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Among the people, the Eighth Prince who came out of nowhere and the Sixth Prince who sat on the throne alone in the palace formed two forces. The Eighth Prince won over the people by inciting the Ninth Prince to massacre the city and the Sixth Prince to be cowardly. He also brought up the witchcraft incident and insisted that he was framed. In addition, some of the Eighth Prince's former followers secretly supported him, so his power gradually expanded.
Those former Eighth Prince's followers had originally escaped the great disaster of the court's purge and were not caught. But they have been living in fear, always feeling uneasy, as if their lives were not their own, afraid that one day the court would remember this matter again and take them to see the King of Hell. This thought tortured them to the point of going crazy, so when an Eighth Prince suddenly appeared among the people and insisted that he was not dead, they felt like they had grabbed a life-saving duckweed, and their troubled hearts finally found their backbone, and they could not wait to rush to that force for refuge.
In the capital, the Sixth Prince Xuan Tianfeng has the Ninth Prince Xuan Tianming in the military and the Fifth Prince Xuan Tianyan who has returned to the court. In addition to the old subordinates and the loyal ministers of Emperor Tianwu, his power cannot be underestimated. But there is still a disadvantage. The fake Eighth Prince has gathered a lot of troops among the people, and there are also his original troops hidden in the territory of Dashun. At this time, there are as many as 100,000.
Of course, a mere 100,000 troops would not have any real impact on Dashun, but Dashun had always been reluctant to fight within its own territory, especially in the capital. Moreover, in the successive wars over the years, Dashun had recovered Qianzhou, half of ancient Shu, and now the entire Sui Dynasty. Countless soldiers and officials were sent to garrison at the borders and were transferred to participate in the defense of new territories, resulting in a lack of troops within the country. If hostilities really broke out near the capital, they would probably suffer.
Xuan Tianfeng said to his ninth brother: "Heavenly thunder must not be used within the territory of our country. Even firearms should be avoided as much as possible to avoid accidentally injuring civilians."
Xuan Tianming sighed and nodded. Yes! We can't hurt the people by mistake. These are the people of their own country! It's a pity that he knew that the Eighth Prince was fake, but he couldn't prove it to the world. When the Eighth Prince's face was peeled off, he realized that Zong Sui's mask technique might work. But on the one hand, he thought that after all, the court had announced the death of the Eighth Prince to the public, and on the other hand, he was busy walking east and didn't care about this side.
But I didn't expect that person to take advantage of this opportunity...
There is a deserted village between the capital and Xiaozhou. It looks desolate, but at night it is crowded with people. People who saw it said that the deserted village is haunted, so no one dared to go near it anymore.
However, where are the ghosts in this world? Hidden in that deserted village is the man wearing the human skin mask of the eighth prince Xuan Tianmo, the third prince of the Sui Dynasty, Li Guang.
At this time, Li Guang was in the basement under the deserted village, listening to his subordinates reporting on the situation on Zong Sui's side. From Xuan Tianming leading the army to massacre the city, to Xuan Tianhua being blown to death outside Tongcheng, to the rebellion of the Chunyu family in the capital of Zong Sui, Li Guang sighed repeatedly: "I have said it long ago, Li Jian is not fit to be an emperor? With his little knowledge, he dares to go against Dashun? He thinks he can be powerful just by clinging to Duanmu Anguo? Humph! Overestimating one's own abilities. Is Zong Sui gone? It doesn't matter, I didn't even want to help Li Jian to secure the throne. What I want is Dashun, even if I have to live my whole life with someone else's face. Even if it doesn't work, I will stir up the water of Dashun, I can't let Zong Sui lose it in vain. And that Li Kun is simply the death star of the Li family! The old man wanted to leave the throne to him wholeheartedly, but what happened? Humph! You all look down on me, didn't expect it? In the end, the one who can do his best for Zong Sui has to be this son you have always looked down on!"
He was furious, showing it on his face, causing the human skin mask to twist. When his subordinates looked at him, they felt that he was Li Guang, the third prince of Zong Sui, and Xuan Tianmo, the eighth prince of Da Shun. His face was unpredictable and uncertain, which made people feel cold all over.
Recently, a big event happened in the Right Prime Minister's Mansion. The maidservant beside Feng Tianyu ran in and said to her with joy: "Miss, Miss, good news, that Mr. Li proposed to the master and his wife, saying that he wants to marry you."
"What?" Feng Tianyu jumped up and down. "What kind of good news is this? Are you crazy, girl? What's wrong with Li Kun? Why is he proposing marriage? Doesn't he know his own status? He dares to propose marriage when he doesn't even care about his own life. Is he sick?"
Feng Tianyu was so angry that she walked around the room, making the maid dizzy. The little girl was also helpless, "Miss! Why did they propose marriage? It's because of you! Why don't you do something else on New Year's Eve? You have to drink with Mr. Li and talk with him by candlelight. Even I think you are interested in him, let alone a man."
"No way?" Feng Tianyu stroked his forehead, "I just felt that the capital was too depressing at that time, and there was no one in the mansion who could talk to me. I was just a temporary conscript who caught him! Why is he so self-indulgent?"
"But..." The little girl scratched her head. She felt that her young lady was quite special to Mr. Li. Although she always bullied him, generally speaking, her young lady would not bully anyone easily. In other words, the eldest daughter of the Feng family was the kind of person who would say, "If I don't like you, I won't say a word to you at all." But Mr. Li had been in the mansion for more than a year, almost two years, and the eldest daughter had quite a lot of interactions with him. She bullied him, but she couldn't bear it afterwards, and always found some reasons to give him some sweet treats. For example, when Mr. Li cut his hand while chopping wood, the young lady actually stole the medicine collected by the master and gave it to Mr. Li. Who would believe that she had no interest in him?
But Feng Tianyu refused to admit it! She said, "Li Kun is a poor man, and I am the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Why should I marry her when there are so many other people to marry? There is only one Prime Minister in Dashun now, and my father has a high status!"
"Miss!" The maid sighed, "Do you know who the two most famous troublemakers in the capital are? They are you and Miss Ren from General Pingnan's mansion."
"What do you mean? Are you saying that we can never get married?" Feng Tianyu stamped her feet in anger, "Even if I die in this mansion, I will never marry that Li Kun! He can't even protect himself, why would he marry me?"
"But the master seems to be quite in favor of it!" The maid said, "The madam also thinks that you two are suitable."
"How can it be appropriate? Is my father getting senile? Oh my God! If he is really confused, he should not come to court anymore! It will not be good to delay state affairs." She pinched her waist and rushed to the yard, staring at one direction and said fiercely: "Damn Li Kun, even if my parents agree, I will never agree!"
"Why? Miss, don't you two get along well? I have never seen you get along so well with any other gentleman."
"We may get along, but marrying him is another matter." Feng Tianyu pulled the girl over and said seriously, "Do you know where his home is? His home is in Zongsui, which is very far away. It takes several months to walk from his home to our capital. What do you think my parents would do if your daughter married to a place like that? It's so far away that it's hard to come back. Although Zongsui is now the territory of Dashun, I still feel bad. It's too far, really too far."
"Uh...Miss." The maid came closer, "Is it because of the long journey that you don't want to get married?"
Feng Tianyu was a little embarrassed and waved his hand, "Not bad, it's about the same!"
"Then don't hesitate, young lady. Just get married! Mr. Li said that if he doesn't go back to his hometown, he will stay in our Prime Minister's Mansion and become a son-in-law."
"What?" Feng Tianyu didn't understand at first. "Live-in son-in-law?" Is Li Kun crazy? Is it so easy to be a live-in son-in-law? A daughter-in-law has to look at her mother-in-law's face every day after entering the house. Does Li Kun want to look at her father's face every day? But think about it again, it seems that Li Kun has seen this kind of thing of looking at her father's face for nearly two years. Is he used to it?
She was speechless. If she could stay at home for the rest of her life, without having to serve her mother-in-law or look at the faces of her husband's aunts and uncles, this would not be a bad thing! Compared to being a married daughter, marrying a son-in-law is what she really wants, right? But... Feng Tianyu calmed down. Although it was good to have a son-in-law, Li Kun must not be another Bu Cong...
Duanmu Anguo, who was brought back from Zong Sui, was now placed in the dungeon of the Prince Yu's Mansion. In Xuan Tianming's words, this dungeon had never been used since it was set up, because generally speaking, few people could anger him enough to make him bring people back and toss them in this dungeon to torture them. Therefore, Duanmu Anguo was considered to have cut the ribbon for the dungeon, and his wailing in the dungeon all day long became a unique scene in the Prince Yu's Mansion.
How can it be called a scene? Because Feng Yuheng also made Duanmu Anguo into a drug man, just like Qian Zhou tortured Feng Zhaolian, soaking him in a large water tank filled with potions that can make people neither male nor female. People can't die, but can only live in endless pain, watching their bodies change little by little, but there is no one to help.
With Feng Yuheng's special care, Duanmu Anguo is much more miserable than Feng Zhaolian. Feng Yuheng personally removed the tendons of his hands and feet, and now he is a disabled person. Originally, they wanted to cut off his limbs to make him a human pig, but Feng Yuheng thought that was too disgusting, so he didn't do it. The potion he was soaked in was transparent, more advanced than the one Feng Zhaolian used at the beginning, and it was all made by Feng Yuheng. The water tank he was soaked in was also made of glass. Duanmu Anguo had never seen such a material before. He just felt that everything Feng Yuheng did was so weird, including the scary mirror that was always in front of him.
The water tank was not big, so his movements were restricted and he felt very uncomfortable. Feng Yuheng was afraid that he would not be able to observe the changes in his body in time, so he placed a dressing mirror as tall as a person in front of him. The mirror in later generations showed Duanmu Anguo's current situation clearly, so much so that the old thief collapsed and screamed in front of the mirror countless times.
Finally one day, Duanmu Anguo discovered that the male feature under him had shrunk into a small ball the size of a fingernail, his skin had turned white, his beard had fallen off, and even his roaring voice had become sharper...
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