After all, most of the people in the old department of the Liangguo Navy were still ambitious. Tao Jiusi made a rough calculation and found that there were as many as five hundred people who were willing to follow them.At this time, Duan Shuiming had already started building ships and recruiting soldiers in the Lihe River. Tao Jiusi believed that the navy belonging to King Zhao would appear soon.

There was also news from Ji Yuanfei and Liu Huixue that the battle situation was stable, and soon the two sides would be able to join forces and smoothly take over the territory of the Eastern Qi and Northeast.

Xia Kaiyan and Li Hui have also joined forces with the King of Chu, and started a powerful advance to the southwest of the Eastern Qi territory.The army of King Zhao and King Chu joined forces, and the power is self-evident. Wei Wuqing and others took down Linglin City, the capital of Lingzhou, which is known as the first state in the southwestern part of Eastern Qi Dynasty, without any effort.

Just the day before they were about to enter Linglin City to accept the surrender, the three of Wei Xuexue finally returned to the team. When Wei Wuqing saw the Lord had returned, he immediately retreated to the second line, letting his nephew enter the city first as the coach.

Early the next morning, Wei Xuetao Jiusi, who was dressed in military uniform, marched into Linglin City on horseback, followed by Hua Yuntai, Xia Kaiyan, Zhu Shunli and others who held the banner of King Zhao.

The scenery of Linglin City and Ning Province is very different. The weather here is soft and rainy, the characters here are suave, and the buildings here are magnificent.This is where Dongqi is most beautiful, and its temperament is closer to that of David.

After entering the city, Tao Jiusi asked Wei Lingxue to relax his whip and walk slowly, so that the people around the city could see clearly how majestic King Zhao is.

Wei Lingxue's back was straight and his expression was serious. He seemed to be sitting on a throne when he was riding on a horse. He was quite proud and looked like a king.Although there are many elegant people in Lingzhou, the people on both sides of the road still couldn't take their eyes off Wei Chengxue when they saw Wei Chengxue.

Wei Lingxue's gaze occasionally swept across the crowd, and the girls blushed instantly, while the boys wished they could have such a bearing immediately.

Tao Jiusi watched with relish, and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth. The doctor's silver armor was shining, which couldn't stop his gentleness.Wei Lingxue should be looked up to by the world, he thought silently.

Tao Jiusi focused on watching Wei Chengxue, and Wei Chengxue dutifully followed Tao Jiusi's request and walked slowly. They didn't know that there was a man in black lying on the roof not far away. This man's eyes were like a falcon and his upper arms were strong. Powerful, it looks like a sharp archer who can penetrate Yang with a hundred steps.

Seeing the target getting closer and closer, he set up the arrow and drew the bow with a calm expression, and the arrow flew straight down.

Both Wei Chengxue and Hua Yuntai's hearing was excellent, but now the sound of horseshoes on the street is chaotic, and the noise from both sides of the road is endless, and no one heard the clang of an arrow.

The arrow seemed to recognize human faces, and pierced towards Wei Chengxue impartially.

At this moment, Tao Jiusi smiled and tilted his head, but suddenly saw an arrow with a cold light shooting straight towards them.

In the nick of time, he yelled: "Lengxue! Be careful!" He galloped his horse and walked a few steps quickly, blocking Wei Lingxue's side.At this time, the arrow arrived impatiently, and it hit Tao Jiusi's right shoulder with muffled flesh and blood.

Tao Jiusi suffered pain, let go of the rein with both hands at the same time, and leaned back. The horse was also startled when it sat down, neighing and raised its front hoof, and it seemed that Tao Jiusi was about to be thrown off the horse.

In a blink of an eye, Wei Lingxue patted the horse's back, flew to sit behind Tao Jiusi, and hurriedly reined in the reins, forcing the irritable horse to drop its front hooves and slowly return to calm.

It was too late and then soon, the second arrow came forward again, Wei Chengxue held the reins with his left hand, encircled Tao Jiusi in his arms, drew out his sword with his right hand, and cut the arrow feather which seemed to have the power of a thousand pounds in two.

But in the blink of an eye, the man shot two arrows at a speed never seen before.

Seeing that something was wrong, the crowd of onlookers immediately dispersed, the street returned to the cold and deserted, and the warmth of the spring just now seemed to be an illusion.

At this time, Hua Yuntai spotted the attacker and rushed towards the roof.

Tao Jiusi's jaw was clenched tightly, his head was sweating profusely from the pain, and the blood was gushing, soaking most of his sleeves, and he managed to keep from passing out.

Wei Lingxue dismounted while holding Tao Jiusi, her arms trembling, and she murmured, "Xiao Tao, Xiao Tao, don't sleep, don't sleep."

Tao Jiusi's consciousness was a little fuzzy, and he opened his mouth to speak vaguely and intermittently, and he could only hear the word "negative snow".

Wei Lingxue knelt on the ground, not daring to move, but the scene of Tao Jiusi jumping off the cliff in the dream kept replaying, and the destructive anger and heart-breaking sadness suddenly became vivid again.

At this time, Xia Kaiyan arrived with Dr. Zhou, and Dr. Zhou asked Wei Chengxue to lay Tao Jiusi flat on the ground. He inspected the injury and said, "This arrow was buried very deep. Fortunately, it didn't hurt any bones. I need to pull out the arrows on the spot and bandage them with dressings. Your Highness, please disperse the irrelevant people around."

Wei Lingxue nodded, and Zhu Shunli hurriedly began to clear the field.

Dr. Zhou and his assistants surrounded Tao Jiusi, cut off Tao Jiusi's sleeve, and quickly pulled out the arrow.Then began to clean the wound and apply medicine to bandage it.

After struggling with the severe pain for too long, Tao Jiusi was exhausted and fell into a deep sleep.

Wei Ling's snow-colored black hair drooped quietly. He knelt beside Tao Jiusi, without saying a word, staring at Tao Jiusi's wound, his eyes were cold, exuding the aura that strangers should not enter.

"Okay," Doctor Zhou wiped the sweat from his head, and wiped his blood-stained hands on his robe, "Your Highness, please find a place for Xiao Tao to sleep well, and I will prescribe a prescription later. , I’ll send it to you when it’s done.”

Wei Lingxue nodded mechanically, leaned over and hugged Tao Jiusi, and said softly, "Xiao Tao, no matter how beautiful the dream is, it's empty, you have to remember that I'm waiting for you to wake up."

Everyone in Prince Zhao's Mansion watched Wei Lingxue go away step by step, and suddenly found that after leaving Tao Jiusi, their highness turned back into the snow of the mountains, sacred and unapproachable, beautiful but bitingly cold.

"Nine thoughts!" Wei Rongyu woke up from the dream, opened his eyes and saw a bright yellow surrounding, not the cliff in the dream.

Wei Ronghe sat up and opened the bed curtain, only to find that the moon was still hanging outside the window, it was just a genius.It turned out that it was just a dream.

In the dream, Tao Jiusi jumped off the cliff with him on his back for a moment. Although he died, he was extremely satisfied in his heart.For a moment Tao Jiusi was lying on the ground covered in blood again, as if he had been crushed inch by inch, the pain was real and terrifying.

Bikong heard the movement and pushed the door in. Seeing Wei Rong and sweating profusely sitting on the bed in a daze, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what's the matter?"

Wei Rongyu woke up startled, stretched out his hand to grab Bi Kong's arm, and said anxiously: "Quick! Bring all the military newspapers from last night!" His hand tightened, "I dreamed that he died!"

Bikong didn't care about the pain from his arm, he quickly supported Wei Rongyu, and comforted him: "Your Majesty, don't panic, I'll go get the military report right away."

Taking the military newspaper, Wei Rongyu searched it one by one, picking out the ones related to King Zhao, and read them word by word, but everything was normal, and there was not even half of Tao Jiusi's words.

Wei Rongyu turned the pages like crazy, "No, no! These military newspapers are from the past! The latest! I want the latest!"

Bikong was a little embarrassed, the people on King Zhao's side never reported in time, the emperor wanted to know the latest news, where would he find it?

Seeing Bikong standing still with his hands down, Wei Rongyu suddenly came to his senses, and said: "Yes, I am confused, how can you understand this as a court lady, go, and invite Fang Zongqi to come."

Bikong heaved a sigh of relief, turned and went out, but unexpectedly bumped into Du Xiangrong entering the room.

Although Du Xiangrong has no influence in the outer court now, but because the empress is not favored and the emperor has no other concubines, she, the empress dowager, still has some prestige in the inner court and is still in charge of the harem.

Seeing that it was Empress Dowager Du, Bikong quickly knelt down to pay her respects.

Du Xiangrong stepped into the hall, looked at his son's half-opened clothes, disheveled hair, dull eyes, and said dissatisfiedly: "Your Majesty, what are you talking about?"

Wei Rong gave her a sideways glance, and said coldly: "Mother, I have said many times, you educate the court ladies and servants well, don't take care of me if you have nothing to do!"

Du Xiangrong picked up a military newspaper, flipped through a few pages, and said dissatisfiedly: "Your Majesty, have I given half an opinion about your handling of government affairs recently? But your marriage is always a family matter, and your unfilial elder brother is also considered a family member. Why can't I ask?"

Wei Rong said: "The affairs of the Tian family are all state affairs."

Du Xiangrong threw away the military newspaper with a snap, and said loudly: "Wei Chengxue is planning to rebel! He never went back to Beijing and Luo for the funeral after the death of the first emperor! And that kid Du Qingyao, maybe the emperor Yuxi is the one." He followed suit! Rong'er, let's take down Ning Province while Wei Lingxue is sending troops to Dongqi!"

Wei Rong said: "Mother, now everyone in the world knows that your father's death is inseparable from you, and there are even rumors that I was not in the right position. I just turned a blind eye and closed it for the sake of you giving birth to me." Only one eye, and let you live in the harem."

Du Xiangrong laughed maniacally, "I poisoned your father to make you enthroned? If you blame me again, it will be a big joke."

Wei Rongyu said lightly: "Mother, but now that this matter has been discovered, everyone is talking about it, how long do you think I can hold on? If you are still restless, go and guard the spirit of the father."

The conversation was divided into two parts. Tao Jiusi did not wake up after recuperating for two days, and Wei Chengxue did not leave half a step, but he became more and more anxious day by day.

Zhu Shunli and Xia Kaiyan came to report the results of the interrogation of the murderer, and he sat by the bed and listened expressionlessly.

Wei Lingxue seemed to be a different person, looking at Tao Jiusi with tender eyes, and her tone was never colder than before, "Kaiyan, pass my order, everyone in Linglin City, regardless of gender, regardless of age, will be killed."

Xia Kaiyan was taken aback for a moment, then immediately knelt down and said urgently: "Your Highness, think twice!"

King Zhao wanted to massacre the city to avenge Tao Jiusi.

Wei Lingxue put his index finger on his lips, signaled Xia Kaiyan to whisper, and then said in the most ruthless tone: "Just do it."

Xia Kaiyan lay on the ground and refused to get up, lowered his voice and said: "The massacre of the city has always been tabooed by the Ming Lord, Your Highness must not violate the taboo!"

Zhu Shunli also knelt down and said, "Your Highness, the murderer is the son of Lingzhou Zhizhou. He acted privately because he was dissatisfied with his father's surrender. It has nothing to do with the people of Linglin City."

Xia Kaiyan kowtowed and said: "His Royal Highness, there is an injustice and a debtor, this murderer is hateful, whether it is divided into five horses or Ling Chi, I will never persuade you a word, but the people are innocent!"

Zhu Shunli said again, "His Royal Highness, think about Xiao Tao, if he wakes up and finds out that you killed the whole city, what will he think?"

When Tao Jiusi was mentioned, Wei Lingxue's eyes softened, and he said softly, "Xiao Tao has a kind heart."

Xia Kaiyan saw that Wei Lingxue's attitude eased, and immediately said: "Your Highness, people in Linglin City can't escape, we can wait for Xiao Tao to wake up. Xiao Tao is still in a coma, please give him more blessings. "

Tao Jiusi lay motionless on the bed, but his face was not as ugly as the previous two days. Wei Lingxue stared at him, also motionless.

Tao Jiusi appeared in Wei Chengxue's life, and gradually merged into his flesh and blood, becoming his only warmth and nostalgia in the cruel world. For Tao Jiusi, he can destroy a city, and he can also bypass all living beings compassionately.As long as it is for Tao Jiusi.

For a while, Wei Chengxue didn't speak, and didn't mention the massacre of the city again.

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