs. Ruyi was reluctant to delegate power. Now it seemed that it was clearly related to her mother.

"My identity cannot be exposed, and my father is still firmly in your mother's hands, so I can only obey my orders. I just endure it day after day, year after year, until Langya told me that it's time to start cultivating you."

Qiu Jiang felt stuffy in her chest and her throat became sweet, and she coughed up a large cloud of blood. She looked straight at the mouth of blood she spit out, just like looking at the wound buried deep in her heart and was dug out again and exposed to the sun.

Langya...

It was a very familiar but far away name.

***

For Mr. Bai Ze, Ji Ying, the turning point in his life began on the night his mother Langya died of illness.

That night, Langya told his family the biggest secret: Zhao Yin, the king of the Bi Kingdom, was his younger brother. When he asked how his sister could marry his younger brother, Langya failed to finish speaking and left.

That day was the tenth day of the second month of the third year of Tubi.

In Yan State, thousands of miles away, Ji Hu, who had lost his memory, stood up hard on Yunmeng Mountain, trying to resume walking.

Although Langya died, his father Ji Xi was still alive. Ji Ying dug out Ji Hu's whereabouts from him and also dug out another secret of the Ji family, that is, the Four Kingdoms.

"For so many years, in order to maintain the prosperity of the Ji family, our ancestors secretly trained the dead soldiers to work carefully, lay eyeliners and bury nails in other races. Later, more and more people became difficult to control, and our ancestors had a headache. At that time, a daughter named Ji Yi of the Ji family became a widow, doing nothing and wanted to do something. The ancestors handed over the organization to her. After she took over, she officially named her - "Ruyimen", calling herself Mrs. Ruyi."

Ji Yi was a very capable woman, and the Ruyi Gate grew in an orderly manner in her hands. Her husband's family was in Cheng. She lived in Chengguo for many years and felt that it was more suitable for a base camp. So with Ji Chang's permission, this shameful organization was moved to Chengguo. At that time, Chengguo was backward and poor, and the government was incompetent, so she opened the door to convenience for the matter of making trouble.

In this way, Ruyimen grew step by step.

When Ji Yi returned to Biguo to discuss matters in his later years, he fell in love with a girl named Ji Yun in his clan, took her back to Ruyi Sect, carefully cultivated her, and passed the scepter to Ji Yun before his death.

So this became a secret rule of the Ruyi Sect: every lady Ruyi was chosen from the girls of the Ji family. This matter was extremely secret. Except for each head of the Ji family, even the parents of the girls did not know about it, and they only said that they died of illness by accident.

In this way, the Ji family was an aristocratic family in the country of Bi, and the disciples in the clan were glamorous and elegant. They secretly manipulated the Ruyi Sect to make money to explore assassination. Later, they exported the Dead Guards to major families, thus mastering the secrets of many aristocratic families.

In a blink of an eye, a hundred years have passed.

Ji Xi, the head of the Ji family, was extremely weak, and his wife was the one who was in charge of all the matters in the clan. His wife Langya admired Ji Yi very much and thought that such a life was a wonderful and joyful life. Therefore, when Mrs. Ruyi was old and was about to choose an heir from the daughters of the Ji family, Langya insisted on sending her biological daughter Ji Hu over.

Mrs. Ruyi has been grudged against her for a long time. When she learned that her next heir would have to be arranged by her, she became more and more dissatisfied. Therefore, she was very harsh with Ji Hu and threw her into the same group of disciples who were introductory, and threw her into three years.

When the twelve-year-old Ji Hu appeared again, he was the best among his disciples in the same group. Yu Pin Congmu personally led him into Mount Kareys and walked to her.

Mrs. Ruyi stared at the quiet and indifferent face of the twelve-year-old girl, and couldn't help but think: I was far inferior to her back then.

Langya, I chose the right person.

However, this conclusion made her feel even more and more angry - why? She was coerced by the woman and worked hard for Ruyimen for a long time, but in the end she was making wedding dresses for her daughter?

Although everything Langya did was for the Ji family, the Ji family and her had a grudge against her to kill her mother and her master, and they also put her father under house arrest for the rest of their lives.

"I know you are very good. Every time you give you a task, no matter how difficult it is, you can complete it. But the better you complete, the more I see the shadow of Langya from you. She is obviously dead, but her son and daughter are still alive, always wandering in front of me..." Mrs. Ruyi recalled here, picking up Qiu Jiang's chin, her eyes were heavy, like the sea before the storm came, "I hate you and pity you. The more I admire you, the more I fear you, so I have never passed the Ruyi Gate to you. Do you... hate me?"

Qiu Jiang shook her head.

"Why?"

Qiu Jiang thought for a while and replied in a low voice: "Maybe it's because... I don't like the Ji family that much."

A series of changes appeared in Mrs. Ruyi's eyes, which lighted up and darkened. Finally, she reached out and wiped off the blood from Qiu Jiang's lips: "So that's it..."

Qiu Jiang gasped violently: "Aunt, can you tell me something?"

"Tell me."

"Where is the Four Kingdoms' spectrum?"

Mrs. Ruyi frowned.

"Can't you tell me?"

Mrs. Ruyi hesitated for a while, finally approached her ear and whispered: "The Four Kingdoms are here..."

***

Outside the door, Yi Fei stared nervously at the building more than ten feet away. His hands were tightly clenched and loosened, and a thin layer of sweat emerged from the palm of his hand.

"Is this the situation you set up? In order to draw out the whereabouts of the Four Kingdoms genealogy from Mrs. Ruyi's mouth?"

"right."

"I don't understand...the Four Kingdoms are that important?"

Xue Cai also stared at the quiet door, which was closed tightly. No one knew whether Mrs. Ruyi would be fooled and whether she would tell Qiu Jiang’s whereabouts of the Four Kingdoms.

"The Four Kingdoms are not important to you and me. But it is very important to Qiu Jiang and the master."

"Why?"

"To pay off the debt."

"What debt should I pay?"

"Repay the debts owed by the Ji family."

Yi Fei was shocked heavily.

Xue Cai lowered her eyes, looked at the Bai Ze pattern on her sleeve, and remembered what the person said-

"We all became a family, but we were burdened by the family and were unable to be free in our lives. In front of the family, there was no self, no good or evil, no right or wrong... It was also considered that the retribution of the Ji family had come. Once I die, the Ji family's cancer can finally be removed."

"How to cut it?"

"Mrs. Ruyi's plan is called 'Zuchun', which means stealing the sky and changing the sun and changing four emperors. And my plan is called 'Returning'."

"Return?"

"Let those who leave go back; let the deviation correct; let everything return to the origin. Let Cheng Guo become Cheng Guo again, let Ji family again, let every disciple of Ruyi Sect get his original name and return to their hometown."

"This is impossible!"

"I can't do it alone, but there are many people who help me, many people, and even many countries, it's possible."

"Even if they go back, they will never come back from their lost childhood, they will never forget the pain they have suffered, and they will never wash their hands that have killed people... Is it meaningful to go back like that?"

"For them, maybe there is, maybe not." The man raised his eyes, his bright eyes like the calm sea under the stars, containing power but full of tenderness, "but it makes sense to me."

So, after that person died and when the time was right, the plan began to be implemented in Xue Cai.

It is actually easy to unite the power of the Three Kingdoms, whether it is to kill Mrs. Ruyi or destroy Ruyi Sect. However, it is too difficult to place 30,000 disciples of Ruyi Sect, to make them become "people" again, and to let everything return to the origin calmly, but it is really difficult.

However, there are nine hundred dead soldiers in Baize, and everyone should have names.

Meng Buguojie, and he also has a name.

Mountains, rivers, pine, bamboo, gin, and the tombstones of those who died should also have real names.

Xue Cai often sat in the study in a daze. Occasionally, a maid named Aqiu would pass by his window, looking innocent and ignorant. At that time, he would think: Do you want to wake her up?

If you don’t have this person, you may not be able to do it.

But if she wants to join, she must restore her memory.

But the young master did not. One rainy night in Tubi, he rushed to Yujing and secretly went to Yunmeng Mountain. He looked at Qiu Jiang who was already asleep by the couch, and watched for a long time, and finally just covered her with a quilt and left quietly.

He thought it would be enough to have him. He and Pin Congmu and Yishu, who became the new King of Cheng, would definitely be able to force Mrs. Ruyi into a desperate situation and obtain the whereabouts of the Four Kingdoms.

He felt that he had five years to do it.

But he didn't expect that he died on the way back to the country. Wei Yuheng's archer changed his arrow, and the arrow was of the poison from the target, so Mr. Bai Ze died in a foreign land.

Pin Congmu didn't expect this. He didn't sleep for three days and three nights after knowing this incident. On the fourth day, he came to Xue Cai with red eyes and said, "Wake up Ji Hu."

Xue Cai disagreed.

Pin Congmu said in a deep voice: "I know you have a promise to Aying, but he forgot that this is no longer a matter of his siblings, not a matter of his family, or even a country! I am old, and I don't know how many years I can hold on, and I can't wait for the next leader."

Since the plan is called Returning Cheng, there is naturally a leader who will lead everyone home. Ji Ying is the leader. Now that Ji Ying is dead, Yi Shi is out of control, Xue Cai is also unable to stay in Chengguo all year round... Although the world is big, there is indeed no more suitable candidate than Ji Hu.

"First, how do we ensure that we can awaken Ji Hu's memory? Secondly, how do we ensure that Ji Hu will be our person? Finally, how do we ensure that Ji Hu will be willing to be the leader after he recovers his memory? There are too many variables and too many variables, which will lead to failure."

Pin Congmu smiled. This smile contained power and tenderness - it was exactly the same as Ji Ying's smile: "Xiao Hu is also my disciple. Moreover, as a teacher, I have always liked the mysterious and changeable Xiao Hu more than A Ying who is ruthless in everything. I believe she can."

Xue Cai was silent for a long time.

He was still not convinced. Until Feng Xiaoya wrote a letter, Feng Xiaoya asked him if his eleventh lady Qiu Jiang was hiding in Baize Mansion.

Xue Cai stared at the letter paper painted with the totem of the crane comb, and his eyes lit up bit by bit.

Ji Hu is uncontrollable. Ji Hu is even more uncontrollable. However, if Feng Xiaoya is added, there will be much less variables.

What's more, there is Yifei.

Yi insisted on returning to Chengguo to seize the throne; Feng Xiaoya wanted to help "cut the skin" to eradicate the Ruyi Sect and find the children lost in these years; Pincongmu was waiting for an heir that Ruyi would trust; the queen of the King of Yan wanted to avenge her parents... A stream of forces were intertwined and eventually turned into a solid rope.

Then, tie Qiu Jiang to the other end of the rope and lead her to her destination.

On the day Qiu Jiang and Yi Fei left, Xue Cai kept staring at their backs from a distance, feeling that things in the world were really changing. Qiu Jiang should have been the leader, but now he is dragged forward.

"I hope-" Xue Cai looked at the rain outside and said slowly, "After experiencing many things along the way, Qiu Jiang will choose to go back with us regardless of whether we can recover our memory."

"We will succeed." Feng Xiaoya's voice was low and firm.
To be continued...