It was difficult to go against the public opinion, and it was under such circumstances that Wang Jiantong passed the position of leader of the Beggars' Sect to Qiao Feng.

But now, he left behind another letter like this, obviously still being wary of Qiao Feng.

Qiao Feng and Wang Jiantong have been master and disciple for more than ten years, and he is very familiar with Wang Jiantong's handwriting. This letter is not a forgery, but was indeed written by Wang Jiantong himself. Qiao Feng is very sure of this.

Because of this, Qiao Feng’s thoughts became even more complicated.

Some things cannot withstand association. The more you think about it, the more you think about it.

Qiao Feng is the same now.

In his heart, he subconsciously believed that he was a Khitan.

It has to be said that in this era, the prejudice of ordinary Song people against the Khitans is deeply rooted.

Before the rise of the Jin Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty was the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty.

The Beggars' Sect has always nominally put patriotism first, and Qiao Feng has always put it into practice.

What is happening now is undoubtedly challenging his worldview.

Qiao Feng is denying himself.

The empress's expression remained calm.

It's still under her control.

"Miss, what do you think about this matter?" Qiao Feng held on to the last glimmer of hope in his heart.

Unfortunately, the empress disappointed Qiao Feng.

"Brother Qiao, you have been the leader of the Beggars' Sect for several years. You should know that the Khitan people have always had a custom."

The empress said leisurely.

"What custom?" asked Qiao Feng.

"The Khitan people used to have a wolf head tattoo on their chests. Most Khitan people outside Yanmen Pass had this wolf head tattoo.

Brother Qiao, could you please open your shirt and show me your chest?"

The empress said.

Qiao Feng's face suddenly turned pale and he took a step back.

He does have a wolf head tattoo on his chest.

Qiao Feng opened his clothes, revealing the wolf head on his chest. The wolf head looked lifelike, as if it was ready to choose someone to devour.

Seeing Qiao Feng's wolf head, Kang Min and the empress both laughed.

And they are all smiles that come from the heart.

Only Qiao Feng's eyes were filled with despair.

"It seems that I am really a Khitan."

Qiao Feng said in a trembling voice.

As tough as he is, he is now a little unsteady on his feet.

"Who said that?" The empress's voice was neither hurried nor slow.

Qiao Feng, like a drowning man clinging to a last ray of hope, said hurriedly, "Miss, you must have a different opinion, right?"

If possible, he would certainly want to be a Song Dynasty person.

He was raised by the people of Song, grew up in Song, spoke the language of Song, and followed the etiquette of Song.

He has always regarded himself as a Song Dynasty person and has always been proud of it.

He certainly didn't want to change any of this.

“If I hadn’t seen the wolf head on Brother Qiao’s chest, I wouldn’t be so sure.

But now that I see this wolf head, I can confirm that you, Brother Qiao, are from the Song Dynasty."

The empress said firmly.

There was no hesitation in the voice.

Qiao Feng's eyes lit up.

He originally had only three points of gratitude towards the empress and seven points of vigilance, but now the empress's favor in his mind has reached the maximum.

Kang Min sneered, "The evidence is irrefutable. What's the point of comforting him?"

"Apart from this letter, is there any other evidence to prove that Brother Qiao is a Khitan?" asked the empress.

"Do you think everyone in the world is blind? Can't you see the tattoo on Qiao Feng's body?" Kang Min asked.

"Of course not all people in the world are blind, but at least not all of them are as stupid as you.

Brother Qiao, if what Kang Min said in this letter is true, then you should have encountered all this shortly after you were born.

"How old were you then? Would you have had tattoos?" the Empress asked.

Qiao Feng's eyes brightened as he said, "Indeed, although the Khitans have a tradition of tattooing, they don't allow children to be tattooed right after birth."

Do you really think getting a tattoo doesn't hurt?

"The most important thing is, even if you got it when you were a child, who can guarantee that thirty years later, this tattoo will become a wolf head tattoo? How come I didn't know that the Khitan's tattooing skills have developed to this level?" said the empress.

"The girl is right. As people grow older, their muscles are constantly changing. The so-called wolf head tattoos are mostly done after the age of ten, otherwise they will easily deform.

It is absolutely impossible for a tattoo to be carved in infancy and still look so lifelike more than 30 years later.

Qiao Feng said.

His tone became more and more certain and relaxed.

Those involved in the matter are often confused, while bystanders can see things more clearly. Since it concerns him, he has just been caught up in it and subconsciously searches for any clues to prove that he is a Khitan.

Due to preconceived notions, many ambiguous things would be regarded by Qiao Feng as evidence that he was a Khitan.

The empress, on the other hand, removed the source of the problem and denied the possibility that he was a Khitan. "Then how do you explain the tattoo on Qiao Feng's chest?" Kang Min asked unwillingly.

In fact, Kang Min is now a little doubtful.

The wolf head tattoo on Qiao Feng's body is real, but its existence has become the biggest obstacle to proving Qiao Feng's identity.

Even Kang Min couldn't convince himself that Khitans were born with this kind of tattoo.

This is an insult to her own intelligence.

The empress narrowed her eyes slightly, her voice turned cold, and she said slowly: "Because someone wants Brother Qiao to become a Khitan."

"Who has such a deep hatred for me?" Qiao Feng asked excitedly.

This simply ruined his life.

"Brother Qiao, if you were the besieged warrior of the Liao Kingdom, and your entire family was inexplicably killed by the martial artists from the Central Plains, would you be angry? Would you seek revenge?" asked the empress.

Qiao Feng nodded and said, "This kind of blood feud must naturally be avenged."

"In fact, that Liao warrior was indeed a prominent figure in the Liao. His name was Xiao Yuanshan. He was the captain of the Liao emperor's personal guard and the martial arts instructor of the Liao army of 800,000 men."

The empress said.

"Such a person is indeed worthy of being called a great hero of his generation. No wonder he was able to defeat the Central Plains martial arts world with his own strength."

Qiao Feng praised.

Although they have different positions, Qiao Feng still sincerely admires this man's martial arts.

"Brother Qiao, you don't know that what Kang Min knows and what is said in this letter are not entirely true. There are many secrets mixed in."

The empress recounted what had happened that year.

Thirty years ago, Murong Bo, a descendant of the Great Yan royal family, spread a false message to martial arts heroes in the Central Plains, saying that a group of Khitan warriors were going to attack the Shaolin Temple and seize the various magical skills within the temple.

Therefore, the head of Shaolin Temple, Abbot Xuanci, and the leader of Beggar Gang, Wang Jiantong, joined forces with a group of elite martial artists from the Central Plains. They shouldered the moral responsibility and killed the so-called Khitan warriors and their families outside Yanmen Pass with ruthless hands.

But in fact, the so-called Khitan warriors were only Xiao Yuanshan and his family. He just took advantage of his only son Xiao Feng's one-year-old birthday to visit his mother-in-law's home in the Southern Dynasty, but was inexplicably ambushed by heroes from the Central Plains and his family was destroyed.

After listening to the empress's story, Qiao Feng frowned, as if there was something that was very difficult to understand.

"Miss, I don't understand. How could Abbot Xuanci of Shaolin Temple trust Murong Bo with such a clumsy conspiracy and make such a big mistake?" Qiao Feng said.

"As I said earlier, Xiao Yuanshan is a martial arts genius that only appears once in a century. Thirty years ago, his martial arts skills were already unrivaled in the world. Coupled with his prominent position in the Liao Kingdom, he is indeed a great threat to our Great Song Dynasty and the Central Plains martial arts world.

Although Murong Bo's plan was clumsy, Xuan Ci was just going along with it."

The empress said.

"Please explain it more clearly, young lady."

“Thirty years ago, neither Xuan Ci nor Wang Jiantong were in a very good situation.

They had all just taken power and there were still doubts within the organization about their abilities, and people in the martial arts world were also scrutinizing them.

Xuan Ci and Wang Jiantong both urgently need to establish their own prestige."

The empress said leisurely.

Qiao Feng's face was a little gloomy, but he did not refute the empress's words.

He naturally knew much more about the history of the Beggars' Sect than outsiders. Thirty years ago, Wang Jiantong's situation in the Beggars' Sect was indeed not good.

“Murong Bo has his own calculations, and Xuan Ci and Wang Jiantong also have their own calculations.

Therefore, neither Xuan Ci nor Wang Jiantong sent out their own high-end military forces, but instead invited martial arts masters from all over the world.

On the one hand, it is because they want to establish prestige within the company, and on the other hand, they do not think that Xiao Yuanshan can pose much of a threat to them.

"It's just that I didn't expect that twenty-one well-known masters in the Central Plains martial arts world were almost wiped out by Xiao Yuanshan alone, with only four people escaping.

This kind of embarrassing thing, whether it is Xuan Ci or Wang Jiantong, I think they don't want to mention it again."

"What the young lady said does make sense, but it doesn't seem to explain why my master would leave such a letter."

Qiao Feng said.

"Who said that it was your master who left this letter?" There was a gleam of wisdom in the empress's eyes.

"What do you mean, young lady?" Qiao Feng was shocked.

He was very sure that this was Wang Jiantong's handwriting.

"Brother Qiao, although I don't know your master very well, I have heard that your master was once captured by the Khitans. Is this true? Did it happen after the Yanmen Massacre?" said the empress.

Qiao Feng nodded. Wang Jiantong was the previous leader of the Beggars' Sect and could barely be considered one of the top people in the martial arts world. Naturally, his experiences were widely known.

"Indeed, my master was once ambushed and captured by five Khitan masters. He was imprisoned in the Black Wind Cave in the Qilian Mountains and forced to surrender to the Liao Kingdom.

The Beggars' Sect naturally wouldn't agree, but Elder Song, who resembled my master in stature, disguised himself as my master and went to the Black Wind Cave in the Qilian Mountains to rescue him, only to be imprisoned himself. In the end, it was my master who rescued Elder Song again, a rare and remarkable story in the martial arts world.

Qiao Feng said.

This matter is indeed widely circulated in the martial arts world, and anyone with a little experience in the martial arts world knows about it.

The Empress smiled knowingly and said, "It's certainly rare, but a good story may not be a good story. I think it's a lie.

Brother Qiao, don’t you think there’s something wrong here?”

Qiao Feng remained silent.

In this world, not everything can stand up to scrutiny.

Especially some things that are simply hard to explain.

When the empress saw that Qiao Feng didn't say anything, she knew that he had begun to have doubts in his heart, so it was natural for her to make further efforts at this time.

"On the surface, this matter seems to be fine, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that many things do not make sense."

"First, with Wang Jiantong's martial arts skills, he was still captured by those five Khitans. How did Elder Song, whose martial arts skills were not even half of Wang Jiantong's, rescue Wang Jiantong from the guards of those five Khitans?"

"Secondly, since the five Khitans had kidnapped Wang Jiantong, why didn't they take him to the Liao prison, but instead imprisoned him in the Black Wind Cave on the Qilian Mountains? Even if the news of Wang Jiantong's imprisonment in the Black Wind Cave on the Qilian Mountains should have been top secret, how could they have leaked it to the Beggars' Sect? Don't you think this behavior is a deliberate attempt to get the Beggars' Sect to send someone to rescue Wang Jiantong, Brother Qiao?"

"3. Since those five Khitans were able to subdue Wang Jiantong earlier, it proves that they have sufficient strength.

How did Wang Jiantong single-handedly defeat these five Khitans and rescue Elder Song, while Elder Song was still held hostage by them? Could it be that Wang Jiantong's strength had undergone a drastic change in such a short period of time?

"Brother Qiao, why did you teach me these three points?" asked the empress.

Qiao Feng's face was solemn and he said nothing.

After a while, he bowed deeply to the Empress and said, "It was the young lady who taught me."

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