Chapter 312: Determined to Destroy the Entire Yuan Family
Seeing the veins on his neck bulging, General Nangong realized that something was wrong.
Li Tianzhuo also knelt in front of Xiu Ming, his face as pale as paper, and his soul seemed to have been sucked out of him.
He couldn't accept that Xiu Ming died like this!
“Your Majesty…”
General Nangong called him tentatively.
Li Tianzhuo touched his face and handed him the paper ball.
Nangong had no choice but to unfold it himself.
When he saw the content clearly, he was no less shocked than Li Tianzhuo.
"For that damn Yuan Gu, dying a hundred times is not too much!"
"So, he was the one who injured Guard Xiuming, and Princess Dongji and General Han were kidnapped by him!"
General Nangong narrated it again in his own words.
Li Tianzhuo nodded in agreement.
"Yuan Gu colluded with the people of Xilei. They are members of the Xilei assassin organization Shadow Kill. The private soldiers I sent and the soldiers of the Han family were all killed by them."
"They were able to severely injure Xiu Ming, Cousin Deng, and Cousin Han, and capture Ning Ning and Ying alive. The helpers Yuan Gu invited this time are extremely powerful!"
Li Tianzhuo quickly calmed himself down.
He had come out of the sadness of Xiu Ming's passing. The dead were gone, but the living were still waiting for him to save them.
He didn't know what Ningning would go through when she was with that beast Yuan Gu, and he couldn't wait even a moment.
Of course, he also wants to avenge Xiu Ming.
"Your Highness, what should we do then? What about human trafficking..." Nangong asked thoughtfully.
Li Tianzhuo gritted his teeth and said, "Put aside the human trafficking first. Send someone with my token to gather soldiers from the surrounding prefectures along the county, and the rest of the people will follow me into Luoyan City."
According to the current situation, the few people he has are completely unable to deal with Yuan Gu.
It would take at least half a month to go back and forth to Yuncheng to transfer people, which was too tight.
We could only borrow soldiers from the surrounding county governments.
Maybe they are not strong enough, but it is better than nothing.
"Send a few more people and rush to deliver the letter to the Han family stationed in Dongji, Liangcheng." Li Tianzhuo instructed again.
Such a big thing happened, and Liangcheng was not far from Luoxia City. He had no right not to let General Han and others know.
With their help, rescuing Ningning and the others will be much smoother.
"Yuan family!"
Li Tianzhuo spat out these two words viciously.
This time, he is determined to wipe out the entire Yuan family!
"Your Highness, do we still need to enter the city quietly according to our previous plan?" General Nangong asked puzzledly.
"Need not!"
"Since Yuan Gu has such great connections, he must have discovered our whereabouts long ago. Even if we hide our identities, it will be useless to him. It would be better for him to abuse his power and search all the people with the surname Yuan in Luoyan City."
Li Tianzhuo gave the order.
General Nangong bowed and accepted the order, directing everyone to take action.
Li Tianzhuo personally lifted Xiu Ming onto the horse and took him to Luoyan City, wanting to find a good place there to bury him.
Xiu Ming and Jiang Yuan, another guard he left behind in Dongji, have been following him since six years ago, when his martial arts skills were still intact.
They watched him grow step by step, and accompanied him through many hardships and pains.
During the most difficult days, he even needed the two of them to do hard labor to support him.
The three of them shared a steamed bun.
I can’t count how many times I’ve been through life and death with him…
After looking at Xiu Ming who had stopped breathing in front of him, Li Tianzhuo closed his eyes and shed a tear.
He had long regarded him as a brother.
"Your Majesty, have a drink. This is one of the best liquors in Nanxin!"
The burly General Nangong noticed the pain in Li Tianzhuo's heart. The only thing he could do for him was to give him the wine he had with him so that he could drink to relieve his sorrow.
"Thank you!"
Li Tianzhuo did not refuse and took it and took a sip.
As the turbid wine went down his throat, a burning sensation instantly came up, but Li Tianzhuo really felt much more at ease.
"You know what? Xiu Ming is actually one year older than me, but he is naturally childish. When we were Silver Dragon Guards in Dongji, he was always optimistic no matter how difficult the mission was."
"Over the years, he and Jiang Yuan have been following me, doing things for me and protecting me, but I... never gave them anything, and even always disliked him for not being smart enough..."
At the end of his words, Li Tianzhuo's voice began to sob again.
The faint cry was hidden in the sound of horse hooves, and no one else could hear it, but Xiu Ming's soul must have heard it.
In order to get to Luoxia City as quickly as possible, Li Tianzhuo and his party traveled day and night. When they arrived at the nearby county town, they changed horses and continued running.
It took Xiu Ming three days to get here, and it only took them two and a half days to go back this time.
On the afternoon of the second solar term of winter, Xiaoxue, Li Tianzhuo and his party entered Luoxia City.
It was so high-profile that the prefect came to welcome him in person.
Li Tianzhuo did not waste time and directly asked about the kidnapping of Princess Dongji by Yuan Gu.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Guard Xiu Ming has already told us before he left. We have been looking for Yuan Gu's whereabouts these days."
"But, the entire Luoxia City is so big, there are hundreds of families with the surname Yuan, and if Yuan Gu used a name that was not his real name, we will need some time..."
The prefect, Lord Pan, was all smiles and begged Prince Changle to give him a few more days.
"It's fine if you can't find Yuan Gu, but what about Prince Deng? Haven't you found him in the past few days?"
Before Li Tianzhuo could lose his temper, General Nangong scolded Lord Pan first.
"We will try our best to find the person immediately!" Lord Pan was so frightened that his whole body was shaking and his voice was trembling.
Li Tianzhuo sighed, "Announce the news that I am here. If Prince Deng hears the news and can escape, he will definitely come here on his own."
Li Tianzhuo still knows Deng Yanan well enough.
After all, I have been in contact with him for almost two years.
Xiu Ming said that he was placed in the Jishidiang Medical Clinic, but the yamen runners did not find him.
Li Tianzhuo suspected that Deng Yan'an left on his own after waking up, and did not encounter any accident.
Moreover, it is very likely that he is still in Luoxia City.
Li Tianzhuo asked the prefect about a quiet place nearby, and asked someone to order a coffin, preparing to give Xiu Ming a grand burial.
It was done in a hurry, and Xiu Ming's coffin was made by three coffin shops together and completed in two days.
On the day of his funeral, Li Tianzhuo personally carried the soul-guiding banner for him and circled the entire Luoyan City so that all the people could see and worship together.
He even found people to cry at the grave and shouted his name all the way, hoping that Deng Yan'an, Deng Youning and others would hear it and come out to meet him.
When the funeral procession passed by Yuan's old residence, the earth-shaking cries and shouts were also heard clearly by Deng Youning and Ying Shi in the backyard.
"What happened? Who died?"
Deng Youning, who had already forgotten about Xiu Ming, Li Tianzhuo and the others, ran over and asked the maid beside her curiously.
The maid replied: "I heard that he was a guard beside Prince Changle. Prince Changle attached great importance to him. He entered Luoyan City yesterday and held a funeral for him this morning."
Deng Youning snorted, "How strange, shouting that person's name all the way, I don't know where this is a habit."
"Of course I am. I heard vaguely that the guard's name seemed to be... Xiu Ming... What a strange name, with a bad connotation!"
The maid's words made Deng Youning and Ying Shi feel like they were electrocuted.
Especially when Yingshi heard the word "Xiu Ming", her heart seemed to be squeezed by a pair of big hands, causing her pain and breathlessness.
Deng Youning felt the same way. Her heart skipped a beat as if she had lost something very important. She felt extremely lost.
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