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Published at 15th of July 2022 12:43:54 PM


Chapter 229

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"Because he is Ji Chen's enemy and is doomed to never die."

The air in the room seemed to have solidified, and the candles were teetering in the lanterns, as if they were going to fall down in the next moment, burning them all together.

Jiang Li stretched out her hand to hold the lantern, and Yan Zhiqing seemed to react. She said, "do you think I would believe your nonsense? Our Yan family has lived in the clouds for many years, why would we have a public feud with Su Guo? It's his fault that Yan Zhili kidnapped you, but it's not the reason why you slandered the Yan Family!"

"What more reason?" Jiang Li said faintly, "the reason why the Yin family left Yanjing is that the Yin family didn't hurt Ji Chen, didn't they hurt Ji Chen's family? I'm afraid not."

Yan Zhiqing shivered all over, and the more calm Jiang Li was, the more she seemed unreasonable. She wanted to defend the Yan family, but she didn't know where to start. The more you look at Jiang Li, the more dazzling it is. Somehow, she blurted out, "Even if you're telling the truth, it's too high on yourself! How can you say that you have become a threat to Duke Su alone? The world knows that Duke Su is ruthless and likes to stand idly by. You're just a bargaining chip given by the emperor to his wife and between high officials! How could he be in danger for chips, so you don't have to be sentimental. You can rest assured that he won't be willing to be manipulated for you, and I won't worry about my life for you! "

"Really?" Jiang Li smiled instead. Her tone was almost soft, and she said, "Pingyang County Lord, what you haven't seen doesn't mean that the world doesn't exist. What you can't get is not what others can't get. Ji Chen proposed to the Emperor himself. Even if it's a bargaining chip, I'm also valuable. You're not as good as me, otherwise he will propose to your majesty."

"You..." Yan Zhiqing was stunned, and Jiang Li's words exploded in her brain. Her hidden thoughts were spoken out in such a tone by another winner. She couldn't stay here any longer, and suddenly ran out of the door. I didn't care whether Jiang Li moved anything in the basket.

The moment she knocked the door open, Jiang Li also saw clearly. There were officers and soldiers guarding the room on all sides. Yes, officers and soldiers in armor.

Jiang Li sat down in the chair again and realized that things were worse than she thought. If this matter is led by Yin Zhili, it's easy to say that he has met with Yin Zhili several times, and regardless of his intentions, this person is somewhat indecisive and softhearted, Jiang Li can still find opportunities. But it seems that Yin Zhili just accepted this matter, and it was undoubtedly Yin Zhan who arranged it. Only Yin Zhan would not hesitate to cut off the little finger of Haitang to threaten Jiang Li, which was cruel between the lines.

Yan Zhan arranged everything, and Yan Zhili just did things according to Yan Zhan's arrangement. So Yin Zhiqing knew nothing about it. What Jiang Li was worried about was that she couldn't see Yin Zhili, so she couldn't know the news of situ September and ye Mingyu.

However, one thing is certain, since it is Yan Zhan's arrangement, it is Yan Zhili's road that is Yan Zhan's back road. If Yan Zhan is fighting with Ji he now, it must not be far from here. So that once the result happens, Yin Zhan can order Yin Zhili to prepare the second plan, which is to threaten Ji Heng with himself.

Jiang Li couldn't help clenching her fist.

I know Ji Hong is nearby, but I don't know where Ji Hong is and what is the situation now. But she could do nothing. The only thing she could hope for was that Yin Zhili could follow the agreement and let Ye Mingyu and others go.

Otherwise... She looked at the basket on the table, and the broken pieces of the plate were also extremely sharp. It was not easy to live in this world, but it was easy to die.

She can't lose everything in this deal.

……

It snows heavily in Qingzhou.

The north of Changhe river is the north, and the south of Changhe river is the south. Qingzhou is located on the side of the long river. In spring, it looks like the south, with red flowers and willows, and in winter, it looks like the north, with snow all over the sky.

But even in the bleak winter, the Red Mansions are still warm and lively. Stepping in, it seems that it is still fireworks in March. The young women wore thin gauze skirts, barefoot stepped on the snow-white carpet, and their hands and feet were decorated with thin silver bells, all of which were soft, graceful and charming. The candle was carved into the shape of hibiscus flowers, and bloomed layer by layer with the burning of the candle center. Red curtain gold powder, singing and dancing, a sales Treasury contains countless jewelry, as well as beauties who can't buy jewelry.

There are officials in official clothes, scholars in white, swordsmen and dissolute CHILDES. One night here is just for seeking comfort and warmth in winter. There is no difference between noble and humble.

On the second floor, bead curtains cut off every room. Under the light, the glittering bead curtain looks like crystal flowers flying around in the legendary dragon palace. It's also like the ice on the trees outside the snow-white earth in winter. People can't help but pity it. After a while, the beautiful scenery melts and the spring night is no longer.

There is a play on the stage.

In the red chamber, there has never been a theater troupe on stage before. Only women's singing, dancing, piano playing, and theatrical troupe are things that ladies and ladies of rich families love to see. Everything here is for men. Today's theatrical troupe is naturally men's idea, and this guest can make the landlady of the red chamber change her mind, which shows that she has made a lot of money.

The troupe on the stage is not singing anything else, it is the "Farewell My Concubine", which many ladies and wives like to listen to most. It has been a sad fact since ancient times that beauties bid farewell to heroes. People sigh for heroes, some people admire the beauty's love and righteousness, some people think that becoming a king and defeating the enemy, and others think that everything is just other people's joys and sorrows. Once you see a play, you forget it.

There are beauties in the hall, on the stage, and in the Pearl curtain, there is a beauty in red. His red robe was as gorgeous as a flash of fire, and slowly spread down. The black Python is embroidered on the edge of the robe, adding a gloomy feeling to the gorgeous color. However, his face is extremely beautiful, more beautiful than the Yuji who is painted with oil paint on the stage and is said to fall in love with the city. A pair of affectionate amber Phoenix eyes seemed drunk, and the corners of his lips were smiling. The pearly light of Hibiscus was reflected on the bead curtain, crossed his long eyelashes, and the straight bridge of his nose fell on his ruddy thin lips. He held a gorgeous folding fan in his hand and shook it gently.

As if to dispel the frivolity and heat in the room.

Beside him, there were also some other people, all of whom were jade belts in royal clothes, as if they were ordinary childies, but they didn't smile on their faces, and all of them became a stationary foil, a total of six people. Sitting around the man in red, it was Zhao Ke and Wen Ji who stood out.

The color in the bead curtain is even more attractive than the girls in the whole red building, but it is blocked by the bead curtain, isolating the peeping eyes of outsiders. In the tea cup on the table, the aftertaste of green tea, and in the censer beside it, the fragrance curls.

The people on the stage are singing, "dare to break into the tiger's den and lead the Dragon into the beach. The king is a thousand years old when Li zuocha, the minister in trouble, sees driving!"

The word "good" suddenly burst out in the next room! After the applause, the sidewalk gave a "reward". From a room on the second floor, a ingot of gold ingot flew over the top of the actors singing on the stage and fell on the silver plate used to put the teapot on the front table. The end is straight, just in the upper left corner.

The people under the stage were stunned, cheered, and looked upstairs one after another.

Ji Xuan kept playing with the fan and slightly turned her head, as if she wanted to see who was in the next room through the bead curtain.

The actors on the stage won't care about this and continue to sing. It doesn't matter what you do. Even if someone suddenly comes on stage to assassinate, as long as the person is not dead, you have to finish the trick. Pear garden children are like this, otherwise it will be a miserable end to annoy the noble people.

Singing on the stage, the people in the bead curtain next door kept shouting the word "good". Ingots of gold ingots flew downstairs, all of them landed on the silver plate, impartial and neat. The applause downstairs was louder. The actors sang more vigorously, one by one, hoping for love, and the people who were almost about to be surrounded were full of blood, breaking their hearts and intestines.

When it was sung, "the lonely heart has been settled, there is no need to play more. It is exactly: today, Mr. de will win, and the army of Han will be launched today." Ji hung put away her folding fan and stood up.

He lifted the bead curtain and went out.

Other people in the room followed, and saw the young man in red walk to the next room - the room that always throws out gold ingots, with a fan to pick the curtain, not invited to enter.

That is a table of guests.

The good wine and dishes on the table are all beef and Baijiu, which are extremely crude. A total of seven people, cloth and leather boots, described as rough and luxurious, as if they were born in the army. Headed by a middle-aged man, tall and handsome, resolute and rough, he was holding a dagger, forcefully cutting off a piece of beef, chewing it in his mouth, and then pouring a jar of good wine on his head, which only made people see the blood surging up. This person is no one else, it is the king of Xia County, Yin Zhan.

Ji Heng and the six men in royal clothes behind him came in.

After drinking, Yan Zhan shook the wine jar, wiped his mouth, and said happily. Then he looked at Ji Xuan, and he laughed loudly, "Duke Su is also here, please!"

Ji Heng didn't refuse and sat down leisurely.

The room was huge and spacious, and Yan Zhan's people only sat half of the long table. It seems that the other half is specially left to Ji Heng's people, as if they knew Ji Heng would come long ago. The two of them sat at two ends of the long table. Yin Zhanchao Ji held up the wine jar, Ji smiled gently, and Wen Ji handed over a wine pot. He put his head on one hand and looked up to pick up the wine, which was romantic, gorgeous and unrestrained.

A toast.

Ji Xuan raised the corner of his mouth, "Xia Jun Wang is really easy to find."

"It was not found by Duke su." Yan Zhan smiled indifferently, "the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead!" Raise the altar again: "please!"

The laughter of women outside, the ridicule of men, and the cheers of spectators were all gone in an instant. In addition to the guests at the table in the bead curtain, only the actors on the stage outside are still singing.

"The light of the toad is extinguished, and the golden wind is bleak. I remember how many stars and frost I have experienced since I entered the battlefield. When did I get it, I returned to my hometown's wish, and the weapons were destroyed by the sun and moonlight." Yu Ji turned around and her voice was sad and desolate: "Yu Ji, under the overlord of the Western Chu Dynasty, grew up in a boudoir, and Youxian was a Book sword; since the king was determined, the eastern expedition and western war have been difficult and hard, and I don't know when peace will be achieved!"

"Yuji, Yuji!" This sentence was spoken by Yan Zhan. His expression was disappointed, as if he remembered something, and he drank a glass of wine.

Ji Xuan looked at him and said with a smile: "the king of Xia Jun felt it. I don't know whether he thought of Lin jou Chia or my mother, Yu Hongye."

Yan Zhan held the action of the wine jar and froze. A moment later, he looked at Ji Heng and said with a loud smile, "Hong Ye! The son born to Hong Ye is really as smart as Hong Ye."

Ji Xuan took the wine pot and poured a small cup of wine for himself. He took a sip and said with a smile, "unfortunately, no matter how smart, he died in the hands of the king of Xia Jun."

This sentence is neither light nor heavy. All the guests who used to talk and laugh were silent. No matter the rough man in linen leather boots or the childe brother in Royal jade belt, it seems that he didn't hear this sentence. Still eat, drink, but don't talk.

The atmosphere at the banquet was quiet to weird, and from the weird, there was a kind of sadness.

The play outside continued until Han Xin ambushed on all sides and got down the Malay Mountaineering Road. Eight Han generals held flags and arranged the formation. Li zuoche led Xiang Yu into the formation.

"King of Xia County," Ji Heng said with a smile, "ambush on all sides, is this play very familiar? Did you think of anything? Do you need me to remind you, 23 years ago, in Hongshan temple, how did you lure your brother and my father into it? Hundreds of archers blocked the road, and the arrows were poisoned. The world praised general Zhaode's great husband, who was indomitable and upright. He forgot a word, no poison, no husband, didn't he?"

Yan Zhan looked at the young man in front of him. The young man's beauty, even if it was about the tragedy of his biological father and mother, could also be with a casual smile. Ferocious cruelty appeared in that smile, which almost devoured people. It seemed that there was evil innocence hidden in it, so that people would fall into a trap and never get up again if they were not careful.

In front of him, Ji Hong's face suddenly blurred, like Ji Minghan, his best friend who always slapped him on the shoulder and laughed, or Yu Hongye, who was bright, sharp and gorgeous.

Twenty three years ago, when Dongxia invaded, the young general Jin Wu led the army. Yu Hongye of Yanjing died of a serious illness before Ji Minghan returned. The world didn't know what the secret was, only that the servants inside and outside Ji's family had been replaced. Since then, Ji Minghan disappeared, leaving Ji Heng and old general Ji dependent on each other.

No one cares what the truth is like. Time is like a long river, burying all the bright colors, becoming old and insignificant, sinking at the bottom of the river, and finally never being mentioned again. However, not everyone will forget.

How did Yu Hongye die?

Yin Zhan remembered that afternoon decades ago, when he and the Empress Dowager were hanging out in a corner of the palace, who could have thought that Yu Hongye appeared at that time. She came out just right, so that the palace man who was watching the wind outside didn't find it. Up to now, Yin Zhan still can't think of a reason why Yu Hongye appeared at that time.

But this is the great sin of the harem of fornication, and the great sin of beheading. Yin Zhan still hesitated, and the Empress Dowager had made the palace people around her catch Yu Hongye.

Yu Hongye gave birth to Ji Hong less than a year ago, and Yin Zhan couldn't bear to start. Although the concubine of the Yu family is only a concubine, she is famous all over the world. She is gorgeous and colorful. She is the woman Ji Minghan loves. It's not a good time. He still remembers that when he accompanied Ji Minghan to go to Yu Hongye, he sang when drinking and knocked on the joy of drinking. Then carefree became murderous. How did he attack his sister-in-law.

Lin jou Jia looked at him and said coldly, "Yin Zhan, do you want to kill me?"

At that moment, Yan Zhan suddenly understood. He didn't hesitate any more, and even let his men rape Yu Hongye and kill her, and threw it at the door of Ji's house at night. Only in this way, for a humiliated body, the Ji family must not dare to say anything in order to protect their face. And his good brother Ji Minghan, who loves Yu Hongye so much, will not let Yu Hongye be pointed out after her death.

Everything is like his plan.

Ji Xuan played with the folding fan in his hand. His red clothes were in the midst of the banquet, and his voice was still with a smile, but the smile was particularly gloomy and bone chilling. "I saw my mother's body with my own eyes."

With a light sentence, Yin Zhan suddenly understood what Ji Xuan meant.

Can one year old children have memories? Can you be sensible? But maybe there is. Having seen such a scene, it may be the first day in his life when he came into contact with darkness. This day came too early, so he fell into hell early, made a deal with the devil, and returned to the world again.

Yan Zhan laughed and poured a few mouthfuls of wine, saying to Ji Xuan, "that's really sorry!"

Everything was as Yin Zhan and Lin jou Jia expected. Yu Hongye was the daughter of a criminal minister and a concubine. She had been demoted to the brothel before. Ji Minghan had committed public anger by marrying Yu Hongye despite the family's obstruction. Now Yu Hongye is dead, which is in agreement with the people in Ji family. When Ji Minghan, who returned triumphantly, learned that his wife was dead and wanted to find justice for her, he was blocked by all Ji family elders.

They said that such scandals should not be publicized, and the Ji family should not become a joke of the world. Isn't everyone happy to be buried on the charge of serious illness? Does he want people all over the world to know what happened to Yu Hongye before she died? Her body is not clean. Does she really answer that sentence, beauty is a disaster?

Even old general Ji came to comfort Ji Minghan not to say anything, so he swallowed this tone.

Ji Minghan was furious and vowed to leave the Ji family group and cut off contact with the Ji family. After that, he left Ji Heng with old general Ji and rushed to find the real murderer.

It was not an easy day.

In fact, Yin Zhan didn't want to kill Ji Minghan. There were countless good men and heroes in the world. He had to sympathize with Ji Minghan. I only wish that one day they could go to the battlefield together and fight the enemy together. They talked about the setting sun in the desert, the crescent moon in the snow mountains, the bloodthirsty wolves, and the swamp covered with poisonous snakes. They used to fight wine together in the building, and they also used to race horses in the martial arts field. Some people are as white as new, others are as old as ever. Yin Zhan believes that the woman he loves most in the world is Lin jou Chia, and the man he appreciates most is Ji Minghan.

Brotherhood, brotherhood, how can he give Ji Minghan a hand?

Yu Ji is singing, "since I joined the king in the East expedition to the west railway station, I have been subjected to wind, frost and toil year after year. I only hate that Wudao Qin has wiped out the lives of the people and only caused all the people to suffer."

Xiang Yu said, "the gun picked up several generals in the Han camp. How can you guard against the burial of ten sides even if you are brave?"

With a faint smile, Ji Xuan felt a thumb sized pearl from her sleeve. With a wave of the fan, the Pearl flew straight out of the tea curtain. She heard a "plop". The Pearl landed firmly on the table on the first floor, beside the silver plate with gold ingots, in a small Emerald bowl.

"Good craftsmanship!" Yin Zhan applauded.

"Xia Jun Wang's archery," Ji Heng said in his spare time, "is also unique."

Yin Zhan laughed but didn't speak.

After Yu Hongye died, Ji Minghan never gave up looking for the real murderer. Even if the Yan family did not agree, even if it was to leave the Yan family, Ji Minghan would pay all costs to revenge Yu Hongye.

At first, Yin Zhan didn't take it to heart, but Ji Minghan was too hurried. The world only says that generals only know how to fight. How can Wufu be scheming. But I don't know that Ji Minghan is a brave general, but also a clever strategist. He was never stupid, his brain was flexible, and gradually he found some clues.

Ji Minghan was alone and didn't watch out for Yin Zhan. He probably never thought that his good brother had any reason to kill his wife. He told Yin Zhan the clues he got, and Yin Zhan gradually perceived the crisis. Although he and Lin jou Chia are not involved at the moment, as time goes by, he must have something to do with Lin jou Chia.

Yin Zhan himself was fine, but Lin jou Jia couldn't die. Lin jou Jia was pregnant.

In the palace, because of the relationship of framing the beloved imperial concubine, Lin jou Chia, in order to prove her innocence, took the initiative to go to the Hongshan Temple thousands of miles away to worship Buddha on the wall, which was actually raising the fetus. If Ji Minghan finds out at this time, once Yin Zhan and Lin jou Jia are exposed, not only he and Lin jou Jia, but also innocent children will die. For this unborn child, Yin Zhan responded with great expectations. In order to protect Lin jou Jia and protect this child, Yin Zhan can sacrifice everything, including Ji Minghan.

He told Ji Minghan that he had found the evidence of the murderer, which was of great importance, but he was in the red mountain temple at the moment, and asked Ji Minghan to come. In the Hongshan temple, Yin Zhan ambushed hundreds of archers. In order to be safe, the arrows were quenched with the deadly poison of desert orchid, and the blood sealed their throats.

It was a very cold spring night. Up to now, Yin Zhan didn't know that it was clearly spring day. How could the wind of that night be so cold, as if it was going to pierce people's bones, as if the lake could be frozen for a moment. Ji Minghan responded with complete trust to him, never setting up defenses, and he went into an ambush.

Just as the "several generals of the Han camp are speared. However, we are outnumbered and difficult to win" was sung on the stage.

The soldiers in the account have also heard the play of "ambush on all sides". Everyone knows that you can't sell your name and learn from overlord, but when you are in it, there is no saying that "victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers". No second life can make a comeback. Victory means victory, and defeat means defeat. Yan Zhan watched Ji Minghan break into the ambush like a trapped beast. He fought hundreds with one enemy. Even if he was outnumbered, he still showed unexpected bravery. Ji Minghan was extremely smart. When he found himself in a trap, he immediately stopped fighting and aimed to escape.

Yan Zhan stood high and shot a vital arrow at the man who was trying to break through the siege.

The arrow hit Ji Minghan's back, and Yan Zhan was about to catch up, when other voices suddenly sounded all over the sky, and Yan Zhan had to stop. He can't make his movements too big, otherwise he will be found out the abnormality of Hongshan temple, and what about Lin jou Chia's situation? But he was sure that Ji Minghan would not survive tonight. The poison on the arrow was very powerful. Since he shot Ji Minghan, he would die without doubt. Therefore, he just secretly sent his men to search for Ji Minghan's body.

But Ji Minghan disappeared.

For a long time after this, Yin Zhan inquired everywhere about Ji Minghan's whereabouts. He even tried to test the Ji family, but got nothing. Ji Minghan seems to have disappeared from the world. Ji Heng grew up in the government. If Ji Minghan is still alive, he should always come to see Yu Hongye's son. But no.

He probably died somewhere.

Yin Zhan sighed.

Then Lin jou Chia gave birth to a son. He exchanged Lin jou Chia's son with his wife's son and killed his wife's son. In order to dispel the suspicion of the former Emperor, he took a wife and had children, left Yanjing City, moved to the clouds, and raised Yin Zhili.

Many years have passed, and life seems to be very calm. Leaving the familiar environment and being strangers, Yan Zhan himself forgot that his hands were bloody and crazy for Lin jou Chia. This is different from the bloodshed on the battlefield. On the battlefield, he protects the people and the country. Now... He deceives his friends, kills his family and even his son, and betrays his brothers and sisters.

Regret it? It doesn't make any sense. Once this road goes forward, he can't turn back. Otherwise, except for the people he killed, he can't even protect the most important things in his life.

Yin Zhan once had a dream. With the death of Ji Minghan and Yu Hongye, no one will find the stains of the past. He can smoothly start his plan, start and end by himself. What is left to Yin Zhili is an innocent country.

But when he came back, he knew at the first sight of Ji Heng that the dream was broken. Ji Minghan and Yu Hongye never left. Ji Heng knows everything. Just as he has been planning in the clouds, Ji Heng has also been dormant in Yanjing. They are evenly matched and compete with each other. Most importantly, Ji Heng is young and strong, which is a good time, and he is old.

He can't be as brave as he was then, but there may be another thing he can do, which is more despicable than that.

"Xia Jun Wang is actually a very despicable person." Ji Heng smiled and drank a cup of wine, "but I have done a lot of despicable things over the years. So it's meaningless." He stared into the eyes of Xia Jun Wang and said slowly, "do you want to compare, are you mean or am I mean?"

Yin Zhan was stunned.

The beauty in red said and laughed, and her tone was full of murders that could not be concealed, as if yu Hongye had been in those days. No, he was more insidious, cruel and shrewd than Yu Hongye. He sat in front of himself and collected the debt.

Debts owed 23 years ago.





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