On a low hillside more than ten miles away from Liangzhou City, the group was attracted by the loud noise coming from the direction of Liangzhou, and they stopped and turned their heads to watch.

Ma Chengen turned over and dismounted, knelt down in the snow, clasped his fists and saluted to the place where the billowing smoke rose, and muttered to himself with teary eyes: "Sister Rushuang, Uncle Gao, Chengen hereby makes a heavy oath: if he can't overthrow Dachu in the future and plant the banner of the Ma family army in the capital, he will not be a man!" ”。

"Hairy big worm" Mao Xianyi squinted his eyes slightly, looked at the young master in front of him and nodded slightly. Seeing him get back on the horse, he urged his mount and slowly walked forward with all the soldiers to protect Mrs. Ning.

Qingzhou Mansion, the residence of the King of Guanxi.

Xuanwu General Zhang Baiqian hurriedly entered, and saluted Mrs. Zhai: "Madam, where is Miss Chen?" I will take her back to the capital. ”

Mrs. Zhai smiled slightly, waved her hand and told the maid to invite Miss Ling'er to come.

Zhang Baiqian smiled and said, "Miss Chen has been in the house for so long, and she has caused trouble for her wife. She came here thousands of miles to find her relatives and did not meet, and the general had nowhere to place her, so she had to come to your house to disturb her, which must have caused you a lot of trouble. ”

Mrs. Zhai's face was deeply dimpleted, and she waved her hand and said, "My husband regarded you as a brother before his death, and the general and I don't have to be polite." Besides, I hit it off with this Ling'er girl, and we have married Jinlan. Thank you, General Zhang! ”。

After a pause, Mrs. Zhai hesitated and said: "There is another thing that I don't know whether to talk about or not, if you take Ling'er's sister back to the capital, you will definitely be able to see the king of Dingbei, right?" I have one thing to ...... hands on."

Zhang Baiqian hurriedly saluted and said: "Madame, don't want to see me, Madame instructed Dan Zhang to do his best and do his best." ”

Mrs. Zhai nodded, hurriedly glanced out of the door, and said, "While my sister has not yet arrived, I have always had something on my mind: I have long wanted to find a good girl for Guan Yu, the sixth brother of my husband. If you take Sister Ling'er to the capital and see the sixth brother of Naguan, can you bother to pull the red line for the two of them and make a match? ”。

Zhang Baiqian looked up suddenly, stunned. Then he bowed with a smile and said, "Don't dare to say anything else, it's on me." If not, come and see you! ”。

Mrs. Zhai smiled and was about to express her gratitude, but when she saw Chen Ling'er stepping into the room with brisk steps, she stopped talking.

Zhang Baiqian turned to Chen Ling'er and said, "Miss Chen, please clean up." I just received a secret letter from Dazai, ordering me to take some Qingzhou soldiers and horses to leave for the capital immediately, you can go with me. Along the way, I will send someone to protect you. ”

Chen Ling'er showed a look of surprise and nodded again and again.

Guan Yu, the king of Dingbei, led the army back to Dadu, and ordered the soldiers to camp outside the city, and he didn't bother to return to the empty mansion in the city, and drank alone in the military tent.

The tragic scene under the city of Liangzhou deeply stung him and broke the original peace in his heart.

Overnight, he felt much older. He even had no intention of commanding the men and horses to pursue the remnants of the Ma family army that had fled and dispersed, and after tearfully burying the Rushuang girl, he assembled the team and returned directly to the capital.

Guan Yu suddenly felt that everything he had worked hard to do before seemed to be meaningless: for the sake of Da Chu Jiangshan? For the sake of the people of the world?

Even if the people of the world can really live and work in peace and contentment in the future, who will know that there is such a number one person as him in the Great Chu Army?! Even if you know, no one will be grateful!

He even had a deep sense of absurdity and disillusionment in his entire life, and secretly had a heart of retreat.

Two days later, Guan Yu, the king of Dingbei of Great Chu, suddenly received a holy decree, saying that he led his troops to kill the enemy bravely and made meritorious contributions to quelling the chaos, and announced that he would enter the palace the next day to meet the new emperor and accept the reward in person.

"Long live my emperor, long live". After the salute was finished, Guan Yu rolled over from the ground and got up, looking up slightly.

In the middle of the huge dragon chair sat a petite child. In contrast, the heavy, clumsy dragon chair seemed hollow.

At this time, it was already dusk, and in addition to the faint figure of the queen mother in the bead curtain hanging behind the dragon chair in the main hall, there were only a few little eunuchs on duty and Dazai Shitiangong left.

Guan Yu turned around again and bowed slightly to Shi Dazai.

"Sixth brother has worked hard! Now that the sea is unified, the world is peaceful, and my great Chu will be prosperous for thousands of generations. It's a pity that the first emperor died young, and the fourth and fifth brothers were martyred, but they couldn't see it! ”。

As he spoke, Shi Dazai lifted the sleeves of his robe and gently wiped the corners of his eyes full of crow's feet.

At this time, a big eunuch in the corner of the hall who held snow-white floating dust in his hand and was white and fat cleared his throat and sang loudly: "The Holy Lord's Message: Guan Yu, the king of the north of Dachuding, has a meritorious service in quelling the chaos, and the emperor has given a glass of wine, a hundred taels of gold, and a ...... in the house in the capital."

As soon as the words fell, a little eunuch held a gold-inlaid tray alof, bent down and walked over quickly.

Walking in front of Guan Yu, he raised the tray in his hand above his head.

Guan Yu said loudly: "Thank you, Lord Longen."

Stretching out his hands to take the wine from the tray, and was about to drink it all, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the little eunuch holding the tray and seemed to look up at him secretly, and quickly lowered his head.

Guan Yu was suspicious in his heart, and then carefully looked at the little eunuch's eyes, and couldn't help but "chuckle" in his heart.

I saw that the little eunuch's hands holding the tray trembled slightly, and fine sweat oozed from his sideburns, as if he had a ghost in his heart, and he was very weak.

He turned his head to glance at Shi Dazai on the side again, and saw that the other party was always staring intently at his cheek.

Seeing that he turned his head to watch, he hurriedly lowered his head unconsciously.

Guan Yu squinted his eyes silently, took a closer look at the wine in the cup, and found that there seemed to be some undue turbidity in the swirling wine in the cup.

Don't......

Guan Yu pretended to be careless, knocked over the cup to the ground by mistake, and the wine "squeaked" on the floor, and a faint white eye appeared.

"Alcohol is poisonous!". Guan Yu frowned and shouted.

Before the words fell, "Hulala" rushed in from outside the temple gate, a group of forbidden warriors dressed in armor and holding swords in their hands, unceremoniously surrounded Guan Yu.

Guan Yu looked up at the little emperor on the dragon chair unhurriedly, and saw that the kid was at a loss, obviously not knowing what was happening.

He turned his head to look at Shi Dazai again, and grinned bitterly: "Shi Dazai, dare to ask you what you mean by this?" ”。

Shi Tiangong was already red-faced, so he had to bite the bullet, swallowed a few mouthfuls of foam and gritted his teeth and said, "Sixth brother, don't blame my brother for cheating." This is the last wish of the first emperor, and I dare not disobey it as a brother! ”。

Guan Yu glanced around at the cold swords that surrounded him, and there was a slight cold despair in his eyes.

He understood: If Dazai Shitiangong had made up his mind to kill himself, the main hall and the imperial palace here, including the entire capital city, must have been fortified layer by layer! Although he has heavy troops outside the city, he is far away and cannot quench his thirst! The chances of escaping are slim.

As if seeing through what he was thinking, Shi Dazai took two steps back and said loudly: "Guan Yu, I know that you are excellent in martial arts, and you have already made all preparations, so you don't have to struggle, at most pull a few more burial companions!" ”。

Guan Yu looked at him from afar, his heart full of sadness. He said with emotion: "Second brother, what is the crime of the younger brother, you let me die to understand, right?!" Don't you think of our brotherhood for so many years? ”。

Shi Tiangong waved his sleeves and commanded dozens of guards to wrap the little emperor away from Guan Yu slowly, preventing him from stubbornly resisting, and the dog jumped over the wall to take hostages. While turning his head and protruding his eyes, he said: "The Three Principles and Five Constants are the words of the sage, and one of the most important ones is: the king is the minister. Perhaps, in order to make you feel at ease when you go, and let you take a look at the edict of the first emperor. You can always know his handwriting, so you can see that what I said is true! ”。

Shi Dazai slowly retreated quietly, and at the same time reached out to summon a little eunuch, pulled out a roll of pale yellow cloth from the sleeve of his robe, and asked him to present it to Guan Yu.

The little eunuch gritted his teeth, made up his mind to see death as home, came to Guan Yu tremblingly, and presented the roll of yellow cloth with trembling hands. When Guan Yu took it, he retreated again and again without hesitation, as if he had escaped.

Guan Yu's wrist shook slightly, and he unfolded the scroll of cloth, only to see a line of small characters written on it with a red pen: The world is chaotic, reuse Guan Yu; The world is decided, and it should be punished immediately!

After reading it, Guan Yu's face turned pale, and he suddenly felt discouraged. Because he knew clearly in his heart: this was written by Liu Qian himself, and there was no possibility of forgery.

looked at Guan Yu, who was depressed from afar, bowing his head and being silent. Shi Dazai smiled with difficulty: "How? Are you convinced? The so-called monarch ordered the minister to die, and the minister had to die! In order to make the Great Chu country eternal for thousands of years, the virtuous brother can be regarded as a worthy death. Don't struggle, you can still end up with a whole corpse if you drink poisonous wine; After your death, the Holy Lord will issue a decree: to bury you with the gift of a prince, and to give you a title, so that you may be known as a loyal minister and ...... through the ages."

Shi Tiangong suddenly stopped talking, because he found that Guan Yu suddenly raised his head slowly, with an unfathomable and treacherous smile on his face, but his eyes did not dissipate, but instantly became extremely sharp and bright, ruthless and decisive.

Standing in front of him was a Guan Yu who made him feel completely unfamiliar.

"What if I don't want to die in such a mess?" Guan Yu gritted his teeth and raised his head and said.

"Play the rabbit and dog cooking trick with me? And that bullshit Three Principles and Five Constants, they can't restrain me at all! Originally, when I returned to Beijing this time, I planned to hand over the military power, disarm and return to the fields, and retire to the mountains and forests. How could Nair wait for each other, and the Sprinkle family had no choice but to give it a go. …… But second brother, I promise you, after death, I will leave your whole body and bury it with the gift of the prince! ”。

"You...... You...... You ......" Shi Dazai, who was standing far away, was speechless for a while, his fingers were Guan Yu, his beard trembled, and his eyes stood out and roared: "Are you going to openly resist the decree and plan to rebel?" ”。

Before the words fell, Guan Yu suddenly flew up without warning, and a sword-wielding janissary soldier who was close at hand kicked him to the ground, and before the cold and glittering swords around him slashed off the top of his head, he quickly grabbed a sword in his hand.

He touched the ground with both feet, and one rose and fell, and he had floated out of the ground. As his body squatted suddenly, he grabbed a soldier next to him and threw his body into the air.

"Puff puff", the sound of a series of crossbow arrows piercing through the flesh was heard in the air. The body of the soldier who was thrown into the air happened to block the sharp arrows of Guan Yu from the crossbowmen who had already been ambushed on the roof beams of the main hall.