The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 150 Jipu
"Take the body out and burn it. Have the cook wait in the kitchen. I'll eat later. Have someone clean up the room. I'll go and rest later."

Li Miao said to An Wenjie.

"Yes!"

An Wenjie puffed out his chest and belly, responded with full energy, and secretly winked at An Ziyang.

An Ziyang secretly shook his head, squinted his eyes, and gestured a few times with his hands below.

An Wenjie understood instantly, took a deep breath, and trotted out of the secret room to carry out Li Miao's instructions.

Only An Ziyang and Li Miao were left in this secret room.

An Ziyang didn't hesitate at all, and smiled at Li Miao flatteringly: "Sir, if you have something to say, please tell me."

"I am willing to kill, burn, cheat, and deceive. I am happy to be your accomplice."

Li Miao's fierce battle with the "pupa girl" and the mysterious method he used to cure his father and son just now made An Ziyang completely understand that he had no room to resist Li Miao at all. His expression became more and more flattering.

Li Miao sneered.

"To be an accomplice to a tiger is not a good thing to say."

"If you want to play dumb, you have to choose someone. All these Mingjiao kids died in your hands. If you play dumb in front of me now, it will only make me think you are taking me for a fool."

An Ziyang was shocked. Then his eyes filled with tears, and a few drops actually flowed down his eyes, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

"Master, I mean this from the bottom of my heart!"

"If you don't believe me, I—"

"Shut up."

Li Miao said lightly.

If he really believed that An Ziyang had submitted to him, then the past twenty years as a Jinyiwei would have been in vain.

This guy looks slick, but he's actually very tough. You can't be too nice to people like him, or he'll just take advantage of you and climb up.

It must be said that Zhu Zai probably thought the same way about Li Miao.

An Ziyang nodded and kept silent, his eyes rolling around.

Li Miao looked around and said.

"This secret passage in your house is quite large. It leads to all directions and has almost hollowed out the underground of the house."

An Ziyang smiled.

"The world is dangerous, so we just need to prepare a way out. My father and I don't have any special abilities, so we can only think about hiding and escaping."

Li Miao waved his hand and said, "There should be a room in your secret passage where you and your son can hide if it's inconvenient to go out."

"There is three."

"Take me to the nearest one first."

"Hey."

An Ziyang led Li Miao into a secret passage, turned left and right, and walked for a cup of tea before stopping.

He first squatted down and lifted a stone slab, reached in and twisted it, and heard the sound of a bowstring loosening. Then he stood up, touched an inconspicuous bulge on the wall, and pressed it.

Rumbling--

The wall flipped over, revealing a secret room.

"Master, that's it."

Li Miao nodded, looked inside, smelled the smell, and shook his head.

"Go to the next place."

"Hey."

An Ziyang roughly guessed what Li Miao meant, and said nothing more. The two of them went to the second secret room, and Li Miao still took a look and shook his head.

The two of them walked towards the third secret room.

There were still two turns left before Li Miao said calmly, "This is it."

"Your martial arts skills are too poor. Wait for me here."

After saying that, he left An Ziyang and walked to a wall.

An Ziyang seemed to suddenly remember something and shouted, "Master, I haven't told you where the mechanism is and how to open it!"

"unnecessary."

Li Miao raised his hand and slapped the wall. The Qi penetrated the wall and directly damaged the spring inside. Then he pushed it open easily.

As soon as it was opened, a sweet aroma came to his face. Li Miao tasted it, smiled at first, and then carefully circulated the Qi for the first time.

This scent is poisonous. It is more than ten times more poisonous than the poison of the Tang Sect. Li Miao can resist the poison of the Gu, but if Li Miao is really careless about this scent, he will inevitably suffer a loss.

But the concentration of this fragrance... didn't seem like a deliberate poison, but more like the body fragrance of a woman, which naturally spread in the air after living for a period of time. This secret room was not very ventilated, so it accumulated and only came out all at once when Li Miao opened the door.

Li Miao stepped in.

The secret room was well decorated and spacious. There was a desk in the middle, and some sundries were piled up in the four corners, including hidden weapons, weapons, silver, and various clothes. These should be the preparations made by the An family father and son for their escape.

The most eye-catching thing is a clothes hanger placed on the outside, on which hangs a large set of men's clothing, a black robe with gold thread edging, which is not like the style of the Central Plains.

At the top of the hanger, there was a bronze mask with a note attached to it.

Li Miao stepped forward and took the note off, examining it carefully. The handwriting was beautiful and contained the following information:
"'Ji Tianrui' is a gift to Lord Li. If Lord Li is willing to help, this item will help Lord Li complete his mission."

Li Miao sniffed and found the fragrance on the clothes was particularly strong, as if it had just been taken off not long ago.

Li Miao smiled and put down the mask.

There was a bed placed against the wall opposite the door, with bedding still scattered on it.

Li Miao walked to the bed, lifted the quilt, and couldn't help but let out a "wow".

He had never seen such a messy bed.

I saw that under the quilt was a pile of food, some finished and some unfinished, as well as a few pens and some unpaired stockings.

Li Miao hooked his feet under the bed and pulled out a pair of embroidered shoes, which were also crooked and had their heels collapsed.

This was far from what he had expected.

Li Miao smiled silently, threw down the quilt, turned around and walked to the desk again.

In addition to the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk, there was a stack of written paper in the upper left corner, as if it was just for someone to practice calligraphy.

Li Miao randomly picked out a stack and looked through it.

"Kill. Live."

"Dashuo. Zhu family."

"Emperor, the heavenly man."

"Mingjiao, founding a nation."

It's full of words that don't make sense and have disorganized logic.

Li Miao was vaguely aware of the connection between these words. After talking to Zhu Zai, he had been thinking about these things. These words helped Li Miao to vaguely connect a vague line.

He smiled silently and turned to the last page.

"Non-my family, its heart must be different."

The eight characters were written with jerky strokes, as if the writer wrote them involuntarily as his mood fluctuated.

Li Miao sighed.

“That’s right.”

"No wonder the court wanted Ji Tianrui to die."

"Ji Tianrui, Ji Tianrui... should I call you Ji Pu Tianrui and Ji Pu Tianrui?"

"Or should I call her... Ge Pu Tianrui or Ge Pu Tianrui?"

Why did the Miao people collude with the Ming Cult, why did the imperial court want Ji Tianrui to die, why was Ji Tianrui able to master the two distinct things, Gu Shu and Wu Gong. Where did the Ming Cult's wedding dress magic come from, and why did the Gu soldiers have the same origin as the Miao people's Gu beasts.

The answer lies in the surname “Ji”.

As a surname, Ji is rarely passed down in Dashuo. The ancient books that Yin Minjun consulted wrote a total of four origins.

Let’s not talk about the other three types and just talk about the last one - Guopu of Wei State in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is a surname based on a place name.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wei had a royal Ji Pu, which was a garden used to grow fruit trees, melons and vegetables, or to raise exotic flowers and rare birds and animals. The officials and servants who managed the Ji Pu were called the Ji Pu clan, the Ji Tian clan, etc.

Among the descendants of Ji Pu and Ji Tian, many of them later simplified their names to the single surnames Ji and Tian, which have been passed down from generation to generation to this day.

So the surname Ji can also be said to be Jipu.

Ji Pu Tianrui was a pseudonym used to hide his origins.

The original name should be "Ge Pu", which has a similar pronunciation. Li Miao had encountered this surname in Pingshanwei, Qilu.

The Gepu clan is one of the twelve clans of the Miao people.

(End of this chapter)