Chapter 10 Four Words I Knew
At the start of spring, urgent reports came from the West Border.
General Wang held troops for himself, and a secret letter of collusion with the barbarian tribes was presented before the throne.
The court argued without end. The war faction and the peace faction shouted until their faces were red.
Xiao Huai An stayed in the imperial study for three days and three nights.
The lotus-seed soup I sent cooled and was heated, heated and cooled, and in the end came back untouched.
On the morning of the fourth day, when he pushed the door open, the depths of his eyes were mapped with blood threads, yet they carried a brightness close to fervor. "Wen Yan, I need you."
My heart sank hard.
Those four words were like a key, instantly opening the floodgate of last life's memories.
Back then he had looked at me like this too, and had me use Wen Clan disciples to probe the Chancellor's crimes.
Later every matter implicated so deeply that it sent my Elder Brother into the Heavenly Prison.
"Under General Wang's tent there is an advisor, an old subordinate of your Father."
He pushed a scroll of secret files in front of me. "I need someone to approach him for me and obtain solid proof of his collusion with the barbarian tribes."
I looked at the two characters "Wen Shu" on the secret file. My fingertips went suddenly cold.
In the last life, when Wen Shu was beheaded, I had been there too.
"I will go."
The instant the words left my mouth, I saw my own face in the bronze mirror, still as a pool of dead water.
Some roads, no matter how they were walked, still returned to the starting point in the end.