Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

Chapter 700: : Yelang matter is over, parting

The imperial prison of Yelang Kyoto Zhenfusi.

All the criminals imprisoned in the Imperial Prison were extremely vicious criminals from Yelang. It can be said that almost no one who was imprisoned in the Imperial Prison came out alive.

No matter how prominent your previous status was, once you are in prison, even a tiger will have its fur smoothed out.

The cells in the imperial prison were stinking and dark, and cockroaches and rats could be seen from time to time.

In one of the cells, Lin Kong was sitting cross-legged on the hay, his body covered with scars. The white prison uniform was mixed with blood and stuck to his skin. His face was haggard, his beard was untidy, and a wisp of white hair was thumping in front of his forehead.

In front of him was the food that the jailer had just brought.

According to the local mealtime in Yelang, it is already past morning but not yet noon, so it is not time to eat at all.

Apart from this strange thing, the meal not only included both meat and vegetarian dishes, but also came with a pot of wine. The food was extremely good, which was something a prisoner could not eat at all.

But Lin Kong knew that this was his last meal before execution.

Lin Kong was actually mentally prepared for his impending death. The moment he was caught, charged with treason, and had all his skills destroyed, Lin Kong knew that he would not be able to get out alive.

The only thing he cares about is his family.

Looking at the steaming food in front of him, he was still thinking in his heart, Fortunately, Xue Lan is with her grandfather, so my Lin family will not be cut off from now on.

“It’s just that I hate it.”

At the moment when Lin Kong roared, the prison door suddenly opened and many officials walked in quickly. Lin Kong took a quick glance and was immediately shocked. Isn't this the prime minister Liu Quji?
He took another glance, then stood up suddenly, his whole body shaking uncontrollably: "Xue Xue Lan?"

He saw his daughter in the imperial prison.

Suddenly, Lin Kong felt dizzy and thought that Xue Lan had been arrested, and the Lin family would be in even worse trouble.

Just when he thought so, what happened next shocked him immensely.

Xue Lan was not escorted in, but was escorted in by a group of officials, and these officials had flattering expressions on their faces.

The door of Lin Kong's cell was opened by Liu Quji himself. As soon as the door was opened, Liu Quji was even more excited than Lin Xuelan. He said, "Master Lin, I'm sorry for making you suffer. Why are you standing there? Why don't you remove the shackles for Master Lin?

Where is the imperial physician? Where is the imperial physician? Come quickly and check on the Lin family master's injury."

Not only Liu Quji, but also the director in charge of the Imperial Prison said with a serious face: "Who gave Master Lin this injury?"

Then, he said to Lin Kong in a flattering manner: "Master Lin, don't worry, I will definitely make the decision for you. Come, call Captain Jin to me."

The officials were talking one after another, drowning out Lin Xuelan's voice.

Lin Kong was even more confused. What on earth was going on?
Are they trying to curry favor with me?

Lin Kong seemed a little reserved.

Lin Xuelan squeezed forward, not disliking the stench on Lin Kong's body. She was already emotional, hugged Lin Kong, her eyes red, and sobbed, "Dad, you have suffered."

……

After leaving the imperial prison, Lin Kong finally saw the long-lost light. He raised his hands to block the sun unwillingly.

He still hasn't figured out what happened in the imperial prison just now.

"Princess Deyi."

"Your Highness."

A girl in a palace skirt came over, surrounded by several palace maids. Liu Quji and others hurriedly saluted.

Lin Kong also recognized Princess Deyi, and immediately thought that it was the Princess's Mansion who rescued him, so he hurriedly stepped forward to bow and thank Princess Deyi.

But Princess Deyi took a step back in shock, her body lower than Lin Konggong's: "Master Lin, you can't do that, you can't do that."

Lin Xuelan is the King of Wei’s woman, so Lin Kong is the King of Wei’s father-in-law.

Princess Deyi is not worthy of such a great gift from Lin Kong.

"Princess, where is the prince?" Lin Xuelan still couldn't calm down after hearing the news that Mo Yu was actually the King of Wei of the Song Dynasty.

"The King of Wei is accepting the letter from His Majesty. He told me that if the head of the Lin family is rescued, he will escort you back to the Lin family in Jincheng to see you, and then we will meet at Yangtian Pass." Princess Deyi said.

on the way back.

Lin Kongcai learned from Princess Deyi that his beloved daughter had found him a son-in-law who was beyond compare, Chen Mo, the King of Wei of the Song Dynasty.

That Chen Mo, for the sake of his precious daughter, did not hesitate to offend the Diao family and the Third Prince, and today he forced His Majesty to surrender. Not only did he release him, but he also pardoned the entire Lin family.

……

Kyoto.

Yelang respected the Song Dynasty as a vassal state, of course it could not be just lip service, but had to put it into practice, that is, a letter of credence written by Xingluo himself and sealed with the imperial seal.

Chen Mo would also take this letter back to the Song Dynasty and hand it over to Emperor Yong'an.

After accepting the letter, Xing Luo intentionally or unintentionally revealed his desire to form an alliance with Chen Mo and select a princess to marry Chen Mo.

Xingluo acted like this because such a big change had happened in Yelang and the general was still leading the troops outside. After learning what happened in Kyoto, he would inevitably rebel.

But if the Xing family and Chen Mo are tied together, they will have a backer, and the general will not dare to act rashly.

However, the general is not someone Xingluo is afraid of. Xingluo is confident that he can deal with the general.

What he was worried about was that when the third prince came to power, he would offend Jucheng and Louwo, and he was worried about revenge from these two countries.

But Chen Mo refused. In order to put his mind at ease, he assured him that Yelang would be a vassal state of the Song Dynasty in the future. If Jucheng and Louwo sent troops to attack Yelang, the Song Dynasty would definitely send troops to help.

Xing Luo was a little disappointed. Seeing that Chen Mo didn't want the princess, he could only step back and ask for the next best thing, saying that Princess Deyi must accept it.

Hearing this, Chen Mo blinked. If he still refused, Xingluo would be worried.

Besides, Princess Deyi is really beautiful, and an icy beauty at that. She is better than the princess I have never met, so I just accept her.

At this moment, Chen Mo suddenly felt a little melancholy.

If I had known what happened last night, I would not have let Xue Lan help Princess Deyi detoxify.

After dealing with the Lin family’s matter.

Chen Mo took care of Xingluo and wanted to rescue Lu Sheng, King Chong, and the Luo family.

According to the information from the Supervisory Guard, their families had all fled to the Western Regions and were taken in by Yelang. Xing Luo was stunned and quickly called Liu Quji to learn the details of the matter.

Liu Quji said that Lu Sheng and his family were indeed taken in by Yelang, but their exact whereabouts were only known by the third prince and his confidants.

Hearing this, Xing Luo asked Chen Mo to wait for a moment while he sent someone down to investigate.

In the afternoon, Xing Luo told Chen Mo that he learned from interrogating the third prince that the families of Lu Sheng, Prince Chong, and the Luo family were taken away by the third prince's master for cultivation, and they all died, and even their bodies could not be found.

Chen Mo frowned, but it was better this way, so that he wouldn't commit more murders.

Because of Si Song's injury, Chen Mo did not stay in Kyoto for long. He left Kyoto with Nalan Yiren, Si Song and Liang Mu that day.

Xingluo sent a team of guards to escort him, and Chen Mo did not refuse. Without a guide, he didn't know the way back to the Song Dynasty, and Si Song needed someone to take care of him on the way.

As for the injured Shuang'er, Princess Deyi took her with her when she escorted Lin Xuelan and the others back to the Lin family.

At this point, almost all the things that happened in Yelang have been resolved.

On the way, Chen Mo curiously asked Nalan Yiren about the potion that the Yelang soldiers smeared on the arrows outside the valley yesterday.

"I heard that this potion was given by Tang Yichen. It should also come from the Poison King Valley."

Chen Mo had to take it seriously. The arrows coated with this magical potion could actually break through the defense of innate spiritual energy. If this potion could arm the entire army and combined with the compound bow, wouldn't it be invincible?

In the carriage, Nalan Yiren was dressed in black and had taken off the half-face mask on her face since she got on the train. She was injured yesterday and just got up this morning. She also used blood to treat Xing Luo. At the moment, she was obviously a little haggard and tired. After hearing what Chen Mo said, she said weakly:

"You should be talking about the Spiritual Water, which is similar to the Bone-Eroding Water I gave you before. The difference is that only a top-3rd-rank warrior can refine the Spiritual Water. It is obtained by condensing the innate spiritual energy in the body into liquid, adding various poisons that can corrode the innate spiritual energy, and mixing them together for 49 days. The innate spiritual energy in the body of a top-3rd-rank warrior can only be condensed into a small bottle of spiritual liquid, and a small half of it will be lost during the simmering process, so the Spiritual Water is extremely precious.

And once it is exposed to the air, it can only last for 25 minutes, which is a bit thankless."

Hearing this, Chen Mo couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. According to Nalan Yiren's words, this spiritual water could not be refined on a large scale.

Nalan Yiren also guessed that Chen Mo wanted to use the Spiritual Water on the battlefield. After pondering for a while, her pale lips moved: "Since you avenge your grandfather, I will help you refine it."

"No need. I'm just asking casually." Chen Mo thought that this spiritual water could be refined in batches, so he started to think about it. Now he sees how troublesome it is. It takes forty-nine days to refine a small bottle. Adding the innate spiritual energy and Nalan Yiren's own recuperation time, it will take almost two months to refine such a small bottle. He really feels embarrassed to trouble her.

Nalan Yiren had been staring at Chen Mo's eyes. When she heard him say that, her eyes flickered and she curled her lips and said, "You are really lucky in love. You came to the Western Regions and brought back two girls. No, it should be three."

Nalan Yiren also included Yuzhu.

"Including you, Miss Nalan?" Chen Mo laughed.

"Do you dare to touch me?" A cloud of colorful poisonous smoke suddenly appeared on Nalan Yi's body.

Chen Mo shrank back subconsciously, his innate spiritual energy emerged and formed a defense, but the colorful poisonous smoke passed through directly. He quickly said: "I was just joking with you, you took it seriously."

Nalan Yiren took back the seven-colored poisonous smoke. Although her expression was calm, the corner of her mouth curled up: "Coward."

……

The third year of Yong'an, end of October.

Look up to the sky outside the pass.

A strong wind suddenly blew up, blowing up yellow sand all over the sky. A convoy was moving slowly under the yellow sand.

In front of a huge rock with three big red characters of "Yangtian Pass" engraved on it, Lin Xuelan looked at the end of the desert from afar like a wife-waiting stone, with anticipation in her eyes.

Suddenly, she saw a row of small black dots appearing on the sand dunes in the distance. As the small black dots grew bigger, the convoy that had been traveling under the yellow sand came into her sight.

"Miss, that looks like the royal guards." Yuzhu, who was standing behind Lin Xuelan, narrowed her eyes slightly, with a hint of fear in her expression, reminiscent of what happened in Kyoto.

"It should be the King of Wei and his men who have arrived." A cold voice sounded behind the two women.

Lin Xuelan looked back and saw the heroic and beautiful Princess Deyi, dressed in a red outfit, walking towards her.

Princess Deyi held a sword in her hand and wore a hat on her head to protect herself from the sun.

Jincheng and Kyoto are on the same road heading towards the Song Dynasty. Lin Xuelan set off first that day and did not stay in Jincheng for long, so she arrived at Yangtian Pass two days ago.

The convoy stopped at Yangtian Pass.

The leading guard dismounted and came to the carriage where Chen Mo was, saying, "King Wei, we have arrived at Yangtian Pass. We will go back and report."

After hearing Chen Mo's response, the guards turned their horses around and went back.

"In the desert, this carriage is not as fast as a camel."

Liang Mu got off the carriage first and said to the carriage behind.

"Miss, it's King Wei and his men." Yuzhu recognized Liang Mu and said to Lin Xuelan.

However, Lin Xuelan's figure was no longer there. The moment the other party saw Liang Mu, he had already stepped forward.

Yuzhu: “…”

When Chen Mo got off the carriage, Lin Xuelan had already thrown herself into Chen Mo's arms with tears in her eyes.

"Xue Lan, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Chen Mo hugged Lin Xue Lan and was slightly stunned.

"The Queen is gone." Lin Xuelan's emotions, which she had suppressed for many days, burst out in an instant like a dam bursting.

It turned out that the speed of Lin Xuelan's second uncle Lin Luo was not as fast as the people sent to Jincheng by the third prince.

When Lin Luo returned to Jincheng, the government had already confiscated the Lin family's property.

Lin Xuelan's mother, Mrs. Hu, knew very well what fate would await the women whose homes were confiscated, so in order to avoid humiliation, she committed suicide before being arrested.

In addition to Hu, Lin Luo's wife and some female members of the Lin family also committed suicide.

When Lin Xuelan and others returned to Jincheng, they rescued the remaining members of the Lin family who were detained in the government office, as well as Lin Luo who was captured when he returned to Jincheng.

Chen Mo frowned, the worst situation still happened.

What happened in the Lin family was already pitiful, and now when Chen Mo looked down at Lin Xuelan's appearance, he could only feel heartache.

"Don't cry, I will take care of you from now on." Chen Mo comforted softly.

"Miss Lin, the dead cannot be resurrected. Besides, the third prince is dead and the Diao family has been sent to prison. It can be considered revenge. We have to live our lives from now on." Si Song was helped out of the carriage by Nalan Yiren.

Before Chen Mo and his companions left Kyoto, in order to reassure Chen Mo, Xing Luo executed Xing Yin on the same day.

Nalan Yiren looked at Lin Xuelan nestled in Chen Mo's arms, frowned, then looked at Chen Mo and said, "King Wei, your great kindness will be unforgettable in Poison King Valley. Next, I have to take the Great Elder back to Poison King Valley to comfort Grandpa's spirit in heaven. We will part ways now."

(End of this chapter)