Chapter 158 – The Peaceful Villa

Looking at the corpse of the Empress on the ground, looking at the puddle of blood and flesh, all of them were too horrified to speak. Ye Chong whispered a few words about something, twisted his horse’s head, and started to chase towards the city gates. On the one hand, the living forces of the Qin family are still very strong, he must seize the opportunity to liaise with the soldiers and horses in all directions, and make sure to strike to the end, and on the other hand, the Empress died in front of him, for the sake of his own safety, it’s still better to hide as far away as possible, and it’s better to leave the matter of the royal family to the Great Hall and Tanya Duke to deal with it.

Empress of the fall of the city suicide, out of many people’s expectations, although the Prince defeated, the Queen is facing the end of the surely not good to go, but who did not expect, the appearance of gentle, inside is difficult to use the Empress, in the last moments of her life, but also gave birth to such a courage.

At that time, the fight above the imperial city was not over, the rebels of the Qin family were still resisting, Fan Xian and the close subordinates of the great prince were concerned about the safety of the empress dowager and those ministers, and did not ignore the empress’s presence, but just did not have the extra spirit to guard against the poignancy of that vertical leap.

The Empress just jumped down, and died in front of more than ten thousand people, this scene scene, how shocking.

The second prince looked at the queen’s body like a fool, suddenly from the tip of the toes to the top of the head began to tremble, his body was shrouded in coldness, constantly shivering, do not know what kind of end he is facing, subconsciously looked up to confirm the safety of his mother, Shuji Fei, before going limp on the ground.

Beside him, there were Dingzhou generals who helped him up, respectfully and vigilantly surrounding him in the center, fearing that something would go wrong with him. The second prince’s face was expressionless, but his eyes were a bit lax, thinking in his heart that it had come to this, if people wanted to take their own death, who could stop them?

The Qin family’s army had already retreated, the Dingzhou army was chasing after them non-stop, and Kyoto was filled with the sound of killing. In particular, the group of rebels that the Dragon Flag was part of was moving at a surprisingly fast speed, passing through the long streets, passing through the Zheng Yang Gate that Zhang De Qing personally guarded, and Mercedes-Benz heading out of Kyoto.

Zhang Deqing looked at the scene in front of him as if he were dead, and he did not know what kind of flavor was in his heart. Loyalty is something that needs to be upheld for a lifetime, even if it is only shaken at the last moment, the loyalty of the first half of his life will become a pad for treachery. He knew that he had no chance of turning the tables, nor did he have much courage to rely on the three thousand officers and soldiers of the City Gate Department and the nine city gates to help the Qin family slow down the Dingzhou army.

The city gates could only protect against those outside the city, how could they protect against the fall of the inner circle? Zhang Deqing sadly let out a long sigh, took one last look at the zhengyang gate that seemed to be glittering with golden light under the blazing sunlight, led his own soldiers, followed the dragon flag, followed the rebel army, and started to flee.

Zhengyang Gate has not even had time to close, Gong Dian led Dingzhou army has already killed over, transformed into a yellow dragon, chased out.

The Crown Prince, who had fled at this point, used the dragon flag as a blindfold, but was himself being escorted by the few remaining generals of the Qin family, and arrived under the Donghua Gate. With both Elder Qin and Qin Heng dead, the rebel army was leaderless at this point. Fortunately, those few family generals who were sent by Master Qin to protect the Crown Prince were still alive, and they came up with this escape method at such a critical moment, intending to go north out of the capital and meet up with the northern conquest battalion at Cangzhou.

However, the Prince’s heart has long been a gloomy, since the capital has ambush, Yan Da Dudu may have died, he can escape to where? At this time he does not know the mother has fallen to the city of the news of death, took a deep breath, a few moments after forcing some spirit, thinking that if the father really died, his aunt in the help of the aunt, may not see not be able to rise again.

After all, he is the crown prince, the world surnamed Li rather than surnamed Fan, Fan Xian even if the control of the Kyoto, also do not necessarily be able to control the world.

However, it was very difficult to raise the thread of wariness, but by the two tightly closed gates in front of the huge city, all of a sudden slapped into smithereens. The Crown Prince and all the generals looked at the arrows on the stone stairs on both sides of the Donghua Gate, and at the white-clothed official next to the general, their hearts and minds were tightened.

The Crown Prince recognized that white-clothed official and knew that the other party was the third person of the Supervisory Court, Yan Bingyun, who was highly appreciated by his father. However, he had already received news that this person had already been taken down by his aunt’s leader when she was convincing Zhang Deqing, and had been saved by someone arduous …… How did he arrive here?

“Crown Prince, please stay.”

There were still blood stains left on Yan Bingyun’s white clothes from the early morning extermination, and he coughed twice with a grave expression.

The man in black who saved his life in the early morning hours had disappeared without a trace after putting him in a safe place, and he didn’t know where he had gone. Regarding the events of this half-day in Kyoto, Yan Bingyun was unable to personally participate, but he still nervously watched it all through one of the remaining channels. When there was a disturbance in the square, he had already arrived at Donghua Gate ahead of time.

No government office was an ironclad one. Even though Zhang Deqing had been the commander of the City Gate Department for twenty years, it was impossible for him to order all of his subordinates to be on the same page with him in today’s situation, especially at this time when the rebels had been defeated.

Yan Bingyun knew that he was taking a risk, however, he liked the feeling of taking a risk, and he felt that he had to make up for something after making a big mistake, and do something on behalf of Little Lord Fan.

Luckily, this time, he succeeded, and the City Gate Department managed to block the Crown Prince under the Donghua Gate. His Majesty’s ultra-tight control over the City Gate Department had caused the Commander of the Donghua Gate to firmly stand by Fan Xian’s side-or, rather, by his own glory and wealth-after knowing the specifics of the situation-if the Crown Prince had been allowed to lead his troops out of Kyoto on this occasion, and had contacted the soldiers in the four fields, who knows what the future of the world would be like for the Crown Prince? If the Crown Prince is allowed to escape from Kyoto with his troops and contact the soldiers in the four fields, who knows how the world will change in the future?

The rebels, who were bent on breaking out of the city, did not give Yan Bingyun much time to negotiate, and the generals of the Qin family began to prepare for battle without consulting the Crown Prince. Hearing only one military order, the rebels bravely killed towards the Donghua Gate, with arrows flying from both sides, killing and injuring people.

However, not long after the battle started, the Crown Prince’s face turned white as he heard the rumbling like thunder coming from behind him. It was the cavalry brigade of the Dingzhou Army!

A party of flags were being blown by the wind in the streets of Kyoto, closing in on Donghua Gate oddly fast, with a large Ye character written on the flag.

Ye Chong personally led his troops, and was somewhat surprised to find that the Donghua Gate had already been closed, and the large force of rebels that the Crown Prince was part of was blocked in front of this side of the not-so-broad city gate, densely occupying half of the street.

He took a deep breath, knowing that the Donghua Gate could not be defended for long, and with a lift of his right arm, he was ready to carry out the bloodiest part of today’s incident in Kyoto. However, it was not expected that at this very moment, the rebels’ violent attack on Donghua Gate gradually slowed down.

Ever since Ye Chong had caught up with him, the Crown Prince had kept his head down, hanging over his own chest, not knowing what he was thinking. Then he slowly raised his head, his eyes filled with a color of gloom and relief as he opened his mouth and said:

“Surrender.”

All of them quieted down, looking at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with unbelievable, angry, sorrowful, desperate, and incomprehensible gazes, not knowing why he would suddenly lose all of his fighting spirit.

The Crown Prince’s gaze slowly swept over the faces of these generals and soldiers who had faithfully followed him. He knew that if he fought to the death, it might not be impossible to kill his way out of the city. However, this matter had proceeded to this point, the Crown Prince was tired, exhausted, weary, and desperate.

Even if he kills his way out of the city, so what? From Kyoto to Cangzhou is a thousand miles away …… does not let these thousands of soldiers in the long pursuit of a one by one die? Is it possible to let the army in the people of Qing Guo’s fertile land on the good land, kill, set fire?

The crown prince twisted the head of the horse, and across the street full of soldiers and guns, looked at Ye Chong from afar, and opened his mouth and said, “General Ye, this palace does not want to go.”

Ye Chong slightly frowned, did not understand the scene in front of him exactly because of why it arose, he in any case could not think of the Prince’s psychological changes, always thought that the Prince was playing something else. But since the Crown Prince opened his mouth at this time, there seemed to be some chances, Ye Chong was also unwilling to his Dingzhou army, would pay more casualties.

“Your Highness the Crown Prince is wise.”

At this time Li Chengqian’s crown prince position, has been Fan Xian in the palace by imperial decree and abolished, just Ye Chong still habitually said it.

Li Chengqian gave a bitter smile, then said, “I have a condition.”

“Crown Prince, please speak.”

“I want to see Fan Xian. He must promise me one thing.”

Li Chengqian’s face went cold all of a sudden. It wasn’t because he understood something, but as a son of the Li family, as a crown prince who had been groomed as the next king for a number of years, he vaguely guessed what kind of destiny the hand in the sky was trying to pinch in this Kyoto, and he didn’t want to submit to that kind of destiny, or at least let that hand pinch the clay figures with some small gravel chomping on them.

Ye Chong said after a moment of silence, “I don’t know where Lord Fan is at this time.”

Li Chengqian’s eyes flashed a strange color, immediately but guessed something something, his face became ugly, began to worry about the safety of certain people, thinking that his conditions have not yet fallen into Fan Xian’s ears, but also …… is it too late?

Ye Chong was lying. Because he could guess where Fan Xian was.

But in the middle of Kyoto, which had essentially become a sea of blood, both the rebels and the people who had accepted Fan Xian’s power to oversee the country had lost track of him. Since the moment Elder Qin was stabbed to death, Lord Fan, who presided over the events of Kyoto, could no longer be found.

The Crown Prince, who had made up his mind in front of Donghua Gate, however, guessed Fan Xian’s whereabouts within the first hour, just like Ye Chong. Ye Chong was able to guess because he had told Fan Xian that address himself. The crown prince was able to guess it because he cared about everything there, the people there.

Fan Xian was at the Taiping Special Courtyard.

Dressed in black, he stood on this bank of the Flowing Crystal River, looking at the scenery on the opposite bank. His entire person melted into the shadows of the trees, and if he didn’t distinguish carefully, it was impossible to tell that this was already the outskirts of the capital. After he had killed Qin Ye, he had used his fastest speed to take advantage of the chaos in Kyoto and crossed over the high Kyoto city walls to come here.

It was because in this royal family’s special courtyard, there was his wife Lin Wan’er, whom he cared about the most, as well as Dabao, and that Her Highness, the Rapunzel, who had single-handedly planned the matter of the Great Eastern Mountain and the Kyoto Rebellion.

Fan Xian was not unfamiliar with Taiping Farewell House. To be precise, he was familiar to a fault. This was because twenty years ago, this manor was originally his own family’s property, and it was the place where his mother, Ye Qingmei, lived after she came to Qing.

After the Ye family broke up, this manor was taken back to the imperial family. It was only because His Majesty the Emperor had always sealed the Taiping Buyeon, guarded it with the inner guards, and strictly forbade any members of the royal family to enter, that it gradually lost its reputation.

In the summer and fall of the fourth year of the Qingli calendar, Fan Xian once took his sister to look across the river and offer a sacrifice from afar, at which time the river breeze brushed his body.

Fan Xian did not understand why the Princess chose the Taiping Residence as her residence to command matters in Kyoto. But at this time, he could not think about this, how to save Wan Er and Dabao safely, is the most important thing.

Although Wan’er was the eldest princess’s own daughter, Fan Xian didn’t dare to guarantee that after seeing all these years of planning end in such a disastrous way, that crazy woman would not recognize her own family.

In the past ten days, he had always known what kind of situation Wan’er was in, but had never been able to resolve it, nor had he revealed a single trace of anxiety in front of the onlookers. However, only he himself knew how Wan Er’s and Dabao’s well-being was affecting his own emotions.

Standing on this bank of the river and looking at the other bank, Fan Xian’s heart throbbed slightly, and he realized that Wan’er was more important in his heart than he could have imagined.

The composition of the rooms in the Taiping Special Courtyard, Five Bamboos had once told him personally, and Five Bamboos had once gone deep into the courtyard to retrieve one thing. After Fan Xian came to the other side of the courtyard, he carefully inspected the defense force of the secluded courtyard, which was much weaker than he had imagined. It seemed that the non-stop crackdown on the Xinyang side by the Supervisory Yuan and himself over the past few years had indeed been of some use, and the experts around the Eldest Princess had been cut down quite a bit.

But in Kyoto, the sound of killing is shocking, but the suburb of the capital of Taiping courtyard is quiet, this very stark contrast, let Fan Xian never dare to move lightly.

The location of the Taiping Residence was very special at the beginning of its construction, and it was actually built on a small peninsula in the Liujing River, with only one passageway into the courtyard, and the terrain along the riverbanks around it was relatively low and shallow. Fan Xian observed from the branches of the forest for a long time, but realized that his view was blocked by the courtyard wall, so he could not see what was going on inside.

The courtyard wall was cleverly designed, not very high, but just enough to block the view from the outside.

Fan Xian’s lips turned a little bitter, knowing that even if he moved a heavy sniper, it would be of little use. When he thought of this, his heart couldn’t help but thump, wondering if mom had ever thought of resisting heavy sniper fire when she designed this courtyard.

However, there was no such thing as an impregnable courtyard, or else the woman surnamed Ye wouldn’t have disappeared from the world of Qing twenty years ago. Fan Xian was just a little too castled to attack strongly, because he knew that Li Yunrui’s hand had really pinched his seven inches.

On this bank of the river without thinking for a long time, Fan Xian’s face calmed down, took a deep breath, turned to the side of the bamboo trestle bridge that he had once passed by, and in this way, like a walk, he walked to the main entrance of Taiping Beiyuan.

Behind the bamboo forest on the wall, many people abruptly appeared, surrounding Fan Xian in the center. These personal guards of the Eldest Princess looked at him with shocked faces, having recognized his identity long ago, not understanding why he dared to show himself like this at such a moment!

Fan Xian’s eyes were as calm as the slowly flowing water in the Flowing Crystal River as he said, “I want to see her.”