The armor stepped on the ground and made a rumbling sound.
Southern Chu is going to be in chaos, this is a vague thought in the minds of the people at the bottom. The bloody turmoil caused by the bloody clothes case started from Jiang Yuesheng's imprisonment to the death of Jiang Yuesheng, and it still hasn't ended. During this period, there have been countless speculations, such as the master and party Jiang Yue made a move, the main war faction blamed the master and faction, a third party wanted to cause chaos in Southern Chu, the lord was looking for an opportunity to weaken the power of the nobles, and so on.
The people who wandered around in the teahouse just listened to the music.
Some people are running around for Jiang Yuesheng.
Jiang Yuesheng's wife and granddaughter knelt in front of the lord's mansion holding the bloody robe, but the closed door did not open. The lord of Southern Chu maintained his due mystery, and did not appear on the stage until this time, leaving only a sentence of advice or hint:
"Old general, I don't want you to kneel here."
The whole of Southern Chu knew the lord's indifference, and also knew that there was no result in this case. The veterans under Jiang Yuesheng acted spontaneously, running around for this case, trying to find some way out. They don't care what conspiracy is behind this case, they just want to save the life of the general they once followed.
In the end, Jiang Yuesheng's granddaughter, Jiang Lianqing, couldn't afford to have a high fever after kneeling for three days. Jiang Yuesheng's wife, the gray-haired old lady, stood up from the front of the lord's mansion after all, and tears fell to the ground. She took out the knife that had accompanied her all the way, cut her husband's beloved war robe in half, threw half in front of the gate of the Lord's Mansion, and wrapped the rest of her hot but trembling granddaughter, He shouted at the Lord's Mansion with a hoarse voice:
"My husband was blind back then and worked his life for you people! He shouldn't have saved you beasts in clothes and clothes. Were you satisfied when Southern Chu died? Is there any general in the past and present who lived as poorly as my husband? God damn it! Nan Chu, you are sorry for him, sorry for our family—”
Inside the room, a sandalwood pen holder made a crisp cracking sound.
Nan Chu in the shadows looked at the wound on his palm that was cut open by the splinters of wood, and sighed.
The gate of the lord's mansion was not opened until the end, and Jiang Yuesheng's wife returned with her granddaughter in a daze. Those who worked hard for Jiang Yuesheng only got the news that Jiang Yuesheng was dead in prison, and thousands of people cried in an instant. Regardless of the truth, most people in Southern Chu at this time are paying homage to this once legendary general. He has faded from people's sight for twenty years. No one knows what kind of suffering he has suffered in the past twenty years. No one knew what he was thinking before he died, whether he remembered the territory that he had fought for all his life.
After that, the atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.
The Lord's Mansion, the Zhuhe faction, and the main war faction all made no statement. Jiang Yuesheng's death was like a mud cow falling into the sea. At first, there was a huge wave, and then nothing was left. But smart people can still smell some wind and rain. The whole Nanchu is like a powder keg that is about to explode, but they don't know when it will explode.
Only the parties of the main war faction and the main peace faction know that there are indeed various difficulties that cannot be spoken to outsiders. Jiang Yuesheng's death was a crucial defeat for them. On the one hand, the public opinion of the people began to dissipate rapidly with Jiang Yuesheng's death—they are all dead, who cares about who stabbed the knife? On the other hand, because of Jiang Yuesheng's hasty death, the main war faction and the main peace faction also began to split.
At the critical moment, the two old men Xiang Jiqing and Xiang Ge Ling stood up again, called all the people involved in the plan, and told them a cruel fact: right now there is no room for retreat, and the lord of Nanchu and the son of Nanchu also They are not fools. Once this operation fails, they will definitely try to weaken the power of the nobles. At that time, the so-called first-class nobles and second-class nobles will all become a joke.
In addition, the nobles handed over the control of their own army to Xiang Zhiqing and Xiang Geling when they joined the gang, so there were no betrayers. Those who retreated were just hesitant, and in the end they gave in obediently under coercion and temptation.
After the news of Jiang Yuesheng's death spread, the blockade of Jinxiu City was naturally lifted. The city lord who took office after Xiang Tiange was named Xiang Kongting, and he was a person with inferior skills compared to Xiang Tiange. When he took office as city lord, news of Jiang Yuesheng's death had already spread, and he discussed with the staff brought by Kongting, and one of the staff said:
"It is not confirmed that Lide has left Fairview City, which means that Lide released the news before killing Jiang Yuesheng. At this time, it has no effect whether to block Fairview City. My subordinates feel that the city owner might as well lift the blockade of Fairview City. In this way... at least the safety of the city lord can be guaranteed."
After thinking about it, Xiang Kongting accepted this suggestion.
He was really scared.
The entire City Lord's Mansion was destroyed into a pile of ruins, or rather, with the City Lord's Mansion as the center, there was almost no grass growing within a few miles. The ground was full of cracks, and when he asked Kongting whether the guards around him were sure of stopping Lide's assassination, everyone who saw this scene shook their heads in shame.
If he didn't lift the blockade of the City Lord's Mansion, if Lide came to kill him again, his death would be in vain.
Xiang Kongting then announced that people were allowed to come and go freely, and then he didn't go to the city lord's mansion, he just rented an inn to stay there, and didn't care about world affairs every day, as if he was alone and beautiful. Lide didn't bother him either. In fact, Lide's injury hasn't healed yet.
After he left the city lord's mansion that day, the blood kept bleeding.
He carried Xiang Zhehua to an alley in the heavy rain, used his last strength to give Xiang Zhehua medicine, and then passed out. But because the little ghost is still there, Lide is not too worried that someone will harm him. After being in a coma for a whole day like this, Xiang Zhehua woke up first, and was startled when he saw Lide covered in blood, and immediately burst into tears.
One of her eyes was wrapped with a bandage, and there were many bandage marks all over her body. She was lying in a relatively dry place. Although her bones all ached, she could feel vitality from inside her body. But Lide was different, he was covered in blood, many exposed wounds were still not healed, and his body was frighteningly cold.
Xiang Zhehua didn't dare to go out from the alley easily, so she stayed by Lide's side all the time, only drank a little rainwater, and fell asleep several times from hunger. She didn't know anything about the outside world, and sometimes felt that this life was about to end here, and she also felt that it would be good to die with Lid like this.
Three days later, on a misty morning, Xiang Zhehua, who was hungry, was hugging Lide for warmth, and Lide finally woke up clutching his painful forehead.