"How's it going?" Li Xingchen reached out to untie his belt and took off his eye-catching red clothes, revealing the black soft armor underneath. In this Jiankang Prefecture's Longtan Tiger's Den, Li Xingchen did not dare to relax at all. Although the soft armor was very heavy,
But my own life is more important than suffering this little bit.
And Li Ping walked over quickly and handed Li Xingchen's sword to him. Xu Deyan, who had been waiting beside him, said in a deep voice: "The prince and the king of Changsha led their ministers to see your majesty outside the palace gate. Among them was General Fan Yi of the left guard.
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"In other words, Fan Yi is already at the South Gate or other barracks, ready to take action at any time, even without His Majesty's consent?" Li Xingchen raised his eyebrows, the situation was worse than he imagined.
Obviously Shen Jungao and others were not naive enough to think that Li Xinchen would not notice anything, so even though Li Xinchen had not made any changes and completed every step of the wedding, they were still prepared for Li Xinchen to escape. Fan Yi
Not being outside the palace gate means that as long as Li Xingchen appears, Donggong will take action directly without mercy. As for whether His Majesty agrees at that time, or whether Donggong has persuaded His Majesty, it doesn't matter.
After convincing His Majesty, they had more legal basis, and even if they really couldn't convince His Majesty - based on Li Xingchen's understanding of Chen Xu, this possibility was almost impossible. Li Xingchen knew how much Chen Xu wanted to attack him.
——Then as long as they capture Li Xinchen, it's a done deal, and I'm afraid Chen Xu will turn a blind eye.
Of course, if Li Xingchen is let go, the consequences will be serious.
However, it was obvious that Shen Jungao, like Li Xinchen, was making a desperate move. He could not just watch Li Xinchen marry the princess, clap his hands and leave after obtaining the status of consort. You must know that Li Xinchen's status as the consort of the dynasty was even more noble than that of Shen Jungao, but
Real relatives of the emperor are different from Shen Jungao, who only has to go around the corner to get involved with the prince.
Therefore, Shen Jungao didn't know what would happen after Li Xingchen was given more room to display, so he had to take action at this time.
From this detail, Li Xingchen could feel Shen Jungao's determination, so he had to be even more careful.
Shen Jungao is a steady person, but a dog jumps over the wall when he is anxious, and a rabbit bites when he is anxious. The more such a person is, the more terrifying he is when he attacks someone.
That's why Li Xingchen was not in a good mood to directly conflict with Shen Jungao. In Shen Jungao's territory, it was better for him to leave quickly.
In addition to Li Xingchen, Li Pingping's personal guards are also fully armored. They may be the only force Li Xingchen can rely on from this mansion to the city gate. Although Yao Cha, Gu Yewang and others who are following him are also wearing armor.
They were armed with weapons, but Li Xingchen didn't have much confidence in the martial arts skills of civil servants like them.
In this era, many literati also practiced swordsmanship, but this custom was more for mutual entertainment during guest gatherings, and was not enough to cope with the bloody killings on the battlefield. Compared with Gu Yewang and Yao Cha, they had already experienced the flames of war.
Xu Deyan, who has been tempered, may perform better, and Li Xingchen is very pleased to be able to protect himself.
Li Xingchen's eyes swept over these people. Regardless of their identities and whether they had confidence or not, at least at this time, their eyes were firm when looking at Li Xingchen.
This is the path he chose. Li Xingchen also gave them time to regret and even allowed them to leave first, but in the end they all stood here.
If we want to live, let's all get out alive together; if we want to die, let's die together in Jiankang City.
Li Xingchen looked back at the carved pillars and painted buildings in the darkness, and took a deep breath. It seemed that he would not be able to enjoy this prosperous life in a short period of time. What really belonged to him and needed him was still the blood and fire on the front line.
"Let's go!" Li Xingchen walked straight forward.
Behind him, Xu Deyan held a torch in his hand. After hearing Li Xingchen's order, he threw the torch directly on the firewood and straw that had been piled up in the courtyard. In an instant, the fire ignited!
"Escape, escape!" the guards who had been prepared shouted at the same time, and under the command of Yao Cha, groups of servants borrowed from Xu Ling began to evacuate people from room to room.
In a confused state, Princess Ningyuan was escorted over by several maids.
"Take good care of your sister." Li Xingchen passed by Princess Ningyuan who was running over. A word flew out of his mouth and flew into Ningyuan's ears with the wind.
Princess Ningyuan paused in her steps, but when she turned back, where was Li Xingchen's figure at the corner? Although she had seen that the fire was controlled in the center of the courtyard, who knew whether the wind would spread to the surrounding houses.
So Ning Yuan didn't have time to chase Li Xingchen, so he rescued his sister first.
When Ning Yuan rushed into the courtyard that served as the wedding room in three steps and two steps at a time, he happened to see that figure that he was particularly familiar with.
The flames were bright and dim, licking the sky, making the faces of everyone who rushed over in a hurry turn red. Lechang stretched out his hand to make the maid who wanted to come up to support step back, and walked slowly to the burning fire.
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"Sister?!" Princess Ningyuan rushed over in a hurry.
At this time, sister, please don’t do anything stupid!
Lechang smiled at her, reached out to pick up a torch, turned around and threw it directly into the wedding room decorated with red gauze!
Ning Yuan's eyes widened immediately, and the flames instantly ignited the curtains in the room, and the fire began to burn without any obstruction this time!
"Sister, you..." Ning Yuan was a little surprised.
Lechang said calmly: "This is the only place I can help now."
Just behind her, the fire burned more and more fiercely, the flames swallowed up all the curtains and gauze, and set all the carved beams on fire!
With a "click", the beams of the house were burned, smashed down hard, and fell heavily to the ground. Sparks from the beams flew in all directions, and the sparks splashed onto the surrounding houses, and the fire immediately started burning again.
In the light of the fire, Lechang stood alone, silent.
They must have also seen the raging fire in the backyard. The guests who had already taken their seats in the front yard screamed in surprise. However, the servants and servants of the Xu family appeared at this time and guided them to leave through several exits.
Of course, no one would naively think that at this critical moment, the fire broke out for no reason, or simply because of a servant's mistake. There were so many people watching inside and outside the mansion, fearing that something would happen, but everyone
I knew it in my heart, and if it was really just a small accident, then why didn't Li Xinchen or Xu Deyan and other Li Xinchen's subordinates come forward at this time, even if they just showed up?
The last person to preside over the scene was Xu Ling.
The old man didn't seem surprised by this, and ordered everyone to leave as soon as possible, but it seemed that... Xu Ling had no intention of putting out the fire?