Cheng Kai's words made everyone in the hall jump, especially Tang's was even weaker by nature, she was so frightened that she almost cried when Cheng Kai shouted like this, she grabbed her husband's hand tightly, and her palms were already oozing sweat.

Li Yan gently patted Tang's little hand to show comfort, then turned to face Cheng Kai and said calmly: "This general's words are also wrong, the student thinks that there is nothing wrong with thinking about the old master, if the student has recently taken refuge in the prince, he will immediately lead someone to arrest the old master, this will be a reviling thing." ”

"You"

Cheng Kai glared at Li Yan and closed his mouth stupidly, he couldn't refute what Li Yan said, if he immediately bit back at the old master now, it would really be looked down upon.

Pang Gang on the side also understood Li Yan's mood, he smiled: "Jingbai is right, although you take refuge in this king, you can still not forget Li Zicheng's kindness, this affection is really rare, this time this king will not force you, but after eliminating Li Zicheng and other people, you also have to fulfill your duties, can you do it?" ”

Li Yan saw that the boss had talked about this, and he had no choice, so he had to nod, "Since the prince has a life, Li Yan will naturally obey it, and his humble duties will not disappoint the expectations of the prince." ”

"Alright, so be it." Pang Gang stood up, "Jingbai, you rest first, this king won't bother you, by the way, tomorrow this king will hold a banquet here, and you will be treated with the wind and dust, you must appreciate the light!" ”

After hearing Pang Gang say this, Li Yan quickly stood up, with a grateful look on his face, "The prince cares about his subordinates, and he is grateful!" ”

Seeing Pang Gang leave the room, Li Yan sat back in his chair and looked out of the door without saying a word, silently thinking about his thoughts.

Tang knew that her husband was preoccupied, and she didn't dare to bother with her words, so she just stood silently beside her husband and accompanied him, and only after a long time did she hear Li Yan muttering to herself in annoyance: "Madam, is the husband an unfaithful and unrighteous person, who will betray King Chuang and join others, and how will future generations record him as a husband in the next hundred years?" ”

Seeing her husband's weakness at the moment, Tang shook his head and said: "No, husband, how did King Chuang treat you, have you forgotten, if it weren't for King Chuang not listening to you, why would you end up like this, not to mention that he also took the hands of others to consume the Henan camp, otherwise you and I would not have come to this day." ”

Tang as Li Yan's wife, Li Zicheng has been squeezing out her husband in recent times, she is very clear, although Tang has a docile and virtuous personality, but his background is also a beautiful girl, at least the vision is still there, Li Yan after joining the Dashun Army, from the previous respect to the later cold reception has made Tang see Li Zicheng's true face, so she is not very disgusted with Pang Gang's olive branch to her husband.

Seeing that Li Yan was still a little distressed, Tang said softly: "Xianggong, as the saying goes, good birds choose wood, Xianggong has been reading poetry and books since he was a child, and now is the time to make contributions, how can he be so decadent." The concubine knows that the prince can't bear to accompany the concubine to go to the king of Zhou, but after the queen of Zhou, you are afraid that people will say that you are ungrateful and capricious, I don't know if the concubine is right? ”

Li Yan sighed: "What Madame said is extremely true, she is indeed very hesitant to be a husband, for fear that the world will say that her husband is a capricious villain, because although he has descended to the king of Zhou, he still has many concerns. ”

Tang couldn't help but burst into tears after hearing this, she cried and said: "Husband, since you have surrendered the king of Zhou, then you have to do your best for the king of Zhou wholeheartedly, the concubine is looking at the king of Zhou today, the king of Zhou is a person who kills and decides, and today the husband has just descended to him, he can still persuade him with good words, but if the husband is still in front of him with this demeanor of reciting the old master, I am afraid that the king of Zhou will be disgusted with you no matter how generous he is, you are full of poetry and books, don't you still understand this truth?" ”…,

Tang's words were like a hammer smashed into Li Yan's heart, and he suddenly remembered that if he was just immersed in the previous things, then Pang Gang would not tolerate it indefinitely even if he was generous, according to the attitude of the general of Shicai's army, if he continued like this, even if Pang Gang could tolerate it, the rest of his colleagues would only be afraid that he would not tolerate this outlier, and he was afraid that if he was not careful, he would only end up in a different place.

Thinking of this, Li Yan couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and secretly said in his heart: In vain, he is conceited and smart, and he can't even see through the truth that his wife can understand at a glance, which is really embarrassing.

As soon as he grabbed Tang's hand, Li Yan said: "What Madame said is very true, she is confused for her husband, and she can't even understand this simple thing, and her husband has really wasted ten years of hard work!" Madame rest assured, and apologize to King Zhou tomorrow for her husband. ”

Seeing that his husband finally turned a corner, the stone in Tang's heart also fell to the ground, and he burst into tears and smiled, looking charming: "It's good that the husband can figure it out, the concubine looks at the king of Zhou is also a master, and the husband will be able to display his ambitions when he serves under his command, and he will be glorious in the future, and he will be famous in history."

Not to mention that the Tang family in the house was doing Li Yan's ideological work, it was said that Pang Gang came to the front hall of the mansion after he went out and sat down, but Cheng Kai, who was following Pang Gang, π said indignantly and indignantly: "Lord, this Li Yan is too disrespectful, the prince values him so much, he keeps not killing him, but wants to give him a future, but he puts on a look of missing the old master, and he really doesn't know how to lift up." ”

Pang Gang didn't speak, just closed his eyes and thought deeply for a while before saying, "Forget it, don't be too harsh on him, after all, he has just returned to the king, and some thoughts in his heart are inevitable, let's not be too impatient, give him some time." ”

Cheng Kai hesitated for a moment and asked, "What if Li Yan still doesn't really submit to the prince in the future?" ”

"Humph!" Pang Gang's arrival was able to rise with a hint of coldness, "If he still refuses to be used by me sincerely, this king will not be stingy with a lead bullet"

The night slowly fell on the earth, and the seemingly calm capital was surging at this time, and at this time, the news that Li Zicheng's thieves had led the army to be annihilated had spread throughout the city, and at this moment, I don't know how many people were staring at Pang Gang's movements with anxiety.

In a brightly lit and richly decorated hall, there were more than a dozen men in gorgeous costumes, each of them sitting on chairs, looking restless, a man about forty years old, with an obese figure and a round face, looked at the opposite of a man about fifty years old, with a thin face and a pair of eyes that were always rolling, and looked very shrewd, and asked anxiously: "Master Zhou, now that Pang Gang has entered the city, the Son of Heaven is covered with dust, as the ruler of the dynasty, you have to think of a way to get out!" ”

This emaciated old man is the reign of Zhou Kui, the father of the queen of Zhou has always been known for his greed for money, when yesterday the Dashun army entered the city he panicked, the house was also a mess, I did not expect the Dashun army to enter the city after the butt did not sit firm, Pang Gang led the Great Zhou army to the outside of the city, talked about a day of fierce battle, the Dashun army was annihilated, now the Great Zhou army occupied the city of Beijing, and began to thoroughly investigate the thief Kou Yu Party in the city, which made all the dignitaries in the capital began to panic, They were afraid that Pang Gang would commit a massacre in the name of investigating the thieves and the remnants of the party, which was not without precedent. Due to the large number of people during the day, at night, some people who were close to Zhou Kui on weekdays sneaked to Zhou's mansion to ask Zhou Kui for help, and the person who asked Zhou Kui was Zhang Xinke, a member of the household department.

…,

After hearing Zhang Xinke's words, Zhou Kui said impatiently: "What can the old man do, right now Pang Gang's traitor has occupied the capital, and the Forbidden City has been surrounded by its groups, we don't know whether the emperor is alive or dead in the Forbidden City, and the old man can do nothing!" ”

Zhang Xinke asked relentlessly: "Did there be any news about the queen that week?" ”

Zhou Kui was angry, his eyes widened and said: "The old man said, at this moment, the old man is still difficult to protect himself, how can he take care of Queen Zhou!" ”

As soon as Zhou Kui's words came out, a feeling of disdain rose in the hearts of the people around him, this old guy, on weekdays, is the head of the country and the head of the country, and now that people have entered the city, he doesn't even care about his own daughter, if there is no your daughter in the palace to support you for so many years, you would have stayed where you would have gotten cool.

Zhou Kui lost his temper, and in the end there was no way, just sat on the chair and snorted silently, these people around him usually scooped up silver more and more shrewdly, but now that such a big thing happened, they could only sit and stare with big eyes, until this moment they found that their people worked hard to make money on weekdays, but when this catastrophe came, there was no use, this kind of feeling of only watching others come to the door is too uncomfortable.

Time passed little by little, and soon it was the fourth watch day (as soon as the night arrived... Many people fell asleep, but no one slept in the small courtyard where Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing were hiding. Under a dim light, Li Zicheng's face was gloomy, like the coming snowstorm in northern Xinjiang.

Looking at the silent crowd, Li Zicheng opened his mouth and said: "Song Junshi, Niu Junshi, you have all seen today's situation, those Great Zhou troops were killed and searched in the city, they relied on the strength of the crowd, and every family began to search, many of our brothers who were hiding around were searched by them, according to the current situation, if we don't think about it again, they will search us tomorrow, and then we and more than a hundred brothers will not be able to escape, what good plan do you have?" ”

"Yes!"

Soon, hundreds of Dao shadows quickly came here, and after they went up the city wall, five ropes had already been tied to the battlements on the city wall, and one end of the rope hung down to the dark place outside the city wall.

Among the hundreds of people who came up, the Yi people led by Yi people wore the gray shirts of ordinary people, with a short beard on their faces, and a pair of eyes revealing a majesty, he was Li Zicheng, after listening to Song Xiance's words, Li Zicheng also realized that if they stayed in the city and waited for the Great Zhou army to search over, there was only a dead end waiting for them, and it was better to fight hard than to sit and wait for death, so he made an astonishing decision to take all the remaining people from the guard battalion to highlight the city wall at night.

The more than ten people who did it just now were the most elite soldiers in the pro-guard battalion, and they were all outlaws who had followed him loyally for more than ten years and were used to killing people, so they were able to kill ten patrolling Great Zhou soldiers by surprise just now.

The black-clothed man at the head whispered: "King Chuang, the ropes are all tied, you can go down quickly!" ”

Li Zicheng was also not polite, he said to Niu Jinxing, who had been following him closely, and Song Xiance, who needed to be supported by two people so that he would not be pulled down: "Niu Junshi, Song Junshi, you go down with Lone, can you do it Song Junshi?" ”

Song Xiance, who was supported by two guards and did not consume much physical strength, had sweat on his face and nodded lightly.

Li Zicheng didn't talk nonsense, and waved his hand: "Okay, let's go down first!" ”

Saying that, he stretched out his hand to try the rope, and took the lead in turning over and sliding down the city wall, Niu Jinxing did not dare to show weakness, and then slid down, followed by Song Xiance and the soldiers of the personal guard battalion.

After two quarters of an hour, there were no more people on the city wall, only the corpses of mission soldiers lying on the ground, and after a while, a group of sergeants who had come to change shifts came from under the city wall, and as soon as they went up to the city wall, the eyes of the first soldier saw the ten corpses on the ground and the blood that had already coagulated.

"Bang"

A dull and deafening gunshot rang out in the early morning that was about to dawn. After two quarters of an hour, there were no more people on the city wall, only the corpses of the mission soldiers lying on the ground, and in a short time, a group of sergeants who had come to change shifts came from under the city walls, and as soon as they went up to the city walls, the eyes of the first soldier saw the ten corpses on the ground and the blood that had long since coagulated.

"Bang"

A dull and deafening gunshot rang out in the early morning that was about to dawn. ）