Chapter 96

Old Wu's kneeling stunned the mountain bandit captain and the "second stronghold king". In their hearts, this was a man who dared to rob even the cities of the Da Qian Dynasty, but now he knelt down just after seeing the other party once.

Jiang Jinshi had a smile on his face, but the coldness in his eyes was undoubtedly revealed, "Your guts are quite fat! You dared to use my name to swindle!"

These words fell into Old Wu's ears like the whispers of a ghost, his body began to tremble uncontrollably, and a few words trembled between his teeth.

"Jiang... Jiang... Big Boss, spare... one life!"

At this moment, the two finally realized that something was wrong. Jiang Jinshi's words undoubtedly revealed the truth of the matter, so the person kneeling was not the stronghold king of Yangguangzhai.

Then...

The young man standing in front of them now was the stronghold king of Yangguangzhai, Yangguang Old Ghost?!

But even if the facts were right in front of them, it was still hard to accept.

After all, the name Yangguang Old Ghost, no matter how you listen to it, doesn't sound like a name a young man could come up with.

So the two of them tacitly didn't speak, waiting to see the development of the next things.

Jiang Jinshi walked up, looked at Old Wu who kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, and said: "Tell me! What have you done?"

Old Wu heard this, first looked at Jiang Jinshi cautiously, then lowered his head and told the story.

It turned out that on that day, Old Wu was afraid of being involved in the struggle and dying, so he ran away with the scraped property.

He came all the way towards Qingcheng, without horses, he relied entirely on his feet to run, and even kept shuttling through the forest, which delayed a lot of time. Who would have thought that he would meet the Fengyunzhai people robbing the road here.

Old Wu was carrying a lot of money, and after being searched by these mountain bandits, he would definitely have nothing left. In a hurry, Old Wu lied that he was from Yangguangzhai.

At that time, the prestige of Yangguangzhai had just spread, and for a while, the people of Fengyunzhai had no idea, so they could only report to the stronghold king of Fengyunzhai, Nie Fengyun.

Nie Fengyun didn't dare to act rashly, so he could only invite Old Wu back to the stronghold and treat him with good wine and meat.

At first, Old Wu restrained himself, but after drinking some wine at the dinner table, he found that everyone was very complimentary to him, so he started bragging that he was actually the stronghold king of Yangguangzhai.

As soon as these words came out, Nie Fengyun was definitely skeptical, but at this moment Old Wu was completely drunk, constantly telling Nie Fengyun various details of his "robbing Jiangcheng", of course, it couldn't avoid some exaggerated components.

Nie Fengyun was fooled by Old Wu, but still didn't fully believe the other party.

The biggest doubt was, you said you were the stronghold king of Yangguangzhai, but as a stronghold king, you didn't even have a horse when you went out, and there was no one following you, which was completely contrary to common sense.

Who would have thought that this guy slapped the table instead, saying that it was contrary to common sense, he didn't want to expose his identity, now the government people were looking for him everywhere, he had to be cautious and cautious.

And the brothers of Yangguangzhai were hiding everywhere, and would gather again when the wind passed. As for the wealth robbed from Jiangcheng, Old Wu claimed that he hid it, and would go to dig it out for use when Yangguangzhai gathered again.

After this set of smooth small combos, Nie Fengyun completely dispelled the concerns in his heart. Moreover, he did admire the courage of Yangguangzhai. Since this was the case, why not take this opportunity to join Yangguangzhai?

Originally, this thought only flashed, but Nie Fengyun thought more and more that it was feasible. He knew very well that he didn't have the ability to lead the brothers.

Many brothers were hungry following him, and there wasn't even a place to sleep, and the income from robbing the road was not ideal. In order for the brothers to eat better, it was better to follow Yangguangzhai.

Thus, borrowing the wine, Nie Fengyun made this request to Old Wu, and Old Wu also drank too much and patted his chest to agree to this matter.

As a result, Old Wu regretted it so much that his intestines turned green when he woke up the next day. He was not a stronghold king at all. This matter would be exposed sooner or later. By then, would this stronghold of people let him go?

Of course they wouldn't let him go! Maybe he would be chopped into meat sauce for wine.

Thinking of this, Old Wu hurriedly knocked his head, hoping to think of a way to solve this crisis.

At this time, Nie Fengyun brought all the people in the stronghold, Old Wu drank too much but Nie Fengyun was always sober, and announced to the public at dawn that Fengyunzhai would join Yangguangzhai from now on.

So he brought the brothers to recognize the new stronghold king of the stronghold. Seeing this situation, Old Wu could only bite the bullet and continue to pretend to be the stronghold king of Yangguangzhai.

In order to appease the hearts of the people, he even specially sealed Nie Fengyun as the second stronghold king, and then began to draw cakes for a group of mountain bandits.

Things like waiting for our Yangguangzhai to gather again, everyone eating and drinking spicy food together, and even sending a wife to every mountain bandit.

Under such "sugar-coated shells", the whole stronghold became what it is today.

Nie Fengyun couldn't help it when he heard half of it. If Jiang Jinshi, the real master, wasn't beside him, he would have wanted to go up and swallow Old Wu alive.

Especially in front of outsiders, the fact that he was deceived was said out so clearly, Nie Fengyun only felt uncomfortable all over, sitting was not right, standing was not right, and the whole person appeared extremely awkward.

Understanding the whole process of the matter, Jiang Jinshi originally thought about taking Old Wu in to help him do things, after all, this person could be considered half a "talent".

But when he learned that he even abandoned his wife and children at home in order to run away, Jiang Jinshi gave up this idea.

Old Wu was still kowtowing and begging for mercy on the ground, and the next moment Wang Hou's short sword had already crossed his neck.

Wang Hou's sword was very accurate and fast, almost not letting him feel any pain.

Now there were only four people left in the room, Jiang Jinshi pondered for a while and said: "Stronghold King Nie, actually my purpose for coming here is not to kill this idiot, I have something to ask."

Nie Fengyun looked like a rough big man, but at this moment he appeared a bit restrained.

"Stronghold King of Yangguangzhai, just ask, as long as it's something I, Old Nie, know, I won't hide it from you."

Jiang Jinshi kicked Old Wu's corpse away with one foot, sat on the chair, and asked: "I heard that there is a poisonous salt mountain near Qingcheng, I don't know if the situation is true?"

"Indeed, we all call it Shixian Shan, it's a stone mountain without trees or grass."

As a local mountain bandit, Nie Fengyun naturally knew it. Although he didn't know what Jiang Jinshi's purpose for asking about that stone mountain was, he sensibly didn't ask more.

Jiang Jinshi's eyes lit up, "I wonder how far this Shixian Shan is?"

"Not far, you can see that mountain by climbing to the top of our mountain, about five miles." Nie Fengyun was about to get up to take Jiang Jinshi to see it while speaking.

"Then I'll trouble Stronghold King Nie to lead the way!" Seeing this, Jiang Jinshi didn't be polite and immediately got up to follow.

Without getting permission, although the mountain bandit captain wanted to follow the few people to see, he still stopped his steps.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, under Nie Fengyun's notification, Jiang Jinshi finally saw Shixian Shan.

"Stronghold King Nie, does this Shixian Shan... have an owner?"

"No owner."

"That belongs to the government!" Jiang Jinshi hoped so much that this mountain had been rewarded to someone else before, then it would be simpler for him to handle.

All under heaven is the King's land, since this Shixian Shan belonged to the jurisdiction of Qingcheng, he still had to think about it carefully.

The simplest way was to reach a cooperation with the County Magistrate of Qingcheng, even if he let out part of the profit, it didn't matter, just didn't know what the character of this County Magistrate of Qingcheng was.

Nie Fengyun thought for a long time and said: "Is Chief Jiang short of salt? That poisonous salt can't be eaten! If you are short of salt, I can think of a way for you here."

Jiang Jinshi laughed: "Not short of salt, just want to do some things."

Nie Fengyun didn't think he had been deceived into joining "Yangguangzhai", now he was really a member of Yangguangzhai, Jiang Jinshi naturally thought so too, so both of them tacitly didn't mention this matter.

At the same time in the capital, there was no prosperity of the capital at all, every household had their doors closed, the streets that were once full of people were now empty, and there was still uncongealed blood on the ground.

The palace gate was broken, and it could be seen from the number of corpses lying here how intense this war was.

Outside the hall, the eldest prince Wei Xikang was bathed in blood in gold armor, holding the Shangfang sword and shouting: "Second brother, you and I are brothers, do we really have to be like this?"

Hundreds of people surrounded Wei Xikang in the middle, these were all Dong Gong guards, completely Wei Xikang's confidants.

Below the hall, thousands of people drew their swords and waited quietly, the scene was cold and murderous.

A person slowly walked out from behind the crowd, it was the second prince Wei Xi Yuan.

"Brothers? Why are you the Crown Prince, and I can only look up to you!"

Saying this, Wei Xi Yuan's face was ferocious, and the resentment accumulated in the past burst out at this moment.

"Father hasn't even entered the Imperial Mausoleum, and you act like this, are you really so impatient?"

Wei Xikang looked at the obedient and sensible younger brother in the past in disbelief, as if this was the first time he knew him in so many years.

"Heh! After you leave, I will let you and Father sleep together! Everyone, go up."

Wei Xi Yuan was too lazy to talk more. Today was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it was a glimmer of hope created by sacrificing many people, he would never stop.

The Dong Gong guards were all ready, and one person analyzed the situation calmly.

"The Imperial Guards have defected, the City Patrol Guards and the Jinyiwei have died in battle! This official is not afraid of death, but you, the Crown Prince, cannot have any mistakes."

Wei Xikang shook his head: "I will not leave. First, Father's body is not cold, second, it is obvious that the second brother is being used by treacherous people. Even if he ascends the throne, he is just a puppet! For the sake of the common people in the world, I will fight to the death."

Everyone knew what Wei Xikang said. For so many years, Wei Xi Yuan had been under the eyes of the late Emperor, and it was unrealistic to want to do these small actions.

The number of Imperial Guards was also wrong, they should have suffered a lot of losses after a civil war.

So there must be someone behind this plotting everything. After thinking about it, Wei Xikang thought that the only person in the entire court who could do all this was one person.

Prime Minister of the Da Qian Dynasty, the leader of the Jiangnan scholar-gentry, Si Gui.

With the support of many scholar-gentry families, if he wanted to pave the way for Wei Xi Yuan, then the garrison support he had been waiting for would not come.

Thinking of this, Wei Xikang's heart sank, but for the sake of this peaceful world, he had to stop all this.

Seeing that the Crown Prince had made up his mind, several people among the Dong Gong guards looked at each other and nodded secretly.

"Crown Prince, offend me!" A person behind Wei Xikang said quietly, and then stretched out his palm and patted down hard.

Wei Xikang's eyes went dark, and he fell straight down.

A person hurriedly reached out to catch Wei Xikang, gently lifting the other party's body.

"Boss, what to do?"

Everyone's eyes were on this person. This person looked down at the Crown Prince and said decisively.

"Break out! Send the Crown Prince out of the city!"

"Yan Wu, take orders!"

A person walked out of the crowd and knelt on one knee: "Take orders!"

"Among us, your equestrian skills are the best, you take the Crown Prince, we will create an opportunity for you to break out."

"I..."

"This is an order!"

"Yes!"

Everyone turned to look at the approaching Imperial Guards, all with their heads held high and gripping the weapons in their hands tightly.

Yan Wu took off the robe behind him, tied Wei Xikang firmly behind him, and climbed onto the horse's back.

Then the Dong Gong guards all climbed onto the horse's back, completely blocking Yan Wu, making others unable to see the situation behind him.

"Everyone! Follow me... kill!!!"

Facing the gap of ten times the number of people, the Dong Gong guards dared to launch an attack first.

This charge was not for anything else, just to die in exchange for a way for the Crown Prince to survive.

Everyone understood what would be waiting for them, but still charged forward without any hesitation.

Seeing this scene, Wei Xi Yuan hurriedly hid behind the Imperial Guards, fearing that this group of madmen from the Dong Gong would rush towards him regardless of everything.

And Yan Wu, who was pinned with high hopes by everyone, rode his horse towards the back of the hall. In a trance, Yan Wu noticed the Imperial Seal on the table, grabbed it and put it into his bosom, and then left here without any pause.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone's attention was on the front, the defense in other places would definitely be weaker, and there was a chance to rush out.

Facing one hundred people against more than one thousand people, Yan Wu didn't think he could break out from there.

Although Yan Wu was a Dong Gong guard, he was still not familiar with the huge palace, and he found himself lost while walking.

Just when he was confused, an old man holding a whisk appeared at the corner, it was Bu Yunsuan!

Yan Wu was not unfamiliar with him. Although the two had never had any intersection in the past, Bu Yunsuan's reputation was too great.

"Follow me!" Bu Yunsuan dropped a sentence and led the way forward.

Yan Wu behind him struggled for a while, not knowing whether he should trust the other party, but finally chose to follow.

The two had no communication halfway, and Yan Wu even kept his hand on the handle of the knife at his waist.

Finally, Bu Yunsuan brought Yan Wu to a corner of the Cold Palace. Looking at the dilapidated houses and the overgrown courtyard, it seemed that no one had lived here for a long time.

Bu Yunsuan passed through the small courtyard and pushed open the door, heading towards a cabinet with a clear goal.

Moving the cabinet away, a hole in the ground that could accommodate two people appeared in front of his eyes.

"Go from here, keep crawling and you can leave the capital!" Bu Yunsuan said calmly.

Yan Wu was shocked. There was actually a hole in the palace that could lead directly out of the capital, and judging from the traces in all aspects, this tunnel seemed to have existed for a long time.

"Yan Wu thanks the Crown Prince!" Yan Wu bowed to Bu Yunsuan and carried the Crown Prince into the hole!

Now was not the time for pleasantries, and Yan Wu had no time to get to the bottom of it, so he could only choose to trust the other party.

After both of them crawled into it, Bu Yunsuan restored everything to its original state, and no traces could be seen at all.

"Looking forward to the day you return! Crown Prince!"