In 581 AD, Yang Jian usurped Zhou Jiansui, and in 587, annexed Western Liang, and in 589, pacified Southern Chen and unified the Central Plains. In 588, ** Qimin Khan was attached to the minister, and the sage Mo Yuan Khan was named the Sui Wenzun!

In the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, after more than ten years of recuperation, the Great Sui armor soldiers were strong and popular. The society and the people's livelihood are prosperous, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the government is stable, creating an unprecedented prosperous era for hundreds of years!

However, Emperor Sui was approaching the age of the sixtieth year, but he was dissatisfied with Yang Yongyuesheng, the crown prince who had been in the palace for 18 years, and Yang Guang, who had seized the throne of the sect, was pressing step by step. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－

Eighteenth Spring, February. Daxing, East Palace.

In the dormitory, the crown prince Yang Yong suddenly woke up from a nightmare. His face was pale and drenched in sweat. He sat on the couch for a long time, and his voice was low, "Call Tang Lingze, Zou Wenteng, Xiahou Fu, and Yuan Yan!" ”

Although it was the middle of the night, soon the four of them arrived.

Tang Ling is the prince's left concubine, Zou Wenteng is the prince's family order, Xiahou Fu is the Sima of Zuo Wei, and Yuan Yan is the food supervisor, all four of them are subordinate officials of the East Palace, and they are all Yang Yong's absolute confidants.

"Lone just had a nightmare, and I met him again in the dream."

The prince's family ordered Zou Wenteng to ask cautiously, "Is that child again?" ”

"Nope." Yang Yong shook his head a little tiredly and said, "This time it's not a child, but a weak-crowned young man, holding a sword and asking for his life." ”

Recently, Yang Yong often has a dream, more precisely, this dream has been made for many years, every year at about this time, he always has a few nightmares, but in the past he always dreamed of a child, but this time he actually became a teenager, and he used a sword to kill him.

Hearing this, Zou Wenteng's face couldn't help but change slightly. Zou Wenteng is the prince's family order, that is, the head of the prince's family, from the four high-ranking officials, in charge of criminal law, food, warehouses, slaves, etc., but in the East Palace, Zou Wenteng is also in charge of the communication inside and outside the East Palace, responsible for secret intelligence, Yang Yong's words, reminded him of one thing.

Not long ago, an iron guard secretly sent by the East Palace to the local errand occasionally found a person with a jade pendant that had been strictly ordered by the East Palace.

"Jade pendant?" Yang Yong was at a loss at first, and then his face suddenly changed, "You mean that jade pendant?" ”

Zou Wenteng's face was a little pale and nodded, and Yang Yong's face became a little blue. The young man in tonight's dream, as well as the jade pendant that had been missing for many years, suddenly made him flood with countless dusty memories of the past.

"Xiahou Fu, Lone asked you to find him immediately, and then bring him back!"

Xia Houfu felt that the temperature around him had dropped a lot.

"You have to see people in life, you have to see corpses in death, and besides, you have to get that jade pendant back for Gu no matter what."

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In Yangzhou in March, the willows fluttered like smoke.

In the early morning of late spring, summer is approaching, and although the weather is fine, the sun is not too strong, and the temperature is not too high. A team of dozens of people set off at dawn, and Yi Feng rode his horse and rode it, full of anxiety. After Ji Yao disappeared for half a year, this time he finally found a clue and vaguely appeared in Yangzhou, Jiangnan, and he couldn't wait to rush to Jiangnan. This is the spring of the eighteenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui, Yi Feng is exactly eighteen years old, and he was born on the day of the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty.

The team has come to the foot of Guabu Mountain in the suburbs of Liuhe County, Yangzhou, where there is a small manor, which is very private and solid. Wei Bao believed that the owner of this manor was a salt merchant, and Ji Yao was now in his hands. Yi Feng remembered the experience of knowing Ji Yao over the years, and couldn't help but be angry. Ji Yao is the sister of his best brother, three years ago, his good brother Ji Hu died blocking arrows for him, and entrusted his sister to him before he died, so that he could take good care of her. He once swore when Ji Hu was dying that he would marry Ji Yao in the future and take good care of her for the rest of his life.

However, during the Lantern Festival this year, Ji Yaoyang accompanied her to Youzhou City to watch the Lantern Festival, but he didn't go because of something temporary, and as a result, Ji Yao disappeared in Youzhou City. The annual lantern festival is very lively, but there are always many cases of young girls, women and children being abducted and abducted.

Yi Feng didn't know whether the Yangzhou salt merchant in the manor in front of him was Ji Yao who was bought from human traffickers, or Ji Yao who was personally captured in Youzhou City, in short, he had already offended Yi Feng's rebellion.

The Ten Horsemen stood quietly in front of the manor at the foot of the mountain in the morning light, and the breath of the people and horses intertwined into steaming white air in the air.

Yi Feng waved his hand and gave the order in a low voice to prepare for a surprise attack on the manor. His long black hair was tied up in a bun on the top of his head, and his short black beard had just sprouted under his chin, and he looked slightly more mature than his actual age. Nearly seven feet tall, with starry eyebrows and sword eyes, ape arms and bee waist, a white dark coat buttoned with a jade-inlaid leather belt, a silver cloak covered outside, and a jade long sword hanging from his waist. At this time, his eyes were full of anger, and he didn't look like the Confucian son who was always a beautiful Confucian son on weekdays. He had already put a silver hideous mask on his face, which was a sign of hands-on.

In the silence of the early morning, Yi Feng shook off his cloak, held his right hand on the jade ornament of the hilt of the sword, pulled out the sword vigorously, and said loudly: "Kill in and out, rescue Ji Yao, anyone who resists, kill!" Before he could finish speaking, he raised his sword above his head.

Wei Bao followed closely and drew his sword: "Dare to provoke us, this is looking for death, kill him without leaving a chicken and dog, and not a single inch of grass will grow!" ”

Facing a sturdy manor, although there were only ten horsemen, Yi Feng and Wei Bao and the others did not have the slightest fear, and they didn't even take this manor in their eyes at all. It's not that they're arrogant, but they found out in advance that there aren't many people in this manor, just a separate village, about dozens of people, but they are all farmers, women and children, and there are no more than ten people in the nursery. And their ten horses are by no means something that a few farmers and a group of farmers can stop. What's more, they also chose to raid early in the morning.

Yi Feng left Wei Bao and the other three to guard outside, in case any fish slipped through the net. He led six horsemen to quietly touch the manor!

A qiē was very smooth, even more smooth than expected, and they opened the gate of the manor and entered the village.

Soon, Yi Feng was alarmed, and faintly felt that something was wrong.

**It's quiet, it's already early in the morning, but there is no one in the village, as if everyone is sleeping.

By the time Yi Feng realized that he was in a dangerous situation, it was already too late.

He noticed some unnatural light shining on the ridges on both sides of the village, and instinctively, he instinctively sniffed out a hint of ominous smell.

"Stop, something is wrong here, get back!"

Yi Feng pulled out his horse and turned around, and immediately shouted loudly. There are a total of six horsemen around him, these six people are all fierce and brave people, if you deal with ordinary Zhuang Ding, there is no problem in being able to count the enemy. But now they were in a narrow street with two rows of houses surrounding the narrow street, and they were in a narrow terrain, and the roofs on both sides of the street were condescending to them.

At this moment, Yi Feng heard a shout from above his head, and he subconsciously raised his head.

"Watch out for bows and arrows!"

Yi Feng shouted, and in the next instant, dozens of arrow feathers burst through the air from the rooftops on both sides, letting out a sharp whistling.

This sudden rain of arrows caught them off guard, and Zhao San on one side didn't have time to take off the shield next to the saddle, and was directly shot into a hedgehog by several arrows, only to let out a miserable scream before falling to the ground. Wang Lao Wang was nailed to the ground with men and horses, and his hands and feet were twitching. There was a dull sound in the streets, the terrible sound of arrows nailed into the flesh.

When Yi Feng swung left and right, untied their shields and gathered together, a second wave of intensive fire followed, followed by a third, fourth, and fifth formation

The people around him fell one by one, and no matter how strong the samurai was, they could not escape when they were ambushed in this narrow terrain. Just when Yi Feng thought that he was going to die at this time, Ling Li's arrow rain suddenly stopped, Yi Feng swept around him, and the six brothers who entered the village were now only three, and the other three were all dead. The remaining four also suffered arrow wounds of varying severity.

Yi Feng knew that the situation was out of control now, and he didn't know why there were so many bows and arrows in the manor where it was originally just a salt merchant. And looking at the opponent's archery, as well as these feather arrows, it is obviously not an ordinary bow and arrow, this kind of shooting, like the guard archers in the army, the bow and arrow are also standard bows and arrows. This is a trap, but what he doesn't understand is that if the other party is from the military, why would he go all the way to lay such a trap and lure them from the north to Yangzhou, south of the Yangtze River.

Also, why did they stop firing arrows?

"Can you dare to report your name?" Yi Feng roared.

Angry voices echoed in the blood-soaked air, and footsteps sounded ahead, and several men in black in leather armor appeared on the other side of the alley, guarding a strong man.

"Yi Gongzi should care more about his life." The strong man smiled darkly, "I bothered to invite you here, I just want to ask Yi Gongzi to answer a certain question, where is Yang Lin?" ”

"Where is Ji Yao?" Yi Feng glared at the strong man angrily.

"Let me ask again, where is Yang Lin? If you don't answer seriously, you won't want to see your woman again. ”

"I don't know any Yang Lin!"

The strong man looked at Yi Feng like a poisonous snake for a moment, and then changed the question: "I heard that Yi Gongzi has a close-fitting jade pendant with the word Yi Feng engraved on it, please borrow it for a look." ”

Yi Feng was stunned for a moment, he has carried a jade pendant since he was a child, and the word Yi Feng is engraved with seal characters on it, he has carried this jade pendant for 18 years, but few people know it, but he didn't expect that someone would use this way to explore this jade pendant today.

He reached into his arms and took the still warm jade pendant in his hand.

The moment the strong man on the opposite side saw the jade pendant, his eyes showed surprise and fanatical gaze, "That's it!" ”

Yi Feng took the jade pendant back, "Give Ji Yao to me, and then let us go, I can give you the jade pendant." He could see that the man was very interested in the jade pendant. Although this jade pendant may have clues about his background, at this time, for the sake of his wife and brother, as well as his own safety, he is willing to exchange it.

Unexpectedly, the strong man laughed loudly: "Do you think you can still leave here today?" ”

Yi Feng's face was a little gloomy, and he whispered to the brothers beside him: "Prepare to break through desperately, as long as you withdraw from the manor and go outside, there is still hope." As he spoke, he tried desperately to endure the pain, and in the attack just now, he was hit by an arrow, but fortunately it was not fatal.

"Take them down, and they will live." The strong man is already ordering.

"Rush!" Yi Feng roared loudly, and rode his horse to the outside of the village first.

The bows and arrows on the roof here have stopped, and dozens of black-clothed men armed with horizontal knives and spears rushed out from the house and the streets, because of the order to capture them alive, Yi Feng and the others have a chance to live. With his sword in hand, he slashed off the head of a black-clothed swordsman who was blocking him. Breaking through a crack in the encirclement, he miraculously rushed out of the village gate with the help of stepping off the handsome war horse.

But at this moment, the war horse under his crotch fell to the ground with a wail, and was hit by several arrows by the black-clothed man chasing behind, and fell to the ground.

There were a few more screams, and the three brothers who followed Yi Feng failed to break out of the encirclement, and they were surrounded in the village gate. Yi Feng's eyes were about to split, he roared in despair, lifted his sword, turned around and rushed towards the enemy with blood-red eyes, and in the next moment, he raised his sword and fell, connecting and killing the two men in black, but he was also stabbed from behind by a horizontal knife.

A man in black caught up with a knife and knocked Yi Feng to the ground with a knife from behind, and was about to carry it back to make a contribution. But they only heard the sound of horses' hooves rushing to arrive, and the three Wei Bao who stayed outside the village just arrived and stabbed the knife hand to death with a spear.

"Brother Leopard takes the second brother out of here, our palace!" The other two shouted loudly when they saw that Yi Feng had fainted.

"No, we're going to die together." Wei Bao said.

"What stupid thing did Brother Leopard say, did you forget what the eldest sister confessed before Jì came out, no matter what, protect the second brother."

Wei Bao hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and put Yi Feng on the saddle and rode south.

After fleeing south for a long time, seeing that the faint pursuers were coming again, Wei Bao looked at Yi Feng, who was still unconscious, and was anxious. One horse carries two people, and if it goes on like this, it will definitely not be able to escape. After running for a while, he had reached the bank of the river, looking at the reeds by the river, he had a plan, stopped the horse and hid the unconscious Yi Feng in a reed bush by the river, and then remounted the horse, turned the wind direction and led the pursuers to flee in another direction.

It wasn't until it was dark that Wei Bao shook off the black-clothed man he was pursuing, carefully went back to the riverside, and touched the place where Yi Feng was hidden, but was horrified to find that the figure was gone.