Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Chapter 486 The palace gate you once swore to protect is rotten to the core

Late at night, Shangguan Qian appeared at the entrance of the hot spring where Gong Shangjiao was bathing, wearing a lotus pink long dress.

"Master Jiao, you called Qianqian here because of the leakage. Why?"

"It's been a while since I sent any information to Wu Feng. If I don't send any more information back, I'm afraid they will get suspicious."

Gong Shangjiao was soaking in the hot spring with his back to Shangguan Qian, revealing his strong muscles, and his arms resting on the edge of the bathtub were covered with countless scars.

"My corner palace is not safe either. There are at least one or two pawns watching your every move."

Shangguan Qian knelt behind Gong Shangjiao, took the white bath towel beside her, dipped it in water and washed Gong Shangjiao's long hair bit by bit.

"Mr. Jiao is right. When you were not in Jiao Palace some time ago, someone threw stones into my courtyard."

Shangguan Qian took out the stone from his sleeve and handed it to Gong Shangjiao.

Gong Shangjiao did not take the stone directly. Instead, he tilted his head to take a look, snatched the bath towel from Shangguan Qian's hand, wrapped the stone, and waved it in front of his eyes.

"There's nothing special about it. Is this considered news?"

Shangguan Qian smiled and said, "There is nothing special about the stone. What is special is the place where the stone fell."

Gong Shangjiao became interested, "Why, did you dig up anything there?"

"A letter from a very old time."

"How old is it?"

"It was a letter from at least ten years ago. The signature on the letter was something that even Mr. Jiao hadn't expected."

"Ten years ago? Or did I not expect that?"

"It's Gong Hongyu, the former blade holder."

Gong Shangjiao looked at Shangguan Qian fiercely, and grabbed her vital point when she was caught off guard, "Do you know what you are saying?"

Shangguan Qian didn't seem to be afraid of the hand that was strangling her neck. She looked at Gong Shangjiao with a firm face: "Qianqian wouldn't dare to deceive Master Jiao with such a thing."

"Where's the stuff?"

Gong Shangjiao watched Shangguan Qian take out a yellowed envelope with a little dirt on it and some corrosion on the corners from his other sleeve.

Gong Shangjiao's eyes were dark without a trace of emotion. He just stared at the letter in Shangguan Qian's hand.

The letter was like a key. Once opened, it would be like the palace door that was opened at the beginning, and he would be killed again without a single trace left.

"Mr. Jiao, are you afraid to look?"

Shangguan Qian raised her eyelids, her eyes full of mischief, "Would you like me to open it for you and read it?"

"Get out!" Gong Shangjiao growled at Shangguan Qian in a cold tone.

Shangguan Qian didn't care much and casually placed the envelope on the edge of the bathtub. She stood up and left the room. Before leaving, she deliberately messed up her clothes and hair.

Gong Shangjiao looked at the letter beside him for a long time before he reached out to open the letter.

As the letter was opened, the contents of the letter were revealed one by one.

"Gong Hongyu! How dare you!"

"You traitor to the palace!"

"For your own selfish gain, you actually betrayed so many people in the palace!"

"Is the position of holding the blade tempting then?"

The letter read: I can agree to your request, but you cannot harm anyone in Yugong.

You can do whatever you want with the people in Shang Palace, Jiao Palace and Zheng Palace!

When my son grows up, you can send your people to marry him.

The person you send will also be with me, and you can ask her to report the situation at the palace gate to you at any time.

Gong Shangjiao never imagined that the palace to which he had sworn allegiance until death was so filthy and infamous!

Gong Shangjiao didn't know what faces Gong Hongyu would have when he went down to meet his parents, Yuanzheng's parents, Yugong's ancestors, and all the people in the palace who died because of Wufeng.

Gong Shangjiao thought about what Li Lun said today, that Gong Huanyu was still alive, living in the palace gate ancestral hall.

He didn't know whether Gong Huanyu already knew that Gong Hongyu was the murderer of his parents, or knew about Gong Hongyu's cooperation with Wufeng, so he planned the poisoning incident of Zhiren and Mingwuji.

Gong Shangjiao was very confused now. He didn't know how to deal with what was going to happen next. He even couldn't help but vent his anger on Gong Ziyu who was completely unaware of the situation.

Gong Shangjiao put on his pajamas, without even having time to change his clothes. He wrapped himself in a cloak and carried a lantern, without even bringing Jin Fu, and headed towards the ancestral hall alone.

Zheng Palace

Gong Yuanzheng, who was reading by lamplight in a small pharmacy at night, suddenly heard what Li Lun said, the words Shangguan Qian, Wenquan, Gong Shangjiao, and ancestral hall.

"Big Sophora japonica, what's wrong? I just wanted to hear you say your brother's name."

Li Lun put down the book in his hand and looked at Gong Yuanzheng with a sly smile: "My believers told me that the woman in your good brother's palace came out of your brother's bathroom in disheveled clothes."

"what!"

Gong Yuanzheng was so shocked by Li Lun's words that he didn't care about the new medicine he was brewing. He pushed open the door and headed towards Jiaogong without paying attention to the servants' attempts to stop him.

The journey which was supposed to take a quarter of an hour was shortened by Gong Yuanzheng to a cup of tea.

"Jin Fu! Where's my brother?"

Jin Fu looked at the breathless young master and asked about Master Jiao. Jin Fu was still wondering, "Master just went to the direction of the ancestral hall alone with a lantern..."

Before Jin Fu could finish his words, Gong Yuanzheng snatched the lantern from Jin Fu's hand and flew towards the ancestral hall.

Jin Fu stretched out his arm to stop Gong Yuanzheng, "Master Zheng, you don't allow anyone to follow you!"

Gong Shangjiao had a frosty look on his face all the way, which scared the guards and servants patrolling inside the palace gate.

Gong Shangjiao stood at the entrance of the ancestral hall, looking up at the plaque on the door and the vertical couplets on both sides.

Gong Shangjiao looked at the words on both sides and sneered in his heart: "Yu Gong is rotten to the core. The previous generation of swordsman must have been blind to choose such a sinister villain as the swordsman."

Gong Shangjiao held his breath and sensed the weak breath in the ancestral hall. When he felt someone moving inside, he suddenly pushed open the door of the ancestral hall.

Gong Shangjiao looked at Gong Huanyu who had no time to hide, "Young Master, this is really unexpected!"

Gong Huanyu was looking at Gong Shangjiao who suddenly appeared at the door of the ancestral hall. Just as he was thinking about how to deal with it, he heard Gong Shangjiao say.

"Have you known about the deal between Gong Hongyu and Wufeng ten years ago?"

Gong Shangjiao looked at Gong Huanyu who was puzzled, "Are you trying to tell me that you don't know about the cooperation between Gong Hongyu and Wufeng?"

Gong Shangjiao threw the letter paper that he had been holding tightly in his hand to Gong Huanyu.

Gong Huanyu picked up the piece of letter that Gong Shangjiao threw in front of him with a puzzled look on his face.

After Gong Huanyu read the letter at a glance, his eyes became bloodshot and he looked at the letter in his hand with a ferocious look.

"Gong Hongyu, this despicable villain!"

"How dare he! How dare he! How dare he cooperate with the enemies of the palace!"

Gong Shangjiao looked at Gong Huanyu and saw that his expression didn't seem to be acting. "You don't know?"

"I didn't know about the collaboration between this despicable guy and Wu Feng. I only knew that my father and mother died indirectly because of him."

"Didn't your father Gong Chenyu die when he was besieged by Wufeng while on duty? And didn't Madam Yu die of depression because of Uncle Chenyu's death?"

Although Gong Shangjiao was still young when Gong Huanyu's parents died, he already knew things and had heard his father and mother mention it once or twice.

However, his father was still very angry about the death of Uncle Chen Yu at that time.

He knew about this incident because at that time, he was so naughty that he cut the teacher's beard during class. He was then beaten by his father and punished by his father to kneel at the door.

Gong Huanyu sneered: "What do you mean he was killed by Wufeng? It was all because of that hypocrite Gong Hongyu. If he hadn't cheated and switched the mission, my father wouldn't have died!"

"My mother wanted to avenge my father, but because of those damn palace rules, she was trapped in that small square world. She was also threatened by that despicable Gong Hongyu and committed suicide!"

Gong Huanyu tore the letter in his hand into pieces!

"What's going on with Ming Wu Ji?"

"Did you intend to poison Gong Hongyu and Ming Wuji to death together?"

Gong Shangjiao looked at the furious Gong Huanyu and said, "You were the one who swapped Gong Hongyu's Herbs, right?"

Gong Huanyu looked at Gong Shangjiao and said, "Gong Shangjiao, you are indeed the most talented person in the palace in the past hundred years. It's a pity that you are trapped because of a despicable person like Gong Hongyu. Otherwise, the position of young master would have been in your pocket."

"I don't care about the position of young master. As long as the future Sword Master can manage the palace well and treat all the clansmen in the palace well, I can assist him wholeheartedly."

After seeing the wonderful world outside the palace, how could Gong Shangjiao be willing to be a domesticated sick eagle with clipped wings?

"If you had appeared ten or twenty years ago, how could Wufeng become what it is now, and how could Gongmen become what it is now?"

Gong Huanyu turned around dejectedly to look at the rows of tablets, then suddenly rushed forward, took Gong Hongyu's tablet off the altar, and threw it directly on the ground. Not only did he crush it with his feet, he even threw the candles on the altar directly onto the tablet.

Gong Shangjiao watched as Gong Huanyu went crazy and burned Gong Hongyu's tablet.

"When did you find out that Ming Wu Ji was a sharp assassin?" Gong Shangjiao waited quietly for Gong Huanyu to calm down.

"when!"

"It's been so long, I almost forgot it!"

"I remember that day I saw Elder Yue, that old man, rushing over from the Elders' Courtyard. After entering the Yu Palace, he went straight to the dormitory of Gong Hongyu and Ming Wuji."

Gong Huanyu sat slumped on the ground, looking at the tablet of Gong Hongyu that was burned by the flames, with a trace of calm madness on his face, "If I hadn't been curious that day, maybe I would never have known until my death that Ming Wuji was actually the assassin hiding in the palace gate."

Gong Huanyu laughed like a madman, "How ironic it is to see you at the palace gate!"

"They say that Wu Feng is our palace's enemy and our sworn enemy, but what is the result?"

"As a result, our high-ranking, mediocre and foolish palace guard turned around and married the swordless assassin as his wife, and even forced his original wife to death!"

Gong Huanyu turned around madly and looked at Gong Shangjiao, as well as Gong Yuanzheng and Gong Ziyu who suddenly appeared behind Gong Shangjiao, "Don't you think this is ridiculous?"

"Brother, you are not dead!"

"Gong Huanyu!"

After hearing two voices coming from behind him, Gong Shangjiao turned around and saw that it was Gong Yuanzheng and Gong Ziyu.

"Expedition! Why are you here?"

Gong Yuanzheng took a few steps forward and stood beside Gong Shangjiao. "When I was refining medicine in the pharmacy, I heard what the big locust tree was saying. He mentioned Shangguan Qian and my brother's name."

Gong Yuanzheng pinched the corner of Gong Shangjiao's clothes, just like when he was a child, he would pinch the corner of his brother's clothes when he was scared.

"I went to the Jiao Palace first. I was afraid that Shangguan Qian would do something to you, so I went to the Jiao Palace first. But Jin Fu said that you were not there and you came to the ancestral hall, so I ran over here."

Gong Ziyu looked at his elder brother with disbelief, as he was supposed to be dead. But now he was standing in front of him alive and saying that his mother was forced to death by his father.

"Brother! What nonsense are you talking about! How could my mother be forced to death by my father? Don't we all know how much my father loves my mother?"

Gong Shangjiao and Gong Yuanzheng watched coldly as Gong Ziyu staggered towards Gong Huanyu. They stretched out their hands to grab Gong Huanyu's sleeve, but were directly brushed away by Gong Huanyu.

"Mrs. Lan was indeed forced to death by Gong Hongyu, because your father, that sinister villain, reached an agreement with Wufeng. He wanted Wufeng to help him, Yu Gong, to sit on the position of the Blade forever, but you really couldn't explain it, so he needed to find a useful assistant for you."

"What Wu Feng wanted was never the secret weapon of the palace, but he wanted there to be only one voice in the world, and that is Wu Feng's voice."

Gong Huanyu looked down at the embarrassed Gong Ziyu, "It's because your mother knows your father's true face that she doesn't treat him well. That's why your father was so angry and spread rumors that you are not his son."

Gong Ziyu's eyes were full of hurt, "Brother, what do you mean?"

"What I mean is that the rumor that your son Yu is not from the palace that has been circulating in the palace was spread by your father."

Gong Huanyu looked at Gong Ziyu, who was slumped on the ground, with ill intent.

Gong Yuanzheng looked like he had eaten something shocking, his mouth slightly open, and it was Gong Shangjiao who closed it for him.

"Yuanzheng, my mouth is watering!"

Gong Yuanzheng reached out his hand and wiped the corner of his mouth, "Brother!"

Gong Shangjiao looked at his brother's angry expression, and the anger in his heart seemed to be extinguished by a gentle rain.

"So, brother. Gong Ziyu is really from the palace!"

"Gong Huanyu has been in charge of Yu Palace for so long, there is no way this would be wrong."

Gong Shangjiao and Gong Yuanzheng stood at the entrance of the ancestral hall, whispering to the two Yugong brothers who were confronting each other inside.

"Then why did Gong Hongyu do this!"

"Why else? He doesn't want to be branded as the murderer of his beloved wife, nor does he want to dirty his own hands. So he can only let Madam Lan bear the responsibility and die with a stigma on her body, and then hand over the position of Madam Blade to his partner, the Bladeless Assassin, Ming Wuji."

Gong Ziyu heard Gong Shangjiao slandering his aunt as a bladeless assassin, so he got up from the ground and pointed at Gong Shangjiao and cursed.

"Gong Shangjiao, what are you talking about! How can my aunt be a bladeless assassin! She doesn't know anything, she is just a weak woman who can't even tie a chicken!"

Gong Shangjiao looked Gong Ziyu up and down and said, "You are really hopelessly stupid!"

"Gong Ziyu, your good aunt is the assassin without a front, and she is also the nameless one who has been hiding in the palace for twenty years."

Gong Huanyu's voice was like a sharp knife, directly piercing Gong Ziyu's fragile lies.

"Gong Ziyu, I've always looked down on you! All the kindness I showed you was just an act."

"Do you think I want to be nice to you?"

"Whenever I see you, I will think of my parents. They all died because of your despicable father. He even pretended to adopt me!"

"If it weren't for him, how could I become an orphan?"

"If it weren't for him, I would have grown up under the care of my parents now!"

"If it weren't for him, I wouldn't still be single!"

"Because your father is waiting for you to come of age. Look, the entire palace is revolving around you. How honored you are!"

Gong Huanyu's sarcastic words directly broke down Gong Ziyu's defense.

Gong Ziyu pushed Gong Shangjiao and Gong Yuanzheng away in despair and ran away.

Gong Shangjiao supported Gong Yuanzheng, who was caught off guard and almost pushed to the ground by Gong Ziyu, and looked at Gong Ziyu who was running away with murderous intent in his eyes.