Xu Jiao's decisive departure made Zhang Xiaobai a little stunned. I thought we could walk together for a while, but I didn't expect to be separated so soon.

A few people simply cleaned up the battlefield, and Zhang Xiaobai didn't forget to search for them again.

The group of four was reunited again, and Liu Wenchuan drove the carriage with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

In the carriage, Heiya and Sun Yu stared wide-eyed, and Heiya asked with her eyes, "Why did you follow again, didn't you say that you want to stay in Qingyun City?" ”

"Am I kind enough to come to your rescue? Can you not have a questioning expression? ”

"It's not you, you want to leave us behind?"

"It seems like you left me behind, right?"

The person who came just stared at each other and questioned each other silently.

Next to the carriage, Zhang Xiaobai hummed a little song leisurely and rode on horseback alone. I was thinking about the silver I had just 'picked up', but it was a pity that I had a few other good horses, if I brought them all, would I be able to sell them for a good price in the next county.

The setting sun is shining from the northwest.

On the rivers and lakes, people in the same way have gathered and shared.

In the affairs of the rivers and lakes, there is life and death.

......

Yingchuan County, the eastern part of the Tianze Dynasty, is not far from the capital Pingyao.

The hometown of the old eunuch is in Linhuai County of Yingchuan County, which is backed by the Huaishui River and has the fertile land of Pingchuan. The grain produced here is specially supplied to Pingyao. The landlords and squires of Linhuai County have a great background, and they are also the ones who have driven the prosperity of Linhuai.

When the Great Qi destroyed the country, some people once described Linhuai as being drunk every night and singing every night, and every inch of green silk was sorrowful.

In the past, Linhuai County belonged to the old eunuch, and the Great Qi Emperor Qi Yuxuan assigned thousands of hectares of fertile land in Linhuai County to the old eunuch, which belonged to his fiefdom and remained hereditary. But the old eunuch is already a eunuch, and he has no children under his knees, who is the hereditary inheritance to? Of course, it was given to the eunuch's clansmen.

But now.

The clansmen of the old eunuch still live in Linhuai County, still singing every night, and still living and working in peace and contentment.

Great Qi, but it has changed the dynasty.

Today's eunuch was given the name by the emperor, Qi Shiyi, but he was originally surnamed He. He was born in Linhuai County, and his parents were ordinary farmers who made a living from farming. The family does not have much land, which is only enough to survive every year. Later, his parents gave birth to two younger brothers, which made the family that could have food and clothing begin to be stretched.

When the eunuch was nine years old, he didn't even have a real name, but he was called He Da. The family has to support three babies, and the parents are powerless. I happened to hear that the Pingyao City Palace was recruiting eunuchs, so I sent the old eunuch into the palace.

The family got a lot of silver, which also made the eunuch's parents a lot easier.

More than 60 years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the eunuch's parents are no longer there. The two younger brothers are gone, and the remaining third brother has reached the twilight of his life. The He family has also become a big family in Linhuai County, and there are as many as twelve children of the two younger brothers alone. Two more generations have developed under the children.

The younger brother, He Qin, is now the ancestor of the family. The He family's development is still enduring, because there are people above the court who are officials, and the order is not low.

Therefore, even if the Great Qi has fallen, and the Linhuai County of the Great Qi has become the Linhuai County of the Tianze Dynasty, the He family is still the soil emperor of Linhuai County.

Today.

In the courtyard of He Mansion, the atmosphere is a little weird.

The maids in the front yard didn't know what was going on, the backyard of the ancestor and the ancestral hall of the He family had been banned, and anyone after the four generations of the He family was forbidden to approach.

He Qin, who is full of white hair, is full of tears. He is already a person buried in the soil to his eyebrows, and he lives one day at a time, and he does not participate in the affairs of the family at all. Surviving until today, in fact, it is just to be able to meet the eldest brother.

Back then, if it weren't for the eldest brother's lifelong fate in exchange for silver, he would have been given away a long time ago.

So the eldest brother is his reborn parent. Even at this age, He Qin still can't give up this brotherhood.

"Big brother... The old man trembled and knelt in front of the old eunuch, tears and sadness.

In the ancestral hall, the three generations of the He family were basically all present, including the children of the second brother He Yu. Among them, some people still have a little impression of the old eunuch. After all, when those old eunuchs were in the palace in full swing, they also came back many times.

But after all, he was the emperor's personal eunuch, and he only came back once in a few years.

When returning to the former home, the seemingly warm and happy huge family is so strange in the eyes of the old eunuch.

Perhaps the younger brother He Qin can say that in order to keep the descendants of the He family, they have to lead the family to bow to the 'rebels'. After all, there are still old and weak children in the family, and they are no longer the family of five that they used to be.

But can this really be used as an excuse?

Before returning to Linhuai, how could the eunuchs not fully understand the situation.

When Daqi was changed to Tianze, heavy troops were stationed around the He family to protect their entire family for several years, and at that time, there were often 'Daqi dead soldiers' to assassinate He Qin. If it wasn't for the He family to surrender first, how could Linhuai County vote?

It was He Qin who trembled his body, took the children of the He family, and went out of the city to hand over the surrender letter, which saved Linhuai County from the slaughter of the rebels.

Some people feel that what He Qin did was not wrong, after all, he was there to protect the people of Li in the city. But the vast majority of them are spitting on He Qin, saying that he is spineless and unworthy of being a member of the He family. It was for their own selfish interests, afraid that their He family would lose their land and fiefdom, so they groveled to be a dog for the rebels.

But these people didn't know that He Qin wanted to die to make his ambition clear. It was his eldest son, He Yongshang, who is now serving as the crown prince and concubine in the Tianze Dynasty, who pushed him to the forefront and made him the ancestor of the He family who was spurned.

"Get up, you're all getting old..."The old eunuch's voice was a little distant.

I haven't seen it for more than ten years, and the power of the He family has not only not been affected, but has become stronger and stronger. The mood of the old eunuch is actually very complicated.

"Big brother, I've been looking forward to you for so many years... I hope you will come back one day and give me a chance to atone for my sins..."He Qin was still kneeling on the ground, his hands on the ground, his forehead on the ground, and the ground was already wet with his tears.

Behind him, the oldest of the three generations of the He family is already in their fifties. Everyone didn't dare to breathe, and the one sitting at the top of the house was the uncle who was wanted by the whole world, and the first person in the martial arts of Daqi.

Suddenly returned after so many years, what is the crime if you don't ask the teacher?

I'm afraid that he will be angry and slaughter half of the He family, who would dare to shout injustice. After so many years, they have long forgotten the guilt in their hearts, and the comfortable days have passed for a long time, and they have even forgotten how the family rose.

In the ancestral hall, even if the old eunuch didn't say a word about the teacher's guilt, the atmosphere was already depressed and everyone was out of breath. The invisible power was about to crush them to death.

At the table of the Eight Immortals outside the ancestral hall, there sat Zhao Cripple, the big old Lin and the cook. The three of them drank wine and ate meat, looking like they had nothing to do with themselves, chatting heartlessly. Because next, the enemy they are going to face is too strong.

Quite possibly, after the next battle, whether they will be able to sit here in a single place is a matter of two words. The Sword Saint of the Xuantian Sword Sect personally went out of the mountain and brought the six masters of the sect to come in person.

Now I am traveling east from Pingyao all the way here.

The one-armed old eunuch's cloudy eyes swept over the juniors of the He family who were kneeling on the ground in the ancestral hall, and the empty sleeves looked a little lonely. He raised his hand, picked up the flask on the table, and took a big sip.

"He Qin, I just came today to worship my parents. Nothing else, you don't have to think about it. Great Qi has been destroying the country for so many years, and it doesn't make any sense for me to pursue you. It's good to be alive, and I hope you can live so carefree after today. ”

"Big brother, it's all my fault..."

"That's it! Who's right and who's wrong is a thing of the past. ”

The old eunuch stood up, bent down and patted He Qin on the shoulder.

Even if this huge mansion is not surnamed He, the eunuchs will not kill them, after all, the people here were also the people of Daqi. Even the million-strong army of Daqi could not stop the rebels, so why should they throw the responsibility on the defenseless Li people, they are just trying to survive, what is wrong.

Seeing the old eunuch get up, the three people outside also got up. The three of them made the same movements, raised their sleeves and wiped their mouths, and looked at the old eunuch at the same time.

"It's time to go." The old eunuch said casually.

The three of them were not hypocritical, turned around and took the lead towards the outside of the ancestral compound. Before this, the old eunuch had already incense the spiritual seat of his parents in the ancestral hall. Everything that should be done has been done, and the next thing is life or death, and there are no regrets.

As the four of them walked out of the ancestral hall compound, five more people from outside the courtyard converged towards them. Everyone did not walk through the gate of the He family, and the distance was really a long way, because the He family's house was too big.

It's easy to get lost.

So, they just went over the wall and left.

All the way to Pingyao.

......

The news of Qi Shiyi's return has spread in the counties near Pingyao, and the Sword Saint came to stop it, and everyone knows it. A fifteen-year-old battle of the Ten Realms is about to kick off, and the situation on the rivers and lakes is changing, and many powerful sects have come one after another, hoping to make up for the earth-shattering battle that was missed fifteen years ago.

Not only did people from all sects in the rivers and lakes come one after another, but the people in the rivers and lakes who were once loyal to the Great Qi disappeared for fifteen years, and finally waited for the leader they had in mind. This pinnacle battle is not only a battle between the Sword Saint and Qi Shiyi, but also a battle between the Great Qi Rivers and Lakes and the world's rivers and lakes.

The end city between Pingyao and Linhuai County is full of heroes.

The place was well chosen, and the curtain city ended. I don't know if it's the end of the era of the Sword Master, or the end of the strongest in Daqi.

This battle, after all, will be a battle that will change the future of the world.