Chapter 684: The Final Kill
The next morning.
After the envoy named Zhang Dajue made a "big fuss" in Liangzhou City and left a cruel remark "I, Dajue, will never let this matter go", he took people to escort Yan Huanwen's body out of the city.
They estimated that they would enter the Tianshan Mountains in a day, catch up with the Dajue army retreating northward a few days later, and then return to Dajue with the army.
By then, Yan Huaiqing would definitely wear mourning clothes and hold an extremely grand funeral for his father, and perhaps he would immediately build an imperial mausoleum to bury Yan Huanwen in it.
When the father died unexpectedly in a foreign land, the son built a tomb for him.
After all this trouble, Yan Huaiqing will undoubtedly transform himself into a good son and minister who is truly admirable, filial, and loyal.
And once he has done all this, he can naturally ascend the throne and become the new emperor of Dajue.
As for the person who took the blame for this, Ning Wenjun wrote a handwritten letter of apology and some symbolic compensation, and the matter was probably over.
After all, this was just an "accident".
I was ready to release the person, but who would have thought that I would encounter a prison break?
Besides, it was your emperor who ran around everywhere and mixed with the prisoners, which led to him being shot to death by arrows.
We are indeed sorry about this.
But that's all.
Otherwise, what else do you want to do? Fight again?
I have to ask your new emperor if he agrees. Of course, such a "perfect" accident would definitely arouse suspicion.
But now that the matter is done and Yan Huanwen is dead, those loyal ministers who once swore to follow him until death will surely make a wise decision.
If you still insist on getting an explanation, at best you will be dismissed from office and sent home, at worst you will lose your life.
In this case, it would be better to turn around and lean towards Yan Huaiqing and forget about this matter completely.
Anyway, they are all members of the Yan family, so it’s not a big problem.
In this way, after Yan Huanwen's death, Wei Changtian had fulfilled all his promises to Yan Huaiqing.
The latter did not do anything to destroy the bridge after crossing it.
Or it could be said that Yan Huaiqing no longer has the ability to "demolish bridges."
After all, after the sudden attack and siege of 200,000 elite troops of Ji State, Dajue's army was only left with more than 400,000 troops, which was already at a disadvantage in terms of military strength compared to Daning.
What's more, Ji State is located between Dajue and Tianshan Mountain. If it is not taken down quickly, the supply of more than 400,000 people in Dajue will soon be a problem.
Therefore, what Yan Huaiqing needs to consider now is not whether he can launch a "comeback", but how to swallow up the entire Ji Kingdom in the shortest time possible.
Because of this, the Dajue army retreated northward faster than expected.
Just five days later, the vanguard army had already left the mountain and immediately engaged in a fierce battle with the defenders of Ji State's Nanshan County City.
Wei Changtian was not interested in knowing how they fought.
He only knew that he would be able to return to Shuzhou in a few days.
Well, there is one more thing before that.
Now that Yan Huanwen is dead, Dajue's army has withdrawn from Tianshan, and the teleportation array is under his complete control. Then the hostages Chu Xianping and Tang Chen should be exchanged back.
February 29th, Tianshan Mountains, Mountain God Temple.
This year is a leap year, and February has 29 days.
At noon on the last day of February, Wei Changtian brought Li Zimu and Tang Chen to the mountain temple to prepare for the "hostage exchange".
Now that both sides of the teleportation array are controlled by the Shu army, there will be no accidents in this exchange.
Therefore, the order of exchange became unimportant, and the two parties decided on it after a brief discussion.
At noon, Tang Chen will first be teleported from the Mountain God Temple to the Purple Mountain Temple.
Immediately afterwards, Chu Xianping will be teleported from the Zishan Hall to the Mountain God Temple.
Then, the exchange ends.
If everything went well, the whole process would be completed in less than a minute, so Wei Changtian even promised Liang Qin that he would rush back for dinner.
In fact, if it wasn't for welcoming Chu Xianping, he didn't want to come here at all .
Turning his head to look at the copper clock in the corner, Wei Changtian moved his gaze to Tang Chen with the mentality of "since I'm here, I have to say a few words."
"After today's separation, I don't know when we will meet again."
"There is no personal grudge between you and me. Now the conflict between Ningjue and the other countries has been resolved. Therefore, even if we are not friends yet, at least we are no longer enemies."
"If you have nothing to do in the future, you can always come to Dashu to find me and take a look at the customs and practices of Dashu."
"I will do my best to be a good host then."
“.”
Ever since the conversation with Tang Chen that day, Wei Changtian had given up the idea of recruiting the latter for his own use.
So what he said now were just polite words, just to kill time and avoid the embarrassment of just standing there.
Tang Chen, on the other hand, also responded politely with some polite words. His words and actions were no longer nervous, and could even be said to be very natural and calm.
"Master Wei, thank you for your care these days."
"If I have the chance, I will definitely go to Dashu and visit you. I will bother you then."
“.”
After a few polite words, the needle of the clepsydra pointed to noon.
Looking at the dark and deep black fog in front of him, Tang Chen bowed to Wei Changtian.
"Master Wei, goodbye."
"Um."
Wei Changtian nodded and watched Tang Chen walk step by step to the black fog.
Wait a minute. Something doesn't feel right.
Something seems to be missing Turning his head to look at Li Zimu who had a complicated look beside him, Wei Changtian now understood what was wrong.
It seems that Li Zimu has not said anything the whole time!
What's wrong?
If the honey trap fails, we won’t even be friends anymore?
They're leaving, you could at least say goodbye! Are you just standing there like this?
Wei Changtian curled his lips, too lazy to care about Li Zimu, and shifted his gaze back to Tang Chen.
The latter suddenly stopped at this moment, turned his back to Wei Changtian and Li Zimu and said softly: "Master Wei, don't forget what you promised me."
"Thank you, Miss Li."
“.”
Not "goodbye", not "see you later".
At the last moment when Tang Chen was about to part with Li Zimu, he actually used the word "thank you".
Thank you? Thank you for what? Wei Changtian was completely confused and didn't understand what Tang Chen meant.
However, Li Zimu seemed to understand and suddenly took a step forward and ran towards Tang Chen.
Judging from her posture, Wei Changtian originally thought that she was going to give Tang Chen a hug to “retain” him.
But in the end, Li Zimu only stopped half a step behind Tang Chen, then lowered his head and took out a handkerchief from his sleeve.
"Mr. Tang"
He called out softly, but Li Zimu seemed very timid and spoke in a very low voice.
When she saw Tang Chen turned around, she raised her handkerchief slightly higher.
"This is the handkerchief you lent me."
"I'll give it back to you."
“.”
Returning the handkerchief before leaving, at first glance, is undoubtedly an act of "drawing a clear line".
This is how Tang Chen understood it at first, so even though he had taken the initiative to give up Li Zimu, a hint of pain still flashed in his eyes.
However, just as he took the handkerchief with a bitter look on his face and his eyes swept across the silk surface, he suddenly froze in place as if struck by lightning.
The black hair hangs down, covering the beautiful woman's eyes.
I saw a small line of embroidered words on the originally empty silk surface.
The embroidered characters are not big, the workmanship is rather rough, and there are even signs that the stitches have been unstitched and re-embroidered several times, which shows that the needlework of the person who embroidered the characters is not very good.
But judging from the fine stitches, the person who embroidered the words was extremely serious.
More importantly, the dark red bloodstains undoubtedly showed how much "price" she paid to embroider this word.
The content of this line of small words conveys the most unspeakable feelings.
With just one glance, all emotions burst out.
"Mr. Tang"
"We are not destined to be together in this life, but we will be together again in the next life"
(End of this chapter)
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