Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 788

At this moment, in the imperial city of the Song Dynasty, in the Zichen Palace.

"What? Li Xiuyuan was assassinated on the way, and he was seriously injured and dying. His life and death are uncertain? Han Shizhong led [-] cavalry to the imperial city?"

Zhao Jing, who had just sat on the dragon chair for ten days, heard the six doors, Yan Kuan, Master Yan reported that he jumped up from the dragon chair in shock, his face changed instantly, like a frightened child, Not an iota of imperial gesture.

Yan Kuan saluted and said: "Report to the official, it is indeed so."

"How could it be like this, how could it be so well."

After all, Zhao Jing had experienced few things. Hearing this matter, his face was already pale, and he was a little lost.

"On the way Li Xiuyuan was assassinated, Han Shizhong must have suspected that I ordered the assassin. According to the plan, the [-] cavalry under Li Xiuyuan's command were to defend the capital for me, in case someone disobeyed me and became emperor. Now Han Shizhong is dissatisfied with me and feels suspicious. These [-] cavalry are afraid that anytime, anytime

It is possible to break into the imperial city from time to time. "

His lips moved slightly, and he looked out of the palace with a look of horror.

This is Li Xiuyuan's backhand, in order to prevent himself from being killed, so the transfer of [-] elite riders to the capital is not without the intention of preventing the court.

Yan Kuan immediately said in a deep voice: "The government, the top priority should be to order to track down the murderer who assassinated Mr. Li, punish him severely, and give an explanation to Han Shizhong outside the capital. My lord is the commander of an army, if he has an accident, the matter
It may lead to a catastrophe, so please hurry up and solve the case as quickly as possible. "

"Yes, yes, yes, what Aiqing said is very true, please Master Yang quickly draw up an order, and entrust this case to Aiqing, I hope that the six doors can solve the case as quickly as possible this time." Zhao Jing said in a panic .

Master Yang on the side squinted his eyes and said: "Just solving the case is not enough to convince the group of arrogant soldiers under Master Li. Another imperial decree is needed to convince the hearts of the people. I suggest that once the murderer is tracked down, he should be charged with treason." The nine clans should be punished."

Killing the Nine Clans?
Yan Kuan's eyelids twitched.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty to the present, the imperial decree to punish the nine clans has never been issued, and it seems that such a decree has been issued by the previous dynasty.

Because the Nine Clans were too implicated, with the imperial decree, at least hundreds, even thousands of people were killed, regardless of age.

"Officials, the crime of punishing the nine clans is really too great. The crime of assassinating the governor of a state is really not up to the level of punishing the nine clans. I suggest that they should be punished appropriately." Yan Kuan said.

Master Yang said indifferently: "If you don't punish the nine clans of murderers, you won't be able to reflect the indignation and sadness of the officials, and it will be difficult to quell the anger of Han Shizhong's [-] soldiers and horses outside the city. This is not an indiscriminate killing by the officials. , if this imperial decree is not promulgated, if something goes wrong, I don’t know if Lord Yan can

I can afford it. "

"This, this." Yan Kuan hesitated, not knowing how to respond.

The other officials were all looking at their noses with their eyes, their noses at their hearts, motionless like a wooden man.

The assassination of a sage in the world, such a major event is enough to shake the Three Realms, but now that the ancestor is being punished, and he and others are in danger, how can there be more things about a sage in the world.

Finally, Zhao Jing gritted his teeth and said, "I, I decree that once the murderer's identity is found out, his nine clans will be punished immediately, and officials from all over the country will be executed immediately without waiting until after the autumn. Yan Aiqing, I will leave this matter to you. The Cui Wei under his command is very good, I asked Xu Bao to bring a forbidden army

, we must find out the murderer within three days, and return Mr. Li justice. "

"Minister, obey the decree." After the imperial decree, Yan Kuan had nothing to say, and immediately bowed his hands and accepted the order.

At this moment, the Great Song Kingdom was working surprisingly fast.

Less than half an hour after the imperial decree left the capital, two groups of people went straight to the capital.

Cui Wei led the imperial decree and came to the front of the army outside the city. When he saw the black cavalry outside the city, he couldn't help but gasped.

The banners are like clouds, the swords and guns are like forests, the horses are like dragons, and the murderous intent is rolling. Twenty thousand cavalry straddle the front, covering even the earth. Even the gods will be terrified when they see such an army. I'm afraid this army doesn't exist.

He hastily shouted loudly; "Your Majesty has a decree. Your Majesty is deeply saddened and angry that Mr. Li was assassinated on his way. He specially ordered General Xu to investigate the murderer. At the same time, His Majesty was worried about Lord Li's safety, so he specially sent ten imperial physicians from the lower ranks.

Thirty boxes of precious medicinal materials."

"The official decree? Cui Wei, we are also old friends. Now that the young master is assassinated, this matter will definitely not be let go." Han Shizhong came with a group of soldiers on horseback. He looked a little haggard and said in a cold voice.

"Han Meng, you have to believe that this matter was not done by His Majesty. I will find out what happened today. Don't worry, I will give you a satisfactory answer within three days. So please don't be arrogant. If Master Li is here, I don't want to see you fighting again." Cui Wei shouted

: "Besides, Mr. Li is an auspicious person, and he will be fine."

"In addition, you should think about it carefully. If His Majesty really did it, wouldn't the crime of punishing the Nine Clans be punished by His Majesty? I'm going to investigate the case now. If you are worried, you can send someone to follow me. It's not going to be selfish."

Han Shizhong's eyes moved slightly, and he shouted: "Mao Wu, please lead a team to follow Cui Wei to see if there is something tricky in it, the young master's injury can't be in vain, if it was really done by the court, I will definitely We must seek justice for the young master."

"Yes."

Mao Wu clasped his fists in response, and immediately rushed out with a group of cavalry.

"Han Meng, don't be arrogant." Cui Wei warned again, and then led the six doors, General Yaksha Xu Bao, and a team of forbidden troops to gallop outside the capital.

"Actually, we've already spotted the murderer, but the young master said he wouldn't let her be killed so he let her go." Mao Wu said in a deep voice on the road: "If my predictions are correct, she should be from a certain county, and she will never be too far away from the capital." Far."

"Really? That's good, thank you very much." Cui Wei clasped his hands together and said.

And in a certain county.

Gu Sheng tossed and turned all night and did not fall asleep. He was worried about his wife's safety.

A daughter's family actually learns how to do it, and wants to assassinate some corrupt officials. You must know that whether this matter succeeds or fails, it will bring death.

"That fairy shouldn't have given her that dagger. Otherwise, such a thing wouldn't have happened. Having such a treasure from the fairy family made her determined to avenge her father." Gu Changchang sighed , he heard the young child crying in the house, but hurried to coax him.

In the end, feeling depressed, I talked to my parents at home, and then took my youngest son for a walk around the town.

He bought some valuable incense and candles, and decided to pay homage to the ancestors. At the same time, he prayed for the protection of the ancestors, hoping that his wife would be safe.

Originally, this matter should be prayed to gods and Buddhas, but as a scholar, he does not worship ghosts and gods, but only worships ancestors, so he dismissed this idea.

Holding his youngest son who just learned to walk, Gu Sheng came to the ancestral graveyard not far from the town.

Just when he lit the paper money and the joss stick was just about to worship.

Suddenly a strange wind blew up, forming a vortex in front of the ancestor's grave, rolled up the paper money, blew out the joss sticks, and made a mess of the sacrifices that were finally arranged neatly.

"Why did the wind suddenly blow up?" Gu Sheng covered his face with his sleeves, protecting his youngest son, and just waited for the strange wind to pass.

But just as the wind stopped, he suddenly felt rumbling vibrations coming from under his feet.

"Boom~!"

Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and the ancestral tomb in front of me suddenly shook violently, and then the whole ancestral tomb collapsed. The mound seemed to have fallen into a mud pit below, and then the nearby soil fell, and the entire ancestral tomb was buried in a blink of an eye. Even the tombstone was shaken to the ground and shattered into pieces.
Countless blocks.

"This, this..." Gu Sheng was suddenly dumbfounded.But he has not waited for him to react.

"Boom, boom~!"

The other Gu family graves in the nearby ancestral graves collapsed rapidly in no particular order. Like the ancestral grave in front of them, they were all submerged in mud and the tombstones were broken.

One, two, three. More than twenty ancestral graves collapsed.

It's strange to say that there are other family's graves near these collapsed ancestral graves, not far away, but the other family's ancestral graves are intact, only the Gu family's ancestral graves have all collapsed.

"How could this be, how could this be, the ancestor of my Gu family"

Gu Sheng muttered to himself, at a loss, his whole body was like a demon, and he was stunned in place, just staring blankly at the sunken ancestral graves, at a loss.

After a long time, he woke up with a start. He was also a scholar after all, and then he realized that this was a warning from the heavens, a sign of something big going to happen, and even the graves of his ancestors were affected.

"Quick, go home."

Gu Sheng took his youngest son in his arms and ran to the town.

But before entering the town, many people in the town ran out as if fleeing.

An old man with a cane grabbed Gu Sheng's lapel in grief and indignation and said, "Gu Sheng, why are you still hurting us, why are you hurting us?"

"Uncle, what happened." Gu Sheng asked with a blank face.

"Don't you know what you have done? The officials in the capital have decreed that the Gu family plotted rebellion. They have already issued an imperial decree to punish our Gu family and nine clans. My God, my Gu family is full of loyalty. How could I have suffered such a catastrophe? Suffering from such a catastrophe" the old man looked up to the sky and cried out, crying bitterly.

Before Gu Sheng could be overwhelmed, he saw a group of soldiers from the imperial court rushing towards him behind him. To some of the Gu family's children who tried to escape, those soldiers were even more merciless, slashing with knives and shooting with bows. No intention of showing mercy.

"Uncle, how are my parents?" Gu Sheng asked tremblingly.

"You still care about your parents, you have already encountered an accident, hurry up, go, go as far as you can, I am too old to walk, you may be able to escape this disaster, take the child and go to the woods If you have the chance, you must avenge our Gu family." The old man suddenly seemed to return.

As if in a flash, he pushed Gu Sheng away heavily, and then turned around to meet the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, delaying Gu Sheng's time.

Gu Sheng was still in shock and at a loss, but after being pushed by his uncle, he subconsciously picked up the child and turned around to run away.

Gu Sheng is a scholar, but at this time, he burst out with a lot of strength, and ran all the way with his young son in his arms, without feeling tired. He only felt the sound of arrows flying through the air behind him, but it seemed And didn't shoot himself.

Just running all the way, running, he didn't know how far he ran, until he really lost his strength, and then unknowingly put on full speed.

It was evening now.

At this time, he saw a woman with disheveled hair and mud all over her body on the official road beside her, and suddenly shouted in shock, "Husband, why are you here?"

When Gu Sheng was yelled at, he came back to his senses. Seeing Jiang Rong's messy appearance with blood on his body, he immediately understood everything.

"Wow~!"

As soon as he woke up, he felt a pain in his chest. Looking down, he didn't know when he was hit by two arrows. The arrows pierced through his chest and pierced the young child in his arms.

At this moment, the youngest son has no breath, just a cold corpse.

He laughed miserably and fell down.

Jiang Rong is a woman who has practiced martial arts. She hurried over to see her holding her up, and she was stunned when she saw her husband's body covered in blood.

"Cough, cough, cough."

Gu Sheng lay on top of her, gritted his teeth and said, "You, you must have something to hide from me. You must be going to assassinate corrupt officials. You are planning to rebel. The officials have already issued an order saying that my Gu family rebelled. Kill our Gu family and the nine clans, haha, kill the nine clans, you know what it means to kill the nine clans

What are you talking about, my Gu family will not only be wiped out, but will also be stigmatized for thousands of years. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there has been no imperial decree to punish the nine clans. All of this is thanks to you. "

"My family is unlucky, my wife is unworthy, retribution, retribution, revenge for my father, all excuses, you are a lunatic, a lunatic woman, I am really blind to marry you in, and now my parents have been killed by you, The child was killed by you, and everyone in the Gu family was killed by you."

"Husband, husband, how could this happen, how could this happen?"

When Jiang Rong heard the news, she was instantly struck by a bolt from the blue.

Gu Sheng's face turned pale, and he said harshly: "Are you still lying to me now? Do you want me to die as a fool? Tell me, what is going on with all this?"

"I, I did go to assassinate Li Xiuyuan today, but I didn't know that things would turn out like this. I, I just want to avenge my father." Jiang Rong cried loudly.

"Li Xiuyuan? Li Xiuyuan, governor of Yangzhou, the man who put an end to the Nine Mountain King's rebellion? You're going to assassinate such a great hero to put down the rebellion."

When Gu Sheng heard the words, he looked up to the sky and laughed bitterly, crying bitterly: "No wrong, no wrong, my Gu family was wiped out, I am not wronged, I was deceived by you, what corrupt officials, what copy of property, now I understand, It was your father who colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country, surrendered in Kaesong, and was beheaded by Mr. Li for public display. You are a traitor.

Daughter of a traitor, I thought you had a good character and a good heart before, but all of this was a lie fabricated by you. "

"Your father opened the city and surrendered, not to mention Master Li, even if I was there, I would have killed your father. I am afraid that it is the grace of Master Li that you can walk out of Jinling City alive. Otherwise, how could you escape with your mother on your back? come out."

"Collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, being ungrateful, assassinating loyal ministers and good generals, Jiang Rong, if there is an afterlife, I will definitely hate you for ten lives and ten lives."

Gu Sheng yelled angrily, and then his chest burst into blood, and immediately screamed, fell to the ground and lost his breath.

"Husband." Jiang Rong saw her husband die tragically, and saw that her youngest son had lost all breath.

Her husband and children died before her eyes.

And the Gu family was ransacked and beheaded because of their involvement, and even the Jiang family was within the scope of the nine clans, so they would soon be wiped out.

All of this is because he assassinated that Li Xiuyuan.

"Ah~!" Thinking of all this, Jiang Rong yelled and broke down, and then ran forward frantically.

The only sliver of reason left reminded her of what Li Xiuyuan said when she let go: "I will bear the evil reward of killing your father, but can you bear the evil reward of killing me?"

The results are obvious.

She can't afford it.

Because when he assassinated Li Xiuyuan, he didn't think that much at all, but the moment he saw the dagger, his heart was covered by long-lost hatred, so he recklessly avenged his father and assassinated Li Xiuyuan.

Your father is collaborating and traitorous, damn it.

You are the daughter of a thief,

You will avenge your kindness and assassinate loyal ministers and good generals.

I want to hate you for ten lives and ten lives
A sentence is like a sharp knife, piercing into the depths of her soul, making her feel so painful.

In the end, Jiang Rong only heard a series of horseshoes sounding behind her. Finally, she was hit hard and fell to the ground, spitting blood, her eyes wide open, looking at the sky.

She didn't know if it was a hallucination, but she saw an immortal standing above the white clouds in the sky. That immortal was the one who claimed to be an immortal in the mountain at the market.

At this moment, the old fairy looked at him with indifferent mockery in his eyes, then he laughed, turned around and drove away on the white cloud.

"Is this woman the murderer? My lord, what should I do?"

"Take it back to the capital, and kill Han Shizhong before the three armies, so as to appease the anger of the public." Cui Wei's voice sounded.

Soon, Jiang Rong was tied up with ropes. Before she passed out, she saw that today's sunset was extraordinarily bright, like blood, extending from here, like a straight road across the sky.
(End of this chapter)