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Chu Heng's life these past few days was really "difficult". Ling Ye said that he would be interrogated that day, of course he was not joking.After checking the pulse and seeing that there was nothing serious, Chu Heng really experienced all kinds of wonderful things in the bed and bed in the palace that night.

When His Majesty interrogated him, he didn't know how to ask anything, and left it up to him to explain everything.If the words you give cannot satisfy His Majesty, then accept it.Out of the dozen or so items presented, only two were tried, and Chu Heng couldn't take it anymore—what His Majesty knew and didn't know, and what he found and didn't find, he recruited them all over again.It was so big that he was killed first and then played to hide his injury, and it was so small that he picked and picked and didn't eat well in Changzhou, and he explained everything clearly.

The queen acted willfully and recklessly. As soon as she left the imperial capital, she forgot all the one, two, three, and four things that Her Majesty had repeatedly instructed before going to Changzhou.

The consequences of this are naturally very serious——

Chu Heng took off his clothes and fell into His Majesty's arms. His Majesty rewarded him with a ruler with red eyes. The voice of begging for mercy was even crying, but it failed to arouse His Majesty's half-hearted softening.

It is true that the ruler was not willing to hit it a few times, but Chu Heng still couldn't get out of bed the next morning.After the soreness in his waist and legs finally eased a bit, he hugged the Queen's Ceremony that he hadn't finished reciting last time, and stayed in Mingcheng Palace for several days without going out.

After a heavy rain in the imperial capital, the sky was bright and clear, and the female city lord of Cangwu City, Fang Jingci, arrived.

The Fang Clan of Cangwu is a well-known king-respecting faction in Kyushu. Right now, the armies of both sides are still fighting on the border between China and Wanwan. The situation is very tense. Fang Jingci suddenly came to the imperial capital alone, making the guards of the imperial city feel like they are facing an enemy.But when she asked for an interview at the palace gate, in addition to the Cangwu City lord order to prove her identity, she also had a handwritten letter from Ye Jianwei, the lord of the Eastern Capital, and a jade tablet from Yiye Gucheng.

Seeing this, the guards of the imperial city put away their swords and soldiers under vigilance, and rushed to report to His Majesty.

The incident happened suddenly, Cangwu City Lord's intention was unclear, and the guards of the Imperial City did not dare to trust him, so they immediately informed the Hall of Martial Arts. After hearing the news, Xie Chu and Ling Qi hurried to the front court of the Imperial City.The emperor's shadow guard on duty also passed the news to Chu Heng in Mingcheng Palace.

When Chu Heng arrived at the Jingzhang Palace of the former court, he happened to meet the City Lord Cangwu who came to see him in front of the palace.

When Fang Jingci saw Chu Heng, she was obviously stunned. She stopped, her eyes fixed on Chu Heng's face in a trance, and there was a slight look of nostalgia in her expression, as if she saw the shadow of her old friend through him.

It wasn't until the imperial guards on duty couldn't help asking that she suddenly came back to her senses, stepped forward and handed the jade card of the lonely city in her hand to Chu Heng: "No wonder your master said, it's natural for me to go to the imperial capital." I can recognize you." She paused, then said in a shy voice, "...You look a lot like your mother."

Ye Jianwei and Mu Xiyun seldom mentioned the past with Chu Heng and the others, but they were able to be introduced by the lord of the Eastern Capital. The female city lord who was rarely seen before was probably an old friend like Yan Zhefei.

Chu Heng suppressed the doubts in his heart, took the jade card, glanced at it with lowered eyes, and said lightly: "The city lord knows my mother?"

The time is too long, and Ji Wusu's memory in Chu Heng's memory is only a gentle silhouette waving and smiling in front of the side door of Zhong Pinghou's mansion.But he always remembered the words Mu Xiyun choked in his ear when he left home when he was young - "She is waiting for you to grow up, when you are strong enough to take her home."

God's will always loves to make fun of people, Ji Wusu did not wait for him to grow up, and when he returned to the Hou Mansion, what he saw was a dark coffin.Ji Wusu couldn't go home either, and finally returned to Lishan with only one cold memorial tablet.

Only then did Chu Heng truly understand why Mu Xiyun said that he was "strong enough".

Fang Jingci's eyes were unconsciously stained with sorrow and guilt, she nodded, as if she didn't know where to start, her lips fluttered twice, and she simply said: "Knowing each other, it's all old things..."

Chu Heng looked indifferent.

Fang Jingci stared at Chu Heng's eyebrows and eyes, and couldn't help but said: "You are a good child, she will feel relieved in the spirit of the sky. You look a lot like her, but don't be like her in temperament, learn to be more correct. Be better yourself...Your mother is a person who has always protected others, but no one has been able to protect her. "

Chu Heng clenched his palms and remained silent.

A notification came from the Hall of Jingcheng, Fang Jingci withdrew her gaze from Chu Heng, lowered her eyebrows in mourning, and walked in.

The female city lord stayed in the hall for more than two hours. When she entered, the afternoon sun was shining brightly. She was the city lord Cangwu.When she came out again, the sky was already full of red clouds, and she was only Fang Jingci.

Chu Heng sent her to see Fang Hongzhen, Cangwu Martial Venerable who was imprisoned by numerous formations. Behind them was a shadow guard holding a mahogany tray with pens, ink, paper and inkstones and a pot of wine.

From the front court of the imperial city to the dark prison, along the way, Jingci and Chu Heng talked about some old things from many years ago.When he reached the gate of the dark prison, Chu Heng stopped, looked at Fang Jingci who had been gentle and gentle to him since the first meeting, and suddenly said: "The city lord should know that Martial Lord Cangwu was sent here by me. of"

The meaning behind his words was obvious, but Fang Jingci just shook her head, her tone was a bit bitter: "But you don't know that what Cangwu City owes your mother is her entire life. So I have no right to blame you, karmic reincarnation , as it should be.”

She turned around and took the tray from the shadow guard, and looked up at the setting sun in the sky: "In the future, for thousands of years, Cangwu City will never have a city lord. Because Cangwu City is my home, it is my home. In other words, it is both a responsibility and a shackle. Come to pick up the tray later, and thank His Majesty for the wine for me. He should be the Lord of Kyushu, and this prosperous age will come as he wishes."

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It was dusk, and the sky was full of stars. When the entire imperial city was completely merged into the night, the mahogany tray retrieved from the dark prison was presented to the imperial case in the Hall of Jingcheng.

Ling Ye glanced at the handwriting on the paper. He had in his hands the iron coupon of the alchemy that Dayin had bestowed on the Cangwu Fang family when he founded the country, the Token of the Lord of Cangwu and the gold-plated seal, as well as all the light and dark defense maps inside and outside Cangwu City.

The reason for Fang Jingci's visit was beyond everyone's expectations. When Ling Ye heard the report from the imperial city guards, he thought that the female city lord was here to negotiate terms and important people, but he didn't expect that she was here to return the money. Fang's land, and those who are going to die.

When Dayin founded the country, Taizu once made a solemn oath to heaven and earth in the Taimiao, to conquer the sixteen surnames in the world together, and his family's prestige will never be recovered, and Cangwu Fang's family is one of them.

Just like the Zhong family of Yanxi who participated in King Qi's rebellion five years ago, even if Ling Ye can kill the three clans, Yanxi City is still the prestige of the Zhong family today.The person sitting in the seat of the city lord, even if he is the puppet he chose, still has the surname Zhong—the bell of the Yanxi Zhong family, and the court still cannot set up a magistrate here.

Fang Jingci handed back the iron certificate of Danshu and the seal of the city lord to him today, and from then on, Cangwu City was no longer Fang's place.Fang Jingci's condition is not too much, she will die with Fang Hongzhen, but the old and young women and children in the family, as well as the clansmen who did not participate in the king's rebellion, and her son Fang Xiuran, Ling Ye will keep these things human life.

She will persuade Fang Hongzhen to hand over the marching map of King Jing's army in exchange for her son's life.

Ling Ye finally agreed.

When the female city lord entered the palace, she was ready to hand over everything, and brought everything that the city lord of Cangwu City had.When she went out, she only asked Ling Ye for a jug of wine.

Ling Ye's eyes fell on the detailed handwriting on the tray, he picked it up and read it again, called the shadow guard and said: "Together with Rui Hesi's confession from Changzhou, we will send it to the Marquis of Shuo'an on the front line of Zhongzhou in [-] miles. place."

The war on the Sino-Wan border has been protracted, but the chaos in Changzhou at that time has come to an end, Dingkang City has been taken over by the Ningzhou garrison, and all the men and women of Dingguo's mansion have been captured, and they will be escorted to the imperial capital for trial soon.

After the battle of Dingkang was over, the Changzhou garrison from Yinghai, led by Xie Yu, rushed to the front line of the East China Sea to support Lian Songcheng who was fighting against the Eastern and Western coalition forces.

Before Su Lang set off to return to the imperial capital, he went back to Yinghai again with Xinghui.

After several months, the city that never sleeps, which was devastated by the flames of war and plague, finally lit up the bright lights of the city again after nightfall.

When Su Lang and Xing Hun arrived at the base of Yinghai City, it was just when the lights were on, and the golden and green towers in the distance came into view, with mixed feelings in their hearts.After the war and man-made disasters, we know that today's prosperity and peace are hard-won. Under the soft red and fragrant soil, there are buried the blood of many people with lofty ideals.

In the early morning of the next day, they got up early and rode to a shop selling breakfast in the south of the city. Their fried small yellow croaker was crispy and soft, which was Su Dabao's favorite food.

A small soil bag was buried under Hongkai Islet outside the city. The sun here is the most abundant, and it is very comfortable to bask in the sun. Su Lang chose an inch of land here, and it was not until Zhou Min returned the ink painting of the Lanjiang flood to Zhou Min. , he came here for the second time.

Xing Hui stretched out his hand to hold his cold hand. He was not with Su Lang that day, so he didn't ask how it happened.On the night when he returned to Yinghai, a white lantern was hung in front of the courtyard gate, and the tears that Su Lang fell on his neck and shoulders scalded his heart.

The pain is sealed in the bottom of my heart, and life still needs to move forward.

In July, the war in Changzhou was over, and Su Lang and Ye Xinghui set off to return to the imperial capital. On the way, they happened to meet Xiao Gaomin and Ye Shuli who were on the same road.

When Ye Xinghui and Xiao Gaomin had business to do, they could temporarily shake hands and make peace and work together.But once they were free, the two began to dislike each other again. They never stopped on the way to the imperial capital, and they choked all the way.At the beginning, Su Lang, Ye Shuli and the guards would fight each other, but after a few times, the entire convoy stopped paying attention to them.

After wrestling all the way, when they arrived at the imperial capital, the two of them had improved a little bit in martial arts, which was not in vain.

The group of people who were escorted back from Changzhou were all put in prison, and will be interrogated by the three judicial departments in a few days.

After Su Lang and his four reported the Changzhou incident in person, they went to the Hall of Martial Arts together. As soon as they entered, they happened to meet Chu Heng who was blocked by Commander Xie Chu at the entrance of the hall with a guilty expression on his face.

Xinghui didn't seem to see his elder brother's eyes calling for help, just waiting for a good show.Ye Shuli went too far, touched a handful of melon seeds from his bosom and distributed them to Xinghui and Xiao Gaomin, adding fuel and vinegar to the side from time to time to say a few words.

Su Lang didn't make trouble with them, he only went to the Hall of Martial Heroes to say hello to Xie Chu, and then went back to the Hall of Jingcheng.

Ling Ye was reviewing the memorial, and Su Lang hadn't returned Fuyun Ji when he met the saint just now, and now he came back alone, Ling Ye was not surprised.Seeing Su Lang come in with a sword box to greet him, he looked up and said with a smile, "Excuse me."

The Shadow Guard of the Son of Heaven stepped forward to take the sword box, but Su Lang didn't get up, but bowed his head and bowed down: "I apologize to Your Majesty."

Surprised, Ling Ye looked away from the notebook and looked at Su Lang. After a while, he smiled again and said, "What's wrong?"

Su Lang raised his head: "The minister overstepped his authority and tried to mobilize the Ningzhou garrison without authorization."

Ling Ye threw down the folder in his hand, smiled slightly, and only gave a faint "hmm".

Su Lang knelt down and saw His Majesty's eyes were calm and fixed on him, but he remained silent for a long time, not sure what His Majesty meant for a while.After a while, the emperor said slowly and expressionlessly: "You did not disappoint me."

Su Lang was startled.

The deep color just now seemed to be just an illusion that flashed for a moment, and in the blink of an eye, the emperor's face was pleasant again, and there were even two smiles in his voice: "Okay, it's all right, it's not a coercion, get up."

Of course he knew what Su Lang did in Changzhou with the help of Fuyun Diji, but he didn't mention it.Although Huai Ze, who was born in the Shadow Guard of the Son of Heaven, and Xie Yu's troops had already arrived in Yinghai before the Ningzhou garrison was mobilized by Fuyun Diji, but this did not erase Su Lang's past crossing the line.He didn't mention it because he was waiting for Duke Ying's mansion to choose whether to speak or not.

The emperor's trust has never been taken for granted, and there is a limit to tolerance, so the courtiers should not be arrogant.

At that time, Su Lang didn't know that today he pleaded guilty to the imperial court, and a hundred years later, Yinghai City is still burning with fire and blooming with flowers.

The author says:

The final chapter is only half written, so I'll see it at noon tomorrow.The more I get to the end, the more my mind gets stuck T_T, I know everything I want to write, but I am not satisfied with every sentence, I may be poisonous.