"This kid really do not know what to do." Goatee also does not want the cooked duck to fly away, turned to the leader and said: "Let's tie him up and bring him back to the capital, otherwise I do not know how much trouble there will be along the way!"
The leader can see that this rich young master is a family of poetry and etiquette, can not see the ill-gotten gains, this time, even if you follow his nature, the stolen property back, this kid is afraid that he will not be willing to go all the way back to the capital with their own brothers.
Then it's not up to the little guy to make a little noise.
The leader nodded his head grimly, and the three brothers immediately danced their sticks and rushed up to surround the teenager.
The man standing behind the teenager was the first to strike, the tip of the stick aimed at the back of the teenager's heart, but the teenager sidestepped the attack with ease, stomping on his left foot with his heel.
The man couldn't get his left foot up, couldn't stop his body, and fell headfirst onto the handlebars of the van, instantly blacking out.
The right two saw the situation and rushed up, a stick in the face of the young man down, "bang" a muffled sound, but found that the stick smashed in the head of the brother who fell to the ground just now - the brother was the young man lifted the back of the neck collar to block the two sticks, completely fainted.
The teenager kicked the knocked-out man toward the others, and the two of them rushed to catch it, but they missed, and were knocked to the ground by the teenager who took the opportunity to come around.
"Good!" Old Man Xu in the tree couldn't help but applaud in a low voice.
The chief and Liu Sanhu had looked stunned, not expecting this teenager to have such a body, knocking down their three brothers with his bare hands.
The two people who were kicked down struggled to stand up, no longer dare to strike, back a few steps, waiting for the leader to issue a command, the four people launched an attack at the same time!
That teenager unexpectedly and accurately judged the blind spot area of the four people's strikes in advance, effortlessly dodging and counterattacking.
In the blink of an eye, all five men were knocked to the ground.
Old man Xu gazed at the lone teenager under the tree and lamented, "Although his moves are not set, they seem to utilize your Taiji Mind Technique, Old Qiu, do you know this kid?"
Sword Saint didn't say anything.
Old Man Xu turned his head to look at him, "What's wrong?"
The Sword Saint looked at the teenager under the tree and whispered, "He seems to be waiting for someone again."
In the next moment, the teenager slowly tilted his face sideways, surprisingly looking towards where the two of them were hiding!
"Come down if you want to fight." Lu Qian stared expressionlessly at the two men in the tree and spoke indifferently, "Master is in a hurry."
"He found us." Old Man Xu looked at the Sword Saint, "This perception of his seems to be stronger than yours? Have you taught him the Heart Technique?"
Sword Saint immediately straightened his collar and wiped his hair.
The old guy looked solemn, and he usually paid attention to his image when he had to pose as a master.
Old man Xu issued a warning, "I discovered this kid first! You can't rob my disciple!"
"He used my Taiji Heart Technique." The Sword Saint turned his head to Sect Leader Xu with a smirk of triumph, "It seems that he already has someone in mind for his master, he can't force himself, you-" he waved his hand at Old Man Xu, demanding that he be sensible enough to get lost and not make a fool of himself.
So Lu Qian saw two old men grabbing each other by the hair and ears, and scrambling from the trees to float down in front of him.
"Let him choose!" Old Man Xu, who had been grabbed by the ear, grabbed the crown of the Sword Saint's hair in a death grip.
Kensei, who was forced to keep his head down, "You let go first."
"Let go on the count of three!"
The two old men finally stopped beating each other up and resumed their highbrow stance, turning their heads to look at the teenager -
The teenager, however, had already led the wagon away.
"Hey! Stop!" Sect Master Xu hurriedly chased after him and said angrily, "What kind of attitude is this, do you know who we are?"
Lu Qian didn't even look at him.
This old man was really too talkative, Lu Qian was not good at communication and was already afraid of people who were particularly talkative, and now there was another old man that he had never seen before.
It felt like being surrounded by a hundred Gojira, His Highness was so nervous and wanted to escape quickly.
"If we don't show our hands, this kid doesn't put us two old men in his eyes." Old man Xu quickly swept in front of Min Nian, blocking the way and knocking the ground twice with his walking stick.
Lu Qian felt the soles of his feet shake twice and tingle a little, but did not understand what kind of profound internal strength this meant, and still stared at Old Man Xu expressionlessly.
Old man Xu guessed that the boy hadn't learned proper kung fu, so he lifted his walking stick and pointed to a small tree beside him, signaling the teenager to keep an eye on it.
Lu Qian squinted at the tree and didn't notice anything unusual.
Old man Xu steeply suspended walking stick, a palm launched, a loud sound, the tree from the center was split into two halves, noodle-like like both sides of the folding and bending!
The cane flew in a whirl back into the old man's palm, and Old Man Xu turned back to the teenager and looked at him arrogantly, "How was it?"
"What does the Grand Master have to say." Lu Qian instantly conceded.
Old Man Xu tilted his head and said to him, "Old Man would like to ask you about your wishes."
Lu Qian looked at him warily, "What?"
Old man Xu tapped the ground with his walking stick, "Do you want to learn kung fu from old man?"
The Sword Saint arrowed over to grab the business, "Tell me first what kind of kung fu you want to learn, do you usually prefer to use the heroic longsword, or the wooden stick used by the barkers?"
This option description can be very subjectively biased.
Lu Qian was not confused by the multiple choice question and asked the two old men in return, "Who are you people?"
The two old men smiled at each other, and Old Man Xu replied, "Jianghu people."
Lu Qian asked again, "Why do you live in a border foreign tribe?"
The Sword Saint raised an eyebrow, "To get rid of the earthly world."
Lu Qian did not understand why ordinary people would want to get rid of the prosperous capital city and come to live in such a place where birds did not live.
Usually only fugitives need to be rid of the earthly world, so His Highness asked the two old men warily, "Have you broken the law?"
The Sword Saint laughed, "Sort of, people like us break the king's law all the time, the border is a bit more relaxed."
"What about you? Kid." Old man Xu asked the teenager, "At your young age, why are you in exile here?"
His Highness was a bit nervous about facing two jugglers who claimed to have "often broken the law of the land".
Men generally cannot lose their aura on such occasions, so Lu Qian converged his eyes and intimidated the two old men with a grim expression, "Master is a wanted man."
The old men froze, "Wanted? What have you done?"
The question was of such significance that Lu Qian thought he had to show off his ferocity with a terrible charge, and--
"Slaughter."
Lu Qian looked cold and played the role of a homicidal maniac, and also asked back in a cloudy manner, "What about you guys? What's the offense."
Both old men were dumbfounded.
Xu Palm replied weakly, "We ...... we didn t serve the labor."
"Neither did they pay the field taxes." The Sword Saint, who didn't know much about the king's law, came up with another charge to hold up the field.
Lu Qian: "......"
There was an awkward silence.
Why did you run away to the border? And chopping up trees.
His Highness could never have failed to grasp the degree of braggadocio if he had not been frightened.
Angry, His Highness the murderer pulled up the van and left!
*
The Prince's appearance disrupts everyone's plans.
No one in the barracks knew about the crown prince's secret return to the palace.
Prince from Xue Yao learned about the situation, in order to stabilize the situation, only said that he and the old five ready to a bright and dark sneak attack on the remnants of the qidan, but was captured by the qidan, last night while the qidan remnants of the retreat, only to take advantage of the chaos to get away.
As expected by the Crown Prince, the Northwest Governor immediately drew a line with the Tong family as soon as he saw the Crown Prince show up.
The Crown Prince's power was the orthodox power, and as long as he lived, the Third Prince didn't have any chance of competing for the crown.
Northwest Governor ass crooked back, Tong Ningzhao left a lonely army, do not dare to act rashly.
The Prince went first to visit his father in his tent.
It took a while to recognize the withered old man on the couch as his own father, and the Crown Prince was overwhelmed with grief.
Hearing the eunuchs say that the emperor had been in a coma, and that the conditions in the barracks were so difficult that it was difficult for his condition to improve, the crown prince immediately ordered that his father be escorted back to the capital.
The Third Prince, however, refused, saying that his father's injuries were serious and he couldn't stand the bumpy road.
The emperor stayed in the barracks can only wait for death, as the eunuch said, the emperor's injuries are not serious, just hit the Khitan's arrow poison, and the war zone does not have sufficient antidote herbs to be adjusted, sent back to the capital there is a ray of hope for life, but may also die on the way, so no one dares to propose, and only the prince master dares to take such a responsibility.
The Crown Prince ordered the Northwest Governor to bring troops to escort the Emperor, and had Tong Ningzhao withdraw his troops back to Guangdong, leaving only the forbidden army in the war zone to confront the remaining Khitan.
But the Third Prince refused to hand over the military talisman, insisting that it was his father who had not ordered the withdrawal of troops, and that withdrawal was tantamount to desertion.
The Prince knew that it was now useless to remain on the frontier, and that the exchange of hostages would not be possible, for the Khitan prince was nowhere to be found.
The Third Prince said that it was the Seventh Prince who fled from the battlefield and released the hostages to disrupt the military camp.
In fact, the Khitan prince was not set free by the Seventh Prince.
It happened three nights ago.
The Third Prince intends to kill the Khitan prince and then leak the news, forcing the Khitan to kill the Fifth Prince and the Crown Prince to put an end to the problem.
The Fourth Prince endorsed the Third Prince's conspiracy to his face, but he tossed and turned after returning to his tent.
Before dawn, the Khitan prince would be dead, and the fourth prince was filled with images of his elder brother and fifth brother being beheaded and whipped by the Khitans.
Because Shih Fei that year to the emperor's request, Yi nobleman on the list of accompanied by the parade, therefore, the fourth prince mother and son in the palace decently through the decade, not to desperately bows to the three emperors, and a few brothers of the relationship is also still passable.
Big brother although in front of the queen never give the fourth prince good face, privately to him but not bad, even six years ago the thing of the king, are big brother privately to the father mentioned, otherwise wait until the old seven became the king of Ning, his fourth is not likely to still have a title.
Thinking of his big brother's usual care, the Fourth Prince secretly got up in the middle of the night, went to the secret camp, and released the Khitan prince.
When releasing them, the Fourth Prince demanded that the Khitan Prince give back the Crown Prince and the Fifth Prince, and the Khitan Prince swore to heaven in his half-baked Han language.
The fourth prince could only choose to believe it, otherwise by the time dawn broke, the third brother had killed the Khitan prince, and the elder brother and fifth brother would have no chance of survival at all.
However, three days after the Khitan prince left, the fifth brother still had no news, but the crown prince returned.
Now that the hostages are gone, the Fifth Prince can't be replaced, and the garrison can't all be evacuated.
The Crown Prince insisted that only the forbidden army be left behind, so that the Northwest Army could escort his father back to the capital for treatment without delay.
The Third Prince was dead set against it, and in the midst of the argument spoke the words in his heart - "Big brother, you are no longer the Crown Prince."
The brothers were arguing in the Emperor's tent and miraculously woke him up.
As soon as they heard the emperor cough, everyone froze, and only when the second cough came to mind did all of them turn to look at the emperor.
The Crown Prince rushed to the couch with an arrow step, "Father!"
The emperor was already a different person from the last time he was awake, his cheeks were sunken, his lips were dry and purple, and he had been poisoned into his organs.
He masked a layer of gray like eyes, calmly staring at the crown prince for a long time, before sluggishly murmuring, "Jinan is back ...... Good, good."
"Father ...... son of the court deserves to die ......" Crown Prince heart has ten thousand kinds of guilt, at this moment inconvenient to say, can only hold back tears to hold the hand of the father and the emperor, kneeling on the ground.
The emperor's response was very slow, and only after a long time did he respond in a breathless manner, "I am guilty."
The Crown Prince looked to his father, and everyone around him assumed that the Emperor was going to be entrusted with the aftermath.
The emperor looked at the void with both eyes, murmuring as if he were raving, "I thought there was plenty of time to slowly make up for ...... Jinan ......"
The Emperor's gray gaze fell back to the Crown Prince's face.
"My son is here!" The Prince came closer.
The Emperor looked numbly at his eldest son for a long time, as if he wanted to see the shadow of another person in his son's face.
He said, "Smile for me, I've been seeing your mother cry in my dreams, I haven't seen your mother smile at me in a long time."
The Crown Prince froze, and then tried to squeeze out a smile that was even worse than crying, comforting his father, "Mother misses Father, my son will send Father back to the palace today."
The emperor did not seem to hear what he said, look blankly murmured: "she just gave birth to you at that time, does not seem to be this mean, I then promised her, the first of the river and mountain, you mother and child second, and then I reneged on my word, no face to see her, I know that she has a grudge in her heart, let her take the consort to take the air."
"Father Emperor treats mother and son servant with great favor!" The Crown Prince was guilty of the grudges he had held against his father since childhood in his heart, and his father must have known all about it.
The Emperor said frankly, "I treat Princess Shio the best, and I treat Old Seven the best, as your mother knows."
The Crown Prince made excuses for his father, "Seventh Brother is intelligent and deserving of his father's favor."
"You don't blame me?"
The Prince shook his head vigorously.
The emperor smiled, "Old Seven is the most pleasing child to me."
The Prince immediately nodded in agreement.
The Emperor looked at him, serious again as never before, and told the Crown Prince word for word, "You are the child who makes me most proud."
The tears that the crown prince had been holding back finally broke through, "Father!"
"You are too sentimental, this is a strength but also a weakness of an emperor." The emperor looked at him, "Easily guessed and utilized by his subjects, Jin An, it is better for you to be a good subject than a bright king."