"How could I have such a horrible dream!" Mei Yuanchen muttered, leaning on the bedrail.
Thinking of all the things in the dream, I felt worried. I got up from the bed and walked to the window, facing the stars in the sky and making a wish: "God, may you bless Chengxuan everything goes well and be safe!"
... ...
Knowing that the person who sent Hu Xiwei was Xia Chengxuan, Mei Siyuan was devastated.
Abandoned son, he realized at this moment that he had become an abandoned son.
"What did I do wrong?"
Since he took charge of the salt administration, he has never made any mistakes and has done everything properly. If he wants to cause trouble, it will only arouse the murderous intentions of those who covet the salt field, not Prince Jia's palace.
"Could it be that Crown Prince Chengxuan thinks that the death of His Royal Highness King Jaw is related to me?"
"Or... no matter what, the prince has decided to kill me after all, otherwise he would never have sent so many people to Jinzhou." He tried his best to calm down and guessed Xia Chengxuan's thoughts, "If I really have Whatever the reason for death is irrelevant to the rest of the family, the prince should not have to kill them. Hu Xiwei does not seem to be a heartless person. He must have been charged with death when he entered the Salt Government Office tonight and he had no choice but to do so. If my death allows Haitang, Uncle Yun, and Brother Fu to live, he might be able to do the same."
If one person's death can lead to the peace and prosperity of all the servants in the house, Mei Siyuan will be willing to do so.
Having made up his mind about this, he no longer had any thoughts of fighting together, so he threw aside the sharpened knife in his hand. Then he found Xue Renmo, Yin Chenghui and Zhi Cong from the corpses on the ground, and worked with Zhi Qing to carry them to Fu Su's side.
"Bang!"
Mei Siyuan suddenly knelt down in front of the four corpses, bowed nine times, grabbed the ground with his head, and with tears streaming down his face, he lamented: "Fu Sandi, Renmo, Chenghui, and Zhicong, Taoist priests, I have troubled you all because of my personal reasons." Having lost his life, Siyuan really cannot redeem himself through death. I wish I could retaliate again in the next life!"
Although he only said this sentence, he said it sincerely. Not only Haitang, Yunyuan and others were heartbroken when they heard it, but even Hu Xiwei was deeply moved and felt even more guilty.
Mei Siyuan stood up and bowed again, turned to look at Bai Lisi, and saw that she was looking at him with tears in her eyes, nodding slightly to this side, with a sad and beautiful smile on her face.
It is better to know your husband than your wife, and vice versa.
Bai Lisi guessed what he was going to do, but couldn't stop it.
She can't.
"Look at this battle, Prince Jia's palace is determined to kill us. Anyway, Chen'er has grown up. If Hu Xiwei can let Haitang, Xinyue and the others go with our death, we will die again. Why be afraid! It’s very interesting to be able to hold hands with Brother Yuan on the road to Huangquan!”
How could she survive alone when she knew her husband had a death wish?
"Taoist Priest, please unlock Brother Hu's acupuncture points!" Mei Siyuan walked up to Zhan Tong and Hu Xiwei and softly called Zhan Pass.
Acupuncture Kung Fu is a very advanced martial art. There are only a few sects of Acupuncture in the entire Dahua River and Lake, and Zhenwu Guan is one of them. Although Mei Siyuan has been practicing martial arts for more than twenty years, he has never learned the art of tapping acupuncture points, let alone solving acupuncture points.
Hu Xiwei is the master of Baiwei Hall. He is a master on the same level as Yaozhu, Qingji and others. Compared with Zhantong, he is only slightly inferior to Zhantong by one and a half moves, but compared with Zhanjue, Zhancheng and Yunyuan. Even better. If his acupuncture points are unlocked, it will be extremely difficult to control him.
"Master Mei, do you really want to unlock his acupuncture points?" Zhan Tong asked with a frown, "This man's martial arts is very high. If you hadn't injured his arm from the side just now, I wouldn't have been able to control him. If If you unblock his acupoints, wouldn't it be like letting the tiger go back to the mountains?"
Mei Siyuan looked at Hu Xiwei and said with a serious face: "I believe Brother Hu is definitely not that shameless person."
Hu Xi's eyelids slightly exposed outside the mask shook slightly...
"I treat him this way, and he can still trust me so much!"
Zhan Tong saw that Mei Siyuan's eyes were clear and did not look muddy. After sighing heavily, he still untied Hu Xiwei's acupuncture points.
The men in black on the opposite side tightened their swords and stared at him, preparing to wait for an opportunity to kill him.
Hu Xi's acupoints were solved, and he was lucky. However, he still did not leave the surroundings of Zhan Tong and others. Instead, he slowly took off the black mask on his face and said word by word: "Master Mei, I, Hu Xiwei, am sorry for you!"
After finishing speaking, he bowed slightly towards Mei Siyuan and Fu Su and others lying on the ground to express his apology.
"Brother Hu, I know you are by no means a sycophantic person. You must have had a last resort in killing Mei today." Mei Siyuan smiled with tears in his eyes and said to him, "Can you please step aside? Siyuan has something to ask of me." .”
... ...
The fighting in the Salt Government Department had ceased, but the sound of weapons clashing could be heard on the streets two miles away. Guo Zimu led three thousand cavalry and was about to reach the Salt Government Office, but was blocked at the last intersection.
There were several rows of antler barriers piled up on the road, all wrapped in oilcloth. Four cavalrymen stationed in the military camp had just dismounted and were about to remove the roadblocks, but they were shot to the ground by horn darts. After struggling for a few breaths, they kicked their legs to death.
"Be careful, the dart is highly poisonous!" Yun Xiaoyang hurriedly warned.
In fact, needless to say, after the four fell to the ground, everyone took a few steps back and looked warily at the rooftops on both sides of the street. Fortunately, no poison darts were fired.
Obviously, the enemy only wanted to stop them and had no intention of fighting with them. Killing the four cavalrymen was just a warning to everyone.
When Guo Zimu ordered his troops to leave the camp this time, they were all lightly armed and did not carry heavy armor, shields or other protective equipment. The enemy hid in the dark and fired poison darts, and placed antler trees in the road to prevent them from passing quickly. At this time, no one could
Dare to break through.
"General, seeing that the Government Office is right in front of us, we can't stop here, otherwise Lord Mei will be in danger!" Yun Xiaoyang said with an anxious look on his face as he drove his horse closer to Guo Zimu.
Guo Zimu grimaced and said bitterly: "Of course I know. But there are roadblocks in front of us and people are throwing poison darts in the dark. How can we send soldiers forward to die? Isn't their life fate?"
Isn't their life their fate?
Yun Xiaoyang paused for a while, thinking to herself for a long time, then said: "I will rush to the front and push away the roadblock, and you guys rush over, okay?"
Guo Zimu stared at her and slowly nodded. It was better to kill her than to kill one of his own, and he could see that Yun Xiaoyang's martial arts was not weak, so she might not have no chance of survival.
"Kick! Kick! Kick!" While the two were talking to each other, shopkeeper Yu drove his horse from the far left end of the shop to the roadblock.
"Shopkeeper Yu, no!" Yun Xiaoyang called loudly from behind. However, the old shopkeeper was unmoved and continued to ride forward.
If you have to get close to the roadblock, walking on both sides is naturally the safest choice, so that only one side is exposed to the enemy.
"Keng! Keng!" There were several sounds of metal collisions in the air. It turned out that several ramrods were knocked down by Yun Xiaoyang with copper rounds. Just when she saw shopkeeper Yu rushing out, she hurriedly took out the copper coins in her waist pocket and stared at the row of roofs on the right side of the street. She knew they would try to keep him away from the antler barrier.
"Keng! Keng!..." Yun Xiaoyang never takes a lot of money with her when she goes out. Tonight, she only has fourteen copper coins and four broken pieces of silver in her purse. She just threw them all out, and Keng Keng There are only twelve sounds.
The darts came flying fast and densely, and she took action hastily, and one out of three missed her accuracy.
"Bang!" Shopkeeper Yu's mount Zhongjia fell to the ground, blood flowing from his mouth. Fortunately, shopkeeper Yu jumped down in advance and was not pinned down.
Shopkeeper Yu quickly took out his palm, "Boom!" The four antler trees were pushed sideways, and a gap of nearly half a foot appeared in the roadblock. Yun Xiaoyang was about to speak to call him back, but saw him falling straight down.
Just before Shopkeeper Yu came out of his palm, several more horn darts were thrown at him. Yun Xiaoyang had nothing in his hand to block them, so he had to watch the poison darts hit him. I thought that with my golden needle skills, I might be able to save shopkeeper Yu's life with a timely attack, but I didn't expect that he collapsed before he could reach his hand.
"What a poisonous poison!"
Guo Zimu did not dare to delay, shouted loudly and rushed towards the gap first.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" The sound of sharp objects breaking through the air was endless.
... ...
Hu Xiwei guessed that Mei Siyuan would ask this question, but he still didn't know whether he should reply to him.
"Brother Hu, given your character, if you are willing to come to destroy my Mei family for the sake of the heir, there must be a reason why you have to do it! Mei believes that you will never lead so many people to kill the Salt Secretary just by his words. Come! Can you tell me what the reason is?" Mei Siyuan held his hand in salute and asked seriously.
How could someone who could become Xia Muchao's right-hand man be mediocre and incompetent? Mei Siyuan guessed that he must know the reason why Xia Chengxuan had to kill him.
In this dangerous situation, he had nothing to worry about, and he was not very afraid of death. However, he didn't want these people in his house to be buried with him. Only by knowing why Xia Chengxuan killed him could he find a way to save them.
"Okay, I'll tell you!" Hu Xi sighed slightly and hissed back, "A few days ago, Princess Jia hanged herself."
"Ah?" Mei Siyuan couldn't help but asked in surprise, "Prince Jia's palace is in such a predicament, how can a person as wise and understanding as the princess seek death?"
He couldn't figure out why Ran Jingru would leave her children behind at such a critical moment and let them face such a dangerous situation.
Hu Xi smiled miserably and shook his head, then stared at Mei Siyuan and said slowly: "The princess will use her own death to force the prince to kill you!"
"boom!"
These words were like a bolt from the blue, almost breaking the old man Mei Siyuan's heart. He looked at Hu Xiwei dumbfounded, with a look of disbelief on his face. For a long time, he asked: "How...how could it be possible?"
Ran Jingru wants to kill herself? How can this be!
"Does the princess really think that the death of His Royal Highness King Jaw is related to me? This is a huge misunderstanding!" Mei Siyuan thought that Ran Jingru might still hate her until her death. She felt pain and irritation in her heart, feeling that she had not followed up in time. The princess explained so clearly that she died with hatred.
"Master Mei, this matter has something to do with the prince." Hu Xiwei said softly.
"As expected!" Mei Siyuan closed his eyes and sighed.
Hu Xiwei was a little confused when he saw this, and continued: "Zhang Suiguang has ironclad evidence that Xia Muyan killed His Royal Highness the Prince of Jaw. If the Prince of Jaw's Palace wants to overthrow Xia Muyan, it must get that evidence. But Zhang Suiguang made a request. He wanted to Prince Jaw’s Mansion killed the entire Mei family.”
"Bang!"
Mei Siyuan felt as if a boulder had been thrown into his mind, waking him up from his daze.
"It turns out to be Zhang Suiguang!"
"It turns out it's not the prince who wants to kill me, nor the princess, but Zhang Suiguang! Haha... Haha..." Mei Siyuan burst out laughing. His laughter was free and clear, without the slightest hint of reluctance, showing that he was truly happy.
If Zhang Suiguang wanted to kill him, it would be completely normal. After all, since Mei Siyuan has been supervising the salt policy, he has cut off the supply of private salt, which can be said to have opened up the salt gang's financial path. The salt gang has also come to the door several times to threaten and induce, and even sent people to kill the door several times. .
"Haha, I didn't expect that it was Zhang Suiguang who wanted to kill me!" Mei Siyuan smiled and shook his head and muttered to himself, "I cut off his salt road.
, and repeatedly refuted his face, and even killed two to three hundred of his men. How could a powerful man like him endure such anger? It turns out that he was holding back his ultimate move! "
At this time, he suddenly became enlightened, enlightened, and quite willing to die.
"Mei Siyuan has never been selfish in managing salt, and I have never thought of harming anyone. However, the salt gang makes a living by selling private salt. Now that there is no salt to sell and tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs, Zhang Suiguang will definitely not let me go. Since Last time Li Xuici sent more than 200 people to rush into the Salt Administration Office, I knew that the Salt Gang would never tolerate me. However, I didn’t expect that my life could be exchanged for evidence that Xia Muyan killed the prince. Haha, it’s worth it Got it!" Mei Siyuan laughed loudly.
He laughed a few times just now, and the laughter was so loud that Bailisi, Zhantong and others who were more than twenty feet away also heard it. At this moment, they couldn't help but be surprised: "Brother Yuan (Master Mei), why is he laughing so happily? Could it be that Have things turned around?"
Hu Xiwei didn't know the reason. Seeing Mei Siyuan smiling and talking to himself, he asked: "Zhang Suiguang wants to kill you, why are you laughing so happily?"
Mei Siyuan put away his smile and replied seriously: "When Siyuan was appointed as the head of the salt administration, the source of private salt was cut off, leaving the salt gang with no salt to sell. Zhang Suiguang must have hated me for blocking the salt gang's livelihood, so he decided to kill me." I can't. He has sent people to attack and kill him several times before. A few months ago, he even sent two to three hundred people from the Salt Gang to attack the Salt Government Sifu Yamen. However, I was repulsed by the guards, so I am lucky enough to survive until now. People are always going to bleed to death when trying to reform Chen Xin. I, Mei Siyuan, have already made plans to die, but I didn’t expect that in exchange, they would take the evidence that Xia Muyan killed the prince. Why don’t I like it? Why isn’t it worth it? "
He was talking about his own life and death, as if he was talking about a very ordinary thing. There was no fear or unwillingness on his face. Hu Xiwei listened with a look of admiration on his face.
The so-called "regarding death as home" is not the case, so what should we do?
Hu Xi was silent for a long time, then he clasped his fists in salute, bowed deeply, and addressed Mei Siyuan seriously: "Hu has great admiration for Master Mei's broadmindedness. I will go back and take orders now!"
... ...
The poison coated on the horn dart was extracted and tempered from an extremely rare sea snake urchin. It almost killed him with blood.
It's just that this kind of sea snake is not easy to catch, so only a small part of Jiudian's horn darts are quenched with this poison. However, unquenched horn darts, if not hit in the throat, can often only injure people, but are not fatal.
The cavalrymen from the military camp followed Guo Zimu and rushed through the gap in the roadblock. Many people were hit by escorts, but only a few fell to the ground. Everyone understood the clues here, and immediately their fear was greatly reduced, and they started shouting "ho ho".
Seeing that the poisonous darts could not frighten them, Jiu Qingqing had no choice but to show up and rush down to the roof to fight with Guo Zimu's cavalry.
... ...
"How?" Mei Siyuan asked seriously.
Hu Xiwei's eyes flashed with an unbearable look, but he still nodded and replied softly: "I will follow Master Mei's plan."
Mei Siyuan was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Okay! Siyuan would like to thank Brother Hu! Please!"
The two of them walked side by side towards the people in the courtyard.
Seeing the smile on his face, Bai Lisi expected that Hu Xiwei was willing to let her family go, so she went up to him with a smile and asked, "How is it?"
"Si Mei, talk here." Mei Siyuan did not answer him, but just held her hand and walked towards the place where she and Hu Xiwei were talking.
Haitang saw that the master took his wife away from everyone to talk about things, and she felt something was wrong, but she didn't know what she should do.
"That bad guy, what did you say to my master?" She gently handed Mei Xinyue into Po Yun's hands, mustered up the courage to walk from behind the Taoist priests to Hu Xiwei, and asked in a cold voice.
Everyone here has seen Hu Xiwei's martial arts, and it only takes a breath to kill her.
Zhan Tong was worried about her safety, so he clasped the sword in his hand and quietly stood beside her. Only by standing next to her could he be sure to block Hu Xiwei's sudden attack.
Unexpectedly, Hu Xiwei did not take action. He just frowned slightly and sighed: "Master Mei is the person Hu admires most in his life." He looked at Haitang and added, "Don't worry, we are not on the way. If we set up an ambush to intercept Mr. Mei, I think he will not be in any danger."
Although his words did not answer the question, Haitang's heart immediately calmed down a lot.
After listening to his words, it seemed that they would no longer tangle with everyone here. Yun Yuan, Yun Po, Zhan Cheng and others all smiled involuntarily. Only Fu Zun was still kneeling next to his brother's body, sobbing softly.
There is no resurrection after death. The farthest distance between people is one life and one death, separated by the sea of yin and yang. The one who is alive can only reach the other side by death.
"Fu Su, did you hear that? Xiao Xue and the baby in your belly can be saved..."
After listening to Mei Siyuan's words, Baili Si smiled politely and said softly: "Is there anything you can't do to me? You and I have been husband and wife for more than ten years, and we have experienced all the joys in the world. Even if we die tonight, it will be impossible." My life is considered complete. Besides, he is willing to let Haitang and the others live, so what else do I have to resent."
"Si sister, these two years have really been hard on you. Siyuan has no regrets about having you." Mei Siyuan held a pair of catkins in his beloved wife's hand and said softly, "On the road to hell, you and I can't keep each other company." I feel lonely and desolate. You and I have done a lot of good deeds, and I think we will be blessed in the underworld. If destiny really reincarnates, you and I will be human in the next life, and we are willing to get married again. In the next life, you and I will just be an ordinary couple, and I will farm. , you weave clothes, I will love you and cherish you for the rest of my life!"
After saying this, he could no longer hold back, and the tears in his eyes rolled down like broken beads.
"Sister Si, I owe you so much in this life!"
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