In the Liu family's mansion, in a corner where no one is paying attention.

More than a dozen guards in black clothes were holding torches in their left hands and holding sabers in their right hands, walking quickly through the twists and turns of the narrow alley.

Among the dark gray tiles of the high walls, only the swaying orange light of the torches still retains some warmth, while the world outside the torches is black, white, and cold. There are roars and shouts of death in the distance, and there seems to be something going on in the Liu family mansion. Houses are collapsing and lives are disappearing.

The guards in black didn't know what was going on, and they didn't care about what was happening. They came to the door of a house, and two guards in black who were responsible for keeping Prince Jing under house arrest drew their swords to stop them: "Why are you here?" The men in black holding torches stopped him. The guards kept walking, and one of the leaders raised a waistband: "According to Master's order, Prince Jing and his family will be killed. Get out of the way!"

The guards in black rushed straight into the courtyard, only to see no one in the small courtyard. The doors to the east and west wing were open, but the door to the main room in the north was closed. A guard in black stepped forward and kicked the door, only to find that the door to the east and west wings was open. The door has been blocked with heavy objects from the inside.

He drew out his sword and shouted angrily: "Chop the door to pieces!"

With a slash of the knife, a huge crack opened in the wooden door covered with white paper. The guard in black looked through the crack and saw Prince Jing, the crown prince, and the princess each carrying a chair. "It's in vain!"

Just as the guard in black was about to strike the second blow, he heard the sound of breaking tiles beside him. He suddenly turned his head and looked: "Who?!"

I saw a soldier wearing a visor, holding a long knife, rushing towards me from a distant rooftop. Every step the soldier took along the way, tiles were shattered. The next moment, the rising sun finally penetrated the layers of dark clouds in the distance. , a flash of white quickly tore through the sky, the soldier came to the roof of the east wing and jumped!

The black-clothed guard at the rear hurriedly raised his sword to block, but the sword struck from the sky was so powerful that it cut off the knife first and then cut off the black-clothed guard's head. The remaining black-clothed guards looked at each other and headed The man said in a deep voice: "Xingguan! Stop him, and I will kill Prince Jing. Prince Jing will not survive!"

After that, he continued to chop down the wooden door, but more than ten guards in black swung their swords at the soldiers to stop him.

But the soldier ignored it and continued to rush towards the door of the main house. However, when he came to the sword wall, he twisted around and caught the blade with his armor and stomach.

The four blades cut across the cast iron armor, bringing out brilliant sparks like horses. All the blades were blocked by the armor, and none of them could hurt the body under the heavy armor. In an instant, the soldier hit the knife with his shoulder. The wall and the black-clothed guard saw him coming behind the black-clothed guard who was hacking at the door and stabbing him with a knife!

With a chirping sound, the black-clothed guard's body suddenly stiffened and his neck was raised high!

The blade of the knife penetrated his waist and came out from the wooden door, shocking Bai Li and the prince in the room.

The soldier looked back like a wolf and stared at the black-clothed guard behind him. His face was terrifying. He pulled out the blade of the knife inch by inch, and then shook the blood on the blade, shaking out a handful of blood mist. The black-clothed guard's expression changed. Su, let's attack together.

Inside the room, Bai Li and the Crown Prince looked at Prince Jing at the same time: "Father, are you from the Qiantose Army?"

Prince Jing shook his head: "The Thousand-Year-Old Army can't kill here yet. I have arranged for help before, but this person is not the person I arranged." All three of them were a little confused, who could be in the Liu family's deep residence? Suddenly lend a helping hand.

Bai Li suddenly said: "Chen Ji."

The prince hesitated for a moment: "Why did Chen Ji appear here? It shouldn't be him."

Bai Li also hesitated. She looked out through the gap in the door and saw that the soldier was gradually overwhelmed by more than ten guards in black. The soldier was guarding the door, but he did not let a black-clothed soldier pass. The guard came through the door.

The prince was surprised and uncertain: "Dad, should we go out and help him?"

Prince Jing thought for a moment: "Yunxi opened the table and went out with me to pick up a fallen knife and support him."

However, just as the two people pulled up the desk blocking the door, a dull voice came from outside the door: "Don't come out." Bai Li exclaimed: "It's really a trace!"

The prince turned to look at her: "Can you hear this?"

At this time, Chen Ji was panting heavily under his visor, and there were more than ten knife marks on the armor on his body. If it weren't for this heavy armor, he would have been covered in cuts and bruises. Chen Ji clenched the handle of the knife tightly in his hand, and instead of retreating, he advanced with the knife. However, at this moment, a black-clad guard looked coldly at the crowd and slashed out with a knife!

The blade was so fast that Chen Ji stopped and stepped back. The blade passed through his face, splitting the white tassel on his helmet and the visor under the helmet. With two clangs, the visor split into two pieces and fell off. The ground revealed the traces of his face under the visor.

The white tassel fluttered lightly on the ground, and was blown away by the wind.

The black-clothed guards surrounded Chen Ji in a fan shape in the courtyard. One of them said coldly: "You are exhausted. Now abandon the knife and we will treat you as if you have never been here." Chen Ji raised the knife: "We will wait until we are exhausted."

Behind him there was the sound of the desk being opened. Prince Jing, the Crown Prince, and Bai Li opened the door and rushed out, each carrying a chair and standing beside him. "You..."

Before Chen Ji could finish his words, he saw a tall and burly figure flying down from the roof, like lightning and thunder, and pressed a palm on the chest of every black-clothed guard.

The world seemed to pause for a moment. After a moment, there was a crackling sound of bones cracking, and the remaining seven guards in black flew out at the same time, fell on the wall and then bounced to the ground, no longer breathing. "Feng Daban!" Bai Li exclaimed in surprise. .

Chen Ji let out a long breath and held up his body with the knife. Feng Daban turned around and bowed his hands: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I'm late." Bai Li hurriedly pulled Chen Ji's arm armor and turned it around: "I'm injured. ?」

Chen Ji smiled: "Fortunately, Feng Daban arrived in time and was not injured."

The prince and Bai Li breathed a sigh of relief: "How did you end up among the soldiers of the Liu family?" Chen Ji explained: "It was just a coincidence."

Prince Jing looked at Feng Daban: "What's the situation?"

Feng Daban replied in a low voice: "The six zodiac signs of the secret spy department have arrived. The Jiefanwei and the Chitose Army have entered the Liu family's mansion. The Elephant Armored Battalion has no time to rush to rescue. The Tiger Armored Cavalry has been led by Mr. Feng to the Northern Long Live Army." In the midst of an ambush, Your Majesty, don’t worry, Lord Bailong has every plan to ensure that nothing goes wrong.”

Prince Jing did not feel the joy of victory. He just sighed: "After all these years, the dust has finally settled." Feng Daban asked: "Your Majesty, would you like to rest here for a while?"

Prince Jing shook his head: "I'm not going to rest anymore. I'm going to see Mr. Ge off for the last time. He should be waiting for me."...

In front of the ancestral hall, a long bloody road spread to the door of the mansion, like a scarlet twisted carpet, woven with flesh and blood. Master Liu was missing an arm and was sitting in front of the ancestral hall, breathing heavily.

Bailong strolled by, his white boots already dyed red, and his clean white clothes splattered with blood stars. When he came to the door of the ancestral hall, he didn't take a second look at Master Liu at his feet, but just watched Mr. Liu Ge wipe it. The back view of two tablets. Mr. Liu Ge put his father's tablet back on the main niche, took down another set of tablets, and swept away the dust with his sleeves.

The fighting and wailing behind him seemed to have nothing to do with him.

Bai Long said softly: "Mr. Ge, it is not your fault that the Liu family collapsed, so there is no need to blame yourself."

While wiping the tablet, Mr. Liu Ge said with a smile: "Successful kings and defeated bandits have nothing to blame themselves for. Thirty-one years ago, my Liu family's land spanned three states. Ten years ago, I could only shrink." I am lingering in Yuzhou. Ten years ago, I knew that this day would come sooner or later, but I didn’t expect that it would be in such a cowardly way. That poisonous-looking man was not even willing to give me the dignity of a vigorous person. Liu family."

Bai Long thought for a while and said: "The Jing Dynasty has been working hard over the years, and the Liu family's wealth is still of great use and cannot be wasted. Later I may want to borrow the heads of yours and the Liu family's clan and take them to them. Please persuade the Hujia Camp and Yuzhou soldiers and horses to surrender." Mr. Liu Ge chuckled softly: "You persuaded my Liu family soldiers and horses to surrender, aren't you afraid of laying hidden dangers?"

Bailong's dragon-patterned mask had no expression, showing no emotion or joy: "That is something that the Prime Minister should consider, and has nothing to do with me as a pawn." Senior Liu Ge put the tablet in his hand back into the main niche and looked around at the ancestral hall: "What a pity."

At this time, the golden pig's voice came from outside the door: "Your Majesty."

Mr. Liu Ge turned around and saw Fan Wei making way for King Jing to enter the Liu Family Ancestral Hall. He looked at King Jing in silence for a long time and said, "You and I, son-in-law, let's play another game of chess."

"good."

"Master Liu, get a chess set," Mr. Liu Ge ordered.

Master Liu, who was missing an arm, managed to hold himself up, limped through the crowd, and came back from the side room carrying a chessboard.

There was no suitable table in the ancestral hall, so he could only place the chessboard on a stool. Blood dripped from his arm on the chessboard, and he wiped it with his other hand, but the more he wiped it, the dirtier it became. Master Liu wondered: "Master, I.."

Mr. Liu Ge smiled warmly and said, "It's okay, just sit next to me and have a rest." Mr. Liu exclaimed, retreated to the door and sat down against the threshold.

Prince Jing took out a chess piece and dropped it on the blood-stained chessboard, sighing: "I didn't expect that the last game of chess between my father-in-law and I would be played in such an environment." Mr. Liu Ge laughed and cursed, and dropped the chess piece: " Stop being pretentious, without you, our Liu family would not be in this situation."

Prince Jing looked at the chessboard and asked without raising his head: "Zhang Yue, was Ayi killed by the Liu family?"

Liu Ge was startled: "Yes. After Ayi married you, the Queen Mother wanted her to separate you from Your Majesty, but she was devoted to you and did not want to get involved in these disputes."

Prince Jing said calmly: "For her own selfish reasons, the Queen Mother left Yunxi without her mother... So later the Liu family arranged for A Jing to marry me, with the intention of alienating Your Majesty and me?" Mr. Liu Ge said She said slowly: "No, it was Ah Jing who wanted to marry you. She begged me for seven days and seven nights before I agreed."

Prince Jing held up the chess piece but did not put it down: "You didn't agree at the beginning?"

Liu Gelao smiled and said: "I'm afraid that my vicious sister will kill her again. My lord, are you trying to trap my Liu family into eternal disaster because of A Yi?"

Prince Jing was silent for a long time: "No. In the past few years, 30% of the money I have collected from taxes has gone to the national treasury, and 70% has gone to the aristocratic families. If we do not correct the problem, the last breath of this country will be gone." Mr. Liu Ge looked outside the ancestral hall. , I saw countless people crowding around, waiting for them to finish the chess game.

He felt a little sad for a moment: "Your Majesty, I thought that other people might backstab the Liu family, but I didn't think about you. Do you know why?" Prince Jing said, "I don't know."

Mr. Liu Ge smiled and said: "Because I thought you were a smart man who understood the meaning of death and coldness of lips and teeth. You know better than me what kind of person that person in Renshou Palace is. If the Liu family leaves, you will be next. You and Look at those people outside the door, they are not coming for me, but for you!"

Prince Jing remained calm: "Your Majesty and I are as close as brothers."

Mr. Liu Ge laughed loudly, as if he had heard a big joke: "Does the emperor need brothers? What's the point of playing chess with bad chess players?" After that, he waved the chess pieces on the board, stood up and walked to the door. .

Mr. Liu Ge stood on tiptoe and pulled off the curtain from the door lintel, then pulled the curtain back and stepped on the blood-stained chessboard. He stood on a high place and threw the white curtain over the beam, tying it into a tight knot. Then, He looked down at Prince Jing and said with a smile: "My lord, please stay in this world and see if I am right or not. I will wait for you on the road to hell."

As soon as he finished speaking, veteran Liu Ge put a curtain around his neck and kicked down the chessboard and stool.

Master Liu, who was standing by the threshold, put one hand on the ground and kowtowed three times to Mr. Liu Ge without saying a word. Then he slapped his forehead with his palm, cracking his skull. At this moment, a shrill wail sounded: "Father, !」

Prince Jing looked back and saw Concubine Jing stumbling towards her on the bloody road outside the door.

She walked through the crowd, hugged Mr. Liu's thigh and tried to lift him off the rafter, but she was too weak to lift him.

Concubine Jing's eyes turned red from crying and she looked back at Prince Jing, beating his chest again and again: "Your Highness, why is this happening? Why is it happening like this!"

Prince Jing said in a low voice: "The Liu family's sins are too numerous to describe. Look at the women who were buried with your brother. What sins did they have? What wrong did the people of Yuzhou do who had their fields taken away by the Liu family? "

Concubine Jing burst into tears: "But what did I do wrong? They asked me to deceive you into stealing firearms, but I refused, so they killed the fetus in my belly. I admire you and want to stay with you forever like my sister, but you used

My words induced the Liu family to rebel. This is all your men’s business. I just want to have children and raise a husband and raise children. What’s wrong with me?”

Prince Jing remained silent.

However, the golden pig outside the door suddenly said: "Mrs. Jing Fei, the number of maids you have killed with your rod over the years has been eighty if not a hundred." Concubine Jing looked at her angrily: "What qualifications do you guys have to say such things? You kill them."

Are there still few people to gain?"

The golden pig shrank its neck and stopped talking.

Concubine Jing let go of Prince Jing's clothes and staggered toward the door.

She took out a wooden box from her sleeve and threw it on the ground outside the door: "Your Majesty, I have asked you to bring back the Sheng Yu Dan. Please take care of yourself in the future." After saying that, Concubine Jing suddenly bumped into the beam of the ancestral hall.

, fell crookedly.
Chapter completed!