Ming Lanruo was stunned for a moment and sighed softly: "After all, who do you belong to, Dongchang, the Prince or the King of Qin?"
Apart from these forces, she couldn't figure out who would start planning and lurking around her five years ago.
Grandma Wang looked at Ming Lanruo sincerely: "Miss, we are neither from the Dongchang nor from the Crown Prince or the King of Qin. I just ask you to listen to what I have to say for the sake of helping you in the past five years.
talk!"
Ming Lanruo looked at her expressionlessly: "Get up and talk, I'll listen."
These words made her curious, besides those few, who else would send people to lurk around her.
Chen Ning immediately stepped forward and helped Grandma Wang up.
Grandma Wang looked at Ming Lanruo with complex eyes and sighed: "We are members of the Xiao family, the remnants of the Xiao family's Red Blood Legion."
Ming Lanruo's hand holding the cup paused, and her eyes widened slightly: "What?!"
Grandma Wang looked at Ming Lanruo and said softly.
The Xiao family is an ancient family, which can be traced back to the Langya Xiao family in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The family is profoundly educated.
More than a hundred years ago, the Yuan Dynasty established by the Northern Mongolian Tatars had come to an end. In troubled times, war broke out, and the heroes of the Central Plains competed for supremacy in the world.
The head of the Xiao family at that time was not only a strategist, but also a wise man who recognized heroes. He single-handedly founded the Red Blood Legion and assisted Emperor Taizu of the Tianming Dynasty to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the previous dynasty and restore the Han family to the world.
From then on, the Xiao family ranked first in Tianming.
The successive heads of the Xiao family led the Red Blood Army to become the most powerful pillar of the Tianming Dynasty, opening up territories and conquering the Northern Mongolia, Xixia, Houjin and others who did not dare to invade.
The emperors of the Tianming Dynasty were also pretty good. Their monarchs and ministers did not trust them, and they did not do anything like cunning rabbits killing good ministers and famous generals.
"But the variable in this world is that we never know when an accident will happen." Grandma Wang sighed.
She continued: "More than twenty years ago, the Hou Jin people and the Northern Mongols suddenly joined forces. Their army was approaching the northern border. Xiao Shuai led the Red Blood Army to fight against the enemy outside the Great Wall in the northern border. Who knew..."
"Unexpectedly, at this time, the late emperor's two sons and one daughter suddenly encountered a landslide while worshiping their ancestors. The late emperor was ill at the time, and when he suddenly heard such bad news, he immediately vomited blood and died. The late queen also followed and died accompanying the late emperor.
Concubine Mei became a monk, and now His Majesty Emperor Ming was ordered to inherit the throne when he was in danger?"
Minglan accepted the words crisply.
Grandma Wang frowned: "This is just what the court says today. In fact..."
"Actually, it was your Majesty who killed several princes and princesses of the late emperor, instigated a palace coup, forced the death of the late emperor and the late empress, and also hunted down Concubine Mei and her prince who were living in seclusion in the mountains." Ming Lanruo said calmly.
Grandma Wang was stunned and looked at Ming Lanruo for a long time. She couldn't help but wonder: "Ming Guo Gong is a very cautious person. He should never talk to you about these secrets. How do you know this?"
She had the impression that Ming Lanruo was a smart but reckless little girl five years ago. She had been living in seclusion in Prince Mourning's palace since then, but she had some patience and the ability to fight back.
But this young lady has never participated in government affairs, how could she know so much?
Ming Lanruo smiled secretly: "After all, I know."
Grandma Wang, Chen Ning, and Zhou Rugu glanced at each other, feeling that this young lady was hiding something secretly, and that she had a little more respect.
Grandma Wang said: "In the second year after the great changes in the imperial court, the Xiao family's eldest, second, fourth and fifth masters, together with the only young master who was seventeen years old, all died in the battle in the north. Marshal Gong died of serious injuries, and the old lady
You couldn't bear the bad news and passed away."
"The only adult male of the Xiao family, the third master of the Xiao family, accompanied the remaining old, weak, women and children of the Xiao family to return to their hometown to support the deceased. They planned to bury the men who died in the battlefield, but encountered a landslide on the way. All the men, women, and children of the Xiao family were buried.
There is no one alive at the foot of the mountain!"
As Grandma Wang spoke, she couldn't help but burst into tears: "Heaven is unfair. The wife who married into the Duke's palace was the Marshal's only daughter, but she was frail and sick. You died within three years of giving birth to the eldest lady."
From then on, Marshal Xiao's mansion, which had been famous all over the world for hundreds of years and was full of loyal people, was completely annihilated in the Tianming Dynasty.
Ming Lanruo looked solemn as she looked at Grandma Wang, who was crying, and Chen Ning, who had scarlet eyes.
She sighed deeply: "If I am not wrong, Xiao Shuai... I am afraid that my grandfather died not at the hands of the Xijin people and the Northern Mongolians, but because of His Majesty's plan."
The Xiao family boy helped Ling return to his hometown, but he encountered a landslide...
It is exactly the same as the section of bridge where the children of the late emperor encountered a landslide and died under the rocks on the road when they were worshiping their ancestors.
His Majesty Emperor Ming's method of eradicating the weeds was crude and simple, and he didn't even bother to change the method of killing people and silencing them!
"That's right! Who else could do such cruel and despicable things except Shangguan Yanshan, the despicable and foolish emperor who plotted to usurp the throne?" Chen Ning angrily squeezed out Emperor Ming's name through his teeth.
At the same time, I admire Ming Lanruo's intelligence even more.
Ming Lanruo looked at them and asked calmly: "So, what do you want to do by lurking around me? Take the opportunity to assassinate Emperor Ming to avenge my grandfather, uncle and the others?"
Chen Ning and others fell silent.
Aunt Wang coughed and said, "I had this idea before, because Dongchang Jinyiwei's spies are everywhere, and it would be difficult for us to assassinate the faint king, but you..."
"I am the nine-thousand-year-old niece of the Governor of Dongchangchang, so lurking next to me is the safest and most likely to assassinate the emperor." Ming Lanruo added calmly.
She looked at Aunt Wang and said sternly: "I'm sorry, although I also hate His Majesty's cruelty and stupidity, but I can't avenge you. My surname is Ming, and I belong to the Ming family. I have to think about the Ming family, and I won't do it."
Something dangerous and uncertain.”
Although half of the Xiao family's blood flows in her body, compared to her grandfather and uncles whom she has never met.
Her father loved her, protected her, and treated her like a jewel. She had killed her father and other relatives in her previous life. Her greatest wish in this life is for her family to be safe.
She worked hard to accumulate power in order to protect herself and her family in the struggle between the prince and the King of Qin.
Instead of doing things like assassinating the emperor and putting your family in danger.
Grandma Wang looked at her in shock for a moment, then suddenly smiled bitterly: "You are indeed Xiao Shuai's only blood relative. You even speak in the same tone."
Ming Lanruo didn't know why: "Mother Wang, what does this mean?"
Grandma Wang looked at her and said with emotion: "Commander Xiao's last words to our Red Blood Legion are - once he dies and the Xiao family falls, the Red Blood Legion should not avenge him, let alone leave it to the incompetent Xiao family easily.
Descendants."
As she spoke, Grandma Wang carefully took out a yellowed letter and handed it to Ming Lanruo.
Ming Lanruo looked at the fonts with flying dragons and phoenixes on the letter paper, and her expression was somewhat enlightened, as if she could travel through time and space to see the wise and brave Marshal of the Army who commanded the three armies.
That's her grandpa...
I'm afraid that the moment I saw Emperor Ming ascending the throne, I expected the tragic end of the Xiao family.
He was on the battlefield, but it was too late to save the whole family.
Not taking revenge and hiding from the world was his way to try his best to save the Red Blood Legion who followed him and his beloved daughter who married into the Ming Dynasty Duke's palace.
"Miss, you are far more like the Xiao family than we thought. We have decided to unanimously recognize you as the last heir of the Red Blood Legion!" Grandma Wang looked at Ming Lanruo carefully.
Ming Lanruo frowned: "I already said, I don't..."
Grandma Wang simply interrupted her: "As the master of the Red Blood Legion, you have the right to decide everything about the Red Blood Legion, including complying with Xiao Shuai's last wish and giving up the plan to assassinate Emperor Ming, and the Red Blood Legion will always be loyal to you.
!”
Ming Lanruo was stunned. In other words, even if Emperor Ming was not assassinated, the Red Blood Legion would be used by her from now on?!
After Grandma Wang finished speaking, she clapped her hands, and three more members of the Red Blood Legion who were transformed into guardians came in from outside the gate.
The seven people all knelt down together, raised their hands and put their hands on their left shoulders, and swore sternly with voices that smelled of iron and blood——
"In the name of blood, I regard my Lord as king and will never betray you!"
This is a special oath of allegiance and surrender that the Red Blood Legion has sworn for more than a hundred years.
At this moment, Ming Lanruo's eyes flashed, as if she smelled the iron-blooded breath of the North, her blood boiled, and she squeezed Xiao Shuai's suicide note tightly.
Even though the Red Blood Legion disappeared from the human world for twenty years, she had heard the legend about this legion known as the Red Blood Breaker, the God of Killing in the North.
Invincible for more than a hundred years, the legendary Red Blood Legion!
That was the huge and terrifying inheritance left to her by her grandfather!
