In Lingyun City, Lord Yunyang spent the darkest period of his life.
No one came to attack, but Fang Shisan sent a large army to set up camp outside Lingyun City, and surrounded the impregnable main city. Lord Yunyang didn't know what was going on outside at all, and the only remaining masters in his hands didn't have the ability to break out of the encirclement. Instead, Lord Yunyang had to worry day and night whether they would exchange his head for money on a whim.
In panic, Lord Yunyang slowly understood Yuxi City's intentions in doing so.
On the one hand, attacking Lingyun City is very difficult, but besieging Lingyun City is not difficult. As long as the food and grass in Lingyun City are exhausted, no matter how strong the city is, it will not be destroyed by itself. On the other hand, as long as Lingyun City has not been captured, Li De can declare to the outside world that the ownership of Yunyang is undecided, and argue with other territories and the royal family.
But even if you understand, what can you do
The lord of Yunyang was lying on the empty bed, and all his beautiful wives and concubines were gone. Since he found out that a concubine was having an affair with a certain guest three days ago, he drove away everyone around him, locked himself in the room every day, and thought about ways to break the situation. At this time, he didn't know that most of the cities chose to surrender without resistance at all, and he planned to use those cities that were nominally under his control as collateral to counterattack the west city with the help of external forces. But the problem was that the news couldn't get out, and the dark army outside Lingyun City almost completely cut off his communication with the outside world.
Gradually, Lord Yunyang stopped thinking.
No matter how much he didn't want to admit it, at this moment he was facing a checkmate situation. The lord of Yunyang began to recall his past life, from being famous at a young age but dominating the battlefield, to drinking strong wine with pride and holding warm and fragrant soft jade in his arms. But then what? After the Cangzhou lord's uprising was suppressed, everything seemed to have changed. Countless praises flocked to him, and the title of wise lord was worn on his head like a crown.
Swords, spirits, beauties, good horses, rare beasts, hymns... who doesn't like these things? However, since when did I start to be fascinated by these things and frantically amass money at all costs, so that the power of the people in Yunyang is declining day by day, to the point where the people are struggling to survive
After taking a sip of wine, Lord Yunyang gasped heavily. He still can't figure it out, there are many lords who are more greedy than himself, but why they can still sit in the lord's position, why should he be forced to this position? He has raised Li De for so many years, and he said that his son never blamed his father. Why did Li De rebel against him? Even if I am wrong in every way, as long as I have the name of a father, wouldn't it be natural to beat him and scold him
Even if the relationship between father and son is not real.
Suddenly, Lord Yunyang laughed.
He thought again of that rainy night eighteen years ago, the thunder was rolling, and the silver-white lightning exploded outside the window, briefly illuminating the darkness in the house. There was a baby sleeping soundly in the swaddle, but the baby's mother knelt down on the ground, tightly hugging Lord Yunyang's leg, begging him to let her live.
"I didn't betray the lord, and I don't know why I got pregnant—"
The woman with a hoarse voice kept repeating this sentence, tears stained her face.
It's a pity that it's not Lord Yunyang who can call the shots. The young Lord Lord could only swallow a mouthful of saliva, turned his head with a little horror, and looked at the tall mysterious people wearing masks and cloaks. . Those guys were exactly the same height, and there was no difference in their voices, only the masks on their faces portrayed different expressions, which looked extremely hideous and terrifying on a rainy night.
In their words, there is an irreversible power of Lord Yunyang:
"Kill... that woman..."
"Children... keep them until they are twelve years old... then someone will come..."
"This matter, only you can know... If it gets out..."
At that time, Lord Yunyang was panting with difficulty, and stabbed down heavily.
Blood splattered everywhere, even on the baby's face.
"I have killed people, can you leave now?"
Lord Yunyang said in a low tone.
He turned his head and looked behind him.
However, behind him was a void. There is nothing, no furniture, no people, nothing. Blood was still splattered on the wall, and it seemed that no one was standing there from the beginning, only he was talking to himself.
Lord Yunyang looked around, but there was no sign of the man in black anywhere. So he laughed, laughed and dropped the knife in his hand, looked at the woman's body lying at his feet, and spit on her face. Obviously, in this secret room, it is impossible for even tenth-layer masters to communicate so silently. Lord Yunyang began to suspect that those men in black just appeared out of anger when he found out that this woman was messing around outside. hallucinations.
So he raised the knife again, aiming at the baby in the swaddle—that bastard who didn't know who it was.
But at the moment when the knife was about to fall, a thunderbolt exploded in the lord's mansion, hitting the courtyard not far away. Windows were shattered with a high-pitched sound. Lord Yunyang looked over there, but saw the figure of the man in black again among the glass shards illuminated by the thunder.
Those guys seemed to have never gone far, standing behind him all the time.
Lord Yunyang was so frightened that he dropped the knife in his hand and fled staggeringly.
He didn't tell anyone about this.
Anyway, in the huge Lord's Mansion, one more person is not too many, and one less person is not too many. Over the years, Lord Yunyang has never looked directly at the child named Li De. He knows that the child has been suppressed in various ways in the Lord's Mansion because he lost his mother, but he is too lazy to care about it. He didn't bother to take care of Lide's monthly routine in the warehouse, he didn't bother to care about the evil servants teasing Lide, and he didn't bother to care about other brothers and sisters playing with Lide like a fool. Anyway, the man in black never showed up again, and no one came to pick him up when he was twelve years old. The Lord Yunyang just thought that the men in black were dead, and that Lide would fend for himself. .
Looking back now... Almost when Lide was twelve years old, his whole person seemed to have changed.
He will laugh. He would block all conspiracies and schemes with a smile, take revenge on all the servants who bullied him with a smile, touch girls' buttocks on the street with a smile, just like a dandy. Lord Yunyang's dislike towards him was also accumulating. Finally, after confirming that those men in black seemed to have no intention of coming to lead people, Lord Yunyang felt that it would be better to let Lide be the whetstone of the eldest son Liyi.
At the beginning, Liyi assassinated Lide more than 120 times a year, all of which were done under the behest of Lord Yunyang.
In a flash, it has been two years since Li De left Lingyun City.
Now that he's back, he wants to take back everything that belongs to him—
Lord Yunyang shook his hand, and the wine glass smashed to the ground.
While half asleep and half awake, he heard someone enter the house, kneeling in front of him, and said in a panicked voice:
"Fang Shisan, Fang Shisan is attacking the city!"