This is an old man, a very old, very old man...... From his memory, he was probably five hundred and thirty-three years old, well, it should be that number.

His body is no longer as tough as it used to be, and even now it is a little rickety.

Of course, this was because the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was gradually drying up, and he could no longer return to his peak state. If the aura of heaven and earth was abundant, he even felt that he could go to the capital to surf the waves several times. This is no joke!

It's a pity, it's a pity, he's old. When people get old, they naturally like to recall some things in the past.

That year, he still remembers, according to the common year of the Common Era, it should be 1368, that is, the first year of Hongwu, that year, he met the man he wanted to follow for the rest of his life.

At that time, they were all still young, and the gap in status was like a moat. At that time, he was a squire, but that man was a prince.

A few years later, His Royal Highness the Prince was named King of Yan, and he followed His Royal Highness to the Mansion of King Yan in Yanjing.

Although so many years had passed, he still remembered the appearance of the majestic Yanwang Mansion for the first time in front of his eyes.

Although so many years have passed, he still remembers every corridor in Yanwang's Mansion, and he is still familiar with every small courtyard in Yanwang's Mansion. Yanwang's Mansion is his home, and it always will be.

The accident happened on the night of the tenth year of Hongwu.

The eighteen-year-old Royal Highness had just finished his evening class and was about to rest, and he had to accompany His Highness back to his bedroom as an attendant.

On the way back to the bedroom, His Royal Highness suddenly said to him, Chang Huai, Gu suddenly wanted the position of Ying Tianfu.

He was stunned, and I understood the meaning of His Highness's words. At the same time, he also understood that His Highness told him this idea, and really regarded him as a confidant.

So he asked, Your Highness, is there anything I can do for you?

Do you want to learn martial arts?

Yes, lowly and willing to go to the trouble for His Highness!" he replied.

Then His Highness stopped talking, and they had already arrived at His Highness's bedroom, where there would naturally be servants to take care of him.

And he, too, should rest.

The next day, His Royal Highness invited a brocade guard, and it should be a thousand households.

After so many years, he has forgotten the name of this Qianhu Lord, but he only vaguely remembers that the Qianhu Lord seems to have the surname Ji.

Since then, he has been practicing martial arts diligently with this master of a thousand households, day after day, year after year.

I didn't start practicing martial arts until I was eighteen years old, and for ordinary people, this time is too late.

But his talent is very good, and under the generous teaching of this brocade guard Ji Qianhu, his cultivation has grown rapidly, and he has even become a witch who can be admired by thousands of people.

Later, when he followed His Highness on the expedition, he was already an immortal-level great witch.

And it was precisely this expedition with His Highness that made him more determined to improve his cultivation. He wants to become strong, and he will not allow anyone to harm his Highness from now on.

It was about the fourth year of Jianwen, and when Tianfu City was broken, he stood behind His Highness with an arrow...... He failed to stop.

It was the Senhu Lord who stopped the arrow. It seems that it was also because of that arrow that Lord Qianhu was promoted by His Royal Highness to the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

From now on, His Highness should be called Your Majesty.

His Majesty set the capital of Yanjing and changed the name of the year to Yongle.

For the capital Yanjing, he once asked His Majesty why he still set the capital in Yanjing, which is close to the north, even though the north has been in war for many years.

At that time, His Majesty laughed a few times, pointed in the direction of Yanshan, and said to him, Chang Huai, the emperor should be the pillar of a country, should live in the north, guard the country, and should die for the world Sheji. Only in this way can we achieve the will of the people and be invincible.

Well...... This is what later generations said, "The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies", His Majesty's children and grandchildren all firmly remember this, and they did not take a step back until the Ming Dynasty was broken.

And he is not a king, he is just a waiter turned into a guard. At that time, he didn't understand what His Majesty said, he only understood that the Majesty in the yellow robe in front of him should be the person he defended with his life.

Many more years passed, whether it was the thirteenth year of Yongle or the fourteenth year of Yongle, he couldn't remember. He only remembered that the biggest thing that happened this year was that half of his master, the commander surnamed Ji, was beheaded by His Majesty's order.

On that day, people in Yanjing City were panicked.

On the night of that day, His Majesty summoned him.

In His Majesty's study, there were only the two of them, and even the guards outside the house were broken up by His Majesty.

At that time, His Majesty sat on a wooden chair, and on the bookcase was a mountain of melotons, a gold waist plate, and a metallic unsheathed black sword.

At that time, His Majesty said that Ji Gang's crime was forcibly added by me. Over the years, the information collected by Jin Yiwei has been handled by him, and he knows too much. After he died, no one knew that there was a person named Luo Changhuai among the Jinyi Guard.

His Majesty paused, stretched out his finger and pointed to the treasure knife on the bookcase, and said to him solemnly.

You are the only one who is not known to others. Now, I grant you the rank of Commander and grant you the Yama Sword. I want you to remember that I won't tell you who you are, and that you, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, only have the right to investigate cases, not the right to dispatch.

I am not like Taizu, I have no quality of cultivation, therefore, I will always die one day. I have given you these rights in the hope that you can protect my Ming dynasty and protect my future generations.

By your command, you can investigate and deal with all documents throughout the country, and if you are hindered from investigating the case, I will allow you to be executed.

I'll inform Chi'er about this. From now on, you'...... It is the patron saint of my Ming Dynasty.

He took over the Yama sword and the command order given to him by His Majesty, and also took over the extremely heavy burden.

Later, in the twenty-second year of Yongle, His Majesty ...... Death.

From that moment on, no one knew the name Luo Changhuai. The emperors of the past dynasties only knew that Chengzu left behind a guardian god-like commander of the brocade guard, who would always protect the Ming Dynasty.

On the day when His Majesty was sent to the imperial tomb, he bought a jar of wine, sat on a hill not far away, and drank alone.

After so many years, he figured out that His Majesty thought that he had laid a seamless trap for him to drill into, but he didn't know that from the first day he became His Majesty's attendant, he was wholeheartedly loyal to His Majesty, and there was no second heart, that is, the sentence "I am willing to go to the soup for His Highness" is absolutely from the bottom of his heart.

Maybe even he didn't realize that getting along with His Majesty day and night, he was no longer as simple as a monarch and a minister.

And he will keep his promise and guard his world for His Majesty.

Until...... The day came.

In 1644 AD, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in the coal mountain, and the Ming Dynasty ended.

On that day, he did not save Emperor Chongzhen, because he understood that the Ming Dynasty could not be saved, and only when Chongzhen died could he save His Majesty's descendants from generation to generation.

For him, it doesn't matter if the Ming Dynasty is extinguished, as long as the royal bloodline is passed down, it is enough.

He is not the patron saint of the Ming Dynasty, he is just the patron saint of the Zhu family.

However, he still came to Yanjing City and waited there for a while.

What he is waiting for is Shunzhi's entry into Beijing.

On that day, the Qing army's formation was very grand.

That day was the day when the Qing Dynasty officially stood in the annals of Chinese history.

On that day, there were many, many people waiting for Shunzhi in the capital.

When he returned to the capital, he didn't want to assassinate Shunzhi, the demise of the Ming Dynasty was a foregone conclusion, and he couldn't change it. Even if he killed Shunzhi, it would have no effect.

When he returned to Yanjing, he wanted to protect Shunzhi and clean up the portal for Daming for the last time.

His Yama knife was unsheathed again, and this time, he raised his long knife and would face his colleague.

He knew that there had always been a special organization named the Command Envoy Division in the Jinyi Guard.

The division was established by Taizu to accommodate every retired Jinyi Guard commander, and formed the strongest combat power of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, this Jinyi Guard commanded the envoy and even the previous emperors did not know. It had taken him a long time to learn about the existence of this institution, and he had been on guard against them.

On that day, he stood at the mouth of the alley, standing with a knife, blocking the way of the men.

One after another, middle-aged people in unicorn suits and holding embroidered spring knives came out of the shadows. Among these people, there are many acquaintances of Ta Luo Changhuai.

Mao Xiang, Jiang Xian, Sai Hazhi, Lu Bing, Yuan Bin, Shi Wenyi, Ma Jixiang......

These people are all the famous commanders of the Jinyi Guard, and of course, they are also his colleagues.

He didn't have to ask them, because he could read what they were thinking. When Chongzhen hanged himself, it was understandable that he didn't show up, but if they didn't show up, they were selfish.

They want to kill Shunzhi and seek to usurp the throne!

That day, he only said one word.

Under the command of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Changhuai, Chengzu has a life, and those who stop me will be decided.

That day was the last time he killed with the Yama knife, and this time, it was a complete break of the continuation of the Ming Dynasty.

Years later, when he recalled that day, all he remembered was the blood-stained alley.

Later, he lived in seclusion on a hill in the south of the Yangtze River, built a wooden house casually, and lived casually.

He actually likes this kind of life, away from the hustle and bustle of officialdom, away from the darkness of politics. He paid a lot of money to build a pavilion for him, built on the shore of the lake, and kept him in the hut.

The descendants of the Zhu family have been hidden by him, and there is no need to worry about the current emperor finding them, and he will go to see them every year and continue to stick to that promise.

Many, many years passed, and he couldn't remember exactly how long, but one day a young man came to him with a child of five or six years old.

The young man said that he was from the Ren family in Suzhou, and his name was Ren Linshu, and the word Tiance.

The young man came here because he wanted his son Ren Gongchi to worship him as a teacher.

He agreed, because this child's talent really made his eyes hot.

And then, I lived like this until now.

He sat up slightly straighter and untied the knife from his arm.

When people are old, they really like to reminisce about the past.

With such a feeling in his heart, he beckoned to the little boy who was practicing martial arts not far away.

"Stop, look. Come here, I have something for you. ”

The little boy ran over and stood in front of him, looking at him with a pair of big watery eyes.

He took the knife, handed it to the little boy, and said with a smile: "Yan'er, the teacher is now giving you this Yama knife." This knife has accompanied the teacher for a lifetime, although the teacher did not use it to eliminate evil and promote good, but at least he did not do anything to hurt nature and reason. As a teacher, you don't have many requirements for you, as long as you don't hold your own strength and be arrogant, you can do whatever you want. ”

The little boy took the knife, and his eyes showed incomparable firmness: "Yes, Master, the apprentice will remember." ”

He nodded, waved his hand at the little boy, and said, "Okay, you continue to practice the sword, you are tired of the teacher, and you have to rest." ”

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