To his surprise, the third prince, who had died alongside the Duke of Ningguo on the day the city fell, returned to the capital unharmed.
He even personally testified that his father's arrogance and autocratic behavior led to the annihilation of 200,000 troops and countless civilian casualties.
Ning Yue narrowly escaped death and brought Tantai Haoze back to the capital, but before he could even report back, he heard the news that his entire family had been imprisoned.
The most unbelievable thing is that even though the Crown Prince was still by his side, there was another person in the palace who looked exactly like him accompanying the emperor.
Even a fool would know that the Third Prince and the Crown Prince have something going on.
He wanted to go to the palace to meet the emperor and explain these matters, but he found that he had become a wanted man.
Helpless, he could only take Tantai Haoze and leave the capital first.
Then came the relentless pursuit.
No matter how good Ning Yue's martial arts are, he is still a young man after all.
He clearly sensed that the people chasing them were not ordinary martial arts masters, but rather like the cultivators he had encountered at the border.
He didn't know where these people came from, but he knew that the Crown Prince couldn't be harmed; otherwise, his Ningguo Duke's Mansion would never have a day to clear his name.
After the last guard died protecting them, Ning Yue made a tough decision to disguise herself as a mute girl and sell herself with Tantai Haoze, thus temporarily escaping disaster.
After Ning Yue finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Tantai Yueming.
Not only is he the carefree king of the Great Chu, but he is also a cultivator himself. Tantai Haoze had previously told him that his royal uncle was very powerful and hoped that he could help him.
The Ning family is a family of loyal martyrs. Even if they were to die, they should not die a cowardly death in prison, but should guard the frontier and die on the battlefield like their ancestors.
That's right. Even though the Duke of Ningguo has died in battle and all the elderly, weak, women and children of the Ning family have been imprisoned, Ning Yue has never thought of betraying the court.
He remained loyal to the emperor and protected his master; otherwise, he might have killed the little boy to vent his anger as soon as he learned that the Ning family had all been imprisoned.
Actually, Lin Jiujiu didn't quite understand the blind loyalty of the ancients, but she still approved of Ning Yue's character.
Tantai Yueming seemed unsurprised after hearing Ning Yue's words.
Instead, he patted him on the shoulder and said...
"Since Jiu Jiu is willing to take you in, you can stay here with peace of mind. You don't need to worry about the people from the Ningguo Duke's Mansion. Putting them in prison is actually to protect them."
The Duke of Ningguo is with the Third Prince; I have already arranged for someone to escort him back to the capital.
"The matter concerning the Duke of Ningguo's mansion will soon be cleared of injustice, and then you will all come back to the capital with me."
Lin Jiujiu was not surprised to hear Tantai Yueming's words.
Logically speaking, people from the immortal cultivation world wouldn't come to the mortal realm unless they had a reason.
Even if they come, they will leave immediately after finishing their business, as the thin spiritual energy here is not conducive to their cultivation.
Tantai Yueming followed Baili Chenyuan around all day, acting as if nothing was wrong. She had nothing to do but run to her house every day, which was strange in itself.
She had long since realized that although Tantai Yueming and Baili Chenyuan knew each other, it was mostly Tantai Yueming who was more outgoing and familiar with each other.
Baili Chenyuan's cultivation level was unlike that of Tantai Yueming, whose cultivation world had not seen anyone ascend for ten thousand years.
There is only one possibility: the two met in the mortal realm, or encountered each other by chance on their way to the mortal realm, and then traveled together.
Now that I hear what Tantai Yueming said, many things make sense.
Ning Yue was moved to tears upon hearing Tantai Yueming's words and could no longer hold back his sobs.
No matter how strong he is, he is still just a teenager, about the same age as Lin Luo.
Lin Luo was still being pampered by her parents, spending her days either catching fish in the river or climbing trees to steal bird eggs.
But he had already fled thousands of miles with a child, having faced life and death several times.
That kind of tenacity is something that not everyone can do.
To evade capture, he even disguised himself as a man. For someone his age, when his pride was at its peak, to be able to be so flexible and adaptable was no small feat.
The more Lin Jiujiu looked at Ning Yue, the more she felt that he was a good candidate for cultivation.
After Ning Yue was released, Lin Jiujiu asked Tantai Yueming to take the two of them down to settle them in.
Also, return Ning Yue and Tantai Haoze's indentures to them.
Anyway, none of them are their real names, so there's no point in keeping them. Consider it a favor.
After Tantai Yueming took the two away, Lin Jiujiu realized that Baili Chenyuan had no intention of leaving.
Lin Jiujiu ignored him and instead asked Yang Li, who had been stunned by one unbelievable message after another from the very beginning.
Lin Jiujiu waited until he came to his senses before asking the question.
"Yang Li, tell me about yourself."
Yang Li looked confused, not knowing what she meant.
However, Lin Jiujiu was not in a hurry. She picked up her teacup and drank water, letting him think it over himself. It wouldn't be too late to talk about it after he figured it out.
Time passed slowly, and beads of sweat appeared on Yang Li's face.
Only he himself knew the turmoil in his heart.
He didn't know how much Lin Jiujiu knew, nor did he know what would happen to him if he revealed it.
After all, he was neither a prince nor a member of the royal family, and he feared that what awaited him was being ruthlessly abandoned after his secret was exposed.
He didn't know if he could gamble, or what the consequences would be if he lost.
Yang Li was conflicted, but Lin Jiujiu was not in a hurry and just waited quietly.
Finally, unable to bear the inner torment any longer, Yang Li gritted his teeth and revealed his secret.
It turns out that he was originally a wealthy merchant from Jiangnan. Because his family business was so large, he had the idea of expanding into the capital.
He put in a lot of effort and spent a considerable amount of money to establish connections with the capital.
He came to Beijing with great sincerity, hoping that this trip would allow him to further expand his business empire.
Unexpectedly, they never intended to cooperate with him; instead, they wanted to take over the entire Yang family.
On his first day in the capital, he was invited into a house by a group of unidentified people.
For the next twenty days, he was trapped inside, with people guarding the house closely and preventing him from leaving or coming out.
He tried several times to meet the owner of the house, but was turned away each time.
Some even warned him not to even think about running away.
Not only that, those people also took away all his household registration documents, travel permits, and the like.
During this time, he tried to contact the guards he had left outside.
As a result, the heads of those guards appeared in his room that very night.
He dared not contact anyone else, and could only pray that his family would discover he was missing and report him to the police as soon as possible.
He originally thought that no matter how powerful those people were, they couldn't possibly bypass the government offices.
However, as time went by, he grew more and more desperate.
Until one day, the kite he had made by hand for his daughter before leaving home appeared in his room, stained with countless bloodstains, clearly spilled on it.
And on that day, he finally met the owner of the courtyard.
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