"The Wu clan is powerful and difficult to shake, so we can only raise it again and wait for the future." Li Zhen sighed helplessly.

The masters who obey Wu Zetian are like clouds, and in comparison, the royal family is alone, and it is indeed difficult to match.

Outside the wooden house, Li Gui, who escaped with his life, had a gloomy face and practiced boxing absentmindedly. Since I was a child, I haven't suffered much, I grew up in a prosperous place, and now I stay in the valley where birds don't, and I stay for a month, and I'm quite bored.

"Li Gui, this is the boxing you practiced?" Seeing Li Gui's careless appearance, Li Zhen was full of anger, and her depressed anger turned into anger, and she walked out of the wooden house in a few steps, flashed in front of Li Gui, and looked at her angrily.

"Wei'er has been a little bored these days, don't be angry with your father and son." Zhou Xuan'er saw it and said.

Li Zhen has two sons, the eldest son Li Chong, the king of Langya, was born to Yuan Pei, and the youngest son Li Zheng was born to Zhou Xuan'er.

Li Gui's small characters are longitudinal and weft, and Zhou Xuan'er usually loves her so much that she is reluctant to scold.

"You see that he is tired of staying for a month, and he can't bear to be lonely, how can he become a big thing? In terms of age, he is much older than Li Hui's son, but his cultivation is very different. Li Zhen said with a glaring eye.

At that time, Li Zhen, the king of Yue, Li Hui, the second son of the king of Hejian, Li Wei, the second son of Li Ke, the marquis of Yulin, and Li Ruoxue, the princess of Chaoyi, were all martial arts geniuses in the royal family, known as three dragons and one phoenix. Decades have passed, and Li Hui and Li Ruoxue have appeared on the heavenly list and are famous all over the world. Li Zhen has been cultivating and has been trapped in Qipinliang for a long time, and Li Wei has disappeared and disappeared.

Li Zhen and Li Hui are the same age and compete fiercely with each other. Now that Lao Tzu is not as good as others, and his son is not as good as other people's sons, doesn't it make Li Zhen uncomfortable.

"There are only a few like Li Rong, and Wei'er usually works hard enough." Zhou Xuan'er helped.

"There are only five grades of martial arts, and there are so many in the rivers and lakes that there are not enough to rely on at all." Li Zhen said.

"Even if you are a seventh-grade grandmaster, it will be useless in the face of many masters in the imperial court, so you can't be demanding." Zhou Xuan'er said, "This matter is over, let's go back to Jinling, no matter how powerful Ren Wu Zetian is, he can't do anything about it." ”

Li Gui lowered his head and was silent, listening to his parents arguing there. In all fairness, Li Gui is not a gentleman, and his cultivation is considered hard, but his qualifications can only be average, and he cannot be called a martial arts genius.

"Tomorrow you go to Hebei and carry a letter to the snake spirit for me." Li Zhen thought for a moment and stopped criticizing Li Gui.

"What are you doing with that witch?" Zhou Xuan'er raised her eyebrows and said.

Zhou Xuan'er and Li Ruoxue are peers, and the relationship is not harmonious.

"This incident is not secret, but Wu Zetian seems to know the date of the incident very clearly, and someone within the royal family must have leaked secrets." Li Zhen said.

Whenever an army rebels, it is inevitable to train soldiers and collect grain and grass, and these actions are generally not concealed from those who have a heart. Wu Zetian has long been wary of the Yue Wang, Lu Wang and other clans, and has arranged secret agents, and it is not uncommon for them to be traitors, knowing that it is common sense that they want to cause trouble. But Wu Zetian not only knew about the army, but also seemed to have a plan, almost pinching the time to march, which made Li Zhen deeply passive.

"Your Li clan is really a plate of scattered sand, the royal family has enjoyed power and wealth for a long time, and they only know to bury their heads in the sand and wait for death, the failure of this uprising is inevitable, don't get involved with the snake spirit anymore." Zhou Xuan'er said.

"As a member of the Li family, my wealth and martial arts come from my family, how can I let it decline and fall? What will the world think of me, and what is the point of learning martial arts? Li Zhen said solemnly, "Besides, if you hide in Jiangnan, Wu Zetian will let me go?" Will Jiang Baiqing really take me in? ”

The news of Tianwuzong's defeat in Yangzhou did not hide from Li Zhen. Li Zhen served as the governor of Yangzhou for many years, leaving behind a lot of hidden forces, and he was well-informed.

"Wu Zetian is busy ascending the throne as the emperor and dreaming of being an empress, so will he take care of looking for us?" Zhou Xuan'er said.

"That's just right. No matter what, I have to send a message to Ruoxue, I have made up my mind, you don't need to persuade again. Li Zhen said firmly.

When Li Gui heard this, he frowned, he didn't like to stay in the valley, but it was not easy to go to Hebei at this time, in case he was targeted by the people of the imperial court, his martial arts were not enough.

Although Li Zhen was injured, her perception was still keen, and she saw a trace of hesitation from Li Gui, "You have not been exposed to wind and rain, and the martial arts and power schemes you have experienced are only a layer of skin, if you really want to be a master, you will pay hard work, and there is no reason in the world to get something for nothing." ”

"Is it a little dangerous to let Wei'er go alone?" Zhou Xuan'er was reluctant to put her son in danger.

"Change your body shape and clothing, these things that people in the rivers and lakes often do, I have taught him before, if I can't even do this, it will cost me all my hard work before." Li Zhen said impatiently.

"Father, rest assured, the child will complete the task." Li Gui said.

Fighting in battle formations can indeed exercise a person's mind, and after this great change, Li Gui's arrogant and impetuous aura on his body has been removed.

Rushui originated from Ruzhou and hence its name, flowing southeast into Huaishui, the volume of water is not large, and ships below 1,000 stones can pass.

Di Renjie and his entourage borrowed the warships of the Shouzhou Navy Division, and requisitioned a few civilian ships to transport a battalion of people away.

The battle that took place in Yuzhou was not fierce, and the war did little damage to the city. The morale of the soldiers and civilians in Yuzhou was not high, and the officials and soldiers surrendered one after another when they saw the city broken, and Zhang Guangfu was born as a Wenchen, so he did not kill much after entering the city, and the city remained intact.

After Di Renjie met Zhang Guangfu, he entered the city with his decree and lived in the Assassin's Mansion, and began to rectify government affairs and restore the various affairs of the state capital.

Yu Chi Xiu Lin led a thousand knights to garrison outside the city, and Li Rong led a team of thousands of horsemen to guard the Assassin's Mansion and act as Di Renjie's personal guard.

Li Rong came to the backyard of the Thorn History Mansion and looked at the garden pavilion with Jiangnan characteristics, not only sighed. His cheap imperial uncle, who is in a high position, is a generation of grandmasters, but in the face of the imperial court represented by Wu Zetian, he is not vulnerable at all and is forced to fake his death to escape.

Through the tortuous corridor, Li Rong came to the hut where Zhou Xuan'er once lived, the things here have not been moved, and they are still the same, and it can be seen that it is the residence of a woman.

On that day, Li Zhen and Zhou Xuan'er changed the two male and female corpses prepared in the main room of the backyard into their own clothes, the corpses were charred, and then escaped from Yuzhou through the tunnel.

Standing by the window, looking at the stumps of lotus flowers in the pond outside the house, Li Rong remembered what his father Li Hui said to him before leaving, "Power is not to be trusted, and identity is not to be relied upon." I can keep you safe until I die, but it's hard to say after I die. Qiu Shenji, Li Ruoxue, none of them will let you go, you must achieve the position of grandmaster in order to earn a chance to survive, otherwise even the Queen Mother will not protect you. ”

"Grandmaster is still not enough, only by becoming a great grandmaster can you control your own destiny," Li Rong said in a low voice, "Whether it is for the dream of martial arts or self-preservation in this life, I will climb to the peak of martial arts and trample the enemy under my feet." ”

As he spoke, his true qi vibrate, and the dragon sword let out a long roar in the scabbard, as if it was unyielding.

After a night without words, with the first rays of light in the morning, Li Rong woke up from his meditation, put on his clothes, lifted the dragon sword, walked through the corridor, and came to the martial arts training ground in the backyard to practice basic sword techniques.

"Take me to the **** place of King Yue!" Li Rong instructed Qianqi who was standing next to him and said.

"Yes, sir." The thousand riders said.

"Yang Shi usually doesn't have to be so reserved," Li Rong said.

This thousand horsemen are named Yang Shi, a native of Bianzhou, Henan Province, and the losses in the previous battle of the Thousand Cavalry Palace City were a bit large, so many people were selected from nearby states and counties, and Yang Shi was one of them, with a calm personality and a material that could be made.

The Thorn Mansion is not big, Di Renjie deals with government affairs in the front hall on weekdays, and does not come to the backyard.

In January, there was a lack of chief officials in charge of government affairs in the state, and the original officials were regarded as a party of the Yue Wang, and they were imprisoned pending trial, and all government affairs came to a standstill. At this time, a large army was stationed outside the city, and it was necessary to requisition the people and provide food and straw, in short, the affairs were complicated and chaotic. These things naturally have nothing to do with Li Rong, and they are all pressed on Di Renjie.

Di Renjie is worthy of being the prime minister, he is not chaotic, calm and calm, and he has roughly sorted out the clues in a few days, commanding the few remaining officials in the house, and handling things properly in an orderly manner.

Staring at the **** place of King Yue and his wife, Li Rong frowned and thought for a long time.

Under the chaos of war, it was not difficult to escape from the city with the skills of the Yue Wang and his wife. The problem is that at that time, the city of Yuzhou was surrounded by officers and regiments, and it was not easy to leave without alarming the officers and soldiers. As far as Li Rong knows, since the siege of the city by the official army, no one has seen King Yue again until he **** died. It is not difficult to say that King Yue took advantage of the night to pass through the camp of the army.

"Do a good job of searching the backyard to see if there are any secret passages or anything like that?" Li Rong said.

Although the Assassin's Mansion must have been searched by the official army, if the secret passage is secret, it is possible that it will not be found.

Thousands of knights followed Li Rong's instructions and searched every corner of the backyard, but they didn't find anything, and they didn't find any hidden secret passages or the like.

Li Rong was not depressed, looking at the green water rippling under the corridor, the thought flashed, and ordered several thousand horsemen who knew the water to dive into the water to search.

After a short effort, the Qianqi named Yang Shi emerged from the water and shouted excitedly: "My lord, there is a tunnel under the rockery in the pool, I don't know where it leads?" ”