Rebirth of the Splendid Phoenix

Chapter 156 Suspended Death
Almost all the soldiers and civilians were rejoicing at the victory of the Baili Army at the border, and they were all waiting for the inevitable reward from the imperial court.

Only Baili and his son could not feel this joy at all.

"The capital is in chaos right now."

General Baili put down the secret letter in his hand and looked at Baili Peak: "Zhu Yuan sent a letter saying that King Cheng is dead, King An is dethroned, King Rui is incompetent, and the most likely king is Qi King."

Speaking of King Qi, there was a strange emotion in his eyes, which was a kind of disgust and resentment.

On a deeper level, there is even hatred lingering in it.

"Even if King Qi is really in power, so what? Father, we just won such a big victory, even His Majesty wants to comfort my Baili family."

Bailifeng looked at the old general Baili's face, and comforted him.

King Qi colluded with the Wutu tribe and almost robbed Bailixiu. Bailifeng finally found out the clues.

The moment he found out, he wished he could kill King Qi with his own hands.

It's just that even if he finds out, even if he has evidence in his hand, he can't take revenge.

Just because King Qi is the heir of the emperor, and King Qi is the prince, no matter how great the Baili family's achievements are, they cannot take revenge on King Qi.

The emperor will not allow it.

Bailifeng doesn't seem to be different, getting along with Bailixiu is the same as before.

But in the end it was different.

Bailifeng almost risked his life all the way to the border this time, and the reason was because of the anger in his heart.

He wants to prove that their Baili family is still useful, more useful than King Qi, a prince who only fights for power and profit.

With several life-and-death fights and scars all over his body, he made great contributions.

"Feng'er, speak carefully!"

The old general Baili saw that the expression in Bailifeng's eyebrows did not mean anything, and he frowned and scolded.

"People like King Qi can do it, can't I even say it?"

Bailifeng sneered, walked to the old general Baili, picked up the secret letter, and looked at the content on it: "Anyway, we now control an army of 20, and I will definitely not support King Qi."

Although Bailifeng used to be a bit sloppy when he was not fighting, he didn't show the slightest conceit because of the achievements of the Baili family.

He knows how to be humble.

But now, he doesn't want to be a pure loyal minister anymore.

He didn't think about rebellion, after all, the Baili family had always been loyal to Daqing and the emperor.

But not rebelling against him doesn't mean he's going to support someone he hates.

The old general Baili looked at Bailifeng's current state and frowned in embarrassment.

"Feng'er, don't forget, what is the ancestral motto of our Baili family."

"Serve the country with allegiance and allegiance to His Majesty."

The old general Baili said every word: "Our Baili family's current position is due to the opportunity given to us by His Majesty."

He also hated King Qi, but if the emperor really wanted to pass on the seat to King Qi, as the current head of the Baili family, he had to be loyal to King Qi.

Bailifeng looked at the old general Baili, a look of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

"Father, have you forgotten how Xiu'er was hurt?"

Bailifeng stood up, his eyes widened.

"Xiuer, Xiuer is fine"

The old general Baili slowly closed his eyes and murmured, but he didn't dare to look at his own son's flaming eyes for a moment.

He has fought on the battlefield for so many years, and he has never been afraid of anything. No matter whether it is the sword or the sword, or life and death, nothing can move him.

He thought he would never have anything to fear again.

But at this moment, he realized that he had something to fear. It was his son's eyes of condemnation, and it was his own bitter heart of self-blame and guilt.

Bailifeng looked at the old general Baili coldly: "Father, you are a loyal minister. Your loyalty to His Majesty makes my son admire you. You are willing to give your life to someone your Majesty recognizes. My son can't say anything, but if you want If you want your son to make the same choice as you, forgive him for not being able to!"

Bailifeng turned his head and walked away.

The old general Baili looked at the back of Bailifeng, hesitation flashed in his eyes, his hand was stretched out in the air, and his mouth was half-opened, as if to prevent Bailifeng from leaving.

It's just that he didn't make a sound until Bailifeng lifted the curtain and walked out of the tent completely.

After a while: "You take people to protect Feng'er, from now on, you will be Feng'er's personal guards."

The old general Baili said to the void, all the emotions on his face subsided, he looked like a statue, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.

"The people His Majesty sent to reward them should be here soon, don't let Feng'er get close to those people."

In the third sentence of the old general Baili, he gave the last order.

His indifferent eyes slowly overflowed with a kind of sadness: "When you have to, protect Feng'er to leave first, and don't let him do anything stupid."

He took another secret letter from his sleeve.

The Baili family has been rooted in Daqing for many years and has always been loyal to the emperor. There are more people around the emperor than anyone imagined.

It's just that no one has ever thought of it, because no emperor has ever really taken action against the Baili family.

-

Bailifeng didn't want to stay in the camp, he didn't want to stay where his father was. He never thought that the father he had always admired would be so foolish, loyal and cruel.

As long as he thought of Baili old general's words that nothing happened, he couldn't control his emotions.

Bailifeng knew that someone was following behind him, they were a group of guards trained by Baili's family.

It's just that he doesn't care and doesn't want to bother.

Bailifeng went to the stables to lead his own horse, got on the horse, and ran off into the distance.

He just wants to go farther now, and go farther.

The war horse of Bailifeng is a famous Dawan horse that travels thousands of miles a day, but in an instant, he left the camp behind him far away, and his shadow was no longer seen.

I don't know how long the horse has been driven, and those who followed him have been left behind for an unknown distance. Bailifeng pulled the rein of the horse and stopped the horse.

He fell directly from the horse's back onto the grass, and lay among the wet and prickly blades of grass, Bailifeng's face was blank.

"why."

he murmured.

Looking up at the sky above his head, he clenched his hands into fists and slammed the ground hard.

Grass flying.

Suddenly, a shadow appeared in front of him.

Bailifeng looked at the long sword pointing at his neck, slowly raised his eyes, and met Qin Zheng's face.

There was a look of astonishment in his eyes: "It's you!"

The next moment, Bailifeng's eyes showed cruelty: "Who sent you here?"

"Don't you have an answer in your heart?"

It is impossible to reconcile between Qin Zheng and the king of Qi, and the king of Qi can't command Qin Zheng.

Bailifeng also paid attention to Xie Jinhua, how could he not know this.

Besides King Qi, who else would command Qin Zheng?

That answer made Bailifeng's heart shudder uncontrollably.

"His Majesty."

He gritted his teeth and spit out these two words slowly.

"why?"

He hated King Qi, and he also held a grudge against the emperor who chose King Qi.

But what he did was to do more meritorious deeds, to kill more enemies on the battlefield, to make himself more important, so that the emperor had to be afraid, to give Bailixiu an explanation, and to make King Qi pay the price.

"Great master, there is nothing to seal."

Qin Zheng spit out these eight words, this is not what the emperor told him, but it is the truth.

Throughout the past and present, prosperity must decline, nothing more than that.

Hearing this answer, Bailifeng was a little stunned at first, then slowly laughed out loud, and the more he laughed, the louder he said, "Great master? Great master, does he know how many people in our Baili family have died for generations? Does he know how many people from the Hundred Li Army died on the battlefield? This achievement is made of bones, and it cannot be erased by a word from his mouth."

"How many people did you bring here, is there something wrong in the camp now?"

Bailifeng's laughter stopped abruptly, and he looked at Qin Zheng coldly.

"Your Majesty has taken action against Hua'er. If I don't come this time, I will be disposed of by Your Majesty before King Qi is confirmed as the next heir. Your Majesty has eliminated the serious troubles in your heart, His Majesty asked me to bring hundreds of soldiers to escort the reward supplies and the imperial decree of the reward, and they should have arrived in the camp by now."

Bailifeng was startled, his fingers trembled slightly, he had to go back immediately.

He now regrets that Qin Zheng suddenly restrained him for a moment of carelessness.

For a master like Qin Zheng, if he loses the opportunity, he will be countered every step of the way.

"Those people put drugs in the rewarded wine, which can make all the people who have drunk lose consciousness. Half of the hundred and ten people are disguised as secret guards around His Majesty. All of them are masters. After a hundred After the old general Li and his confidants get close and put them to death, there will be an imperial decree in the hands of the special envoy that the Baili family must be punished for their crimes of collusion with foreigners, and as for the evidence of collusion with foreigners, there is nothing wrong with them.”

Qin Zheng didn't seem to notice Bailifeng's movements, and he talked to himself, telling all the plans and explanations.

This plan is not so clever, but it is ruthless enough.

Shameless enough.

The king wants his ministers to die, and his ministers have to die.

Bailifeng's eyes were bloodshot.

"I don't want to be a tool that the emperor can throw away at any time."

With a movement of Qin Zheng's wrist and a swipe of the long sword, Bai Lifeng thought he was going to kill him.

With a swipe, Qin Zheng retracted the long sword in his hand.

"Major General Baili, how about our cooperation?"

What he said was so sudden that Bailifeng didn't react for a while.

"What do you mean?"

"I replaced the drugs in those drinks, so if you go back now, you still have time to stop everything."

Bailifeng's eyes lit up, but he couldn't believe Qin Zheng: "What do you want?"

"I don't have any doubts about my death, and I want the Baili Army to help me in the future."

Qin Zheng paused every word, and said his plan.

"Are you going to blow up?"

Bailifeng frowned.

"After I die, Hua'er will truly live in peace."

Qin Zheng lowered his eyes, turned the long sword, and hit his arm hard, causing blood to flow horizontally.

"Later, I will need the help of Major General Baili."

There was a whistle, and the sound of horseshoes stamping on the ground came.

Qin Zheng got on his horse and roared away.

Bailifeng let go of his clenched fist, and with a whistle, he mounted his horse and followed Qin Zheng closely.

Regardless of whether what Qin Zheng said was true or not, he had no other choice but to follow the last way out given by the other party and just go on like this.

-

When Xie Jinhua got news from Qin Zheng again, it was already ten days later.

Qin Zheng was originally from Xiyuan, and for many years hid his identity and hid in Daqing, plotting evil.

This time Baili Army general Xi Yuan was defeated in one fell swoop, Qin Zheng couldn't hold back, went to the border, falsely passed on the imperial decree in an attempt to murder Baili and his son, but in the end the conspiracy was discovered by Baili Major General, and finally died under random arrows, and those who followed Qin Zheng went to deal with the people of Baili's family, one counted as one, and all of them sacrificed the military flag of Baili's family.

The emperor was furious about this matter, and he ordered to have the body of the traitor who falsely preached the imperial decree brought back to the capital for public display, and said that he would go out of the city to welcome Baili and his son back in victory.

Xie Jinhua looked at the opening and closing of the mouth of the person in front of him, and felt that his ears gradually became unable to hear any sound, and his eyes were also blurred for a while.

Her body was shaking slightly, and it seemed that the terrible scene in the dream a few days ago appeared before her eyes.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!"

Suddenly there was a scream, a mouthful of blood spewed out, and Xie Jinhua fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)