"Hmph, you just don't want to take me! You must think that I don't have martial arts, I'm a drag bottle!" Ran Shu said angrily.

"Ahh

"Then Brother Shi Ning will take me, sing small songs for you along the way, tell you stories to relieve your fatigue, do you say okay?" Ran Shu shook Shi Ning lightly and said coquettishly.

"Alas, I don't want to take my good sister-in-law with me, but I'm afraid it's too dangerous to go, and there are quite a few martial arts masters in the north... ”

"With Brother Shi Ning by my side, I won't be afraid of any danger!" said Ran Shu hugged Shi Ning tightly, gently resting her head on Shi Ning's chest, listening to the pounding heartbeat.

Shi Ning put one hand on her waist, hugged her, stroked her soft hair with the other, and scolded happily in her heart: "You charming little goblin!"

"If you don't speak, you just agree!"

Seeing Ran Shu raise her head and look at him with affection, Shi Ning's fluttering heart beat faster,

"Shu'er, I... ”

Shi Ning was about to say: "Shu'er, when I find Tianshi to avenge the murder of my relatives, I will marry you!" But when he thought that there was no clue to Tianshi now, and he couldn't find the enemy who slaughtered the Bizi people, Shi Ning swallowed the words in his stomach and buried his children's love deep in his heart.

I saw a figure printed in the pond next to the water pavilion, and it flashed by.

"What kind of person!" Shi Ning looked in the direction of the flashing shadow, and the flashing figure was dressed in black and masked, and quickly jumped on the roof of the main hall in the mansion.

The black-clothed masked man crossed his hands and put the long sword on his chest, and said with his toes raised, "You are Shi Ning?"

Who are you, and why are you breaking into my house at night?"

"I didn't expect that the one who defeated the Qin State was actually a stinky boy who had not dried up!" the black-clothed masked man sighed to himself.

"Are you from Qin?"

"You don't care who I am, let me ask you, Shi Yue, Hu Yanbao, Liu Bao, and Kong Lu were all defeated by you alone?"

During the Battle of Weishui, Shi Ning asked these people to report their names, so he was impressed, so he said: "That Hu Yanbao, Liu Bao, and Kong Lu claimed to be the seventeenth, sixteenth, and fifteenth Tiger Guards of Taiwutang, but their martial arts were unremarkable, and they were knocked off the horse by me in a few moves. ”

"Hmph, my Taiwutang condenses the world's masters, but you dare to defeat them with a few moves?

"If you don't believe me, come and play a few tricks with me?"

The black-clothed masked man said disdainfully: "Hmph, there will naturally be a chance to make a move in the future." Let me ask you again, why did you only kill Shi Yue, but not Hu Yanbao, Liu Bao, and Kong Lu?"

"I swore not to kill!"

"What is the explanation for killing Shi Yue?"

"I had to kill Shi Yue at that time, I have regretted it for the rest of my life, this severed finger is my end!" said that, Shi Ning stretched out his left hand and looked at it.

Under the reflection of the moonlight and the pond, the black-clothed masked man could clearly see that Shi Ning's left tail finger was missing a section, and said, "You broke your oath and killed someone, why don't you kill yourself, what does it have to do with the severed finger?"

"I have a revenge for killing my relatives and my father's last wish has not been fulfilled, so I can't commit suicide hastily, so I make an oath here to kill one person and cut off one finger!"

"It's ridiculous, but you're also a good man!" he said, clasping his fists in respect.

"If you're here to avenge Shi Yue, then come!" said Shi Ning, who made a gesture to defend against the enemy.

The black-clothed masked man remained motionless, and said, "Do you know that Shi Yue is a man?"

"After I knew that Shi Yue was my kindred, I regretted it, but it was too late。。。。。 Don't... Are you also a Karma?" Shi Ning asked subconsciously.

"Yes, I'm a Karma! I'm not only a Karma, but also an old friend of your father!"

"Ah, my father's old friend!" Shi Ning said excitedly in his heart.

"It's my father's old friend, don't dare to slack off, please tell the hero!" Shi Ning thought that his father wanted him to go to Xiangguo County in the north to find the descendants of the Shi clan of the Liang clan, but there was no clue so far, I don't know where to start, and today I have to meet my father's old friend, it seems that there is hope.

"Don't bother, I only convey one sentence: 'If you want to find Tianshi, you must first find the descendants of the Shi family, and if you want to find the descendants of the Shi family, you must go to the northern Qin Kingdom!'"

Shi Ning was shocked in his heart, and thought to himself: "Could this black-clothed masked man have the ability to read minds? I just silently looked for the descendant of the Shi family in my heart, how did he know it at once?"

After the black-clothed masked man finished saying that, he was about to jump away, but Shi Ning chased after him and asked, "May I ask the hero name?"

In an instant, the black-clothed masked man had left a hundred steps away, and a melodious echo came from the alley of the long mansion: "You don't have to ask my name, you will know when you arrive at the Taiwu Hall of the Qin Kingdom!"

Shi Ning walked a hundred steps and still couldn't catch up, and said in his heart: "This person's internal strength is so deep, even I can't reach it, it's really a master!"

That night, Shi Ning instructed the family to pack up, and the personal belongings were all taken care of by Ran Shu, and called the housekeeper to carefully check the objects in the house, seal the gate and control the courtyard, and the finances of the house did not take a penny.

In the morning of the next day, Shi Ning sealed the official mansion and official seal, dressed plainly, and went to the court in plain clothes. The dragon chair on the Shangshutai hall is empty, but the Jin Emperor is not seen.

"Your Majesty occasionally feels cold, the dragon is unwell, this morning the court will not discuss the matter, and the civil and military officials will retreat on their own!"

Shi Ning handed over the resignation and said: "There is Lao Zhong often told Your Majesty that Shi Ning is determined to resign as the marquis, and the reason for this is already in the resignation!" Although Shi Ning has already known Chinese characters, he needs to chew the words to write the resignation letter, and he is humble but goes and shows his reluctance, reflecting the helplessness of resignation.

As soon as Shi Ning's resignation came out, the ministers of the DPRK and China were all surprised and discussed.

The prime minister Xie An stroked his gray beard, and when he thought of the knighthood, Shi Ning put forward a request not to pay grain from the fief and ask for exemption from taxes for the people of Wuling County, but in the end, Emperor Jin only agreed to exempt Wuling County from paying taxes for three years. So Xie An first smiled and asked: "Could it be that the Marquis of Wuling is still dissatisfied with His Majesty's exemption from Wuling County's taxes for three years, so he has resigned and asked for more?"

Shi Ning bowed to Xie An and said: "Your Majesty exempts the people of Wuling County from paying taxes for three years, which is already a great grace, how dare you make any more requests? ”

Xie An seemed to understand something, and sat on the Taifu chair and stopped talking.

Liu Yu, Zhang Hu, Xie Ying and Shi Ning had a fateful relationship, and there was a friend of life and death on the battlefield, and they were surprised and puzzled to hear that Shi Ning was going to resign.

"I'm not leaving my brother, it's just that I have the important things that my deceased father explained, so I need to complete the important things before I can come back to meet my brother!" Shi Ning remembered that when he was a new member of the Beifu Army, Liu Yu taught him to recognize weapons and learn swordsmanship on the school field, and he was also a teacher and friend, Xie Yao and he stood up to save the country and dared to be a dead soldier when he was in danger, and Zhang Hu fought side by side with him on the battlefield to support each other.

The resignation of the court failed, and he inquired about the fact that Emperor Jin could not go to the court within half a month and could not discuss matters, so Shi Ning returned to General Shenwu's mansion sullenly, did not open the compound, and only rested in a remote and simple ear room. On the same day, Ran Shu said goodbye to Liu Shuzhen from Xie Mansion and came back, and Shi Ning talked to her about the fact that Emperor Jin could not go to the court to discuss matters.

Ran Shu said: "Your Majesty must have known about Brother Shi Ning's resignation, so he pretended to be sick and did not discuss the matter, and deliberately avoided it, intending to make you unable to resign, and when the time comes, you can only give up." ”

"When I sealed the mansion last night, I also deliberately told my subordinates not to alarm the surrounding mansions, and not to go elsewhere to publicize my resignation, how did Your Majesty know so quickly?" Shi Ning was puzzled.

"Today I went to say goodbye to Sister Shuzhen, Princess Xin'an happened to be there, I asked the princess how Her Majesty was well, and the princess said that Her Majesty was well, but somehow she didn't go to the early court. ”

Ran Shu paused, and then said, "There is something wrong with the housekeeper in the house!"

On the way back, Ran Shu heard Princess Xin'an say that she had met the housekeeper of General Shenwu's mansion in the inner palace of Emperor Jin, and Ran Shu knew that Emperor Jin knew in advance that Shi Ning was going to resign through the housekeeper in this mansion, so she was prepared. It turned out that after Emperor Jin named Shi Ning as the general of Shenwu and the Marquis of Wuling, he specially appointed his attendant eunuch as the housekeeper of Shi Ning Mansion, but in fact, he was the eyes and ears of Shi Ning Mansion.

After listening to Ran Shu's explanation, Shi Ning sighed and said, "It seems that Your Majesty still doesn't worry that I am a Qian!"

The next day, Shi Ning and Ran Shu came to the apse of Taicheng where Emperor Jin lived, only to see that the inner hall palace wall was towering, the door of the inner hall was tightly closed, and the guards were strict, as if it was a closed door.

"Brother Shi Ning, if you don't resign from this official, we will leave immediately, and the emperor can't help you!" Ran Shu waited impatiently outside the door.

Shi Ning said: "Your Majesty is kind to the people of Wuling County, if I don't say goodbye, I will definitely be trapped for being unkind and unjust, and in the future, Your Majesty will be angry and increase the taxes of the people of Wuling County."

Ran Shu argued: "Great benevolence and righteousness can only be for Ming Jun, if he is not a king, you are not a minister, Brother Shi Ning, you have repaid Dajin, how can you be ashamed?"

Just after New Year's Day, the cold was still there, and the snow was blowing one after another, Shi Ning did not answer, but still stood outside the gate of the inner hall waiting for the reply of the messenger guard.

Suddenly, not far away from the southeast side of the inner hall of the wing room ignited a raging fire, the southeast side of the wing room close to the outer wall of the inner hall, now is the northwest wind, if not in time to put out the fire, the wind blows violently, it can ignite the Jin Emperor's bedroom not far away.

The guards panicked to put out the fire, and suddenly the inner sanctum was in chaos.

Na Ran Shu jumped back from the southeast direction with joy.

Shi Ning asked, "Shu'er, where did you go just now?"

Ran Shu raised her head and said arrogantly: "I just went to order the inner hall of this emperor Lao'er! See that he can't get out of it!" The Jin Emperor is only three years older than Shi Ning, but Ran Shu scolded him and called him the emperor Lao'er, and after scolding, his heart was very happy.

"You... How can this moment's kung fu burn the inner hall?" Shi Ning was puzzled, and said in his heart: "The wall of this inner hall is about two zhang high, how can a weak woman with no martial arts climb the wall and light a fire? Could it be that Shu'er has martial arts but hides it from me?"

Ran Shu explained: "I can climb such a high wall there, I called Jun'er and Xin'er, the two wild girls are amazing, I climbed the palace wall in the blink of an eye and lit the fire... ”

Shi Ning said with concern: "What about the two of them? Nothing will happen, right?" He knew that Jun'er and Xin'er had been practicing martial arts since they were children, and they were skilled, but after all, petite was a weak woman, so he couldn't help but be a little worried.

Ran Shu covered her mouth and smiled: "What can they do, after lighting the fire, they ran away as soon as they slipped through the smoke, much faster than me!"

Fortunately, the fire was put out in time, and the Jin Emperor's bedroom was not on fire, and the inner temple guards breathed a sigh of relief, but they still didn't see the Jin Emperor come out to see him, and waited for another hour, and Shi Ning left depressed.

The next day, Shi Ning arrived at the inner hall of Emperor Jin in Taicheng early, and still asked the guards to report it, standing outside the gate of the inner hall and waiting.

After waiting for two hours, it was already noon, and the sun was rising, but it still couldn't withstand the cold brought by the heavy snow.

Ran Shu scolded: "Freeze me to death! This emperor is really uninteresting!" She was wearing a mink cloak, leaning against Shi Ning, very impatient.

Ran Shu looked around the inner temple building boredly, Shi Ning was afraid that she would have some ghost idea, so he held her in his arms and didn't let her look around.

I felt that the bag was bulging in her arms, Ran Shu took out her hand, and took out the brocade bag containing the official seal in Shi Ning's arms, she shook the brocade bag, her eyes suddenly rolled, and she came to the idea, only to see her throw the brocade bag to the inner hall, and the brocade bag smashed high and far above the inner hall of Emperor Jin like a stone.

Immediately after the sound of a few pieces of rubble falling, Ran Shu knew that she had hit it, clapped her hands, and was very happy.

"Shu'er, what are you doing here?" Shi Ning just pinched it lightly, and Ran Shu's white and tender wrist burst out of red.

"There are assassins!" With this smash, the guards outside the hall immediately surrounded Shi Ning and the two.

Ran Shu also followed the guards and shouted, "There are assassins, come and catch the assassins!"

After a while, the heavily armored Imperial Forest Army also came, and Shi Ning secretly complained, not wanting to confront the Royal Forest Army, and led Ran Shu to escape.

"Take down this traitor!" he heard someone in the inner sanctum giving orders, but he did not see anyone.

Shi Ning clearly heard the voice of Emperor Jin, and hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty!

Emperor Jin said from afar: "Shi Aiqing, I treat you well, but you want to abandon me, why is this?"

Shi Ning said: "The minister is not abandoning the king, but he has something important to do, and he has to say goodbye, and after the matter is completed, he will definitely return to Dajin!"

Emperor Jin snorted and said angrily: "You are going to take refuge in the tiger and wolf Qin State, are you going to take Qin soldiers to attack my Great Jin in the future!"

Shi Ning said aggrievedly: "Although the minister is a Qianren, the heart of the minister has long belonged to the Great Jin!"

Emperor Jin said: "Instead of letting the tiger return to the mountain, it is better to talk about the tiger's color change in the future, it is better to get rid of the tiger today!"

Although the Imperial Forest Army was wrapped in iron armor and well-equipped, it was a pity that it could not be used in this narrow palace road, Shi Ning used a sharp spear under his arm to clamp the Royal Forest Army, only to hear the sound of "snap", and the ten spears were simply broken by Shi Ningqi!

"Shi Ning will never rebel against the Han in this life, if he betrays the Han, it will be like this gun!" Shi Ning said hatefully, threw down the broken spear suddenly, and carried Ran Shu to carry the internal force over the head of the Imperial Forest Army, and walked away quickly.

The Imperial Forest Army was wearing heavy armor, and even if his martial arts were strong, he couldn't catch up with Shi Ning, so he had to watch his back and gradually disappear into the palace......