Chapter 409 The End of the Road

In this chaotic hustle and bustle, a storyteller in a teahouse in the capital stands out.

He still tells the story of the champion Hou Zongheng and Hehe.

Still using his language to describe the man who looked like a god of war.

Not affected by outside noise at all.

A guest asked him with a smile, if the champion was really as invincible as he said, why would he ignore these noises? Would a great hero let others throw dirty water at will?

The storyteller is just the Tao.

"Let's see, these words to the champion will be repaid one day."

These days, major events in the capital come one after another. Following the rebellion of Champion Hou, the emperor issued another order, and Wei Wuhou went to the frontier.

Not to mention the wars on the frontier, the barbarians were like those weeds, harvesting one crop, and waiting until the next spring, another crop would grow, and the sand would never be exhausted.

However, this transfer order from today's emperor is really weird. What kind of person is Wei Wuhou? The border war situation is not in a life-or-death situation. Why bother this Chushan?

What's even more strange is that Marquis Weiwu had no objection, accepted the order, and went to the border the next day.

The powerful people only felt that their eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog. The champions and the mighty princes had troubles one after another. They always felt that something far-reaching had happened somewhere that ordinary people could not see.

While they were still thinking about the whole story, another piece of shocking news came.

The prince rebelled.

However, compared to the champion, the prince's rebellion did not have such a great impact on people.

After all, the current prince has been in office for more than forty years.

A prince who has been around for more than forty years is really rare even if you look at history books. In fact, some people have already judged that the prince will definitely rebel. It is only a matter of time.

I just didn't expect that this day would come so late.

For being able to bear it until today, His Highness the Crown Prince must be suffering a lot in his heart.

As for the result of this rebellion, needless to say, it naturally ended with the annihilation of the entire army of the prince and his followers.

Although His Majesty is more and more taciturn as he gets older, and his actions are subject to criticism, and he may only be regarded as an unwise king, but at least he worked hard when he was young, and his high-spirited appearance is still before our eyes.

Even though he is old, his skills are still there. Not only has the emperor's mental skills of playing with balance not faded, but he has become more sophisticated as he grows older.

Sometimes this court is like playing chess. Whoever can't help it first or loses his composure first will lose.

This is a sentence the emperor repeatedly mentioned to the prince when he was young.

He originally thought he had forgotten.

After all, so many years have passed.

But now that he lives in the cold palace, without seeing anyone all day long, many things slowly come to his mind.

Including the teachings of my father.

The prince suddenly realized that he had never forgotten it from beginning to end.

It’s just, Father.

It was too late for Er Chen to remember.

After all, he couldn't survive the person on the cold throne.

The prince imprisoned the cold palace, and all his party members were beheaded. The market entrance continued to be lively for half a month. The people laughed and clapped their hands, and when the heads were rolling, they swarmed up, desperately grabbing the blood flowing on the ground, and using white blood Dip the steamed buns in. According to folklore, human blood steamed buns have magical effects and can cure all kinds of diseases.

But there are very few people who can take out steamed buns, and most of them are just steamed buns, or worse.

Before leaving, the officials overseeing the execution heard those people gathered around talking about another famine somewhere.

I heard that somewhere there was no rain in March.

He looked at the bustling surroundings.

He looked at the sun in the sky again.

He glanced at the Minghuang Palace wall without trace, and then immediately looked back the next moment.

How can there be a famine in this world?

But what can he do?

Thinking of the refugees eating Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger.

However, the emperor is still supplying his unrealistic dream of immortality with gold and silver treasures flowing from all directions.

He wanted to sigh, but for some reason, he burst into laughter.

How ridiculous.

How ridiculous.

The atmosphere in the capital is getting weirder and weirder.

News of natural and man-made disasters from all over the Great Zhou Dynasty are pouring in here.

And this is not a rumor about rootless water. Just go up to a high place and look far away, and you can see the crowds outside the city. They are all hungry people fleeing.

The earth dragon here turned over and buried an unknown number of people.

Floods over there are flooding, destroying fertile fields in countless ways.

In some cases, there was not a drop of rain in March, and the earth was roasted and cracked.

There were no traces of human beings among the refugees. They fell to the ground one by one, opening their mouths in vain, just waiting to die.

The grass roots and bark were all eaten.

Some people secretly circulated that the natural disasters and man-made disasters were related to the perverse behavior of today's emperor. His majesty's dead warriors were dispatched one after another, as if a big net enveloped the world, killing countless good people in a bloody storm.

But this quiet mouth in the world... If you want to block it, you can't just block it casually.

Obviously, today's emperor also knows that blocking is worse than sparing.

Gradually, new rumors began to spread.

The story is still the same. Because of someone, God sent punishment, which caused natural and man-made disasters to happen one after another.

But the protagonist of the story has changed.

From His Majesty the Emperor, he became the Champion Marquis.

In this way, the effect is immediate.

The emperor's reputation slowly improved, but the champion became a heinous devil.

Even in children's games, the most disliked person plays the role of the villainous champion, while the others are heroes who do justice for heaven.

It was possible to have such a miraculous effect because of the emperor's methods. On the other hand, the knights of the rivers and lakes also played a decisive role in it.

Even if there is no benefit at all from throwing dirt on the champion, they are still rushing to get involved.

The champion is almost like a mouse crossing the street.

This is probably what I was thinking today. With Lu Mingfei’s pride, he would definitely not be able to sit still after being slandered like this. As long as Lu Mingfei’s traces were exposed, as the most noble and noble person in the world, he would have many ways to deal with it. Drop each other.

But what is incomprehensible is that even after being slandered like this, Lu Mingfei could still bear it and hid himself well. He didn't know how many people he had spread out, but even Lu Mingfei's shadow could not be seen. Didn't catch it.

Champion... can you be so patient?

Everyone who learned about this couldn't help but look down upon Lu Mingfei.

But how can we find this person?

The emperor looked beyond the bright yellow palace wall to where Jianghu was.

Jianghuzhongren also has the usage of Jianghuzhongren.

Although they are disobedient and go their own way, as the saying goes, rats have their own way. It may not be possible to fight them on the battlefield like champions, but if you find someone in this world, the power in the hands of the emperor may not be as powerful as these knights.

So, a sealed letter was sent to the sects all over the world.

When the leader saw the fire paint on the letter, his pupils suddenly shrank. There was probably no more noble being in the world.

But why did this person write to them for no reason?

I opened the letter with mixed emotions.

Continue until they have finished reading it.

The solemn expression was gone.

There was even a bit more joy on his face.

"Champion Hou, Champion Hou."

"What a champion."

They gritted their teeth, as if they had already seen the death date of the man in the bronze mask.

There are a few sects that are different.

For example, Huansha School.

The leader received the letter, read it for a long time, and finally put it on a candle and burned it.

Facts have proved that the move of activating the people in the world is extremely correct.

The news about Champion Hou that had been cut off soon became available.

They found traces of Champion Hou and his party in the port city heading to Fuso.

It is said that this direction is one of the places that the imperial court pays close attention to, but before it was only possible to find it with the help of the imperial court's troops and the emperor's dead soldiers. After all, the focus of their training is to fight head-on, similar to the fact that they are looking for traces. It's not their specialty.

It was only after getting help from people in the world that we made a breakthrough.

…………

The door opened.

The person at the door is Sakurai Kogure.

Eriki smiled, and suddenly there were a few more kunai in her hand. Fortunately, Sakurai Kogure stopped her in time, and the tragedy was avoided.

From behind Sakurai Kogure, several men dressed as scholars walked out.

They saluted Eriyi respectfully, and the leader smiled bitterly.

"The sinner is free and childless, and he has seen the champion lady."

Xiaoyao Wuzi...

Eriyi was thoughtful and soon remembered.

"It's you!"

When my husband went to Pingjianghu and killed people in the Jianghu, he attracted a group of people known as the Xiaoyao Five Sons to sneak into the Champion Hou Mansion, intending to harm Eli Yi and threaten Lu Mingfei.

Fortunately, the champion prince's mansion was heavily guarded, and the five Xiaoyao sons escaped and Huiliyi was not in danger.

But this incident made Lu Mingfei angry. He was about to lead an army to destroy everyone in the Huansha sect. At the critical moment, it was a letter from Hui Liyi that persuaded Lu Mingfei.

Recalling this, Eryi felt strange in her heart.

Speaking of which, the five happy children had some issues with their husbands, so why did Sakurai Kogure bring them here?

Xiaoyao Wuzi also had complicated emotions in his heart.

They didn't expect that the person they considered a devil in the past, the person who was determined to do justice for heaven, would now meet in this capacity.

After gathering his emotions, the leader of the five asked.

"Has the Marquis ever been here?"

"He's not here, just tell me if you have anything.",

The five Xiaoyao children looked at each other, pondered for a moment and nodded slowly.

"That's fine."

Afterwards, he said.

"You need to leave as soon as possible."

"Someone has already discovered it."

Hui Liyi's complexion changed.

"The person who will kill you is on his way."

…………

On the border, there are large army camps.

Marquis Weiwu held the book of war as usual.

His own soldiers came to report.

"General, the food and grass have been robbed."

Marquis Weiwu responded lightly.

There was silence in the camp.

The soldiers are waiting for the next words from Marquis Weiwu.

Finally, he heard what the Marquis said.

"How many days will we have enough food and grass?"

"Barely enough for three days."

"Three days?"

Be quiet for a while.

"Use three days of food and grass for one day, so that the soldiers will be full."

"Send troops the day after tomorrow."

"But General..."

The Janissary almost blurted it out.

But after seeing the calm and calm Mr. Hou in the hall, he finally lowered his head.

He said with a trembling voice.

"As you command!"

The soldiers left to convey the military orders of Marquis Weiwu.

The camp was empty except for Marquis Weiwu.

He finally put down his military strategy.

Marquis Weiwu looked in the direction of the capital.

After a long time, I picked up a pen and wrote a letter.

"To Bai Xiaosheng, he knows where this letter is going to be sent."

"yes."

A man walked out of the darkness and knelt on one knee in front of the mighty prince.

He took the letter, but did not leave immediately like before.

"Master Hou."

"Since you have done so much for him, why don't you tell him?"

Rarely, there was a warm look on Marquis Weiwu's old-fashioned face.

"This."

he said.

"You'll know when you have kids."

The nature of what Marquis Weiwu said today seemed to be very high.

He didn't stop there, but continued.

"Raising children is also a skill."

"It's not mentioned in the sages' books, but in my opinion, the principles here are no less shallow than any other sages' books."

"It's really interesting to study slowly."

"In this way, when you come back, I will explain it to you."

The man also changed his tone to a relaxed tone.

"That's settled."

"After I deliver this letter, I will come back to you, Lord Marquis."

He changed the topic and said something.

"But, I do feel that there is someone who is more suitable to listen to your reasoning than me."

How quick-witted Marquis Weiwu was, he immediately realized who this person was referring to.

He smiled.

But he said something unprecedented.

"If I have the opportunity, I also hope to have a good talk with him about the truth behind this."

"There must be a chance, Lord Marquis."

"I hope so."

…………

The carriage was racing, and strangely, the driver was a woman in red.

An array of cavalry clung behind them.

If she was simply escaping, Eriki would definitely not wear such eye-catching clothes.

So his duty at this moment is not to escape.

Instead, it attracted the main force of pursuers and bought time for Lu Mingfei's transfer.

Let's go back to one day ago.

"Kill our people!"

"Exactly!"

Xiaoyao Wuzi came here specially to deliver the news.

After sending the message, they left.

But the Huansha Sect's help doesn't stop there.

They deployed a considerable amount of manpower to help the champion Hou Bu create a blindfold.

Eri Yi also asked curiously, wondering why the Huansha Sect acted like this.

"Act according to the orders of the leader."

This is their answer.

Eliyi thought of the leader who wanted to draw his sword and kill himself. This was something Lu Mingfei once told her. Eliyi was deeply impressed. It was rare to hear positive comments about people in the world from her husband.

Unexpectedly, at this desperate moment, he would be the one to step forward and lend a helping hand.

"On behalf of my husband, I would like to thank Gao Yi, the leader of your sect."

"Ma'am, you're being serious."

As soon as Xiaoyao Wuzi left, Eriki discussed it with Sakurai Kogure.

Nowadays, there are very few available manpower. The champion and the mighty have lost most of their strength when they broke through the capital. After all the calculations have been made, the most feasible plan is still...

"We'll split up. I'll go with you, and you'll take your husband with you."

Eriyi said to Sakurai Kogure.