Zhang Cheng and his entourage were assassinated in the Qingfeng Wine Shop, and their originally good mood disappeared. And what is in front of him, how to choose? How to deal with yourself? Along the way, he was terrified and uneasy. The group accelerated forward and soon came to the capital city of Los Angeles. The main gate of Los Angeles, the Suzaku Gate, is the east gate of Los Angeles, only to see that the city tower is nine zhang high, the momentum is majestic and magnificent, the pillar base of the city gate is made of marble, and the threshold made of bluestone is engraved with the arabesque pattern of graceful lines and flying spirits. The door openings and partition walls of the joints of grinding bricks are thick and upright; Under the Vermilion Bird Gate, three into the gate, the main city gate in the middle is three zhang high, one zhang wide, the vermilion lacquer gate is solid and heavy, and the bluestone slab road has been paved to the imperial city. Among them, all of them show the majesty of the imperial city.

Under the city gate, there is Suzaku Street in the center of the city, with many shops on both sides of the street, houses standing on both sides of the street, row upon row, pedestrians flowing endlessly, busy traffic, the shouts of various vendors in the city, the neighing of horse-drawn carriages, and the sound of pedestrians arguing with each other. This city, which has gone through several dynasties and thousands of years of historical changes and vicissitudes, as well as the rise and fall of this city, shows his vicissitudes and heaviness from all aspects.

Zhang Cheng stood under the city tower, and after taking a look, he lowered his head in a dull mind and walked forward. Seeing more than 200 people holding weapons and rushing to the city gate, the city gate guards hurriedly gathered their armor and stopped them! Feng Jingyu walked in front of the city gate guard and showed him Zhang Cheng's identity document, and the city gate guard hurriedly let him go.

According to the rules, Zhang Cheng and Fang Qian could only stay in the pavilion for the time being. I have been on the road for more than ten days in a row, and it is also very hard. Especially Zhang Cheng, after experiencing the Qingfeng Wine Shop, he was tormented and overwhelmed at the moment, and now he didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to sleep quietly.

After instructing no one to disturb him, Zhang Cheng went straight into the house and never came out.

In the evening, Fang Qian's father and daughter went downstairs to eat, Fang Ningyu sat on the table, looking at Zhang Cheng's room, only the lights flickered in the room, but there was no sound. Fang Ningyu didn't know what was going on, only that after everyone was attacked by the assassins, Zhang Cheng suddenly asked Yang Wenzhao to return to Beidi County, and then he became silent, almost silently along the way.

Fang Ningyu asked his father: "Along the way, I saw that Zhang Cheng didn't say a word, what happened?" Hearing this, Fang Qian sighed deeply, and he said deeply: "The last thing I want to see has finally happened. Facing the former benefactor and the current enemy, Zhang Cheng is indeed difficult to choose. This will be a hurdle in his heart, and only he can overcome it. No one can help him! ”

"What? You mean, the Assassin, the Governor's man? Fang Ning Yulan was heartbroken, her father's words, she understood in an instant. Facing Zhao Hui, this benefactor who has a great grace to him, but now he has become an enemy who wants his head, for anyone, I am afraid it is difficult to accept for a while. Fang Ningyu frowned, not knowing what to say.

It was night, and everyone had rested. Fang Ningyu walked out of her room and came to Zhang Cheng's door, she raised her hand and wanted to knock on the door, but she hesitated. I raised my arm several times, but I put it down again. Just when Fang Ningyu hesitated, the door was opened. Zhang Cheng walked out of the room, and when he saw Fang Ningyu standing outside the door, he was stunned, and then he was relieved. He glanced at Fang Ningyu, then looked away, walked out of the room, and stood behind Fang Ningyu with his back to her.

Fang Ningyu turned around, looked at his back, opened his mouth, but did not speak.

"Can you walk with me?" Zhang Cheng looked at the lobby below, and he said in a low voice.

"Okay."

Walking out of the post house, the two walked in the snow, relatively silent. After walking for a long time, Fang Ningyu said faintly: "Father has already told me. Such a brainless sentence, if someone else hears it, they will definitely not know what it is saying, but Zhang Cheng knows it very well.

He sighed, he sighed, sighed at the impermanence of the world, sighed at the warmth and coldness of people, and sighed at the injustice of heaven.

"Hey, it's really weird in this world. Back then, I was promoted by Zhao Hui to great favor, I was born and died for him, and I made many military exploits, but now for a chair, he wants to kill me. I don't think I've done anything to be sorry for him. But the world is impermanent, and people are indifferent. I'm really helpless, hehe" Zhang Cheng smiled bitterly.

"There are some things that we can't control. If you can't control it, why should you be difficult for yourself! Didn't the ancients say that the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. Fang Ningyu knew that he was uncomfortable, but he couldn't think of any better words of comfort, so he had to say such an innocuous sentence in the end.

Fang Ningyu thought for a while, and she said again: "Throughout the ages, the battle for the throne of which dynasty and which generation is the most bloody and cruel, those princes will do whatever they can for the throne, and some ruthless princes can be said to do everything for the throne." Compared with what Zhao Hui did, it was relatively mild. ”

"Mild? You underestimate Zhao Hui. There are a lot of things that you don't even know. Back then, when I led my army to fight the barbarians, you know that in the end, the barbarians were defeated by us and captured thousands of people, do you know what happened to them in the end? was all buried alive by Zhao Hui! In the battle of Gyeongju, those who refused to surrender to Zhao Hui, regardless of the generals, were all killed, more than 1,800 soldiers; There was also the Battle of Lingzhou, in which Liu Dan's army was defeated. Zhao Hui ordered the slaughter of Liu Danmanmen! Three hundred and eighty-six mouths, no matter the old or the young, even the infant baby, Zhao Hui did not let go. His brutality is the only one I've ever seen in my life. I couldn't stop persuading, but I couldn't bear it, so I came to open it as soon as Zhao Hui asked me to leave. Zhang Cheng said to Fang Ningyu.

These things are not known to outsiders. But anyone who told the story was killed by Zhao Hui. There was a general who was secretly talking about Zhao Hui, and Zhao Hui later learned that the head of the general fell to the ground, and even a few people who heard about it were also killed. It can be seen how brutal Zhao Hui has become.

Fang Ningyu was shocked by Zhang Cheng's words and was stunned. It took a long time for her to come back to her senses, and her anger was uncontrollable, and she said angrily: "What a sin! Damn it! This kind of person, so brutal, how can he sit on the lord of the world! If Zhao Hui is made the emperor, then in the future, I don't know how many innocent people in the world will be slaughtered by him; How many innocent lives will be lost to their precious lives! You must not let such a person be the emperor! ”

"Me? I'm just a small pawn! Now that he has come to the imperial capital, then he is the meat of the sword, how can there be any other way? Zhang Cheng smiled bitterly.

"Nope! You're not a pawn! You are the assassin of a state in the Great Qian Empire, the general of Huaihua with heavy troops, the minister of Zhengsanpin, and the feudal official of the Great Qian Empire! Not only do you have a battalion of 1,000 guards now, but you also have 200 battalions of divine arrows at your disposal at any time! You're not a meat to be slaughtered! Fang Ningyu paused, and she said again: "Zhang Cheng, you have to cheer up and overthrow Zhao Hui." You can't let this kind of person be the emperor! Once Zhao Hui becomes the emperor, not only will the people of the world suffer, but even your life will not be saved! The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden; The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook. Do you think that once the world is unified, will you, the great general, still have a way to survive under Zhao Hui's brutal rule? ”

The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook; The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden! These twelve words are like twelve sharp swords that pierce the heart, and a sword pierces Zhang Cheng's heart!

For the sake of his own life, he Zhang Cheng can't die! For the sake of the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of his brothers and people who follow him, he can't die either! In order to protect the people he needs to protect, he Zhang Cheng can't die!

"That's right! My life is up to me, not to others! If Zhao Hui really wants to kill me! I, Zhang Cheng, will definitely not be restrained! Thank you, Miss Fang, your words have made you feel like you're in the next place! Thanks a lot! Zhang Cheng bowed deeply to Fang Ningyu

The next day, Zhang Cheng got up, packed up, put on his Sipin County guard uniform, and was about to report to the Ministry of Officials according to the rules. At this moment, the imperial court's guard of honor came to deliver the decree. The Thousand Niu Army is an original guard of the imperial court, with only 5,000 people. The Qianniu Army is not responsible for the guard and guard of the imperial city, but only assumes the responsibility of the emperor's honor guard and the transmission of the will, and can act as a guard in the Gyeonggi Imperial Palace if necessary! Its combat effectiveness can be regarded as the lowest. Now that the situation is shaking, as a guard that Zhao Mu is convinced of, Zhao Mu has handed over the guards of the palace to the Qianniu Army to assist the Yulin Army in guarding the Forbidden Palace.

"The Divine Decree has arrived! The new Jizhou assassin Zhang Cheng took the order! "The commander of the Thousand Cow Army led his troops to deliver the message.

Zhang Cheng hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, bowing to the ground.

"Fengtian carrier, the prime minister's edict said: order Zhang Cheng to enter the palace immediately, there must be no mistakes! Chin this! After the commander of the Thousand Bull Army announced his will, after handing over the holy decree to Zhang Cheng, Feng Jingyu took out one or two pieces of silver and wanted to give it to the commander of the Thousand Niu Army, but the other party categorically refused, and said with a smile: "Lord Assassin Shi, you are too polite, my Thousand Bull Army is the royal guard, and I definitely dare not accept anyone's reward!" The prime minister has an order, so you can follow the humble post to the prime minister's mansion immediately, and it cannot be postponed! ”

Zhang Cheng thought for a while and said to Qianniujun: "Okay, after I explain a few words, I'll go with you immediately, okay!" ”

"Hurry up, the little one is waiting for you outside!" After the Qianniu Army finished speaking, he retreated outside the post house.

Feng Jingyu walked to Zhang Cheng's side, and Zhang Cheng said to him: "You all have to stay here now, you can't act rashly!" If I don't come back tomorrow night, you can quickly pack your bags and leave the capital to return to Beidi County!" Do you understand? ”

"General! I! Feng Jingyu suddenly heard this, his heart was shocked, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

"Do as I say! Feng Jingyu, if something really happens to me, go back and tell Lord Yang that he can treat the people of Beidi County well. Be kind to the Loyal Volunteers! Also, if you can, hey, forget it, so be it! Zhang Cheng patted Feng Jingyu on the shoulder, Feng Jingyu fell to the ground with a bang, Long Qiuling also stood up, knelt down, and said, "General! I, Longqiu Ling, followed you, and I still expect to be able to follow you to get ahead, but you must not have anything to do! General, take care! ”

"Hehe, don't worry! The prime minister summoned me, but he didn't necessarily want me to do that? You don't have to worry too much! After speaking, Zhang Cheng turned around and left.

Chapter 2 Entrustment