The Prime Minister’s Darling-Chapter 1674 - 812 Monk’s Life Story (Part 3)_2

After greeting the two of them, he turned around, squatted his little body, and grew little mushrooms beside his master: "Master, why did you fall again?"

Liao Chen faced down, his hands tightly clasping the ground, his body trembling with clenched teeth.

How did I fall? Don’t you have a clue?!

Little monk!

Can you really not live a day without messing with your master?!

"You’re an adult now, and I don’t have the strength to help you. Master, you should get up by yourself!" With that, the little guy decisively left his master, cheerfully going to find Gu Jiao.

Liao Chen: "...!!"

A master can’t keep an unfaithful disciple!

Gu Jiao touched his little head, looked at Xiao Hen approaching, and asked, "Why are you here?"

Xiao Hen raised an eyebrow and glanced at the little guy.

The little guy shook his head vehemently and said, "I wasn’t the one who wanted to eat candied haws!"

Long Yi, now seeing Xiao Hen and Xiao Jingkong together, wouldn’t easily freeze up, but whether he still treated Xiao Jingkong as Little Xiao Hen, only he understood.

"Long Yi, you and Jingkong get on the carriage first," Xiao Hen said to Long Yi.

Long Yi picked up the little guy without another word and got onto Xiao Hen’s carriage.

Xiao Hen’s carriage was parked next to the prince’s. As Long Yi walked past the prince’s carriage, the prince just woke up and had barely called out "Come here—" when Long Yi sent a wave of inner strength and knocked the prince out again.

Long Yi carrying Xiao Jingkong got on the carriage.

In the alley, only Xiao Hen, Gu Jiao, Gu Chengfeng, and Liao Chen remained.

Liao Chen stood up, his body almost broken from the fall. Though he wasn’t hurt fighting with Long Yi, he was bruised and battered from his disciple’s earlier yell.

Where can he go to argue?

He raised his hand to wipe away the blood from his mouth and coldly looked at the three opposite him: "What’s your relationship with that guy named Long Yi?"

Gu Jiao seriously replied to Liao Chen: "He’s our friend."

"Friend?" Liao Chen looked at Xiao Jingkong wobbling his head on the carriage and Long Yi silently guarding him, clenched his fists, and said, "Someone like him, and he still has friends!"

Xiao Hen frowned slightly.

Gu Jiao said, "You seem to know Long Yi and his past."

Liao Chen coldly replied, "Of course I know him! Even if he turned to ashes, I’d recognize him!"

Xiao Hen stared at him and asked, "I’ve always wanted to know your identity. It’s impossible for you not to be related to the Xuanyuan family, yet I haven’t found you in the Xuanyuan family’s portraits or genealogy. The Third Princess and Duke An have never heard of anyone named Xuanyuan Zheng. So, who exactly are you?"

Liao Chen snorted coldly: "Who I am doesn’t matter; if you still want Jingkong to live, you’d better let me kill him!"

He didn’t ask Xiao Hen and Gu Jiao to kill him because Gu Jiao said Long Yi was their friend, so he wouldn’t make things difficult for her.

He would handle it himself!

Xiao Hen glanced at Liao Chen and said, "You can’t kill him."

Long Yi watched him grow up, their bond surpassing any worldly connection, and he would never stand against Long Yi.

He wouldn’t allow anyone to harm Long Yi.

Liao Chen’s peach blossom eyes were filled with overwhelming hatred: "I can’t kill him tonight, but one day, I will kill him myself!"

Gu Jiao said, "He doesn’t remember the past."

Liao Chen sneered: "Really? Then no wonder a cold-blooded killer has become like this. But even if he doesn’t remember, it doesn’t erase his past sins. Warn him to be cautious; I’ll come for his life!"

After speaking, he turned and left without looking back.

Gu Chengfeng patted his chest, puzzled: "What’s going on? Is Jingkong’s master Long Yi’s arch-enemy?"

Gu Jiao and Xiao Hen looked in the direction Liao Chen left. Gu Jiao said, "He seems unwilling to talk about the past."

Xiao Hen said gravely: "Because it’s his most painful memory."

Gu Jiao, puzzled, glanced at him: "Do you know something?"

Xiao Hen looked at her kindly: "I just confirmed it a moment ago; I was only guessing before."

"Then tell me; I want to hear." Gu Jiao tugged at his hand.

Xiao Hen gently looked at her and held her hand: "Alright."

Gu Chengfeng: Hello? I’m still here! Can you two stop acting like I’m invisible? Stop making eyes at each other in front of me?

Two carriages slowly moved forward. The two followed leisurely beside the first carriage, while Gu Chengfeng rolled his eyes sitting in the second carriage.

Xiao Hen softly said: "The story starts more than thirty years ago with the Xuanyuan family. Although the Xuanyuan family was well-known for military power, it was not as powerful as it became later."

Gu Jiao nodded: "I’ve heard that the Xuanyuan family grew stronger under Xuanyuan Li, and Heifeng Battalion was also established by him."

Xiao Hen shook his head: "But that’s not the case."

"Oh?" Gu Jiao looked at him in surprise.

Xiao Hen smiled and gently rubbed a tuft of hair on her head: "Heifeng Battalion was founded by someone else, and the strongest person in the Xuanyuan family wasn’t Xuanyuan Li. The first leader of Heifeng Battalion and the true military legend of the Xuanyuan family was someone who never appeared in public. This person is the real military soul of the Xuanyuan family."

Gu Jiao touched her chin: "The Master of the Shadows? It sounds impressive. What kind of person is he?"

Xiao Hen replied: "It’s not very clear what kind of person he was, but he was also the founder of the National Master Hall."

Gu Jiao couldn’t help but think of the faceless painting. Could it be him?

If it was him, then he would definitely be the third little figure alongside Xuanyuan Li and the National Master.

She remembered the National Master said that person was both teacher and friend.

Seeing her deep in thought, Xiao Hen continued: "The Master of the Shadows never appeared publicly, but he wrote the Six Books of Yan Country, founded the National Master Hall, created Heifeng Battalion, and left countless wealth. He fought alongside Xuanyuan Li, always in the shadows, never leaving his name on the battlefield, so people only saw him as a skilled soldier."

But this secret was eventually discovered.

The royal families of Jin and Liang tried every means to win him over, and when that failed, they decided to eliminate him.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly disappeared one day.

People speculated he was either dead or hiding somewhere.

Gu Jiao asked, "What’s this got to do with Liao Chen?" Though she had seen some things in her dreams, it wasn’t the whole picture, especially regarding Liao Chen. She only saw the end, not the past.

Xiao Hen paused and said, "Liao Chen’s father was the second Master of the Shadows."

Gu Jiao asked, "That person’s son?"

Xiao Hen shook his head again: "No, that person wasn’t from the Xuanyuan family. Liao Chen’s father was. The Master of the Shadows acted covertly and couldn’t appear publicly. That was the rule he set. Xuanyuan Qi, Xuanyuan Li’s younger brother, faked his death to become the second Master of the Shadows. Only the heads of the Xuanyuan family knew about this secret power. Therefore, Duke An, my mother, and even Xuanyuan Li’s eldest son, Xuanyuan Sheng, were unaware."

"Twenty years ago, Xuanyuan Qi took his eight-year-old son, Xuanyuan Zheng, to Zhan Country to find some medicinal herbs. On the way, they were ambushed by assassins. Xuanyuan Qi died from his injuries."

"From Liao Chen’s reaction, that assassin was... Long Yi."

Though Long Yi killed Xuanyuan Qi, he paid a great price, losing all his memory and becoming half-witted.

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