However, with a personal message from the Pei Mansion, Pei Wu's only moment of hesitation and embarrassment regarding his position as minister of the vassal and his personal friendship disappeared. Because the head of the Pei family, as his close friend Mo Ruofu, pointed out the stakes to him at this critical moment.
After all, he had no position to obstruct and confront the decision of the Political Affairs Hall behind the vassal council; privately, he had no way to stand on the opposite side of that cheap brother-in-law. Although, he was not particularly cold towards this existence who was rumored to be a hidden swordsman and was somewhat respectful to him.
But it is undeniable that apart from the previous show of kindness and close personal relationship, the Pei family is actually in particular need now, with the help of various extraordinary means and special powers mastered by this cheap brother-in-law. It's not the allusion of "riding a dragon to get a son-in-law" that the old man fantasized about.
(The allusion of "riding a dragon to get a son-in-law" happened in the Spring and Autumn Period. Nong Yu, the youngest daughter of Duke Mu of Qin, married Xiao Shi, a hermit of Huashan, by playing the sheng and Xiao. Later, she became successful in cultivation and soared by riding a dragon and crossing a phoenix during the day; It is also called "playing the flute and playing jade" in idioms.)
However, when he found the other party's house with the countersigned documents and the sect's guards, he found that he had failed, and his heart became heavy. Immediately after receiving new news, I rushed to Chengnanzhuang again and found that the place was surrounded by groups of soldiers.
The so-called Chengnan Village is derived from the allusion of the famous work "Inscribed on Chengnan Village of the Capital" by the former poet Cui Hu: "On this day last year, in this gate, the human face and the peach blossoms reflected each other's red. The human face did not know where to go, but the peach blossoms still laughed at the spring breeze." . It is famous for having a variety of peach blossom trees covering a vast area.
Therefore, this is also a great place for young men and women from the suburbs to go out for spring outings, sing and have fun on March 3 every year. It is one of the thirty-six scenic spots in Gyeonggi. Feng Tingbi, the contemporary owner of Chengnan Village, also came from a distinguished family and was famous in his early years.
The ancestors can be traced to the adopted son of Gao Lishi, a powerful eunuch of the generation known as "unparalleled loyalty" and "uncompromising in integrity", who was adopted in the Feng clan during the period from the first lunar month to the first lunar month of Kaiyuan. Gao Lishi's real name was Feng Yuanyi, his ancestral home was Panzhou (today's Gaozhou City, Guangdong Province). When he was young, his family was in decline and he was abducted and sold as an adulterer.
Later, he became a close attendant of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, who was still King of Linzi at that time; thus, he established the relationship between emperor and minister that lasted for decades. He helped Xuanzong put down the rebellion between Empress Wei and Princess Taiping, and won Xuanzong's favor. He was promoted to General of Hushi, Kaifu Yitong, and was granted the title of Duke of Qi.
Later, when Gao Lishi became prosperous, he recognized his ancestors again and returned to the Feng family. He posthumously gifted his parents the governor of Guangzhou and the wife of the Yue Kingdom. He also selected a loyal and honest son from the Feng family as his heir. Later, Xuanzong died peacefully at the age of eighty-seven, and Gao Lishi also died.
As his grandson, Emperor Taiding felt his loyalty, and specially ordered his adopted son Feng Siyuan to inherit his title, honors, and official positions. Later, he caught up with the Taiding Zhongxing's Great Opening of the Sea/Great Expansion Movement, and finally, with the help of the same clan of the Feng family, he was able to take a place among the vassals of the South China Sea.
It is one of the overseas vassals that has held settlements for generations along the hundreds of miles of coastline in East Borneo (Kalimantan Island); it has been extended to Feng Tingbi for the eleventh generation. As the eldest son of the contemporary lord, Feng Tingbi not only served as the eunuch of Lantai, but was also selected by the late emperor to become the consort of the Lord of Merit.
Therefore, he regarded himself as the "master of Chengnan Village" and liked Kang's support. He went to Beijing to study and be a scholar. He was quite like Meng Chang in ancient times. He had a wide circle of friends in Beijing and had a good reputation and reputation. In his early years, when he was young, , and even traveled with Pei Wuben romantically, leaving many anecdotes.
Therefore, when Pei Wuben heard that he, who was living quietly at home, was suspected of plotting to rebel against the imperial court, his first reaction was that he couldn't believe it. He even suspected that it was a frame-up with ulterior motives or that the evidence was biased. However, when he saw the confrontation inside and outside Chengnan Village, there was no luck.
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Because on the outer wall of Chengnan Village, there were suddenly full of public vassal soldiers and family guards with bows and weapons in full formation; this tough attitude against the imperial court made Pei Wuben's heart completely cold. After the right guard outside received the warrant, he launched an attack without hesitation.
For a moment, Chengnan Village turned into a fierce offensive and defensive battlefield. But after all, these vassal soldiers and guards were restricted in Gyeonggi Province, and they had not seen many battle formations. Although there were some who were fierce and brave, they could not hold out for long in front of the armored soldiers who were well equipped with swords and crossbows.
As for Chengnan Village, a place for spring outings on the outskirts of Beijing, it was also not a fortress or fortress specially designed to resist foreign enemies; Zuo Xiaowei's armored soldiers soon dug several holes in the wall with battering rams and knives and axes. , forcefully knocked down several walls, and then burst in through the gap.
Finally, when Pei Wuben followed the building occupied and controlled by Zuo Xiaowei and came to a tall building surrounded by people in the garden, he saw corpses lying on the floor downstairs on the pillow, with those slit mouths, horns, and claws protruding. When the inhuman presence appeared, I couldn't help but be shocked again.
At this moment, Pei Wuben was completely speechless, and could only look at the figure who had known him for many years among the people still resisting on the top of the tall building with inexplicable sadness and resentment; he couldn't help but murmur. He said to himself: "Brother Tingbi... why are you here?"
However, at the same time, Feng Tingbi, who was sitting on the top floor of the high-rise building but still well-dressed, also looked at Pei Wuben's place with a sense of awareness; then as if he understood something, he sighed decisively: "Brother Wuben, you are totally unreasonable. Understand, you don’t know anything!”
The next moment, Zuo Xiaowei, who was besieging the high-rise building and was trying to threaten and persuade him to surrender, suddenly burst into an uproar with exclamations one after another. However, under the cover of the sudden billowing of black smoke, the only remaining vassal guard in the building launched a desperate attack. Breakout. Obviously the remaining vassal guards are the most elite.
There were even some experts who could jump several feet and fly up and down in the air. Therefore, under their sudden fighting from left to right, they also temporarily disrupted Zuo Xiaowei's outer formation, and he unexpectedly rushed towards Pei Wuben. A few steps away, a large willow leaf dart was swung at him.
But beside Pei Wuben, he was also accompanied by guards who were skilled in martial arts. Not only did he swing his sword like a light wheel in an instant, shooting down all the incoming hidden weapons in the block, he also jumped out and pierced the attacker's shoulder and thigh, assisting The soldiers of You Xiaowei captured him on the spot...
However, no one noticed at this time that the real master Feng Tingbi, who was originally on the high building, had disappeared. After a while, this flashback-style breakout ended completely at the cost of only a few survivors; but the culprit in the high-rise building also disappeared.
However, several soldiers who rushed to the top, after searching to no avail, suddenly pointed to a certain direction in the sky and screamed repeatedly: "In the sky, in the sky, someone... flew away. "The soldiers below noticed a black shadow in the sky that looked like a flying bird.
However, using a special military Chichi mirror, if you look carefully, you will see a bat-winged ghost man with smoke all over his body, flapping his flesh wings with all his strength and flying away; and behind this strange ghost slowly walking away Below the person, there is a humanoid being hanging, which is obviously the rightful owner.
Then, amid the roar of the chase, a hidden wall at the top of the tall building suddenly opened. Immediately after, two sergeants walked out of the building, supporting each other, wearing the right winged flying leopard uniform of the Right Knight Guard, with disheveled hair and blood-stained faces, and joined the crowd.
However, just as the two injured Right Guards sergeants were lying on the prepared stretchers and being sent to the outside along with the other injured, Pei Wuben, who had left and returned, suddenly stopped him: "Wait a minute." , I have a few words to ask these soldiers who came out of the building."
Before he finished speaking, he saw a wounded soldier on one of the stretchers. He suddenly jumped up with great vigor. He waved his hand like a knife and cracked in the air. He chopped down and knocked over a circle of soldiers around him. He then rushed in front of Pei Wuben and probed. She grabbed his neck with electric hands and said sternly: "Don't move around, otherwise..."
Then, he suddenly screamed with an eye-splitting hiss; because the arm holding Pei Wuben broke out of thin air and fell down; blood spurted out at the fracture. Immediately afterwards, an almost imperceptible tough thread wrapped around his neck and instantly cut in most of the way.
As the wounded soldier burst into surprise, he fell to the ground clutching the bubbles of blood and water gushing from his neck. Only then did the others notice that a follower in civilian clothes who had been waiting behind Pei Wu himself was slowly retracting the thin noose in his hand. . Pei Wuben also touched his neck with sincerity and thanked him:
"Zhang Xuancong, thank you for being there to protect me, otherwise... it would be unimaginable."
"I don't dare to take it seriously. It's just my duty to follow orders." However, Zhang Xuancong put away the blood-stained thread as if nothing had happened; he was the expert direct team sent by Jiang Tian to secretly assist the vassal minister. One of the first-generation team members who has undergone comprehensive physical enhancement/bloodline mutation.
And the pair of thin silk nooses he hid in his sleeves was one of the many derivative products developed by Xijingli Xingyuan in the process of studying those aliens. The material is taken from the living cheek pouch of the giant burrowing spider beast, and the silk is woven into a special weapon with a paralyzing effect.
Immediately afterwards, Pei Wuben called out again, and another wounded soldier climbed down from the stretcher in the chaos and wanted to retreat into the crowd: "Brother Tingbi, you and I have known each other for many years, how can you expect to rely on this little trick to win under my eyes?" Are you hiding something from the truth underneath?"
When the wounded soldier with bloodied face heard this, he no longer crouched and straightened his body, naturally showing a determined temperament, and sighed softly: "I don't want to get to this point." In an instant, he quickly put his eyes and hands into his mouth, stuffed a wax pill and bit it open.
Then, the one who moved faster than him was Zhang Xuan. Like a strong wind, he suddenly slapped the opponent in the face with a loud slap. In an instant, the flattened wax balls in his mouth, as well as several loose teeth, flew out together with a mouthful of blood; he also murmured:
"I'm just on guard against this move from you!"
