Chapter 1: The Deed

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In the evening, the remnants of the sun in Xihai City were like blood, accompanied by a thick smoke rising from the town of the city and the almost extinct pedestrians in the city, gradually falling into the sunset.

"Report! My lord, the entire Hou Mansion has been thoroughly searched, and no one from the Helan family has been found, except for the miscellaneous servants. One of the guards ran to the door and shouted loudly.

"Except for the main courtyard that caught fire and couldn't enter, all the idlers in the rest of the courtyard were escorted into the backyard, and no one resisted, and now they are waiting for the adults to fall." The guard said loudly.

"Are you sure there are only handymen, servants? Are you sure you missed anything? The general, who was standing at the door on horseback, asked in a deep voice.

"The last general has thoroughly investigated, and Lord Helan has locked himself and all the family members of the Helan clan in the main courtyard, and the fire is also ignited from the main courtyard! I heard a subordinate say that the old man had given a death order, saying that all the relatives of the Helan family must be determined by death, so ...... Except for the subordinates, miscellaneous servants, and slaves, all the family members of the Herlan family are in the main courtyard! The fire had been burning for hours, and they probably had ...... I'm afraid there will be no survivors! "A guard ran out of it and reported again!

"No one survived? Are you sure no one survived? The general asked again.

When he received the order to arrive here with his soldiers, the fire had been burning for several hours.

Before he received the holy decree, this place had been thoroughly searched and cleared by the soldiers sent from the imperial city, because he was worried that the family of the Heran family would resist, and the emperor's decree that anyone who disobeyed the holy decree would be executed!

This decision has already shown the emperor's determination to eradicate the Helan family! The reason why the emperor mobilized their garrison, which was stationed far away in Qilian Mountain, rushed here was to let them, the soldiers who had followed Helanche to the east and west, see with their own eyes the situation of confrontation between Helanche and those soldiers from the dynasty in order to protect themselves! It is good to convict Helanche of fornicating with foreign enemies and openly resisting the law!

But in its current form, the emperor's attempt has failed, because the Helan family has been loyal for generations, even though they have suffered trumped-up charges, they still choose to give up resistance and let this disaster happen! Just like Old Man He said, to die Mingzhi!

After receiving the order, Helanche and his son followed the soldiers who came to escort them away, and the old and weak women and children of the family were imprisoned in their own courtyard waiting for the emperor's fate.

Until nearly noon, the main courtyard of the Helan family suddenly caught fire, and the courtyard door was closed.

Because of the ferocity of the fire, the generals who came to encircle and suppress had already given up fighting the fire, and Xu Yingcheng, who was ordered to supervise the Helan family this time, didn't care much about the fire of the Helan family, what he cared about was whether there were any heirs of the Helan family who escaped!

So send more people to search around to see if anyone has escaped from the chaos!

Until this moment, there was no sound in it, and it was obvious that everything that should have been burned had been burned and finished, and there was nothing unusual in the main courtyard except for the thick smoke.

The general knew in his heart that this was the old man Helan, who was still strong, in order to maintain his last dignity, and blocked the emperor's mouth with a fire, so that they no longer had any excuse to slander the innocence of the Helan family!

Let your family no longer suffer the pain of slaughter! They chose the path of preferring to be broken rather than broken, but the general still felt very stuffy!

Although I deplore the current situation, there is a trace of indescribable relief in my heart, at the very least, the old man chose the ending of the Helan family in his own way, and also sabotaged some people's attempts! In addition to regret, it is admiration!

The general came with the emperor's will, and at night he slaughtered hundreds of people in this courtyard!

The crime is that the family members of the Herlan family colluded with foreign enemies and escaped at night! Destroyed by the defenders!

The old man Helan is worthy of being the dragon among the people, and he has foreseen the final fate of the Helan family, and showed the entire dynasty with a fire that they did not collude with foreign enemies to rebel, and the whole family of the Helan family will die!

The corners of the general's eyes are moist and the corners of his mouth are dry!

It is obviously several generations of loyal martyrs, and it finally ended up in this way, which makes them, the soldiers who also fought on the battlefield for the territory of the dynasty, have indescribable sadness in their hearts!

However, the emperor's order is difficult to disobey, no matter how unwilling he is, he can only watch the entire Hou Mansion immersed in a sea of fire, unable to do anything!

Helanche and his eldest son, Helan Xuande, have been escorted to the prison in Xihai City to wait for their fate.

His youngest son, the concubine of the current eldest princess Huiren, Helan Xuanyu, has also been placed under house arrest by the emperor in the imperial city thousands of miles away a few days ago, plus the eldest princess Huiren, who has been recalled to the capital before, and now there is almost no one else in the Helan family except for the old man, Helan Che's wife and eldest daughter-in-law!

Of course, there is also a sickly youngest daughter Helan Qin, and the only son of Helan Xuande, who is only less than eight years old, and Helan Wanyue, the daughter of the eldest princess!

And the emperor's secret decree, all the people of the Herlan family, no matter how old or young, will die!

Even the daughter of the eldest princess is not immune!

Although the Heran family has a prominent status, because they have been stationed in Xihai City across the river from the Yan country for a long time, the wife of Holland Che and the wife of Helan Xuande are both from the Yan clan, and Mrs. Che is the aunt of the current monarch of the Yan country. Xuande's wife is the sister of the current monarch of the Yan family, and they are all women with royal blood in the Yan family.

It is because of this relationship that the emperor will have the confidence to think that this operation will not sit idly by, and will definitely force them to take action!

At that time, he will be able to justifiably plunder the Yan Kingdom on the charge of invasion by foreign enemies! By the way, completely eradicate this high-ranking lord and make him, the monarch not unscrupulous, the Helan Marquis Mansion!

But he didn't expect that from the removal of Helanche to the house arrest of his youngest son to the present, there has never been any movement in the Yan Clan! Until now, the Helan family has suffered a catastrophe of annihilation, and the Yan family has also turned a deaf ear and has not moved!

The general looked at the leader of the forbidden army who rushed from the capital, Xu Yingcheng, the culprit of such a disaster for the Helan family this time, frowned, and there was indescribable happiness in his heart!

At the moment, they ruined the Herlan family, but they didn't get what they wanted!

I originally wanted to make the Herlan family stink and destroy it again, but now? Old man Herlan didn't let them get the kind of results they wanted!

Helanche has no foreign enemies! The Herlan family did not plot a rebellion! It's a foregone conclusion!

Xu Yingcheng knows the relationship between the general and the Herlan family, and the general also knows his situation!

So when he saw that the entire Hou Mansion was in a sea of fire, he ordered the soldiers to obey Xu Yingcheng's dispatch, and he kept riding on a horse, just looking at the Hou Mansion of Nuoda so deeply, standing still!

Xu Yingcheng, who was already a little uncontrollable, issued an order to slaughter the door!

Even if the people of the Herlan family locked themselves in the main courtyard and didn't know life and death, their mission was not yet complete!

finally gave the emperor the determination to kill them, and Xu Yingcheng couldn't give the Helan family another chance!

No matter what the final fate of Helan Xuanyu who is still in the capital or Helan Che who has just been escorted to the prison of Xihai City, these family members of their family, the old man Helan and the two princesses of the Yan clan cannot have any life!

Only in this way can the rift between the emperor and the Herlan family be too big to be repaired! It's so big that you can't share the sky!

In order to make their Xu family stand out in the court!

From now on, the emperor will only be attached to their Xu family!

Thinking of this, Xu Ying's mind couldn't help but improve a little when he was disturbed by Old Man Helan's trick, and he couldn't help but unfold his brows, which had been constricted for a day!

After hearing Xu Yingcheng's order to slaughter the door, the general actually took the initiative to dismount and led a team of men and horses to rush into the Helan Mansion that he had been staring at all afternoon!

When the screams sounded everywhere, Dutch Qin curled up in the pile of subordinates under the escort of the nurse, she changed into the clothes of the subordinates, and took her eldest brother's son and second brother's daughter to mix in the subordinates and hid all afternoon!

From the moment she was put into the outer courtyard by her grandfather and mother from the secret passage, she was protected by the nurse and the supervisor, and was driven into the backyard by the defenders.

If she hadn't taken her two children with her, she might have been escorted by the housekeeper with the nurse to the utility room they wanted to go to, where there was a secret passage, which was the only way for the Herlan family to get outside!

But there are children, two, Helan Xuande's seven-year-old only son Helan Yeting, and Helan Xuanyu's five-year-old eldest daughter Helan Wanyue!

And she herself is also a weak woman who is weak and sickly, and has not yet come out of the cabinet!

But the old man entrusted such a heavy task to her, the housekeeper and the nurse, and she could only endure to watch the fire in the main courtyard burn for so long, and she and the children could not move an inch under the noses of the prison army!

Until the sound of killing sounded outside, some of the subordinates fled in all directions to escape for their lives, and the defenders guarding them scattered in order to contain the panicked crowd!

The housekeeper and the nurse knew that this was their last chance, and took advantage of the chaos to bring them to the door of the utility room!

The two children were very sensible, and they didn't cry from the beginning, just followed their little aunt closely.

The housekeeper has martial arts, he used to be the deputy general who followed Herlanche to fight on the battlefield, and when he was old, he became a housekeeper in the Hou Mansion, and his son is now the deputy general of Helanche. At this moment, I don't know if I have been affected.

Just as they entered the utility room, about to push open the old abandoned box inside, one of the defenders spotted them through a broken window.

"Someone! There are fugitives here! The defenders shouted!

"You take the young lady and run away, I'll stop them!" The housekeeper pushed the box away with all his might, and after saying a word to the nurse, he picked up a wooden stick and rushed out!

"Miss, you quickly take them in, I'll block the box so they can't find this tunnel!" The nurse said loudly!

"Let's go together, I can't run out with them alone!" Dutch Qin shouted nervously!

"It's okay miss, find a place to hide outside, I can't let others know that there is a secret passage here. You guys go! Go outside to find that person according to the old man's instructions, and be sure to protect the only bloodline of the Heran family! The nurse said as she pushed Helanqin and the two children into the secret passage!

"Is there anyone else here? There's a secret passage here! The butler did not resist the swarming guards, and in the chaos someone had already rushed in from outside and said loudly!

"Miss, run! I'm fighting with you! The nurse screamed and rushed over!

The two children had been pushed into the secret passage, and Helanqin looked at the lonely figure of the nurse, forgetting her current situation, and shouted loudly at the entrance of the secret passage, "Nurse! You're coming back......"

A guard was quick and looked at Helanqin, who was about to enter the secret passage, and slashed at it with a knife!

Helanqin's ears heard the hysterical roar of the nurse, "Miss! Come on! ”

Seeing the nurse being hacked to death, she herself closed her eyes in despair!

The expected knife has not fallen for a long time!

There were a few screams in my ears!

When she opened her eyes in a panic, she found that a man was swinging a sword to kill the last defender here, and then exchanged glances with another defender, took the torch in the man's hand and stepped over a few steps, and glanced at Helanqin, who had been frightened by the bloody scene just now, "Take the children and leave quickly, I will arrange for someone to wait for you at the exit!" After saying that, he handed her the torch in his hand and pushed her into the secret passage, and then the big box was blocked by him at the entrance of the secret passage!

The general glanced at the old box, at the dead nurse and at the corpses of the defenders, "Burn here!" He said to the lieutenant at the door, and strode out!

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