Reborn to overthrow the throne, I became the new emperor's dark moonlight

Grand Tutor Zhou sighed deeply.

"The Fang family returned to their hometown to mourn their father's death. Coincidentally, there was a flood in their hometown, and everyone there moved to the mountains, including the Fang family.

However, they claimed to be a powerful family and were unwilling to live on the same mountain with ordinary people, so they went to a higher mountain.

Unexpectedly, a group of bandits had just moved in from the higher mountain. Although the Fang family returned to their hometown to mourn their father, they also brought a lot of guards and servants.

At that time, the Marquis of Yong'an and his son, Qingyun's father and brother, wanted to capture the bandits with the help of the guards of the Marquis' Mansion.

Firstly, the flood was raging, and if it didn't recede, the hill below would also be unsafe. The Yong'an Marquis Mansion needed this hill to save its lives.

Secondly, they also wanted to make some achievements during the period of mourning in their hometown so as to prepare for returning to Beijing to resume their posts in the future.

Suppressing bandits and eliminating harm to the people is an opportunity that comes right to your doorstep.

But they didn't expect that those bandits were low-key and yet each of them had extraordinary skills. The guards of the marquis's mansion were no match for them at all.

In order to save his life, Marquis Yong'an took the initiative to seek peace.

But the bandits were not so easy to provoke. It was just that the bandits were wary of the status and connections of the Marquis' Mansion and did not dare to kill them all.

Just ask the women of the Marquis's Mansion to accompany them, and the matter will be settled, and they will be given some land to settle down."

Grand Tutor Zhou lowered his eyes, his bony fingers tightly gripping the armrests of the chair, "Marquis Yong'an was considered a prosperous family at the time, and the women in the mansion all had distinguished status.

Except for Mingzhu.

Although she is a daughter of my Zhou family, her father had a conflict with the clan and took the initiative to leave the clan and seek a position as a county magistrate in a remote place.

In addition, all the other men in the Marquis' Mansion were there at the time, and only Qingyun was sent by the late emperor to lurk in the enemy country.

Marquis Yong'an favors his eldest son, and Qingyun does not have a close relationship with him, so he does not know Qingyun's true identity and only thinks that he is a businessman who is not doing his job and doing some fur business in his spare time.

Especially when the whole family returned to their hometown to mourn their father's death, but Qingyun was doing business in another country and was unable to return home in time, which made him even more dissatisfied with Qingyun.

After the bandits made that request, he pushed Mingzhu out without hesitation.

Mingzhu is naturally unwilling, but Yong'an Marquis threatens Huiyue..."

Su Heting was furious when he heard this, "Despicable."

"The worst is yet to come. Just as Marquis Yong'an had worried, the flood also submerged the hills below.

The guards of the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion were all killed by bandits when they were trying to seize the mountain. The food they brought with them was limited, and since they were used to a life of luxury, they did not dare to go into the mountains to find food like the bandits.

He then threatened Huiyue and forced Mingzhu and several maids who came with her as a dowry to hang red lanterns on the mountain.

Mingzhu and several others exchanged their bodies with bandits for food to support everyone in the marquis' mansion.

However, everyone in the Marquis' Mansion felt that she had brought shame to the Mansion. Before the flood had receded, they were already plotting how to take the lives of Mingzhu and the others, and they didn't want to let Huiyue and the others go either.

Mingzhu expected that the Marquis' Mansion would silence me, and also knew the identity of the Qingyun Ghost Army, so he asked a mountain bandit for leniency and asked his maid who could swim to bring Huiyue down the mountain to look for me in advance.

When I learned about this, I immediately sent people to rescue Mingzhu, but it was too late.

After the flood receded, Mingzhu and several others were left on the mountain forever. They were poisoned by the order of Marquis Yong'an.

The Yong'an Marquis' Mansion was able to silence Mingzhu and the others, but it could do nothing about the bandits, and the news eventually got out.

To protect Mingzhu's reputation, the late emperor ordered me to personally suppress the bandits, while he left the people of Yong'an Marquis' Mansion to Qingyun to deal with on his own."

Grand Tutor Zhou looked at Su Heting, "Mingzhu is the girl Qingyun fell in love with at first sight. They have a very good relationship, and she supports Qingyun's ambition to bring peace to the world. Even though other women often laugh at her husband for his incompetence, she never complains.

This made Qingyun feel guilty. After he stole the enemy's intelligence and helped Dayou defeat the enemy army and returned home, he learned such bad news..."

Grand Tutor Zhou's face was filled with pain. After a long silence, he finally said, "The late emperor blamed himself for not being able to protect Qingyun's wife and daughter, so he wanted to make amends through Huiyue. That's why he asked me to announce to the public that Huiyue is my biological daughter, whom I have been raising in my hometown."

"And what about Grandfather?"

Su Heting finally understood why Grand Tutor Zhou had concealed the truth from his grandfather.

Even if he hoped that his grandfather would recover his memory sooner, he would not want him to know about the past.

My grandfather sacrificed enough for the late emperor and for Dayou. He protected Dayou and millions of people, but no one protected his wife.

I am afraid that if he learns the truth, he will be in deep pain even if he doesn’t collapse.

Grand Tutor Zhou looked far away as he recalled, "Qingyun knelt in front of Mingzhu's grave for three days and three nights without a drop of water. Furthermore, he had been traveling all the way and was injured. He eventually developed a high fever and passed out, nearly losing his life.

The people in the Marquis' Mansion did such a dirty thing and did not repent. They even blamed Huiyue for it. It can only be said that Mingzhu did all that for Huiyue.

Qingyun was furious. Regardless of his health condition, he personally presented the evidence of Yong'an Hou's crimes to the late emperor.

The late emperor wanted to add more evidence to sentence them and their entire family to death, but Qingyun insisted on exiling them.

During his exile, he personally killed the lives of the Fang family one by one.

He said that those people's lives were saved by Mingzhu, so he had returned them to Mingzhu.

But because of this, Qingyun himself was also a fugitive on the surface, although he was later pardoned by the late emperor on the pretext of something.

However, the Marquis's family was killed, and he was appreciated by His Majesty, which inevitably attracted attention. He might even discover his identity as a ghost soldier. In addition, he felt guilty towards Mingzhu and did not want to enjoy the glory alone for the rest of his life, so he refused the emperor's open promotion and became an idle gangster.

The meritorious official's family was destroyed and he was looked down upon. The late emperor felt more and more guilty and could only think of ways to be good to Huiyue.

Although the late emperor paid more attention to him because of Su Zhaoyi, the reason why the emperor caught the late emperor's eye was more because Huiyue liked him, which was why the marriage was granted.

Since Huiyue entered the Zhou Mansion, she has been raised by a nanny handpicked by the late emperor. The late emperor trained her according to the standards of a future empress."

Su Heting thought back to his childhood when he always saw the late emperor being particularly kind to his mother. He thought at that time that his mother was loved by the elders, but it turned out that there was such an inside story.

"Then is my being named Crown Prince also related to this?"

Before the death of the previous emperor, he left a will, passing the throne to the emperor and appointing him as the crown prince.

The emperor had not yet ascended the throne, but he had already decided on the future crown prince. Throughout history, such things are very rare.

Grand Tutor Zhou nodded, then shook his head, "That's certainly what I meant, but you've been intelligent and kind since you were young, and you were very much loved by the late emperor.

As the late emperor said, Dayou is now prosperous and has no need to expand its territory. It only needs to maintain this prosperous land. Your temperament is just right for an emperor who protects the land."

Having said that, he sighed deeply again.

Who would have thought that misfortune would happen to the emperor? In just over twenty years, Dayou's prosperity was gone, and the prince favored by the previous emperor became the king of the rebel army.

He had heard a lot about the deeds of the King of Xinjiang North, and the young man in front of him was no longer the same as before.

But then he thought again, maybe this was God's will. Dayou's current situation of disintegration really needed a tough and domineering master, so he felt much more relieved.

Then he continued to talk about the old man, "Because of the Mingzhu incident, Qingyun has become even more harsh on himself, doing things as if his life is not worth living.

After Dayou was safe, he returned the ghost army to the late emperor, and spent his days guarding the Mingzhu tablet, living a life without a trace of humanity.

The late emperor felt sorry for Qingyun and learned that there was a girl in the ghost army who liked Qingyun, so he tried to bring them together. However, he made Qingyun unhappy and the two had a fight in front of Mingzhu's grave.

Qingyun said, if the late emperor really loved him, he would have let the ghost army go back to seclusion, so that they could live an ordinary life from now on, instead of being like him, who protected the people of the world but could not protect his beloved.

As the state of Dayou was at peace, the late emperor granted his request, but made an agreement that he would return to the army if summoned.

On the day the ghost army retreated, Qingyun also disappeared. It was said that he was annoyed by the woman's harassment and hid away.

I never saw him again after that, until the second year after the second prince died, when we discovered a new grave next to Mingzhu's tomb.

There was a new coffin in the pit. The body inside the coffin had already rotted a little, but you could vaguely make out about 70% of the corpse's appearance.

Buried in the coffin were women's hair ornaments and children's toys. Your mother recognized them as Mingzhu and her belongings.

And all the signs at the scene seemed to indicate that the person in the coffin had dug the pit and built the coffin himself.

We all believed that the corpse was Qingyun, and that Qingyun buried himself next to Mingzhu..."

Before Grand Tutor Zhou finished speaking, Su Heting heard a breathing sound, which gradually became heavier.

Then the old man appeared. He suddenly grabbed the front of Grand Tutor Zhou's clothes and lifted him up. "You buried someone next to Mingzhu?"