The old national teacher stood up and said, "I have already seen the child and delivered the things. It is time for me to leave."

"Master, can't you stay a few more days?" Gong Beixuan was reluctant to let him go.

For several years, the master has always been coming and going in a hurry like this. Sometimes he would come back suddenly, tell him a few words and leave again.

"Xuan'er, we will meet again, don't worry about me." The old national teacher waved to them and left.

"Master."

The couple hurriedly followed him out, but there was no sign of the master in the courtyard.

"Let's go back to the house!" Gong Beixuan said.

The two returned to the house and Chu Feiyan closed the door.

"Let's enter the space." She held the small box in one hand and pulled Gong Beixuan with the other, and her mind entered the space.

The mother gave this wooden box to the old national master for safekeeping, saying that the things inside were very important and it would be safer if they entered the space and opened it.

Chu Feiyan checked the small box, but didn't know how to open it because there was no lid.

"The mechanism of this box is a bit complicated. Let me give it a try." Gong Beixuan put his son on the bed and picked up the box to inspect it.

The crow suddenly appeared, "If you really can't open it, then chop it up!"

Chu Feiyan disagreed, "Don't mess around, what if the mechanism breaks something inside?"

Gong Beixuan fiddled with the box for a long time but couldn't open it. He exclaimed: "The person who made this box is definitely not an ordinary person. The mechanism is designed according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams. It is very ingenious."

He carefully looked at the pattern again and cracked the mechanism according to the steps of the formation.

"Girl, didn't you say last time that a dragon's eyeballs are alive? Try pressing them..."

Before Crow could finish his words, he heard a "pop" and the mechanism of the wooden box was broken by Gong Beixuan. The two centers of the mechanism were indeed on the dragon's eyes.

"Come and take a look!" Gong Beixuan put the box in front of Chu Feiyan. After all, it was something her mother left for her, so he let her take a look first.

Chu Feiyan took out the things in the box and found that they were actually two volumes of bright yellow imperial edicts.

She opened one of the imperial edicts and saw that it was an imperial edict issued by the late emperor's grandfather to the eldest princess' mother, appointing her mother as the next emperor.

"What Hong said is true. The late emperor and grandfather really appointed mother as the next emperor."

"It seems that the late emperor was extremely disappointed with Emperor Cheng, so he came up with the idea of ​​deposing him and enthroning another one." Gong Beixuan looked at the imperial edict with some regret.

Emperor Cheng and the eldest princess were brothers from the same mother and he was Chu Feiyan's uncle. The word "Cheng" was the posthumous title given to him by Long Shihua after his death, implying that Emperor Cheng was a king who pacified the people and established a good government.

Chu Feiyan opened the second will and after reading its contents, he saw that it was an imperial decree to depose Emperor Cheng.

Gong Beixuan was puzzled. "Since my mother-in-law had these two imperial edicts, she could have easily deposed Emperor Cheng. Why did they go to Pingling Pass and give these things to Master for safekeeping?"

"My mother values ​​family affection the most. She probably didn't want to see people fighting and killing each other, so she left this beautiful city." When Chu Feiyan was young, he often saw his mother secretly wiping away tears.

It must have been very uncomfortable to have wanted to kill your own brother at one point.

She took out another thing, which turned out to be half a black iron token. Although the token was only half a piece, it was clear from the totem on it that it was the token of the Dragon Hidden Guard.

"Strange, why is there only half a token?"

Gong Beixuan thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps the other half is in the hands of those Dragon Hidden Guards, and it can be used as evidence to find this Dragon Hidden Guard."

Chu Feiyan also thought this made sense and put the token aside.

What was finally taken out was a letter and a piece of paper. After a few years, the envelope and the paper had turned a little yellow.

They first looked at the piece of paper and saw that it stated how to contact the Dragon Hidden Guards.

On the envelope were written four words: From Yan'er herself.

Seeing the familiar handwriting, Chu Feiyan couldn't help but shed tears, "Mother..."

"Don't cry." Gong Beixuan hugged her and wiped the tears from her eyes with a handkerchief. "The spirits of my father-in-law and mother-in-law must hope that we are all well."

Chu Feiyan buried her head in his arms, "Gong Beixuan, I feel bad."

"I know! You just turned one month old today. Don't cry. Being sad is bad for your health. Think about our child." Gong Beixuan advised her.

"Yes." Chu Feiyan came out of his arms, opened the letter, and took out the three pieces of paper. They were all filled with words:

"Yan'er, Zhao'er: When you read this letter, your father and I may no longer be alive..."

As soon as Chu Feiyan read the beginning of the letter, she burst into tears again.

Gong Beixuan hugged her and took the letter to read.

After reading all three pieces of letter paper, I felt upset, "It turns out that my father-in-law and mother-in-law knew everything, but they just couldn't bear to do it."

Chu Feiyan was filled with hatred.

"Mother didn't want to kill her siblings, but that bastard emperor hated mother and grandfather for killing his beloved woman and threatening his throne, so he sent assassins to kill them many times. In the end, they ended up in such a miserable end..."

After reading the imperial edict and the letter left by their mother, they had a general understanding of what happened that year.

Emperor Cheng was the eldest son of the late emperor. Because he was frail and sickly, the ministers in the court who supported other princes repeatedly advised the late emperor to appoint another crown prince for the sake of the country and to stabilize the government, but the late emperor refused every time.

The drama of fighting for the throne is played out with every succession of emperors, and Emperor Cheng unsurprisingly became a thorn in the eyes of other princes and princesses.

However, the former queen's maternal family was powerful, and the eldest princess was a skilled martial artist who had made many military achievements at the border, thus consolidating the crown prince's position for Emperor Cheng.

But Emperor Cheng was a selfish person who disregarded ethics and secretly had an affair with the concubine of the previous emperor. He became pregnant and was discovered by his own sister.

This Concubine Shu was young, beautiful and a resourceful woman. She seduced Emperor Cheng for the glory of her later life. When she saw that their affair was discovered, she was afraid that the late emperor would find out and punish her, so the two of them conspired to get rid of the eldest princess.

But the eldest princess was not destined to die. Emperor Cheng and Concubine Shu failed to harm others, and their affair was discovered by the late emperor. Concubine Shu was sentenced to death on the spot.

The late emperor was very angry, and when he saw that Emperor Cheng was still trying to make a living for Concubine Shu, he became even more disappointed and decided to depose him from the position of crown prince.

The late empress was already terminally ill at the time. Even though her son was incompetent, she did not want to be deposed. Before her death, she pulled the late emperor's sleeve to plead for her son, which made the late emperor so angry that he walked away.

The late queen had no choice but to call the eldest princess and asked her to kneel before the bed and swear that she would assist her brother and not have any ill will towards him. The eldest princess swore with tears in her eyes.

After the death of the late queen, the late emperor decided to make the eldest princess the crown prince. When Emperor Cheng found out, he became even more jealous and felt that his sister was his biggest obstacle.

The eldest princess was very sad. Her father had high hopes for her, and her mother made her swear not to betray her brother. She had worked hard since she was a child to stand out among the princes and princesses, just to protect her brother who had been weak since childhood. But in the end, the brother and sister became enemies.

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