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Yan, Jingyan, you have defended Jinling but lost Lin Shu and the Chiyan army, you have failed too much in this move. "

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On the other hand, as soon as King Yu left, Meng Zhi hurriedly dragged Lin Shu to a place where no one was around, "Don't listen to what King Yu said, I'm fine, His Highness Prince Jing definitely didn't mean anything against me, including the matter of Nie Feng, He also..."

"Although I believe in Jingyan, there are too many things I don't understand, and he doesn't want to tell me now."

"You believe in Prince Jing?" Meng Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, "Then you still ask Prince Yu about Prince Jing, what good things can he say."

Lin Shu smiled, with a look of desolation that he had never had before, "I asked Yu Wang because Jingyan would not tell me what he had done all these years, my father knew no more than me, and my mother didn't know much about it. Asking about these things... No one in Jinling knows what Jingyan has done better than him, so I don’t ask him who to ask.”

"Then you didn't intend to help King Yu, did you?" Meng Zhi probed nervously, poking his head.

"I think he's disgusting." Lin Shu blinked and smiled slyly, "So the volume of my teacher's book can't fall into the hands of such a person, I have to go get it back."

"Xiao Shu, I just heard that Yu Wang said that you want to open a mansion..."

"The opening of the government is the emperor's idea, it's just the separation of powers." Lin Shu pointed it out lightly, "I plan to go back to the army."

"Aren't you staying in Jinling?"

"What are you doing here?"

"Help Prince Jing." Meng Zhi replied without thinking.

He felt that this was the most obvious answer.

To his surprise, Lin Shu shook his head.

"Leaving Jinling is my intention, and Jingyan told me so. If I stay in Jinling, where the dark tide is turbulent, my father and the Lin family will be implicated if I am not careful."

"What's more, the current Jingyan doesn't need me to help him at all, and I won't..." Lin Shu's originally resolute tone slowly dropped, after all, he didn't say the second half of the sentence.

----

Lin Shu left after the fifteenth day. I heard that Meng Zhi, Nie Feng, Xia Dong and Jing Rui Yujin sent him off at the gate of the city.

Lin Shu didn't ask anyone else to see him off.

So Jingyan didn't go.

When the ice and snow first thawed, the emperor summoned Jingyan to the palace again for the case of the murder of the inner eunuch.

"I know you've worked hard these days, but Xia Jiang just fell ill at this time, and Xia Chun and Xia Qiu were injured by unidentified people from the rivers and lakes when they were investigating this matter... Meng Zhi is a warrior after all. Fuck him. That's why I want you to drop by and investigate the killing of the inner jailer."

Jingyan knew that this incident was done by Tianquan Villa. In the previous life, they threw stones and asked for directions and killed a group of people. This time, Xie Yu probably wanted to win the position of commander of the Imperial Army, and wanted to kill all twelve troops of the Imperial Army. He didn't want to lose to Meng Zhi, but finally let Meng Zhi take advantage of him as the commander of the imperial army.

Before Xie Yu achieved his goal, those who went to investigate the case must have met with misfortune.

But this time, he didn't have the Jianghu alliance's Jianghu forces as a shield, so he would inevitably encounter danger when investigating.

Emperor Liang didn't seem to realize that his order was inappropriate, he just flipped through the file casually, and finally asked as if he suddenly remembered it.

"Did you take someone out of town a few days ago?"

"Yes, I heard that some of the exiled Hua people escaped, so I chased them out."

"Have you caught up, who is it?" Emperor Liang asked in a low voice, leaning halfway from the desk.

"...It was a concubine from a merchant's family who escaped with the help of a servant."

"sure?"

"I took two people from the Hua tribe to recognize them. They both said they didn't know each other, so they probably weren't from the royal family."

Emperor Liang nodded sadly, the knife in his heart was still there, he would never be able to rest his head, he asked casually, where is that person?

Jingyan calmly replies, "Dead."

"...If you die, you should die. You did a good job in this matter." Emperor Liang instructed again, "When investigating the case, bring all the people with you, and be more careful."

----

Advice is good, but often not fulfilled.

In just a dozen days after taking over the internal supervision case, Jingyan's men were ambushed twice.

That night, he encountered an ambush on the way back to his house, and when he was fighting with the assassin, a masked man suddenly fell from the tree and landed in the crowd.

All of a sudden everyone was stunned.

It wasn't because of anything else, but because although this person covered his face with a black cloth, he clearly had the figure of an eight or nine-year-old child.

But this kid's skill is very good, with his help, those assassins were defeated and fled in a panic.

"His Royal Highness Prince Jing is alright!" Meng Zhi, who heard the sound of fighting and rushed over, only saw the shadows of a few assassins fleeing, couldn't help sighing angrily, and when he saw the child again, he couldn't help but yelled out.

"...Fei Liu?"

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There was no misunderstanding or questioning, and Lin Shu didn't ask Jingyan.

He was indeed angry and didn't let Jingyan come to see him off, but he kept his heart unchanged.So Yu Wang will still be wrong in this life, (give Yu Wang a big handkerchief)

[Langya Bang] I True [Nineteen] (Shu Yan)

"Flying Flow"

Those two short words shocked Jingyan's whole body, and he could hardly hold the sword in his hand, and turned his head to look at Meng Zhi.

Seeing Jingyan's surprised expression, Meng Zhi also became dazed, and suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Jingyan as if suddenly enlightened, so excited that he couldn't speak clearly, "You, too, recognize him!"

While the two were talking, the assassin who was trampled by Fei Liu knew he was invincible, so he could only crush the poison hidden behind his teeth, and when he was dying, he shot a hidden weapon at Jingyan.

Fei Liu hurriedly reached out to stop him, but Meng Zhi grabbed the hidden weapon firmly in his hand, "Poisonous... It seems that this time, Xie Yu has laid a heavy hand for the position of the commander of the imperial army."

Meng Zhi took a look at Jingyan who was surrounded by his cronies, and then he was relieved, "I'll visit His Highness later." Then he said to Fei Liu, who was still covering his face, "Are you coming?"

Fei Liu shook his head, and flew up to the tree lightly, but when Meng Zhi stretched out his hand, he didn't catch it, making him run away with a few vertical jumps.

His agility, dexterity, and kung fu are excellent, even better than before, and there is a shadow of Master Lin Shao in every move.

Jingyan couldn't help laughing, it seems that Lin Chen found him and treated him very well.

----

In the middle of the night, Meng Zhi climbed in from the back wall of Prince Jing's mansion, and walked carefully all the way to the inner courtyard, where he saw Jingyan sitting in the courtyard, holding the hidden weapon and looking carefully at it.

In the dim yellow candlelight in the room, there was a trace of unconcealable tiredness in the slightly closed eyes, and there was a bit of Mei Changsu's appearance in a trance.

So he couldn't help but took a step forward, and said, "Why did your Highness bother to take this case..."

"If I don't accept it, this case will belong to Brother Qi sooner or later. How can he guard against such a cunning attack? Xia Jiang doesn't need to call himself sick. As long as he delays for a while, he may use Xie Yu's hand to get rid of Brother Qi." possible."

Meng Zhi looked at the person in front of him.

Once upon a time, Xiao Jingyan would not guard against those tricks and schemes.

But in the last life, for the sake of Lin Shu and King Qi, for the sake of the world and the Chi Yan Army, he became a king who had to face these.

"If you really want to fight everything, why don't you let Xiaoshu stay and help you instead insist on wanting him to leave Jinling?"

Jingyan said calmly as if he had nothing to do with emotions or anger, "Lin Shu is the only son of Lin Xie, the commander of the Red Flame Army, so it's clear what he will choose between me and Brother Qi."

"It's the same reason I didn't let you join the Forbidden Army two years ago."

"..." Meng Zhi's eyes fell on the red iron bow given by Lin Shu hanging on the wall beside the bed.

In Meng Zhi's heart, Xiao Jingyan is the king, Lin Shu is the friend, and King Qi is the person they respect the most. Even when he heard Jingyan say this, he immediately understood the bitterness contained in these words, "At that time, I still I don't remember everything."

"Since you know Fei Liu, you should be able to understand why I am doing what I am doing now... I will not keep it from you anymore."

"I have no intention of the throne, nor will I harm Xiaoshu and Brother Qi, nor will I condone traitors like honoring the king and presenting the king. All the people I have used in these years are real talents to help the world, and the ones I have used to get rid of are all treacherous villains. ...Meng Zhi, I don't want you to help me, as long as you don't become my hindrance."

"Back then...Xiao Shu also said the same thing as me."

Jingyan was silent for a long time, before staring at the candle for a while, he said slowly, "'I chose you because Su has no choice'—this is what 'he' told me back then."

"Brother Qi Wang is alive, for public and private purposes, Xiaoshu will definitely not choose me."

"But the path you chose this time is not inferior to the hardships that Xiaoshu went through back then, and there is no one around you to help...Even if His Royal Highness Qi Wang will let you go in consideration of love, you and Xiaoshu have been together for so many years. What about feelings? Do you want to be strangers from now on?"

Hearing these words, Xiao Jingyan showed a shaken look for the first time, but only for a moment.

Meng Zhi knew very well that in the body of the person in front of him was a soul who had once ascended to the loneliest position in the world.

He has gained the world, but he has also lost everything.

Now he wanted to protect what he had lost, but at the cost of giving up himself.

The most cruel thing was that he had to personally kill the never-changing Xiao Jingyan who lived in the hearts of King Qi and Lin Shu.

Mei Changsu had no choice back then, and so does Xiao Jingyan now.

"The things I have done in these years are things that Xiao Jingyan disdained and would never do. In the future, neither Xiao Shu nor Brother Qi will treat me like they used to."

"As for the others, Meng Zhi, do you think 'I' must have a counselor?"

In the 20 years after Lin Shuzhan's death, Xiao Jingyan supported the world alone.

Is there no treacherous undercurrents, fighting with open swords and sharp guns, all of which are inextricably linked.