The next day, on the court in the West Market under the city walls of Chang'an City, the chivalrous guest You Bailin was escorted by two soldiers behind him, carrying a sign with the words "death row prisoner", wearing thick and heavy handcuffs and shackles and iron shackles, and standing majestically on the guillotine with unkempt hair. Standing next to him was a fierce man with a big knife, an executioner waiting for orders. There are two empty flagpoles made of wood in front of the guillotine on both sides, and the flagpoles are still hung with the heads of three loyal ministers who were cut off a few days ago.

Yi Fang, Li Qiu, and Aoi Kami, the three people who managed to escape after the failed assassination, wore straw hats and carried burdens, disguised themselves as small merchants and hawkers, and mixed in the crowd to wait for the opportunity to rescue You Bailin. Yi Fang suddenly heard a bystander A talking with another onlooker, B: "I heard that this person stabbed Zhu Wen and missed his hand and was going to be beheaded..."

"How do you know?" asked Citizen B.

"Zhang Xiaowu next door to us is a soldier in the Zhu Wen camp, and he said it himself," replied the common people.

"It's really chivalrous, it's a pity that I didn't kill that Zhu Wen, hey, now that the bad guys are in charge of this world, the good people don't end well," people B sighed.

Another person next to him echoed when he heard this. Yi Fang observed this scene and found that Zhu Wen was indeed very unpopular, so he summoned Li Qiu and Aoi Evil to discuss in a whisper:

"Now that Zhu Wen is very unpopular, why don't we publicize this matter and let the people stop the execution, we can take advantage of the chaos to save people, how about it?"

"Good idea, thank you Brother Yi," Li Qiu said.

As a result, the story of You Bailin's assassination of Zhu Wen soon spread among the people watching the execution. After a while, the crowd of onlookers turned their heads and shouted loudly, praising the bravery and integrity of the chivalrous warriors.

At this time, the warden looked at the sundial on the ground, and there was no shadow of the sun, so he looked up at the gray sky again and said, "I guess the hour is coming, get ready for execution."

The guards asked You Bailin to kneel, You Bailin raised his head and did not kneel, one of the soldiers kicked You Bailin's hind legs with his foot to make him kneel, You Bailin turned around and swayed left and right, and knocked the two guards away with his body, the soldier was frightened and quickly pulled out the knife in his hand and pointed at him, You Bailin said to the supervisor with justice and awe: "You can kill but not be humiliated, the master will stand and die" After that, You Bailin turned around and raised his head, looked at the gray sky and shouted: " Zhu Wen, your grandfather and I are like the Jing Ke back then, even if you fail, your grandfather can be famous for a hundred years, you traitorous villain is notorious, and it will only stink for 10,000 years, hahahaha"

At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted a voice: "The faithful, do not kill"

These six words were shouted over and over again, from one person to three or five, to a dozen, to dozens of people, and finally until everyone present shouted in unison

"Thou shalt not kill those who are faithful, and those who are faithful shall not be killed..."

At this time, Zhu Wen, who was dressed in armor, stood on the city wall, overlooking everything that happened on the execution ground below. Jiang Ruzhong also followed Zhu Wen to escort him. Suddenly, a guard came to report: "Report to the minister, there is a man who looks like a soldier asking to see"

Zhu Wen was in a trance for a moment and said, "Let him come over."

"Senior brother... Senior Brother Zhu..."After a while, a voice came from behind Zhu Wen.

As soon as Zhu Wen turned around, he saw a Taoist priest in his early thirties wearing a dark blue Taoist robe and carrying a Xuantie sword, looking like a chivalrous man in the rivers and lakes, shouting at Zhu Wen and walking over. The Taoist priest was stopped by Zhu Wen's close guard: "Please unload your weapon"

"No need, let him come over," Zhu Wen said.

The Taoist priest approached Zhu Wen and said, "Senior Brother Zhu, are you okay after many years of absence?"

"It turned out to be you, Senior Brother Lixian, thanks to Senior Brother Lixian, everything is fine with me. I heard that Senior Brother Lixian has also left the Upper Cultivation Sect now, and he is living a very comfortable life?"

"I'm ashamed, Senior Brother made fun of my little brother, how can I be so comfortable as Senior Brother Zhu," Lixian said.

When Zhu Wen was young, he practiced martial arts under the sect of "Qinghe Daochang" on Dangshan Mountain in Songzhou, and he was the same brother as Lixian Daochang. Although Lixian is twenty years younger than Zhu Wen, he was brought up by the head of Qinghe Dao, and when he was a child, he spent some time with Zhu Wen. Back then, Zhu Wen often bullied this little junior brother and made him kneel down to worship him, at that time Lixian was still a child, and there was no contradiction with Zhu Wen, so Zhu Wen's impression of this junior brother was not bad.

Zhu Wen is the eldest disciple of the Shangxiu faction, the second junior brother is of course the Lixian in front of him, and the third junior sister Miao Qiuyu, Lixian and Miao Qiuyu met and fell in love with each other in the master's door, and privately decided to break the door rules for life, and they both left the Shangxiu faction and lived in seclusion in the valley under Songshan Mountain. After Li Xian left the Shangxiu faction, he did not forget to help the poor and the weak, and became a bright and upright martial arts hero, and he was also respected and loved by friends in the rivers and lakes. This time, Li Xian came to Chang'an, and it was also the little junior brother Li Qiu who did not forget the master's dying instructions and wrote a letter to invite him.

After all, Zhu Wen and Li Xian haven't seen each other for many years, Zhu Wen looked Li Xian's changes up and down, so he asked, "I don't know what is the important matter for my junior brother to come from afar this time?"

"Senior brother, the person on this guillotine is called You Bailin, and he is a famous chivalrous warrior in the rivers and lakes."

"I know, isn't he the so-called world's number one hero You Bailin, it's just that, it's not in my hands," Zhu Wen said contemptuously.

"Senior brother, in the martial arts, everyone praises You Daxia, who is bright and upright, chivalrous and courageous, if the senior brother kills him, wouldn't it be against the people's hearts? Senior brother, you are also a person in the martial arts, it is better to open the net and let him go" Li Xian persuaded him.

"This person is strong in martial arts, he has killed so many people in Chang'an City these days, and now he still wants to assassinate this king, if this king lets him go, won't he let the tiger return to the mountain?" Zhu Wen replied.

"Then you can be exempted from the death penalty and assigned to the frontier labor, senior brother, you were also a martial artist, so don't treat a famous chivalrous warrior like this, right?" Li Xian persuaded.

"If you let him go, won't everyone in the world follow suit in the future? This person will definitely die if he assassinates this king, and you don't have to dissuade him anymore, junior brother," Zhu Wen said resolutely.

"Back then, I practiced martial arts with Senior Brother Zhu, and Senior Brother also mentioned to me in his spare time: If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely serve the country, eradicate the evil, and help me in the Tang Dynasty.

"Of course I remember, now that I have pacified the world and Kuang Fu Sheji, haven't I already done it? Looking at the world and the world, who can be more capable than me, Zhu Quanzhong?" Zhu Wen said proudly.

"But as far as I know, the senior brother is now a master of great merit, overthrowing the emperor, controlling the government, excluding dissidents, and brutalizing Zhongliang, is this what you did?

"These words are all planted by my enemy Li Ke. Years of war, the princes are divided, if it weren't for a strong person to control the situation, now the world has long since known how many people are kings, and how many people are called emperors," Zhu Wen defended.

These words sounded like they came from the mouths of Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao. Senior Brother Zhu, listen to the younger brother, since ancient times, this person who has leaned towards the government and the opposition, and who is above 10,000 people under one person, has no good end in the end, stop it, don't go further and further on the wrong road, regret it in the future, but it's too late" Li Xian persuaded Zhu Wen bitterly.

"Shut up. Senior Brother Lixian, there is no good end for those who are below this person and above ten thousand people, of course I know, but why should I be the one under that person?" Zhu Wen said with his head held high.

Hearing this, Li Xian's eyes widened, he looked at Zhu Wen with a surprised expression, hesitated for a moment, and asked slowly, "Do you want to be the emperor?"

"Things are man-made, if the time comes, it will naturally follow the will of heaven," said Zhu Wen, looking up at the gray sky.

Li Xian couldn't hold it back any longer, he raised his voice and reprimanded, "Zhu Wen." Don't be obsessed anymore, look at the people in the world, the rivers and lakes and the martial arts, which one is really convinced of you?" As he spoke, Li Xian stretched out his hand and pointed to the people on the execution ground under the city tower.

"Hmph, the trend of the times, those who go along will prosper, those who go against will die, and those who do not accept will be killed," Zhu Wen said arrogantly.

At this time, Li Xian quickly pulled out his sword from behind his back, put it on Zhu Wen's neck, and then said to Zhu Wen angrily: "Thousands of people in this world hate you, can you kill it?"

Jiang Yizhong, who was on the side, also pulled out his sword and put it on Lixian's neck, and the other guards and deputy generals also pulled out their swords and surrounded Lixian.

"Senior Brother Lixian, what a righteous atmosphere, let me ask you, in this world, since Pangu opened the sky, the chaotic and turbid world, is his mother's surname Li? Why is his descendant surnamed Li has no bullshit ability, and he can sit in the country by birth? And my surname Zhu is desperate, so he can't sit down? The prince will Xiangning have a kind of world's great cause and capable people, what's the fuss about?" Since Zhu Wen became the king of Liang, under the guidance of his wife Zhang Hui, he has changed a lot of rough temper. But at this time, he held back for a long time, and finally couldn't help but start to explode and return to his original appearance.

"That's right, what is the surname of the world, it is indeed not the most important, but the world needs peace, the people need to live and work in peace and contentment without being harassed, you do such nonsense, and the world is not at peace, then the people will never have peace," Lixian reproached.

"The root cause of the rebellion in the world is not me, you ask Li Keyong in the north, does he want to be the emperor?" Although Zhu Wen is cunning and brutal, what he said is not unreasonable, what prince in the world does not want to sit on the yellow dragon chair with twelve yu on his head?

"Anyway, those who only have their own power, regardless of whether the people live or die, are not good people, I advise Senior Brother Zhu to stop being obsessed, it's still too late to stop it," Lixian said.

"Isn't it now that I'm sweeping away the princes and unifying the world? When the world is unified, the people will naturally be able to live and work in peace and contentment," Zhu Wenqiang argued.

"If you do something like this, the world will not be peaceful, it will only become more and more chaotic," Li Xian said.

The tense situation was stalemate for a while, and Jiang Ruzhong reprimanded: "Bold rebel, don't let go of the envoy quickly, otherwise I won't let you out of this tower."

"Kill, I see how many more people you have to kill to stop? I really didn't expect that Senior Brother Zhu, who was a bit ruffian back then, but was also honest and frank, would become like this. You first took refuge in the rebel army of the Yellow Nest, and then saw the decline of the Yellow Nest, and then betrayed the Yellow Nest Army and surrendered to the imperial court, and destroyed the Yellow Nest Army with your backhand. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty gave you the title of marquis and paid homage to you, and treated you well, but you tried to usurp the throne and take revenge. Do you know that all the people in this world are eager to eat your flesh, sleep your skin, and drink your blood, and you are so disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unjust, how will you face to meet the heavenly teacher after you die?" Li Xian continued to count Zhu Wen's crimes.

When Zhu Wen heard this, he said unhurriedly: "It turns out that the junior brother is here to play the righteous person today, and count my crimes? The junior brother keeps saying benevolence, righteousness and morality, and rightly accuses others, who in the rivers and lakes doesn't know about the matter between you and the junior sister? The master was angry with you, right?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Wen observed that Li Xian's emotions had begun to be a little uneasy, at this time he gently peeled off the sword around his neck with his hand, and continued: "Our Shang Xiu Sect has strict rules, and the master stipulates that only Qing Xiu can not be disorderly, I heard that later you and the little junior sister secretly corresponded and made a private agreement for life, and then you two were driven out of the Shang Xiu Sect by the master, right? You dare to come here to teach me, you really have the confidence, Senior Brother Li Xian."

It turned out that after the Qinghe Taoist found out that Zhu Wen was peeping at the master taking a bath, he changed the door rules and stipulated that the same door should not fall in love or marry in the future, just to change the customs of Taoist cultivation and transfer to the single self-cultivation method of Buddhism. However, this regulation did not work, and the male and female disciples inevitably fell in love for a long time, so they couldn't help but secretly get together in private.

"No, I wasn't kicked out of the Shangxiu Sect by Master, it was Master who let us go, don't talk about it anymore" Li Xian was anxious by Zhu Wen's words, put down his right hand that raised his sword, and quickly explained.

At this time, Zhu Wen's guards surrounded Li Xian, and Zhu Wen opened his mouth and continued: "When I was secretly learning the best martial arts of this sect, I was discovered by the master, and it was the junior brother who begged for me in front of the master, and the master just expelled me from the master and did not kill me. I'm not ungrateful, I'll spare your life today, we don't owe each other from now on, you go. ”

Li Xian was confused by Zhu Wen's old story, and in a fit of anger, he shook his hand and turned away.

At this time, Zhu Wen looked down from the city wall, and the black pressed a group of people, shouting the slogan: "The loyal and righteous, do not kill" approaching the guillotine step by step. The prison officer was shocked by the momentum of this sea of people, and did not dare to make an argument to offend the anger of the public, and it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and he didn't know what to do.

Seeing this situation, Yi Fang felt that maybe things would take a turn for the better, so he stood still to see what happened.

But where is Zhu Wen what they imagined, he will never let go of the people who want to kill him for the sake of a few people's obstruction. So he picked up a bow and arrow from the city wall and aimed at You Bailin from the back.

Yi Fang, who was dressed up in disguise and waiting for an opportunity, suddenly saw someone on the city wall aiming at You Bailin with a bow and arrow, and shouted: "It's not good, you have to put arrows on the city wall"

At this time, the arrow in Zhu Wen's hand had already left the string and shot in the direction of You Bailin, in the crowd, Yi Fang took the hat, jumped up, flew up to the crowd and stretched out his right hand and flew straight towards You Bailin, trying to catch the arrow that shot at You Bailin's vest, but it was still a little late. As soon as Yi Fang arrived behind You Bailin, when his hand was only a foot away from his back, an arrow had already pierced his heart from his back, and You Bailin fell to the ground and died after a mouthful of cyan blood sprayed onto the prison slashing flag. It turned out that Zhu Wen's arrows had already been coated with the poison that killed him instantly.

When the people saw You Bailin dead, the crowd became excited, shouting to kill the dog officer, and everyone rushed to the prison beheading platform to beat the prison officer to death. Li Qiu took advantage of the chaos to cut off You Bailin's handcuffs and shackles and the shackles around his neck with his sword, and held his body to prepare to leave, at this time Zhu Wen picked up the bow and arrow on the city wall and aimed at Li Qiu, Yi Fang found that Zhu Wen was about to release the arrow again, so he shouted: "Li Daxia be careful",

Li Qiu pulled out his sword and swung it back, blocking the flying arrows, and the three of them carried You Bailin's body and left the court while the chaotic crowd was in chaos.

Li Xian came down from the city wall, just saw this scene, and said to himself: "Sad! Strong! There is one less Jing Ke in the world, but there is one more righteous soul in the sky", Li Xian shook his head helplessly and left.

At this time, the prison officer had been beaten by the crowd to the point that he couldn't move, and the people held the "chop" token taken from the prison officer's desk, and shouted in unison, "Kill Zhu Wen, kill Zhu Wen, kill Zhu Wen..."

Zhu Wen, who was standing on the city wall, saw all this happening in front of him, so he said to Najiang Yizhong: "It seems that this Chang'an City is indeed not the place of this king, and the order will be sent to Luoyang on the 26th day of the first month, and the capital will be moved, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!"

Jiang Ruzhong ordered: "Promise"