Chapter four hundred and twentieth not an enemy nor a friend
On a rainy day, the sky was covered with lead clouds like a thin layer of cotton wool, and the climate began to warm up.
In the imperial palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Chai Rong looked at the group of civil and military officials in front of him with a pale face. One night, there was no news from Zhao Kuangyin, and there was no news from his third brother Ling Tianyun. But what he got was
Bad news comes one after another. The guards at the inn station were all Khitan spies during the changing of the guard last night. Fortunately, there were no casualties in the inn, but several Khitan assassins were captured in the inn. An unknown place.
In the streets and alleys, dozens of Khitan assassins lay dead on the street. The scene was bloody and cruel.
Mr. Liao, the number one man in charge of the Jingzhao Mansion in the imperial capital, was frightened. The matter was so important that he had to go to the palace to face the emperor. And the new emperor who was sitting on the dragon throne was even more furious and directly ordered him to go to the palace.
The memorial on the desk was smashed down, and it was thrown at the ministers. The power of God is inviolable. When the emperor is angry, his bones are thousands of miles away. Although the newly ascended emperor did not kill the chicken for the monkeys to see, his anger was so strong.
The heavenly aura also makes people tremble with fear.
"Immediately pass on the decree to seal the imperial capital and delay the departure of envoys from various countries. Even if we dig three feet into the ground, we will find those Khitan spies. I don't believe that those Khitan spies can go to heaven and earth." Chai Rong roared, ignoring the trembling man.
The ministers directly issued the decree.
The rivers and lakes are all over the place, but this is related to the majesty of the country. The imperial edicts were passed down one after another. Suddenly, the imperial capital city was filled with a depressing atmosphere. Even the slow spring breeze could not drive away the cold and oppressive atmosphere shrouded in the imperial capital city.
.The whole city is on alert and all the people are in arms. This is the situation in the imperial capital at this time.
After the court meeting, Chai Rong returned to the Cide Hall. The news of the two people he cared about the most had not yet come, and he felt an uneasy feeling in his heart. The shadow-like eunuch behind him stood aside, with no expression on his face, just in his hands.
The whisk he held shook from time to time.
"Send out a few more shadow guards and be sure to find them. We also closely monitor the whereabouts of Wanyan Wudi and others. I don't believe it. What kind of trouble can you make in the imperial capital?" Chai Rong didn't look back.
A majestic aura came from him. He stared blankly at the memorials on the desk, and couldn't help but be lost in thought. The shadow-like eunuch behind him nodded slightly and moved quickly.
It melted into the black shadow and soon disappeared from the hall.
Ye Yinfeng didn't expect that he would sleep so soundly. If Li Xiaoyao hadn't woken him up, he might have continued to sleep. When he walked out of the simple house, he saw Ling Tianyun's eyes covered with bloodshot eyes, sitting alone.
On top of the big stone, the peerless swordsman in white clothes like snow stood meditating under a tree with his sword in his arms.
"I want to think about your story last night. You said it was the monk who fell into hell or the butcher who fell into hell. Why can't I figure it out? It's possible for anyone to go to hell, and it's also possible for anyone to ascend to heaven." Ling Tianyun saw it.
Ye Yinfeng, his first sentence was the story Ye Yinfeng told the bad monk last night.
"Is there any difference between who goes to heaven and who goes to hell? What matters is what you think. So what if the monk ascends to heaven, and what if the butcher goes to hell. In your heart, what is hell and what is heaven?
You know. Buddha said, if I don’t go to hell, who will go to hell? The monk is more likely to go to hell.”
Ye Yinfeng explained to Ling Tianyun that there is no profound philosophy in this, it is just that everyone's stance on the problem is different. And the heaven and hell in everyone's heart are different. Some people think that hell is heaven.
Some people think heaven is hell.
At this time, the energetic scholar walked out of the room. As soon as Ling Tianyun saw him walking out, he immediately greeted him, with an eager look in his red eyes. "Mr. Feng, I
How is the second brother doing now? Is he seriously injured? Is his life in danger?" He asked the other party urgently.
"Master Ling, please rest assured that General Zhao is fine, but the hidden weapon that injured him is really weird. Feng is so ignorant that he can't tell where the hidden weapon came from, and there is still a trace of gunpowder in General Zhao's wound.
, it looks like he came from the Tang Sect in Sichuan, but it doesn’t look like it. Hero Feng Lian Dao is carefully examining his wounds. Hero Feng is well-informed and should be able to find some clues from it."
When Ling Tianyun heard this, the stone in his heart finally fell. He had been worried about Zhao Kuangyin's injury, but after receiving Mr. Feng's affirmation, he breathed a long sigh of relief. As for Zhao Kuangyin's wound that almost killed him
, he has no clues at all, let alone any clues from it.
Li Xiaoyao seemed to have an inexplicable fear of this peerless swordsman in white as snow. After he woke up Ye Yinfeng, he rushed into the room where Zhao Kuangyin was and never came out. It seemed that he also wanted to escape from the red-faced man.
He could see something on the wound. He just pretended for a while and touched the back of his head, but he couldn't see anything at all.
Feng Lian Dao and Li Xiaoyao exited the room. He looked solemnly at Ling Tianyun and hesitated to speak. But Ling Tianyun knew that Zhao Kuangyin had escaped safely, and his mood improved. He gave Mr. Feng and others a hug and bowed.
Expressing thanks: "Junior, I would like to thank you all for your help."
"Xiao Yun doesn't need to see anyone, you should go see your sworn brother." Feng Lian Dao waved his hand and said to Ling Tianyun.
Ling Tianyun finally saw that Zhao Kuangyin had regained his steady breathing, and his frighteningly pale complexion began to improve, gradually regaining his red-red complexion.
"This is a hidden weapon made of gunpowder. It is very powerful. A certain family is not sure. This kind of hidden weapon should have never appeared in this world. But they don't know why this hidden weapon appeared in the imperial capital, and the other party did it.
General Zhao, if all this is done by the Khitan people, then the consequences will be very serious. Xiaoyun found General Zhao in the underground stone palace under the tower of the Taishi Mansion, then Taishi Feng must have serious suspicions. But the Taishi Mansion person
The building is empty, but I don’t know where Taishi Feng is. Everything that happened last night, apart from the Khitans, there should be a hidden force that conspired with the Khitans to cause so much trouble."
Feng Xiaogang analyzed all this, while everyone listened quietly. He gently shook his feather fan from time to time, and an elegant scholarly atmosphere emerged spontaneously, which was convincing.
"What's the purpose of the Khitan people? They wouldn't have done this without any purpose, right?" Ye Yinfeng asked Feng Xiaogang.
"Your Majesty must have already known everything that happened last night. With your Majesty's temperament, Long Yan will definitely be furious. Of course, it is mainly because of the disappearance of his two sworn brothers. Therefore, Your Majesty will definitely seal the imperial capital, that is, all countries
Even the envoys cannot leave the city, and for a period of time, the Khitans and the hidden forces can do a lot of things. The most important thing about sealing the city gate is that the people inside can't get out, and the people outside can't get out either.
As a result, the imperial capital city has become an isolated city invisibly. The ones coming from the Khitan are the masters among the masters, not only Wan Yan Wudi, who is known as the best master in the world, but also the two masters Xiao Yujing and Yelu Wuji."
"Don't the Khitans not care about their own safety? Aren't they also unable to escape?" Ling Tianyun said what he was thinking.
"Why do they want to escape? There are hundreds of thousands of households in this imperial capital, and they are extremely skilled. How can the ordinary imperial guards catch them? Wanyan Wudi has the ability to reach the sky and the earth, although he has the same ability as Feng Da
Xia has an agreement not to take action in the imperial capital, but if he wants to cover up the Khitan elite, it will not be easy. And the most worrying thing is that we don't know their next plan yet."
"Okay, everyone, don't be too pessimistic. Wanyan Wudi and I once had a proposal, which was to hold a great competition between the Han people and the Khitan people in the imperial capital. They must be planning this. As for the location and time, we
I don’t know at all. I only know that the two major competitions this time can only be between young geniuses under ten or below. If I guess correctly, the Khitans should compete between Yelu Zongheng and Wanyan Zhantian.”
Feng Lian Dao told what he knew. That time in the rainy boudoir in the Misty Rain Pavilion, Wanyan Wudi proposed such a fight. However, Feng Lian Dao did not agree at that time. He was dedicated to the Han Dynasty.
, even though he is the Sword Saint of the Central Plains, he still dare not agree rashly.
"What's the bet?" Ye Yinfeng's eyes flashed with a strange color. He didn't expect the Khitans to be so bold. At the same time, he looked at the younger, fat Taoist priest Li Xiaoyao. If
With Li Xiaoyao taking action, not to mention Yelu Zongheng, not even the two talented young men from the Khitan Kingdom could defeat him.
"There is no bet." Feng Liandao smiled bitterly. How could he not know what Ye Yinfeng was thinking? He continued: "Xiaoyaozi is not included."
When Li Xiaoyao heard this, he became furious and shouted: "Why, my Taoist master is younger than them, why can't I be allowed to participate?"
Feng Lian Dao smiled slightly and said: "You know, Wanyan Wudi is not unprepared this time. Moreover, the Khitan people are very well prepared. This time is just a tentative test, but they did it last night.
With so many things going on, there must be some conspiracy going on secretly."
"Self-consolidation and sealing will make it difficult for people to communicate. This plan was not thought up by the Khitans. There should be experts behind them making suggestions. If the imperial capital is sealed, then news from outside will not be able to reach the palace. And according to the
Feng knew that the Northern Han Dynasty had already sent Prime Minister Wang Dezhong to the Khitan. This time, he must have taken advantage of the fact that His Majesty had just ascended the throne and the foundation was not stable, and was about to invade. And the imperial capital was guarded, no matter how urgent it was.
No information can be transmitted in. Why does Wanyan Wudi want to perform the art of crossing the sky and sea in a big competition? It can be seen that there must be an expert among the enemy to help."
As soon as Ye Yinfeng heard Feng Xiaogang's words, for some reason, a young man in white clothes and snow-like clothes appeared in his mind. However, the young man in white clothes and snow-like clothes had a spring breeze-like smile.
, his whole body was filled with a warm and heart-warming temperament. He looked at Li Xiaoyao and found that Li Xiaoyao's expression changed. Unexpectedly, Li Xiaoyao also thought of the young man in white, Yan Longxing.
The feeling of being like an enemy but not an enemy, like a friend but not a friend suddenly flashed in Ye Yinfeng's mind. If Yan Longxing is the one who made plans with the Khitan people, then they will face a more mysterious and mysterious person.
A powerful opponent. The young man in white has always given him a feeling of being flawless. He is so perfect that he cannot find any faults. Is there such a perfect man in the world? His temperament and appearance are all among the best.