Brocade legend

Chapter 404

Looking at Zhou Bin's body, Zhu Liu also felt that he was crazy... But, what can be done now?
"Brother, this is the last thing I can do for you... I'm really trying my best... very hard..."

Zhu Liu walked away.

Hong Lian supported the door frame, sat down slowly, staring at her brother's body in a daze.

Brother... what you said meant that you entrusted your wife and children to me...

You knew you were going to die... didn't you?
Honglian burst into tears...

Zhou Bin's wife and children rushed out the door, weeping uncontrollably.

……

"Your Majesty, last night Zhu Liu killed all the Thirteen Taibao..."

Emperor Jiajing, who was in the smog, was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "It's really hard for him to work hard..."

Emperor Jiajing understood Zhu Liu's intentions. He knew that Zhu Liu had killed him to show him. He was telling him that Lu Bing was no longer the Lu Bing who had the Thirteen Taibao, the Jinyi Cavalry, and the powerful and united Jinyiwei... ...Lu Bing is no longer his threat.

Now that the Jinyi Cavalry Army is completely wiped out, and the Jinyi Guards are also torn apart, Lu Bing is indeed no longer a threat...

From the beginning to the end, whether it's betrayal or murder, it's all just for Lu Bing to live and live well...

brotherhood...

The touched Emperor Jiajing thought a lot, recalled a lot, and finally said quietly: "Let him go...."

……

After that night, Zhu Liu disappeared, and Lu Bing never mentioned Zhu Liu again.

Knowing that Tietou's tragic state was caused by Black and White Wuchang, Lu Bing closed the city to capture the thief, and finally captured Heiwuchang, and put him before Tietou's spirit.

At this time, Jin Yiwei was no longer as prominent as it used to be, but because of Lu Bing's presence, they gradually united under Lu Bing's command.Seeing that the situation was invincible, Huang Jin, the governor of the East Factory, also stopped his flags and drums, not daring to say goodbye to Jin Yiwei.

But in the end, Lu Bing was powerless to save Wang Zhi...

Knowing that Lu Bing returned to Beijing, Hu Zongxian immediately attacked Wang Zhi.Emperor Jiajing also issued a decree at the same time: "Going straight to Hua Gouyi is a serious crime, and I will show my life to him."

After Lu Bing regained control of Jinyiwei, it was a done deal, and various efforts failed to save Wang Zhi's life.

Lu Bing endured multiple blows, old injuries and new illnesses. Seeing his brothers passing away one by one, he was so anxious that he couldn't take it anymore and fell ill on the bed.

On December 38, the 25th year of Jiajing, Wang Zhi was beheaded at Chenggong Port, Hangzhou Province.

Wang did not beg for mercy until he died. Before he was executed, he shouted: "What is my crime! What is my crime! If I die alone, I fear that the people of Zhejiang and Zhejiang will suffer."

After his death, his nominal wife was rewarded as a slave to the minister's family, and Ye Zongman and Wang Qingxi, who surrendered himself, were guarded at the extreme edge.

Hu Zongxian captured Wang Zhigong with a plan, and added the prince and Taibao.

After Wang Fu learned that Wang Zhi had been imprisoned, he personally killed and dismembered the hostage Xia Zheng.

More than [-] people under Wang Zhi's subordinates scolded the court for not being trustworthy, and vowed to avenge Wang Zhi, so they scattered and plundered the borders of Fujian and Guangxi.

When the news of Xia Zheng's death came, Hu Zongxian went to the beach to watch and sacrifice him, weeping unceasingly, all the generals were in tears and could not look up.

The Ming army attacked Wang Fu fiercely, and Wang Fu led the troops to defend to the death and refused to surrender.

Under the persecution of the emperor, the Ming army desperately besieged, causing countless casualties on both sides, and blood stained the sea.In the end, the pirates broke through and fled, becoming rogues along the coast of Fujian.

Later, Wang Wei was destroyed by the Ming army in Cengang.

After Wang Zhi was executed, the problem of Japanese pirates became serious again because the dragons had no leader.

In February of the 39th year of Jiajing, more than 23 Japanese pirates robbed Chaozhou and other places in Guangdong on the [-]rd.

The guard is in a hurry.The court held that Fujian and Guangxi provinces are both adjacent to the South China Sea, and Japanese pirates invaded Guangzhong with Fujian people as their guides.Today, the Japanese are very powerful, and it is time to order Guangdong and Guangxi to suppress them in a timely manner.He also ordered the censor to impeach the Fuchen Fuchen of Fujian for the crime of abusing the Japanese and causing trouble to Guangdong and Guangxi.

On March [-]th of the same year, in order to meet the needs of Guangdong and Guangxi to fight against the Japanese, Zheng Gang, the admiral of Guangdong and Guangxi, requested to add a member of Guangdong Hui and Chao Shen, who was stationed in Jieyang to supervise the troops to fight against the Japanese.At the same time, the Chaozhou arrest and bandit sentence was moved to Huanggang Town, an important place that Japanese pirates must pass through to enter Guangzhou.

Due to heavy exploitation by the government, taxes and servitude, Japanese pirates plundered various states and counties, resulting in extreme poverty, and people from all over Fujian rose up to resist one after another.Among them, there are the cellar people in Dapu, the boat people in Nanwan, the mountain people in Youxi, the miners in Longyan, the refugees in Nanjing, Yongding and other places, and the uprising of Zhang Lian, the most powerful cellarman, and others. defeat.

Liu Tao, the governor, was overwhelmed, but slaughtered cattle and gave them to the rebels, and supported the crowd for self-defense.The imperial court charged him with crimes and arrests.

Since then, the Japanese pirates have been rampant and rebelled continuously, making it difficult to destroy.

After Wang Zhi's death, Lu Bing's health has hardly improved, and he spent more and more time recuperating in bed.

……

In the winter of the 39th year of Jiajing, there was heavy snowfall in Beijing.

Lu Bing half snuggled up on the bed, the stove in front of the bed was burning red, reflecting half of Lu Bing's body.

Lu Bing closed his eyes, listening to the sound of snow falling outside the house.

"Lu An" Lu Bing suddenly opened his mouth and called out in a low voice.

The door was pushed open, and an old servant in a brown blouse came to the bed and leaned over to answer, "Master..."

"Open the window," Lu Bing ordered.
"This... It's windy and snowy outside, it's icy cold, the master's body..." Lu An hesitated
"Open!"

"..." The old servant stopped talking, opened the window silently, and closed it.

The wind outside the window is wrapped in snow, pouring into the house together, sporadic snowflakes hovering in the house, and sprinkled on the golden silk unicorn brocade embroidered with thread.The cold wind agitated the bed curtains and swayed, and the cold light outside instantly overwhelmed the red light of the fire.

Lu Bing is getting old...

The gray hair was simply tied behind her back, but there was no trace of mess.The big hands pressed against the quilt, with bulging finger bones and veins, looked vigorous and powerful.

Lu Bing didn't care about the snowflakes falling on his body, he just stared blankly at the heavy snow flying outside the window, aggressively invading the whole world, patches of cold light with sharp edges and corners, as if they were proclaiming their arrogance to the world.

Lu Bing stared blankly, as if watching the past events...

His gaze went from lax to resolute to gentle to warm to sharp and then to calm.

He exhaled softly, and said, "Lu An, bring a pen and paper..."

Lu Bing took the pen presented by the old servant, and spread out a piece of white rice paper on the small case placed by the bed, and two lines of vigorous big characters were written through the paper:

"A young man wins the first place with a sword, and saves God with his feet on fire.

Hundreds of officials shuddered and fell down the steps, holding up the pumpkin to shake the court.

Flying fish in the palm of your hand deters lawlessness, and riding a horse's hoof shakes the world,
I am also three lords and three orphans, and I am the only one in the celestial dynasty, Lu Pinghu."

Lu Bing threw the pen and couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, a middle-aged man came in with a medicine box on his shoulders, shaking off the snow on his body, and said with a smile, "Brother is in good spirits today!"

"Dong Bi! You're here." Lu Bing replied with a smile.

It was Li Shizhen and Li Dongbi who came.

It is also the last of the Thirteen Taibao, the Thirteenth Brother with superb medical skills.

Li Shizhen smiled, checked Lu Bing's pulse, and said, "He's well-raised, and he's recovering slowly."

Li Shizhen gave Lu Bing a few more instructions and walked out of the room.

When Li Shizhen came out of the room, there was a deep worry on his brows.

And Lu Bing in the room also let go of his forced smile, and there was an indelible sadness in his eyes.

Heart disease is difficult to heal...

December 39th in the [-]th year of Jiajing.

Lu Bing died suddenly at the age of 51. He was gifted to Uncle Zhong, posthumously named Wuhui.

……

The obituary was posted, and the Lu Mansion hung up white paper lanterns.

All the people who come and go are sighing.

Naturally, Li Shizhen also came to help with the arrangements.

Standing at the door, he suddenly felt that there was a passerby who was a little strange.

What he looked at carefully, the man disappeared in a flash.

The familiar figure of that person made Li Shizhen suspicious.

A thought suddenly popped up!
Li Shizhen hurriedly chased after him.

After passing a corner, the man was looking at the courtyard when he saw Li Shizhen chasing him and wanted to leave in a hurry.

"Stop!" Li Shizhen yelled, but the man quickened his pace!
"Zhu Liu! How dare you not go to pay homage to elder brother's spirit!" Li Shizhen was in a hurry, and in a flash of inspiration, she called out this sentence.

As soon as these words came out, the man stopped, then squatted down suddenly, and burst into tears.

Li Shizhen came to the man and saw the man squatting on the ground, crying like a child.

Li Shizhen went to pull him up, but he didn't resist.But when he raised his head, Li Shizhen was startled.

The man's face was full of knife marks, old wounds and new wounds, the flesh turned out, hideous and terrifying.

However, as a doctor, Li Shizhen still recognized that he was Zhu Liu!

"You...how did you become like this!" Li Shizhen was shocked.

Zhu Liu couldn't make a sound, Li Shizhen couldn't ask why, and he didn't want to go to Lu's mansion after asking Zhu Liu, so he took Zhu Liu to a small tavern, entered a private room, ordered a jug of wine, and drank it with Zhu Liu.

Both of them were depressed, and they got drunk after a while, and Li Shizhen finally knew what happened that night from Zhu Liukou.

That night, Zhu Liu finally went to see Lu Bing.

The two fought without saying a word.

Lu Bing held hatred in his heart, so naturally he struck heavily.

Zhu Liuben was no match for him, and now he was retreating steadily.

In the end, Zhu Liu was knocked to the ground by Lu Bing.

Just when Lu Bing was about to take his life, half of the jade pendant fell from Zhu Liu's split clothes.

The jade pendant was stained with blood, which hurt Lu Bing's heart.

In the end, Lu Bing refused to let go, so he withdrew his knife and left.

"Let's go! Keep your name incognito, don't show up again...but...you don't die...at least before I die, you don't die...I can't take it anymore, I'll lose another brother..."

Zhu Liu, who was turning the blade upside down to prepare money, threw away the Xiuchun knife after hearing this, and wept uncontrollably.

Heartbroken, Zhu Liu raised his knife and slashed his face, cutting himself beyond recognition. He will never be recognized again. He is Zhu Liu, the Thirteen Taibao...

Zhu Liu left the capital, but did not leave Zhili. Instead, he wandered in the wilderness. Whenever his heart ached, he would draw a knife on his face to avoid the pain in his heart.

Li Shizhen looked at the drunk Zhu Liu and sighed.

He felt that Zhu Liu had gone crazy...

Li Shizhen left the tavern after leaving Zhu Liu a pack of wound medicine.

On the second day, someone found that on the tallest tree behind the Lu residence, a beggar with an unrecognizable face was hanged on the tallest branch.

The direction the branches are facing is Lu Bing's mourning hall...

People from the Lu Mansion went to check, and a paper bag fell to the ground.

Li Shizhen picked up the medicine bag, weighed it with his hands, and found that the weight hadn't diminished at all...

empty sigh...

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(End of this chapter)