[R18] Will drink wine – “About Wine” Chapter 292 [English]

Chapter 278, Hero

When Cen Yu saw the arrow going out, he knew something was wrong. He also saw the imperial soldiers drawing their swords, and in a hurry, he vomited blood.He covered his mouth in embarrassment and said: “Who did it?”

When he came, he told Luo Mu and strictly ordered the soldiers not to move.When this arrow goes out, regardless of whether Yao Wenyu is dead or not, everything is doomed!

The Tantai Tiger walked quickly with his sword in hand, rushed forward, and shouted in a loud voice: “If you don’t keep your word, go to your mother’s city for talks!”

The Forbidden Army galloped in order in the rain, and the mud and water on the ground splashed. They all used their spatulas in unison, and crashed into the group of soldiers while the front row was spinning and chopping.The flash of swords and shadows enveloped the heavy rain in an instant, and the tables and chairs on the high platform fell over with a clang. The students helped Cen Yu back up in panic.

“Stop…” Cen Yu still had illusions and said urgently while wiping the blood, “Master, please listen to me!”

The imperial army had already crossed the boundary, and no one listened to Cen Yu’s words anymore. He was soaked in the rain, his official robe hung on his body, and he endured the rain and snow hitting his face. Finally, he choked up and said towards the direction of the capital: “I am ashamed of the emperor’s trust!”

The bronze bell in Qudu rang loudly, and Li Jianting knew that it was not thunder.She held on to the pillar and walked slowly into the rain. The flowers on her forehead scattered when they encountered the water.She looked at Xue Xiuzhuo at the bottom of the stairs, as if she had just met him.

“You have ten thousand taels of silver,” Li Jianting raised his arm and pointed in the direction of Juexi. “You still have the support of the people. Go to Juexi and find a new emperor. You can also fight Shen Zechuan again.”

Xue Xiuzhuo also looked at Li Jianting. After a while, he raised his hand, took off his black gauze hat, and said, “I am a courtier of the Li family.”

Li Jianting smiled, and she laughed louder and louder. When her face was covered with rain, she showed a bit of innocence.She came closer and asked: “Teacher, have I finished my studies?”

She has been stuck in the cracks all her life. After picking at her fingernails, she finally became a container.She comes from the mud puddle, but carries the bursting of the Milky Way.She is studious, hard-working and even considered a genius, but she is also powerless.

“It could have been better, but the teacher’s qualifications are mediocre,” Xue Xiuzhuo looked at the black gauze hat in his hand, “I am the blade that went astray.”

He knew very early that he was not smart and could not remember strategies. He could only memorize them by rote and stay up all night. All the time spent drinking water was wasted.In his most impulsive age, he was dampened by Emperor Guangcheng and realized that the seemingly prosperous Zhou Dynasty was actually barren.

Xue Xiuzhuo never thought that he would take this path, but he witnessed the sudden brightness of Qi Huilian’s flash, and that moment of light made him ignite hope.He follows Qi Huilian, stubbornly believing that Da Zhou can still be saved, but the reality is always so disappointing.He admired and respected Hai Liangyi, but he gradually parted ways with Hai Liangyi.

They all wanted to save Dazhou, but none of them succeeded.

“You brought me to this position, but no one here is willing to reason. The Queen Mother instigated Han Cheng, and Han Cheng hinted at Fuman, and they all want to kill me.” Li Jianting raised his arm and wiped the flower on his forehead until it turned red. “Can’t the emperor fight back? If I don’t kill them, I will die.” She turned around, “We stay in the cage cautiously. Even if we are extremely ambitious, we don’t have the power, let alone the time.”

Li Jianting is very white. This is an illusion raised in the Xue Mansion. Under this layer of clothes, she is covered with bruises.When she stood here, it was Li Jianting, and no one would ask about Lingting’s whereabouts, as if Lingting deserved to die.

“In this world, people don’t need laws to kill people. The strong body of a man crushed my bones and I fell to the ground.” Li Jianting looked back and said to Xue Xiuzhuo, “Everyone passing by feels dirty. No one will hold them accountable. It seems that I lie there willingly. If I die once, I should be regarded as abandoned and can no longer stand in front of others.”

The clanging sound of the bronze bells became longer and longer, rainwater covered the hems of the two people’s robes, and the sky was so dark that they could not see the palace clearly.

Li Jianting sarcastically said: “Is that my fault? Teacher, I followed the teachings of the book and didn’t even kill those scum. The day you took me away from Xiangyunfang, I thought I would take revenge, but you taught me benevolence, righteousness and morality. I need to be patient in this rotten palace, and I haven’t wasted a moment in the past few years. I chased everyone, but in the end we still had nothing.”

Her chest rose and fell, there were too many things that she couldn’t bear to accept, and in her extreme patience, she finally broke out.

Li Jianting pointed at these eyes and said: “I don’t live by these eyes. I am not like anyone else. I am Li Jianting.” She suddenly took off the gold hairpin from her hair, threw it into the rain, and said contemptuously: “Fuck you virtuous and courteous people, I am an emperor, I am the last emperor of the Li family!”

Thunder exploded in the sky, lighting up everyone’s face in the rain.Li Jianting took off his soaked cloak, and even tore off his complicated hairpin, and said in a cold voice: “I will live and die with Dazhou.”

* * *

Qandu has eight city gates, all of which are now sealed.The machine tool on the wall moved “哢哢”. The original arsenal of the Eighth Battalion was empty. The walls were densely packed with bows and arrows. The Zhongbo garrison mainly attacked the east gate.

“The eldest lady is stationed in Qidong. Jiang Wanxiao can’t come back,” Yao Wenyu gasped slightly, propped up the edge of the bed and said to Shen Zechuan, “The road ahead is open. I am here to wait for the emperor’s triumphant return.”

Shen Zechuan picked off his own Yangshan Snow, put it in Yao Wenyu’s hand, and said, “I entrust this knife to you, and you will return it to me when I come back.”

Yao Wenyu smiled melancholy and said, “Why bother me?”

“Xun’er is still in Cizhou,” Shen Zechuan’s eyes darkened slightly, “You are still sir.”

Yao Wenyu could only say: “Yuanzhuo did his best.”

Fei Sheng took off Shen Zechuan’s cloak. Shen Zechuan took two steps back, looked at Yao Wenyu for a moment, then turned around and left the tent without saying a word.When Fei Sheng was cleaning up the tent, he got Yao Wenyu’s handkerchief and found that his handkerchief was soaked in blood.

There was heavy wet snow outside the tent, and the wind came suddenly.

Shen Zechuan stepped down the steps, with the imperial guards on both sides staring intently.He tied his arms tightly while walking, and when he passed by the Tantai Tiger, he only heard the Tantai Tiger raising its neck and shouting: “Tonight we will enter the capital, and from now on the world will follow the trend. The king of the government will take the lead, and we will treat him with sincerity!”

The garrison troops and the Imperial Guards all smashed their chests in unison, shouting loudly like thunder, “We will show our sincerity to you!”

Luo Mu heard the roar and ran towards the city wall in the pouring rain. He dragged the general who fled back into the city and asked, “Who shot the arrow?!”

The general returned injured from the violent waves of the imperial army just now. He was dragging his residual arm and replied: “The rain is too heavy, Governor, I can’t even see who it is!”

Luo Mu had told the miscellaneous troops to take action, but only after the garrison took the lead.Even Luo Mu did not expect that Yao Wenyu would dare to make a fuss about the empress’s life experience in this battle.This arrow shot through Qudu’s defense, which implicitly showed that God had also turned its head!

“Fight to the death behind closed doors,” Luo Mu let go of his hand, pushed the lieutenant hard, and shouted sternly to the people around him in the heavy rain, “If we can’t hold Qudu, you and I will both die!”

The streets were deserted, and the people pressed against the doors and windows, hiding in cellars and shivering.The official ditch was draining sewage, and the boats on the Kailing River were turbulent with the waves. This was the first time in hundreds of years that Qudu felt the pressure of an approaching storm.

“Shen’s troops are approaching the city,” the pages of Taixue flew, and the students held their heads and cried, “There is no hope for the Great Zhou Dynasty!”

While Luo Mu was hurrying to beat the war drum, he saw a few groups of people from a distance.He put down the drooping flag, stepped forward and knelt down, and said loudly: “My lord, I have betrayed the holy grace. I will die to serve my family and country tonight, and I swear not to be the same as the rebels!”

Kong Qiu staggered forward, grabbed Li Jianting’s arm, and looked around, saying: “Your Majesty is here, and I am here too. If we can win tonight, all the kings present will be Zhou’s ministers! If we can’t win, when the city is broken, I, Kong Qiu, will be the first to jump off the building and die for my country!”

Luo Mu was startled by Kong Qiu’s desolate tone and broke into a cold sweat. He raised his head and saw that all the veteran cabinet ministers were solemn. It was obvious that they were not pretending to comfort him, but that they had a death wish!How could Luo Mu have expected that they would do this for Da Zhou? In an instant, he was ashamed of himself, but he was still lucky.

“Shen Zechuan only has 25,000 soldiers, so he can fight this battle! Your Majesty, the Emperor and all of you -”

Before Luo Mu could finish his words, the trebuchet moved, and the boulder slammed into the city gate. The century-old stone carving of “Qiu Du” immediately exploded and was smashed to pieces.

Xue Xiuzhuo waved his arm to stop Li Jianting and said, “Shen Zechuan is attacking the city, protect him!”

* * *

Qiao Tianya held the dagger in his mouth and moved on his elbow, crawling in the dark and damp official ditch.

After the Guangou case, Pan Lin gave Xiao Chiye the engineering drawings of Guandou Guangou, and Xiao Chiye left the drawings at Mei Zhai.When Shen Zechuan defected to Zhongbo, Qiao Tianya and Fei Sheng relied on this picture to escape from the siege of Qandu. They had long memorized the crisscrossing official channels of Qandu.

Qiao Tianya’s chin was buried in the smelly sewage, he raised his head slightly, and hit the wooden board diagonally above with his shoulder at the end.

The chains on the wooden board moved away with a clang. Ge Qingqing, who had shaved off his beard, looked at each other and Qiao Tianya, then smiled and reached out to lead the person out.

“I haven’t seen you in more than a year,” Ge Qingqing said, “How are you, Mr. Fu?”

Qiao Tianya took off the dagger and said concisely: “I’m fine.”

“We have been keeping an eye on the internal movements of Qandu these past few days.” Ge Qingqing stopped talking and took out the drawing. There were areas drawn in various colors on it. “The ‘Scorpion’ is here.”

Qiao Tianya’s scalp felt numb as he looked at those densely covered circles.

“These people can’t take root, so they can only wander around Qandu and wait for orders at any time. Most of them are from three religions and nine schools.” Ge Qingqing covered the crossed out place, “The master’s guess is good, they have a ‘leader’ directing the action.”

Qiao Tianya stared at the “leader”‘s position.

“Scorpion wants to hold the prince back for Amul,” Ge Qingqing circled with her fingers, “before they make a move, we have to strike first, leaving no one behind.”

Ge Qingqing’s fingers stopped at the palace.

Qiao Tianya did not put away the dagger, he said hoarsely: “Old business, old rules, the master issued a death order, and there will be no survivors under the Xiuchun knife. You and I will act separately,” he nailed the dagger to the palace, “I’ll go here.”

* * *

Less than half an hour after the main east gate was defended, the south gate near Fengshan Campus was knocked out of the gap by the circumventing garrison.Who knew that the main force of the capital guarding the east gate knew that Shen Zechuan’s quick attack was learned from Hasen, and it must not only be fast, but also ruthless.

The troops at the south gate were pressed against the city gate, but before they could shout their slogans, they were stuck in the gap with knives.

“Password,” Dujun’s young general shouted loudly, “the south door is broken——!”

The city gate was suddenly hit and slid sideways, knocking the troops inside directly to the ground.The imperial guards waiting outside held the gap, opened their legs like a monkey, and rolled in.The archers inside the gate prepared, but the imperial guards reacted faster. They retracted their heads and hid behind the city gate.

Before the capital army could breathe a sigh of relief, they heard a disgusting “creep” sound coming from the city gate panels. The well-mounted and exquisitely crafted heavy city gate was unexpectedly dismantled by the Imperial Guards with their shoulders on their shoulders!

“Good job!” A forbidden soldier knocked on the door and shouted to the brother below, “This door was repaired by the second master and our work department! The thief is good, he can block the arrows and kill these little silly dogs!”

The morale of the army that soared due to the empress’s presence only existed for a moment before Shen Zechuan forcibly wiped it away by pressing his head.Once the south side door is broken, the Imperial Army will be at home like a fish in water.

Kong Qiu protected Li Jianting in the crowd. Li Jianting’s hair was messy and he was covered in mud. His ears were ringing after being hit by trebuchets on the city wall.She looked through the mud and saw the rumored Lord of Zhongbo Mansion amidst the whines and cries of countless people.

Two years ago, Shen Zechuan escaped from the Zhengdong Gate, leaving behind the closed city gate Qi Huilian, who was cheering.Nowadays, he horse passes through the officialdom, not only bringing his staff, but also thousands of troops.

Li Jianting gritted his teeth and said, “Traitor!”

Shen Zechuan looked at her indifferently and told her in a direct enough way that even the young emperor couldn’t play with a real hero based on his mental skills.He wants to open the gate of Qidu from here.