Wu Dingyuan, one of the servants of the palace, lay dying on the ground. At this moment, the pain and fatigue on his body, as well as the despair and sadness in his heart, were temporarily forgotten; only the corner of his eye was left to face the woman. While watching, I was immersed in the short-term mutual possession.
Her name is Yan Ting. She was a disciple of the Baishan Sect with the most outstanding appearance and skills. She was also one of the personal guards of the former Princess of Yanshan and the sister of the Governor of Youzhou. But after the princess who was the only one who could restrain Shaojun unexpectedly died of a sudden illness, she inevitably became some kind of plaything to vent her anger.
Then, together with the other servants and female officials around the princess, they fell under the Shaojun's various humiliating and ravaging methods; just to intensify their revenge for the original control. In other words, no one in the current palace, or even inside and outside Youzhou, can refuse the will of Shaojun.
Especially after the governor of Youzhou, who was Shaojun's mother-in-law, also fell ill and could not see anything. In a short period of time, the situation in Youzhou City was almost dominated by Shaojun. Wu Dingyuan, who was adopted by the prince as an orphan since he was a child and gained the status of a family general, was also involved in all this.
Although he didn't know what the ultimate goal of Shaojun's wanton behavior was, he still ran for it like a hawk and a dog. He also witnessed with his own eyes all kinds of people with different identities who were forced to surrender to Shaojun's methods and despotic power. Under the circumstances, he became a member of the secretly driven running team.
Naturally, there are some unscrupulous resisters, but soon there will be news that the patron has lost power, the person himself has been demoted or dismissed; or he has been imprisoned for a crime, or even died suddenly, and the whole family has been exiled to other lands. In other words, the world's annoyance and turmoil caused by the changes in the celestial phenomena did not affect the palace.
On the contrary, it further strengthened and consolidated the authority and power of the Yanshan Palace to a certain extent; because the imperial court had to open up the ban on armaments, so that all the prefectures, counties, and foreign princes in the world could prepare and expand their own armaments to deal with potential beasts. Disasters, demon disasters and other changes.
Of course, after the instructions of the imperial court center reach the place, the degree to which they can be implemented also varies from place to place. Some princes had limited financial and material resources and relied more on the support of the nearby imperial garrison; but some others took the opportunity to expand their armaments far beyond what the imperial court allowed.
For example, according to Wu Dingyuan's knowledge, in addition to the number of ceremonial guards in the traditional marriage palace and tent house, the Prince's Palace of Yanshan also established a military palace under the name of the original Anton Protector in order to prevent monsters and disasters. There are several centaurs of different names and sizes; Cong Ma Zhi is one of them.
Of course, on the surface, Cong Ma Zhi, who is divided into the left and right groups, is just a hunting team formed by Shaojun's whim, recruiting the prince's generals, tribesmen and vassal children. But in private, these Congma Zhi are given and assigned more missions and responsibilities.
For example, using coercion and inducement to recruit some knight-errants, martial arts masters, and green forest refugees, they can use it as a secret. Another example is secretly monitoring and threatening some officials; Wu Dingyuan, one of them, did not hesitate or hesitate until he saw the woman named Yan Ting.
Among the many women who were treated as daily playthings by the young master and used to comfort and give favors to his ministers and subordinates, she was not the most beautiful. But even if he was humiliated several times and his body was completely bruised, he could still maintain that kind of spiritual magnanimity that had never completely sunk.
Like a firefly that accidentally flickered in the dark, it quickly attracted Wu Dingyuan, who had been in contact with her many times; and he made a vow to her in private. Moreover, after his hard work and pursuit, he finally got an opportunity to get Shaojun's smooth consent in a very good mood.
Although it was just a seemingly insignificant casual remark, it was an extremely important promise to him, and he turned it into an assignment for Yan Ting. Then, he spent his savings to manage the eunuchs around Shaojun who arranged chores, so that Yan Ting was not on the list of servants.
Then, he hopes to form a family with the maids and maids given to him like the seniors in the royal palace, and then continue to serve him for generations to come. But everything that is happening now breaks the cruel reality that he has been trying to avoid and is unwilling to face.
He has been smart, alert and extremely sensitive since he was a child, and has won the favor of his relatives and even his family. However, in private, he appears to be cruel, suspicious, and willful; he is not a master who likes to fulfill his promises. Especially among those colleagues who are duplicitous, secretly jealous and mischievous.
He and Yan Ting have no future to look forward to. Instead, if they continue to delay, they may suffer a miserable and unpredictable fate. Therefore, he temporarily decided to take Yan Ting with him to escape from this huge and prosperous prison; even in a short period of time, he had thought of the final way out.
In the Lulong Mansion and even in the Youzhou Governor's Mansion, it is not that there are no forces that want to restrain and confront Shaojun; especially after his maternal uncle and Youzhou Governor Di Zhongyuan, who is his biggest supporter, was ordered to go to the capital to report on his duties; Someone began to secretly try to contact the royal family.
Wu Dingyuan was one of them, but before he could wait for an opportunity to report, he received a new order to go to the Youzhou branch of the secret censorship department, which had existed in name only, and "invite" an official from the Dongdu headquarters. This also created everything that happened in front of me.
In fact, it was not a big problem for him to escape from the garden with Yan Ting, who had changed into men's clothes. But Yan Ting, who agreed to elope together, provided him with another additional option and suggestion, which was to use her status to take away some valuable things from Shaojun's private room.
And the process of this extraneous incident can be said to be uneventful; relying on Wu Dingyuan's long-term access to the inside and outside of the house, not many people even doubted or questioned, allowing them to easily obtain the objects and calmly walk out of the garden again and again. Then all the way to Fangshi near the city gate.
There is a store here that can indirectly contact the other party; and the other party claims to be under the command of the Yanshan South Road Patrol Censor just appointed by the imperial court, and showed his token of being the Censor Lixing. In this way, as long as Wu Dingyuan can demonstrate sufficient value, he can receive corresponding protection.
As long as they are separated from Youzhou City or even Lulong Mansion, Shaojun cannot directly use the power of the government, but can only rely on private manpower to secretly pursue and silence them; this is also the only thing he and Yan Ting have. Where life lies. After the message was sent, there was a quick response.
But what Wu Dingyuan never expected was that the person meeting in the mule and horse market outside the city gate was not the censor Li Xing who had made the promise at the beginning; it was a guard from the inner palace under the old leadership of the royal family. In other words, I don’t know when they started, but they took control of everything like a bird occupying a dove’s nest.
And he was just a fish that slipped through the net without realizing it? Wu Dingyuan, of course, resisted on the spot and tried to fight out; but he was knocked to the ground with two fists and four hands. Yan Ting, who was hiding, was also driven out and searched; .
If they hadn't been eager to dedicate their merits to the young master, I'm afraid that as a woman, Yan Ting would have suffered more humiliation in addition to the physical pain. But now everything is coming to an end; Wu Dingyuan and Yan Ting, whose bodies are full of pain and whose breathing is gradually weakening, look at each other with tender hearts filled with forgetfulness.
Just in the brief and affectionate look at each other like lightning and flint, Wu Dingyuan also felt some kind of wish from Yan Ting; that is, whether he could end his life before being thrown into the animal pen and buried in a bloody mouth. Otherwise, you will have to be bitten and toyed by those beasts to please your guests and friends.
Wu Dingyuan once saw with his own eyes that a brave man in the Yanbian army was known as the enemy of a hundred people; because he refused to obey Shaojun after being convicted and imprisoned; and after he was reported to have died of a sudden illness, he was sent to the animal pen in the garden; Then he would cut off the meridians of his hands and feet, feed him medicine, and fight the beasts with his bare hands.
The ferocious beasts in the animal pens today are all captured and collected by wild beasts, and there are varying degrees of giantization and other mutations; some of them will not even kill the living animals immediately after being fed with blood food; Instead, treat it like a plaything and tear it apart with a little bit of torture.
Therefore, he couldn't help but cast his expectant gaze on Jiang Tian, who was surrounded by those shirtless warriors. These warriors were all from the North or outside the Great Wall, carefully selected corner masters; they were the best at capturing and breaking bones. And fighting with bare hands, it is even more difficult to deal with hard skills that have been practiced since childhood.
It can even rebound swords, guns and arrows; many martial arts masters that Shaojun currently supports, or assassins and dead soldiers who try to get closer, have suffered in the hands of this generation. I just hope that this fake envoy from Dongdu can persist for a while and have the opportunity to relieve his pain in advance.
After all, when he was dragged in, he also inadvertently learned another thing; the officials who actually led a team from Dongdu headquarters to help had just arrived at Jimingyi in the east of Youzhou City. And they immediately sent someone to deliver a message of greetings to Shaojun through the closed gatehouse.
Therefore, this unknown fake messenger is really having a bad time! The next moment, the official clicked his fingers crisply; the warrior who rushed to the nearest suddenly covered his face and fell to the ground, screaming hoarsely; the one Wu Dingyuan saw clearly, his left eye turned into a bloody Hole.
Then with a short snap of fingers, several warriors covered their faces and screamed; but they all avoided the vital points of the eyes, and on the bridge of the nose, cheeks, cheeks, forehead, etc., blood was embedded like most of a coin. . Another strongman was hit in the temple and fell down with a muffled sound.
However, the other warriors did not hesitate to stretch out their hands to protect their faces. With the coins deeply embedded in their arms, they rushed to Jiang Tian's side and waved out their palms, fists and claws like the roaring wind; Broken; in an instant, a faint sword light flashed past.
Seven or eight of them swung and grabbed at the same time from the front, back, left, and right, like palms and fists all over the sky that were unavoidable. They almost broke at the sound, cracked and flew away, and blood splattered on the spot. And the flickering sword light swung out from the crowd again like a coiled snake, passing over the heads, faces, shoulders and necks, side ribs and under the navel of the other warriors.
Keep covering your face
(End of chapter)
