Ding Peng, who came back to his senses, looked at Fang Longye, his eyes were stunned, and then he said casually: "It turned out to be Longjiang Fang Immortal Master, forgive Ding is in prison and can't return the gift."

Fang Longye waved his sword finger, and the iron chain on Ding Peng's body broke in response.

"You know me?"

"Seven years ago, I led troops to pass by Longyuan Mansion, and I was fortunate to see the demeanor of the immortal master killing the water demon."

"Oh? Is it~" Fang Longye didn't know that this Ding Dadu Governor had something to do with his incarnation Fang Xian.

While the two were talking, they woke up Ding Peng's children who were in the same cell with him.

"Dad, I have a lot of pain on my body......"

Ding Peng's daughter woke up from her sleep, and the first words she said made Ding Peng's eyes red.

"Yun'er, don't be afraid, Daddy is here."

Ding Peng's shackles had been removed, and he struggled to get up and get close to his daughter.

But he couldn't.

In order to make him confess to the charge of treason, he has been tortured a lot these days.

At this time, except for the gray hair, he looks no different from ordinary people.

In fact, there have already been dark wounds all over the place, and the martial arts cultivation that was originally a person who entered the Dao has dissipated, and it is difficult to even raise his hand.

Fang Longye stretched out his hand and used his mana to draw a rejuvenation talisman into his body, and Ding Peng regained his ability to move, hugged his daughter into his arms and comforted him softly.

Fang Longye looked at Ding Peng's daughter and frowned.

I saw that she was only thirteen or fourteen years old, but she was covered in chains like her father. What's more, a chain made of dark iron passes straight through the two pipa bones and connects with the iron rings on the ground, which is particularly disobedient and cruel.

Fang Longye sacrificed a blue light magic sword, helped her cut off her restraints, and cast a spell to heal her injuries.

Looking at his daughter who gradually recovered her health, Ding Peng thanked him again and again~

"She's just a little daughter, why is she treated like this?"

"The immortal master doesn't know, my sister has had the power of a lot since she was a child, and two years ago she was only twelve years old and began to charge on the battlefield, invincible. Even if she was abolished as her father, the imperial court was still afraid of her, so she was so poisonous. ”

Ding Peng's son on the side raised his head and explained, then lowered his head and blamed himself, "If it wasn't for the dog emperor who forced me and my father to force me, my sister might have been able to escape." ”

"Shut up!" Ding Peng scolded.

"What do you live in? At the beginning, I wrote to tell my father that I must not leave Ding Jiajun and come back alone, but I just didn't listen, and I had to hold on to my loyalty. If you listen to me, why is our Ding family here? ”

But the boy who was about ten years old, like a little adult, suddenly burst out and roared.

"Even if Dad anticipates the danger, it's useless to stay on the front line, it's the same today." Ding Peng's daughter, who had recovered from her injuries, said coldly.

"Sister?"

Ding Peng's daughter reached out and pulled the iron chains and shackles on her younger brother's body, and broke it hard, freeing her younger brother from his shackles.

She looked at her puzzled brother carefully and explained: "Food, salary, armaments, and logistics are all under the control of the imperial court. No matter how prestigious Daddy is, can he still take a group of hungry soldiers across thousands of miles to kill back to Tai'an? ”

"At least Daddy can also cut off Jiangbei~" Ding Feng defended.

"The military heart, the public opinion, which one supports Daddy? Which of the gentry down there is a good relationship with? When the time comes, the north and the south will fight each other, and it will still be defeated~"

Ding Yun shook his head and retorted to his younger brother's words.

Fang Longye watched the argument between the two sisters and brothers with interest. Seeing this, Ding Peng greeted the two sisters and brothers: "Yun'er Feng'er, why don't you come and worship Immortal Master Xie ~"

When the two siblings heard this, they stopped talking, and hurriedly got up and knelt down in front of Fang Longye to salute, "Ding Yun (Ding Feng) thank the Immortal Master for his rescue." ”

"Get up, it's because I have a relationship with you." Fang Longye waved his right hand, and the two of them stood up involuntarily.

He then turned his head to look at Ding Peng: "I think my intentions, the governor should already be clear, but unfortunately it seems that the governor is afraid that it will be difficult to respond to my wishes."

Ding Peng gave a deep salute, "Thank you for the kindness of the immortal master, it's just that Ding can't get over the hurdle in his heart, and he can't complain about others." ”

"Don't you think about it anymore? It is certainly respectable to sacrifice one's life for righteousness. But if you leave with me, you can change it in the palm of your hand, and then what grievances can't be washed away? ”

"Thank you to the immortal master for your love, forgive Ding for making it difficult to get up with this."

"Zhang Guo is already rotten in his bones, and humanity is a common righteousness, why should the governor be persistent?"

Ding Peng didn't reply, but sighed, called the two children, reached out and stroked the top of the two children's heads for a long time, and finally let the two kneel in front of Fang Longye, and said, "Immortal Master, although I am a little cheeky, I have something to ask for."

Fang Longye sighed slightly, "It's okay~ Ding Yun Ding Feng, you sisters and brothers will call me Mr. in the future!" ”

Ding Peng bowed when he saw this, "Ding Peng bowed to the Immortal Master again~"

"Daddy!?" The two siblings also understood their father's choice, and cried in unison.

Then he pulled his pair of children, wiped away the tears on their faces, and said with a calm smile: "I chose this way for my father, but I was obsessed with it, and I couldn't get along with myself for my father." People have to be persistent, don't they? Seek benevolence and be benevolent, that's all. ”

"Daddy!"

……

That night, Fang Longye used a puppet method to replace dozens of Ding Peng's relatives and friends who were willing to leave, and the rest chose to die Ding Peng and others.

Half a month later, Ding Peng and others were beheaded at noon, and their heads were urgently sent to the front line to be handed over to Cangguo, and the negotiation and success were made on the condition that Zhang Guo ceded the land of Bafu that had been recovered in the north, and more than half of the results of the Northern Expedition of more than ten years were destroyed.

Ding Peng died, and the peace was agreed.

The court of Zhang State immediately announced the exemption of the "Northern Expeditionary Military Salary" and reduced taxes for three years to appease the people.

The whole world celebrates, and everyone is happy~

Cangguo effortlessly regained the land of the eight prefectures, including Yujing, and the state of Zhang stabilized the land of the six northern prefectures that was already in hand as a barrier to the south.

The emperor stabilized his throne, Wenchen suppressed the arrogance of the generals, and Li Shu was given the gift of respite and shouted the benevolence of the saints.

No one mentioned Ding Peng, and it seems that Zhang Guo has never had such a person.

In the old house of the Ding family, Ding Yun and Ding Feng's sisters and brothers stood on the opposite side of the street and looked at it for a long time, and then Ding Yun looked at Fang Longye, "Sir, let's go!" ”

"Don't look again?"

Ding Yun shook his head and said, "The things that should be taken have been retrieved, and there is nothing to be nostalgic about."

She brushed over the spell barrier that covered the tracks of her sister and brother, raised her heroic little face, and said with a firm look in her eyes: "One day, I will return to Tai'an City in a dignified manner, let's see it then!"

"It's okay, otherwise your relatives and friends should be in a hurry." Fang Longye said.

"By the way, sir, this is for you." Ding Yun took a black-sheathed ancient sword from his younger brother Ding Feng's arms and held it in front of Fang Longye's eyes with both hands.

"What is this?" Fang Longye stretched out his hand to take it, drew his sword to check, and before the sword was unsheathed, a cold air that lacked human muscles and bones immediately came out of the blade. I saw that this sword shape is strange and ancient, the head and tail are more than three feet long, the sword body is two fingers wide, the color is dark blue, and the texture on the sword spine is in the shape of a hundred dragons coiled.

"Good sword!" Fang Longye praised, in terms of sharpness alone, this sword was already comparable to a magic weapon.

"Sir, this is our family's blood sword, which was meant by our ancestors to keep us loyal and patriotic. Since the emperor has abandoned my Ding family's blue blood pill heart, the Ding family no longer needs this sword. Ding Yun said coldly.

"Mr. hasn't accepted our restraints yet, and this sword will be presented to Mr. as a gift of apprenticeship~" Ding Feng echoed his sister's words, and said respectfully to the other party, Long Ye.

"Okay, I'll take your wishes." Fang Longye was noncommittal, put the blue blood sword into the sheath, put it in the storage bag casually, and took the two of them out of the city~

Along the way, looking at the grateful people inside and outside the city, Ding Feng said in a sullen voice, "Sister, I really feel worthless for my father." ”

Ding Yun was silent for a moment and replied, "I feel the same way."

Fang Longye heard the conversation between the two, smiled, and did not reply. Instead, he found an old farmer who carried grain into the city and asked, "Everyone is celebrating?"

The old farmer couldn't see the Ding Yun sister and brother, only a noble son wearing brocade asked him. He didn't dare to slack off and replied: "Yes, after more than ten years of fighting, thanks to the benevolence of the saint, I can finally live a good life for two years."

"Oh? But what about Cangguo's invasion of the south again in the future? ”

"Nobleman, you are worried about the country and the people, but we, the small people, can live one day at a time, how can we care about the future?" With that, he gave a salute and left in a hurry.

"A few days later, still flesh and blood, how many can?"

Fang Longye sighed and said seriously to the two: "The people are short-sighted, but don't blame them, it's not easy for them to live."

"Sir, but my father is going to fight for them to make a good life!" Ding Feng was puzzled.

"It's not your father's fault, it's the fault of the Zhang Imperial Court. The court spread the burden on the people, and of course the people didn't want to fight. Fang Longye replied.

"The Northern Expedition couldn't vent his breath, he could only advance and not retreat, so the moment his father was recalled, he knew that he was powerless to return to heaven." Ding Yun said coldly.

Fang Longye glanced at her approvingly, and replied: "That's right, the reason why your father is unwilling to leave with me, in addition to his unwillingness to go against his heart's persistence, is because he understands that after the imperial court takes the initiative to retreat, no one is willing to support the Northern Expedition in a short period of time."

The people of the southern lands were unwilling to bear the burden of the northern expedition, and the people of the northern reconquista wanted to rebuild their homes.

The peace talks faction wanted to suppress the arrogance of the main battle faction, and the emperor wanted to get rid of the generals who thought they were a threat to the throne, but those who saw the crisis clearly did not dare to say much with the conclusion of the imperial court's coffin.

Unless the court of Zhang is overthrown, a new dynasty is established. Under the redistribution of benefits, the people's lives were improved, and the Northern Expedition was naturally supported at that time.

It's a pity that Ding Peng himself is unwilling to be the one who overthrew Zhang Guo.

"Zhang Guo is rotten and can't be saved." Fang Longye took the two of them out of the city gate and walked in the direction of a mountain forest not far away, preparing to join the dozens of Ding Peng's relatives and friends who had been rescued by him before.

Not far from the big river where the moat meets, a canoe old man sings sadly:

"The water is flattened, and each flows east, west, north and south. Life also has a life, can An Xingxing sigh and sit down?

Drink wine to forgiveness, raise a glass to cut off the song road. Isn't there no sense of heart without wood and stone? Swallowing his voice hesitated, he didn't dare to speak. ”