They all say I'm a puppet

It was raining heavily, the sky was dim, and except for the occasional lightning that pierced the sky, everything as far as the eye could see was a vast expanse.

Cang Lin only wore a bamboo hat on his head, and he had no time to react when he got the news in a hurry, so he just grabbed the bamboo hat and ran to the city wall.With the flash of lightning in the sky, he really saw a team of horses galloping towards the southwest.Cang Lin squinted his eyes, and frowned: "Can you see who is immediately?"

"Marshal, the weather is really bad. Our spies can only see the horse team coming towards the west city gate, but they really can't see clearly."

Cang Lin nodded: "Then how many people in this horse team can see clearly?"

"The spy came to tell the time and said that there are twelve riders in total."

Cang Lin turned his head to look at him in surprise: "Twelve cavalry? Order the secret agents to investigate again. Whether there are other teams behind this cavalry team will be checked carefully in a radius of ten miles. Mr. Chen Yuan will not really be there. Bringing eleven people to break into the city, and ordering people to send a message to the other gates, we must keep our spirits up, and be careful not to fall into Chen Yuan's trick to lure the enemy in."

The subordinate handed over his hands and took the order: "Yes, Marshal." Then he turned around and gave the order.Cang Lin stood on the city wall and looked towards the southwest. The robe on his body, which was only half wet, was completely wet and completely stuck to him.The bamboo hat on top of his head became useless under the force of the rain, his entire face was covered with rain, and the ends of his temple hair were sticking to his face. Cang Lin was completely outside the city wall, just raising his hand indiscriminately. I wiped it on my face.

A coir raincoat was lightly draped over his shoulders, Cang Lin was taken aback, and when he turned around, he saw Fu Yu's smiling face. He had already put on the coir rain cape, with a bamboo hat on his head, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat on Cang Lin's face. When the rain fell, he lowered his head and tied the belt of his coir raincoat for him.Cang Lin's expression softened a little: "I want you to wait for me in the tower, but it seems that you won't do that."

Fu Yu helped him put on the straw coir raincoat, turned around and looked down the city, but all he could see was the rain curtain, and there were faint shadows in the distance, and he couldn't see anything clearly: "Are you sure? Is it Chen Yuan?"

Cang Lin shook his head: "It was raining too much, and the spies couldn't see clearly. They only said that there were twelve riders. If it was really Chen Yuan, I don't know what kind of conspiracy they were up against. The city is on alert."

Fu Yu raised his eyebrows, worry appeared between his eyebrows and eyes, he looked into the vast night, and in the end, he only let out a long sigh.

I don't know how long it took, but the cavalry, which was not clearly visible at first, was getting closer and closer, and finally appeared in everyone's sight.Cang Lin's face showed a chilling expression, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Order the archers to prepare, and no one will take any action without my order."

"Yes, Marshal."

The rain seemed to feel the tense atmosphere inside and outside Tongchang City at this moment, and it gradually became smaller. With the light of the torches in the hands of the guards around him, he could already clearly see the horse team approaching the city gate, and The leader is Chen Yuan.

Cang Lin's hand clenched the hilt of the long sword at his waist the moment he saw Chen Yuan, he took a step forward, looked down at Chen Yuan who stopped his horse at the gate of the city, the corners of his mouth slightly raised: " In this weather, Master Chen didn't hide in Xiping City to recuperate, why did he come so fast?"

Running around in the pouring rain all the way, even wearing rain gear on his body, it was useless. Whether it was Chen Yuan or the 11 people behind him, they were all soaked through.Chen Yuan patted the steed reassuringly, and raised his eyes slightly: "The king of Jin captured my wife and daughter just for this moment, so why should he be so surprised now?"

"Your Madam and your daughter are indeed in my city. However, the cities in the Southwest are basically in my hands now. I am sure of victory. I can completely take the Southwest if I fight you head-on. I don't bother to threaten women and children." Cang Lin let out a chuckle, "So, Mr. Chen is too worried."

Chen Yuan raised his eyebrows: "In this case, why doesn't King Jin return my wife and daughter, and then you and I will fight head-on, how about it?"

"Master Chen still doesn't understand the current situation? You can't protect yourself now. I will send them back to you. If you can keep them safe in the chaos, why did you take the risk to send them out of Xi'an that day?" Pingcheng?" Cang Lin's eyes showed clear sarcasm, "Do you still think this is the capital city, and you think you are the Taiwei who has power and is feared by everyone?"

Chen Yuan raised his head slightly, looked at the arrows ready to be fired on the city wall, his eyes slowly turned, and fell on Cang Lin's face: "In the final analysis, what you want is my life, I am here now, As long as you give an order, those sharp arrows will pierce my body. However, I only have one life. There is still General Zhao Ying in Xiping City. If I die under your city gate, I will only let him swear Xiping City is just living and dying together." He raised his voice slightly, "I know King Jin has a plan in his mind, and he feels that Xiping City will be in his pocket sooner or later, but there are many ways in this world to end together."

Cang Lin narrowed his eyes slightly: "What is Master Chen's purpose, you might as well just tell me."

"I can let General Zhao and the defenders of Xiping City abandon the city and surrender, and let you take the last city in the southwest without a single soldier, and return to He Hongyi." Chen Yuan said.

Cang Lin was silent for a while before he opened his mouth and said: "You have to know, even if you abandon the city and surrender, I can't spare your life. If I don't kill you, my father will not keep you when I return to the capital. You made a lot of enemies in the capital back then, and there are countless people in this world who wish you could die all the time."

"Do you think I'm willing to linger under the hands of your father and son?" Chen Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth, showing an extremely mocking smile, "I can hand over Xiping City to you, and my condition is that you can't hurt those who surrendered." More importantly, you have to let my wife and daughter leave, away from the disputes in the court, and let them live again in a place in this world where no one will ever care about their past."

Cang Lin slowly let go of the hand holding the long sword, and the whole row of torches above the city wall illuminated the night like day, so Cang Lin could clearly see Chen Yuan's expression.His eyes were locked on Chen Yuan's face, as if he wanted to see some flaws from it, and after a while, he replied: "If the defenders of Xiping City can abandon the city and surrender, give up resistance, they will become my Great Zhou's soldiers." My subjects, I will naturally not harm them. As for your wife and daughter, I told you just now that I disdain to harm women and children. When the war is over, I will naturally arrange them according to their original intentions."

Cang Lin was looking at Chen Yuan, and Chen Yuan was also looking at him: "I will trust you for the former, but for the latter, I need a guarantee."

Cang Lin frowned, and before he could speak again, Fu Yu, who had been quietly watching the situation behind him, had raised his hand and lifted off the bamboo hat on his head, and strode to Cang Lin's side, his eyes fixed on the city gate Under Chen Yuan: "Is my guarantee enough?"

Chen Yuan stared wide-eyed at this young man who seemed to appear out of nowhere, and various emotions flashed through his eyes. After a long time, he suddenly laughed: "It turned out to be like this. It seems that in the past few years, After all, I underestimated you. But that's okay, no one in this world is more trustworthy than your guarantee."

Cang Lin's face changed the moment Fu Yu lifted the hat. Since Fu Yu returned to the capital, although he has been with him day and night, and has shown his face in many places, Cang Lin has always had a sense of proportion and is confident that he will not meet anyone who can Only those who know Fu Yu's identity will bring Fu Yu to appear.Even in the army, after such a long time, no one would have thought that this gentle and elegant young man would be a former emperor who should have died a long time ago.

But Chen Yuan is different, no one knows Fu Yu's identity better than Chen Yuan, and no one is more likely to threaten Fu Yu's safety.Cang Lin clenched the long sword in his hand again, and waited for Chen Yuan to say something he shouldn't say in the next moment, he gave an order and killed him on the spot.

However, Chen Yuan just looked up to the sky and smiled: "I have been ups and downs all my life, and I was only one step away from the high position above tens of millions of people. I used to be rich, rich and famous, and I once had fame and wealth within my reach. In this way, I have never been in vain in this life." In the end, I can only say that I am not as thick-skinned as your father. After all, I was not the one who tried to usurp the throne in the end, and I am still a courtier of Nanxia even today."

After hearing Chen Yuan's words, Fu Yu, the last emperor of Southern Xia, felt complicated in his heart.The past that can be regarded as the previous life came to my mind. It was thanks to this person that he grew up from a young man in a cold palace, and became the emperor of the world. Because of this person under the city gate, he used to have a monstrous hatred for this person, and there was a moment when he wanted to kill this person with his own hands, and all these hatreds seemed to disappear with Nanxia's destruction. Seeing Chen Yuan in this situation today, he didn't feel the slightest pleasure of revenge, but felt helpless from the bottom of his heart.

Everyone will pay the price for what they did, Chen Yuan's various actions that day made him end up in today's end, it's just that it's a pity that he will be left in this world.

Fu Yu stared closely at Chen Yuan for a long time: "You didn't try to usurp the throne not because you were loyal to Nan Xia, but because you had already got everything you wanted, and that position seemed inappropriate. That's so important." He sighed softly, "Although you look a little miserable now, you are only to blame after all."