old grace

The Lu family lived in the royal capital for generations, and was one of the six old Qin surnames who lived with the country.With the expansion of the king's capital, the position of the Lu family's Baowu, which was originally located in the city, became more and more central, and the left and right roads were connected. Yancheng King led his guards on horseback and galloped, and soon came to the gate of Lu's house.

"Call the door!" King Yancheng stared at the gate of the Lu family, his eyes like swords.

A Dong led a few guards and quickly stepped forward to knock on the door. Three or five bowl-sized fists slammed on the door, one after another, mixed with A Dong's angry shout: "The king of Yancheng is here, Quickly open the door and go out!"

Through the crack of the door, one could see the children of the Lu family circling anxiously inside, and A Dong could even hear the voice inside urging him to return quickly.

In the middle of the night, such a group of people with open flames came, and the members of the Lu family didn't dare to open the door at all.

In the afternoon, the King of Yancheng sent several guards to the Lu family to inquire about the case. At first, when the members of the Lu family reported back, the owner of the family still had a good face. Asked Lu Huan if he had robbed the boy from the straw sandal shop in Dongyu, and asked Lu Su if he had had a quarrel with the knight-errant king in West Lane and beat him up, and then asked Lu Huan if he had robbed the shop in Dongyu. The kid from the Hua family... Asked the Lu family into a rage.

Before the afternoon, the Lu family could still claim to be the ally of the King of Yancheng, the North Korea and China, and the Austrian aid. After the harassment in the afternoon, the relationship between the two families was obviously not quite right.In this case, how could the door dare to open without the master's order?

A Dong didn't care about it, and led his people to knock on the door non-stop.

After a while, the panic in the door subsided, and a male voice who claimed to be a member of the Lu family promised from inside the door: "The night curfew in the royal capital has been enforced for a long time, and the latest curfew decree was issued by His Royal Highness King Yancheng at the request of the emperor. The foreign gentleman claimed that the king of Yancheng came, did he mean that the king of Yancheng openly violated the night ban and took people to wander the streets in the middle of the night? But this servant doesn't believe it."

A Dong snorted, and said, "The king has urgent matters to deal with, so naturally he is not included in the night ban. Open the door quickly! Even if you came in a hurry and didn't bring a full set of guards of honor, I can show you the golden order of Yancheng Palace!"

The tone of the insider seemed to be perfunctory to the rogue who came to cheat, and said with a little smile: "Well, your honor insists that it is His Royal Highness King Yancheng, and I will not argue with you. However, Ye Lanren decides At that time, all the lords at home have rested, and the servants really dare not disturb. Even if the King of Yancheng has urgent matters, please come back at dawn tomorrow."

This is deliberately not acknowledging the identity of King Yancheng and resolutely refusing to open the door.

The Lu family, who lived in the royal capital for generations, had always raised servants and private soldiers, and the family structure was still the old fortress. Even if the king of Yancheng came to attack with the forbidden army, it would take a lot of effort, not to mention that there were not many people under the king of Yancheng—— He was imprisoned by the emperor for ten years, and the private soldiers he had raised in the past had long been scattered. He once took charge of the imperial army to fight against Chen Qi. After the siege of the city was lifted, he returned the military power to Wang Hu.

The Lu family didn't want to confront the king of Yancheng head-on, nor did they want to suffer under the king of Yancheng, so they covered their heads and refused to recognize the identity of the king of Yancheng, and stayed behind closed doors.

This made King Yancheng very uncomfortable.

With dozens of guards, let's fight, you will definitely not be able to fight.

If you want to capture the Lu family's fortress, you have to contact the old part of the imperial army.Just because of his status and prestige, the old department would probably not refuse his dispatch. However, if he dispatched troops without a soldier talisman, he was letting the old department hold his head and work hard for him.

A Dong and the other guards gritted their teeth angrily, and looked back at King Yancheng's face.This is how to do?

Xie Qinghe also looked at King Yancheng. He didn't believe that King Yancheng didn't think about the current situation before coming to the Lu family. At this time, whether he went to the imperial army to borrow troops or went back in despair, it was the most unbearable situation. How could the king be so misguided?

King Yancheng on his horse coughed, tightened his crumpled cloak, and ordered: "Raise the fire."

The guards headed by A Dong were all brightened, and happily withdrew from the door, and began to collect thatch and wood that could support the combustion, and piled them by the wall of Lujiabao Dock, happily placing a dozen piles.The Lu family never expected that the king of Yancheng would be so limitless, until the fire started, they panicked and shouted for firecrackers, and poured water from the top of the wall to put out the fire.

——The Lu family is a fortress structure, but because it is coerced by the capital, it has not been really used for many years.

For three generations, most of the servants and guards of the Lu family no longer knew how to rely on the fortress to fight against the enemy. At this time, the outside of the wall was on fire, and they could only climb up and down clumsily to water. The speed at which the Waiyan City King's guards ignited.

To make matters worse, there was a northerly wind that night.

The wind assisted the fire, and it raged towards the Lujiabao dock.

Not long after, the door of Lu's house opened, and a large number of children rushed out, carrying water and sand to put out the fire outside the wall.

King Yancheng's guards were lighting the fire, and the Lu family's children rushed out to put out the fire, and the two sides met on a narrow road.A boy from the Lu family whose face was blackened by the fire was in tears, and poured a bucket of water at the guards of King Yancheng without saying a word, and rushed up to fight.

In terms of skill alone, none of the children of the Lu family is an all-in-one enemy for the guards of the king of Yancheng.Can't stand the crowd of them, surround them with many to one.

And because they didn't get the order from the King of Yancheng, the guards all kept their hands back when fighting, and didn't greet the vitals.This one fell down, and that one just got up again.The fight was endless.

A Dong, who had already retreated to King Yancheng's side, saw the situation clearly, and couldn't help but ask, "My lord?"

Xie Qinghe understood what King Yancheng was thinking. King Yancheng didn't want to break with the Lu family completely, so he refused to let the guards start killing.

It's a pity that King Yancheng's current guards don't have the ability to perfectly execute his ideas.There are so many children in the Lu family, and if they hold back so much, before the head of the Lu family can come out, the guards on King Yancheng's side will die first.

Xie Qinghe wanted to curry favor with King Yancheng, but after thinking about it for a moment, he flew off his horse and jumped into the chaotic battle formation.

The situation changed immediately.

Xie Qinghe is proficient in the art of acupoint cutting. Most of the children of the Lu family met him face to face, and before they realized what happened, they were already knocked down by him.Moreover, it is impossible for those who are knocked down by him to get back up in a short time.

He cleaned up little by little from the edge of the chaos, and wherever he went, the children of the Lu family lay down, and the chaos came to an abrupt end.

Later, the guards of King Yancheng stopped doing it themselves, grabbed an opponent, and sent them directly to Xie Qinghe.

The whole situation suddenly became very funny.Xie Qinghe had to stop moving forward to clean up the scuffle. He couldn't move in even if he wanted to go in, so he could only stand in place and wait for the guards of Yancheng King to send their opponents one by one.Come one, order one, and someone next to him is responsible for catching them, and putting the immobile children of the Lu family one by one in place.

This made the children of the Lu family very ashamed and angry. Are we queuing up to deliver food to you? !Who is the bully with low combat power? !

However, the well-trained guards were different from the children of the Lu family. Once they found a tacit understanding of encircling and strangling, dozens of people scattered in order according to the terrain. The children of the Lu family who had not received formation training at all were dumbfounded.No matter whether they were single-handedly or with a group of people, no matter whether they were advancing westward or making a surprise attack around the corner, the guards of King Yancheng were like an open net, always able to catch them all.

Xie Qinghe is at the end of this net, and he only needs to help deal with the "prey" lightly, so as not to let the "prey" struggle any longer.

The evenly matched or even slightly inferior confrontation suddenly turned into a cat-and-mouse game. For the guards on the side of King Yancheng, the scene before them was very joyful, and everyone was excited to play with their prey.The other party's Lu family child was in great pain.

Xie Qinghe felt that since the situation was under control, there was no point in continuing the fight.

"Are you really not going to put out the fire?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Only then did the children of the Lu family look back at their fort. The yard near the outer wall had been burned to the ground. The main house was like a big bonfire erected in the fort. It was burning fiercely, illuminating half of the area night.

King Yancheng ordered at this time: "Go and put out the fire."

The fire can no longer be extinguished.

The most important thing now is to demolish the buildings near the fire point and air out the fire zone to prevent the fire from spreading.

The guards of Yancheng King are all proficient in the skills of killing and setting fire, so they naturally know how to deal with fire attacks.Without Xie Qinghe's advice, this group of people rushed into Lu's house and helped to tear down the house to make fire protection.

At this time, someone from the Lu family finally came out, with disheveled clothes and long hair shawl, pointing at the king of Yancheng and scolding: "Burning the capital of the king, are you crazy?"

It was the eunuch Lu Xuan.

The King of Yancheng sneered and said: "To set your house on fire is to burn the capital of the king. If your family robs Li Shu day after day, isn't it plundering the capital of the king? Isn't it the capital of the king if you allow your family and servants to abuse the people? Your family is counted Yadai is just a lowly slave who raises pigs for my family, pulls tiger skins to make a banner in front of me, and is not afraid of breaking the flagpole and poking at you!"

If you scold someone's ancestors, you basically don't need to talk about anything.

Lu Xuan either admits that his ancestors have been lowly slaves raising pigs for eight generations, or he will never die with the King of Yancheng.

What surprised Xie Qinghe was that Lu Xuan really held back.The king of Yancheng scolded him so mercilessly that Lu Xuan didn't seem to have heard it. He walked up to the king of Yancheng step by step with the help of his servants, and asked, "This city is full of dudes, do you insist on blocking my house? Do you want me, the only minister who speaks for you in the court, to show your eyes for you, to bow your head to the traitor, and ask for the rest of your life?"

Just as Lu Xuan said, there are so many people gathered at the gate of Yancheng Prince's Mansion, and so many aristocrats are accused, the King of Yancheng came to block Lu Xuan's house, is it because he wants to use Lu Xuan as a vote to curry favor with the emperor? , to curry favor with Wang Hu?

King Yancheng did not answer Lu Xuan's question, but asked, "Where is Lu Qiu?"

Before Lu Xuan could speak, King Yancheng added, "Since I'm here, I'll take him away. Where is Lu Huan?"

In the afternoon, the guards of King Yancheng came to look for him several times, and the news of Zheping's murder had spread to every family. How could Lu Qiu and Lu Huan dare to come to see people?The Lu family's Baowu opened doors on all sides, only Lu Xuan came out from the front door, and the rest of the family left from the side door to avoid the fire.

Lu Xuan sneered and said, "You don't need to worry about it. My uncle and nephew have already gone to other places to avoid the fire."

Xie Qinghe was amused.When King Yancheng ordered the guards to set fire, several groups of people took advantage of the night to go to the back of the fort.

King Yancheng asked Lu Xuan unhurriedly, "Has servant Lu ever chased a rabbit in the field?"

A gust of wind blew, and the big house next to the wall of Lujiabao Wharf was still burning, and a scorched stench wafted in the wind.The king of Yancheng coughed due to the cold, closed his cloak that was parted to let in the wind again, and said, "The cunning rabbit has three caves. We need to block the openings of several rabbit holes first, and then fill them with water. How many holes are there in the servant's house?"

The king of Yancheng called the ancestors of the Lu family a lowly slave who raised pigs for a while, and called them a litter of rabbits for a while, and Lu Xuan was very angry.

"You always have a lot of calculations in your mind. Who is your ally, who is your political enemy, whoever you win over will have a future, and whoever you follow will have power... On the temple, there are all treacherous villains like you, no wonder Guozuo Soon." King Yancheng said suddenly.

He bent down, looked at Lu Xuan who woke up from his sleep with disheveled hair, and reached out to pat Lu Xuan's face.

"I came to block your door because Lu Qiu should have died more than ten years ago. If I know that Zhan Ying's death is also related to your family," King Yancheng stared into Lu Xuan's eyes and said word by word. Said, "Your whole family is the chickens, ducks, eagles and dogs you raised, and they will all be buried with him!"

A knight whistled in the distance, King Yancheng looked up and ordered, "Go."

Everyone knew that the guards sent by King Yancheng blocked Lu Qiu.

The king of Yancheng was about to evacuate with his troops. Lu Xuan looked at their backs and angrily summoned his servants: "Come on! Go after them!"

At this time, a steward came to report: "Lord, the fire in the house is raging, if you take people to chase King Yancheng, the house is afraid..."

This is the situation that the King of Yancheng has already laid out.

There are many private soldiers and slaves of the Lu family, and the Yancheng Palace does not have an advantage if they want to fight head-to-head.This fire directly dragged most of the Lu family in place.If Lu Xuan chooses to save Lu Qiu, he will face the fate of the fort being burned down, and all the food, money, books, and treasures accumulated for hundreds of years will be destroyed at once.

It is impossible for Lu Xuan to have a second choice.He gritted his teeth and said angrily, "Put out the fire!"

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Xie Qinghe showed his hand at the gate of Lu's house, and was warmly sought after by the guards, with countless eyes chasing him back and forth.

He was still keeping a low profile, and he didn't show his face around King Yancheng, and he didn't want to get too close to make the guards of King Yancheng nervous.To most of the guards, he was still an outsider of unknown origin, and he was still suspected of plotting to assassinate King Yancheng.

Since he was not with the king of Yancheng, the rules were not so strict. Many guards quietly approached him and asked him about his special skills.

Xie Qinghe has never been a stingy person. Acupuncture and cutting off the pulse is a martial art handed down from ancient times. If it was changed on his own territory in Qingzhou, he would nod and teach it openly.Just remembering that these guards with simple and honest smiles are the enemies of the Chen family, and they might meet each other on the battlefield in the future, Xie Qinghe could only smile and keep silent.

Fortunately, this group of people didn't force him to ask him what he wanted to teach. Many guards who were entangled by the children of the Lu family at that time squeezed over and said a few words of thanks, thanking him for his help.Anyone who understands something understands that if Xie Qinghe hadn't helped bring down the continuous stream of Lu family children just now, and the king of Yancheng refused to order the killer, the situation would have become very ugly.

Even though Xie Qinghe was a newcomer and young, these strong men still sincerely expressed their admiration and gratitude.

"That's Lu Qiu?" Xie Qinghe looked at the fat man who was being carried upside down, feeling a little bad, "I'm about to die."

Fu Guang said nonchalantly: "My lord didn't say he wanted to live."

At this moment, a group of people and horses came from the opposite side of the long street, also holding fire and lanterns, the horses and horses were rustling, and they walked towards King Yancheng's team, and there was a sudden blockage.Encountering on the long street pays attention to politeness, what is courtesy?It's just up and down.The King of Yancheng is the Uncle of the Son of Heaven. He has a high seniority in the Tian family, and he was ordered to supervise the country. He has a noble status, and he has the credit for repelling the Chen family's soldiers and horses.

The guards of Yancheng King are also very used to being domineering. Even if the opponent has a car and a horse, Yancheng King does not have a car, and the formation is relatively flexible. Shi Li knelt down to make way for King Yancheng.

On the opposite side, two rows of attendants lined up, carrying palace lanterns, and a young man in brocade clothes and gold crown got off the car.

The guards of King Yancheng were all taken aback and got off their horses one after another.

Xie Qinghe followed farther away, seeing that everyone in front was dismounting, Fu Guang also turned over and pulled his reins: "Quick, get off the horse." Xie Qinghe was only a step too slow, but was urged by Fu Guang, "It's the prince!"

Prince concubine envoy.

Xie Qinghe wondered, the prince came to block the king of Yancheng in the middle of the night, in order to prevent him from going to trouble with the Lu family?

"Granduncle." The prince approached King Yancheng's horse to salute, and he respectfully bowed to King Yancheng, but King Yancheng was sitting on the horse's back, and he had no intention of paying homage to the prince at all, "Uncle Grandfather, my son is late."

King Yancheng asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I heard that some people gathered at the door of my uncle and uncle, clamoring to sue for grievances. This should be the responsibility of the government. Why did the people go to the door of my uncle to complain? I think the court's breach of trust and the government's failure of responsibility made the people I don’t want to go to the government office to sue for grievances. After thinking about it, my uncle is still ill, if I work hard for this matter, how can my son just sit back and watch?”

The prince stepped forward and took the reins of King Yancheng, and then took the hand of King Yancheng, and said sincerely: "The people don't believe in the government office, so let me personally ask about this matter. My uncle entrusted this matter to my son. If you can't deal with it and the people are angry, just ask your son about it."

King Yancheng looked at the corners of the crown prince's mouth, and after a while he smiled: "Okay."

The king of Yancheng dismounted quickly and got into the prince's car, and the two teams went to the palace of the prince of Yancheng together.

King Yancheng and the crown prince were both in the carriage, Xie Qinghe couldn't hear or see what they said.He was a little surprised that King Yancheng seemed to have a good relationship with the prince.This made Xie Qinghe guess that the King of Yancheng said at first that he might be the prince waiting until dawn?

The common people came to seek revenge from the King of Yancheng, but the King of Yancheng could not ignore it.However, given his current situation and status, he really shouldn't care about it.

The king of Jing wanted to relieve the siege of the king of Yancheng, and the way he thought was to disperse the people, but he was stopped by the king of Yancheng, and King Jing was also driven away by the king of Yancheng.The prince's solution is to take the hot potato proactively - the potato is too hot to handle, and the prince can't make up his mind right away. He hesitated until he heard that the king of Yancheng had killed Zheping and rushed to Lu's house aggressively. Then the prince made up his mind. Come and carry this bombing.

Everyone knows that the present Qin Ting cannot lose King Yancheng.However, Yancheng King is really difficult to control.

Both the crown prince and the king of Jing have the heart to save the country, and they both want to try their best to keep the king of Yancheng. It depends on how much they are willing to pay for the king of Yancheng.Compared with the difficult undertaking of the prince's move, King Jing's brutality in driving out the people in the afternoon seemed a lot more stingy.No wonder the King of Yancheng became closer to the prince.

After arriving at the Prince's Mansion in Yancheng, the crown prince revealed his identity and asked all the people present to go to the East Palace to make a declaration.

The prince is known for benevolence and love, and he also has a very high reputation among the people. He personally spoke out as a guarantor, saying that he would avenge the people's grievances, and all the people present were rejoicing. put.For the common people, the crown prince is the next emperor and the crown prince of the world, and it is more authoritative and fairer for the crown prince to handle their cases than the intervention of the king of Yancheng.

Zuan came to hand over the confession he had made to the people. The prince actually touched Zuan's head lovingly and asked, "Have you worked hard? I feel relieved to have you serving by my uncle's side."

Zuan Zuan actually didn't give the Prince a lot of face, impatiently avoided his rubbing, straightened his hair, and said: "It's my business for me to take care of the prince, what has it to do with you? I don't deserve it no matter how hard it is. Tube!"

King Yancheng and the crown prince didn't think she was rude, and they looked at her with pampering eyes.

Xie Qinghe became more and more curious about her identity.Could it be that it is really a strange woman with a great inheritance that makes the King of Yancheng and the crown prince so pampered?

The crown prince arranged for the people to go to the East Palace, which also involved the issue of Lu Qiu.

King Yancheng drank hot soup in the house, his lungs were relieved, and he said to the prince, "Don't take this man away."

Lu Qiu was able to survive more than ten years ago, thanks to the emperor's amnesty.If the prince is asked to bring Lu Qiu back to the East Palace, will this person be killed or not?If you don't kill, you can't be angry with the common people, especially if you can't appease the king of Yancheng. If you kill him, you may offend the emperor.This person is not a hot potato, but a thunderbolt.

The prince seemed to have a lot to say to King Yancheng, but in the end he just opened his mouth and bowed to the ground: "Yes."

The prince came and went in a hurry, and it was said that he would go to the palace to ask for an order after dawn - he came to stop the matter of the king of Yancheng, and he hadn't played the emperor's order yet.

At night, the king of Yancheng ordered the Lu family's house and executed Zheping. Seeing that Lu Qiu was about to be executed soon, Lu Xuan would never let it go, and the prince had to go to the court to help the king of Yancheng.

On the contrary, King Yancheng had no intention of going to the court to defend himself at all.

After he was released from prison, he had been recovering from his illness at home, and he finally slapped Lang Zhongling Wang Hu on the ear once he went to court.After going to court, the emperor sent him an imperial doctor to see a doctor, which probably meant to let him take good care of his illness and never go to court again.

Zuan rubbed the handkerchief and wiped Yancheng King's face, and asked: "It's almost dawn, should you rest?"

"I'm afraid that Ye Chang has many dreams, so bring Lu Qiu here. And the bitter master who sued him, please come together." King Yancheng murmured, "I should have killed him a long time ago."

Lu Qiu was a big fat man who weighed almost three hundred catties, and he couldn't be dragged in by opening one door. The maid hurriedly opened the other door as well, and managed to let this fat man who was dripping with fat come in.Such a fat man can't care about etiquette with him, whether he is squatting or kneeling, it doesn't make any difference to him - anyway, if he goes down, he will never get up by himself without someone's support.

When the guards of Yancheng King tied him back, they had to use two horses, and the rope was strung upside down in the air, almost strangling him to death.

I didn't know that the fat man was still alive, dragged it back and put it on the ground to slow down, and breathed out, he was alive again.

The king of Yancheng ignored Lu Qiu, and first asked the sufferer: "Can you verify your integrity, is it the villain who killed your parents?"

The sufferer is a very thin man, whose figure is only about one-third of Lu Qiu's width. Seriously: "Yes, it's him! It's him! Even if he loses all the fat on his body and turns into ashes, I will never forget him!"

"Give him a knife." King Yancheng said.

The guard closest to the sufferer took off the dagger at his waist and handed it to him.

Holding the knife, the bitter master looked around anxiously, first at the guards, then at the king of Yancheng, his lips could not stop moving: "Ah?"

"If you don't want to take revenge with your own hands," King Yancheng signaled the guards to take back the dagger, "I'll have someone execute him."

The sufferer thought for a long time in a daze, and at the moment before the guard took back the short knife, he suddenly grabbed the short knife and cried, "The villain is not convinced. He tortures the parents of the villain for pleasure, and makes the villain's whole family suffer from human relations." , why can he be killed with a single knife? The villain refuses to accept it!"

Before the king of Yancheng could speak, Zuan had already come out and said, "Then you can stab him in the belly with a knife! His flesh is so thick, it may not be fatal if you stab him. If you feel unhappy, poke him more." A few knives. He has such a big mountain of fat, you poke it slowly!"

Lu Qiu didn't make a sound the whole time, and now there was moisture dripping from under his fat body, and he peed out of fear.

Yan Zuan tilted his head and glanced at him, and said, "A villain like you is extremely vicious. I thought you wouldn't be afraid."

"Heaven, Son of Heaven... Son of Heaven, forgive me." Lu Qiu didn't have much confidence when he spoke, and stared at King Yancheng with shrinking eyes. His fat body gave him no room to dodge and escape, so he could only mutter clumsily, "Son of Heaven Forgive me."

"Cut off his tongue." King Yancheng said suddenly.

King Yancheng's reaction made Xie Qinghe feel that there should be some unknown inside story in this matter.

For example, more than ten years ago, why did the emperor insist on pardoning Lu Qiu?For example, when he was about to die, why did Lu Qiu emphasize the emperor's amnesty?

This also involves Zhan Ying's death.

If Zhan Ying's death was really not an accident, the Lu family secretly killed Zhan Ying in order to let Lu Qiu live happily in the capital?This is something that doesn't make sense at all.Even if Zhan Ying was upright and had offended too many aristocratic families while working in Dali Temple, and the Zhan family was not a low-level family in the capital, how could it be possible to kill Zhan Ying just by killing Zhan Ying?

The guards stepped forward to cut off Lu Qiu's tongue, but Lu Qiu suddenly became frightened, and his body like a mountain began to struggle: "You, if you kill me, the emperor will avenge me! The emperor will not forgive you! The emperor—"

The sufferer who had been holding a short knife and dared not go forward took a step forward. While the guard cut Lu Qiu's tongue, he also drew the knife and stabbed Lu Qiu randomly. Lu Qiu trembled and screamed, but the sufferer took a step back in fright. , The knife fell to the ground with a bang.

Xie Qinghe saw his blank and terrified face, stepped forward to give him a hand, and said, "Don't come any closer."

This sentence was like a reassurance, so that the suffering master finally stood aside with peace of mind, and no longer tried to step forward to take revenge with his own hands.

The guards over there had already cut off Lu Qiu's tongue, a large amount of blood was stained on his lapel, blood was still dripping from his mouth, his eyes were wide open, and his face showed pain.He is not young, and he is described as old-fashioned.Leaving aside his past decades of evil, anyone who sees his miserable state at this time will feel pity in his heart.

King Yancheng saw that Xie Qinghe held down the sufferer, and the sufferer did not want to take revenge with his own hands, so he ordered: "Kill it."

Who would have thought that the sufferer who was quietly standing aside suddenly bowed his knees and said, "My lord, can you give me a pot of boiling water? He put the little man's three-year-old brother into the pot and boiled it into broth. Forcing the villain's mother to eat three bowls in a row..." As he spoke, the sufferer sobbed, tears streaming down his face, "The villain's mother starved to death. Today, the villain must eat his meat to vent his hatred!"

King Yancheng nodded: "Prepare the pot for him."

Soon the servants of the palace brought a stove with an iron pot on it, cooking boiling water.

Standing in front of Lu Qiu, the Kuzhu Dao plucked up the courage and stabbed Lu Qiu in the chest. Right in the center of the room, a spurt of blood immediately gushed out, spraying the Kuzhu's face.Lu Qiu was held down by two guards and couldn't move. He lost his tongue and could only let out a scream.

The sufferer was so frightened that tears could not stop falling, his hands were trembling, but he still insisted on digging out Lu Qiu's heart.

He couldn't get it out after digging for a long time, Xie Qinghe couldn't stand it anymore, held his hand, helped him find the tendons and straighten the edge of the blade, took out the heart with three or two knives, put it directly into the boiling water, and it boiled quickly up the color.

The sufferer stared blankly at the heart in the pot, reached out to fish it out regardless of the heat, and began to bite with his teeth.

He tried hard to eat the heart and liver of his enemy, but he took a bite and spit it out, making a mess.When he turned Lu Qiu's heart into vomit, he almost vomited out his own jaundiced water, exhausted and limp on the ground.

"The villain's life belongs to the lord." The thin and miserable master kowtowed to the king of Yancheng, "willing to die for the lord."

King Yancheng didn't think highly of such a timid and thin man, he didn't even dare to poke his enemy with a knife, so he really didn't have much promise.He waved his hand and said, "Leave it." You can't be a guard, but you can get a bowl of food in exchange for a servant who burns fire and chops wood to feed the horses.

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King Yancheng finally rested, and his guards could finally change shifts.

Xie Qinghe had a special order from the King of Yancheng, not to work with the guards, but to serve in front of the King of Yancheng when he was free.

According to Zan Zan, this treatment is the same as that of Zan Zan.Anyway, King Yancheng rested, so he went back to sleep.Before King Yancheng woke up, he had to rush to King Yancheng and wait by his side to accompany King Yancheng in his daily life.

Xie Qinghe thought to himself, it's better to schedule shifts.Not to mention Chen Qi, he was never so attentive when he served Shangguan.

The advantage is that following King Yancheng all the time, it can be regarded as a perfect achievement of his goal of keeping an eye on the news.As long as Mrs. Jiang made a move, he would definitely not miss the reaction from King Yancheng.

The downside is that there is no chance to sneak out to find the younger brother during the day, so he can only touch the younger brother's bed in the middle of the night.

Given that the younger junior's age is only in single digits, Xie Qinghe couldn't find any exciting feeling in this stimulating action.

The conditions of Yancheng Palace are not very rich in all aspects. After all, after Yancheng King was released from prison, the Qin court was left with only the isolated capital, and there was a shortage of various supplies.The house that Zuan arranged for Xie Qinghe was not far from King Yancheng, separated by two corridors. The house was fully furnished, with silk quilts and celadon cups—it was actually a treasure fired in Xie Qinghe's kiln in Xiangzhou.It can be seen that Zuan Zuan is very serious about winning over Xie Qinghe for King Yancheng.

"Tomorrow, please ask a tailor to measure your body and make clothes." Zuan Zan stayed in Xie Qinghe's room and sat down unexpectedly.

Xie Qinghe asked: "Aren't you sleepy?"

Zuan Zuan blushed and said, "Deng Tu Zi."

Xie Qinghe looked at the back of her leaving shyly, and silently closed the door.

Lock the door.

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The next day.

King Yancheng slept until noon, and Xie Qinghe also slept until noon.

Yan Zan ran to push the door, but the latch blocked her, so she knocked on it, urging: "Xiao Xie, get up! Let's eat roasted sheep with honey today, hurry up!"

"Here we come." Xie Qinghe didn't have a serious meal for several days, and his young skin was full of greedy thoughts.

He looked at the sky outside the window, thinking that it was time for the quarrel to come to an end in the court.

The King of Yancheng was so reckless yesterday that he provoked all the aristocratic families in the capital. How could Mrs. Jiang not join hands with Prime Minister Han Qu to make trouble?Xie Qinghe's purpose is to reverse Mrs. Jiang's situation through King Yancheng's reaction.As long as King Yancheng has a miserable life, Mrs. Jiang will be safe.

I didn't bring a change of clothes, and I didn't have the conditions to change and wash every day when I went out.Xie Qinghe had no choice but to put on old clothes, combed his hair with the ivory comb that Zan Zan sent yesterday, checked his disguise with the small bronze mirror in his pocket, and opened the door to go out.

When they arrived at the main room, King Yancheng was already eating.

Xie Qinghe came forward to greet him, King Yancheng kindly greeted him as a guest, and Zuan immediately brought the roasted mutton with honey.

The king of Yancheng obviously didn't want to eat meat very much. He was weak and could hardly digest meat, and he didn't have much appetite.However, he tried very hard to force himself to eat meat.Xie Qinghe knew that it would be of no benefit to his body to eat so forcefully, but since he was the opponent of the Chen family, Xie Qinghe turned a blind eye to him.

While eating, King Yancheng asked Xie Qinghe how he slept, whether he liked the environment, and cared about his daily life.

Xie Qinghe wondered if he would go to the kitchen to steal some cooked mutton and feed his junior brother when he went out to find his junior brother in the middle of the night...

The food eaten in Yancheng Prince's Mansion is exclusively for the royal family, and it is different from the livestock meat that can be bought in the market.In the troubled times, the most difficult thing is that even if you spend money, you can't buy good things, and all the channels of order are chaotic.

After dinner, Xie Qinghe went for a walk with King Yancheng again. After walking two steps, King Yancheng was tired and came back to take a nap.

Xie Qinghe could only wait outside.

Yan Zuan came to play with him again, chat with him, ask him all kinds of innocent little questions, and pester him.

When Xie Qinghe traveled the rivers and lakes when he was young, he often met such cute little girls, and he was familiar with dealing with them, but he had to pretend to be "gradually bewitched by beauty tricks", which was against his will, and he was quite unwilling to act.

Fortunately, the king of Yancheng didn't sleep for a long time, so Zuan went to call him and said, "Eat dinner early, and you won't sleep well if you accumulate food at night."

Xie Qinghe had dinner with King Yancheng again. Before going to bed, King Yancheng also practiced a set of Wu Qin Xie, and Xie Qinghe just stood by and watched.Until King Yancheng fell asleep and Zan Zuan dragged Xie Qinghe back to his lodging, Xie Qinghe didn't hear any comments related to the court.

……that's all?asleep?

The image of King Yancheng in Chen Qi's mouth as a cunning and calculating man suddenly became a heartless and heartless iron fool in Xie Qinghe's eyes.