Chang'an is good

The sharp sword tip pierced the official robe, and Changji suddenly took a step forward: "My dear!"

"Sir!" The imperial guards all changed color and were about to draw their swords, but Wei Shuyi raised his hand to stop them.

Wei Shuyi was pressed by the sword tip. He looked at the young man holding the sword and said, "The court is not innocent. The death of Envoy Yue Jie was the fault of the emperor. As court officials, we failed to persuade him and should also bear the responsibility—"

"If you kill Wei, you can dispel the anger of Lord Yue and the Shuofang Army. Wei must die today."

After Wei Shuyi finished speaking, he held the sword and took another step forward.

Yue Chunyan was slightly startled, and subconsciously stepped back to retract his sword, but he still felt that the tip of the sword in his hand had pierced his flesh. There was clearly bright red blood on the tip of the retracted sword.

There was a lot of noise and commotion all around. Yue Chunyan looked at the unmoved young official, and his heart was a little shaken - his sword was extremely sharp, and it was left to him by his father... If he had been distracted by the murderous thought just now, or if he had been a little slower in putting away the sword, he might have killed this man on the spot!

Are you really not afraid of death?
Wei Shuyi's figure was reflected in Yue Chunyan's red eyes. That figure was of outstanding elegance. If one looked into his eyes, one would find that there was no trace of retreat or fear in those eyes, but there was silent shame.

Being stared at by such a pair of eyes, Yue Chunyan found that his hand holding the sword was shaking a little, and not just because of anger.

"Have you ever thought about this, if the Shuofang army starts a turmoil and becomes hostile to the imperial court?" Wei Shuyi's eyes were slightly red. "The ones who suffer are the innocent soldiers and civilians, while the one who benefits is Prince Rong Li Yin."

"Prince Rong used the Jiannan Jiedushi to carry out indiscriminate killings in the capital. His purpose was to make the world even more chaotic. This way, Prince Rong's Mansion could benefit more from it—"

"Yes, now that the world is in ruins, anyone can rebel!" Wei Shuyi's voice became louder, his eyes still sincere and powerful: "But if the result is just to pave the way for the enemy with the blood of our soldiers, is it really worth it?"

"If the spirit of Envoy Yue is in heaven, can he really rest in peace?"

These sincere words, which hit the nail on the head, gradually changed the expressions of Yue Chunyan and the Shuofang Army behind him.

The soldiers were still resentful, but they were also a little shaken.

No matter how blinded by hatred a person is, he will never be willing to be a pawn of his enemy.

"It's just some confusing and evasive talk!" The general beside Yue Chunyan looked at Wei Shuyi with a fierce look in his eyes: "Just relying on these nonsense, you want to write off the court's mistakes and offset everything!"

"I have never thought of evading responsibility on behalf of the court." Wei Shuyi bowed to Yue Chunyan again and said, "The mistake has been made. Please consider the safety of the Shuofang Army and Envoy Yue and give me the next opportunity to apologize to Madam and the generals in person."

"I come here with sincerity, and I just want to make up for my mistakes to the greatest extent possible." Wei Shuyi maintained the gesture of saluting. Changji held the sword with red eyes, and tilted his head slightly to one side.

His son has been a favored child since childhood. He has never been so humble and self-deprecating.

Behind me, a cold wind rolled up the door curtain and passed through the hall.

To Wei Shuyi, the cold wind came from the common people of the world, so he did not feel insulted.

He lowered his body even lower, his gestures more formal, and requested again: "Please allow me to enter the city and discuss with Madam and the deputy envoys and generals how to make amends."

"Once we enter Lingzhou City, my life and death will be decided by your thoughts. If I say or do something inappropriate, you can kill me at any time—"

Yue Chunyan clenched the long sword in his hand that was resting on the ground. He suddenly realized that insisting on entering Lingzhou City would not do Wei Shuyi any good.

Although the other person was not dead, he had already lost his life.

"How can we trust such cunning words? Who knows what he is planning?" The general flatly refused and was about to draw his sword: "Hand over the envoy's coffin quickly, or I can kill you now!"

“No——” Yue Chunyan looked at Wei Shuyi and said, “Captain Quan, let him enter the city!”

The general frowned: "Big Brother——"

The young man interrupted him: "I want to see what sincerity he can show!"

The young man said, and turned away: "If he dares to play tricks, I will cut him into pieces!"

Although he is young and has no say in the army, he came here today to carry the coffin. This is a family affair of the Yue family. As the eldest son of Yue Guang, everything should be based on his wishes. This is tacitly agreed by all the soldiers.

Wei Shuyi bowed again to the young man's back and said, "Thank you, Mr. Yue, for your help."

He was betting that a loyal man like Yue Jieshi would definitely be able to raise a good son - Wei Shuyi believed that his calculation was, in a sense, despicable.

Soon, Yue Guang's coffin was carried out of the post house.

The wind and snow were getting stronger, but they could not blur the sound of the young man kneeling on the ground and bowing his head, which was like the cry of a bird or an animal: "Father!"

Thousands of Shuofang soldiers followed suit and knelt down, kowtowed deeply.

Wei Shuyi also knelt down and bowed, folded his hands in front of his forehead, and slowly fell into the snow.

The coffin-carrying team moved slowly.

Wei Shuyi only selected ten imperial guards to accompany him into the city, and said to Changji: "You stay here too. If anything happens to me in the city, you take the rest of the people and leave to find Xuan Ce's army."

He was able to enter Guannei Road and arrive in Lingzhou alive because of the secret help of Xuan Ce’s army - yes, he asked Cui Lingan for help again, and Cui Lingan also gave him help without hesitation.

But the battle situation Cui Ling'an faced at this time was extremely dangerous. Almost all of Xuan Ce's troops were fighting in the Yinshan area or deployed in other important places. Only two thousand people were able to remain in Guannei Road.

And because of the internal division of the Shuofang Army, the two thousand Xuan Ce troops were not allowed to enter the Lingzhou territory by the Shuofang Army at this time. They could only wander around the border, temporarily maintaining a certain balance and paying attention to the movements of the Shuofang Army on behalf of Cui Jing.

If Wei Shuyi was in a bad situation in Lingzhou City, as long as Changji could take the remaining 500 imperial guards away from Lingzhou and seek shelter from Xuan Ce's army, there would still be a chance of survival.

In response to Wei Shuyi's instructions, Changji said nothing.

Wei Shuyi turned around and walked a few steps, then stopped and turned back, only to see Changji following closely behind him.

Wei Shuyi looked at him and asked, "Why are you disobeying orders?"

Changji said in a muffled voice: "I don't want Cui Yuanxiang to show off to me that he has the title of Grand Commander, while I don't have a husband."

Wei Shuyi pulled the corner of his mouth with amusement: "Cui Yuanxiang shouldn't rub salt into the wound like this."

Then he said seriously: "Besides, the situation of his Grand Commander is not much more stable than that of your husband."

"Stay." Wei Shuyi looked at the guard who had been by his side since childhood and said, "If anything happens, at least bring a message back to Beijing for my parents."

Changji turned his face away: "I can't say it."

Wei Shuyi sighed worriedly: "Wei Changji, what use are you?"

"My subordinates are useful for fighting ten at once." Changji raised his head and looked at the ten imperial guards. He suddenly clasped his fists and said, "Sir, let me follow you and leave them behind!" Wei Shuyi followed Changji's line of sight and said, "It seems that you are determined not to let me, Sir, follow your own selfish motives..."

Then he turned around with a smile and said, "Okay, let's go."

Changji raised his hand to wipe the snot that came from crying or freezing, and followed after him.

The master and servant walked away in the snow, with snow falling on their shoulders, making them as white as the sky and the earth.

The remaining imperial guards knelt down and bid farewell with tears in their eyes.

More than a thousand men and horses carried the coffin and headed towards Lingzhou City.

This posthouse is only twenty miles away from Lingzhou City. Even though the journey is slow in the snow, an hour is enough.

However, they had only gone five miles when something unexpected happened and blocked their way.

Suddenly, sharp arrows came from behind the snow-covered bushes beside the official road. The team was thrown to the ground and forced to stop.

Seeing a sharp arrow piercing the top of the coffin, Yue Chunyan, who was accompanying the coffin, could not help but feel shocked and angry: "Who dares to cause chaos in Lingzhou!"

Those sharp arrows came from the other side of the coffin, temporarily blocking the young man's sight. He immediately spurred his horse to change direction, only to see that those "assassins" who rushed out were all dressed in armor and uniforms of the Shuofang Army!

Yue Chunyan's head buzzed, and he soon discovered that with the commotion, the team carrying the coffin quickly split into two factions, with almost half of the people in each group. Half of them were still responding in a panic, while the other half withdrew to the suddenly appeared Shuofang army and quickly merged into one.

Seeing the general who had made his stand clear slowly approaching him, Yue Chunyan's eyes trembled: "Captain Quan... are you going to rebel?"

The captain surnamed Quan showed a mocking and contemptuous smile on his face: "Rebellion? Do you really think that just because you also have the surname Yue, you can be accepted as our new master?"

"My dear, you don't have to die. After all, you can win people's hearts if you are alive. It's a pity that you are too young and too easily bewitched and instigated by others with just a few words——"

As he spoke, his eyes revealed an undisguised murderous intent: "Don't worry, my lord. I will escort your body and the envoy's coffin back to the city and hand them over to my lady."

Then he raised his sword and shouted, "Listen carefully! The imperial envoy of the court came with the new governor appointed by the emperor, forcing us to submit to him. Da Langjun was dissatisfied and refused to obey, so the imperial envoy killed him to intimidate us! The court first killed Governor Yue and then killed his eldest son. They bullied our Shuofang Army too much, so they had to kill him!"

"Yes!"

Following the excited responses, the soldiers behind Captain Quan immediately rushed forward.

The Shuofang soldiers who were still guarding the coffin were extremely angry, but they barely had 500 men, and dozens of them had been shot and fallen, while the enemy's troops numbered at least several thousand...

He is determined to kill them all here!
The captain surnamed Quan shouted, "We are all brothers and sisters. Anyone who wants to wake up now only needs to kill one person and stand over here. The deputy commander will take care of you!"

The deputy envoy he mentioned, whose full name is Shi Daxiong, is the most prestigious among the three deputy envoys in the Shuofang Army.

Yue Chunyan was very familiar with him, and he also vaguely knew about the struggle for military power in the Shuofang Army, but like most people, he had always believed in Shi Daxiong.

Even in his eyes, if there was someone in the Shuofang Army who could take over his father's position, that person would have to be the deputy commander of the division.

But at this time...

"You actually want to use my father's death to distort today's facts to satisfy your own selfish ambitions... and even go so far as to kill your fellow soldiers!" The young man was filled with grief and anger, and drew his sword to fight back: "You are not worthy of leading my father's Shuofang Army!"

"The son of the envoy is indeed very courageous." Captain Quan sneered, as if he was looking at a lamb to be slaughtered: "It's a pity that he is too naive."

He was too lazy to do it himself, and turned his horse around: "Give him a quick death, don't make the corpse too ugly, or the lady will be unable to bear it when she sees it!"

Hearing the teasing tone at the end of his voice, Yue Chunyan's eyes were filled with hatred. He tried to catch up with him, but he had no chance at all.

He had been learning martial arts with his father since he was young. Although he was only fourteen years old after this twelfth month, his skills were already quite strong. In addition, he was aroused by murderous intent and actually killed a rebel with a sword.

But he had no advantage in using the sword on horseback, and he was no match for the soldiers who had been tempered on the battlefield. With the two spears attacking him from both sides, the young man tumbled off his horse.

The horse's hooves were running wildly, and the young man had no choice but to dodge and retreat. When he was about to run into the bushes beside the road, a sharp arrow had already approached his back.

At the critical moment, a figure appeared behind the boy and threw him to the ground.

The two men fell into the bushes in the snow together, and Changji, who followed closely, killed the two rebels who were chasing them.

"You..." Yue Chunyan crawled up and sat up, looking at Wei Shuyi who was shot in the left arm, his expression trembling: "Why did you help me block the arrow..."

Wei Shuyi supported his upper body with difficulty and smiled at the young man: "This is also Wei's sincerity..."

At this time, more than ten soldiers came to protect Yue Chunyan, and dozens of others fought desperately with Changji to stop the rebels from approaching. Wei Shuyi said to the soldiers who came to him, "Take Yue Langjun away quickly, don't go back to the city yet, there must be rebels ambushing on the way back to the city... Leave Lingzhou and go find Xuan Ce's army!"

Yue Chunyan looked at his arm that was hit by an arrow and said, "Let's go together!"

Wei Shuyi shook his head at him: "I am unable to move, and will only be a burden to you. You must remember that only by staying alive can you have the opportunity to tell the truth and prevent the war in Guannei Road—"

Yue Chunyan's eyes immediately turned red, but he saw that the young man actually smiled calmly, without any fear at all: "This matter was caused by the court. As long as you have a chance to prevent the disaster, my death today will be worth it."

Uncle Wei Yi finished speaking and looked at the soldiers around the young man, with entrustment in his eyes.

The soldiers understood and immediately grabbed the boy and put him on horseback.

Yue Chunyan lay on the back of the galloping horse, looked back with tears in his eyes, and saw the young prime minister sitting in the snow, watching him quietly.

In a trance, Yue Chunyan suddenly understood the other party's calmness - this Prime Minister Wei had thought about the possibility of something happening on the road!
Shi Daxiong and his men wanted to use the arrival of the imperial envoy to further boost the morale of the army...

However, this imperial envoy, however, was willing to use himself as bait to lure those who had ulterior motives into making mistakes, so that he, the young master of the Yue family, and the soldiers who still had some integrity could see the true face and try their best to leave behind a spark that could prevent the war within the country!

Try your best to plan in an impossible situation and make your way out of it!

Yue Chunyan's vision became blurry and he soon could no longer see the figure clearly.

Unable to bear the pain in his arm, Wei Shuyi simply lay down in the snow.

He calculated everything and knew that he was in a desperate situation. He was too lazy to flee in a panic and simply cherished the last bit of peace and clarity.

In the heavy snow, he exhaled a long breath of white mist and murmured, "The snow in the north is really cold."

Did she die lying in the snow that winter? (End of this chapter)