The mountain road from the north to the south is rugged and difficult to travel. A long team of laborers pulled the carriages and drove along the mountain road with difficulty. If they slowed down a little, they would be severely punished.

The young general sitting on the horse looked at the ragged laborers whose feet were rubbed to the point of bleeding, and could not bear it and advised the carriage: "Master Chu, why don't we change some horses to replace these laborers? The journey to Dongyi is long, so let them rest well and help us if we encounter bandits."

"General Lu Feng, you worry too much. The road we chose is far away from Dayan's control. Song Weizhao is busy with his own affairs now, so I'm afraid he has no intention of caring about us."

Chu's father stuck his head out of the carriage and smiled at him: "If we encounter bandits, General Lu's bravery will be enough to deal with them."

Chu Ying at the side also spoke up: "Lu Feng, you don't know how our family was tortured by these beasts before His Majesty sent people to the North. My little sister died in their hands because they didn't give her food and didn't call a doctor when she was sick."

Lu Feng sighed helplessly. There was no need to rush to take revenge on them at this critical moment.

These petty officials and yamen runners were tortured to the point of complaining. If they really encountered bandits, they would not only have to guard against their counterattacks, but also have to deal with the bandits themselves. It would be a waste of time and effort.

Fortunately, the journey was smooth.

Just as the lucky thought left his mind, he saw a group of bandits rushing out. Lu Feng was so scared that he quickly ordered a group of people to go and deal with them.

But these bandits were really cunning, and each of them was very skilled. After a fierce attack, they quickly retreated, causing heavy casualties among their own brothers, and they didn't catch any of the bandits.

After that, they encountered several similar attacks in succession. The guards under Lu Feng were all exhausted and injured, and they were no longer able to fulfill their guarding responsibilities.

When they were attacked next, Chu Ying had no choice but to force the cart boys to fight the bandits.

When they were about to reach Liyang, they encountered a large wave of bandits blocking the road.

Seeing that the boys pulling the carts had already been tortured to exhaustion, Lu Feng personally led the guards to fight forward.

However, this group of bandits was so aggressive that Lufeng's troops could not resist them. Chu Ying shouted at the lazy cart-pulling laborers, "Hurry up and help. If anyone dares to be timid, I will kill you now."

Father Chu also said: "Why waste time talking to them? Those who are slower will be chopped down directly."

The servants stood up in fear and were about to go forward to help, but Chu Ying thought they were too slow, so he raised his sword and chopped one of them to the ground.

When he raised the long sword and was about to swing it at another big man, the man took the sword from Chu Ying's hand.

"Brothers, why are you still working for this group of bastards? We're going to die anyway, so why don't we fight to the death and kill this whole family? Then we can go somewhere to live happily and avoid this humiliation."

The man called out, and Chu Ying shouted at all the slaves, "I'll see who dares. The whole world will belong to Daning from now on. Even if you flee to the ends of the earth, you will only die."

The man chopped him down with a knife and shouted, "Why are you still standing there? Live happily every day. When we get rid of the bandits in Lufeng and reach the Li River, they will not let us live."

Seeing that Chu Ying had been beheaded, everyone stopped hesitating and pointed their spearheads at Chu's father and the Chu family's families.

Lu Feng was trapped by the bandits and couldn't escape. The area around the carriage was already a river of blood.

"stop."

Lu Feng roared, but no one was willing to listen to him. Dozens of people from the Chu family were killed in an instant by the group of servants in the guard camp.

Seeing that these people looted the Chu family's belongings and were about to flee, Lu Feng immediately led his men back to chase them. After finally capturing a few people alive, the bandits had disappeared without a trace.

Looking at the corpses lying all around, he had no choice but to order his men to tidy up the bodies of the Chu family and return to report.

……

In Dongyi city, when Lu Linchu and all the civil and military officials in the court were immersed in the joy of Prince Jinyang and the Fu family's conquering Yundu, they saw Lu Feng fleeing back in a panic.

"Your Majesty, I have failed in my duty and I feel ashamed of your Majesty and Concubine Chun."

Lu Linchu and Chu Huaixi looked at each other, and Chu Huaixi asked anxiously: "What happened? Where are my father and brother?"

"They are all outside."

Lu Feng trembled and said, "But Lord Chu and the Chu family only have corpses that I risked my life to bring back."

"what?"

Chu Huaixi felt a darkness before his eyes, and without caring that the emperor and empress were still there, he staggered out to check.

Lu Linchu frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

Lu Feng then recounted the entire incident.

Although it was a very sad thing, Fu Guiyun wanted to laugh when he heard it.

The whole hall was in an uproar. Although no one dared to congratulate them openly, everyone was whispering about the stupidity of the Chu father and son.

Lu Linchu was secretly clenching his fists when Chu Huaixi suddenly rushed in with a knife in his hand, pointing it angrily at Lu Feng: "It's obviously you who failed to protect me, and you dare to wrongly accuse my father and brother."

After saying that, she immediately knelt on the ground and begged with tears: "Your Majesty, please make the decision for me."

Lu Linchu said coldly: "Noble Concubine Chun, stop making trouble. It is really because your father and brother are domineering and narrow-minded. The hard laborers in the supervision camp brought back by Lu Feng have confessed. You can't blame others."

"How do the bandits explain that?"

Chu Huaixi looked at Fu Guiyun angrily: "How could so many bandits suddenly appear in such a remote mountain road? It must be the Queen's order."

"Don't mess around."

Lu Linchu had no intention of doubting the Queen at all, and directly had Jin'er brought up.

"Prince Li did intend to assassinate your father and your Chu family on behalf of the Queen, but all the assassins have been intercepted."

After saying this, he sent someone to bring forward a few assassins that Fu Yan had sent back. "The Queen and Fu Yan knew that I would welcome the Chu family back to the south, and recently all the roads leading to the northern border have been strictly checked. The assassins sent by Prince Li have all been captured and escorted back."

This surprised Fu Guiyun quite a bit.

Although she already knew that Jin'er had secretly sent a letter to Lu Linchu and had already thought of the wording, she did not expect that Fu Yan had caught all the assassins.

This boy is really smart. This way, she doesn't have to waste any more words.

I don't know how this guy knew the route the assassin sent by King Li took.

And those bandits also sounded a little strange to her. Why were there suddenly so many bandits on the road?

Just as he was thinking secretly, Lu Linchu suddenly looked over and said, "Guiyun, don't blame me. After all, Jin'er is someone close to our mother. She did this just because she was worried that someone would want to harm you, not because she wanted to betray you."

"Your Majesty is serious."

Fu Guiyun responded with a forced smile but sighed silently in his heart. He didn't even know that Jin'er was Lu Linfeng's person.

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