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Chapter 171: Escape from Despair
After speaking, the man in gray pulled out his sword, and He Shouzhi backed away in fright. Jiang Feng was the first to block with his sword. Shen Jiangdong said to He Shouzhi, "It seems that the other party doesn't trust you very much." After speaking, he wanted to help Jiang Feng , Jiang Feng said: "Don't make trouble." After speaking, he made a backhand with a sword.

There was only one oil lamp in the dark room. Shen Jiangdong and He Shouzhi couldn't appreciate Jiang Feng's swordsmanship in this dark room. They could only judge the battle situation of the two by the sporadic sparks rubbed off by the sword light when Jiang Feng and the man in gray met hand-to-hand.

Jiang Feng was extremely careful when he shot, obviously worried that there were other traps in this dark room.Shen Jiangdong frowned, always ready to help Jiang Feng.

I saw Jiang Feng forcing the opponent to the foot of the wall, with the horizontal sword upwards, and the man in gray blocked it desperately.Although Jiang Feng's sword moves are exquisite, they are always inferior in terms of strength. Shen Jiangdong saw the opportunity and was about to mend his sword. Who knew that when the opponent's clothes moved, a dart shot out, pierced Jiang Feng's sleeve, and nailed into the wall middle.

He Shouzhi screamed in fright, Shen Jiangdong was eager to confirm whether Jiang Feng was injured, but Jiang Feng suddenly backed away at this moment, taking advantage of the vacancy of the man in gray swinging the sword, he stabbed backwards with the hilt.

Seeing Jiang Feng's staggering steps, Shen Jiangdong stepped forward and stabbed the man in gray with his sword into the chest without any hesitation.Jiang Feng choked his wrists and said, "You're saving your life." After speaking, Shen Jiangdong leaned over and hugged her quickly, and said anxiously, "Are you injured?"

Jiang Feng sat down slowly, and tore off the skirt to cover the wound on his forearm, "It's okay, it's just a scratch."

He Shouzhi said: "He is dead, how do we get out of the city?"

"It seems that the other party doesn't trust you at all, and would rather kill you than expose Xingzang." Jiang Feng's sword suddenly swung upwards, reaching He Shouzhi's throat, "Can you take us out of the city?"

He Shouzhi stomped his feet, "Of course I can't, if I want to leave the city, I have to rely on him!"

"You don't know other Dingfan secret sentries?"

"You still suspect me at this time?"

"He answered the berth and used his boat to go out of the city," Shen Jiangdong found a question, "How to get out of this secret room?"

Jiang Feng and He Shouzhi were startled when they heard the words, Jiang Feng snorted, "Could it be possible that we are really going to be buried here today?"

Shen Jiangdong and He Shouzhi were busy looking for the mechanism to open the secret room.There was a hole in the wall of the secret room, and a dim oil lamp stood in the hole.Shen Jiangdong opened it and looked, but still didn't find any organs.He Shouzhi started frantically scratching at the wall, yelling in despair, Shen Jiangdong couldn't stand it anymore, "Save up some energy."

He Shouzhi suddenly turned around and shouted: "You! You! If it weren't for you, why would I be here!"

Only Shen Jiangdong smiled lightly, "Time is also fate."

He Shouzhi slowly squatted down, and Shen Jiangdong sighed: "If this place is a tomb, then before we die, can we settle the old scores. No account is light."

Shen Jiangdong and his wife both have swords in their hands, but He Shouzhi is just a scholar with no strength to restrain a chicken.He looked at Shen Jiangdong and his wife vigilantly, the only oil lamp in the room was extinguished, and the surroundings fell into silence.

He Shouzhi sat down quietly, heaved a long sigh, and said to Shen Jiangdong: "Actually, I have always been suspicious—Mr. Jia, after leaving Yuhang, will you really let me go?"

Shen Jiangdong didn't speak, Jiang Feng said softly: "Although Ye Xiufeng may not be clean, but Xining's Fuzhou case in 17 years was the work of your elder brother He Shi, right?"

He Shouzhi said indifferently: "Yes, he did it. The He family was worried that Mrs. Shen's evidence would be detrimental to the He family, so the He family sent people to intercept and kill Mrs. Shen on the way back to Beijing, but they didn't succeed."

Jiang Feng asked again: "Then the assassin on the night our couple got married, was he from the He family?"

"I don't know," said He Shouzhi, "probably so. My elder brother——is very jealous of Mrs. Shen. Later, Duke Jia went to Fuzhou to clean up the aftermath, but there was no attack. The He family actually hesitated, wondering whether Mrs. Shen got the evidence. No. After Ye Xiufeng's death, this matter seems to be a case without a head, but in fact, in my elder brother's heart, it has always been a knife hanging over his head."

"So you sent someone to assassinate me before I left Fuzhou?" Shen Jiangdong said.

"Yes," He Shouzhi sighed, "but unexpectedly, the flaw also appeared from here."

Jiang Feng said: "The evidence is not in my hands at all. I also want to know whether the death of my nephew was accidental or not?"

"After Prince Duan's side concubine died, didn't Mrs. Shen check the Cangchun Tower?" He Shouzhi said, "Mrs. Shen should know that my eldest nephew died under the brothel, and there was a lover in that building." Girl, so I can’t say whether it was an accident or not. But Xu Wenchang was offended because of this incident, and that guy is really troublesome.”

Jiang Feng said: "I can tell you that Ji Shu in Cangchun Tower is dead, you don't have to worry anymore."

He Shouzhi was stunned for a moment, "Mrs. Shen went to check on Ji Shuze, which aroused my elder brother's vigilance. After all, after he left Beijing, some people took tea. The current queen is also a Shinto, and my elder brother is worried all day long. Just ask someone to send me a message, let me do something for Duke Jia in the army."

Shen Jiangdong clenched his fists in the dark, and He Shouzhi continued to say as if nothing had happened, "But Lord Jia, don't think that just relying on me as a member can really put you in such a big stumbling block—if you don't have Anping County I can't do what the king hinted at. The king of Anping County has nothing to do."

This obviously did not match what Jiang Feng had verified before, "You said the King of Anping knew about it?" Jiang Feng said.

"Mrs. Shen," He Shouzhi continued, "Do you think the King of Anping County didn't know that you went south? He didn't follow the trend to kill you and let you go back to Beijing just to clear his suspicions. Think about it, I really do If you can put Duke Jia to death, how can I be easily pushed out by the He family to make up for my crime today?"

Jiang Feng said: "Aren't you the one who wanted to kill me in Xinjian?"

"It's me," said He Shouzhi, "I made a wrong step, and I have nothing to justify. However, the King of Anping and the clan behind him obviously have other plans. Since the kings no longer belong to the domain, they have lost After the rebellion of Dingnan Fan Wang, the military power was lost and regained. They really don't want to make a comeback? Also, when Jing Guo Gong was framed to death by his clan, why didn't they want your Jia Guo Gong's life? Besides, you Jia Guo The defeat of the male army means that His Majesty still has to rely on his clan to kill two birds with one stone, doesn't it?"

Shen Jiangdong didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't make a sound, but Jiang Feng knew about the chaos in Prince Kang's mansion. Presumably, the clan's relatives really had the heart of disobedience.She went on to say, "Then what, why does the He family..."

"My elder brother found the key evidence in the Fuzhou case," He Shouzhi said succinctly.

"No wonder Madam Ningshouhou came to our house suddenly," Jiang Feng said, "So you have already got the things. I'm curious—who got the things?"

He Shouzhi said, "It's King Duan."

Now Shen Jiangdong and his wife were surprised at the same time, "Prince Duan?!"

"Didn't you think so? We didn't think so either. Prince Duan just wanted to watch us fight—just like watching the He family and the Ye family fight back then. If the sky in Beijing really changes, what will happen to the East Palace and the Empress? It's easy to say. The queen can really suppress the clan, and it's a good thing for the East Palace right now." He Shouzhi said.

Jiang Feng touched the wound, it seemed that it was still bleeding.She pulled the sleeve out of Shen Jiangdong's hand calmly, "That is to say, brother Ling has already got that thing. After that, he chose to push you out to make up for his crime and help Baoling's nephew Ning Shouhou?"

He Shouzhi said: "That's right, my elder brother knew that the matter had nothing to do with the Jiaguo Mansion. He was so frightened that he couldn't sleep at night, so he hurriedly pushed me out to make amends, and wanted to test the tone of the Jiaguo Mansion. Obviously, he didn't get the answer he wanted. , because I came to Yuhang to see Duke Jia, but Duke Jia didn’t say anything. I want to live, and I need a way out.”

"Have you ever thought about why His Majesty doesn't attack you right now?"

"Of course I thought about it. I don't die now because my death is worthless. And His Majesty wants me to die when I deserve to die. But I know in my heart that if I die at that time, the death situation will be a thousand times worse than now. .”

"So you found a way out for yourself and got in touch with Dingfan?"

"That's right, people are not for themselves, and heaven and earth are destroyed. I did this just to survive."

Shen Jiangdong interjected: "But Ding Fan doesn't seem to trust you, how are you going to go next?"

"I don't know," He Shouzhi said, "If everyone dies here, it will be considered clean."

Jiang Feng said: "You helped Sun Pingfu. After he returned to Beijing, the Queen tried his best to use him to support the Western Front. As a result, Sun Pingfu mutinied on the spot when he left Beijing, and the soldiers who supported the Jingwei also rebelled. Everyone doesn't know what the situation is, and I don't know what the Queen's situation is. As for the East Palace, I don't know what Ningshou Mansion told you. In my opinion, Ningshou Mansion is not accurate. Your Majesty still didn't respond to such a big commotion, and there was no response from Concubine Zhou after she went to the Yining Palace. The capital is already in chaos. As you said, the king of Anping County changed his face because he wanted to take this opportunity to support himself. I look left and right Look, in terms of military strength, the king of Anping County is not as good as the imperial court or Dingfan, and he may die the worst one. So the path you have to choose is the imperial court or Dingfan, and we are the same."

"Mrs. Jia Guo really thinks so?"

"People are not for themselves, and heaven and earth are destroyed. You just said that."

"It's useless to say anything now." Shen Jiangdong sighed, and held Jiang Feng's hand again.

He Shouzhi was obviously not reconciled, he turned around and fumbled on the wall again, he seemed to have touched something, there was the sound of trickling water, He Shouzhi was extremely excited, "There is a mechanism here!"

Shen Jiangdong rushed up, but was grabbed by Jiang Feng, "Is there a river behind this house?"

"Yes," Shen Jiang said, "it's like this all over the south of the Yangtze River."

Jiang Feng said: "Why does the door not move, but there is the sound of water?"

The water kept pouring in and soon overflowed the feet.Jiang Feng said: "This is not a mechanism to get out, it is a mechanism to make everyone die faster."

Shen Jiangdong and He Shouzhi looked around for the leak, and finally found the water outlet at the top. "Dig it up, let's go out through the river, hurry up!" He Shouzhi had a new idea.

Jiang Feng asked Shen Jiangdong: "You don't know anything about water?"

Shen Jiangdong said: "No."

Jiang Feng said: "Hold your breath, don't panic, you can float up."

The wall was rough, and when the mechanism was touched, it seemed as if a hole had rotted, and all the plaster was washed out.The three began to race against time to dig out the water hole. Shen Jiangdong and Jiang Feng used swords, and He Shouzhi used candlesticks.The inner wall was finally dug open. He Shouzhi smashed the wall with a candlestick, breaking a hole the size of a pot.The water rushed in quickly, and He Shouzhi was the first to get out, but quickly dived back.Jiang Feng quickly realized that there was still a wall outside.

The three of them were discouraged for a while, He Shouzhi was good at water and had the strongest will to survive, so he dived out again, Jiang Feng followed closely, and Shen Jiangdong clung to the hole in the inner wall.He saw that the outer wall was made of big stones with different rules. He Shouzhi knew that it would be dangerous for the stone wall to collapse, but there was no other way.He gestured to Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng nodded, and the two struggled to dig in the middle of the stone wall.There was a loud noise from the bottom of the water, and just when Jiang Feng felt that his lungs were about to burst, the stone wall turned into a cloud of ash and mud, and He Shouzhi took advantage of the situation to get out.

Jiang Feng's first reaction was to turn around and grab Shen Jiangdong's hand. Fortunately, although there was chaos in front of her eyes, she quickly grabbed Shen Jiangdong's hand.However, Jiang Feng's strength was already exhausted, and not long after the two of them fought forward regardless of direction, Shen Jiangdong led Jiang Feng and began to sink rapidly to the bottom of the river.

The water quality at the bottom of the river was very clear, and Shen Jiangdong felt flustered and suffocated.In an instant, he thought of many things, including his mother's embrace when he was a child, his father's eyes, his sister Shen Huanhua's smile... and Jiang Feng's cautious face when he got married.He saw bloodstains spreading in front of his eyes, and remembered that Jiang Feng had been injured before.He wanted to break free from Jiang Feng and let Jiang Feng get rid of his burden, but Jiang Feng refused to let go, but he couldn't pull Shen Jiangdong out of the water.

Shen Jiangdong's consciousness became more and more blurred, and Jiang Feng felt severe pain from the wound. She couldn't let go of Shen Jiangdong, otherwise Shen Jiangdong, who couldn't swim, would be washed away by the rushing water immediately.She also thought of many things, the injustice of the heavens, the one-year agreement, and the taste of death she experienced in the heights of the imperial capital when she avoided the dark line of Dingfan in summer nights.Shen Jiangdong was still trying to break free from her, she didn't know where she got her strength, she held on to Shen Jiangdong's belt tightly, clinging to the river wall to get out of the water, and dragged Shen Jiangdong ashore with the last bit of strength.

She didn't want to care about anything, she just wanted to lie on the bank of the river and breathe heavily.She still doesn't know that when she meets Siqing again, Siqing will enthusiastically exchange with her the way of diving and the skills needed to climb out of the water.

Jiang Feng finally had the strength to look at Shen Jiangdong, but Shen Jiangdong remained silent.Jiang Feng was startled, and quickly squeezed out the ascites for Shen Jiangdong. Shen Jiangdong coughed several times, but he still didn't seem to wake up. She turned her head to listen to Shen Jiangdong's breathing, and felt someone kiss her wet temples. Under stress, Jiang Feng slapped her backhand, Looking up, he saw Shen Jiangdong smiling while coughing.

Jiang Feng didn't know why this man who had just walked through the ghost gate suddenly became unserious, and was about to speak angrily, but Shen Jiangdong raised his hand with difficulty and pointed - Jiang Feng followed the trend and saw He Shouzhi lying on his back Bleeding from the forehead and unconscious.

(End of this chapter)