C1961 Final volume
Article 76
Ren Fang summoned more than three thousand elite soldiers, Xiao Xiang's guards also numbered more than a thousand. With the two sides added together, there was a total of nearly five thousand soldiers.
There was nothing to say on the way to Jin Mansion, so the five thousand soldiers quickly spread out and surrounded the Jin Mansion tightly. Soon, several burly, burly men rushed out from the army and carried two iron-clad wooden stakes.
BOOM! Following a deafening explosion, the Jin Mansion's main gate shattered, and soldiers poured in from the outside.
Before the Domestic Servant s and guards of the Jin Mansion could figure out what exactly happened, they were all stupefied when they saw so many soldiers rushing in.
The Generals in the middle shouted, "I am under the orders of the Fifth Princess to apprehend the person who committed the crime against Jin Liren. As for those who have nothing to do with this, quickly retreat.
Hearing that the troops were sent by Fifth Princess, the Domestic Servant and the guards became even more flustered, and did not dare to stop them anymore. All of their faces were pale, and they retreated in fright.
Almost without any fighting, Ren Fang's soldiers controlled the entire Jin Manor.
When Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang entered the Jin Mansion, being escorted by a large group of guards, there were immediately some generals who ran over and paid their respects. With a serious tone, they said: "Princess, General, we have already taken control of the Jin Mansion, Jin Liren is currently in his room, but..."
"But what?" Ren Fang walked without stopping, and asked as he walked in.
"However, Jin Liren's wife and children are not in the Palace." The high-ranking officer whispered.
"Eh?" Ren Fang raised his eyebrows, and just as he was about to ask, Xiao Xiang sneered: "He must be worried that the matter will be exposed and implicate his wife and children. He must have hidden his wife and children first."
That high-ranking officer cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness's words are extremely true!"
Ren Fang nodded, and did not question further, and followed Xiao Xiang straight back to his bedroom. At this time, Jin Liren's bedroom was already surrounded by hundreds and thousands of soldiers.
Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang walked to the front of the door and looked inside. Jin Liren was dressed in a military uniform, a silver helmet on his head, silver armour, and a white inner coat. On the outside, there was a white cape, and a long sword slung over his waist.
He turned his back to the door, facing the mural on the wall, and knelt on the floor. After looking at Jin Liren's back and seeing that he did not have any intentions of resisting, Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang decided to walk into the room.
Just as they were about to cross the threshold, Jin Liren who was kneeling on the ground suddenly spoke out: "Don't come in."
Hearing his words, Xiao Xiang's guards all pulled her back as they thought that there was some sort of trap in the room. Ren Fang stood in place without moving. Looking at Jin Liren, he faintly sighed, cupped his hands, and said: "General Jin, it's been a long time."
Jin Liren just snorted and did not say a word. Ren Fang took a deep breath and said: "I have always been puzzled, but I have never had any gaps or grudges with General Jin, so why would General Jin do such a thing?"
Without answering his question, Jin Liren spoke as if he was talking to himself: "I knew it, you all would definitely come looking for me. It's just that I didn't expect you all to come so soon."
"General Jin, you still haven't answered my question!" Ren Fang's face became gloomy and cold, as he shouted out.
"That's right, I have no enmity with the Chief General, but many times, things that people do are done without their own will." Jin Liren laughed bitterly.
"General Jin is saying that someone instructed you to do so. May I ask, who is that person?" Ren Fang focused and asked.
Jin Liren suddenly moved, he lowered his hand and slowly unsheathed the sword at his waist, placing it across his knees, then holding onto the sword hilt, he slowly pulled the sword out.
"General, be careful!" The surrounding soldiers could see everything clearly, and quickly surrounded and moved forward, wanting to pull Ren Fang away. Ren Fang waved to the surrounding people, telling them not to worry, and left.
Jin Liren raised his sword, raised his head, and looked at it carefully, muttering: "This sword, was bestowed by the Former King, to be able to die under this sword, it is worth it!" As he spoke, he suddenly stood up straight. At the same time, he turned around.
Seeing the crowd of soldiers outside, as well as Xiao Xiang who was in the middle of the crowd and Ren Fang who was standing in front of the door, he immediately laughed out loud.
Ren Fang clenched his teeth, and asked once more: "General Jin, let me ask you, who exactly ordered you to do this?"
Jin Liren's wild laughter became louder. After a long while, he stopped laughing, looked straight into Ren Fang's eyes, and said slowly: "Didn't General Ren already have the answer in his heart? "Why do you ask?"
"It's really the Eldest Young Master?!" Ren Fang frowned, he was also clenching his fists tightly, he then asked: "Jin Liren, where are my family?"
"In the palace." Jin Liren blinked his eyes and replied nonchalantly: "In a dried up well in the palace, if you hurry there in time, they might still be alive, not dead from drinking or starving to death. Or perhaps, it's already too late."2
As he spoke, he lowered his head and began to seriously ponder.
Hearing that, Ren Fang's eyes turned red, he rubbed his intestines, his heart had shrunk, his own family was actually hidden by him in the well, and so many days had passed, did he have anything to eat or drink?
His body subconsciously leaned forward, his clenched fist already leaking blood. He angrily roared: "Which dried up well are you talking about?"
"A dry well is a dry well ?" Jin Liren lowered his head to look at the bright sword in his hand, then raised it and looked at Xiao Xiang who was behind Ren Fang. He took a deep breath and loudly said: "Even if this lowly general deserves to die a thousand deaths, I hope that Your Highness will forgive this lowly general's wife and son. As he spoke, he suddenly raised the sword in his hand, placed it horizontally across his neck, and sighed towards the sky. "Oh my king, I will be reunited with you in the future ?"
Before he finished speaking, the sword in his hand had already ruthlessly slashed down.
"Wait a moment ?" Ren Fang wanted to stop him, but it was already too late. With a pfft sound, the sharp blade cut open Jin Liren's neck, and because he used too much strength, he even cut off the muscles on his neck, causing blood to flow out immediately. Clang! The longsword fell to the ground. Plop! Jin Liren's body also fell onto the ground.
"Jin Liren!" When Ren Fang rushed into the handle, all he saw was a body that was still twitching. Aiya! Ren Fang stomped his feet anxiously. The palace was so big, and there were so many dried up wells, how could he find the one that was hiding his family?
Just then, Xiao Xiang also walked into the room. She first looked at the corpse on the ground with a complicated gaze, then looked at Ren Fang, and said sternly: "General Ren, do not be anxious, I will bring you into the palace to save your family!"
"Thank you, Princess!" Ren Fang cupped his hands.
At this time, a bodyguard walked over and asked, "Your Highness, do we still need to investigate the whereabouts of Jin Liren's wife and children?"
Xiao Xiang looked down at the corpse once again, sighed, and shook her head: "Forget it, since sinful subject Jin Liren is already dead, then ? Let his family go! "
"Yes!" Your Highness! " The guard responded and left with a bow.
was guilty of heinous crimes, but that did not mean his family was guilty. Now that Jin Liren had committed suicide out of fear, there was no need to exterminate his family too.
Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang left a portion of the troops to search the Jin Manor, the two of them led the rest of the soldiers and rushed to the palace.
Even if they had urgent matters, ordinary soldiers would not be able to enter the inner parts of the palace. Ren Fang's subordinates were all left outside the palace, while Xiao Xiang brought her guards to enter.
After entering the palace, Xiao Xiang called Defence Minister over, asking him to gather the palace guards to assist them in their search of the various dried up wells in the palace.
This time, his own Deputy General had committed such a huge crime and even hid the hostage in the palace, but from the beginning till the end, he did not realize it, and thus, he was held directly responsible for this matter. Now that he was asked to assist in the investigation, Guan Ning did not dare be negligent, as if the person who was kidnapped was his parents.
With the cooperation of a large number of palace guards, their ability to do things was doubled. After less than an hour of investigation, the palace guards found Ren Fang's family members in a dried up well near the Cold Palace.
When Ren Fang's family was carried by the guards one by one from the bottom of the well, Xiao Xiang and Ren Fang had also heard the news and rushed over. Ren Fang's parents and children looked like they had crawled out of a coal heap. They were all black from head to toe and their faces and bodies were covered with pitch-black mud.
Seeing that his family members still had a breath of life left, Ren Fang's heart that had been raised in his throat finally dropped back to his stomach. Right now, he couldn't care less about whether or not they were dirty.
Following that, Xiao Xiang arranged for people to arrange for rooms in the palace, prepared food, tea and even Medical Officer to come over, and settle Ren Fang's family in the palace for the time being.
The safety of his family members allowed Ren Fang's tensed nerves to finally relax, and his face was naturally covered with fatigue.
These days, he had been walking around like a robot. He had barely slept a single night. Even an iron man would not be able to bear it, let alone a human being who was made of flesh and blood.
However, right now he still did not have time to rest or to reunite with his family. What he needed to do next was to surround and attack the Eldest Young Master Palace.
As matters stood, he had already fallen out with the Eldest Young Master. If they did not manage to get to the Eldest Young Master today, both he and Xiao Xiang would have terrible days ahead of them. Just as Xiao Xiang had said, it had already reached the point where it would be either the enemy's death or mine.
On the way out of the palace, Ren Fang kept thanking Xiao Xiang, it could be said that if Xiao Xiang didn't help him this time, he wouldn't be able to find his own family. Even if she got lucky and found them in the future, she would only be able to find a pile of dried up corpses.
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