Ren Fang summoned more than 3,000 elite soldiers under his command, and Xiao Xiang had more than 1,000 escorts. Together, the two sides totaled nearly 5,000 people. They took advantage of the darkness and quietly rushed straight to Jin Liren's official residence.
There was no talk on the way. When they arrived outside Jin's Mansion, five thousand soldiers and horses quickly dispersed and surrounded Jin's Mansion tightly. Then, several burly men rushed out of the army and worked together to carry the two men.
There were wooden piles wrapped in iron sheets. People shouted in unison and slammed towards the gate of Jin Mansion.
Boom! With a deafening bang, the door of Jin Mansion shattered, and the soldiers outside swarmed in.
The servants and nursing staff of the Jin Mansion had not figured out what was going on. They were stunned when they saw so many officers and soldiers suddenly rushing in.
The generals among the soldiers shouted repeatedly: "We are here to arrest the criminal Jin Liren on the orders of the fifth princess. The rest of the people are waiting to retreat quickly. Anyone who obstructs them will be killed without mercy!"
Hearing that the soldiers were sent by the fifth princess Xiao Xiang, the servants and nursing staff were even more panicked. They dared not step forward to stop them. All of them turned pale and backed away in fear.
There was almost no fighting, and the soldiers under Ren Fang took control of the entire Jin Mansion.
When Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang walked into the Jin Mansion surrounded by many guards, a general immediately ran forward, stepped in to salute, and said seriously: "Your Royal Highness, General, we have now taken control of the Jin Mansion, and Jin Liren is here."
In the bedroom, but..."
"But what?" Ren Fang kept walking and asked as he walked inside.
"However, Jin Liren's wife and children are not in the palace." The general whispered.
"Well?" Ren Fang raised his eyebrows and was about to ask a question when Xiao Xiang sneered and said, "He must have been worried that his wife and children would be implicated if the matter was revealed, so he hid his wife and children first."
The general raised his hands and said, "What Her Royal Highness the Princess said is absolutely true!"
Ren Fang nodded, did not ask any more questions, and followed Xiao Xiang straight to Jin Liren's bedroom. At this time, Jin Liren's bedroom was surrounded by hundreds of soldiers. The door was wide open and the lights were brightly lit inside.
Bright as day.
Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang walked to the door and looked up. They saw Jin Liren wearing a military uniform, a silver helmet on his head, and silver armor with a white lining on the inside, a white cloak on the outside, and a white cloak around his waist.
A long sword was slung across his body.
He turned his back to the door and faced the mural on the wall, kneeling on the ground. After looking at Jin Liren's back, seeing that he seemed to have no intention of resisting, Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang planned to walk into the room.
Just as they were about to cross the threshold, Jin Liren, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly said: "Don't come in."
Hearing his words, she thought there was a scam in the room, so Xiao Xiang's guards pulled her back. Ren Fang stood there without moving, looked at Jin Liren, sighed quietly, cupped his hands and said, "General Jin, it's been a long time."
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Jin Liren just chuckled and said nothing. Ren Fang took a deep breath and said, "I have never understood. There is no quarrel or enmity between General Jin and I. Why would General Jin do this?"
Without answering his question, Jin Liren seemed to be talking to himself: "I knew you would come, but I didn't expect you would come so quickly."
"General Jin, you haven't answered my question yet!" Ren Fang's face turned cold and he shouted sternly.
"That's right, I have no grievances with the General. It's just that people often do things they can't help themselves." Jin Liren smiled bitterly.
"General Jin said that someone ordered you to do this. Who is that person?" Ren Fang asked in a serious voice.
Jin Liren suddenly moved. He put down his hand, slowly took off the sword from his waist, placed it across his knees, then grasped the hilt and slowly pulled out the long sword.
"General, be careful!" The surrounding soldiers saw it clearly and hurriedly gathered around Ren Fang, trying to pull Ren Fang away. However, Ren Fang waved his hands to everyone around him, indicating that they didn't need to worry, and they all retreated first.
I saw Jin Liren raising his long sword, raising his head, looking at it carefully, and murmuring: "This sword was given by the late king. Anyone who dies under this sword can be considered a worthy death!" As he spoke, he suddenly stood up and stood up.
Get up, and at the same time, turn back.
Seeing the crowds of soldiers outside, as well as Xiao Xiang in the crowd and Ren Fang standing in front of the door, he threw his head up and laughed without warning.
Ren Fang gritted his teeth and asked again: "General Jin, let me ask you again, who instigated you to do this?"
Jin Liren's laughter became even louder. After a long while, he stopped laughing, looked Ren Fang in the eyes, and said slowly: "Don't General Ren already have the answer in his heart? Why bother asking more?"
"Really the eldest son?!" Ren Fang frowned and clenched his fists. He asked, "Jin Liren, where is my family now?"
"In the palace." Jin Liren blinked and said nonchalantly: "In a dry well in the palace, if you had rushed there in time, they might still be alive and not be drunk to death or starve to death. Or maybe it's too late now."
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As he spoke, he lowered his head and thought seriously.
Hearing this, Ren Fang's eyes turned red, he scratched his hands and rubbed his intestines, and his whole heart shrank into a ball. His family was actually hidden in a dry well by him, and after so many days, did he send food and drink?
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He leaned forward subconsciously, blood dripping from his clenched fists, and shouted angrily: "Which dry well are you talking about?"
"A dry well is a dry well..." Jin Liren looked down at the shining long sword in his hand, then raised his head and looked at Xiao Xiang behind Ren Fang. He took a deep breath and said loudly: "Even if the general is worthy of death,
Please also ask Your Highness the Princess to spare the general's wife and children. The general will thank you here!" As he spoke, he suddenly raised the sword in his hand and placed it across his neck. He looked up to the sky and sighed: "Your Majesty, the general will be with you.
Let’s get together…”
Before he finished speaking, the sword in his hand had already been wiped down hard.
"Wait a minute..." Ren Fang wanted to stop him, but it was too late. With a muffled sound, the sharp sword blade tore Jin Liren's neck apart. Because he used too much force, even the muscles in his neck were damaged.
They were all cut off together, and blood immediately poured out. Clang! The long sword fell to the ground. Plop! Jin Liren's body also fell straight on its back.
"Jin Liren!" When Ren Fang rushed into the palace, all he saw was a twitching corpse. Oops! Ren Fang was so anxious that he stamped his feet. The palace was so big and there were so many dry wells. How could he find it in a short time?
Get the dry well where your family is hidden?
At this time, Xiao Xiang also walked into the room, first looked at the corpse on the ground with complicated eyes, then turned to look at Ren Fang, and said seriously: "General Ren, don't worry, I will take you into the palace right now to rescue you."
your family!"
"Thank you princess!" Ren Fang repeatedly handed over.
At this time, General Youhu stepped forward and intervened, asking: "Your Highness, do you still want to trace the whereabouts of Jin Liren's wife and children?"
Xiao Xiang looked down at the body again, sighed, shook his head and said, "Forget it, since the guilty minister Jin Liren is dead, just... let his family go!"
"Yes! Your Highness Princess!" The guard general responded, bowed and retreated.
Ren Fang still agreed with Xiao Xiang's decision. Jin Liren committed a heinous crime, but that did not mean that his family members were also guilty. Now that Jin Liren committed suicide out of fear of his crime, there was no need to kill his family members as well.
Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang left some soldiers to investigate the Jin Mansion, and they led the rest of the soldiers to the palace in a hurry.
Even if they had urgent matters, ordinary soldiers could not enter the palace. Ren Fang's subordinates were all left outside the palace, while Xiao Xiang entered the palace with her guards.
After entering the palace, Xiao Xiang found Guan Ning, the doctor in charge, and asked him to mobilize the palace guards to help search the dry wells in the palace.
This time, my lieutenant committed such a big case and hid the hostages in the palace, but he was completely unaware from the beginning to the end. Speaking of which, he is also directly responsible for this matter, and now he is asked to assist.
Guan Ning dared to neglect the investigation, as if the kidnapped people were his parents, he was busy and ordered the palace guards to search the entire palace.
With the cooperation of a large number of palace guards, the work became twice the result with half the effort. In less than half an hour, the palace guards found Ren Fang's family in a dry well near Leng Palace.
When Ren Fang's family members were carried out of the well one by one by the guards, Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang also arrived after hearing the news. They saw Ren Fang's parents, wife and children crawling out of the coal pile one by one.
They were black all the way down to their feet, their faces and bodies were covered with black mud, and there was a faint stench that looked like humans but not humans, not ghosts but not ghosts. The only thing worth noting was that they were all alive.
Seeing that all his family members were still alive, Ren Fang's heart that had been in his throat for the past few days finally fell back into his stomach. Now he couldn't care less about whether it was dirty or not. He rushed forward, bowed his head and cried with his family members.
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Next, Xiao Xiang specially asked people to arrange rooms in the palace, prepare meals and refreshments, and even the medical officer was brought in to temporarily settle Ren Fang's family in the palace.
With his family members safe and sound, Ren Fang's tense nerves finally relaxed, and his face naturally became full of fatigue.
He has been running around like a robot these days and has barely had a good night's sleep. Even an iron man can't bear it, let alone he is still made of flesh and blood.
But now he still has no time to rest or spend more time with his family. He has more important things to do next, which is to besiege the eldest son's mansion.
Up to now, we have already broken up with the eldest young master. If we can't win over the eldest young master today, neither he nor Xiao Xiang will have a good life in the future. As Xiao Xiang said, the time has come now that either the enemy will die or we will die.
the point.
On the way out of the palace, Ren Fang thanked Xiao Xiang repeatedly. It can be said that without Xiao Xiang's help this time, he would not have been able to find his family at all. Even if he was lucky enough to find it in the future, he would only find a pile of dry