Late at night on September 14, 2019, in the courtyard of Yanjia, West Lake, Fangfei's cheeks under the candlelight returned to a trace of blood. Ye Qing was still hugging her arms and heading downstairs.

The wind floated in from the broken window, with a faint smell of blood. The lights were brightly lit on the first floor at this moment. Zhong Can was carrying some blood on his body. Seeing Ye Qing go downstairs, he hurried over and said, "Sir, there are 73 assassins in total, and they didn't alarm the neighbors too much. These people are all innocent faces. They can't identify them. I'm afraid that they still need Tao Qian, the old man..."

"No need, Tao Qian should be fine in Tonghuifang Mansion. Since they are here, they will definitely not provoke Tao Qian, let alone we are not in Tonghuifang." Ye Qing frowned and walked outside the yard. Under the torches, he looked at the rows of corpses on the ground, and then sighed at the endless night and said, "Prepare the car and go back to Lin'an City."

"Now?" Zhong Can almost jumped up.

"Not bad." Ye Qing nodded and said.

"Sir, the night is dark and windy. I'm afraid it's unsafe along the way. It's better to tomorrow..." Zhong Can't help but be afraid that these assassins tonight are just the first group. If there are other people on the way back to Lin'an, it would be a bit passive.

"Tonight is over tonight, if you don't rush back to Lin'an City, you may be in chaos." Ye Qing smiled bitterly. These are things that were beyond expectations, but since they happened, they have to be resolved quickly and strive for peace and peace in Lin'an early tomorrow morning, and nothing happened before.

"Okay, then prepare the car here." Zhong Can looked at Ye Qing with a firm look and stopped talking nonsense. She hurriedly asked his subordinates to prepare the car and lead the horse, and then asked: "Sir, what should I do with these corpses? It's not auspicious to put them in the house."

"I don't have to pay attention, someone will come to clean it up." Ye Qing waved to Fangfei not far away. When Fangfei walked up to him, the carriage happened to be in front of him.

As Ye Qing brought Fangfei onto the carriage, there were almost a hundred soldiers from the flower planting family behind him. Under the leadership of Zhong Can, he escorted the carriage and lit torches and walked towards Lin'an City.

At this time, on the Gushan Mountain, the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ling looked at the West Lake, which was originally sleeping in the calm night. A bright torch suddenly lit up, with a sigh of regret in his expression. Before the footsteps could be heard behind him, he said without looking back: "I know, Ye Qing has a living mouth?"

"When the Supreme Emperor, there was no living seldom. All seventy-three people were killed. Only one ran back to the servant and reported that the assassination failed." Guan Li answered at Zhao Ling's old and lonely back at that moment.

"Well, I understand. This matter... let's stop here and deal with it cleanly." Zhao Xing looked at the increasingly smaller and smaller fires leaving West Lake, and sighed again and said.

"Yes, I will do it now." Guan Li's voice was still calm and his expression was respectful.

He couldn't guess why Ye Qing didn't leave a living mouth, nor why the Supreme Emperor just let Ye Qing go immediately, but he still knew that the only living mouth that came back from the news should follow the seventy-three people to the underworld.

The footsteps behind him gradually faded away, and the firelight in front of him gradually disappeared. Zhao Xing, who was about to merge with the night, murmured and said, "I am still filial in the end and I have not been able to get rid of Ye Qing's heart disease for you, my father."

At this moment, Zhao Xing couldn't help but appear in his mind. The words that Zhao Gou had said to him when he was dying, the Dali Temple change made Ye Qing fight a bloody way from Prince Xin's Mansion and arrive at Dali Temple, which made Zhao Gou no longer have the chance to execute Ye Qing.

This "heart disease" promoted by Zhao Gou naturally fell on Zhao Ling's shoulders. However, at that time, Zhao Ling only cared about sadness and cried, and kept the word and filial piety. Even the government affairs in the court were thrown away, so he didn't have time to pay attention to Ye Qing.

When Zhao Xing came to his senses and fulfilled his filial piety for more than two or three years, the court was far from what he was familiar with. In particular, Ye Qing had gone from a minister who had only made contributions to the royal family to a famous general who had made contributions to the Song Dynasty.

The achievements of regaining the four northern routes made it difficult for Zhao Xing to do anything to Ye Qing for a while. After all, if he really wanted to follow Zhao Gou's treatment of Yue Fei, then the people of the world would probably completely lose their confidence in the royal family, and Zhao Xing could not afford to execute a loyal and patriotic minister on false charges.

Moreover, at that time, he thought that Wang Huai was enough to get rid of Ye Qing for him, but who could have thought that Ye Qing would eventually defeat Wang Huai, which made Zhao Sheng go into battle personally under the circumstance of his last resort.

The affairs of the court were complicated. They had to inherit Zhao Gou's will from Ye Qing, and they had to face the prince's covetousness for the throne. At that time, Han Cheng and Zhao Ruyu became the first ministers to support the crown prince to succeed to the throne and abdicate themselves.

At that time, no one knew what he was planning. In short, Ye Qing did not make a fuss about supporting the crown prince ascending the throne. Instead, Han Cheng and Zhao Ruyu came out, which made it extremely difficult for Zhao Xing to question Ye Qing, and he could not even find an excuse.

According to the situation at that time, Ye Qing should have become the first person to support the crown prince ascend the throne. After all, in those years, everyone knew that he was very close to the crown prince. Even the guards of the crown prince's mansion were all elite soldiers and generals from the Imperial City Department.

But when it comes to supporting the crown prince ascending the throne, Ye Qing, who should have stood up at the first time, chose to retreat at this critical moment. Instead, Zhao Ruyu emerged with ambition, mixed with Han Cheng's eyes, seeing that the turmoil in the court had begun and the general trend was in full swing, if he did not express his opinion, he would probably have to stand up and support the crown prince with concerns that the position of the left prime minister would be lost.

Therefore, in such a complex situation and the situation where envoys from various countries came to congratulate the succession of the new king of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Xing had no extra thoughts to deal with Ye Qing. Moreover, Ye Qing was still on his side with a slightly vague attitude at that time, and even gave others the illusion that Ye Qing had turned against him from the prince's camp, the abdicated emperor.

At this time, Zhao Xing began to show a trace of regret in his heart. Zhao Gou's death had a huge blow to him, but the years he ignored the government affairs, which made him lose the confidence of the court ministers in him. This was also a fact, which made the court officials one-sidedly start to support the crown prince ascend the throne and advise him to abdicate.

"If I could be filial and take into account the affairs of the court, I would probably not end up in the current situation, nor would it make it so difficult to move Ye Qing." Zhao Xing's tone was a little helpless. Ye Qing is now far more powerful than in the previous two years. The more lost land in the north are recovered, the more difficult it will be to move Ye Qing.

Before Zhao Ruyu and Han Cheng reached the conditions for abdication. In front of Ye Qing, he agreed to let him go north to Liao Kingdom. Zhao Ling used all the imperial skills he could use, but the final result was still a failure, and he was still able to kill Ye Qing a little bit.

At this time, Zhao Ling gradually felt powerless towards Ye Qing. He had no choice but to do anything and didn't know how to fulfill his will. Zhao Gou was at dying.

Ye Qing was like an immortal bird. The carefully selected assassination of 74 people allowed him to leave West Lake safely. In the desperate situation of Jin Xia's tens of thousands of troops, he was still able to walk out of Guanshan safely and safely. He even had time to take over Guanshan and snatch the three Hetao routes back!

If Zhao Ruyu became the first or only clan prime minister since the founding of the Song Dynasty, and could be accepted by Zhao Gou, Zhao Ling and others, then it is obvious that Ye Qing became the first or only military general with military power since the founding of the Song Dynasty, which was obviously a court official and a royal family could not accept.

Zhao Gou promoted Ye Qing back then, and later, when Ye Qing was slowly getting rich, he had to clear it. Now, the royal family, it felt as hard as overthrowing a mountain to clear it. This is enough to show that it is not uncommon to be a court official to assist the three emperors and become the elders of the three dynasties. But like Ye Qing, who can still rise strongly under the hindrance of the three emperors, is incredible.

As the saying goes, the times create heroes. It can even be said that if Ye Qing had not coincided with the times, and in the complex court struggles and his cheating methods that were familiar with the direction of history, he would not have achieved such success today. I am afraid he had already followed Yue Fei's footsteps and was destroyed.

But then again, it happened to be at this historical turning point that seemed peaceful but actually had internal and external troubles. When people were busy pushing the direction of history to the familiar trajectory, almost all the loopholes of the times were drawn by him, thus creating the scene today under the times.

The Imperial Commander Lu Zhong and the Deputy Commander Wu Gui still follow his subordinates. Occasionally, he sighed about the history of the rise of the northern hero Ye Qing. The imperial guard coach, in just over a decade, has reached this point today. Lu Zhong always believed that it was he who gave Ye Qing a chance at that time, which made him soar into the sky.

So no matter when, Lu Zhong and Wu Gui always thought that they were the nobles of Ye Qing, the hero in the north. Now that the nobles knocked on the city gate, Lu Zhong and Wu Gui were still stunned for a moment.

"You mean... it's Lord Ye Qingye who wants to enter the city?" Lu Zhong's voice couldn't help but say a few degrees higher.

"Master Commander, this is a fish talisman. Mo General doesn't believe it, but the people outside the city claimed that he was the Privy Councilor Ye Qing." The general who guarded the city gate scratched the back of his head. When Lu Zhong couldn't control it, he continued: "Master, Mo General thought that eight out of ten were fake. If he was really the Privy Councilor Ye, how could he be so polite? According to what Lord Lu, you said, Lord Ye should be very... very that... right?"

"Say less a few words that cannot be killed. Close your mouth and take me to see." Lu Zhong was half-believing and half-doubted. He heard his subordinates talking about the people who were going to the city outside, but instead made him feel that it was Ye Qing's possibility that it was more.

The Privy Councilor of the Privy Councilor, whether it was back then or now, of course, the Privy Councilor of the Privy Councilor is no longer accessible to him, an imperial guard commander. However, since Ye Qing began to rise, he could still find out in the limited number of times he dealt with Ye Qing that Ye Qing always felt easy-going, polite, and polite. He was not as cruel and ruthless as those others said, with a ruthless, scheming and sinister face, and a fat figure like a hill. He always let his subordinates kill people, pick tendons, cut their tongues, etc.

He walked carefully and looked out through the window of the side door of the city gate. Lu Zhong looked out and saw a tall figure that was familiar and unfamiliar, paced back and forth in front of the city gate. Especially when he saw Ye Qing turn around, Lu Zhong's heart couldn't help but stop, and then hurriedly instructed his subordinates to open the city gate and welcome Lord Ye to the Privy Councilor.

The door finally opened. Before Ye Qing could look in, Lu Zhong took the lead in saluting him from a distance. When the soldiers behind him saw Lu Zhong's appearance, they naturally did not dare to doubt the identity of the young man shining under the torch not far away.

"I've been in command of Lu. I went to Gushan today. Because I discussed some things with the Supreme Emperor, I forgot about the time I went back to the city. It was so late at night that I disturbed Commander Lu." Ye Qing said with an easy-going smile.

"Where is the one who is the last person to do, but let the adults wait at the city gate for so long, and I hope he will atone for his sins." Lu Zhong's heartbeat involuntarily continued to jump faster. There was a confrontation between Donghua Gate and Jiahui Gate at this moment. He didn't know, otherwise, how could he still be consuming at the city gate at this time and would have gone home to sleep a lot.

So he instinctively always believed that Ye Qing was either in his mansion, at Donghua Gate or Jiahui Gate. He never expected that Ye Qing had actually rushed back from outside the city.

"Captain Lu is polite." Ye Qing stood beside the street, watching the hundreds of soldiers from the Huahua family, and the carriage carrying Fangfei into the city, then looked at Lu Zhong, and said, "If Commander Lu doesn't think that Ye is out of power, you might as well open all the city gates. I believe that in a while, someone will come to disturb Commander Lu's opening the city gate. How about it?"

"Okay, I will follow Lord Ye's instructions." Lu Zhong replied hurriedly. The more polite Ye Qing was, the more he felt unsure.

Logically speaking, Ye Qing would tell him what happened at Donghua Gate and Jiahui Gate tonight, just like when the emperor succeeded to the throne two years ago, when he and Han Tuozhou each led their troops to confront each other at Donghua Gate.

But this time, Ye Qing did not say hello to him or show him what to do tonight. So what he could do was to run far away and hide at the Genshan Gate opposite to Donghua Gate. Anyway, he could naturally be farther away from the palace and other places, the better.

"Okay, thank you, then." Ye Qing patted Lu Zhong's shoulders, whose beards were gray, and then got on the carriage.

Lu Zhong and Wu Gui looked at the carriage and got farther and farther away from more than a hundred soldiers with solemn expressions. Then they dared to let go of their breathing, and then looked at the open tall city gate together.

"Sir, this city gate is closed... or not?" asked the general who had just informed him.

Lu Zhong looked at the city gate from top to bottom, sighed and thought for a while, then looked at Wu Gui and said, "Let's open it. Since Lord Ye said it, then let's listen to Lord Ye, what do you think Commander Wu?"

"Let's open it. Since Lord Ye didn't mention it just now, it's not appropriate to pretend to be deaf and dumb again, isn't it?" Wu Gui's implication was that now, the Jiahui Gate was tense at Donghua Gate, and as an imperial guard, how could he not know at all? If he opens his eyes and tells lies, he will really treat those important officials in the court as fools.

"If it makes sense, I will immediately send someone to order the gates of Lin'an cities to be opened." Lu Zhong nodded and said.

Wu Gui personally called the general to send someone to inform other city gates. At this time, the general next to Lu Zhong looked at Lu Zhong, and saw that there was no one around, then asked in a low voice: "Sir, the tall young man just now is the Privy Councilor, and is known as the hero of the North..."

"Ask what should be asked, don't ask. That's right, he is Lord Ye, who will recover the entire northern part of Lord Ye Qingye." Lu Zhong turned around and walked back and said.

"It looks completely different from the rumored one. It's so gentle and polite. No matter how you look, it doesn't look like a murderous person... Except for being taller..." The general looked at the end of the Imperial Street under the night, and was still a little reluctant. He had been lowering his head just now, but he only dared to glance at it occasionally, so he was a little regretful at this moment. Why didn't he just look at it openly?

The carriage was driving on the quiet street. Tonight's Yu Street was so quiet that it was extremely quiet than usual. Except for the occasional doors of several shops with close shops and lanterns, the remaining shops and other doors were almost pitch black, which was completely different from the Yu Street, which was quite lively at this time on weekdays.

The horse hooves of hundreds of horses were stomping on the bluestone pavement of Yujie Street, and the crisp sound made was like stepping on the shops on both sides and not daring to fall asleep. It made people feel nervous and a little curious about who they were, so late, they dared to go out so blatantly.

"Where are we going?" Fangfei felt an unusual atmosphere again, and even the carriage seemed to be filled with an inexplicable sense of tension.

"I'm not relieved to see someone, I'm going to send you home now. You'll continue to stay in the carriage in a while." Ye Qing turned around, looked at Fangfei and said with a smile.

Looking at Ye Qing's easy-going and gentle smile, Fang Fei nodded silently. Tonight was destined to be an unforgettable night, even an unforgettable night, worth her to recall for the rest of her life.

After all, since she accompanied Zhong Qing and Ye Qing, she has never been like this like tonight, just alone with Ye Qing, let alone having experienced assassination together. It is such a nervous and heartbeat that makes people beat harder.

The vague scolding sound from the front caused their carriage to stop slowly. Ye Qing sat in the carriage and remained indifferent. Fangfei looked at Ye Qing from time to time, and then guessed the situation outside through the curtain.

From time to time, the sound of Zhong Can's voice could be faintly heard, and even Fang Fei could hear the sound of the waist knife being shedded and the tight sound of the bow and crossbow being squeezed, which made her scalp numb involuntarily, and her small hands instantly became extremely cold again.

"Don't worry, there will be no problem. There will be someone outside the carriage to protect you." Ye Qing said, holding Fangfei's hand.

Fangfei nodded firmly again and then said, "I'm not afraid."

"That's good." After pinching Fangfei's face, Zhong Can's voice also sounded outside: "Sir, the left prime minister Han Cheng wants to have an interview with you."

"Waiting for me in the car." Ye Qing held Fangfei's hand again, looked at the beauty and nodded, and then got out of the car with a casual smile.

The lights are still brightly lit at Donghua Gate, and the few two groups of soldiers are out of their sheath and are ready to fight.

Ye Qing stopped Zhong Can from continuing to follow him, and then walked alone in Han Cheng's direction.

"Mr. Ye, come here for good." Han Cheng's tone was calm, as if an old friend was greeting him.

"For Lord Han, Mr. Ye still came back from Gushan." Ye Qing also said calmly.

Han Cheng seemed to have not sent 74 elite soldiers to West Lake, and Ye Qing was like he had no idea about the origin of those people.

"This is said, Lord Han gave the emperor a memorial to resign from his post two days ago?" Ye Qing asked with a smile.

"Mr. Ye is well-informed. Even if he disappeared from Lin'an City for two days, he could not have escaped the little things of my husband." Han Cheng also said with a smile. The soldiers who were originally guarding him behind him were also ready to continue to retreat at the instructions of Han Cheng.

"Wait a minute." Ye Qing suddenly said to the soldiers behind Han Cheng.

"Oh? What is Lord Ye's advice?" Han Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a smile.

Ye Qing approached Han Cheng, lowered his head and smiled, "Since I have returned to Lin'an, then Lord Han might as well let Han Tuozhou and Han brother Han, the future Lord Zuo, come to meet together?"
Chapter completed!