Li Ao looked at these guards, only surprised for a moment, and soon that frightened expression disappeared, everything was just what he pretended to show outsiders.

Seeing this scene, Tao Ziyuan took a deep breath, she was cautious and guarded, but she believed in a person who should not be believed.

"Are these young samurai the guards of the Storm Pavilion?"

Li Ao asked, his eyes calm, looking at the guards around him, as if his life was not in the hands of these people.

"Yes. ”

Tao Ziyuan sat in a chair, if she could, she would have wanted to kill him with a sword, for the sake of the brothers who had died in the past few months for the sake of investigation.

"I'm not from the Demon Race. Li Ao smiled faintly, as if he understood her thoughts,

"So, ma'am, these guards of yours shouldn't have aimed their swords at me. ”

"Grab it and bring it back to the Storm Pavilion. Tao Ziyuan stood up, the guards next to him rushed up, and Li Ao, who should have been trapped under the use of various forbidden techniques, suddenly disappeared in place in the next moment and appeared in front of Tao Ziyuan.

"What a pity, Madame, for the Holy Gate is about to be opened, and the calamity of this ancient country is about to begin, and even the heavens can no longer bless you. ”

As soon as the words fell, Tao Ziyuan just raised the blue feather fan, and the shadow of that person was already gone.

Only one pen was left at his feet.

There are some characters engraved on it, and Tao Ziyuan groped carefully, probably the word "earl".

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The Holy Gate is about to be opened, and the catastrophe that belongs to the dynasty is soon coming.

Tao Ziyuan also heard the smug voices of those people in the Storm Pavilion, and saw ugly faces, invading and hurting the people of this land.

And they were trapped in the Storm Pavilion by the same magician, He Jiu disappeared, most of the people in the Storm Pavilion were killed and injured, and only a few people were unharmed, but they were also exhausted.

Chen Yan fought with a red-robed Xuanshi elsewhere, and the victory was not scored, and most of the remaining Storm Pavilion were also the Tisi of various departments, except for Tao Ziyuan and Ling Yuan, most of them were scarred.

Tao Ziyuan looked around, and several of the people on the opposite side saw it in the Yandu Mansion that night, including Nangong Li.

And Yan Feng was injured by her poisonous insects, and her life and death are still uncertain.

The once glorious Storm Pavilion is destined to come to an end, as if this dynasty will finally be opened.

Everything just happened in the fifth year of Li Ao's departure. Tao Zikite was twenty years old that year.

At the age of twenty, he is no longer a young and frivolous person, so Tao Ziyuan can see very clearly that they lost this battle, and the emperor also lost.

Those people could obviously kill all the people in the Storm Pavilion, but they left suddenly, leaving behind the broken Storm Pavilion, and the cherry blossoms at the door instantly lost their lustre.

And under that tree, Tao Zikite found a corpse, a gray-haired old man, who didn't even say the last word to himself, and left suddenly.

The cold temperature of her arms seemed to be something gradually moving away from her, and by the third day she had completely forgotten the name of the man and the fact that he had ever existed.

The people of the time and space of the district broke through Yandu, Tao Ziyuan saw it in Bilin Hall, those people wore clothes similar to Li Ao, swaggered into the city, showing off their might, announcing their victory.

Burning, killing and looting, acting arbitrarily, the once glorious Yandu City has become a ruin.

The ministers in the court were divided into two factions, one faction sought peace, and the other faction sought war, but the war was the result of losing.

Li Xiangqing, who was the official to the prime minister, was still sent to negotiate peace, and among the people accompanying him was Tao Ziyuan, who was responsible for Li Xiangqing's safety as the captain of Fengbo Pavilion.

The location of the peace was on the ship built by Li Ao himself, and the moment he stepped on the deck, Tao Ziyuan suddenly understood that this ship that they had searched for a long time was only built for the victory of the army, and it was ridiculous that the former emperor invested a lot of money in it, but it also became the biggest irony.

A major general with short black hair and two beards spoke a language that did not belong to this dynasty, and his eyes were full of contempt, Tao Ziyuan glanced at him and said to Li Xiangqing next to him,

"Lord Li, please. ”

If he had a choice, Li Xiangqing didn't want to set foot on this boat, he got his wish to pay homage to the prime minister, but he never thought that there would be such a shameful day.

Regarding the fact that Tao Ziyuan could understand their words, the major general was obviously a little surprised, and the translator next to him seemed a little redundant.

"20,000 taels? You might as well rob it! It's too much, and our annual tax revenue is only 90 million taels, which requires us to collect three more layers of taxes, how can you let the people live!"

Li Xiangqing's hands trembled angrily, he was not a person who was moody, but at this moment, Tao Ziyuan, who was sitting beside him, felt his monstrous anger, but this anger could not solve anything.

There was only the back of the other party's arrogant turn, "Lord Li, think about it, and we will sign the contract in three days." ”

The general's contemptuous gaze was deeply engraved in Tao Ziyuan's heart.

Back to the former mansion, the elegance of the former mansion that had been destroyed by those barbarians has long been gone, only the dilapidated ruins.

Li Xiangqing suddenly fell to the ground and couldn't afford to get sick.

He was thirty years old that year, but when he woke up sick, he had gray hair, like he was fifty years old.

Tao Ziyuan handed the porridge she cooked to the bedside,

"Let's make do with it, there is no proper cook in Yandu City now. ”

Outside is even more chaotic than in this courtyard, and the streets and alleys are noisy, even if those people are slightly restrained because of the peace talks, they are still panicked.

I don't know who spread the news that they would pay 20,000 taels in compensation, the outside of the courtyard has been surrounded, and the soldiers of the court have also been smashed by rotten eggs and can't raise their heads, so they have to retreat into the courtyard.

"It's already very good, isn't life just for a bowl of porridge?"

Li Xiangqing said lightly, took the porridge bowl, and regardless of the taste, he drank it one by one, looking as if he was practicing himself.

"Get out of here. Li Xiangqing said suddenly, Tao Ziyuan's hand holding the porridge bowl shook, his eyes were slightly sour, and he instantly turned red.

"I'm not leaving, here's what he wants to protect. ”

"You girl, why is it like this? Don't you understand? The form is bigger than people, even if it changes, it will take decades. You don't have to be here, so why bother with it?"

Li Xiangqing advised, hoping that someone would leave here, even if it was one person. You don't have to look at the faces of those people, you don't have to be angry with this shame.

"What about you, you can also leave, didn't you leave either?" Tao Ziyuan asked.

Li Xiangqing stared at the somewhat damaged bedtop, which was scratched by a knife,

"My family is still here, so I can't go. ”