Late at night on September 14, the second year of Shaoxi, at this time, in the courtyard of the Yan family in West Lake, Fang Fei's cheeks under the candle flame slightly recovered a trace of blood, and she was still held in Ye Qing's arms and went downstairs.

The wind drifted in from the broken window, with a faint smell of blood, the first floor was brightly lit at the moment, Zhong Silkworm had some blood stains on his body, saw Ye Qing going downstairs, hurriedly walked over, and said: "My lord, there are a total of seventy-three assassins, and they didn't alarm the neighbors too much, these people are all fresh faces, and the general will not be able to identify them, I am afraid that Tao Qian, the old oil ......, is still needed." ”

"No need, Tao Qian's Tonghuifang Mansion should be fine, since people are here, they will definitely not provoke Tao Qian, not to mention that we are not in Tonghuifang." Ye Qing frowned and walked outside the courtyard, under the light of the torches, looked at the rows of corpses on the ground that were about to pile up, and then sighed at the endless night, and said, "Prepare the car, go back to Lin'ancheng." ”

"Now?" Zhong Silkworm almost jumped up.

"Not bad." Ye Qing nodded and said.

"My lord, the night is dark and the wind is high, I'm afraid it's not safe on this road, it's better to ...... tomorrow." Zhong Silkworm was afraid that these assassins were just the first group tonight, and if there were other people on the way back to Lin'an, it would be a little too passive.

"Tonight's matter is over tonight, if you don't rush back to Lin'an City, I'm afraid it will be chaotic." Ye Qing smiled bitterly, these are unexpected things, but since they have happened, then they have to be solved quickly, and strive to have a peaceful and peaceful morning in Lin'an early tomorrow morning, where nothing has happened.

"Okay, then I'll have this car ready." Zhong Silkworm looked at Ye Qing with a firm expression, and stopped talking nonsense, hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to prepare the car and lead the horse, and then asked, "My lord, what about these corpses?" It's unlucky to put it in the house. ”

"Ignore it, someone will clean it up." Ye Qing beckoned to Fang Fei not far away, and when Fang Fei walked in front of him, the carriage also happened to be in front of him.

As Ye Qing took Fang Fei into the carriage, there were almost more than 100 soldiers of the Flower Cultivation Family behind him, under the leadership of Zhong Silkworm, escorting the carriage and lighting torches in the direction of Lin'an City.

At this time, on the lonely mountain, Emperor Zhao Yan looked at the West Lake, which was originally sleeping in the calm night, and suddenly a bright torch lit up, with a sigh of regret between his expressions, and the footsteps behind him had not yet had time to play, so he said without looking back: "I am clear, Ye Qing can have a living mouth?" ”

"Back to the emperor, there was no living mouth, all seventy-three people were killed, and only one person ran back to the slave and maid to assassinate and failed." Guan Li looked at Zhao Yan's somewhat old and lonely back at that moment and replied.

"Well, I know, it's ...... Let's leave it at that, get it clean. Zhao Yan looked at the smaller and smaller firelight in the distance and left the West Lake, and said with a long sigh again.

"Yes, slave and maid will do it." Guan Li's voice was still calm and respectful.

He couldn't guess the reason why Ye Qing didn't leave a living mouth, and he couldn't guess the reason why the Emperor Taishang just did this, and then immediately let Ye Qing go, but he still knew that the only living mouth who reported back should also follow the seventy-three people to the Netherworld Mansion.

The footsteps behind him gradually faded away, and the firelight in front of him gradually disappeared, and Zhao Yan, who was about to merge with the night, muttered: "I still lost my filial piety in the end, and I failed to remove Ye Qing's heart disease for your father." ”

At this moment, Zhao Yan's mind involuntarily appeared that the words that Zhao Gou had told him when he was dying, the changes in Dali Temple back then made Ye Qing fight a bloody way from the Xinwang Mansion and reach Dali Temple, so that Zhao Gou never had the opportunity to execute Ye Qing again.

And this piece of "heart disease" personally promoted by Zhao Gou naturally fell on Zhao Yan's shoulders, but at that time, Zhao Yan at that time only cared about sad tears and filial piety, but even ignored the political affairs of the court, where did he have time to pay attention to Ye Qing.

And when Zhao Yan came back to his senses and fulfilled his filial piety for more than two years and three years, the court was far from what he was familiar with, especially Ye Qing, who had changed from a courtier who was originally only a meritorious servant to the royal family to a military general and a famous minister who had contributed to the Great Song Dynasty.

After all, if he really wanted to emulate Zhao Gou who treated Yue Fei back then, then the people of the world would probably lose their confidence in the royal family completely, and he, Zhao Yan, could not afford to execute a loyal and patriotic courtier on trumped-up charges.

What's more, at that time, he thought that Wang Huai would be enough to get rid of Ye Qing for him, but who would have thought that in the end, it was Ye Qingdou who defeated Wang Huai, which allowed Zhao Yan to go into battle in person as a last resort.

The affairs of the court are complicated, not only to follow Zhao Gou's will to get rid of Ye Qing, but also to face the prince's covetousness for the throne, and at that time, Han Cheng and Zhao Ruyu became the first courtiers to support the crown prince to succeed to the throne and let themselves take the throne.

At that time, no one knew what he was planning, in short, in the matter of supporting the crown prince to succeed to the throne, Ye Qing did not make a bird, but Han Cheng and Zhao Ruyu came out, which made it extremely difficult for Zhao Yan to ask Ye Qing for the crime, and he couldn't even find an excuse.

Judging from the situation at that time, Ye Qing should be the first person to support the succession of the crown prince, after all, in those years, everyone knew that he was very close to the prince, and even the guards of the prince's mansion used the elite soldiers of the Imperial City Division.

But in the matter of supporting the crown prince to succeed to the throne, Ye Qing, who should have stood up for the first time, chose to retreat at this critical moment, but Zhao Ruyu came out ambitiously, mixed with Han Cheng Seeing that the turmoil in the court had risen, under the general trend, if he didn't express his position again, he was afraid that the position of the left prime minister would be lost, and he had to stand up to support the prince.

Therefore, in such a complicated situation, and the envoys of various countries came to congratulate the new monarch of the Great Song Dynasty on the succession to the throne, Zhao Yan had no extra thoughts to deal with Ye Qing, not to mention that Ye Qing still stood on his side with a slightly vague attitude at that time, and even gave others the illusion that Ye Qing had defected from the prince's camp to him, the Zen emperor.

At this time, Zhao Yan began to show a trace of remorse in his heart, Zhao Gou's death was a huge blow to him, but ignoring the government for a few years, he lost the confidence of the courtiers in him, which is also a fact, so the courtiers began to support the crown prince to succeed to the throne and advise him to take the throne.

"If I could not only keep filial piety, but also take care of the political affairs of the court, I am afraid that I would not have ended up in the current situation, let alone make it so difficult to move Ye Qing." Zhao Yan's tone was with a hint of helplessness, Ye Qing now is far more powerful than in the previous two years, and the more the lost land in the north is recovered, the more difficult it will become to move Ye Qing.

In front of Zhao Ruyu and Han Cheng to reach the conditions of the Zen position, in front of Ye Qing, agreed to let him go north to the Liao Kingdom, Zhao Yan used all the imperial techniques he could use, but the final result was still a failure, and he was still almost able to put Ye Qing to death.

At this time, Zhao Yan's heart gradually felt a sense of powerlessness towards Ye Qing, he had nothing to do, and he didn't know how to complete Zhao Gou's will when he was dying.

Ye Qing was like an immortal bird, and under the assassination of the carefully selected seventy-four people, he left the West Lake unharmed. Under the desperate situation of tens of thousands of Jinxia joint soldiers, they were still able to walk out of Guanshan unharmed, and even had the time to occupy Guanshan and snatch back the three roads of Hetao!

If Zhao Ruyu became the first or only prime minister of the clan since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and can still be accepted by Zhao Gou, Zhao Yan and others, then making Ye Qing the first or only military general with military power since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty is obviously a fact that is difficult for court officials and royal clans to accept.

Zhao Gou promoted Ye Qing back then, and then until Ye Qing was slowly fledgling, he had to start clearing it, and now it feels like overthrowing a mountain in the royal clan and the court, which is enough to show that as a courtier, it is not uncommon to be able to assist three generations of emperors and become the elders of the three dynasties, and like Ye Qing, he can still rise strong under the resistance of three generations of emperors, which makes people feel incredible.

As the so-called current situation creates heroes, it can even be said that if Ye Qing hadn't happened to the times, in the intricate court battles, coupled with his cheating methods that are familiar with the trend of history, he would not have achieved what he is today, I am afraid that he has already followed in the footsteps of Yue Fei, and there is no scum left to be destroyed.

But having said that, it happened to be at this historical turning point that seemed to be peaceful, but in fact had internal and external troubles, when people were busy pushing the direction of history to that familiar trajectory, almost all the loopholes in the current situation were drilled by him Ye Qing, thus creating today's scene under the time of the sky.

Lu Zhong, the commander of the forbidden army, and Wu Gui, the deputy commander, are still with their subordinates, occasionally sighing about the history of Ye Qing, the hero of the Northland, a leader of the forbidden army, in just more than ten years, he has come to this point, Lu Zhong has always believed that it was he who gave Ye Qing the opportunity at that time, which made him out of control and soar into the sky.

So no matter when, Lu Zhong and Wu Gui have always thought that they are the nobles of Ye Qing, the hero of the Northland, and now that the nobles knocked on the city gate, Lu Zhong and Wu Gui were still stunned for a moment.

"You mean...... Is it Lord Ye Qingye who is going to enter the city? Lu Zhong's voice involuntarily said a few degrees higher.

"Lord Commander, this is a fish talisman, and the last general doesn't believe it, but the people outside the city claim that they are the privy envoy Ye Qing." The military general guarding the city gate scratched the back of his head, and when Lu Zhong was not right, he continued: "My lord, the last general thinks that nine times out of ten it is fake, if it is really Lord Ye, the privy envoy, how can he be so polite? According to what you said, Lord Ye should be very ...... today. Very that...... Right? ”

"If you don't say a few words, you can't die, close your mouth and take me to see." Lu Zhong was skeptical, and when he heard his subordinates say that the people who were going to enter the city outside were very polite, it made him feel that it was Ye Qing who was more likely.

Today's Privy Envoy, whether it was back then or now, of course, today's Privy Envoy is no longer something that he can contact at will as a commander of the forbidden army, but since Ye Qing began to rise back then, in the limited few times he has dealt with Ye Qing, he can still find that Ye Qing's first feeling is always easy-going, polite, and polite, not at all like those who others say, ruthless, insidious, full of meat, and fat like a hill, and let his subordinates kill people at every turn. Picking tendons, cutting tongues or something.

Cautiously moving his steps, through the window of the side gate of the city gate, Lu Zhong looked out, only to see a tall figure that was both familiar and unfamiliar, pacing back and forth in front of the city gate, especially when he saw Ye Qing turn around, Lu Zhong's heart involuntarily seemed to stop for a moment, and then hurriedly ordered his subordinates to open the city gate and welcome the privy envoy Ye into the city.

The door finally creaked open, and before Ye Qing had time to look inside, Lu Zhong took the lead in saluting him from a distance, and the few soldiers behind him looked at Lu Zhong's appearance, and naturally they didn't dare to doubt the identity of the young man under the torch not far in front of him.

"There is Commander Lao Lu, and I went to Lonely Mountain today, because I discussed some things with the Emperor, so I forgot the time to return to the city this time, so late at night, it disturbed Commander Lu." Ye Qing said with an easy-going smile.

"Whatever the lord says, this is what the last general should do, but let the lord wait at the gate of the city for so long, and hope that the lord will atone for his sins." Lu Zhong's heartbeat involuntarily continued to beat faster, Donghua Gate and Jiahui Gate were facing each other at the moment, and he didn't know it, otherwise, at this time, how could he still be at the city gate, and he would have gone home to sleep a long time ago.

So he instinctively always thought that Ye Qing at this time was either in his own mansion, or at Donghua Gate or Jiahui Gate, but he didn't expect that Ye Qing would rush back from outside the city.

"Commander Lu is polite." Ye Qing stood on the side of the street, watching the hundred soldiers of the flower planter follow the carriage carrying Fang Fei into the city, and then looked at Lu Zhong and said: "If Commander Lu doesn't think that Ye Mou is overstepping his authority, he might as well open all the city gates, presumably after a while, I'm afraid that someone will come to disturb Commander Lu to open the city gate, how about it?" ”

"Okay, the last general will follow Lord Ye's orders." Lu Zhong hurriedly replied, the more polite Ye Qing was, the more he felt bottomless in his heart.

It stands to reason that Ye Qing will inform himself of what happened at Donghua Gate and Jiahui Gate tonight, just like when the Holy Lord succeeded to the throne two years ago, when he and Han Yanxuan each led troops to confront each other at Donghua Gate.

But this time, Ye Qing didn't say hello to him at all, nor did he signal what he should do tonight, so what he could do was to run far away and hide at the Genshan Gate opposite the Donghua Gate, anyway, the farther away from the palace and other places, the better.

"Okay, thank you very much." Ye Qing patted Lu Zhong's shoulder, whose beard was already gray, and then got into the carriage.

Lu Zhong and Wu Gui looked at the carriage, and after more than a hundred soldiers with solemn expressions were getting farther and farther away from them, they dared to let go of their breathing, and then they looked at the tall city gate with a wide open face.

"My lord, this gate is closed...... Or is it not off? The general who had just informed him asked.

Lu Zhong looked at the city gate from top to bottom, sighed and thought for a while, then looked at Wu Guihou and said, "Let's open it, since Lord Ye said it, then listen to Lord Ye, what does Commander Wu think?" ”

"Let's open it, since Lord Ye didn't mention it just now, but he made it vaguely clear, it's not appropriate for us to pretend to be deaf and dumb again, isn't it?" Wu Gui's implication is that now that there is tension at Donghua Gate and Jiahui Gate, how can he and others not know at all as forbidden troops, if they open their eyes and talk nonsense again, then they really regard those important ministers of the court as fools.

"It is reasonable, immediately send people and order the gates of the cities of Lin'an to be opened." Lu Zhong nodded and said.

Wu Gui personally ordered the general to send someone to inform the other city gates, and at this time, next to Lu Zhong, the general looked at Lu Zhong, and only after seeing that there was no one around, did he ask in a low voice: "My lord, the young man who was just tall is the current privy envoy, known as the ...... of the Northland." ”

"Ask what should be asked, don't ask if you shouldn't. That's right, he is Lord Ye, Lord Ye Qingye who recovered the entire Northland. Lu Zhong turned around and walked back and said.

"It doesn't look like the rumors at all, so gentle and polite, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the murderous ...... Except for being taller....... The general looked at the end of the royal street under the night, and was a little reluctant, just now he had been keeping his head down, but he only dared to glance at it occasionally, so he was a little remorseful at the moment, why didn't he take a few big and generous glances just now.

The carriage drove on the silent street, and tonight's royal street was so clean that it could not be said to be more clean than usual, except for the occasional closed door of the shop, and the lanterns were lit, and the remaining shops and other gates were almost all dark, and it was completely different from the royal street that was still quite lively at this time of day.

The hooves of the hundred and ten war horses stepped crisply on the bluestone pavement of the royal street, and the crisp sound emitted was like stepping on the hearts of the merchants who did not dare to fall asleep in the shops on both sides, which made people nervous, and somewhat curious, who dared to go on the street so blatantly so late at such a late hour.

"Where are we going?" Fang Fei felt the unusual atmosphere again, and even the carriage seemed to be filled with an inexplicable sense of tension.

"See, I don't worry about sending you home now, you can stay in the carriage for a while." Ye Qing turned his head, looked at Fang Fei and said with a smile.

Looking at Ye Qing's easy-going and gentle smile, Fang Fei nodded silently, tonight is destined to be an unforgettable night for her, even unforgettable, worthy of her to remember for a lifetime.

After all, since accompanying Zhong Qing to Ye Qing, she has never been alone with Ye Qing like tonight, let alone experiencing assassination and other things together, such a tense and heartbeat thing that makes people nervous.

The faint sound of scolding in front made their carriage slowly stop, Ye Qing sat in the carriage indifferent, Fang Fei looked at Ye Qing from time to time, and then guessed the situation outside through the curtain.

From time to time, the voice of Zhong Silkworm would faintly be heard, and even, Fang Fei could hear the sound of the waist knife coming out of the sheath, as well as the tense sound of the bow and crossbow, which made her scalp tingle involuntarily, and a pair of small hands instantly became extremely cold.

"Don't worry, it'll be fine, there will be someone outside the carriage to protect you." Ye Qing held Fang Fei's hand and said.

Fang Fei nodded firmly again, and then said, "The concubine is not afraid." ”

"That's good." pinched Fang Fei's face, and Zhong Silkworm's voice sounded outside: "My lord, Prime Minister Han Cheng wants to talk to you." ”

"Wait for me in the car." Ye Qing shook Fang Fei's hand again, and after seeing the beauty nodding, he got out of the car with an easy-going smile.

The Donghua Gate is still brightly lit, and the few two groups of soldiers are each unsheathed and ready for battle.

Ye Qing stopped Zhong Silkworm from continuing to follow him, and then walked in the direction of Han Cheng alone.

"Lord Ye, don't come unharmed." Han Cheng's tone was calm, as if an old friend was greeting each other.

"Thanks to Lord Han, Ye has come back from Lonely Mountain." Ye Qing also said calmly.

Han Cheng was like he hadn't sent seventy-four elite soldiers to West Lake, and Ye Qing was like he didn't know where those people came from.

"This is said that two days ago, Lord Han handed the saint a recital to resign?" Ye Qing asked with a smile.

"Lord Ye is well-informed, even if he disappeared in Lin'an City for two days without seeing anyone, he couldn't think of this little thing about the old man, and he couldn't escape Lord Ye's ears and eyes." Han Cheng also said with a smile, and the soldiers behind him who were originally guarding him were also ready to continue to retreat under Han Cheng's signal.

"Wait a minute." Ye Qing suddenly said to the several soldiers behind Han Cheng.

"Oh? What does Lord Ye have to teach you? Han Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a smile.

Ye Qing approached Han Cheng, lowered his head and smiled: "Now that I have returned to Lin'an, then Lord Han might as well let Brother Han and Brother Han, the future Lord Zuo Xiang, come over to meet together?" ”

"It's okay, taking advantage of such a beautiful night, we can be open and honest." Han Cheng thought about it quickly and said, and then the soldier behind him led a fast horse from the side and turned over, and disappeared into the night in an instant.