The footsteps of the mansion, accompanied by the firelight, the figures of soldiers slowly pushed the mansion ahead with the soldiers. In the sound of the shaking of armor leaves, behind the high courtyard wall, four scholars stumbled and ran through the corridor with their bookshelf on their backs, shouting loudly, and pushing open a door in front of them.

"Duke of Yue!!"

The door was pushed open, and the dim light swayed in the room, illuminating the neatly dressed old man holding a book and sitting upright on the desk.

Hearing the words of the four people, he raised his eyes and saw that it was them. He smiled and reached out to the nearby tables and chairs, which were not as majestic as usual.

"Come and sit down."

The four of them held their knees to relieve their breath, and one of them pointed outside: "Duke, we won't sit anymore. If we sit again, we will probably have no chance to sit again, outside... outside..."

Wang Feng pushed him and snatched the conversation.

"Duke, there are many soldiers coming outside, probably to capture you."

On the other side, Yang Su just smiled and did not answer. She closed the book and stood up, patted Wang Feng on the shoulder, glanced over the faces of the four people, and pursed her lips.

"You have been in my husband's school for a while, but unfortunately you didn't have the opportunity to make you stand out. I'm really sorry, and I'm afraid you will still be implicated."

"I'm sorry."

Yang Su repeated, walked to a bookshelf, and flipped out a heavy package from the small door of the compartment below, and could hear the sound of collision inside.

"I can't promise this for the future. If you take this little money, how can you and the four of you have no worries about food and clothing in the future, and you will not be in vain to have a fight with me."

The four of them looked at each other and slowly reached out to take the package. There were tears in their eyes at some point, flashing in the fire. Wang Feng took a deep breath, his voice choked.

"Duke, my four brothers have been going from Chen Chaonan Township to Chang'an. After going through hardships and sorrows, they have achieved nothing in the end. They have never thought that they could get the love of the Duke... Today, I won't leave!"

The other three were blushing and nodded in one go: "I won't leave!"

"Let's go."

The old man looked at them, shook his head, and pushed the four of them to the door: "What are you doing with me? You only have four more heads left."

Thinking of the bloody scene, the Four Scholars subconsciously touched their necks and shivered almost at the same time. Ma Liu, Zhang Ti, and Zhao Tang pulled their brother over, hesitated for a moment, raised their hands with tears in their eyes, and arched heavily.

"Duke, take care of yourself!"

"We're leaving!"

The four men looked back and looked at the old man under the eaves, turned around and bowed again, stuffed the package into the bookshelf, quickly walked towards the side door of the other courtyard, pulled the bolt open, and as soon as they opened the door, the spear head with a cold metal light pierced outside and pressed against the four people's face.

"No one can leave in the mansion!"

There was a loud shout, and for a moment, ten... hundreds of soldiers crossed the threshold and rushed into the yard. Soon the entire mansion gradually became chaotic.

The old man in the atrium study room walked out of the door again when he heard the movement. Under the eaves of the lanterns, the black soldiers came over with four figures.

Ma Liu trembled and placed his hands on his head, squeezing out a hint of smile.

"Duke, we didn't leave..."

"Yang Su, receive the imperial edict!"

The soldiers surrounded the atrium, with the eaves full of eaves. Just as they watched the eaves of the front yard, Yuwen Chengdu stepped out and opened a roll of imperial edict in his hand.

"The emperor issued an edict saying that if there is Yang Su, he met the late emperor for a short time, and the contribution of establishing the Great Sui Dynasty was indispensable. However, he was a Duke of the State, and did not want to be polite to the family and country, and he would be a tyrant, deceive the emperor, act arbitrarily, and had a personal relationship with the generals in the army. He was suspected of treason. As a Taoist practitioner, he was not upright in maintaining the country, and used human corpses to refine puppets, and the heavens were angry and resentful..."

"shut up!"

Yang Sumao shouted loudly, and the sound shocked the tiles of the surrounding houses clanging, causing the vigilant soldiers around to subconsciously take a step back.

The old man under the eaves pursed his lips, his gray beard gently stroked in the wind, closed his eyes, and then opened it: "You are so obedient to do things, I won't make things difficult for you. If you want to take me, let Yang Guang come over."

"snort."

Yuwen Chengdu had some experience. The shock just now was quickly calmed down. He held a sound on the ground with a gilded bobbin in his hand. He stepped forward and shouted: "Duke Yue, you have no chance!"

The sound fell, and a row of soldiers holding guns in front retreated back, and the comrades holding copper basins in the back quickly stepped forward and pounced on the dark red blood rippling in the basin.

Ten water curtains poured into the air, but the moment they flew away, Yang Su just brushed her wide sleeves, and the black dog blood rushed back instantly, splashing on the faces of the soldiers, making her feel embarrassed.

"I am not sure how powerful I have to practice Taoism."

On the other side, Yuwen Chengdu was stunned, looking at the bloody ground, and whispered slightly to a soldier under his command: "I will delay here, please go and find Your Majesty and call the national savage!"

The soldiers nodded and quietly retreated. The empty position was quickly filled by the other soldiers. Yuwen Chengdu kicked the tail of the pole and held the long soldier in his hand. With his bloody courage, he shouted: "Capture Yang Su by Your Majesty's order!"

"kill!"

He kicked his feet and rushed straight under the eaves of the study. The soldiers around him shouted, and swarmed up with long soldiers.

.........

In the night, a knight ran wildly on the street, found a restaurant not far from Baiguanfushe Street, jumped off his horse, ran upstairs, knocked on one of the doors, and whispered a few words with the eunuch who stuck his face out. The latter nodded and walked to the seat, and whispered the news from the Duke's Mansion.

"Your Majesty, the black dog blood doesn't work. Yang Su shouted and asked Your Majesty to go in person..."

......From the railing to look at the scholars in the window...When will you be nominated on the list...Don't forget the feline girl in the Hongchen Pavilion...

The flowing candlelight, the gentle woman singing, and the long sleeves fell down. After listening to the eunuch's words, Yang Guang, who was sitting in the seat, narrowed his eyes, suddenly stood up, and walked straight to the door with his hands in his arms. The anxious eunuch and the guards hurriedly followed.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, where are you going?"

"Will meet Yang Su!"

Once upon a time, when he first ascended the throne, the originally kind Duke of Yue changed his life, just like Cao Mengde of the Han Dynasty. He was so overwhelmed that he could not breathe and almost gave up on himself. Now he is the emperor of the Sui Dynasty. He has destroyed a country and can he shrink back again.

‘If you don’t dare to face this old dog, wouldn’t it seem cowardly!’

He hurried forward and behind, the emperor walked straight across a street, kicked his robe and walked into the Duke's Mansion. Without waiting for the guards to come up, he pushed the soldiers blocking the road to the side, passed through the dense soldiers, and when he arrived at the atrium, a burly figure flew backwards and hit a pillar under the eaves.

It was a loud bang, the pillar broke, the entire eaves collapsed and the surrounding guards shouted one by one, using their bodies to build a human wall to go above and protect the emperor.

The tiles fell to the ground, shattering, and in the smoke and dust, Yang Guang didn't even look at the mess at his feet, and continued to move forward, looking at the old man in front of the study opposite.

"Duke Yue, I'm here!"

"Good come!" The old man threw a soldier who had caught from the air and wanted to attack on the ground, patted the dust on his hands, stepped out of the eaves, and slowly opened his mouth.

"I followed the late emperor to conquer the Great Sui Dynasty, and died and destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty first, and then the Chen Dynasty. If you can ascend the throne, I will have a merit. How could I not deserve the honor of two dynasties? But you just ascend to the great treasure and have no merits in your opinion. Even if the late emperor is still there, he will not talk to me like this!!"

"Don't mention my father. If he is here, I'm afraid he will be the first to kill you when you see your arrogant and arrogant look!"

The wind blew across the courtyard, and the walking old man grinned and smiled, nodded: "Okay, then come and kill me!"

"Be careful, Your Majesty!"

Yuwen Chengdu pushed open the collapsed eaves and saw the figure of the old man opposite suddenly turning into blur. He threw the weapons out of his hand. A loud bang sounded over there. The moment the soldier bounced into the sky, he rushed towards the emperor, and ran towards Yang Su, who was rushing towards the opposite side, and the soldiers around him rushed over as if crazy.

The moment a soldier bumped into the old man and bounced away, more figures stabbed with guns, blocked by the air, and flew backwards one by one.

Yuwen Chengdu, who was pressing against the front, had his eyes congested, and the floor tiles under his feet were shattered. The emperor who was protecting him pulled out the sword from his waist with a clang, and let out a roar, "Ah--" and passed by Yuwen Chengdu, and stabbed towards the old man who was blocked by the soldiers.

puff--

At some point, time seemed to slow down at this moment. The tip of the sword pierced the cloth, and the sharp sword body tore open the flesh and blood, squeezed out countless blood beads and spilled out.

Warm blood splattered on Yang Guang's face. He looked at the hilt of the sword holding his hand and slowly extended to the sword body that had penetrated into the old man's chest. His eyes moved up in disbelief. Looking at Yang Su's face, blood dripping over his mouth and his white beard was passing through the corner of his mouth.

For some reason, I didn't feel happy at all.

"Duke of Yue...you..."

"His Majesty."

Blood surged out of the wound. Yang Su opened her lips and showed her red-colored teeth. She nodded her head with difficulty, with a smile on her face.

"Your Majesty...The Great Sui Dynasty will be handed over to you in the future."

The old man looked at the emperor with his gaze, his figure shaking, he stepped back two steps, and his gaze gradually looked up at the night sky. In the distance, there was a bright light floating, like a star, hanging in the sky.

Once upon a time, he was in his prime, and his brother and he also traveled a long distance to Qi under such night. In a blink of an eye, all the enemy countries around him were destroyed, and the enemies he had once been gone, and his respected brother also left. He had turned into a hairy hair from his prime...

My burden can finally be lifted, and the road to this country is to be handed over to the younger generation.

Looking at the floating beacon in the night sky, it seemed to guide him to fly over. When he saw his brother as if he had first met, he was wearing a robe, and smiled at him gently.

"Let's go Yang Jian!"

"Yang Su!"

"Haha, I didn't expect that you and I have the same surname, so it's better to call each other as brothers and attack Northern Qi together!"

......

In the last field of vision, the old man's figure fell heavily from the pool of blood, looking at the floating beacon, and smiled slightly.

"I wish to go with my brother."

"Duke!"

The four scholars who were arrested sat on the ground and cried out. While struggling to pass, there were also voices crying. The gray old woman squeezed out the soldiers and rushed to the motionless old man on the ground, burst into tears, and was captured by the soldiers and dragged them to the backyard.

Yang Guang took a breath, and somehow his eyes became wet. He was about to ask someone to restrain his body, but suddenly a strong wind blew behind him. The soldiers retreated one after another. When he saw a scholar walking, the red lanterns under the eaves turned white, and the paper-cuts that were originally festive at Lantern Festival also turned pale.

"National Master!"

The emperor quickly threw the sword in his hand and greeted him, with a smile on his face: "The national master is one step late, you didn't see me, how did you kill me..."

"Your Majesty, let all the soldiers go out."

Lu Liangsheng looked at the pool of blood, and a hint of sadness flashed in his eyes. He looked over the excited emperor and approached the old man on the ground with a expressionless face.

The soldiers around retreated, and even the four scholars on the ground were taken away. Yang Guang noticed the expression of the national master and called out in a low voice: "National Master?"

Bang-

Lu Liangsheng turned around, raised his hand and slapped Yang Guang's face and made a crisp sound.

"National Master?! You--"

Before the emperor could react, he slapped him again, and slapped his face on the other side. Yang Guang was stunned and stood there at a loss. He looked at the expressionless scholar and picked up the old man's body and walked to the main hall of the atrium.

"His Majesty."

Lu Liangsheng stood under the eaves and stopped, went straight into the hall, put the old man in his arms on the table, closed the old man's empty eyes, and his voice went outside.

"These two slaps were used to fight for the late emperor and Duke Yue."

Outside, the wind stopped.
Chapter completed!