Chang'an is good

Torches flickered, and a man and a horse were in front, leading the army slowly.

The strong and tall woman on the horse was dressed in a black robe, her figure half blended into the night light, only her face was exceptionally clear.

It was a very quiet face.

The horse's hooves slowly stopped, and when the last sound of hoofbeats echoed, Li Yin seemed to hear the sound of thunder that shook the heavens and the earth.

As their eyes met, it was as if thunder struck him one after another, each more shocking than the last. The heaven and earth were torn and twisted around him, shaking like water.

Li Yin didn't say anything.

He stared at the person intently, and she was the only one he could see. He reached out and took the spear from the deputy general beside him, and without any warning or so-called opening remarks, he walked towards her with the spear in hand.

This was an extremely sudden act, and tantamount to seeking death.

Li Lu, who was supported by an imperial guard, looked pale and almost unable to walk. He looked at his father's back with great surprise.

Today, from the Imperial Ancestral Temple, to the Hanyuan Hall, and then to the Fanglin Gate… with every step his father took, he lost more escape routes and was subsequently betrayed more.

He watched the drama intently, watching his father's reaction.

Li Lu had never fled like this before. His body was broken and almost unable to support himself, but he felt so excited and carefree as if he was experiencing a baptism of rebirth.

The only regret is that my father behaved too rationally and respectably, and never showed any signs of true collapse and loss of control.

Until this moment...the supporting string seemed to suddenly break.

And this was just because my father saw the princess? Just one glance?
Li Lu looked at his father's back and saw silent anger in him.

This unknown anger was the most turbulent emotional fluctuation Li Lu had ever witnessed from his father.

Li Yin's large and majestic gold-woven robe dragged on the ground. His steps gradually became faster and faster, and there was a hint of anger in his dark eyes.

The generals and soldiers had already raised their swords and guns to stop them, but stopped at Li Suining's signal.

Li Suining also had a spear in her hand, and she came all the way with the spear in her hand.

There needs to be an ending between her and her uncle, the king, which should be defined by her.

Li Suining also did not speak. She suddenly stood up, turned the spear in her right hand, stepped lightly on the horse's back with her toes, leaped up, and attacked in mid-air with the spear.

She was the challenger, but also the first to attack. She did not wait, watch or hesitate, and turned from passive to active in an instant.

——It’s so similar!
——It’s so similar, isn’t it!

Li Yin's heart was shaking with the sound of gnashing teeth. He held the spear to block Li Suining's attack and immediately attacked her. While the two were defending, the spears collided with each other, making a clanging sound and golden iron flowers splashed.

Neither of them spoke a word, but there was a noise between their exchanges, which was the sound of the wind from the past.

The sharp spear tip was like a mirror, reflecting scenes from the past as it moved and flashed. With each collision of moves, the sounds of the past forgotten in the sea of ​​time burst out.

The first time Li Shang got a spear was when she was in the martial arts training ground with a group of princes. Her uncle threw a spear to her and she reached out to catch it, not yet sure how to hold it.

She was still young at that time, and her uncle Wang was still a teenager.

The boy smiled and told her that if she practiced using the gun in a more impressive way, she could scare away those who wanted to bully her.

For a long time, the spear became a reference for measuring whether she had grown taller and how much she had grown.

She grew up gradually under the gaze of the spear, and Uncle Wang gradually took on the appearance of a young man.

The sounds of martial arts practice, the echoes of idle chatting, the clatter of chess pieces falling... At a palace banquet, a minister spoke out of turn after drinking, and she wanted to find someone to watch the fun, so she turned to look at Uncle Wang, and she always met Uncle Wang's gaze at her at the same time.

Tacit understanding, warmth, companionship, like father and brother... no flaws.

Li Suining later thought that perhaps everything was true at the beginning, so there were no flaws.

So, when did it start to change?

It was around the time she became the Crown Princess.

After returning from a successful campaign, Li Shang would always subconsciously take note of the scenery of various places. She would often think that the scenery here was quite good, and she would tell Uncle Wang about it after returning to Beijing. Uncle Wang was free and unrestrained and liked the scenery of mountains and rivers.

It was not until she was no longer Li Shang and became Li Suining that she understood that what her uncle Wang liked was not to travel around the mountains and rivers, but to own them, even if it meant destroying them first.

In some ways, she, the niece, and the uncle Wang do have similarities.

Perhaps it was because they were similar enough that they had intersections and entanglements, and that was why he initially noticed her, a poor child who was also in the deep palace.

If she had always been so pitiful, instead of having something that he could not reach, perhaps he could always be her good uncle.

At first, he probably wanted to raise a rabbit that shared the same suffering as him, but unexpectedly, the rabbit became a ferocious tiger in his heart.

She became a reference for his ambitions, but also, at that moment, became an obstacle for him.

The shadow of the gun and the memories intertwined, shattering the moonlight.

As the spears fought against each other and their eyes were fixed on each other, Li Yin finally did not hastily retreat, and finally spoke in a low and trembling voice: "You should not have come back... This time, the capital is under my control!"

This is anger and also unwillingness.

The woman's dark eyes stared at him: "What will you use to conquer the capital? My counselors and my Xuan Ce Army? - Uncle Wang."

The last word "Uncle Wang" made Li Yin, who was staring at her closely, suddenly laugh - it was indeed her! Ah Shang!

"Uncle Wang's spear skills don't seem to have improved," Li Suining said, dropping his confrontational attitude. "This time, it's my turn to instruct Uncle Wang."

As the woman's calm voice fell, she swung the spear with one arm, and a whistling sound was heard.

Li Yin deflected the attack and swept his spear away. Li Suining spun around and jumped up. Li Yin's spear swept into the air, creating a gust of wind that lifted the corner of Li Suining's robe.

Li Suining had already approached Li Yin again. As she moved her body, the moves in her hands kept changing, either using both hands alternately, or holding the spear at the same time during a close attack, with her right hand in front and her left hand behind, using the spear head as a sword and the gun body as a shield, combining the sword and shield into one, capable of both offense and defense.

Her movements were agile and swift, like a meteor. One move came before she finished the next one, and one move contained another. The onlookers could only see the shadow of the gun like star marks and the wind of the gun like a dragon's roar, but could hardly recognize her specific moves.

If Li Suining is like a shooting star, Li Yin is like still water, his power is endless and his moves are boundless - just like the tolerance he always shows to others.

Li Shang once thought that this was a reflection of the fact that a man is like his gun, otherwise how could he be said to be flawless.

But what is fake is always fake, especially when the illusion can no longer win -

Under Li Suining's tight and relentless offensive, Li Yin's spear skills finally changed, becoming rapid, sharp, and unfamiliar.

At this moment, he had forgotten everything around him, his own situation, and did not consider the consequences of retreating. Trapped in this duel, he had only one thought... He wanted to defeat her with the gun skills that Ashang had never experienced before, and if possible, it would be best to kill her!

In his eyes, the woman in black was no longer a person, but a demon... She was not a person in the first place, but a demon that had come back to life from the dead! However, the confrontation that followed was completely beyond his expectations.

He wanted to catch the enemy off guard with fierce and unfamiliar moves, but the reality was that he was defeated step by step.

If he could still survive Li Suining's gun with his old moves and barely tie with her, then the unfamiliar moves that seemed to him to be more lethal quickly made him show signs of defeat.

Li Yin was shocked and angry. He waved his gun again, but was blocked by Li Suining. She said, "Uncle Wang, have you ever thought that the trust and understanding between you and me is your only chance—"

"Uncle Wang, you don't think that you really killed me with your own skills and scheming in the past, do you?"

Treat her as a stranger and still expect to win her over.

Every powerful enemy she killed on the battlefield was a stranger.

He thought that the unfamiliar moves he kept against her could be used as a killing move, but he didn't know that this move would actually lose his original advantage.

Using unfamiliar moves also requires the opponent to counter them with unfamiliar moves, which means that he can no longer predict her moves.

Li Suining's greatest skill is to disassemble and analyze the opponent's moves in the shortest possible time. This is an ability given to her by countless brutal battles. Li Yin, who had previously only shown her the ability of being as gentle as water, has never had the opportunity to experience it.

This is what Li Suining said: [This time, it is my turn to instruct Uncle Wang. ]

Perhaps from the very beginning, this ending was not about skills and marksmanship, but an ending of humanity.

Everyone around had already been ordered to retreat ten steps away. Li Yin's men had been completely controlled, but the roofs on both sides were filled with archers, with arrows on their strings, watching the fight below at any time.

At this time, they saw that Li Yin had quickly fallen into a disadvantage after he changed his spear technique.

After retreating several steps, Li Yin used his last killing move. The spear body rolled up a strong wind and rushed towards Li Suining.

Li Suining did not avoid but welcomed it instead.

The tip of the spear in her hand collided with the tip of Li Yin's spear in the air, and then the spear body slightly shifted, and quickly moved forward to press down Li Yin's spear body. She suddenly exerted her strength, and when she had just pressed down the spear body halfway, she flew forward and stepped on the shaft of Li Yin's spear. At the same time, she pulled back her own spear, swung the direction of the spear tip in the air with one hand, and suddenly stabbed Li Yin in the face!
All this happened in an instant. Li Yin's pupils suddenly shrank. He leaned back to avoid the attack, then suddenly pulled back his right hand and tightly grasped the gun tip one inch below his head!
At the same time, he quickly raised his leg and swept towards the spear that was pressed by Li Suining. The moment the spear flew out, he grabbed the spear head with his left hand. In an instant, he held the sharp spear head horizontally and stabbed it towards Li Suining's neck!
Li Suining, however, had already taken a step ahead, holding the gun with both hands, and using the strength of Li Yin's right hand to block, he suddenly jumped up, lowered his upper body, raised his left and right legs one after another, and jumped into the air.

Everyone only saw the figure in black robe, like a slender and swift black lightning. Before Li Yin could react, she had already jumped lightly behind Li Yin. When she turned around and half-straightened her waist, the spear in her right hand had stabbed at Li Yin's back like thunder.

The tip of the spear encountered an obstacle, which was the armor under Li Yin's robe, but the person who drew the spear did not hesitate or retract the spear. The tip of her spear scraped to the side without stopping along the layer of armor. The robe was cut into long pieces, making a sound of cloth breaking. At the same time, her footsteps followed Li Yin's attempt to dodge, until she pierced into the place not protected by the armor and sank into Li Yin's right shoulder and arm.

The tip of the spear was sharp, it broke the flesh, causing blood to flow and bones to break.

The spear in Li Yin's hand fell. When Li Suining put the spear away, he staggered around, gritted his teeth and used his left hand to pull out the sword at his waist under the loose dress.

The sword was unsheathed, and the light was dazzling.

Li Suining swept his spear towards Li Yin's knee.

Li Yin knelt suddenly on the ground. Just as he was using the sword in his left hand to steady his body, the spear swept towards him again, but this time it was aimed at the sword in his hand. The sword flew out of his hand, and he was suddenly forced to support himself on the ground with his hand. The sword fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

"Uncle Wang is no longer worthy of using this sword." Li Suining walked towards him with a gun in hand.

Li Yin looked up at the person who was approaching and let out an indistinguishable laugh. His reluctance turned into a low question through gnashing teeth: "A Shang, tell me why... on what basis!"

Why can the dead come back to life? Why is everyone helping her?
How to behave in society, how to gain a foothold in the world, how to be kind to others... these were all the survival strategies he taught her!
"Because I am acting as a human being, and Uncle Wang is pretending to be a human being."

Unwilling to be a real person, I killed all the irrational things in human nature and forced myself to stay absolutely sober and rational all the time.

If he had not forced himself to remain rational and tried to believe his absurd intuition, he might have discovered that she was Li Shang long ago. It was his morbid rationality that pulled him back from the brink of the truth countless times.

"In the final analysis, it's all because Uncle Wang is too cowardly."

Because of the fear in my heart, I will kill my uncalm, irrational and unconscious self and force myself to always plan everything soberly and objectively, as if this is the only way to be safe.

A person who is detached from human nature is destined to be defeated by human nature.

"Cowardly, I am cowardly, what a joke..." Li Yin supported himself on the ground with one hand, lowered his head and laughed strangely. He trembled and closed his eyes, saying, "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. You go ahead."

It would be considered honorable to die at the hands of the next emperor.

The gunshots whistled, but Li Yin did not open his eyes.

The death he had imagined did not come. Instead, the sharp tip of the gun cut off his hair crown and half of his hair was also cut off. The remaining hair immediately became disheveled and hit his face, causing him to open his eyes suddenly.

"Uncle Wang has always liked to be honorable, but what he did did not bring honor to the Great Sheng Empire and its people, so I cannot give him honor either."

Her way of respecting her opponent is to kill him with her own hands, and Li Yin is not an opponent worthy of her respect.

Li Suining raised his gun and turned around: "I will treat Uncle Wang the same way that Uncle Wang treats the world."

Li Yin finally came back to his senses and stood up suddenly: "...You can't! You can't!"

Two soldiers pinned Li Yin down again. Li Yin, with his hair disheveled and broken, looked like a madman. He looked at Li Suining's back and finally let out an inappropriate roar.

Li Lu, who was also restrained and kneeling on the ground, finally laughed as he wished when he saw this. He laughed louder and louder, and it was so satisfying.

Prince Rong was roaring out of control, Prince Rong's son was laughing, and the father and son brought an absurd and ironic ending to the chaos in the capital.

Li Suining handed the spear to She Cai, climbed on his horse, and slowly returned along the same route he had come, heading towards the imperial city.

When passing by Xuanwu Gate, Li Suining dismounted. Wei Shuyi, who was waiting there, came forward to greet him, holding a jade seal supported by a bright yellow silk cloth in his hand.

It was ordered by Li Yin to be taken out of the palace. Later, Fanglin Gate was betrayed. In the chaos, some of Li Yin's subordinates fled and the jade seal was also taken away. Later, it was chased back in the city by Li Suining's subordinates.

"It will be kept by Prime Minister Wei for the time being."

Li Suining did not ride a horse again, but walked instead.

Wei Shuyi followed behind her and said, "The important matter has been settled. Congratulations, Your Highness."

She looked around at the bloodstains and said to him in a tone of entrustment: "Prime Minister Wei, please take a good look at it for me and remember what you see today. This will be the best congratulations to me."

Wei Shuyi was stunned for a moment, and his heart was suddenly touched. Then he lowered his head slightly and replied solemnly: "Yes, I will watch it carefully and keep it in mind."

Remember this day, and do not let this country repeat the same mistakes.

Wei Shuyi looked at the woman's thin but straight back, and then raised his head to look at the moon. The moon was a crescent moon, and the light moonlight sprinkled on her shoulders. She walked through the Sujing Palace Road with the moonlight.

Wei Shuyi thought that in the future history books would probably record in detail how she passed through this place on that day.

If he were to write it, how would he write it?

Wei Shuyi felt that he should think carefully and make preparations early.

...(End of chapter)