(in Jinling City)

On this day, the pavilion where Xiahou Xu and other envoys of the Chu State were located suddenly ushered in the visit of a familiar person, that is, the Situ Lord Xu Jingtong who had greeted them at the city gate before.

According to Xu Jingtong, he came here today only to convey a personal invitation, that is, to invite Xiahou Xu to attend a special dinner hosted for him by General Xu Zhihe.

"General Xu heard that General Cheyenne's daughter has also come to Jinling now, so please ask the general to bring his little daughter to the banquet." Xu Jingtong first loudly conveyed the content of the invitation to everyone, and then he leaned into Xiahou Xu's ear and whispered a few words.

Xiahou Xu's face suddenly became a little frightened and embarrassed, but because Xu Zhihe's power in Wu State could be said to cover the sky with one hand, he had no choice but to bring Xiahou Cheng to the banquet.

After three rounds of wine during the banquet, Xu Zhihe chatted with Xiahou Xu for a long time, and suddenly changed his words, and asked Xiahou Xu how much he knew about the situation on Broken Blade Island.

Xiahou Xu, who came to Wu for the first time, suddenly felt that Xu Zhihe was a little unclear about what he asked, so he had to reply hesitantly that he didn't know much about the situation there.

"Oh, that's a bit nerve-wracking." Xu Zhihe scratched his head with a serious face, and at the same time stared at the wine glass in his hand and said to himself.

At this moment, a person dressed as a small servant next to Xu Zhihe stepped forward and pretended to add wine to Xiahou Xu, but in fact, he quietly added poison to the wine poured to Xiahou Xu.

After Xiahou Xu drank the poisoned wine with the same face, everyone present unexpectedly gradually felt unwell, and then began to twitch next to the wine table with foaming at the mouth, which immediately made Xiahou Xu, who was sitting next to him, also dumbfounded by this situation.

"For ...... Why? Xiahou Xu asked Xu Zhihe with wide frightened eyes.

Before Xu Zhihe answered, the little guy who was standing in front of Xiahou Xu at this time slowly tore off the disguise on his face.

"This Meng Yan young man sold me a lot of information about Broken Blade Island, and correspondingly, I also need to pay some costs to repay others. So since General Cheyenne is of no use to me, then I have no choice but to comply with the seller's wishes and hand over your father and daughter to him to dispose of, don't blame me, hehe! Xu Zhihe said to Xiahou Xu with a disdainful sneer, and then he got up and left the banquet scene.

"General Xu is doing this, isn't he afraid that Wu and Chu will go to war again?" Xiahou Xu endured the severe pain in his body and asked Xu Zhihe.

"Hehe, anyway, sooner or later the State of Chu will be annexed by my Great Wu, if the State of Chu dares to go to war against our country because of your death, it will save a lot of trouble. Do you say it, General Xiahou Xu, the former Xuanwu Wei Zhonglang General of Shu State? Xu Zhihe sneered at Xiahou Xu and turned to ask him arrogantly.

Although his true identity has been exposed at this moment, Xiahou Xu is still trying his best to get out of this "Hongmen Banquet".

"Xiahou old thief, from the moment you and King Mu joined forces to kill my father and mother, you should also think that you will have today, right?" Meng Yan held a long knife in his hand, and approached Xiahou Xu's father and daughter step by step in anger.

Seeing that Xiahou Xu was about to die at Meng Yan's hands, at this moment, a black-clothed man whose whole body was tightly wrapped in a heavy black robe suddenly jumped from the roof. After eliminating several guards from the General's Mansion around Xiahou Xu at an extremely fast speed, and easily defusing Meng Yan's moves, the man in black quickly fled from the General's Mansion as soon as he picked up Xiahou Xu.

And when Meng Yan reacted and was about to retreat to find Xiahou Regret, he only inadvertently caught a glimpse of Xiahou Regret's figure running towards the inner courtyard of the Xu Mansion.

At this moment, Xu Zhihe's youngest daughter Xu Yanyan, who was wearing a crystal jade pendant and gorgeous clothes, seemed to be dressed as a lady, and happened to be followed by several personal maids, pacing towards the main hall where Xu Zhihe was. So, as expected, Xiahou regret, who fled here, fell into Xu Yanyan's arms by mistake, instantly scaring Xu Yanyan, who was completely unaware of the situation outside.

Meng Yan, who followed the trail and came here, only wanted to kill Xiahou Cheng at this time, so he disregarded the safety of the others and forcibly launched several Wind Thunder Hall's unique secret weapon dragon slaying darts to Xiahou Cheng's location.

Seeing that several of the darts were shooting straight towards the panicked Xu Yanyan, at this moment, a figure suddenly blocked in front of Xu Yanyan, and the other figure also threw Xiahou Cheng to the ground at the same time.

The moment the two of them staggered, Xu Yanyan saw Ling Rui's green and handsome face clearly through her frightened eyes. As she leaned down to check on Ling Rui's injuries with concern, Xu Yanyan gradually noticed that the frequency of her heartbeat seemed to increase involuntarily, a wonderful feeling she had never experienced in her previous sixteen years of growing up.

"Quick, take her away!" Ling Rui, who had been hit by several darts in his body, fell to the ground weakly and roared at Gao Che, and Gao Che, who had just saved Xiahou Repentance, gritted his teeth after staring at Ling Rui and thinking about it again, and left the Xu Mansion with Xiahou Repentance over the wall.

"On the contrary, you dare to hurt my daughter, left and right, go up and take him down!" Xu Zhihe rushed over in time with a large group of guards, ready to capture Meng Yan.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Meng Yan quickly whistled, and several Feng Lei Tang killers who were hiding in various parts of the Xu Mansion appeared to help him take Ling Rui, who had fallen into a coma, and several of them then fled from the Xu Mansion quickly.

"Yanyan, are you okay?" Xu Zhihe asked Xu Yanyan with an anxious face.

"I'm fine, Dad, it was that son who saved me before, and now he has been captured by gangsters, you must find a way to save him, ah!" Xu Yanyan begged Xu Zhihe to rescue Ling Rui with a faint cry, and at this moment, in her heart, an ignorant emotional seed had gradually begun to take root.

"General, there's news from the Jinghai Courtyard, everything is ready." A guard suddenly ran to Xu Zhihe's side at this time and reported to him.

"Jinghai Yard? Dad, are you going to sea? Xu Yanyan felt a little puzzled and asked Xu Zhihe.

"Well, I'm going to do something on an island by royal order. Child, today you are frightened, rest well at home, I will be back soon. Xu Zhihe shook Xu Yanyan's hand with caring eyes, and then led a group of cronies and officers to leave the Xu Mansion.

After bidding farewell to Xu Zhihe, Xu Yanyan, who was standing in front of the door of the Xu Mansion, thought about the situation just now without distraction, especially the deep and resolute eyes that Ling Rui showed at that time, which continued to appear in her mind.

"Who the hell is he? Why do I feel this way? While Xu Yanyan secretly asked herself in her heart, she entrusted her brother Xu Jingtong to investigate the whereabouts of Meng Yan and the others, trying to rescue Ling Rui alone without relying on Xu Zhihe.

On the other side, Ling Rui was dragged by Meng Yan and others to a remote house similar to a warehouse.

"Ling Rui, thinking about the past feelings, I don't embarrass you. That stinky girl is not related to you, as long as you tell me where Gao took her, I will let you go immediately! With a somewhat grim expression, Meng Yan stepped forward to Ling Rui's ear and whispered, "Until now, I am still grateful to you for rescuing me from the Shu Kingdom Palace. As long as you don't get in my way, we'll still be good brothers! ”

"Heh, I didn't know you very well since you turned the object of your revenge into that little girl." Ling Rui said with a sneer with an indifferent expression.

"Why are you doing this? For the sake of an irrelevant person, he insisted on going against me! Meng Yan gradually became a little annoyed and angry.

"Yes, as long as I still have a breath of air, I will never let any innocent person around me die in vain, no matter who the person who tried to hurt her in vain!" With extremely resolute eyes, Ling Rui said categorically to Meng Yan, who had gradually lost his mind.

"Okay, you forced me to do this, come on, tie him up for me!" With an expression that gradually became distorted by resentment, Meng Yan instructed his men to tie Ling Rui to a special wooden frame in the room.

After this, a group of killers from the Wind Thunder Hall began to torture and torture Ling Rui with various torture instruments. However, from beginning to end, Ling Rui didn't say anything to Meng Yan and the others, except for a few gasps from the severe pain.

This kind of torture lasted for one to two hours, and Ling Rui, who was covered in bruises, gradually became in a trance.

"It is worthy of being the master's favorite person in the Yunsheng Martial Arts Pavilion, it seems that I have to change the way to make you sober up." As he spoke, Meng Yan ordered his men to grab their tools and prepare to pull out Ling Rui's teeth one by one.

At the critical moment, several bows and arrows were suddenly shot into the house from outside the house, and the Wind Thunder Hall killers drew their blades to resist in panic.

It turned out that it was Xu Yanyan who knew about this place through the eyes and ears of the Xu family's extensive arrangement in Guangling City, so she personally brought more than a dozen soldiers subordinate to Xu Zhihe who were willing to help her, and hurried to rescue Ling Rui.

"Hmph, it's not enough!" Meng Yan was expressionless and rushed out with a big knife in his hand, and the government soldiers brought by Xu Yanyan were not Meng Yan's opponents at all after falling into close combat, and after a while, more than a dozen government soldiers were killed and injured under Meng Yan's killing.

"You...... Don't come here, if you dare to touch a single hair of me, my father will definitely not let you go! Seeing that there was no one who could protect her, Xu Yanyan, who was only accompanied by a maid, suddenly became very afraid.

"By the way, if you're there, he might be relieved." Meng Yan seemed to suddenly realize this method of using Xu Yanyan to threaten Ling Rui, so he prepared to step forward and capture Xu Yanyan.

At this moment, a spear repelled the broadsword that stretched out towards Xu Yanyan, and Gao Che, who was holding this spear, also killed it from the side in time.

"Hehe, General Gao, it's been a long time." Meng Yan carried the big knife on his shoulder, and at the same time he said to Gao Che with a slight sneer. "It's just right, you helped Xiahou Xu kill my father's revenge, I should also settle it with you!"

"Wow, did Brother Meng misunderstand something, I'm just a poor helper, I'm afraid it's not my turn to do this kind of thing that harms your parents, right?" Although Gao Che flatly denied that he had anything to do with framing King Jin's family, Meng Yan still planned to vent all the anger hidden in his heart at the moment on Gao Che.

The two men then fought in the dust and fallen leaves, and the sound of spears and blades colliding violently resounded over the battle scene.

On the other hand, while Meng Yan and Gao Che were fighting fiercely, Xiahou Cheng, who had also come here, quietly started setting fire to the house. Then, she took advantage of the fact that several Wind Thunder Hall killers were busy putting out the fire, and quietly rescued Ling Rui and carried her out of the house.

"Why are you here, get out of here, everyone here wants your life!" Ling Rui, who was in a trance, saw that the person who carried him was Xia Hou Regret, so he hurriedly persuaded Xia Hou Regret to leave here immediately.

"I don't want Brother Ling Rui to be killed by the bad guys because of me, if that's the case, Sister He'er will be too pitiful." Xia Hou regret said to Ling Rui with an excited expression while panting.

Meng Yan, who reacted when he saw the firelight, quickly turned back to look for Ling Rui, and after some searching, he inadvertently bumped into the figure of Xiahou Cheng who was running out with Ling Rui on his back.

Meng Yan immediately quickly took out his iron bow and shot three arrows in a row at Xiahou Cheng's location, but they were all defused one by one by Gao Che, who appeared in time and blocked in front of Meng Yan.

Subsequently, seeing that a large number of officers and soldiers were hurrying towards here, Meng Yan, who was unwilling in his heart, had no choice but to quickly flee the scene with the remaining few Feng Lei Tang killers.

"Childe, please stay!" Xu Yanyan, who had already guessed their retreat route, came here one step ahead of them, and such an accurate prediction ability made Gao Che feel a little surprised in an instant, "Seeing that Gongzi's injury is serious, the little woman still hopes that Gongzi can move to Xu's Mansion and let the little woman do her best to help Gongzi heal." ”

Gao Che and Xiahou regret looked at each other at a loss for a while, but Ling Rui woke up in time at this moment and politely rejected Xu Yanyan's kindness with a soothing tone.

"Why did Childe refuse? Don't you have any prejudices about the little woman? Xu Yanyan asked a little paranoidly.

"Miss Xu misunderstood, I thank Miss Xu for her kindness, but now I urgently need to save a person who is very important to me, and I hope that Miss Haihan is rude." Ling Rui insisted on standing in front of Xu Yanyan with pain all over his body, and after saluting him, he explained the reason for his refusal.

"That'...... Can we ever see each other again? Xu Yanyan reluctantly asked Ling Rui.

"The rivers and lakes are fateful, we will see you again, take care girl!" Ling Rui replied to Xu Yanyan with a warm smile, and then embarked on the road to Hangzhou with Gao Che and Xiahou Cheng.

Looking at the handsome back of Ling Rui riding away against the backdrop of the brilliant sunset, Xu Yanyan silently left a satisfied and meaningful smile on the corner of her mouth.