Book with Emperor

Chapter 218 Interception
In a small town hundreds of miles away, the steamed bun vendor had just finished steaming the steamed buns when a dusty young man walked up the street.

"A jug of water."

The young man was wearing a bamboo hat, his head was lowered, his voice was low, and he handed out a water bag and a piece of broken silver.

"Hey! I'll install it for you right away!"

The other party spent a lot of money, and obviously didn't buy buns, he came to his bun shop to buy water. When the hawker packed the water and handed it over, he couldn't help being curious, and glanced at the face under the bamboo hat.

Hey, he looks good too.

"My lord, are you hurrying?" He greeted casually.

The man didn't answer, took the water bag, turned around and left.

"I don't have a good temper..."

The peddler muttered nonchalantly, turned around and went back to work, and happened to catch a glimpse of a wanted notice posted on the street, with a portrait on it, he was a young man in his late teens, handsome in appearance, especially with a pair of half-phoenix eyes and slender eyebrows. He was tall and tall, showing a bit of depression beyond his age.

His back felt cold, isn't this the guy just now?

The peddler was so frightened that he dropped the water ladle, didn't even take off his apron, and ran to the yamen in the town.

On the other end, Yue Wentian, who had finished buying water, was about to leave this place when his footsteps stopped slightly.

The next moment, the bamboo hat was slammed into a pile of bushes behind him, and a long knife was cut across the air, splitting the bamboo hat in half.

However, at the same moment, Yue Wentian had already arrived in front of the owner of the long knife, and the soft sword was drawn from his waist out of thin air, and the blade cut across the opponent's neck like an unfathomable light and shadow.

The person stepped back, but the long hair on his forehead was still cut off by the sword energy.Yue Wentian couldn't take another step forward, because the knife behind him swung towards his head.

After volleying in the air, he jumped into the distance, pointed his sword at the opponent, and said coldly, "If you don't want to die, get out."

The visitor put away the knife, walked out of the bushes, grabbed a handful of messy and dry long hair, revealing a face that had experienced vicissitudes of life, the messy gray beard and hair were tangled together, and they couldn't tell each other apart, only the pair of eyes hidden under the messy eyebrows Heo Shuo's eyes were clearly visible.

"Let's stop here." The man in tatters and carrying a knife said.

Yue Wentian saw that the other party had no killing intent, so he simply withdrew his sword, turned around and was about to go on the road, and didn't bother to pay attention to the other party.

However, the man raised his knife again to block his way, "Going further down is the capital, you shouldn't go."

Yue Wentian paused, looked at the other party, "... who sent you here?"

"It's not pie, it's more like begging. It's the first time she's begging me to do something. I can't let her down."

The man raised his eyebrows and looked at him with an unruly taste, "So as long as I'm here today, you won't be able to leave here."

With hostility in Yue Wentian's eyes, he raised his hand and slowly drew his sword.

At this moment, there was a sound of galloping horseshoes not far away, and three or five people galloped here at high speed.

"Call-"

Cen Wu came against the morning light, stopped his horse and landed in front of the two of them, with dewdrops on his eyebrows, it can be seen that he came here day and night.

She got off the horse, without saying a word, strode up to Yue Wentian, and punched him in the face.

Yue Wentian snorted, took half a step back, a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

Xiao Sheng and the others who followed were startled watching this scene, and sat on the horseback without speaking.

Yue Wentian wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth, lowered his eyes, "Get out of the way."

"Get out of the way? Let you die? Die for a woman like a coward?"

Cen Wu was completely irritated, stepped forward and grabbed his chest with both hands, and roared, "You are the only blood of the Yue clan! The young master of Yongzhou! Your life has never belonged to you! It's not your turn to ruin it, understand! Yet!"

"..."

Yue Wentian slowly broke away from her hand, looked up at her eyes that were red with rage, "I am not worthy to be the young master of Yongzhou, nor worthy to be your hope, I'm sorry."

Cen Wu clenched her lips tightly, the smell of blood overflowing from her teeth, she looked at the tall boy in front of her, but she could not see his father and his two elder brothers at all.

Yue Wentian saw the hope in her eyes, but didn't say anything.

He broke away from her hands and looked at the bearded man, "Did she ask you to come?"

The bearded man didn't speak, but Xiao Sheng said, "Yes."

Yue Wentian's expression was blank, "She is really exhaustive, and she has read people's hearts."

"She can't count, but she dare not bet."

Xiao Sheng got off his horse and walked up to him, "She's afraid that you might hesitate a little bit towards her, and that you might be in even the slightest bit of danger."

"Because of guilt?"

"..."

Xiao Sheng didn't answer.

"Unfortunately, she guessed wrong this time."

Yue Wentian didn't ask any more questions, he calmly looked at the prosperous imperial capital not far away, and said slowly, "Even if she dies, she should die in my hands."

"Tsk."

The bearded man suddenly opened his mouth lazily, "Don't you want to know why Qin Guanyue helped Ning Zhao deal with the Qing Palace back then?"

Yue Wentian stopped in his tracks.

"So what if I know? Can more than 100 members of my Yue family survive? Can my father and brothers come back to me? Can she pretend that she never did those things?"

"Of course not. None of you can defend her, but I can."

The bearded man lifted his chin slightly, revealing the scar on his left cheek, "If Qin Guanyue hadn't existed back then, I would have been the one who killed the Yue family."

……

Lou Binghe hurried into the palace, but was stopped by someone halfway.

"General, His Majesty is in the morning court."

"Morning?"

Lou Binghe paused, "Didn't you say that His Majesty is ill?"

Director Wang explained with a smile, "Your Majesty sleeps all night long and works diligently for the people. Our family can't persuade you."

Taiqing Palace.

Ning Zhao sat on the dragon chair, looking down at the minister who was kneeling on the ground indifferently.

"What do you want to say?"

"Your Majesty, all the letters found by the Ministry of Punishment in the search of the Emperor's Mansion were signed by the prince. The evidence is convincing. I just reported the truth." Lord Zhou said prostrate on the ground.

Ning Zhao looked at the letter in his hand, and suddenly threw it in front of the prince.

The prince knelt down with a "plop" and fell on the ground, but it was rare that he didn't open his mouth to complain, instead he didn't say a word.

"Prince, what can you say?" Ning Zhao asked.

"Back... back to father, this letter... this letter was indeed written by my son! But my son just asked the emperor teacher to explain the classwork, and there is no intention of forming a clique for personal gain!"

The prince kowtowed violently to the ground, and said in a trembling voice, "Please learn from my father!"

There was a smile on the corner of Mr. Zhou's mouth, but his tone was very sincere, "The prince's words are wrong. The emperor's teacher colluded with the rebels, how can he solve the prince's doubts? I can remember that the first time the emperor's teacher helped someone, it was for the second son of the Ministry of punishment. You, the prince who was implicated in this case."

"Blood spurts!"

The prince was so angry that he shook his hands, pointed at him and yelled at him, and after he finished cursing, he looked at the emperor on the dragon chair seriously, with a red face, "Father, my son respects the emperor's teacher as a teacher, because the emperor's teacher is knowledgeable and intelligent. , I know I am stupid, so I want to learn a thing or two, so as to relieve my father's worries. I have never had the slightest desire to win over and collude, I dare to swear to God!"

"Knowledgeable and intelligent..."

Ning Zhao stopped suddenly with his fingertips tapping on the armrest of the dragon chair, "According to what you said, shouldn't I kill Qin Guanyue?"

(End of this chapter)