Lu Tianci burst into tears of pain. Half of his cheeks were swollen. He covered his face and shouted, "Don't hit, don't hit. You'll kill someone, you'll kill someone."
Ma Bin raised his hands and struck again. Lu Tianci held his head with both hands and yelled repeatedly. Lin Jue waved his hands and said: "Brother Ma, don't hit him. He is right. We were still counting on him to take us out of the city. He broke it."
Him, that's not good. Lu Zhongtian will never rest. This is his precious son."
Ma Bin withdrew his hand and spat in Lu Tianci's face: "You are so shrewd and insidious, with so many tricks. I even doubt whether you are Lu Zhongtian's son. You are just a pustule."
"Yes, yes, please don't hit me." Lu Tianci, a good man, refused to suffer the immediate disadvantage. He even claimed that he was. I don't know whether he was acknowledging that he was not Lu Zhongtian's son or that he was a pustule.
At the bottom of the city, Lu Zhongtian arrived with his people and shouted loudly from the bottom of the city: "Lin Jue, if you dare to hurt a hair of my son's God-given son, I will fight you until death."
Lin Jue and others walked to the battlements, and Lu Zhongtian shouted loudly: "Tianci, what are you doing?"
Lu Tianci wanted to cry, but when he saw Ma Bin's fierce eyes, he reached out and touched his swollen cheek and replied: "Dad, I'm fine. But I'm fine just now. I won't know for sure later. Daddy quickly opened the city gate to let me go."
Leave them or they will kill me."
No need for Lu Tianci to tell him, Lu Zhongtian also knew the purpose of Lin Jue and others to kidnap Lu Tianci. He shouted loudly: "My son, don't be afraid. Daddy will save you. Lin Jue, please don't hurt my son's life. Everything can be discussed easily."
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Lin Jue laughed and said: "Lv Zhongtian, I like to hear this. We are all on the scene. What's the point of fighting and killing endlessly? If you hadn't killed them all, I wouldn't have embarrassed you. You just took our place.
The message has been sent, as long as you open the city gate and let us go, I will let the son go. The son is a talented person, and he is the only one of your Lu family. I don’t want you, Prime Minister Lu, to be the heir. If everyone doesn’t do things right, you
What do you think?"
Lu Zhongtian nodded and said: "There is no problem at all. I will let you go. If you let my son go, I will just open the city gate."
Lin Jue chuckled and said, "I'm not a three-year-old child."
Lu Zhongtian said: "I swear to God."
Lin Jue waved his hand and said: "Lv Zhongtian, if the oath was useful, it would not be what it is today. Haven't you also sworn allegiance to the emperor countless times? But so what? We are all smart people, why bother playing with these lies. You open the city gate and we will leave the city.
.We will release the son after we are safe, it’s that simple.”
Lu Zhongtian sneered: "How do I know you won't regret it? If you don't believe me, why should I believe you?"
Lin Jue said: "With these 100,000 forbidden troops, how can I go back on my word? If I kill your son, you will fight with me to the death, and we won't be able to escape. Why should I bother to do this? If you want to seek death, I will kill your son now."
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Lu Zhongtian pondered for a moment and said: "This is the truth, but I am always worried about my son following you. If you run away to the ends of the world, the court will arrest you. Do you want to hold my son captive for the rest of his life? We have to have a range.
.In this way, you will let them go five miles outside the city. If you don’t let them go, I will fight with you to death. At worst, I will tear you all into pieces even if you don’t give me your life."
Lu Tianci was startled and screamed: "Dad! What are you talking about? Why don't you want my life? Daddy doesn't care about Tianci's life? Daddy, how can you do this? Are you old and confused?"
Lu Tianci shouted angrily: "Shut up! Shut up! Daddy is saving you, what are you talking about?"
Lin Jue laughed loudly and said: "Five miles out of the city? Does that count as out of the city? As I said before, everyone is smart and there is no need to play tricks. In this way, I will release people after they leave the territory of Kaifeng Mansion. Before that, the Imperial Army
Soldiers and horses are not allowed to come within ten miles of us. Once we have crossed the border of Kaifeng Prefecture, we will let them go, and you can also lead troops to pursue us. We will each rely on our abilities and fight again. What do you think?"
Lu Zhongtian stroked his beard for a long time, then nodded and said: "Okay, I'll follow you. Once we get out of Kaifeng Mansion, you let me go, and then we'll write it off. You can't control what I do. It's your ability to escape."
Lin Jue nodded and said: "Then, let's open the city gate. By the way, I also need twenty carts. I have injured a lot of people here and have to take them away. This should be no problem."
Lu Zhongtian was overjoyed and nodded in agreement. He thought: If you carry the wounded forward, you are asking for death. As soon as God gave you safety, I immediately turned against you. It takes less than half an hour for a horse to travel ten miles. And you are old, weak, sick and disabled.
, where can I run?
"A gentleman's word, a whip of horse. That's settled. I will order people to open the city gate and let you leave. I hope you can abide by the agreement and don't make a mess." Lu Zhongtian raised his right hand and spread his fingers.
At the top of the city, Lin Jue understood what he meant, stretched out his hand and struck in the air, and the agreement was concluded.
Lu Zhongtian said no more, turned around on his horse and returned to the formation. He immediately ordered the city gate to be opened to make way for the passage, and all the soldiers and horses exited the martial arts hall one after another.
For Lu Zhongtian, making such a decision was actually not a struggle. The matter was done and everything was settled. It was just that he was too negligent and was taken advantage of by Lin Jue and others. He was forced to agree to let them leave the city. But for Lu Zhongtian
To me, it was just a jade with a slight flaw, so I didn’t feel particularly depressed. Lin Jue, Guo Bing and others could not escape from his grasp after all, because they had no place to stand in the entire Zhou Dynasty. No matter where they fled to
He could capture and hang them at any time. Secondly, when the matter was decided, Lu Zhongtian would never spare his son's life. Therefore, Lu Zhongtian only had some annoyance in his heart, but no regrets.
As expected, twenty carts came over. Lin Jue and the others did not leave in a hurry. Instead, they carried the bodies of the fallen palace guards and others to the open space in the middle of the fortress. More than 500 corpses were piled into several towers.
After setting up firewood on the hill, Lin Jue personally threw the torch up. It was a huge regret not to be able to bury them grandly. The corpses left behind might be insulted by Yang Jun and others, so Lin Jue had no choice but to choose to burn them for burial. In Chongtian
Amid the fire and the strong and pungent smell, Lin Jue ordered the injured to get on the cart, the others to mount their horses, and a team of five to six hundred people came out from the west gate of the fortress.
All Custodes soldiers pushed to
They walked on the street outside the courtyard. They looked at the team covered in blood and scarred, and they didn't know how they felt. The strong and unyielding were admired by some. Respect rose in many people's hearts, and they even wanted to
They were a member of that treacherous team, not their enemies. They had seen the fighting prowess of these people, and they did not despise or ridicule them at all.
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When the team passed through the long dark city gate, climbed onto the suspension bridge and stepped onto the solid land outside the capital, dawn broke in the east and the stars disappeared. A blood-red glow appeared at the junction of heaven and earth. This heralded the beginning of the future.
This long and cruel night of blood and fire finally came to an end. Too many things happened and too many battles were experienced in this night. Although they paid a huge price, at this moment, Lin Jue and his party finally broke out of more than 100,000 forbidden troops.
The siege of the city finally broke free from the layers of streets in the capital, finally broke through the tall cages of the inner and outer cities, and stood in the vast world.
The road ahead is obviously not a broad road. They don't know how many battles are waiting for them, and they don't know how many difficulties are waiting for them. Those are not important. What is important is that after experiencing this long night, many people understand something.
Everything, I have learned something. In such training, people will mature and grow rapidly. In the same glow, the blood-stained faces are not filled with joy but with a sense of calmness.
and quiet.
For Lin Jue, he lost everything he had fought for before, but he also gained more. There may be regrets and regrets, and there may be loss and pain. However, Lin Jue firmly believes that some are the best choices.
.Within the scope of ability, among all the possibilities that can be operated, one should make no mistakes in choice.
Of course, what makes Lin Jue feel confused is that the fate of the Lin family and Prince Liang's palace ended in destruction in the previous life, and although he tried his best to prevent such a thing from happening in this life, he still ended up in the current situation. The difference is that the Lin family
Up and down, everyone in Prince Liang's mansion is still alive. But they are no longer living as they did before, and will live in a different way in the future. God will not allow anyone to change his trajectory, so he chose to let
The fact that the Lin family and Prince Liang's family have embarked on such a return journey can be regarded as a kind of destruction. According to the rules of heaven, perhaps the definition of destruction is not only the confiscation of families and the annihilation of clans, but the destruction of political life is also a different kind of destruction.
When the carriage and horse were leaving Li Xu, Lin Juece immediately climbed onto a hillside and looked back behind him at Bianliang, the capital city of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Bianliang City still stood tall and majestic, and a gray but huge atmosphere shrouded the entire city.
Bianliang City, a great city, has witnessed many rises and falls, and has remembered many laughter and tears. Everyone who has lived here will inevitably have mixed emotions that are difficult to describe when leaving its embrace.
"Farewell, Bianliang City! I...will come back." Lin Jue whispered to himself.
When a red sun burst out in the east, Lin Jue had already galloped away, leaving Bianliang City with a straight back.
(End of Volume 8. Please read Volume 9: Looking back at the bleak place)
