On a platform hundreds of meters away from the execution ground, Ling Shuang looked at the old man's execution, her pretty face became a little pale, she had rarely felt this way after many years of fighting on the battlefield, but today, seeing what this old man did, she felt a trace of fear from the depths of her heart for the first time.

She knew what he was like before, compared to many people who climbed to the position of a general with a corpse, he used to be benevolent and soft-hearted, and among the military regulations of the Dark Guard, there was a military rule of not killing prisoners and not disturbing civilians.

Who forced such a man to the point of no return with a ruthless heart and unscrupulous means?

For the sake of his own ideals and the world of the Li family, is all this really worth it? For the first time, she wavered a little from the pursuit of her heart.

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In Chang'an City, Wang Shichong's family arrived in Chang'an, and Wang Shichong and his son Wang Xuanshu entered the palace to meet Li Yuan.

Li Yuan met him in a concubine's bedroom, sitting lazily on the bed, and there was a concubine who was as white as jade lying next to him. ”

Wang Shichong's father and son were so frightened that they couldn't possess their bodies, knelt down with a plop, kowtowed, and trembled: "The minister is guilty, but the third lady promised the life of Rao Chen's family, and begged the Tang King to spare the life of the minister, and the minister and the other family have disappeared since then, and they don't ask about Luoyang anymore, and the minister only wants to have a place to settle down, and beg the Tang King to be fulfilled." ”

Li Yuan frowned and said: "Since Shuang'er promised you, I can't let Shuang'er lose his trust, but the land of Chang'an is overcrowded, and there are few people in the land." I really can't squeeze out a place to build King Zheng's Mansion for you, so let's do it, hasn't Yizhou just been beaten down recently. It's vast and sparsely populated, so I'll let your family go to the palace of King Zheng and set off tomorrow......"

Wang Shichong's face turned red with anger, and when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.

Li Yuan didn't even look at him, played with the fragrant shoulders of the concubine on the side, and asked casually, "Is there anything else?" ”

Governor Wang Shichong has arrived. The more you talk, the less you get, and the situation is stronger than people. In the past, he had always been a man for the sword, but now he is downcast and reduced to a subordinate minister, so he knows what it is like to be a mermaid.

It's too late to remorse. can only swallow this bitter fruit silently. Kowtow and give up in thanks.

That night, he returned to the inn in Chang'an City, but was driven out by the shopkeepers of the inn, and lived on the streets, the dignified King Zheng, who had been the emperor for dozens of days, but now he ended up in such a bleak evening, Wang Shichong couldn't afford to be sick, and the family had nothing to do. Crying and grabbing the ground, being driven everywhere. Not even a place to eat.

Those innkeepers were secretly instructed not to entertain Wang Shichong's family, and some of the bosses who fled from Luoyang learned that these people were Wang Shichong and his family, and new and old hatreds came to their hearts together.

"Hmph, we were looted in Luoyang at the beginning, let us eat the roots of the tree and gnaw the mud of Guanyin, and now let you unscrupulous and hateful bureaucrats know that the people's food is not easy to come by, so that you can return it with interest! Ten taels of silver and a steamed bun, love it or not, don't eat the bark! ”

After a few days, Wang Shichong's family carried not much silver left, when people were hungry, in order to exchange for a steamed bun that could fill their stomachs, no matter how much silver they were willing to give, but later they were really hungry, so they had to sell valuable things such as carriages in exchange for some rations.

In the days of waiting for the Tang King to issue the letter of appointment, they finally found an open space behind the peasant pigsty that was not occupied by beggars, endured the stench wafting from the pigsty, set up a tent, and prepared to stay temporarily, and when the appointment documents came down, they immediately left the Chang'an City, which seemed to him to be more terrible than hell.

slept until midnight, Wang Xuanshu got up to urinate at night, but found the package around him, mixed with anger and hatred, Wang Shichong vomited blood and passed out.

Finally waited for the appointment paperwork to come down.

Wang Shichong's family of dozens of people got up early in the morning, took advantage of the dawn, packed the package, the ladies sold some valuable jewelry, changed a few carriages, supported each other, and swept out of the Chang'an city gate, in the direction of Shudi, raised dust, and disappeared in the distant morning light......

At this time, on a hill outside Chang'an City, a team of black-clothed and masked men and horses stood on the top of the mountain, led by a person holding a strange long cylinder in his hand, leaning into his eyes and looking into the distance.

He waved his hand at the dozens of cavalrymen behind him, raised his horsewhip, and took the lead in riding down the hill, chasing in the direction where Wang Shichong's family left......

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A few days later, the news that Wang Shichong's family was killed by the enemy on the way to the land of Sichuan and Shu reached Luoyang, and the people of Luoyang City celebrated and fired cannons to congratulate.

The storyteller in the restaurant teahouse has an excellent theme, linking the bizarre and bizarre deaths of the princes of the Wang family before, giving full play to his imagination, and depicting the tragic situation of Wang Shichong's family before their death as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

Various versions of the rumor have been circulating.

One of the most interesting things to the audience is the rumor that the Dark Guard General is not dead.

"You know what? In fact, with my many years of experience in handling cases in the Yamen, this hero who secretly eliminates harm for the people is actually very likely to be the general of the secret guard. ”

"Didn't he die of exhaustion in the bloody battle of Luoyang for three days and three nights?"

"You don't know much about the Dark Guard General, who is he? Infatuation! From an unknown pawn to the position of the general of the secret guard, is it an idle person? The emperor and the eldest princess of Changsheng were forced to die in Luoyang Palace, and his wife was also killed by Wang Shichong and others, and she was blown apart, I heard that Mrs. Zhen was still pregnant with an eight-month-old child in her belly at that time, you said such a deep hatred, with the temperament of the general of the secret guard, even if he died, he would run out of the underworld of the Yin Dynasty, and find the enemy to calculate it one by one, right? ”

"Tell me, is Wang Shichong's family really dead?"

"The Dark Guard makes a move, and it's hard not to die."

"Didn't you say that the Dark Guard didn't kill prisoners and civilians? What's more, there are children, even if the Dark Guard kills all the adults of the Wang family, but the children are innocent, they can't be killed together, and when those children grow up, won't they all have to seek revenge on Zhen Ming? ”

"Before answering your question, I want to ask you, do you know that there was an animal called an elephant in the Central Plains in the past?"

"I've just heard of it, so what's the matter?"

"Can you still see elephants in the Central Plains?"

"It was a long time ago that people were killed and extinct, and this was a long time ago."

"That's right, in the power struggle where either you die or I die, who stipulates that a bloodline of any surname must have a fish that slips through the net? It is very easy to exterminate a bloodline, and since you have participated in the competition for the world, you must be prepared to destroy the family. ”

The listeners all nodded in understanding.

"Therefore, in the past, the affairs of the soldiers, cutting the grass and eradicating the roots are commonplace, and have nothing to do with moral laws, just like there are no weeds in the rice field, the so-called karma is nothing more than some pedantic words that fool the people, many times it just happens in novels, in reality, have you ever heard of the story of the rabbit looking for the wolf to take revenge, and then the rabbit wins? The wolf's enemy is only the tiger, but the wolf will be very clever to avoid the tiger's sphere of influence, and there has never been a wolf in this world who dares to approach the tiger's den to hurt the tiger cubs, and they can't hide, otherwise there will be no wolf in this world. ”

"Hahaha, it seems that Wang Shichong's family is rabbits."

"You are wrong, we are rabbits, Wang Shichong's family is a wolf, but they provoked a tiger without knowing whether they were alive or dead, and they also killed the tiger mother and tiger cubs without knowing whether they were alive or dead, which is the only reason why they were exterminated."

Such a story is repeatedly spread in Luoyang City every day, and gradually, the deeds of the secret guard general Zhen Ming to avenge his wife, even the children on the street can recite it backwards, every time they talk about it, they will pretend to be a tiger, open their teeth and dance their claws, and the people of Luoyang City educate their children, either to be a kind rabbit who follows the rules, or, to be a tiger cub who is afraid of even wolves.

These rumors reached the ears of others, but they were quite unimpressed and scoffed.

I don't know where the rumor came from, saying that the person who killed the wife of the general of the dark guard, in addition to Wang Shichong and those generals and ministers of Luoyang City, actually has a group of the most important behind-the-scenes masterminds behind it, and the general of the dark guard has actually known it for a long time, but the background of these people is too huge, and they will not be able to take action against them for a while, but it will not be long before something will be done.

These rumors are conclusive, obviously different from other speculations and rumors fabricated out of thin air, and this huge background is like a call, it is the Li family in Chang'an, and the next target of Zhen Mingku's life is Li Jiancheng, the prince who is now guarding Luoyang.

When these words reached the ears of Ling Shuang, who was about to return to Chang'an to meet Li Yuan, an inexplicable panic surged in her heart, and without saying a word, she turned her horse's head halfway and rushed to Luoyang City in a hurry.

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At this time, in a prince's mansion under construction in the north of Luoyang City, there was a lot of traffic, construction workers came and went, and the guards of the prince's mansion were holding whips and supervising the construction on the side.

The first thing Li Jiancheng did after entering Luoyang was to demolish the palace where Wang Shichong once lived, feeling that the palace of the old dynasty was ruined and the feng shui was not good.

Ling Shuang rode into the Prince's Mansion on a bloody ride, and before the others stepped forward to pay a respect, he couldn't wait to shout: "Li Jiancheng!" Come out for me! ”

A person walked over from a distance, and Ling Shuang fixed his eyes and saw that it was a familiar face.

"How are you?"

"Feng Lun, the head of the Prince's Mansion, has seen the three princesses, I don't know what is important for the princess to come to the Prince's Mansion?"

The person who came was none other than the former official Shangshu Fenglun, who had always seen the head and the tail of the dragon. (To be continued......)