Chapter 12 Sword Saint (Part 1)

This spring, there were constant major events in Chang'an City. First, the newly-Feng Princess Li Wushuang and the top scholar Zhang Wenbin made a sensational wedding. Then the newly-wed couple was assassinated in the suburbs of the south of the city, almost losing their lives. The whole court was shocked. The civil and military officials were divided into several factions and made great contributions to this matter, making a lot of fun.

When Li Yan found out, Long Yan was furious and issued a strict order, ordering the Ministry of Justice to investigate, the Censor Zhongcheng, and the Dali Temple Minister to assist, and solve the case within a time limit.

However, because the case involves a great deal and involves a lot, the final result of the three officials' investigations was that Wang Xianzhi's remaining party held a grudge and assassinated the princess outside the city in order to avenge the dead thief.

Fortunately, the princess was lucky to be in heaven, and she killed the thieves and bandits and returned safely, while the rest of the bandits fled to the south and defected to the rebel Huang Chao.

Compared with the turbulent waves in the court, the Zhang Mansion is calm. Ye Qingping has been recuperating in the mansion since she was injured.

Fortunately, there are some imperial doctors in Chang'an City with excellent medical skills, and there are countless precious medicinal herbs. The Empress Dowager sent someone to deliver twenty trees for hundreds of years.

Ye Qingping took these big tonics as food all day long, and she recovered very quickly. She could walk in the ground a few days later and her movements were not hindered. However, her true qi was still scattered in her meridians and could not be surrendered. Once she tried to activate the true qi, her abdomen would be painful like a knife, and her body was sweating profusely, and she was almost fainting.

This time, Ye Qingping and Princess Pingning Li Hui, a big battle in the suburbs of the south of the city, were evenly matched. Both sides suffered losses. Although they killed many masters on the other side, Chenyue Sect also suffered heavy losses. Two of the four elders died. Yuan Yinshan was seriously injured and returned to the Henan headquarters to recover. Ye Qingping almost lost her life and lost all her martial arts skills. After the fight, both sides suffered losses and were unable to fight again. They had to stop and accumulate strength silently.

While Ye Qingping was recovering from her injuries, Eunuch Tian came to visit her at the order of the Queen Mother and brought a basket of walnuts. The two of them talked secretly in the room for more than an hour. It was not until it got dark that Eunuch Tian stood up and said goodbye.

When Zhang Wenbin asked about the content of the conversation, Ye Qingping just smiled and replied: Didn’t you see that basket of walnuts?The Queen Mother told me to be peaceful and harmonious and not to cause trouble again.

She didn't care whether her husband believed it or not, but she didn't say a word.

On the eighth day of the April 1st, there were more than 200 temples inside and outside Chang'an City to celebrate the Buddha's temple fair.

This day happened to be the Queen Mother's birthday, and it was a happy time. So the city was decorated with lights and colorful flowers. People seemed to have forgotten the assassination of the princess, and they made appointments with companions, happily went to temples in various suburbs to burn incense and worship Buddha, pray for blessings, and rushed to the temple fair and go outings.

The area of ​​Zhongnan Mountain outside Chang'an City is where temples gather. Today, monks from the world finally opened the preaching here. Early in the morning, the narrow mountain road was filled with tourists and pilgrims who came to watch the Dharma and burn incense. They were shoulder to shoulder, green women and red men, and on the road, from time to time, some vendors carrying loads could be walked by the roadside, and they would hawkers along the road, turning this quiet and calm place of cultivation into a messy market.

Dodge and dodge!

As a shout came from afar, several ferocious warriors went up the mountain and drove the pilgrims to both sides. Soon after, they saw a green sedan floating up along the mountain road. The people carrying the sedan obviously had excellent internal strength and light skills. On the steep mountain road, they ran like flying and walking on the flat ground, but the sedan was extremely stable and did not shake at all.

Behind the sedan chair was a beautiful woman in a pink gauze dress. She didn't see her running, but her toes were slightly on the ground and she floated more than one meter away, walking with the wind, floating like a fairy, unspeakable and free, but she was never half a step behind the two sedan chairmen who were running.

Which family is this, so majestic?A pilgrim was stuttering his tongue.

Which other company can it belong to? Of course it belongs to the Li family.

A crisp voice sounded behind him.

The pilgrim turned around quickly and saw a man and a woman standing behind him. Although the woman who was talking was wearing an ordinary coarse cloth skirt without makeup, she looked at it carefully and looked like a picture-like and extraordinary temperament.

The pilgrim hurriedly clasped his fists and asked: Why is the girl so sure?Do you know his family?

Of course I know each other and I am very familiar with each other. Speaking of which, I want to call her sister.

An old man carrying a load next to her glanced at her and interrupted: Bragging, someone’s sedan chair is embroidered with dragons and phoenixes. That’s a royal person. Maybe it’s a princess. Are you also a royal relative?

The woman smiled slightly, without arguing, and reached out to hold the hand of the man next to her and said: Husband, I have rested enough, let's continue.The two of them walked far away talking and laughing.

These two are Zhang Wenbin and his wife.

It turned out that Ye Qingping was lively and could not sit still in the mansion after she recovered a little, so she wanted to go to Zhongnan Mountain to watch the temple fair.

Although Zhang Wenbin was unwilling to take risks with his family's lives, he could not resist his wife's use of both soft and hard work, so he had to surrender and accompany her out to burn incense. However, his heart was full of fear and fear.

The two of them walked up the mountain road, stopping and stopping, and finally arrived in front of a grand and exquisite temple. The temple built Lin Palace is brilliant, with colorful and magnificent Buddhist temples. The luxury is comparable to that of Daming Palace. There are three gold-plated characters engraved on the plaque, Jianfu Temple.

Zhang Wenbin couldn't help but sigh: There is a poem that says, "Thousands of families offer gold, and thousands of craftsmen grind glass."The trees in Mount Tai are empty, and the treasures in Tianfu are also enlarged.Burning incense is like a cloud, and the banners are hanging.', I saw you today, it was indeed true.However, the luxurious construction of Jianfu Temple is contrary to the Buddhist law of purity and inaction and the four elements are empty. I think we should go back to the Fayuan Temple at the foot of the mountain to burn incense.

Ye Qingping smiled slightly and said: Do you think there are many people in Jianfu Temple?Or are there many people in the shabby Fayuan Temple?

Zhang Wenbin replied inexplicably: Of course, there are many people in such a large temple as Jianfu Temple.However, as long as there is a true Buddha, it doesn’t matter if there are many people but few people.Buddhism is originally a place of pure cultivation, and it talks about the word Wukong. Although Fayuan Temple is broken, it is very quiet, and it is the place of Buddhist practice.

Ye Qingping shook her head and said: My husband said this difference. The monk at Fayuan Temple only cares about understanding Buddhism himself, but does not care about the struggle of all living beings in this world in the sea of ​​suffering. This is a small merit.In contrast, Jianfu Temple recruits pilgrims, saves all living beings, and takes it as one's own responsibility to encourage people in the world to be good. What is done is great merit. Among them, the monks must be those who have achieved great enlightenment and see through the six realms of reincarnation.What does it have to do with Buddha, golden temple, silver temple, and earth temple in my heart? Where can we go if we don’t come here to burn incense?

Looking at her husband who was speechless as she said, Ye Qingping couldn't help laughing and felt very happy.

This female donor has a great connection with Buddha, and she is very honest.If we want to save all sentient beings in the world, we still need real money and silver. Although we monks regard money as dirt, we still need to use it to do good deeds. This is the reason.

A fat monk with a fat face suddenly appeared behind them at some point.

Ye Qingping was also startled by him, frowned slightly, squinted her eyes and looked him carefully from top to bottom, and suddenly smiled happily: Mr., the monk who collected the cash is here.

The monk also laughed and said: The female donor is smart, please make more good relationships.

Zhang Wenbin was slightly stunned, reached into his arms and touched him, took out a piece of smallest piece of silver, and was about to send him away.

Ye Qingping smiled and said: I see that the master is wearing the Buddha's light, so he must be a monk who is proficient in Buddhism. How can he treat him so lightly?This golden Buddha is a meeting gift for me to make a Dharma relationship. Please help me untire a knot for my heart!

She said that she actually found a golden Buddha with a golden light the size of a palm from her small bag.

The monk took it without hesitation and reached out and said: Please follow me, two donors.

He took the two of them directly to a small courtyard behind the temple, entered through the back door, and came to a meditation room.

I saw a man sitting in the room, with his back facing them and unable to see his appearance clearly.

Master, you came so early!

Ye Qingping couldn't help but shout.

The fat monk smiled and said: Lame, your disciple is so generous. He will give away the Golden Buddha as soon as he meets him. I would have such an disciple.

The man was Li Huan. He turned around and snorted and said: Monk Jiubujie, my disciple is so smart. Last time she gave someone a broken knife but lied to her for a year. If you can't do her business, you will suffer.

After saying that, the three of them laughed at each other, only Zhang Wenbin was confused, and stood aside awkwardly and didn't know what to say.

After everyone introduced her to sit down, Ye Qingping said straight to the point: Now my true qi is always unable to be introduced into the dantian. Every time I am lucky, my abdomen is as painful as a knife... Li Huan and the monk Jiubujie frowned and heard Ye Qingping say it. They grabbed her hands and wrists one by one, and sent two extremely powerful true qi into her body at the same time.

Ye Qingping relaxed her whole body, allowing the two internal forces to slowly wander in her body, helping her to retract the messy true energy into her meridians.

As the true energy entering Ye Qingping's body became more and more fierce, she gradually felt a burst of needle-like stinging pain coming from all over her body.

Li Huan's true energy was extremely cold, while the fat monk's true energy was purely masculine. The two true energy of one yin and one yang circulated in her meridians, making her feel as if she was in an ice cave, and then she was like barbecuing on the fire, which was even more uncomfortable than the torture in the Heavenly Prison.

Zhang Wenbin followed Ye Qingping to Jianfu Temple in a daze. He was already confused. At this time, he saw his wife's face was frosty and trembling all over the cold, his face was red and sweating profusely. He didn't know what to do, so he could only do it while he was anxious.

This torture lasted for half an hour before the two of them slowly subsided.

Li Heng said with a serious expression: You were seriously injured this time, so we can only temporarily stabilize your internal injuries.Don’t use your qi during this period. If the meridians are damaged, even the gods of Daluo cannot save you.

He asked about the situation when he was drunk that day, and Ye Qingping told him truthfully.

Li Heng pondered for a while before saying: Whether it is the sword technique of the Maxun or the Ziwei sword technique, although the moves are different, the essence is not different. It is divided into three realms: the mind returns to nature, all things return to the origin, and the unity of man and nature. As the saying goes, watching flowers are flowers, watching flowers are not flowers, watching flowers are still flowers, which is the process of getting the Dharma, from getting the Dharma to forgetting the Dharma. With Li Moxi's ability, it takes ten years to retreat to truly achieve the state of unity of man and nature.Your state of mind has just entered the second level, but you have to force yourself to jump into the third level. It would be strange if you don’t get into trouble. But I don’t understand, with your skill, how can you reach the state of unity between man and nature?

It is Shura blood pupils.

Monk Jiubujie said calmly: I have seen relevant records when I translated scriptures in Tianjue Temple.It is said that some people in this world have blood-colored eyes, which are the messengers sent to the world by the Shura King "Vimashitara". When their eyes are red, the Shura King will use this to peek into the world. People will often become fierce and lose their minds and refuse to recognize their relatives, but at the same time their strength will grow rapidly until they die with exhaustion.This kind of person is what we often call the evil star descending to earth and will often defeat the closest relatives...

It was already afternoon when Ye Qingping came out of Jianfu Temple. She was depressed and silently walked down the mountain silently, leaving her husband far behind.

Zhang Wenbin ran all the way, but finally caught up with his wife. He grabbed her hand from behind, pulled her into his arms, hugged her and comforted her: Wushuang, how can you believe those words of ghosts and gods?If it were as he said, you and I would have died in the Drunken Furong that day, but aren’t we still alive?

Ye Qingping struggled out of his arms and said softly: Stay away from me, don’t be killed by me.

What are you talking nonsense?According to those gods and ghosts, I am still Wenquxing, and how can you kill me?

Zhang Wenbin said anxiously.

Ye Qingping shook her head and sighed: There are some things you don’t know. I have killed my whole family since I was a child. No one who has had a good ending with me.It was God's will that made me lonely all my life... Zhang Wenbin saw tears in her eyes, and felt warm in her heart, and blurted out: You are now my Zhang family's wife. I will love you and love you for the rest of my life. Even if you harm your husband, I will admit it.If God wants us to die, we will go to the underworld hand in hand...

Seeing his sincerity, Ye Qingping suddenly felt a sore in her heart. She felt a long-lost warmth. Tears couldn't help but flow down and asked in a low voice: Do you keep your word?

Zhang Wenbin quickly wiped away the tears from her face, hugged her and did not comfort her, as if she was just a little girl, and no longer the general who was terrifying.

After a while, Ye Qingping suddenly burst into tears and said with a smile: Don’t you hate me?Just find an opportunity to leave me.

How dare I settle for you, a fierce princess? Besides, you have so many guards like wolves and tigers under your command.

Seeing that she was in a better mood, Zhang Wenbin also joked with her.

As the two were talking, they suddenly heard someone giggling and said: I said who is intimate here? It turns out that they are sister and brother-in-law. Why don’t you bring guards? If you meet thieves again, you might not be as lucky as last time.

With the laughter, Princess Pingning Li Hui turned out from behind a bamboo forest in front.

We come to pray for the Empress Dowager, and there is no need to bring guards. Besides, those bandits were killed by me, and even if there were a few fish that missed the net, they would not come to die again.

Ye Qingping returned to her former smile, but she refused to give in and turned a blind eye to the Taohua Fairy who was holding the hilt of the sword next to her.

I advise my sister to be careful. If there are any problems one day, I will be sad if I am a sister.

Thank you for your concern, but you should be careful, it is best to add more guards, so don’t be killed by any disabled thief, as that would be bad.

Seeing that the two of them met up and refused to give in to each other, Zhang Wenbin quickly bowed and said, "My minister Zhang Wenbin, we have to go back to prepare for the birthday party of the Empress Dowager in the evening. This... I will leave first, and I hope Your Highness will forgive you."It's rude!

Just as they were about to leave, Princess Pingning Li Hui suddenly said: Wushuang, do you and I have to fight like this until the winner is decided?

Ye Qingping smiled sweetly and said: If it were princess, you could calm down the resentment in your heart and treat each other sincerely, Wushuang would be willing to live in harmony with Your Highness.After saying that, I didn't stop and went all the way down the mountain.

Looking at the two of them leaving, the fairy picking flowers asked hatefully: There was a great opportunity just now, why didn’t you kill her?

Kill her?If you start, you don’t know who wins and who loses.But what did she do when she ran here all the way?Li Hui said to herself.

In the afternoon, the Daming Palace began to become lively, and the eunuchs and palace maids were busy coming and going, making final preparations for the birthday party.

The Queen Mother's birthday is a major event for the whole world to celebrate, and all civil and military officials in the court must participate.

After Shen Shi, civil and military ministers and nobles in their beautiful clothes entered the Daming Palace one after another.

In a garden in the harem, Ye Qingping and Li Hui sat side by side at the bottom, talking and laughing, chatting about family matters like sisters.

Ye Qingping wore a long dress with clouds and clouds and flowers today. Although it was elegant, it was also solemn.

Compared with her, Princess Pingning is dressed in a grand dress, wearing a jade phoenix on her head, an orange-yellow long skirt with a delicate breast, half-exposed breasts, a light pink peony transparent yarn on the outside, and a round night pearl necklace on the neck, which is radiant and beautiful.

Seeing that she was dressed so carefully and was vaguely overwhelmed the empress dowager, Ye Qingping sneered in her heart and thought to herself: You are so unrestrained before you have the power. Sooner or later, you will cry.

During the chat, talking about Ye Qingping's life after marriage, Ping Ning suddenly said: My sister's lifelong event has been settled, but General Su Ru is still single after she is over thirty.General Lu Biao's wife passed away two years ago, and now General Lu is the same person. I think they are a perfect match. It is also a good story in my Tang army that dares to ask the Empress Dowager to give them marriage.

My sister said something inappropriate. Lifelong affairs are not a joke. Did you ask General Su’s opinion?If she doesn't agree, can you still use force?Besides, as far as I know, General Su already has a sweetheart. Wouldn’t you break up a pair of mandarin ducks like this?

When a girl gets married, she is always embarrassed to say such things, and it is better for the elders to give the marriage.You said General Su already has a sweetheart, but who he knows?

The empress dowager, who was sitting in the head in the head in the wilderness suit, saw that the two of them had started fighting without saying a few words. She couldn't help but frown, coughed twice, and said: I have to ask General Su what he meant in this matter. If she agreed, it would be a beautiful thing.By the way, Wushuang, your injuries are better?

My injuries have been healed when I am in trouble.But this time I was in danger, and several personal soldiers who were like my sisters died to save me. Whenever I thought of them, I felt uncomfortable... Ye Qingping burst into tears as she said.

The Empress Dowager comforted her for a while and agreed to add more pensions to the dead. Suddenly the topic changed and said solemnly: Wushuang, Huier, the Ai family also knows that there are some rifts between you.You are all pillars of the Tang Dynasty. Now there are bandits and bandits outside, corrupt officials and abuse of power inside, and the governors are self-respecting and have no king. If you two have any discord, causing war and civil strife, it will be a disaster for the country and the people. How can you bear it?Today, the Ai family is mediating here. If you have any complaints, just make it clear. If you give up all the past grudges in the future, you will help Your Majesty together to be safe for generations. Wouldn't that be good?

Ye Qingping cursed in her heart: If it weren't for saving you and helping you seize power, what else could Pingning and I have to complain?Now you have a firm seat. Not only do you want to burn bridges across the river, but you also want your son's country to be stable. You are pretending to be a good person here.

She was dissatisfied with her mouth but did not dare to say anything. She hurriedly left her seat and kowtowed and said, "I will always be loyal to Your Majesty."In fact, there is no rift between Princess Pingning and I. If there is a misunderstanding, I will apologize to the princess.

Ping Ning was also busy expressing her opinion. Seeing that the two of them were disgusted and insincere, the empress dowager lowered her face and said coldly: As long as the Ai family is here for one day, you will not be able to do anything wrong.In the future, Ping Ning helped His Majesty manage the affairs of the court. Wushuang led troops outside and performed his duties, and was not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the other party.

Ye Qingping kowtowed quickly, saying yes, but sneered in her heart: I am leading troops outside, how can I allow someone to cause trouble behind me?Ping Ning would never allow a disobedient person to hold heavy troops, and the empress dowager was too self-righteous.

The Linde Hall was brightly lit, and the Queen Mother's birthday banquet was grand and grand. The civil and military ministers, princes and nobles, and envoys from various countries came forward to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday and pray for the Queen Mother and offered birthday gifts.

Various exquisite and luxurious birthday gifts are varied, shining and beautiful.

The most eye-catching thing is a colorful coral the size of a rockery given by Princess Pingning. The coral is not only colorful, but also naturally grows, like the word "Longevity", which makes the ministers amazed.

The emperor gave a pair of jade horses. The horses were carved like lifelike, and the jade they used was the best one once in a century, green without any trace of color.

In contrast, the birthday gifts given by Ye Qingping are extremely shabby, and they are all folk specialties such as tender bamboo shoots and spring tea.

She smiled and explained: These are the wishes of the people in Henan and Hebei. The world is in good weather and good weather. The people living and working in peace and well-being and having enough food and clothing are the best birthday gifts to the Queen Mother.

Zhang Wenbin simply wrote a poem for the Queen Mother's birthday as a birthday gift, which made the Queen Mother laugh and very happy.

The ministers muttered in their hearts: This couple is really a pair of people, one is more stingy than the other, and the birthday gifts they gave were no more than one tael of silver.

Finally, the emperor led the ministers to wish the Empress Dowager good health and a long life.

The banquet officially began, with delicacies and delicious foods served, and the hall suddenly filled with wine and fragrance.

With a melodious sound of piano, several dancers with slender and barefoots walked to the heavy red carpet in the center of the hall and began to dance with the music.

These girls wearing green green gauze dresses turn their waists and raise their sleeves. The long sleeves are fragrant, just like walking on the water in the wind, dancing with clear sounds, soft and elegant dance postures, and wonderful appearance.

After the song, the sound of the piano gradually stopped. Just when everyone thought the dance was over, a sound of flute rose and the dancers slowly dispersed like flowing water, revealing a girl in pink dance clothes in the middle.

The whole scene slowly opened like tender green branches and leaves, showing a brightly blooming peony in the middle, unparalleled and won a lot of color before the dance started.

The dancer standing in the center of the hall is only fifteen or sixteen years old. She has a delicate and beautiful skin, and her face is beautiful and cannot be looked at by her.

A pink gauze skirt was printed with a hundred peonies of different colors, embroidered with gold threads. As she danced slightly, it seemed as if flowers were blooming and falling, and countless petals were circling around her, just like fairies descending to earth. She danced calmly, turned around and walked, just like willows shaking flowers, smiling and moistening their beauty, holding their shoulders, covering their arms, swaying their backs, loosening their knees, twisting their waists, and graceful, all of which showed their beauty. Li Yan's eyes were straight.

Ping Ning praised: What a beautiful beauty who is good at dancing, but the music is a bit dull, but there is still a lack of a singer. I heard that Princess Changning has a good voice. I wonder if she is willing to cheer up the empress dowager today?

When Ye Qingping saw Ping Ning coming to provoke trouble, she was furious, but she smiled and said: My thick voice is so bad that my sister is going to laugh.

After saying that, he turned around with his throat and sang to the music: Looking outside the Yunmen, the oil walls are like flowing water, the empty streets are chasing red banners, and walking seven miles of the spring breeze and fragrant river.I am so handsome and shining out clothes, I feel like a man in the stone road, I wear green mist, cross the flying bridge, and my shadow is in the clear ripples...

The night wind blows gently, bringing the intoxicating fragrance of flowers in the yard. The clear singing is either high or low, accompanied by the sound of the flute and piano, sometimes gentle and sometimes high. In the quiet water and sky night, it is as breathtaking as the sound of nature, making people immersed in it and unable to extricate themselves.

In the middle of the hall, a girl like a flower sings and dances, her gauze dress is in the wind, her long sleeves are light and her slender waist is slightly folded; sometimes like a butterfly walking through flowers, dragonflies squint over the water, sometimes like a dragon flying in the sky, a phoenix dancing in the Danyang, walking and wandering among the wind and clouds.

As the music became louder and louder, the girl danced faster and faster. She moved closer to Li Yan while dancing, waved her sleeves slightly at him, her bright eyes were filled with affection, and her feelings were revealed. Li Yan clapped and cheered loudly, dancing like a child, and she didn't notice that a trace of imperceptible clouds floated on the face of the empress dowager beside her.

Just as the music reached its peak, the dancer suddenly raised her sleeves, and countless pink petals flew out of her sleeves, and for a moment, the fragrance surrounds her, and the flowers rain filled the sky.

In the midst of the colorful fallen flowers, the dancer leaned forward slightly and leaned forward in front of Li Yan.

The singing came to an abrupt end. Ye Qingping kicked the table and kicked it out, hitting the dancer straight at the dancer. She clearly saw a thin sword with a cold light piercing the emperor's throat among the flying petals.

The beautiful girl is decorated with long sleeves, dancing with a rich and prosperous night feast, but everything is just for this soul-chasing sword.

The incident happened suddenly, Li Yan was stretching his neck to take a closer look at the beauty's appearance, but he didn't expect that the cold sword was waiting for him, which scared him so much that he forgot to dodge.

The closest Queen Wang, who was closest to him, had no time to scream and stood there in a daze.

At this critical moment, Qing Concubine Zhan Wushuang rushed over and blocked Li Yan with her body. The sharp swordsman unhinderedly passed through the thin palace skirt and stabbed into her left shoulder. Blood suddenly gushed out.

The assassin failed in one move and hurriedly drew his sword to stab again, but suddenly heard the storm sound from the back of his head, so he had to lower his head to avoid it, and stabbed it backwards from his armpit.

It turned out that Ye Qingping had no knife in her hand. She hurriedly picked up a wine pot, rushed up and hit the assassin's back of the head, fighting together.

Ye Qingping's injuries were not healed and could not use her internal strength. She could only fight with her agile skills. She had no weapons in her hand and was immediately at a disadvantage. After several moves, her left arm and back were stabbed, cutting two big holes, and blood flowed.

However, Ye Qingping was unaware of her injuries. In order not to let the assassin turn to the emperor again, she attacked and attacked with a move, and she specifically attacked the opponent's eyes and throat, and refused to give in at all.

Zhang Wenbin was worried about his wife's safety, so he picked up a pole carrying a palace lantern from the side and rushed up. However, he didn't know how to do martial arts. Seeing that his wife fought fiercely with the assassin, he couldn't get in.

At this time, the palace was already in chaos. The emperor hugged Zhan Wushuang tightly in his arms. He raised his hand and found that his hands were covered with blood. Only then did he realize that his beloved concubine was hurt in order to save him, and tears immediately flowed down her eyes.

Zhan Wushuang felt a drop of water on his face, slowly opened his eyes, and said with difficulty: Your Majesty, you are the king of a country, how can you cry for a concubine?I am so destined to be... I can't serve you anymore in the future... As I said that, I stretched out my hand to wipe away the tears from his face, but suddenly my eyes turned black. My hand, which was halfway through, slipped softly, and my head was tilted to the side, and I fainted.

The belated warrior of the station hall finally surrounded the assassin in the center. Ye Qingping rolled away and fled from the battle circle. Although she was embarrassed, she avoided the sword that stabbed her back.

The female assassin saw that she was surrounded and knew that she was lucky today, she shouted loudly and rushed towards the Empress Dowager.

Seeing two warriors blocking their bodies, they stabbed their lower abdomen together, but the assassin did not dodge at all, allowing the two swords to penetrate her belly from the left and right. The long sword in his hand came out and shot towards the queen mother's face. The assassin was penetrated by the belly with both swords. In the severe pain, he lost his head in his hand. The thin sword that flew out crossed the queen mother's face and penetrated deeply into the pillar beside the queen mother.

Leave a living mouth!

Ye Qingping screamed, but was still one step late. Four steel knives pierced the girl's weak body from behind, two out of her chest, and the other two out of her upper abdomen.

The girl assassin was penetrated by a random knife, let out a shrill scream, and his body twitched violently.

As six swords were pulled out from her, several blood arrows ejected, soaking her dance clothes in an instant.

Her body was staggered, she swayed twice and then fell heavily to the ground, making a muffled sound.

Bastard, who made you kill?Take these people up for me.

Ye Qingping rushed up angrily and picked up the girl like a blood gourd from the ground.

The girl had not yet died of breath. Her body kept twitching, and her seven orifices were bleeding. Her two big eyes were staring blankly into the air. As her chest was rising and falling, her mouth was open and closed, and she was breathing. She quickly reached out to cover the two fatal wounds on her chest, and shouted to her ear: Who sent you?Say it quickly!I'll find the imperial doctor right away.

The girl smiled miserably, her lips trembled and wanted to say something, but she suddenly spit out a large mouthful of blood, her eyes rolled up, only the whites in her sockets, and her body suddenly became stiff.

Hello, say Ah!Who is it?

Ye Qingping shook her body vigorously.

However, this time the girl never responded again. She saw her mouth wide open to the maximum, gasping quickly like a beached fish on the river beach, and finally made a few giggles from her throat, swallowing her last breath with difficulty.

At the same time, her tense body gradually collapsed, her chest no longer rose and fell, and her body seemed to have lost all its bones and lay softly in Ye Qingping's arms, without moving.

Ye Qingping slowly let go of her hand pressed on the wound on her chest, touched her pulse on her neck, and then put her head on her chest and listened to her heartbeat. She was sure that she was dead. Then she gently placed her body on the ground, stood up and walked to the empress dowager and knelt down and said: The empress dowager was frightened. Although the assassin is dead, there are probably still murderers who are fishing in troubled waters. She also asked the empress dowager to move back to the palace quickly.

The Queen Mother nodded and said: Don’t worry, Ai’s family, hurry up and bandage the wound.You must be careful, and don’t let the evil people take advantage of the opportunity.

A good birthday party ended in a bleak end. Ye Qingping watched a warrior grab the assassin's ankle and drag her body down like a dead dog, leaving a long blood on the ground. She felt a little sad and thought to herself: This girl has a natural beauty and unparalleled dancing skills. She was originally a flawless jade that needed no carving. If she entered the palace, she might be favored by the emperor and became a concubine, with a bright future.Why is she so stupid? She is willing to be someone else's pawn, and she ends up in a bloody dance dress and a sword piercing her body, and she can't rest her eyes after her death. It's a pity, a pity!

The eunuchs and palace maids came up to clean a large pool of blood in the center of the hall, lit incense, and the Linde Hall returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened. Looking at the shiny marble floor, who would have thought that not long ago, a beautiful girl as beautiful as a flower splattered blood here for seven steps, and died under the knife.

On the carriage, Zhang Wenbin saw his wife sighing softly all the way and asked with concern: Wushuang, how are your injuries?I heard from the imperial doctor that musk with green oars and a kind of Lingnan white medicine can relieve pain. You can bear it first, and I will ask you for it after you return home.

Ye Qingping smiled and said: What's this injury? I've suffered too many injuries on the battlefield before, so I'm still gritting my teeth and enduring it.I am regretting the girl assassin. Such a beautiful woman who can sing and dance knows that she is dead, but she still wants to enter the palace to assassinate. If such a brave and talented person can be used by me, he will definitely achieve great things.She was sacrificed as an abandoned son, and she died before she could even shine with dazzling light. It was a pity.

When Zhang Wenbin heard something in her words, he couldn't help but frown and asked: Are you saying that this assassination is a scam?

Ye Qingping said coldly: If the assassin used a poisoned crossbow arrow instead of a thin sword that was not good, the emperor would have died long ago.Have you ever seen such a clumsy assassin?This is clearly a show. After a few days, the list of those who were punished will come out. Who is behind the scenes? But I don’t understand why she is so anxious and took this dangerous move?

A few days later, the assassination of Your Majesty at the Empress Dowager's birthday party came to an end.

After verification, the girl assassin was the niece of a distant relative of the eunuch Cai Zhong. Because her family was implicated and was searched, she held a grudge against His Majesty. Then she entered the palace alone for assassination and committed such a serious crime of disobedience.

Although the main culprit died, the punishment was not spared. The girl's naked body was pulled to the south of the city, tied her hands behind her back, knelt on the ground, cut off her head in public, broke her belly, dug her liver and plucked her heart, dismembered her body, and hung it at the gate of the city to show the public. The other sixteen dancers were all beheaded and displayed together for sitting.

The commander of the Grand Inspector Zhang Fanghe, General of Qianniu Guard, was imprisoned and confiscated for his crime of inattention. His position was replaced by Zhang Lingyin, former Minister of War, and Liu Fei, Minister of Rites, was dismissed and investigated for his dereliction of duty for preparing for a dinner. Yuan Bin, Minister of Personnel, was also demoted. At this point, Princess Pingning Li Hui's power was once again severely attacked.

In the Xiaoxiang Pavilion of the Daming Palace, Qing Concubine Zhan Wushuang was half lying and half leaning on a soft chair, with a pale face and a sick look on her face, and she was weak when she spoke.

Ye Qingping sat opposite her, gently held her wrist, took her pulse for a while, and comforted her: Empress, your pulse is stable and there is no major problem. This is a matter of recovery from injury, and you still need to be recuperated slowly.

Zhan Wushuang said angrily: Qingping, there is no one here, just call me my real name.It's been nine years, and no one has called my real name for nine years, and I almost forgot about it.

It’s good to forget. Since you have entered this palace, you should be your Qing concubine steadily. What do you think about so many past events?

I can't forget Lizhou, I can't forget all my father, I can't forget the day and night of the war in the palace, and I can't forget the night when fires are everywhere and the shouts are clamoring for the sky.Have you forgotten it?Don’t you want to avenge your sister?

This time, Ye Qingping was silent for a long time before answering: That was the happiest day in my life, how could she forget it? It’s just that so many years have passed, so what if you take revenge? Those deceased will not be resurrected. I think they have knowledge underground and hope that we will live well, rather than fight to the death for revenge.

After she finished speaking, the two of them sighed at the same time, and the room fell into a long silence again.

After a while, Zhan Wushuang suddenly said: Do you think I am living a happy life in this palace?The deep palace is like the sea. Although it is favored by three thousand people, the scenery is so bright.But people always have a day when they grow old, and one day they will experience the silence of this deep palace and the loneliness and sadness of the years.What's more, there are so many conspiracy traps, competing for favor, framing, and frame-up. If you are not careful, you will be doomed.I've been worried every day and can't sleep at night...

Seeing that she was talking but couldn't tell the main topic, Ye Qingping was too lazy to play a puzzle with her, so she interrupted her and asked directly: This is the case in the palace, what do you want?

Zhan Wushuang stared at her eyes and said word by word: I don’t want to be a chess piece at the mercy of others. I want to be a chess player who can control my own destiny, and you can help me.

There was a striking light in her eyes. Ye Qingping had seen the same light in Princess Pingning's eyes. It was her persistence and desire for power. It was so passionate and mad, as if it was accompanied by a fire that could burn out the eight wildernesses.

Ye Qingping couldn't help but sneer: You and I are not gods. People live in the world as chess pieces. Who can control their own destiny?

Zhan Wushuang didn't accept her words and suddenly asked: What do you think about His Majesty's assassination?

It's just a scene, aren't you doing it very well?

You are wrong. No matter whether the assassination is true or false, I will block that sword for His Majesty.I am different from Queen Wang. She has a family to rely on, but the only one I can rely on is Your Majesty. If Your Majesty is gone, I would rather die.

It is precisely because you and I have no support and have no foundation that the Queen Mother will trust us.But she seemed to be not very at ease with me, otherwise she would not have found me a husband who follows the saint's way and is loyal to the emperor and patriotism.I just don’t understand why such a woman who does things without missing a lot will take risks this time?

Some people can wait, while others can't.Do you know that the Queen Mother has tuberculosis?They are all problems that have been made in the cold palace. They have become more and more serious in recent years. I heard that she has not had much time left, so I am afraid she can't hold on to this winter.

Her words exploded in Ye Qingping's head like a muffled thunder. She was not surprised by the Queen Mother's affairs. What really surprised her was that she had no news about such a big thing. Did she not know that she had set up so many sluts in the palace? Or were they deliberately hiding it from her?

Zhan Wushuang smiled and said: Don’t be so nervous. Only Your Majesty knows about this except the imperial doctor. I advise you to prepare early. If that day really comes, Ping Ning will fight to the death for the power left by the Queen Mother. Without the support of the Queen Mother, I don’t know that you can still fight her?

What do you want me?

Ye Qingping gritted her teeth and asked, she must know the other party's trump card. She said solemnly this time, and there was no reticence in her tone. Zhan Wushuang finally showed a satisfied smile on her face and said: You and Eunuch Tian and Eunuch Tian are both from Lizhou. If the three of us join hands, you are outside, and Eunuch Tian and me are inside, how can there be a big thing?But you must stay in Chang'an... After the two of them had some plans, Ye Qingping stood up and said goodbye. At this point, a big net gradually opened, and a new life-and-death battle brought the curtain.

The weather became hotter day by day, but in this summer, nothing major happened. Princess Pingning seemed to be indifferent to the Queen Mother's crazy attack, but Ye Qingping knew in her heart that the more silent the princess was, the more dangerous it was. Under such a calm appearance, a bigger conspiracy must be brewing.

These days, Ye Qingping stays in Zhang's house to recuperate every day, learns to read and read, and does not leave the house.

She is smart and has a good memory, so she is very fast in the country and can review official documents alone in two months. Even a talented man like Zhang Wenbin couldn't help but sigh.

Because of his wife, Zhang Wenbin was only given a free position in the Ministry of Rites and had nothing to do all day long. In addition to teaching his wife to study, he went out to drink and write poems with those literary friends at night, but he never dared to go to this brothel again.

On that day, Zhang Wenbin was drunk again and slept until noon before getting up. After washing up, he could not see his wife. So he came to the back garden and saw Ye Qingping sitting in front of the desk by the pond, lowering her head and practicing calligraphy seriously. He couldn't help but feel playful. He tiptoed to her back, hugged her in the waist, reached into his arms, and touched her chest.

Seeing her husband playing so much, Ye Qingping was not polite to him. She copied it back on his arm with her left hand, making him let go, put down the pen with her right hand, grabbed his clothes and pulled it into his arms, reached out and knocked it on his forehead, and said with a smile: Why did you get up so late?How can you be a lazy gentleman in the world?

Where can you be a student like you who is more diligent than a teacher?

Zhang Wenbin smiled and pouted and kissed his wife's fiery red lips.

Ye Qingping smelled a strong smell of alcohol, and knew that he must have drunkenly and was unconscious last night. She couldn't help but feel angry and sad. Wen Yan advised: Wenbin, I know that because of me, you are talented but unable to show it. I feel depressed.But you can't ruin yourself like this every day. Do you know how uncomfortable I feel when I see you like this?I said that after a year, you will be allowed to join the cabinet and become the minister. During this period, you will help me deal with the things in Hebei and Henan. Why are you unwilling to do so?

Zhang Wenbin laughed to the sky and said: What's the best thing about being an official?It’s still so good that I can drink and write poems all day long, even if I want to be the prime minister, I don’t care.

Ye Qingping knew very well that her husband's fault was ultimately her own. He was the top scholar in the dynasty and a talented man with the heart of the world. If he had not married her, the princess, he could have fully realized his ambitions by relying on real talent and learning.

But now his success and failure in his career depends on his wife to decide. As a man who stands tall, how could he not feel depressed?

However, no matter how capable Ye Qingping is, she is powerless in this matter. Although she feels uncomfortable, she can do nothing.

Seeing that his wife was silent, Zhang Wenbin looked gloomy and knew that the words just now were heavy, so he turned around and hugged her in his arms and sat down, stroked her hair and said: Come on, sir, how do you practice this?Hey, who is this Ye Qingping?

Ye Qingping was shocked and found that the rice paper on the case had indeed written his name. She quickly crumpled the paper into a ball, threw it aside, and said: It was just a friend of mine, who was already dead.

Seeing that his wife seemed to have something to worry about, Zhang Wenbin asked: Why haven’t I heard you say it?How did she die?

She accidentally killed someone and was executed.

Ye Qingping didn't want to mention these things again. She turned around and stroked his cheek and said softly: Husband, have you ever thought that one day I will leave this troubled world and spend the rest of my life together in a paradise?At that time, you will be farming, fishing and hunting outside, and I will weave cloth and teach my children at home, and be happy every day like a god. Wouldn't that be nice?

Zhang Wenbin was slightly stunned and smiled: How can you, the general, be gone in the Tang Dynasty?If the thief rises again, who will fight the thief?

Ye Qingping sighed: The glory and wealth of this world, life and death are just passing clouds, free destiny, as long as I live happily, even if the world is flooded, what does it have to do with me?

Zhang Wenbin suddenly felt that his wife was a little strange today, so he hugged her tightly, and while blowing her breath behind her ear, he put his hand into her arms, gently pinched her nipples, and said: Whether it is the world or the paradise, people still have to eat and drink, but what's the difference?

This time, Ye Qingping let one of his big hands rub his chest and panted continuously. Until his other hand unbuttoned her belt, wandered to his vagina and kept fiddling, she gently pushed him away, and said with a red face: What kind of decent form is it in broad daylight? Wouldn't it be a joke to be killed by the servants?

However, Zhang Wenbin was already in a state of desire and could no longer control himself. While peeling off his wife's clothes, he said: Everyone in the front yard, no one will come.

In the pavilion, after a rain of clouds and rain, Ye Qingping's face turned red, her eyes closed slightly, her whole body was sweating profusely, leaning softly in her husband's arms, as if she had lost all her strength.

Zhang Wenbin hugged his wife's waist, and while stroking her wet hair with satisfaction, he lowered his head and kissed her fragrant body, kissing her from the root of his ears to the neck and then to the chest.

This was the first time he was so satisfied in more than two months. His wife always respected him like a guest and repeatedly ruled him, which made him feel full of desire and nowhere to vent.

My little princess beauty, let's do it again.

Zhang Wenbin begged while sucking Ye Qingping's bright red nipples like breastfeeding.

Ye Qingping pushed her husband away, smiled and hit him on the head and said: I will kill him again. I am almost a father, but I am not serious yet.

Zhang Wenbin jumped up like a cat with a trampled tail. He opened his mouth wide in surprise, stared at his wife and said: What did you say?You say it again?When did you have this?Why don't I know?I... Seeing Zhang Wenbin being so excited that he was at a loss, a faint feeling of worry flashed in Ye Qingping's eyes, and then she smiled and said angrily: It's been three months. The imperial doctor said before that my fetal appearance was unstable, so I never dared to tell you.We haven't had sex for so long, haven't you noticed that I've always been disgusted lately?How can you be so careless in the world?

It’s me, why am I so confused?... I’ve been in a bad mood recently, so I ignored you. Damn, damn, why didn’t I realize that you have been vomiting recently? Why didn’t your belly not get bigger?

Zhang Wenbin said as he pinched his arm a few times, putting his head on her belly and listening carefully.

Idiot, I’m only three months old, how can I tell?You are a Grand Secretary, and you can think about giving your child a name if you have time.

This is natural, I will tell my father that our Zhang family has a descendant.

Zhang Wenbin said as he was busy putting on his clothes and ran out like a child, not paying any attention to a gentle sigh from behind.

After the autumn cold, bad news came to Ye Qingping's ears one by one. First, Su Ru was obsessed with agreeing to marry Lu Biao. As a result, Shangguan Hong's old subordinates looked up and secretly hooked up, eager to try it out.

Immediately afterwards, Henan suffered a natural disaster.

In the golden autumn season, it should be a good season for a bumper harvest. Who would have thought that there would be unexpected changes in the sky? It was raining in Henan Road for two consecutive months, locusts were plagued, hungry people were everywhere, and the documents that reported urgently flew to Chang'an like snowflakes.

Ye Qingping's backyard was on fire, and she was running around with her big belly like an ant on a hot pan.

However, the inner treasury was controlled by Ping Ning, and he took this opportunity to threaten it. Ye Qingping ran around but failed. Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and got angry and broke into Guangning Palace to find Princess Ping Ning to make a statement.

No one knew what the two princesses were talking about. They only knew that one hour later she walked out with a proud look on her face. Three days later, the inner treasury approved hundreds of thousands of food for disaster relief.

So Ye Qingping ignored her husband's firm opposition and rushed to Henan with food and supplies for disaster relief to personally deal with the disaster relief matter.

Outside the long pavilion and by the ancient road, there were ministers who came to see him off. Ye Qingping spent the whole morning saying goodbye to the ministers one by one.

Princess Pingning held her hands and told her with concern: Sister, you have to work hard for the country when you are pregnant. If something goes wrong, how can I feel sorry for your Majesty and your sister?You must pay attention to your body and put your own body first in everything!

Ye Qingping nodded and said: Thank you, sister for your concern, I will pay attention to my health.What's more, people often say that I will devote myself to my dedication to my life until I die. I am a minister of the Tang Dynasty. This body belongs to the country. Even if I die loyal to my Tang Dynasty, I will die without regrets.

Ping Ning hurriedly reached out to block her mouth and said: Don’t always say such unlucky words as whether to die or not. Sister is waiting for you to come back in Chang'an... She gave a few more instructions and then reluctantly let go of her and left.

When Ye Qingping saw her care-looking face, a smile flashed in her eyes from time to time. She knew that she wanted to die outside, and cursed in her heart: Bitch, how many days can you be happy?If you know what I'm going to do, you may not be able to cry.

At noon, the ministers returned to the city one after another, and only Zhang Wenbin followed his wife.

Along the way, the two of them sat in the wide carriage "Ruyi Pavilion" led by four horses, each with their own thoughts and remained silent. Zhang Wenbin just hugged his wife tightly in his arms, unwilling to let go, while Ye Qingping snuggled up against his chest like a bird, curled her whole body into a ball, half lying and half leaning on the soft cushion, slowly closed her eyes, and soon she fell asleep.

Zhang Wenbin lowered his head and looked at his wife in his dream. She saw that her cheeks were flushed and her temples were scattered. With her even breathing, her chest was slightly undulating. A ray of spring light leaked through the collar, which was indeed charming.

He put his hand on Ye Qingping's raised belly and gently stroked it. When he thought that she was still suffering from running around when she was six months pregnant, he didn't know if she could return safely, and he couldn't help but feel sad and sighed helplessly.

The two of them walked silently all the way until the sun was sunny and the mountains were ten miles away from Chang'an City. Ye Qingping woke up slowly, gently broke out from her husband's arms, sorted out her scattered hair and said: I'll send you thousands of miles away. There will be a farewell here. Let's say goodbye here, accompany me to have a walk outside.

Under the bloody sunset, a pair of thin figures slowly strolled on the ridge, stepping on the thick fallen leaves, making a creaking sound.

The chill in the air made people feel refreshed. Zhang Wenbin saw that his wife's beautiful hair was blown to scatter in the evening breeze, and a pair of snow-white calves were exposed under the hem of the fluttering skirt. He was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he quickly took off his long gown and put it on her, hugged her tightly from behind, and said: Wushuang, why are you doing this?With two generals Su Ru and Liu Mu here, what else can be wrong in disaster relief?You are pregnant now, and I am not by your side while traveling. If there is any accident, you, mother and son, have two lives. How can you let me live?

Ye Qingping knew that he really cared about him, and felt a warmth in her heart and said seriously: My husband, it is for me and the baby in my belly that some things must be done by me personally.Henan is my foundation, and we must not be confused. If I don’t go, how many of the hundreds of thousands of food that I finally got will fall into the hands of the victims?Secondly, my sister Su Ru stabbed me in the back, and I must ask her clearly. Only when the army is stable can I be safe in Chang'an.As the saying goes, people will have immediate worries without long-term thinking. If these two things cannot be done well, even if I give birth smoothly, how can my family live safely in the future?

But you are in danger, if this is... Ye Qingping sealed his mouth with her hot lips before he could finish speaking. A pair of lovers hugged each other tightly in the forest with autumn leaves, kissing, stroking, and feeling the warmth of each other...

Don't worry, I'll be back before winter.During this period, no matter what happens in Chang'an City, you should not talk nonsense or make any moves. You will talk about everything when I come back.Ye Qingping repeatedly reminded her husband before leaving.

I'm waiting for you to come back outside the south gate... Zhang Wenbin hugged his wife tightly for the last time.

Looking at the carriage gradually fading away, he suddenly remembered something and shouted: If the girl is called Zhang Yiyi, how about the boy, call him Zhang Che?

However, the carriage had disappeared at the turn of the mountain road, and only his echoes echoed in the mountains and forests with the rustling autumn wind.

Ye Qingping left Chang'an and went eastward. After passing Tongguan, she arrived at the disaster area in Henan after several twists and turns.

She went to several prefectures and counties with the worst disasters, and opened warehouses and released grain along the way to help the victims.

At the same time, we vigorously hunt locusts, reduce taxes, and catch all the disobedient "corrupt officials" in one go, doing everything themselves, and what they did was deeply loved by the people, and the reputation of fighting the sky quickly spread among the people.

However, compared to being kind to the people, Ye Qingping raised the butcher knife without hesitation to those Shangguan Hong's old subordinates who were against her, and carried out a ruthless purge with the help of Liu Mu, Li Yuner, Zhang Kui, Wang Meng and others. She wanted to use her blood and rolling heads to tell those who were swaying how to choose.

After more than a month, after a series of bloody cleanings, Ye Qingping finally successfully defended her authority in the army.

Through her unremitting efforts, the disaster in Henan has also slowed down and the people were able to recuperate. After everything was settled, she finally arrived at the last stop of her trip to Henan, Luoyang, the eastern capital.

When the exhausted Ye Qingping suddenly appeared in front of Su Ru, Su Ru could hardly recognize the woman with deep eyes and pale faces was the erotic female general who was so energetic and youthful that year. She was stunned for a moment before saying: Sister, why are you here?I didn't inform you in advance, I heard you are pregnant?

Ye Qingping did not answer, but asked in a straightforward way: When will my sister marry General Lu?

It will be early next year.You really don’t know the depth, why are you running around with a big belly?I am almost a mother-in-law and still so impulsive. What if something happens?

Although they have not seen each other for many years, Su Ru still has deep feelings for this sister from the bottom of her heart. After all, they are sworn sisters who have experienced life and death together.

Qingping was indifferent to her concern and asked with a sneer: Why do you want to marry him?Don’t you know my relationship with him?

Su Ru didn't expect that she would act like arguing for a crime as soon as she came up. She was slightly stunned at first, and then said seriously: It was because I knew you were not in harmony that I did this.Everyone in the same palace is to defend our Tang Dynasty. There is nothing that cannot be resolved. Why bother fighting to the death?I marry him so I can mediate from it. Let’s take a step back and say that if you lose one day, I can also tell you a love affair.Furthermore, General Lu is an upright man and serves the country and the people all his life. He is a well-known man. How many people in the world can compare with him? I, Su Ru, want to marry a hero like him.

After hearing this, Ye Qingping was angry and said sarcastically: What a sermon in the same palace?You and Yu Jun are also in the same palace. Why didn’t you see you mediate when you killed him?It seems that you marry him for me?Let me ask you, if one day Lu Biao and I have to die, which side are you on?

Faced with the other party's aggressiveness, Su Ru did not retreat at all, looked her in her eyes and said: In Zhengzhou, you and I clearly agreed to rescue General Shangguan, but you deliberately delayed, which made him die in a fierce battle. In that battle, General Lu Biao's two younger brothers and only son also died in the battlefield.After that, you transferred him to the bitter and cold land in the northeast to fight against the barbarians, and he could not go home to take a look.Although he was sad, he stood on the front line without regrets and stayed on the front line for three years. He was such a loyal and patriotic man, but his relatives were killed by you and me, and his family was destroyed.Whenever I think about it, I feel ashamed and can't sleep at night. Every time I meet, I don't dare to look at him directly.Qingping, have you ever felt guilty towards General Lu?

After hearing her, Ye Qingping suddenly laughed to the sky and said: It turns out that you are the reason why you married him. You feel guilty and owed him. You promised him to redeem your sins.If you ask me if I have ever felt guilty, I will tell you now that I have never felt guilty and will never be there in the future.I, Ye Qingping, was born to experience all the warmth and coldness of the world, suffered all the hardships, and was bullied. Nine years ago, my relatives were lost and sold into brothels, and others could be humiliated. Along the way, who has ever felt guilty about me?Then Shangguan Hong asked me to seduce Cai Zhong, the number one master in the inner circle. If I die, would he feel guilty towards me?This world is the prey of the weak, I am a wolf, can I feel guilty even if I eat sheep?I have killed so many people, and my hands are covered with blood. If I feel guilty, I will die of guilt. How can I live to this day?

She said it continuously, and did not allow Su Ru to interrupt. After saying that, she took a long breath.

Su Ru looked at Ye Qingping blankly, and suddenly found that she was indecisive and didn't know how to refute it.

She has received orthodox education on loyalty to the emperor and patriotism since she was a child. Those principles have long been deeply rooted in her heart, and she always thinks that this is the case whenever she acts.

But in the eyes of the woman opposite, those saints' ways are bullshit. It was not until this time that she deeply realized what it means to talk about the same thing, and to be different from each other.

Come with a knife!

Ye Qingping reached out and took a steel knife from her hands.

She was shocked with a sword in her hand and said: You passed on my Su family's marksmanship in the arena back then, which benefited me a lot. Today I passed on this wave of swordsmanship to you, and we will not owe each other since then.

After saying that, he turned his wrist and slashed it out with one knife.

When Su Ru saw her erect and dragging her bloated body, she was clumsy and dancing the knife in the yard, she felt sad and wanted to stop her, but she couldn't say anything to her mouth.

Ye Qingping tried to slow down her movements, gritted her teeth and finished practicing a set of sword techniques, wiped the sweat from her head, and said with a heavy breath: The trick of this sword technique is to follow the sword, which is natural... After a careful explanation, she ordered someone to bring the wine, poured a bowl for Su Ru himself, and said slowly: Sister, we have known each other for nine years, right?

Well, when I first met you, you were a stubborn little girl, but now you are going to be a mother.Su Ru suddenly remembered the scene when they had just met in prison and smiled unconsciously.

It's Ah, I still remember that you swept the arena with a flower gun, and everyone called you a magic gun general.

You are not bad either, your nickname seems to be Xiaoyasha.

I remember it was snowing heavily when we joined the army, and I even used a pot lid as a shield...

Do you still remember our fight against the Zhu sisters in Puzhou?...

Do you still remember that stingy Lao Xu invited us to hot pot? ... The two recalled the past times together, scenes flew past in front of her, as if they had happened yesterday.

Time flies so fast!Look, you all have gray hair.

Ye Qingping said as she reached out and gently pulled a piece of white hair from Su Ru's sideburns.

Su Ru was silent for a moment, and gently advised: Qingping, take a step back and the sky is wide open...

Sister, from the moment I picked up the knife in the brothel and killed someone, I have no way out... Come on, let's have a drink for the past nine years of love!

After saying that, Gululu swallowed a large bowl of strong wine.

Su Ru sighed and drank the wine silently.

Ye Qingping, after she finished drinking, threw the bowl on the ground, and smashed it to pieces, gritted her teeth and said: After drinking this broken friend wine, we will be ruthless.After today, I don’t have you in this world. If I meet on the battlefield in the future, I can give it a try, and there is no need to worry.

Seeing that she was talking so frankly, Su Ru left without looking back after saying that, and she couldn't help but feel a sense of melancholy in her heart and murmured to herself: How can I break my love for many years be broken? Su Ru has always said one word, how can I regret the oath I made?Although you don’t think I’m a sister, I always think you’re a sister in my heart.

After her sisters turned against each other for a few days, the above-mentioned disposal was taken down. Because of poor disaster relief, Lu Biao and Su Ru were demoted to civilians and the other was demoted to the magistrate of Suyang County. Their responsibilities of stationed in Luoyang were replaced by Liu Mu and Zhang Kui.

Early the next morning, the two rode horses and took a few servants away with them.

When they walked to the city gate, they found that the people who came to see her off had blocked the city gate. It turned out that Su Ru had been loyal to her for three years in Luoyang, loved the people as much as her son, and was deeply loved by the people. When people heard that she was leaving, they brought gifts from her home to see her off.

Seeing these people bringing the only chickens and ducks left in their homes to see them off, Su Ru was not moved and burst into tears.

However, Lu Biao was afraid that the villain would make trouble after seeing it, so he hurriedly sent everyone away and hurried out of the city with his fiancée.

They gradually walked away, and a woman wrapped in a black robe on the second floor of the Luoyang Prefectural Mansion whispered in Ye Qingping's ear: General, you still need to get rid of the roots of the grass. These two people are heroes of the world. Since they have made grudges, if they are left with endless troubles, it is better to remove them on the road and get them clean.

Ye Qingping shook her head and sighed: Master Yuan, no matter what, we are a sister. She used to treat me well, so let them go this time. We have more important things to do.

After saying that, he turned around and returned to the room. He saw more than 30 people standing in the spacious room. Wei Qing and Chenyue Sect all the elders were among them. Compared with the last time she summoned various masters in Chang'an, the number of people this time was nearly twice as many.

General, a hidden dragon in the Central Plains martial arts world, if we want to completely eradicate the forces of Pingning and Zizai Tiange, will our manpower be insufficient?If you fall into a hard battle like last time, it will be more than worth the loss.

A short man asked.

Not enough?Isn’t a hundred thousand troops enough?

Ye Qingping suddenly let out a chilling sneer, walked to the wall, pointed to a map filled with small flags on the wall, and said: Everyone, let’s start from here!

After nightfall, everything behind Yunlong Mountain is silent, quiet and peaceful. Only the occasional worm cry will add a hint of vitality to the dead valley.

In the fog of the mountain, a large group of soldiers wearing black armor, holding long halberds and carrying strong bows and crossbows were slowly advancing along the rugged mountain road.

In order not to be discovered by the enemy, they did not lit the torch and could only move forward carefully with the glimmer of stars and moons.

No one spoke along the way, nor did there be any sound of armor colliding. This team of people was like a ghost running out of hell, and without knowing that it touched a huge manor on the top of the mountain.

There are plaques of plaques hanging above the red lacquer gate of the villa, with three powerful characters written in Lishu.

The yard was dark and extremely quiet. I don’t know where the disciples who usually patrolled the surroundings went.

After a while, the door slowly opened with the creaking sound of friction. A short man in a short cloth jacket poked his head out in a sarcastic way, looked around for a while before waved to the place where Tang Bing was hiding.

The leader of the team stood up from the hidden grass. This was a woman wrapped in a black robe. Although she couldn't see her face clearly, the black tights under the robe undoubtedly highlighted her convex and graceful figure.

She reached out and pointed forward, and said in a cold voice like ice: The general has an order. In today's battle, no matter whether men, women, young or old, they are allowed to kill them on the spot.

Kill it for me!

The firelight from the sky and the earth-shaking shouts of killing broke the tranquility in the mountains. Faced with these sudden appearance of the killing gods, the disciples of the Six Sword Sect who woke up from their sleep were stabbed to death on the bed before they understood what had happened. Several panicked disciples rushed out of the door without even taking their weapons, and were shot into hedgehogs by the soldiers guarding the door.

Amidst shrill screams, the disciple who lived in the backyard finally picked up his weapons and began to resist dyingly.

However, they found in despair that the enemy this time was completely different from the past. Although these soldiers were not very skilled in martial arts, they were all well-equipped and had a very tacit understanding. The thin swords in front of their thick armor lost their former power. On the contrary, their helmets and armor-free companions were constantly pierced by poisonous spears and flying feather arrows, falling down one by one.

In less than half an hour, the dozens of disciples left in the Six Sword Sect gave up their resistance and began to flee to the bottom of the mountain. This night attack, carefully planned by internal and external collusion, eventually turned into a bloody massacre.

The soldiers who were red-eyed, regardless of whether the opponent was a man or a woman, an 80-year-old man, or a three-year-old child, all rushed to cut all the living things they saw into a pile of meat paste.

When the first ray of morning light rose from the edge of the mountain, the only twenty remaining disciples in the Six Sword Sect fled in a mess overnight, finally got rid of the pursuit of the large group of soldiers and stopped to rest in a clearing ground in the forest at the foot of the mountain.

They were exhausted at this time, their faces were pale, their bodies were light or severely injured, and people moaned in pain from time to time.

Junior Sister Zhang Lin, you and Junior Sister Hao stayed with me to form a sword formation to block the enemy. The remaining young disciples escaped from Yunlong Mountain along the path and went to Zizai Tian Pavilion to find the master. The important task of reviving my Six Sword Sect in the future will fall on you.

The person who spoke was a beautiful woman in her thirties with big eyes.

But her face was ashen at this time, with her hair scattered on her shoulders, covered in blood, her clothes could no longer be seen in the original color, and the long sword in her hand was covered with gaps, and the sword was covered with solidified black blood. You can imagine how thrilling she had experienced last night.

Senior Sister Liu Fang, you are the head of the sect. You can’t make any mistakes after the master dies.I would like to ask you to take your young disciples first, and I and my junior sisters stay to meet the enemy.

The one who objected was the female disciple named Zhang Lin. Her left arm was drooping softly on the side of her body, and there was a deep wound on her shoulder that could see the bones.

Because of the hasty escape, she only wore a thin nightgown, and was trembling when the cold wind in the mountains.

It is precisely because I am the head of the sect that I want to stay, these young disciples are the hope of the Six Sword Sect...

You don’t have to be humble. Anyway, you have to go to the underworld together today, and you will not be alone if you have a companion all the way.Before Liu Fang could finish speaking, she was interrupted by a cold voice. A woman in black robe turned out from behind a big tree. Then more and more black-armored soldiers jumped out of the bushes and slowly rushed up.

When Liu Fang saw these people, his eyes suddenly became angry and said with gritted teeth: Who are you?Why do even pregnant women and children who have no ability to resist have to be killed?It's simply a group of animals that are worse than pigs and dogs!

The woman in black sneered: Pregnant women always have to give birth to children, and children always have to grow up. When they grow up, they will think about taking revenge. Twenty years later, it will be another bloody storm.In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, I am better to do it to the end and send them to the cleanest way together.

If you want to be clean, why don’t you die?With a roar, Zhang Lin's long sword trembled, and the human sword jumped toward the enemy.

Be careful, junior sister!

Liu Fang only issued a warning, but there was no time to stop it, and in the end he was half a step late.

A cold light flashed, and Zhang Lin suddenly stopped her body, but only a short piece of the sword in her hand was left. Her arms were stiff and stretched flat on her chest, pointing at her opponent, and said in a trembling voice: You...you...you...you...you...she said a few words "you" and could no longer say it. She suddenly spit out a large mouthful of blood, fell backwards straight, and made a muffled sound when she fell to the ground.

Blood spurted out from her chest like a flood that broke through the dam, soaking her snow-white nightgown in an instant. She rolled helplessly on the ground, moaning in pain, and her limbs twitched for a long time before gradually stopping her struggle, and finally she didn't move.

The woman in black still stood there with a smile, as if she had never moved, and she didn't know how she could kill the person.

I want to do something with me at this little bit of effort?Overestimate one's ability.

She walked to the woman's body, kicked her waist, and kicked her dozens of pounds of body away.

Liu Fang jumped forward and hugged her junior sister's soft body, but she saw her eyes wide open and her mouth and nose were bleeding, and she was already dead.

There was a shocking huge wound on her left chest, with neat edges but bloody inside.

Liu Fang gently closed her eyes, reached out and beat it gently on the blade on her chest. Only then did she find that the blade, which was more than one foot long, cut her entire left breast into two and then cut her sternum, and finally everything was broken along with her heart and lungs.

What weapon do the enemy use?

Just now, I saw her figure swaying and a flash of cold light in her hand, but I didn't even see clearly how she took action. If this move was directed at her, she would probably have to be the corpse on the spot.

Liu Fang's heart suddenly sank to the bottom, and the last glimmer of hope for escape was shattered.

She gently put down her junior sister's body, stood up, and stared at the woman in black and said word by word: With your martial arts skills, you must be a senior expert. I think no one can defeat me in the Six Sword Sect, but why don't you dare to go up the mountain to challenge openly, but you still have to do this kind of sneaky trick?

The woman shook her head and said: I'm here to kill people, not to compete.This was an endless war. Whether it was open or stealing, it would be possible to achieve the goal. Besides, I was not sure to slaughter more than a hundred disciples of a sect and let the Six Swords completely disappear from this world.

When Liu Fang heard her say this, she knew that she would definitely be unlucky today. She thought that it would be better to fight with them and bring a few burials to her until she died, so she shouted, "Set the sword formation!" Fight with them!

He shook his sword and rushed straight to the woman in black.

The woman in black sneered and took a step back, stretched out her hand, and immediately the arrow shot overwhelmed like a locust.

Liu Fang had to dance his sword desperately, and retreated while calling the wolf-tooth arrow.

The sword technique of the Six Sword Sect is varied and delicate. As Lin Yurong's proud disciple, Liu Fang has already learned the true teachings of the Master Sect. He saw a long sword flying up and down in her hand like a white exercise, and it was endless, dancing tightly and airtightly, exerting the soft power of the Six Sword Sect's sword technique to the fullest. The arrows and the sword net that could not penetrate her fell to the ground one after another.

However, the other disciples did not have her cultivation level. With a few shrill screams, the young disciples behind her were shot and fell to the ground one after another.

Seeing his fellow disciples tragically die under arrows, while the enemy stood far away and shot arrows without any damage, Liu Fang's eyes turned red.

She suddenly roared, no longer caring about her safety, twisted her waist and jumped up, facing the rain of arrows all over the sky.

In a blink of an eye, she was hit by two arrows in a row with her left shoulder and lower abdomen, but she also rushed to the woman in black through the gaps of exchange between the other archers.

A piercing pain came from the wound, which made her facial features twist and she almost fainted, but she bit her silver teeth and completely ignored the injuries on her body. She used her strength to stab her sword straight out with her sword.

The sword was as powerful as a mountain, with the sound of wind, as if it was chopped out by a big axe. It was no longer as smart and light as before, but it was full of murderous aura.

Seeing that the other party was desperate, the woman in black shook her head disapprovingly, with a trace of hideous ridicule on her face, and suddenly jumped backwards, a dazzling light flashed in her hand, and in an instant a flash of lightning flashed through the forest.

Liu Fang was seriously injured and was unwilling to compete with the enemy in one move at a time. She just wanted to fight together, so she didn't care how she attacked, but just transported all her internal strength to the long sword in her right hand. The sword body suddenly lit up and the sword energy broke through the sword.

Liu Fang was very satisfied with the sword she fired from burning her life. At that moment, she even thought she had surpassed her master and reached the state of unity between man and nature.

However, just as the tip of the long sword was about to stab the enemy, she suddenly felt a cold belly, and her dantian became empty when it was neutral, and her internal force could no longer be able to operate.

Liu Fang was surprised to find that the world in front of her suddenly turned over. Then she clearly saw that her slender and powerful legs were still sprinting forward with big strides, but it was empty from above her waist, only blood mixed with broken internal organ fragments squirting out like spring water.

She finally saw the other party's weapon clearly. It was a huge short-handled sickle with a blade of more than seven feet. A long iron chain was connected to the handle. The blood on the blade slowly dripped down drop by drop. It was this extremely ferocious weapon that cut her into two pieces in half.

Losing control of her upper body, her lower body ran forward a few more steps before falling down stiffly. Her internal organs suddenly flowed out of the broken body, flowing all over the ground.

It was not until this time that Liu Fang felt a heart-wrenching pain coming from her waist, and she felt dizzy in her mind: Am I going to die?... Due to excessive blood loss, her thinking became chaotic, but she didn't want to die like this. So she struggled to drag her broken half of her body toward her other half of her body, and grabbed her legs that were still kicking randomly in the pool of blood from time to time, and used her last strength to plug the large ball of intestines and stomach that emitted heat back into her body.

Why don’t you die yet?

The woman in black cursed and walked forward, kicking her over.

A morning breeze blew, blowing down the cloak that covered her head, revealing the pretty face below.

Liu Fang stared at the face tightly and said with a sob: Yuan Yinshan... You are also from the martial arts world. Are you not afraid of being ridiculed by using such despicable means?... A long spear penetrated her chest, penetrated her thin body and nailed her to the ground. Because the gun was extremely powerful, it poked her entire chest into the darkness, and the blood gushed out of her mouth and nose blocked her unspeakable words forever in her throat.

Her mouth opened slightly again, her head tilted to one side weakly, her eyelids slowly closed, and finally stopped in the half-open and half-closed position and never moved again.

There is still so much nonsense when I die.Yuan Yinshan kicked her body a few more times. Seeing that she was completely dead, she took out a namebook from her arms and cut her name off from it.

Sir, what should I do if there are still a few left?

A black-armored warrior asked, pointing at several girls of fifteen or sixteen in the empty field.

These girls are all new disciples. Because they are young and know how to do martial arts, they are protected by their fellow disciples, and then they survived the rain of arrows just now.

They were so scared that they shivered, some of them had peed their pants, hugged them in a ball, and cried in a low voice.

The general said that he would not leave any living words.kill!

The spear pierced into the flesh and blood, making a puff sound. Under the severe pain, several girls howled back and forth on the ground like a pig, raised their hands and waved them randomly, trying to grab the spear pier that pierced their body, and made the final struggle in vain.

However, as the soldiers repeatedly pulled out the spear and stabbed it into their weak bodies, blood gushed out from the newly emerging holes of their bodies, and their screams became weaker and weaker. After a while, the woods became completely quiet. These upright and young girls in their prime had turned into corpses with holes, lying all over the ground.

Only one female disciple was shot several times and did not die for a moment. She vomited blood while squirting out of the pile of corpses like a green worm.

The intestines flowed out of her belly, which was opened by a spear, and was more than three feet long. They dragged behind her like a tail, leaving a dark red blood on the ground.

She crawled out a few steps and was unable to crawl again. She lay on the ground with her butt sticking out, and looked at the three soldiers approaching with spears, crying in despair, and whimpering and begging: Please don’t kill me, I will never learn martial arts again in the future...

The response to her was three cold spears, which stabbed her from the back, between her thighs and the back of her heart, nailing her to the ground.

The girl's cry instantly turned into a painful moan, and blood flowed out of the wound under her. She was unable to move her body, which was worn on the spear, and could only twist her butt and twitch her helplessly on the ground. Ten fingers of her hands were deeply clenched into the soil, panting with difficulty.

She struggled for a while before slowly relaxing, spread her hands weakly, kicked her legs on the ground a few times, and finally she swallowed in a posture of bending one leg.

Seeing that the mission had been completed, Yuan Yinshan turned around and was about to leave. Before leaving, she suddenly remembered something and ordered a black-armored officer beside her: There is a village at the foot of the mountain, and most of these disciples are from there. Commander Zhang, when you go back, you can also slaughter the village clean and don’t leave any living.

The temperature dropped sharply on the cold night of early winter, and ice was already hanging on the eaves. The howling north wind blew the broken snow on the ground, making a loud noise on the pane.

Compared with the cold weather outside, the lobby of the prefect is as warm as spring. The fire among the two large carbon furnaces is booming, emitting burning heat.

Ye Qingping was wearing only a wide water-clear nightgown. She stood in front of a huge map, frowned with her eyebrows and stared at the red flags on it with a worried expression.

Although the plan went smoothly, more than half of the small flags had disappeared from the map in half a month, there were still a few left standing stubbornly on it, which seemed to be a little eye-catching.

This time, Ye Qingping came out in full swing and mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized, including the Yulin Army, the Crane Control Army, the Tiger Ben Army, and the Dragon and Tiger Guard, and with many powerful tourists under his command, he carried out a bloody purge of the Zizai Tiange Group of the Central Plains martial arts.

The methods used are even more useless, even deceiving, using both soft and hard methods, instigating, provoking, tempting, sneak attacks, and conspiring and tricks that can be used.

But unexpectedly, the resistance of several sects was extremely strong. These sects had already colluded with the heroes of green forests in various places. They dared to openly fight with officers and soldiers when they picked up swords and guns, without any consideration, and were extremely harsh.

Ye Qingping was merciless to these desperadoes. As long as he was caught, even the nine clans were killed, they were often massacred together with the mountain villages near them.

In order to make a quick battle, Ye Qingping sent out the 200 Black Tiger Guards and Wei Qing, who were responsible for her safety three days ago. Now there are only more than fifty ordinary soldiers left by her side to guard the prefect's mansion.

Looking at the big black flag marked with the word "Zhizai Tiange" on the map, Ye Qingping felt a headache. At the same time, a severe colic from her chest made her moan softly. Since the last time she was injured at Zui Furong, she had a palpitations. When the weather was cold, her chest would hurt like a knife. If she didn't use medicine, she would often feel so painful that she couldn't even sleep.

She reached out and gently touched her high bulge, sighed helplessly, and said to herself: If I had known this was such a trouble, I should have listened to Eunuch Tian and got rid of the child as soon as possible.Why did I get obsessed with it at that time? I had to do a fake show and give birth to this burden.I was so passive when I was impulsive. If I couldn’t return to Chang'an before the cold winter, I’m afraid both my mother and my son would be in danger. I really would be a sin to survive!

Just as she regretted it, the door was gently pushed open. A maid walked in, put the medicine in the tray on the table, closed the door with her backhand, and bowed and said: General, it's time to take medicine.

Ye Qingping nodded, picked up the medicine and was about to drink it, but saw the lady looking at her, her eyes looked a little strange, she was suddenly shocked, and asked: Cui'er, why didn't you close the door first when you entered the house just now? Don't you know I'm afraid of wind and cold?The maid bowed her head and said, "General, I forgive you. Today, I am not very smart and afraid that the medicine will be overturned, so I put down the medicine and closed the door."The doctor said that the medicine should be taken while it is hot, so please take the medicine.

Ye Qingping picked up the medicine and took it to her mouth and acted to drink it. She saw a hint of joy flashing in the other person's eyes, and her heart suddenly became bright.

She gently put down the medicine bowl and said: Cui'er, how could your arms be inflexible with such high martial arts skills?Do I need to rub it for you?By the way, what did your nickname come from?Is it Cui'er or Yu'er?How did I forget?

The maid heard that she had been exposed when she said this, so she stopped hiding her hand and pulled out a soft sword from her waist.

The sword was five feet long and was originally surrounded by her waist like a belt. It gradually became straightened by internal force, and finally turned into a sword with a cold light and a sharp blade.

She reached out to take a face from her face, revealing her true face. She was not someone else, but the peach blossom fairy Tao Shiqin.

It turned out that she had been following Ye Qingping from Chang'an, looking for opportunities to assassinate, but the opponent's defense was tight, and Wei Qing and the Heihu Guard were always there, so she could not find an opportunity to take advantage of.

It was not until three days ago that Wei Qing was transferred, that she finally waited for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so she disguised herself as a maid and entered the prefect's mansion to poison her.

I said who it is? It turns out that the fairy has arrived. It is rare that you are still thinking about my body. You have come from so far away to see me and give me medicine thousands of miles away. How can I thank you for this friendship?But your makeup is heavier, and I almost didn't recognize it. It seems that Liu Fengqin's disguise technique has improved again.Hey, why didn't she come?

Ye Qingping asked with a smile.

Tao Shiqin saw her smiling face and didn't look panicked at all, and her heart was filled with a stir. When she thought of her senior sister who died tragically in her hands, she couldn't help but feel a chill on her back.

Since the fairy is here, don’t leave. I happen to have something to ask you.Why are your hands shaking? Is it cold here?

Ye Qingping looked at the uninvited guest mockingly, as if she was already a tit put in a cage.

Tao Shiqin was furious and shouted: Stop it!You witch, today I will seek justice for those heroes in the world who were killed by you.

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly jumped back and just avoided the door panel that was hitting her with the sound of wind. Before he could land, the sword shook, and the sword light turned into peach blossoms, piercing out obliquely, attacking the enemy rushing in from the door.

Both of them made moves as fast as flashes of current stars. In a moment, they had attacked and defended each other for more than 30 moves. Silver peach blossoms were floating and flying in the room. A fat monk wearing a gray monk robe penetrated the sword shadows in the sky with his agility that was inconsistent with his figure. His palms flew up and down, pressing step by step, never giving the other party a chance to breathe.

The Peach Blossom Fairy suddenly got ambushed. She saw that the opponent's internal strength was long and unfathomable martial arts, so she dared not fight. She stabbed with a sword and took the opportunity to break through the window and fly backwards.

Tao Shiqin just jumped out of the room and was still in the air when she heard the rushing sound behind her back. She screamed in secret that she twisted her waist and turned around. The long sword turned back to her back, and a clang sound blocked the short sword that stabbed her in the back of her heart.

Tao Shiqin was blocked by this and was slightly slower, so she was chased by the monk.

Seeing the opponent attacking her with a palm, she had nowhere to retreat, so she had to stretch her left arm and slapped it out.

The palms intersected, and the enemy's internal force attacked like a sea of ​​rushing waves. The Taohua Fairy felt that her chest was hit hard by a big stone. Her eyes turned black and she groaned, and she took two steps back. Then she felt a numb on her back, and the acupoint was sealed by another master ambushed in the yard, and she collapsed on the ground.

The monk and Tao Shiqin also had blood surging after facing each other. Only then did he realize that her internal strength was profound and he was afraid that she would force her to break the acupoints, so he snatched up with his flying fingers, and in the blink of an eye, he pointed seven fingers on her lower abdomen, blocking all the big acupoints in her body.

Tao Shiqin's internal strength could not be activated, and she felt that the qi and blood were not smooth, and her internal breath was scattered, and she could not use any strength. She was shocked and angry and turned her eyes and fainted.

Ye Qingping walked up, kicked her a few times, and cursed: "Baoshi, you haven't even learned half of your money. If I had known that you were so useless, I wouldn't have to ask the master to come and help."

Although he said this, he admired Tao Shiqin's martial arts in his heart. He thought that he almost escaped under the attack of two masters. The apprentices of Li Moxi were indeed very capable.

This fat monk is the Jiubujie monk who had healed Ye Qingping before. This trip to Henan was specially invited to be her bodyguard.

The monk shook his head and said: General Zhan, this Peach Blossom Fairy's martial arts are amazing. If it weren't for the fact that Liu Fengqin's leader would have made a move at the same time, it would be impossible to capture her.

The master said it right. This time I went out with her to assassinate the general, and I was not going to let her go back, but her martial arts are so noble that she is above the nine-tailed scorpion. If I lack the help of the master, I would not be sure to kill her.

Liu Fengqin was ambushed in the yard. She was ordered by Ping Ning to assist the Taohua Fairy to come and assassinate, so she simply used the trick and set up a trap with Ye Qingping to capture her.

Monk Jiubujie suddenly asked: What is General Zhan going to do with her?

Ye Qingping hesitated and said: It is a big problem to keep this peach blossom fairy and must be eliminated. However, in this way, the master violated the precept of killing, and I was really sorry.

After hearing this, Jiubujie laughed and said: Since my name is Jiubujie, I will not abstain from killing. What is the point of killing someone?

Ye Qingping also smiled and said: Master, this is not abstainable, and that is not abstainable. How dare you ask what kind of Buddha the master believes in?

Since Ye Qingping met Jiubujie, she has a similar temper. She seems to be an old friend of many years and has gradually become less concerned about her words.

Sure enough, Jiubujie admired Ye Qingping's straightforwardness very much, and was not angry at all. He said: I was practicing medicine in Henan to save people, and saw all the miserable lives of the people in the midst of the war. However, my personal strength was always limited. Even though I saved one or two, I could only watch millions of people die.

Ye Qingping interrupted: What they lack is not a doctor, it is a stable world.

That's exactly that.No matter how great my ability and high medical skills are, I cannot save all living beings in the world, nor can I save the critically ill Tang Dynasty.But some people can do it. Since you took charge of Henan, you will quell the thieves and chaos, reduce taxes, and allow the people to cultivate and maintain peace.I also see this disaster relief, you worked hard day and night, Amitabha, how good it is.If Ping Ning kills you, the two roads that have just stabilized Hebei and Henan will be in chaos again. Even for the sake of the people of the world, I will keep you safe.In the eyes of Buddha, all living beings are equal, and Pingning is no different from a Henan citizen. If a few people are killed, they can save tens of millions of people, what's wrong with me even if I commit the killing precept?

Jiubujie's flattery made Ye Qingping flutter. She smiled and said: I don't care about the lives of the common people. I do this for myself.If one day I provoke a war for my own selfishness, I wonder if the master would regret saving me?

Doing good deeds is doing good deeds. It is rare to be able to sacrifice oneself for others, even for oneself, it has great merit.If the donor provokes war for his own personal gain in the future and causes the people to fall into water and fire again, I will be the first to take your head.

Seeing that he was speaking seriously, Ye Qingping stuck out her tongue and sighed: It seems that my golden Buddha was given for nothing.

Then he ordered someone to take the Peach Blossom Fairy down for interrogation, and he found a secluded house, put on fragrant tea, and discussed with the two of them many future arrangements.

They were all sinister and despicable people. After a detailed discussion, they came up with many vicious tricks. It was not until the second half of the night that Ye Qingping was tired that she said goodbye to the two and went back to her room to fall asleep peacefully.

In the desert thousands of miles away, under the bloody sunset, a slowly moving little black dot suddenly appeared on the horizon.

But if you get closer, you will find that this is actually a middle-aged man running wildly at an astonishing speed.

The clothes on his body were broken into strips of cloth. Although they barely covered his body, they exposed a huge machete that was more than ten feet long on his back.

One of his legs was already lame, but every time he nipped his toes on the ground, he jumped forward several feet, as fast as a galloping horse, and soon he climbed over a sand dune and ran far away.

Not long after he passed, more than ten tall horses rushed past, raising a long stream of smoke and dust on the vast Gobi Desert.

On the horse's back are knights in black robes, with crescent moon hanging around their waists. They are the real masters of this desert, who make a living by robbing business travelers and dominating the Western Regions.

Leading the lead is a young man with a pair of leopard eyes, a hooked nose, and yellow curly hair exposed under the turban. He looks like he is not a Middle-earth person.

Behind him was a girl who was only eighteen or nineteen years old. She had long brown ponytail hair, pointed nose, scarlet lips, and light blue eyes as beautiful as a lake.

She said in a beautiful voice like a silver bell: That cripple is really cunning. Every time he catches up with him, he hides it and can't find it. I can't find it. Where else can he run this time?Seeing her smiling like a flower, the man couldn't help but feel heartbroken and said: He can't run away this time, and he will cut him off after he catches him.

No, you promised to leave him for me to play and you are not allowed to regret it.I just got a new poison from my senior sister, and I must try it on him later.The girl said coquettishly.

OK, I'll give it to you if my junior sister wants it, but don't let him die too happily.Huh?Why didn't he run away?

As he said, the lame man sat down in a sand dune in front of him, and seemed to be unable to run.

The leading man whistled loudly, and the thieves dispersed and formed a fan along an arc and surrounded the lame.

The girl's eyes shone with excitement and she said delicately: Hey, if you hand over that big knife, we won't hurt your life.

He is so vicious at such a young age... Hey, why did he chase seventeen?It's so troublesome.

While complaining, the lame man stood up, looked at the crowd chasing him, reached out and slowly pulled out the huge dark machete from behind. There was a deep crack in the middle of the blade, scarlet red as blood, and there seemed to be a red light slowly flowing around it.

The leading man had seen some worlds. When he saw this black monster knife, he felt something was wrong in his heart and shouted: He was still stubborn when he died, kill him for me!

Although he said it, he did not dare to step forward.

The lame man smiled evilly and said gloomyly: This knife has just been made, and he has to be raised with blood every day. How much blood can you little thieves have to feed my knife?However, it has been very hungry these days, so it has to settle down.

Before he finished speaking, a black light flashed, sixteen heads flew up at the same time, blood spurted out from their broken neck cavity, and headless corpses lost their balance and fell down immediately.

In just a short moment, all the horse thieves who were chasing him were killed, leaving only the girl who was asking questions alive. She was so scared that she couldn't even speak, let alone escape.

Seeing the blood slowly being sucked in through the crack in the middle of the blade, the lame smiled with satisfaction, revealing an ugly yellow teeth. He wiped the blood from his face, walked to the scared girl with a lewd smile, reached out to the scared girl, pinched her face gently, and said: Uncle likes the obedient and honest good girl the most. To be honest, I won't make things difficult for you. If you lie, hehe...what's name is?

Hee...hee...hee...hajisi... the girl's whole body trembled, causing her upper and lower teeth to collide and giggle, even her name was unfair.

The cripple smiled and rubbed his hands and asked: Hajis, I'll ask you, where is your village?How many people are there?...

Half a month later, in the desert, the cold moon and west wind were under the wind, the lame Li Huan stood on a large sand dune with his hands in his waist, looking coldly at the village in the distance, and saw that the village was pitch black except for a few sporadic flames. It was obvious that these horse thieves had already fallen asleep.

These people never dreamed that someone would launch a deadly sneak attack on their nests hidden deep in the desert at night.

Hajis, there are really only 300 bandit soldiers out of the 1,300 people in this village?

That’s right, since the village was built, more and more people gathered here, and many people and merchants who were hiding from war also came here. As long as they paid the protection money, we will ensure their safety.

After Li Huan's rectification for the past half month, Hajis has become as docile as a kitten.

Li Huan nodded, reached out and waved backwards. A Tang army officer appeared behind him with several soldiers. Then, cavalry one after another climbed the sand dune. After a while, a black iron cavalry of the Tang army with two thousand people gathered on the top of the sand dune.

The leading officer raised his sword high, and the blade shone with a cold light under the cold moonlight.

He said loudly: Brothers, the treasures in this city are all ours, and those horse thieves belong to Lord Li, try to catch them alive for me.The ugly saying is ahead. If someone dares to kill Lord Li indiscriminately, don’t blame me, Zhang, for not knowing you.

After saying that, he urged him to get off his horse and rushed down the sand dune. Then the two thousand cavalry charged like a flood breaking the dam with a shocking shout.

Two thousand fully armed elite Tang army cavalry were doomed to the three hundred horse thieves sleeping in a daze. The battle was destined to be without any suspense. Early the next morning, the officers and soldiers had already suppressed more than a thousand prisoners and marched towards the Tang army camp outside the desert. Behind them, the once prosperous village had already turned into a pile of rubble in the fire last night.

Lord Li, this time Princess Changning gave my general such a great face, and the villain cannot repay him. I will definitely help you take these people to Chang'an. I also ask the adults to have the opportunity to speak a few good words in front of the princess for the villain.

The person who spoke was the officer named Zhang.

Li Huan nodded and said to himself: There are thirty ones a day, and this magic knife will be able to reappear in the world in a month.

Looking at the men and women tied into a long list of ropes, Hajisi's face turned pale and sad. She naturally knew that he wanted to use the blood of these people to sacrifice the knife. When she thought that more than a thousand people would die and became sacrifices, she felt cold all over and her lips trembled unconsciously.

Seeing her like this, Li Huan sneered: If it weren't for you, these people wouldn't have died. Wouldn't they regret it?If I allow you to exchange your own lives for their lives now, would you be willing?

Hajis bit her lip and shook her head gently.

Li Heng laughed and said: That's it, people are always selfish.Most of these people's hands were covered with blood, which was worthy of being guilty, so don't think about them.By the way, Hajis, do you want to go to Chang'an with me?

This time, the beautiful exotic girl nodded vigorously.

In the backyard of Luoyang Prefecture Mansion, a small house for placing miscellaneous items has been transformed into a temporary prison cell. There are two large stoves in the middle of the room, and the firewood inside is slamming. Ye Qingping felt a rush of heat as soon as she entered the room and smiled: Even if I don’t get cold, there is no need to make it so hot. What should I do if the fairy is burned out?

The Peach Blossom Fairy no longer had her former charm at this time. She was hung naked on an iron frame, and her shoulders were penetrated with iron chains. She was tied to the wall behind her. As she moved slightly, she made a clanging sound.

When she saw Ye Qingping coming in, she just looked at her dullly, without saying anything, with a look of indifference.

When Ye Qingping saw Tao Shiqin ignored her, she sat down with a smile, took a sip of the tea brought by her personal soldiers, cleared her throat and said: I am a cheerful person, and I like to talk straight. If you tell me what you want to know, I will let you die happily.Otherwise, if you taste torture, life is worse than death, and it will be too late to regret it.

Tao Shiqin raised her head, her pair of apricot eyes wide open, staring at her with resentment, spitting out a mouthful of blood and phlegm, and cursing: Bah, you demon, you have dispatched officers and soldiers to kill all the children of the martial arts world in the Central Plains, and even the elderly, weak, women and children are not spared. If you are so conscientious, you will be struck by lightning sooner or later!

Ye Qingping narrowed her eyes and sneered: What kind of children in the world?They are just mobs.The state has a national law. Since I was in power, I have forbidden the people to make private weapons. The private hiding of weapons is equivalent to rebellion. According to the law, the nine clans should be punished. This is clearly written in the Tang Dynasty.These people ignored national laws and not only created and hidden weapons privately, but also gathered armed forces to fight and kill and injure officials. This is a very serious crime.The national law is ruthless, what is wrong with me acting according to the law?...

The Peach Blossom Fairy was practicing hard in Zizai Tian Pavilion all day long. Ye Qingping, who was so sharp-tongued that she was speechless after a few words.

Seeing that she could not argue, Ye Qingping smiled proudly and asked: What is the relationship between Li Moxi and Pingning?She is so caring for her.I see in your master's heart that all your disciples are not as good as hers.Could it be that she was a bastard from him and a concubine?... Tao Shiqin closed her mouth tightly, no matter how threats and induces the other party, she didn't speak. Later, Ye Qingping became anxious and said angrily: Since you don't eat the toast and eat the punishment, I will give you the reward and torture me.

With Ye Qingping's order, the two soldiers brought a large wooden barrel filled with cold water, and without saying a word, they used an iron frame to spread Tao Shiqin's feet, and put her legs in a large shape into the bucket, so that her lower body was completely immersed in the biting cold water.

The fairy has worked hard these days, and she hasn't even taken a shower, right?

Ye Qingping looked up and down with vicious eyes and clapped her hands.

A large wooden basin was carried over, and the basin was filled with small green snakes with yellow ring patterns on their heads, entrenched together, making people feel disgusted.

This snake is called the chrysanthemum snake. It is extremely ferocious and will drill whenever it is seen. It will be put into the water for a while. As long as the water temperature is slightly higher, they will drill through the holes in your body into your stomach and bite it, causing your stomach to break and intestines. It is hard to bear the pain. Most people can't bear it. They will be hurt to death in just one stick of incense. I wonder how long the fairy can endure it?

If you have sex, kill me. What kind of hero is torture people?

Tao Shiqin watched a large pot of more than ten green snakes being poured into the wooden barrel. Thinking that these things would penetrate into his body in a while, his hair stood up all over his body and shouted at the top of his lungs.

If you say that, I will give you some fun.Ye Qingping raised her hand again, and immediately someone put dry firewood under the iron plate under the wooden barrel and prepared to light the fire.

Wait, don't light the fire, I'll tell you everything I know.

In the face of torture, Tao Shiqin's last spiritual defense finally collapsed completely. She said slowly: In fact, Ping Ning is my master's niece. My master's surname is Li, and I was also a royal family. According to his seniority, he was the cousin of Emperor Yizong Li Yan. Because he was involved in the throne dispute, he had to escape from Chang'an to avoid disaster. His only sister married Li Yan to atone for him and became a princess.Not long after she gave birth to Pingning, she died of illness. The master was entrusted by her death and promised to take care of Pingning for the rest of her life... Well, I know so much, please keep your promise.

After Tao Shiqin said it all in detail, she sighed long and silently waited for the arrival of her final fate. Ye Qingping lowered her head and pondered for a while, suddenly raised her head, took out two letters from her arms and held them in front of her, and said: I have written two letters for you, one for your master and the other for Pingning. Please check if there are any flaws.

You want me to frame my master and dream, even if I die of torture, I will not do such a thing as deceiving my master and destroying my ancestors.Tao Shiqin started cursing before she finished reading it.

Since you are unwilling to cooperate, don't blame me, light the fire.