Chapter 164: Escape
The second prince, Yuji, is not the biological son of the king of Shonan?
His leg was broken by King Shonan?
Hearing Yu Ji say such an amazing thing, I opened my mouth in surprise, and I felt unbelievable from the bottom of my heart. Probably the other people in the hall who heard Yu Ji's words all had the same thoughts as me, Yu Zhi and Yu Qi both looked at their second emperor brother with a shocked face, and the shock in their hearts was definitely greater than mine.
But King Shonan did not deny it, but looked at Yu Ji in a panic and asked, "How did you know?!" β
It turned out to be true!
Yu stated in detail: "I have always been puzzled by my father's refusal to appoint me. With my talents, even if I can't succeed to the throne because of my foot disease, I can be appointed to any official position in the three provinces and six ministries. I began to doubt my background, and then when I investigated the affairs of the queen mother for a long time, I found the old palace maid who had been taking care of the queen mother, and asked what had happened to her before she died. β
King Xiangnan excitedly pointed the sword in his hand at Yu Ji and shouted angrily: "Stop! β
But Yu Ji didn't mean to stop, and continued: "After knowing what happened at that time, I still can't forgive you, father. β
"Shut up!"
The king of Xiangnan was so excited that he rushed towards Yuji with a sword again, but was stopped by Bai Keng and the old eunuch, after all, Yuji was standing next to Pu Rongying, who was also in the Jindan period, and his life would definitely be in danger when he approached Yuji King Xiangnan.
Yu Ji glanced at Yu Zhi and Yu Qi, and then looked at the king of Xiangnan.
I don't know what King Shonan read from this subtle action, he let out a sad laugh and asked Yu Ji, "Since you already know the truth, do you want to laugh at me now?" β
Yu Ji bowed his hand to the king of Shonan again.
"Now the Cangtong army is about to cross the river, and it will soon attack the southern capital. But I hope that my father can think about the southern capital and the people of Shonan, put down the throne and hand over Shonan, so as to protect Shonan from the devastation of war. If you blindly care about dignity and want to insist on supporting the army to resist, you are afraid that Cangtong will slaughter the city after attacking the southern capital. β
King Shonan laughed maniacally, "Do you think I will give up the throne? Will you be generous enough to give Shonan to the king of Cangtong? What a joke! I tell you, no way! I will lead my subjects to resist until the last moment, even if the city is ruined and the country is destroyed, I will not give the dynasty inherited by the previous emperors of the Yu clan to Cangtong! β
Yu Ji closed his eyes gloomily as if he had expected it, and after a while, he turned his head to Yu Zhi and Yu Qi, and looked at me again.
"Elder Brother Huang, with your skills, it shouldn't be difficult to escape from Nandu while the chaos is in trouble. But Yu Qi is innocent, I am already Cangtong's advisor and can't take care of her, I hope you will take Yu Qi away before you leave, and take it to Qingxuan Dao Sect or other safe places, Nandu can no longer stay. β
Yu Ji betrayed Shonan, I don't know how to evaluate it, although I don't agree with him doing this. But he didn't think that it was absolutely wrong for him to do this, because he also said that Cangtong's army had already been prepared, but Nandu was still defenseless, and the capture of Nandu was a matter of early delay. If the king of Shonan is willing to give up Shonan, then the southern capital is still safe. If Nandu can be successfully replaced by Cangtong because of Yu Ji's internal counter-strategy, then being able to avoid the doom of being slaughtered also proves that Yu Ji's approach may be correct.
And Yu Ji finally asked me to take care of Yu Qi, which also shows that his nature is not bad, at least at this point, I still nodded to him and promised: "I will not let Xiao Qi be in danger." β
Yu Ji took one last look at the King of Shonan, and then turned around and left from the Chaoyang Palace. When Park Rongying passed by with Woo Ji, he looked at me playfully and didn't speak, I actually wanted to ask him about what he called "fellow countryman".
Suddenly, the king of Xiangnan pointed at Yu and shouted: "Stop him!" Kill him! β
The soldiers at the gate of the hall rushed towards Yu Ji with swords and spears, and Pu Rongying waved his hand and roared, and those soldiers were either cut in two sections by the wind blade, or blown out of the hall by a strong wind, and immediately cleared a bloody path. Several generals with some skills jumped out to attack Park Rongying, and they were easily killed by Park Rongying in a few moves, and for a while there was a smell of blood at the entrance of the temple, and some people who had never seen this kind of scene vomited on the spot.
Seeing that the two of them walked out of the Chaoyang Palace, Pu Rongying took Yu Ji and flew into the sky in a whirlwind, and the guards on the ground shot a flurry of arrows at them, all of which were bounced away by the whirlwind, and instead fell to the ground and inserted their own people.
Soon, only the two of them could be seen flying away.
After many heavy blows, the king of Xiangnan let the old eunuch support him, sat back on the dragon chair in despair, covered his forehead and pondered.
The officials of the court gathered again and cautiously told the king of Shonan how to deal with the situation. They didn't dare to mention the surrender, for fear that once they mentioned it, they would be slashed by the sword of the king of Shonan at this time.
I think it's time for me to leave now, no matter what I need to do next, and I'll leave Nandu first.
No one cared about us anymore, so I pushed the green rose in front of Mu Shu and said, "Help me take a look at this guy first." β
Green Rose was still afraid of the corpses at the entrance of the hall, I patted her head to comfort her, and then I walked alone to Yu Zhi and Yu Qi, who were standing in a corner of the hall in a distraction.
I said to them bluntly, "Come with me, it's too dangerous here." β
Yu Zhi hesitated painfully for a moment, shook his head and said: "Elder Brother Huang, take Sister Qi away, I can't go, I am the crown prince of Xiangnan, even if Nandu is dangerous now, I must stay." If I escape at this point, I might as well die here. β
I knew that he would definitely say this, so I didn't have too much hope, just now Yu Ji didn't ask me to take Yu Zhi away to understand this.
I looked at Yu Qi, but she lowered her head hesitantly and said, "I, I also want to stay......"
"Don't get involved here, come with me."
I carried her to my shoulders, and Yu Qi grabbed my clothes in a panic and didn't dare to move, for fear of falling off.
As soon as I turned around and took a step, I stopped again, turned back to Yu Zhi ashamedly, and said, "There is still ...... I'm sorry. β
Yu Zhi said bitterly: "What's the use of talking about this now? β
After carrying Yu Qi, I finally looked at Yu Zhi again, although we only got along for a month, but after all, there is brotherhood in it.
"Take care!"
"The eldest brother and the fourth sister should also take care."
Dressed in a festive groom's attire, he looked even more haggard when he said this.
I carried Yu Qi back to Green Rose and Mu Shu, and although there were still many pairs of eyes staring at us, no one dared to stand in the way. It's just that when he found out that we were about to leave, King Shonan looked up from the dragon chair and looked at us, and those eyes clearly had something to say.
Yu Qi jumped off my shoulder.
"Father!"
She wanted to run to King Shonan, but I was holding her back.
Yu Qi eagerly shouted to the king of Xiangnan: "Father, I will stay with you!" β
I pulled her back and hugged her, and screamed, "No! It's too dangerous to stay, and even if you do, it's useless. β
Yu Qi turned his head and cried and begged me: "I don't care! I just want to stay with my father! β
"No way!"
I shouted at her again.
The king of Shonan seemed to have regained some of his usual calm, and said to Yu Qi like a majestic father: "Xiao Qi, don't be willful!" Now I just want you to go out with your imperial brother, it's not a big deal, don't you usually like to go out to the outside world with him? When this matter is over, you will come back again, and now you will go with your eldest brother! β
"But my father ......"
Yu Qi cried so much that he knelt on the ground sadly, and kowtowed heavily to the king of Xiangnan.
Seeing this scene, Green Rose and I were also in a sad mood. But I can't let Yu pray for a girl to stay here, and after watching her kowtow, I pull her up again.
King Shonan turned his gaze to me.
"Yu Qi will be taken care of by you."
The heaviness of this sentence is as heavy as parting with life and death.
β...... Well. β
Although since he ordered my execution, I have not regarded him as my father, or that I only identify with my carpentry father in the world where I came from, not with this Shonan Emperor. And after all these years of crossing over here, I have almost no impression of getting along with him, so I don't think he has anything to do with me. But at this time, hearing that he entrusted me to take care of Yu Qi made me feel that he was not so unbearable. Shonan was governed by him to the peace of the country and the people, although he may not be such a perfect person, but he is still a generation of Ming Jun.
Mu Shu held my arm with one hand, the Green Rose with the other, and I held Yu Qi. As Mu Shu launched the shadow escape, the four of us gradually sank into the black hole on the ground.
When the final parting was about to begin, Mu Shu said coldly to the king of Shonan as if mocking: "This is the retribution for your mistake." β
King Shonan snorted disdainfully.
"If it is retribution, I am willing to bear it calmly."
As my body slowly sank, both Green Rose and Yu Qi nervously grabbed me, and finally disappeared into darkness completely under the gaze of everyone in the hall.
The surrounding scene flew by like an afterimage, and after a long few seconds in the darkness, we reappeared from some shadow in the southern capital.
Escaping from the palace, he found himself in a familiar street, with the faΓ§ade of a mansion behind him.
Green Rose and Yu Qi were pale as they emerged from the darkness, and they were shaking in a daze and almost collapsed, so I had to put Kiyohime into the scabbard I wore at my waist and hold them one by one.
Forgetting not to make it clear to them that Shadow Escape has a great negative effect, and as mortals, they will naturally feel hard.
After holding them steady, I heard that the street was very noisy.
When I looked up, I saw that the streets were in chaos, and the people of the city were running in all directions, many of them carrying their old and young children and luggage, pushing carts in the direction of the south gate, as if they wanted to escape from the south gate. Probably because the north gate is facing the Xiangjiang River, the people in the city want to flee from the south gate after receiving the news of Cangtong's invasion. There are also people who take the opportunity to rob, beat, and trample, and the streets are already chaotic.
In the distance, you could see black smoke rising from several places in the city, and I didn't know what was going on in those places.
Suddenly, a large group of hussars came speeding through the street, and passers-by were all running away, and I looked at the leader of the hussars, and saw that the man was a white crane. I saw her in armor, galloping on her horse, holding a blood-stained silver spear, and the moment she flashed in front of me, she only glanced at me, and in a moment she had already ridden away. And behind her were hundreds of bloody cavalry, who went straight to the palace with the white crane, probably to rescue the driver.