"We are ordered to capture the traitor Gu Xinglang. Anyone who captures Gu Xinglang alive will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins and given a fiefdom—"
Suzaku's guards and Fengtian's palace guards shouted this sentence together.
The crowd that was desperately running north on the official road stopped, and the earth spirit in the pine forest pulled its finger out of Gu Xinglang's mouth.
"The rebel Hua Chunlin has been captured," a guard shouted at Jiang Zhuojun's instruction, "You civilians don't need to flee, the rebel Hua Chunlin has been captured alive!"
Jiang Zhuojun waved his hand to let Gu Shan come closer to him, and whispered: "Go back to the city quickly and tell His Majesty to comfort the people in the city as soon as possible. Gu Xinglang has seen the earth spirit."
Gu Shan whispered "yes" and ran towards Fengjing City.
Jiang Zhuojun stopped in front of the pine forest and pretended to order his guards, "Go back to the city and report to Her Royal Highness the Princess that someone outside the North City has seen Gu Xinglang. I am almost at the Shili Pavilion on the official road of the North City. Please come quickly, Princess."
"Yes," the guard responded loudly.
The earth spirit rubbed its wet fingers on Gu Xinglang's face and said, "Get up and follow me." Before Princess Linglong arrived at Shili Pavilion, they had to rush there first and then return to the Eternal Life Temple together.
The earth spirit stopped ringing the copper bell, and Gu Xinglang knelt without moving.
The Earth Spirit frowned, and suddenly rang the copper bell and ordered Gu Xinglang, "Follow me."
Di Ling held onto a tree trunk, gritted his teeth and endured the pain, then stood up tremblingly. The broken ribs had been reconnected by Di Ling himself, but being able to reconnect bones did not mean that Di Ling could eliminate the pain caused by the injury.
Gu Xinglang stood up from the ground only after he saw Di Ling stand up.
The earth spirit listened carefully to the noise outside the forest. The shouting of that team of soldiers was gradually fading away.
"Let's go," Di Ling ordered Gu Xinglang, and walked a few steps out of the forest. Looking back, he saw Gu Xinglang following him. Di Ling was relieved and carefully put the copper bell into his lapel. He led Gu Xinglang out of the pine forest and stood on the official road. Di Ling picked up a piece of clothing that someone had lost, threw it to Gu Xinglang, and said, "Put it on."
The copper bell did not ring, and Gu Xinglang just let the coarse cloth robe hang on his body and stood there motionless.
Di Ling had no choice but to take out the copper bell again, shaking it and saying to Gu Xinglang, "Put on this dress."
Gu Xinglang then put on the robe, his movements looked stiff, not like a living person.
Di Ling put away the copper bell, took Gu Xinglang and mixed into the crowd who were hesitating whether to go forward or back, and walked towards the direction of Shili Pavilion.
Commander Fang led the palace guards and shouted as they walked forward, while Jiang Zhuojun and his guards stood behind a convoy beside the official road. They watched Di Ling and Gu Xinglang walk over, and then the group followed.
When Di Ling and Gu Xinglang arrived at Shili Pavilion, news came from Fengjing City that the war in the city was over, the rebel Hua Chunlin was arrested, and Gu Xinglang fled. People turned back and returned home, after all, no one wanted to leave their hometown.
Di Ling waited in the Shili Pavilion for about two incense sticks of time, and only two waiters from Wuming Tower showed up. They were not senior employees who could be employed, but just young men who ran errands on weekdays.
"Where are the others?" Di Ling asked the two guys.
Both guys shook their heads at Di Ling.
Di Ling glanced at Gu Xinglang who was standing beside him with his head bowed, and said to the two men, "No more waiting, let's go."
A servant ran to buy a carriage for Di Lingxian, and Di Ling got in the carriage.
Jiang Zhuojun stood in the crowd not far away and saw with his own eyes Gu Xinglang following the single-horse carriage away.
Gu Xinglang knew that Jiang Zhuojun should be nearby, but now that Di Ling was no longer testing him, Jiang Zhuojun had no need to eliminate Di Ling's men, causing Di Ling to panic and leave in a hurry. Gu Sanshao followed the carriage and did not try to find Jiang Zhuojun. He left decisively.
Gu Lin waited until he could no longer see the figure of his third young master before he asked Jiang Zhuojun in a low voice, "General Jiang, is this done?"
Jiang Zhuojun hummed softly and ordered, "Let's go back to the city."
The group walked towards Fengjing City. When they passed the pine forest, they found Ruan Tian still lying on the official road.
Jiang Zhuojun asked the guards to step back and wait for him, and brought Gu Lin to Ruan Tian's side.
Ruan Tian lay on the ground motionless, apparently still unconscious.
Jiang Zhuojun glanced at the ground, raised his leg and kicked Ruan Tian. There were traces of crawling on the ground. Why was this woman pretending to be dizzy in front of him?
Ruan Tian screamed when Jiang Zhuojun kicked her.
Jiang Zhuojun followed up with a kick, causing Ruan Tian to flip over.
Ruan Tian's face was covered in blood, her mouth was swollen, and her entire face was deformed.
Gu Lin was surprised that Ruan Tian was awake at this moment, and asked, "You are awake?"
Ruan Tian crawled forward. She didn't know Jiang Zhuojun, but her instinct for survival drove her to try her best to stay away from Jiang Zhuojun.
Jiang Zhuojun took a step forward and stood in front of Ruan Tian.
Ruan Tian looked up at Jiang Zhuojun, speechless, but crying so hard that her tears washed away the blood on her face, revealing two fair cheeks.
Gu Lin walked to Jiang Zhuojun's side and asked in a low voice: "General Jiang, do you want to take her back to the city?" The Third Young Master didn't have to kill this woman, so what should he do with her? Gu Lin didn't dare to make a decision on his own.
Jiang Zhuojun looked at Ruan Tian coldly and said, "You are just so pretty."
Gu Lin..., this woman is like a ghost now, what kind of beauty can be seen in her?
Ruan Tian wanted to crawl back again. The severe pain made her unable to hear the conversation between Jiang Zhuojun and Gu Lin, but Ruan Tian knew that Jiang Zhuojun was in danger.
Jiang Zhuojun watched Ruan Tian crawling backwards, but did not stop her. He just asked Gu Lin, "Didn't your master tell her to die?"
Gu Lin said: "But my third young master is gone."
On the official road, the sound of hurried horse hooves came from the direction of Fengjing City.
When Gu Lin heard the sound of horse hooves, he quickly said to Jiang Zhuojun, "It must be that the emperor has sent troops over."
"Woo," Ruan Tian felt that she had tried her best to crawl, but when she looked up, she found that she was still lying at Jiang Zhuojun's feet, and she sobbed. After her fantasy of love was shattered by Gu Xinglang, she wanted to see Gu Xinglang ruined. She said that for her father's life, she had to obey the people who took her father away. This was just a legitimate reason for her to take revenge on Gu Xinglang, but now, love or hate, it didn't matter to Ruan Tian, she just wanted to live.
Jiang Zhuojun looked indifferent and stepped on Ruan Tian's neck.
Gu Lin opened his mouth and took a step back.
At the last moment before her death, Ruan Tian was still struggling. She really didn't want to die.
Jiang Zhuojun stepped down.
The sound of the larynx breaking was not obvious, and almost no one heard it on the noisy official road.
A piece of unbroken bone pierced out from under the skin, tearing a big hole in Ruan Tian's slender neck from the inside out. The young lady of the Ruan family died silently on the official road outside the north city of Fengjing.
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