Chapter 85 – Spell

The pupils of Gouda’s eyes narrowed slightly as he stared at the eunuch in front of him. After many years of secretly carrying out escort work for the royal family, he certainly recognized the inner court expert in front of him, and for a moment, he thought, Could it be that Eunuch Yao had also come to Dazhou? He took a deep breath. Although even if Eunuch Yao personally came here, he was not much afraid, but he could know that the palace must have checked his whereabouts in advance, and the difficulties he was about to face must be very frightening.

That eunuch gently coughed twice, took out a cloth towel from his pocket and wiped away the blood at the corner of his lips, and said in a hoarse voice: ”Eunuch Yao did not come. This is a matter for the imperial court, and I am now working with Grand Maester He.”

Gao Da glanced at him and took a tight half-step back, his gaze sweeping around, his hand gripping the mute maiden’s hand a little tighter in his hand. Hearing this eunuch’s words, he realized that there were people in the court who had never believed that he was dead and had been secretly investigating the matter.

Two more eunuchs walked out from the shadows by the city gates.

Gao Da stared at the eunuch in the lead and said, “You are no match for me.”

The three inner court masters were silent, especially the one at the front of the head, whose emotions were unusually complicated at this time. They had followed the thirteen yamen of the Ministry of Justice’s good men to come to the vicinity of Dazhou to do their work this time, and vaguely knew that Grand Maestro He was clearing up the omissions of the Da Dong Shan matter from three years ago, but this eunuch really hadn’t imagined that it would actually end up really finding out about this Tiger Guard of Gouda.

All around the Ministry of Justice officials have gathered around, in addition to those injured in up to the knife of the people, there are dozens of people. Look at the situation, Gouda is long wings also can not fly out.

The eunuch coughed two times, earlier and up to the palm of the time, internal energy backlash, he has been injured, at this time cast to up to the eyes will naturally bring two parts of the scorn and admiration.

“I didn’t think that you are really alive, moreover, I didn’t think that you haven’t fallen all these years.” This eunuch’s eyes were a bit cloudy, but with a hostile cold, “Since today’s luck hit you, you don’t want to think about leaving again.”

Just like a face change, this eunuch’s complexion instantly became chilly and cold. Gouda, however, had long since gotten used to the inner court’s tactics of doing things, and just looked at him quietly as he spoke, “To leave me behind, I’m only afraid that you’ll have to pay a great price.”

“We are not afraid to pay the price.” That eunuch glanced at the beautiful lady beside him and laughed strangely, “It’s just that the price you will pay may be more than you can bear.”

“Surrender. You know that there is no way for you to live, why bother dragging the others down?” This eunuch said softly.

By now the sun had already set, leaving behind a helpless twilight that enveloped the city gates in a dim, drowsy glow.

A touch of struggle, a touch of sadness flashed in Gao Da’s eyes, and after a long moment of silence, he said quietly, “If I have no way to live if I am captured by you, does she have a way to live?”

The eunuch bowed his head for a long time and then said, “Adults naturally have to pay the price for their behavior. As for whether the child on your chest is dead or alive, that’s something only the palace can decide.”

“Then why don’t I fight?”

“Because you do not have to die now, you can live a few more days. Regarding the child, perhaps that young lord is willing to save it for you when he learns about it.” The eunuch gave him a meaningful look.

The young lord? A trace of confusion flashed through Gao Da’s eyes, if young Lord Fan knew that he was still alive in this world, surrounded by people at the gates of Dazhou at this time, and knew that he had a child in his arms, what would he do? He had committed the crime of deceiving the king, of course, there was no reason to be spared, but the child in his arms, Little Lord Fan should be able to save it, right?

The officials of the Ministry of Justice around them all remained silent, but the eyes they cast towards that swordsman all carried a hint of fear. In the previous battle at the city gate, in just a few breaths of time, six of their colleagues had already died tragically under the light of that blade.

They knew that this swordsman with his wife and son was the legendary Tiger Guard, the legendary Tiger Guard that had already fought cleanly with the Four Guards Sword on Dadong Mountain.

Having already surrounded the other party, why don’t they immediately rush up and split them into pieces? Everyone’s heart had this impulse because of the uneasiness, only they knew that the final reliance of Grandmaster He’s secret investigation of the case this time was still on the three inner court masters, the other party didn’t give the word to make a move, and these people of their own were better off keeping quiet.

Perhaps seeing that Gouda has been struggling, has been hesitating, that inner court expert’s face gradually sank, sternly shouted: ”You are originally a royal tiger guard, on the Great Eastern Mountain on the verge of escaping, abandoning the king, regarded as treason! If you don’t kneel down again, could it be that you want to continue the rebellion?”

Gouda’s face turned pale. The scene on Daedong Mountain where the Four Gu Swords flew through the sky with a single sword strike, and under the long ascending stone steps, the limbs of his companions flew horizontally, and blood flowed among the rocks and mountains resurfaced in front of his eyes.

He was the commander of the tiger guards, the best among the hundred or so tiger guards, and since he was a young man, he had always been instilled with the idea of being loyal to the king and loving the country, and to work for his majesty even at the risk of death. However, Gao Da had been following Fan Xian for three whole years, and his eyesight had gradually broadened, and most crucially, his temperament and his concept of life had also been influenced too much by Fan Xian.

Fan Xian had always been gentle, but the small details in his daily life, the small flavor in his words, were enough to influence too many people around him.

That was why Gao Dada had become the first tiger guard ever to flee from battle.

The inner court master mentioned the matter of Dadong Mountain, that is, he wanted to weaken his will to fight. However, the bleak color on Gao Da’s face did not last long and gradually returned to normal as he glared at the other party with a wave of coldness and said, “Abandon Jun?”

Abandon King? When he made up his mind to escape from the Great Eastern Mountain, it wasn’t that Gouda’s heart didn’t have struggles, yet these three years of wandering in the folk of the Qing Kingdom, his midnight dreaming thoughts at that time, as well as some of the gossips he heard, had made him think about the events of that year for I don’t know how many times.

His voice grew sharp and cold, like a knife, and he said angrily, “Was it me who abandoned His Majesty, or was it His Majesty who abandoned me?”

“On the Great Eastern Mountain, a hundred Tiger Guards perished at the hands of the enemy, for the sake of only consuming the killing intent of the Four Guards Sword!” Gao Da became enraged, his voice grew louder, his eyes rounded with rage, “I’m a Tiger Guard, I’m willing to protect His Majesty’s safety with my life, but I’m not willing to send myself to my death because of these shit like reasons.”

“Even if I die, I will die with clarity!”

Gao Da’s hand slowly gripped the hilt of his sword and pulled the mute maiden towards his back, glaring at the inner court expert and saying word for word, “I just don’t want to die like some of those companions who died in a shitty, confused way, and did something wrong!”

The inner court expert’s voice shrilled and trembled, as if he had not expected to hear such treacherous words from this tiger guard at the gates of Dazhou. He angrily cursed in a shrill voice, “The king wants me to die, but I have to die! As a tiger guard, you have uttered such treacherous words, you are truly irredeemable!”

“I’ve done all the treasonous things, let alone say a word.” Gouda suddenly felt relieved at this moment, he had finally spat out all his grievances against His Majesty. Yes, the Tiger Guards were just dead beaters kept by the royal family, but Gouda was already an independent man, he didn’t want to live and die in a muddled way!

Gouda tied the mute maiden tightly behind his back with a strip of cloth, and tightened the lines with both hands as hard as he could. While he was making these moves, not a single person at the city gates made a move, all nervously waiting for the inner court master to speak.

“If you resist the decree again today, don’t you think that Lord Little Fan will be dragged down by you?” The inner court expert’s hands were slowly trembling, precisely storing up his qi, but at this moment, he suddenly opened his mouth and said something that pierced straight into Gouda’s heart.

Gao Da sneered and said, “What is Fan Xian? If he’s a drag, then he’s a drag. Where are the good guys in this heavenly home?”

The inner court master’s face changed slightly, as if he hadn’t expected Gouda to actually say such a sentence, could it be that the other party didn’t even have any feelings for young Lord Fan anymore?

The truth of the matter was certainly not like that. When this inner court expert said that he was not under the orders of Eunuch Yao to demand his arrest in the world, Gouda knew that there was something fishy about this matter. And when he heard the name of the university scholar He, Gao Da knew at the first moment what the other party wanted to do, to be precise, it was that university scholar He who wanted to do something.

Regardless of whether it was above the court or in the civil society of Qing, everyone knew that in the court of Qing today, Lord Fan had been suppressing Senior Scholar He with all his might, while Senior Scholar He, relying on the holy favor, was also desperately trying to fight against Lord Fan, and the two forces were as powerful as water and fire, only that they had been suppressed by His Majesty, and did not have the chance to explode.

Moreover, Gouda was clear that with Lord Little Fan’s ability and strength, the district He Zongwei simply couldn’t find any way to defeat Lord Little Fan.

Because Lord Little Fan actually seemed to not have a single loophole in his body.

And to everyone’s surprise, escaping from the Great Eastern Mountain and surviving himself was undoubtedly one of Fan Xian’s loopholes.

He Zongwei just wanted to capture Gouda, or Wang Qinian, but didn’t want these two to die. As long as he captured Gouda, it would also be like capturing one of Fan Xian’s tails, even though Fan Xian himself didn’t realize that he had a tail at the moment.

Gouda propped Niangzi’s body upwards, the murderous intent in his eyes growing thicker as he stared at the inner court expert without a word. If he was captured alive by the court and used by He Zongwei against young Lord Fan, what kind of harm would that cause?

Gouda had followed Fan Xian for too long and knew Fan Xian too well as a person, Little Lord Fan appeared to be cold and unfeeling, but in fact, he was extremely protective of his shortcomings.

This kind of protection is different from old Dean Chen, Fan Xian will bet on the truest concern for those close to him, and if the court catches him, I’m afraid that Little Lord Fan will really risk his scruples to save himself from going out.

And Gouda is not willing to small Fan Lord for his own into a dangerous situation, so he decided to die fighting not surrender, rather die in front of the city gates of Dazhou, not to surrender, not willing to live a few more days in order to his own, and dragged him down.

It only aggravated the mother behind him and the child in front of him.

A hint of despair, a hint of deep guilt flashed in Gao Da’s eyes. Gripping his sword in his hand, he let out a violent cry and charged forward right in front of him!

People can’t be killed, there is always a moment when the knife breaks, how can a person fight against a powerful state machine? Although Gouda was strong, he was not a Grandmaster after all, under the powerful siege of the Qing court, he was able to support himself until nightfall, and it already seemed extraordinarily terrifying.

He was bloodied and exhausted, yet he had only rushed out three miles from Dazhou City. Those Ministry of Justice experts and soldiers who were rounding him up were smart enough to keep their distance, only coming in batches to charge and kill, rather than letting the situation become so chaotic that Gao Da had any chance of taking advantage of the chaos to break out.

There were torches all around, spread all around the official road, looking brighter than the stars in the sky.

That inner court expert indifferently looked at the pursuit on the official road in front of him, judging when Gouda would run out of strength and fall, his brows slightly frowned and said, “Let the children be careful, don’t do everything you can to that woman on his back.”

A Ministry of Justice official was slightly startled and looked back at him, asking for instructions, “Your Excellency, why is this?”

In the eyes of these officials, although Tiger Guard Gouda was more powerful than the crowd imagined, he had a child in his arms and a woman on his back, so as long as the blade went towards those places, he would always be wary and get hurt a bit more.

The inner court master walked slowly towards the center of the battle group, all the way, all the way coughing, squinted his eyes and said: ”Really if I miss and kill that woman, once Gouda goes crazy, how can I capture her alive? That woman, as long as she’s alive, is as heavy as a mountain to Gouda, and he’ll have to think about killing himself for some more time if he wants to.”

Up until this point, this inner court master still wanted to capture Gouda alive, after all, this was something that Grandmaster He had asked for countless times. If Gouda died, how would he go about coercing Fan Xian? He Zongwei was still looking forward to borrowing this person, Gouda, to sow discord between Fan Xian and His Majesty, which the inner court master would not be able to guess.

Gao Da did not know how many people he had killed, but he was like a mad tiger, covered in blood. Two of the three Inner Court experts had already been seriously injured by his heavy hand, and many of the officials from the Ministry of Justice had died under his blade. It was just that his blade was gradually cracking open, and the true qi in his body had reached the point of near exhaustion.

Everyone could see that this ferocious imperial criminal was finally on the verge of succumbing to exhaustion and collapsing to the ground after the court had paid for dozens of lives. Everyone’s hearts breathed a sigh of relief, and the Ministry of Justice’s special anesthetic began to be smeared on the blade of the knife in preparation for the final closing of the net.

At this moment, the end of the official road came a black caravan, this train is very strange, ghostly and dark as the underworld, the caravan is extremely long, it seems that you can not see the end.

Gouda a knife cut off the right arm of the right side of a thirteen nga expert, suddenly feel a soft left knee, know that to the end of the season, unwillingly howl wildly, toward that train fleet rushed over.

The rear pursuing officials were not nervous, nor were they much worried about what kind of pond fish disaster that train convoy would suffer, still leaning over unhurriedly.

In the black convoy, the Inspectorate official who was talking to the old man inside next to the curtains saw the lights all over the city at that moment, and saw a bloody man. His eyes got complicated.

It wasn’t until the bloody man ran closer that the Procuratorate official saw clearly that the bloody man was actually three people.

The Procuratorate official floated over and caught the bloody man just at the moment he fell to the ground, raised his eyebrows, sanded his voice, and said with slightly suppressed excitement, “Gouda, your kid actually took a wife.”

The knife in Gouda’s hand was stuck on the ground, and he was about to restrain this person as a hostage, when he suddenly heard this joke, and looked up, but he saw a strange person.

The unfamiliar person was wearing a familiar official uniform, and Gouda’s heart was so relieved that he fell into the person’s arms.