I'm not a fortune teller.

Chapter 30 The Target Was You From the Beginning
Half an hour ago.
There are not many guards guarding the North Courtyard. Compared with the South Courtyard where Madam Yan is located and the East Courtyard where the Prince is located, the guards here are frighteningly sparse. In the North Sea, it is winter and there is no sunshine during the day. It is really cold and bleak. The sparse guards make this place look even more desolate. It is hard to imagine that the head of the Yuchi family would be arranged here.

There was no charcoal fire in the room where the owner was, but the whole room was extremely warm, only because of a guard at the door.
The guard looked to be less than 30 years old, with a delicate face and a not very burly figure, but any warrior who approached him would know that he was a powerful figure. He just sat at the door and the whole room became warm as spring, like a furnace, even attracting some squirrels to slowly approach, and most of the cats in the yard also came closer to the room.

"Master Zhong, it's time for dinner. The kitchen made deer blood porridge today."

The middle-aged man continued to close his eyes and rest, and just nodded in response: "Put it aside."

"Sir." One of the guards holding a lunch box approached and lowered his voice, "The six sons and four daughters of the Zhong family have been arranged to board the ship. In addition to the wife of the first wife, the wife of the third wife is also on the list."

"My third sister-in-law comes from a family of scholars. Her father, Zhong Taiqing, is the vice president of the White Deer Academy. He is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and is also well-versed in classics and statecraft. I chose her because she can complement her family's knowledge. Being a warrior does not mean being ignorant of literature. If you want to make a comeback in the future, your family's knowledge cannot be too weak."

"Your Excellency is right, but you..." The other person was about to speak, but the man suddenly opened his eyes and glared at him, so he swallowed his words back.

The Yuchi family is most likely finished this time, but they have deep roots and businesses in many island countries outside the North Sea. If they retain their fire and retreat to the North Sea, there will still be some hope for the future. The Zhong family is a subordinate family, and they enjoyed the prosperity of the Yuchi family when it was prosperous. Now that they are in trouble, it is natural that they will not be uninvolved.

It is estimated that no one in the family who serves in the military will be able to escape. It is also difficult for the more important adult men to escape. The court needs an explanation. If too many important people leave, the court will definitely send troops to pursue them, and there may be no trace of life left.

But no matter what, Zhong Yu, as the most talented son of the family, a 30-year-old first-grade innate martial artist, who even tied with the leader of the Qingshan School during the palace competition, such a talented person should have evacuated the North Sea together, but he insisted on staying here to guard the dying head of the Yuchi family.

"Tell the other families in the family to stop arguing about the quota, and tell the second sister-in-law to stop making a fuss. If she continues to make a fuss, her son and daughter who are on the ship will be thrown into the sea."

"Yes." The guard looked up and was about to reply but was stunned.

At some point, a figure appeared between the two of them!
She was a girl who was about one meter tall and looked extremely thin and fair. In such a cold weather, if such a thin child was left outside, it would cause a lot of worry for many people, but it was very scary to leave her here!

"Who are you?" The guards drew their swords.

"Stop!" Zhong Yu immediately stopped everyone. His face was solemn. He leaned forward slightly and saluted with both hands: "Which senior has come? What advice do you have?"

In broad daylight, without any warning, he appeared less than two meters in front of him. The moment he saw him, he knew that his group had no power to fight back.

With the opponent's ghostly skills, if he wanted to kill me, I would not have had any reaction at all just now.

"My master wants to see Yuchi Peng!"

The guards' faces changed, but they did not shout rashly. They were all observant and understood what it meant for such a person to appear here quietly in broad daylight.

When did such a person appear in the world? Could he be one of those legendary monsters who practiced martial arts to the point of rejuvenation?

"I wonder where the gentleman you mentioned is?" Zhong Yu asked cautiously.

"You are not qualified to see, nor are you qualified to ask," the girl said coldly.

Zhong Yu gritted his teeth and calculated the chances of success if he took action. Not to mention the chances of success, at least he could delay the time and let the head of the family escape from here and wait for reinforcements.
"Let her in." A heavy and tired voice sounded inside the house. Many guards were startled. They all said that Master Yuchi had been unconscious for many days, but they didn't expect that he could still speak. No wonder Lord Zhong didn't let them say bad things about the Yuchi family.

"Yes." Zhong Yu hesitated for a moment, and finally stood up: "Senior, please come this way."

After entering the room, Murong Yunji finally saw the man who was called the number one military figure by others.

At this moment, Yuchi Peng looked extremely weak, with a sallow complexion, but he was sitting on the bed with his back straight. Murong Yunji could clearly feel that there was a force accumulating in his body that was ready to be unleashed.

Like an ice-covered volcano, the energy within it is astonishingly terrifying.

"Are you holding back this attack to wait for the person behind the scenes?" Murong Yunji frowned and looked at the other party.

"Yes," Yuchi Peng forced a smile and said, "but it doesn't look like the girl is the one behind the scenes."

Murong Yunji didn't say much. She unfolded the scroll and Zhang Rui, wearing a green official uniform, walked out.

It's really convenient
Zhang Rui looked around and sighed in his heart. If he failed this time, he could consider finding a few more painting spirits, so that the whole family could hide in the scroll and let Murong Yunji take their family to escape overseas, which would be a way out.

"Master Zhang?" Yuchi Peng said with narrowed eyes.

Zhang Rui looked at the other party and thought: It seems that Yuchi Peng can still control the courtyard. He has just arrived and the other party knows his information. "Your subordinate Zhang Rui greets the Duke."

"Master Zhang, you are welcome. You are willing to take risks in the North Sea for the sake of the country. This is a rare honor in the world. If I can survive this disaster, I will definitely make you my friend."

Zhang Rui sighed when he heard this.

"Master Zhang, do you think the Yuchi family can't survive this disaster?" the other party asked with a smile.

"I don't know if the Yuchi family can survive, but I'm afraid the Duke can't."

Upon hearing this, Yuchi Peng stared at Zhang Rui for a long time, and finally nodded and said, "I understand. Sir Zhang wants me to take action?"

"Yes," Zhang Rui saluted, "The monster has not taken action because it is not sure of you. But if the Duke can't hold on and dies of the plague, it will devour everything you have. Not to mention the North Sea, I'm afraid there may not be another rival in this world. Combined with its own plague ability, it will be a disaster for the people of the world!"

"It seems that Master Zhang has determined who it is?"

"Mr. Luo San!" Zhang Rui said directly.

"What did you say?" Zhong Yu, who had been silent, suddenly exploded. He had never been so shocked when he knew that 90% of the Zhong family would be buried with the Yuchi family.

On the contrary, Yuchi Peng was only briefly stunned after hearing the name, but there was no expression of disbelief on his face.

"It seems that the Duke is not surprised."

"Sir, your words are so absurd, the head of the family will naturally not be surprised!" Zhong Yu said coldly. In the Yuchi family, the person he admired the most was Master Luo San. He had been born with a defect and could not practice martial arts or take part in the imperial examinations, but relied on his abilities to become the most respected guest official of the Yuchi family. Deep in his heart, he even admired Master Luo San more than the head of the Yuchi family.

Yuchi Peng reached out to stop Zhong Yu who was about to speak, looked at Zhang Rui and sighed: "How did Lord Zhang guess that?"

"Twenty years ago, during the Battle of Youyun, the Duke defeated the Youzhou cavalry and beheaded nearly 100,000 people. It's not that I don't believe that a small force can defeat a large one. There are many such examples in history, but I have never seen a case where a force with a disparity of dozens of times could be completely annihilated. "

"Combined with the current situation in the North Sea, I have a guess. The Duke should have seen this kind of disease twenty years ago, right?"

Zhong Yu's eyes widened, and he was about to shout in retort, but Yuchi Peng spoke first: "Master Zhang is truly extraordinary. Back then, countless great families in the capital wanted to find flaws in our Yuchi family and overturn that achievement, but none of them could do it. Master Zhang saw through the truth at a glance. If Master Zhang didn't look so young, I would have suspected that you were the Mr. Tianji who calculated everything in the world."

“I don’t dare to compare myself with that senior.”

"But Master Zhang, since you have guessed the truth of that year, why do you think it was Master Luo who was possessed instead of me?"

"With the ability of that monster, if it had been parasitic in your body for twenty years, and had absorbed the flesh and blood of a hundred thousand soldiers, how could it be a half-step master? There would be no need to support the crown prince at all."

"Let alone you, the Duke. I'm afraid that even a warrior with some talent would have already become a disaster under the blood and energy of a hundred thousand soldiers. There is only one possibility. The person possessed by the monster back then not only had no talent, but was also born with a disability. Only in this way could he grow so slowly."

"So that's how it is." Yuchi Peng took a deep breath, his eyes filled with sadness.

"Have you never doubted it, sir?" Zhang Rui asked curiously.

"I suspected it." Yuchi Peng nodded. "That night he suddenly proposed to send troops, as if he knew what would happen inside the Northern Qi army. I suspected it, but he didn't do anything for so many years. Gradually, I lost my guard."

"So you didn't suspect him during this North Sea plague?"

"I doubt it too," Yuchi Peng smiled bitterly, "but I can't think of his motives. My Yuchi family is developing so well. Once the crown prince ascends the throne, we will be the number one military family in the Jin Dynasty. He is our chief guest official, so his status will naturally rise. Why would he do such a thing?"

It was not until Lord Zhang told me just now that the monster could make up for its inherent deficiencies by slaughtering others that I understood what was going on. It turns out that...
South Campus:

"I didn't expect it." Master Luo San looked at Yuchi Peng with a cold face and laughed, "I had planned everything, but I didn't expect that there would be a guy like this who came out of nowhere and knows everything about me. How come you are always so lucky?"

"I thought that even though we have different surnames, we have a bond that is comparable to that of blood relatives!" Yuchi Peng stood up slowly, and his blood burst out like a rising sun, and all the water in the yard dried up almost instantly.

Looking at this brother who had grown up with him once again, there was no warmth or hesitation in Yuchi Peng's eyes.

It turns out that the other party’s target from the beginning was not the prince. From the beginning, the other party wanted to kill the Yuchi family. It turns out that the target from the beginning was himself! !
(End of this chapter)