Chapter 173: Going and Returning

Under the dense white mourning banner, before the coffin.

Chen Ji silently looked at the scattered silver money on the ground, and suddenly understood what Jin Zhu's true trump card in the Ya Guan gate path was. The most cautious and afraid of death, the person with the heaviest gambling nature, had chosen a cultivation gate path most suitable for himself.

Then... does Mr. Feng know that Jin Zhu is the Ya Guan gate path and has a substitute puppet?

He must know, the other side once exposed a flaw!

Just a few hours ago, Mr. Feng subconsciously said to him, "According to what I know, you and Jin Zhu have no friendship." This sentence was the flaw.

Earlier in Long Wang Village, Jin Zhu rushed day and night to save himself. In a normal person's view, it must be that Jin Zhu and himself have a deep friendship, so he would come to rescue him, but Mr. Feng did not think so.

Only those who know Jin Zhu's cultivation gate path will understand that Jin Zhu came to save people not because of friendship, but because he was betting on himself.

But why did Mr. Feng lie and say he planned to return to the Secret Spy Agency to seize Jin Zhu's zodiac position?

If the essence of a lie is to cover the truth, what does Mr. Feng want to cover by lying?

Chen Ji's eyes suddenly widened. Mr. Feng wants to cover his real identity!

At this time, Liu Shi Ye ran outward, shouting all the way: "Where are the Black Clothes Guards? Chase back that surnamed Feng! We must not let the Hu Jia Iron Cavalry fall into his hands!"

Several black-clothed people quietly emerged from the small alleys: "Liu Shi Ye, do not be impatient, we will go to chase."

In front of the Liu family mansion gate, Liu Shi Ye took out several carrier pigeons and gave them to the Black Clothes Guards, carefully instructing: "You all are not that surnamed Feng's opponents. Divide into seven routes to go to the Hu Jia camp to expose that surnamed Feng to Yang Deputy General. If Yang Deputy General does not believe it, then tell him to come to the Liu family mansion to ask the old master face to face! If this matter succeeds, immediately write a letter and let the pigeon bring it back!"

A Black Clothes Guard hesitated: "But Mr. Feng... the surnamed Feng holds the tiger tally. The Hu Jia camp only recognizes the military tally, not the person!"

Liu Shi Ye said in a deep voice: "We can only try it. Go quickly!"

"Yes!"

The Black Clothes Guards respectively put the pigeons into their bosoms, mounted horses, and rushed into the night.

Liu Shi Ye just so leaned on the door frame, anxiously waiting. Not yet to the time of one incense stick, a pigeon flapped its wings and flew back.

Liu Shi Ye was startled and immediately reached out to let the pigeon land on his wrist. An armored soldier reminded him: "Liu Shi Ye, the pigeon's feathers have blood."

"It's the Black Clothes Guard's blood," Liu Shi Ye's eyes were uncertain: "Someone outside is ambushing and killing the Black Clothes Guards I sent!"

The crowd looked up towards the gate outside. The pitch-black sky was like an abyss choosing people to eat, no matter how also it could not be filled.

Liu Shi Ye's face turned iron blue. He raised his voice: "Close the mansion gate, light the torches on the watchtower. Without my command, no one is allowed to open the door!"

Chen Ji and several armored soldiers pushed the heavy vermilion lacquer gate slowly closed. When the two doors closed in an instant, this Liu family mansion became a tightly defended fortress.

Liu Shi Ye suddenly turned back and walked towards the ancestral hall: "I'm going to find the old master!"

Chen Ji and other armored soldiers followed behind him through the long alley, only to see Liu Shi Ye came to the ancestral hall door and knelt down on both knees: "Old master, we have all been deceived by Feng Wen Zheng! Earlier I said that the generals of the Hu Jia Iron Cavalry have accidents one after another, it must be this surnamed Feng's secretly causing trouble. This person lies repeatedly, not a single true word in his mouth..."

At this moment, Chen Ji and Liu Shi Ye felt the same.

That Mr. Feng was like a swindler who was both righteous and evil, chaotic, powerful.

The other side freely wandered between the blades, playing everyone around. Chen Ji also could not distinguish which sentence of the other was true and which was a lie.

Liu Shi Ye continued: "Old master, at this time to recall other troops is already too late. The urgent matter is to send people to find General Zhou, order him to bring the Xiang Jia Camp to come for aid..."

In the ancestral hall, Old Liu Ge did not pay attention to Liu Shi Ye. He just with his back to everyone, slowly looked up at the spirit tablets on the shrine like mountains, and sighed long: "If Feng Wen Zheng really started to set up this bureau seven years ago, then it's all over..."

Liu Shi Ye suddenly looked towards the back of Old Liu Ge kneeling: "Old master, we cannot sit and wait for death!"

"Of course we cannot sit and wait for death, that is not dignified," Old Liu Ge stood up and smoothed the gray cloth robe on himself: "Beat the drum to open court, burn incense, draw the death lots, sacrifice the flag!"

At Mao time, the sky light slightly bright, the east side showed fish belly white.

In the deep walls of the Liu family mansion, heavy drum sounds rang up, beating faster and faster.

In the houses of the mansion, the Liu family clan relatives heard the drum sounds and rushed over.

Liu Shi Ye led the armored soldiers to push open the various doors of the mansion. Outside the mansion were stationed hundreds of black-clothed dead soldiers, who filed in from these doors, finally densely gathered in front of the ancestral hall, filling the open space and alleys in front of the ancestral hall.

No one spoke, only solemnly looking at the ancestral hall inside. Old Liu Ge took out the death lots that had been sealed under the offering table for a long time, sixteen bamboo lot containers filled with bamboo lots.

Old Liu Ge used his sleeve to wipe a lot container and slowly said: "I originally wanted to lead you all to rise up, but did not expect to be plotted against, brewing a big mistake. Today we open the ancestral hall. Those who draw the death lots will meet the enemy together with me. Those who do not draw will leave from the back door. At that time, someone will escort you quietly south, take a ship to sea to Java Island. I earlier ordered the eldest son to set up industries there, enough for you to live. Remember, never return to Ning Dynasty again."

Everyone thought Old Liu Gun's eldest son had already shaved his head and become a monk in Yuan Jue Temple in the capital, but they did not expect the Liu family had already used the trick of substituting Li for Tao, sending him to Java Island.

As Old Liu Ge said, what the great families seek originally should not be 'win', but 'not lose', so as to last long.

Liu Shi Ye pleaded: "Old master, why do you not leave? That fast ship can carry more than a hundred people! Big master has already stood firm in Java Island, you can rise again there!"

Old Liu Ge smiled: "If I do not die, that person in Ren Shou Palace will not sleep. I stay is to give him an account. Beat the drum!"

The drum beats became dense again. The wiped clean lot containers were passed among the crowd. Everyone silently drew their own. Some who drew the life lots wept with joy, some secretly exchanged the life lots with others; some who drew the death lots were silent, some unwilling ones wailed and fainted.

Old Liu Ge stood on the steps of the ancestral hall, full of vicissitudes.

After one incense stick, those who drew the life lots left the ancestral hall under the lead of several Black Clothes Guards, not knowing where to go. Those who drew the death lots wrapped their heads with white cloth, all in mourning clothes.

Liu Shi Ye suddenly said: "Old master, King Jing is still in our mansion. He must have also participated in the plotting! Liu family has this disaster, he has great merit!"

Old Liu Ge was silent for a long time: "Bring him here, use him to sacrifice the flag!"

Chen Ji's heart sank.

Liu Shi Ye turned to the black-clothed dead soldiers and said: "Go! Bring the prince, the heir, the princess here! Sacrifice the flag!"

Chen Ji looked at the more than ten black-clothed dead soldiers turn and leave. He had the intention to follow, but had no reason to follow.

Hesitating for a moment, he finally slowly moved his feet, wanting to secretly follow.

Liu Shi Ye turned his head to look at him: "Where are you going?"

Chen Ji said dully: "Shi Ye, I want to go to the toilet."

Liu Shi Ye suddenly sternly said: "What kind of person are you? Take off your face armor!"

But at this time, from the watchtower of the Liu family mansion suddenly came a scream, interrupting Liu Shi Ye's thoughts.

Hundreds of people turned back to look, only to see a meteor fly through the dim sky, piercing through the dead soldier on the watchtower.

When the meteor extinguished, the sky light darkened again, as if nothing had happened just now.

This darkness paused for a moment, and as if paused for a long time. The next moment, meteors suddenly burst like rain, splendid like a silver river flowing, piercing through all the dead soldiers on the more than ten watchtowers!

Immediately after, outside the Liu family mansion sounded heavy iron hoof sounds. That iron hoof sounds spread from the north to the east and west, surrounding this huge mansion that has stood for hundreds of years.

At this time, a dead soldier pierced through the abdomen lay on the watchtower, using his last strength shouted: "Jie Fan Guards have come! Qian Sui Army also came!"

Liu Shi Ye roared: "Where is the Hu Jia Iron Cavalry?"

That dead soldier had already lost his breath.

The Hu Jia Iron Cavalry that should have been blocking and defending on the road, do not know where Mr. Feng took them. The Qian Sui Army and Jie Fan Guards penetrated the Liu family defense line, directly came to their front.

Liu Shi Ye said fiercely: "Qian Sui Army? King Jing indeed participated in it! Old master, directly execute King Jing on the spot... wait, where is that armored soldier?"

Interrupted by the heavenly horse, Liu Shi Ye looked again at the position where Chen Ji was just now. Chen Ji had already disappeared.

At this time, Old Liu Ge lightly sighed: "Your Majesty, King Jing, the eunuch party together for my Liu family laid out for many years, losing is not unjust. Shi Ye, you lead people to block for a while, to give the clan members who drew the life lots some time."

Liu Shi Ye led people towards the gate direction to support: "Quickly go to the gate, block them, do not let them rush in!"

As the words fell, with a bang, the vermilion lacquer gate of the Liu family mansion was broken open from outside. The two gates slowly fell, raising dust in the air.

The black-clothed dead soldiers who just arrived at the gate stood together. They wanted to see through the dust who came, but could only see a vague figure slowly emerging in the dust.

After several breaths, a man in white clothes, wearing a white mask, stepped over the threshold. He right hand fanned the dust in front, smiling looked at the hundreds of dead soldiers crowded in the small alley: "Yo, so many people here?"

That white mask was painted with pale gold dragon patterns using gold inlay craft. In the Ning Dynasty and Jing Dynasty regulations, those who arbitrarily use dragon patterns are executed and their families confiscated, unless this dragon pattern object is personally granted by the emperor.

Liu Shi Ye suddenly as if facing a great enemy: "White Dragon?!"

White Dragon as if no one else, from his sleeve took out a token, slowly said: "The king's order flag is here, those who see it kneel and bow, as if facing the emperor himself."

Liu Shi Ye and the dead soldiers were expressionless, not moving. The white headbands on their foreheads...

White Dragon did not mind, he put the king's order flag back into his sleeve, smiling said: "Do not want to kneel then forget it, anyway all present are death penalty."

Liu Shi Ye coldly said: "White Dragon adult really thinks highly of my Liu family, actually came personally."

White Dragon haha laughed: "If I didn't come personally, I'm afraid it wouldn't be safe."

Liu Shi Ye's face was ferocious: "My Liu family will not surrender without a fight..."

Before the words fell, suddenly from above their heads came a voice: "I advise you not to move, or the first one to kill is you."

Liu Shi Ye looked up, only to see on the roof of the alley left side, Jiao Tu and Yun Yang were wearing a set of black outfits.

Jiao Tu sat on the high ridge corner, two legs dangling. Yun Yang stood beside her, hands crossed on the chest. The two smiled and overlooked the dead soldiers.

Liu Shi Ye was surprised and doubtful: "You... you two are not exiled to Ling Nan?!"

Jiao Tu played with the jade pendant on the collar, smiling said: "Ling Nan climate is humid and hot, poisonous insects many. We two walked halfway and didn't want to go."

From the other side also came a voice: "Liu Shi Ye, if you do not want to die, obediently put down the weapons in your hands."

Liu Shi Ye turned his head again. Jin Zhu and Meng Ji stood on the other side roof, clamping the hundreds of dead soldiers in the alley in the middle!

White Dragon, Tian Ma, Jin Zhu.

Meng Ji, Jiao Tu, Yun Yang.

Six zodiacs all arrived!

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