Ming Yuanlang looked at his daughter beside his bed. Her eyes were bright and beautiful, but they were no longer full of pure light like when she was a girl.
She was obviously a woman, and women were said to be as soft as water, but his daughter's eyes hid fierce flames, like flying fire that would eventually burn up this dark world.
Just like her mother back then, she was exactly the same - she seemed weak, but she had a hidden sword in her heart.
He reached out and caressed Ming Lanruo's head: "Whatever you want to do, just do it. Father will always be behind you."
Ming Lanruo was stunned and looked at her father in disbelief: "Father...you...why? Aren't you afraid? This is treason, and it is to confiscate the family and exterminate the clan!"
Because she was so shocked, she was a little incoherent.
She thought that it would take a long time to convince her father, and she was even prepared for his father to beat and scold her.
But now, her father, who has always been upright, would support her without hesitation - plotting rebellion?
Ming Yuanlang saw his daughter looking at him stupidly, and said calmly: "Confucianism believes in the way of heaven. If the king is unkind, capable people and lofty ideals will overthrow the weak king. This is also the way of heaven. Otherwise, how could King Zhou of Shang be overthrown?
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Ming Lanruo felt much relieved when she looked at her father.
So, she told Ming Yuanlang how Grandma Wang and the others found her, as well as some important things that happened in the capital and Northeast Xinjiang during the six months since Ming Yuanlang was away.
Ming Yuanlang listened intently, with a complex look on his face.
His little daughter turned out to have experienced so much before she grew up today.
Ming Lanruo looked at him steadily and said sincerely: "Father, thank you for being willing to let go of your past principles and choose to stand with me."
Ming Yuanlang pondered for a moment and suddenly said: "Actually, Chunhe, Jingming and their adoptive father Guan Yuecheng, now the chief instructor of the 800,000-strong border army, was also born in the Red Blood Legion. He was the original leader of the exclusive assassin group of the Red Blood Legion.
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Ming Lanruo was stunned: "Wha...what? I always thought that Uncle Guan was your dead friend, so I helped you train the people around me to protect me."
If Uncle Guan was the exclusive assassin leader of the Red Blood Legion back then, then Yueniang... She remembered what Yueniang said before she died. Yueniang was the deputy leader of the assassin group!
Ming Yuanlang said calmly: "Even those who were in the Red Blood Legion back then, few knew what the leader of the Red Blood Legion's exclusive assassin group looked like."
"Many people think that the leader died long ago to protect your grandfather. In fact, your Uncle Guan has been lurking in his army from the beginning and has not exposed himself."
Ming Lanruo shook her head: "But Hongting—Sister Hong knows about Uncle Guan's existence!"
Ming Yuanlang raised his eyebrows slightly and chuckled: "Because this Hongting had an unusual relationship with Guan Yuecheng back then, it is estimated that even the Song and Tang Dynasties did not know Guan Yuecheng's true identity."
Ming Lanruo rubbed his eyebrows: "The relationship between the elders... is a bit complicated. I won't ask more questions. I just want to ask you. In fact, you have always been disobedient to our Majesty.
Bar?"
To put it bluntly, she wondered if her father had long been dissatisfied with the emperor?
If her father was really so loyal to His Majesty, how could he have been secretly in contact with the leader of the Red Blood Assassins, knowing that getting involved with the Xiao family and Red Blood would lead to death.
Moreover, she remembered that Uncle Guan, the chief instructor of the frontier army, had only been appointed in the past ten years.
Every year, Uncle Guan is busy patrolling the border areas, training soldiers in various defense areas in martial arts.
Not only did his father secretly have close contacts with an assassin leader who had a deep hatred for the emperor, but he also secretly supported him to become the commander-in-chief of the 800,000-strong border army.
Although the chief instructor in this army is only a sixth grade.
The soldiers trained by Guan Yuecheng are of the same lineage... They respect and revere Guan Yuecheng as their master no less than they do their superiors, the generals.
