The world of rebirth

Wen Zhen woke up suddenly from his sleep.He only felt a twitch in his right foot, and he woke up from a deep sleep.

The violent heartbeat made him feel sick, but he couldn't tell what went wrong.

He clutched his chest and felt flustered inexplicably. He heard slight footsteps outside, as if someone was walking back and forth uneasily.Wen Zhen turned over and got up, and shouted, "Li Deming, come in."

As soon as Wen Zhen's words fell, Li Deming walked in with a box in his arms. He saluted first, and then said, "Your Majesty, the secrets of these seven days have just been sorted out."

"What else is there?" Wen Zhen knew Li Deming well, knew that this person was the most cautious in handling things, he clearly knew that he was a light sleeper, and would never wander outside his bedroom unless something happened.

Li Deming hesitated for a moment, and still told the news he had just heard, "Before I had a casual conversation with the person who came to hand in the paper, he said that after the court meeting ended in the afternoon, both the Ning Mansion and the Yang Mansion sent people overnight Going out of the city. The servant just finds it a bit strange, after all, apart from the return of the prince and the others, there are no major affairs in the court for the time being, it is not uncommon for Lord Ning to send someone to take care of Lord Xiao Ning, but the Yang family has nothing to do with this matter."

"Yang Ranggong!?" Wen Zhen stood up and walked back and forth, but he was sorting out the relationship in his mind, "When did the two of them send people?"

Li Deming also felt that this was strange, so he asked one more question at the time, and he said, "The people below said that as soon as they left the palace gate, they immediately called the personal servants back to the mansion to prepare, and waited for them to return to the mansion within a moment. Zhong You sent a person to go out before the gate of the city."

As Li Deming said, it is normal for the Ning family to send someone to pick them up, but something is wrong with the Yang family doing so.Wen Zhen recalled the information about Yang Ranggong in his mind. The Yang family he belonged to was a down-and-out noble family in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and it gradually prospered after he started promoting Yang Ranggong in these years.

Most of the big families left over from the previous dynasty supported the restoration and liked to oppose the court.It is one of the most effective ways for Wen Zhen to fight against the stubborn forces of the previous dynasty by supporting the new nobles and attacking the old gentry, and Yang Ranggong is one of the representatives.

Although I gave him status and power, I would not be surprised if the Yang family would fall to Wenzhen, the former power. After all, the relationship between those gentry clans is intricate, and there may be a relationship between two big families that have been passed down for nearly a hundred years. Dear, even the people in their clan can't figure out the relationship sometimes, and ordinary people can't figure it out through investigation.

But if Yang Ranggong really tipped people off, then Ning Yunjin and Hong Ming would be in danger!

Thinking of the flustered feeling just now, Wen Zhen couldn't hold back anymore, he immediately said, "Li Deming, ask Mu Jianming to send people to surround Yang's residence, and then light the musket battalion and the imperial guards to follow me out of the palace."

Li Deming said in surprise, "Your Majesty, it's only two o'clock at this time, and the gates of the palace and city are closed!"

"Call the door open." In order to calm down the uneasiness in his heart, Wen Zhen said directly, regardless of the influence.

Opening palace gates and city gates ahead of time in this era is a major event, not only must the emperor's will, but also passable fish charms are required, the procedure is very cumbersome.But this time with Wen Zhen present, the admiral of the Nine Gates rushed over and opened the city gate for them in the fastest time.

In less than three o'clock, first soldiers surrounded Yang Ge's old mansion, and the emperor came out of the palace in person to leave the capital. People living in Chang'an Avenue were awakened and could no longer sleep.Leaving aside the uproar in the capital, Wen Zhen and Ning Jingxian headed straight for Tongzhou with a thousand guards on horseback.

During the journey, Wen Zhen was speechless all the way, holding the rein with one hand, while touching the concentric knot hanging around his waist with the other hand from time to time.Until he encountered a fork in the road, he clearly felt that the location shown by the concentric knot was not the inn in his memory.

Seeing his horse slow down, Ning Jingxian asked in puzzlement, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

"I'm afraid something happened to them." Wen Zhen pointed his horsewhip in the direction opposite to the inn, "I think Qing Yang is in that direction."

Ning Jingxian didn't dare to ask Wen Zhen how to judge the location of his son, but he was a little anxious.After all, the emperor only said that Xiao Er was over there, but did not say where the prince was. If they were not together, the emperor would choose to go to the prince first! ?

"Separate 50 people to the inn, and everyone else will follow me this way." Wen Zhen's decision was much faster than he expected, and he made a choice immediately.

Walking along that fork for a while, they soon left the range of the official road. There was no longer a smooth road. Everyone had already lost their direction and could only blindly follow Wen Zhen. The only thing that could be judged was that they were getting more and more Close to wooded area.

The further they walked, the colder they felt. This kind of cold had nothing to do with the weather, as if it was frozen directly to the bone.Ning Jingxian was the weakest person in this group of people. He had already regressed in energy and was old. When the horse ran at a high speed, the cold wind blew on his face, making him tremble all over.

Some soldiers felt weird, rubbing their arms and muttering to the people around them, "Hey, do you think there is something wrong here? It stands to reason that we are wrapped up thickly and bumped all the way, so we should be sweating."

Even ordinary soldiers found it strange, but Wen Zhen had already sensed the problem, and by matching the direction of travel with the map around the capital in his mind, he could vaguely determine where Ning Yunjin and the others were.

He yelled with a sullen face, "Come to your senses, be careful. There may be a water cemetery in front of you."

Wen Zhen's voice made everyone gasp, and immediately cheered up. After all, everyone has heard the legend about the water cemetery.

The so-called water cemetery is also a kind of mass grave, which is generally formed artificially. In this kind of land, no grass grows, the mist is poisonous, and the miasma is thick. It can be said to be no man's land.Beijing has only been the capital for more than three or four hundred years. In the past, it was a battleground for military strategists, and there may be ancient battlefields everywhere around it. It is not surprising that there are mass graves.

Not only the Great Xia, but all dynasties usually send people through the ancestral temple to clean up such mass graves. After all, such things that are harmful to ordinary people cannot be allowed to exist.However, there are some places that are already hard to resist by manpower. Among them, Wenzhen and the others went to a very famous place in the capital.

This mass grave was formed when the former dynasty founded the country. It originally belonged to a section of the ancient canal, but as long as the canal flooded, the embankment would be washed away. The evil thing is that no matter how the embankment is reinforced, it will be useless.Moreover, the river here has sharp bends and turbulent water flow, forming large and small eddies, and it is very easy for ships to get out of control when traveling here. It is a famous shipwreck cemetery.

It is said that the army of the former dynasty and the officers and soldiers of the time met here on a narrow road, and then tens of thousands of people fought fiercely, and tens of thousands of people died along this coast. The river vented its anger, once blocked the river, and dyed the river blood.

Since then, this ten-mile radius has become a gloomy dead place. Not only is there no grass growing around it, but the river is always full of whirlpools, and it is impossible to sail. At the same time, there are no aquatic plants and fish. Ordinary people will feel dizzy when walking in this area. , If you stay for a long time, you will even fall into a coma. If you don't get rescue, you will even have a headache until your seven orifices bleed to death.

Those in power in the previous dynasty have been trying to clean up this area, but the vortex in the river made it impossible for the priests to get to the center of this area, and it was useless to just clean up the strong hostility around the area. Abandonment has become an existence that everyone hides and walks away.

Wen Zhen never thought that Ning Yunjin and the others would choose to go to such a place, but in the same way, no one would be willing to go to that place if they were not forced to a corner, which made him feel very anxious.

Along the way, they had already seen sporadic guards collapsed around them. Wen Zhen signaled Mu Jianming to arrange for someone to check, but all of them were already dead, and most of them were killed simply with a palm or a sword.

With such crisp palm and saber techniques, Mu Jianming quickly judged the possible candidates, and his face suddenly became extremely ugly, "Your Majesty, it may be that Master Bi and Master Fengyi are chasing the prince and the others, or we should first Let's go back to Beijing!"

Bi Canglang is good at palming and Wu Qian is good at swordsmanship, this is recognized by the world.Wen Zhen also knew that apart from those two people working together, with those four priests, no one should be able to force Ning Yunjin and the others to be so hasty.Although he knew that Mu Jianming was doing it for his own safety, Wen Zhen had no choice but to leave when he thought that not only his two best sons, but also the person he loved the most in his life were hunted down.

He glanced at the three offerings that landed on his own horse, plus the four over there, these seven people are not only the highest combat power in Daxia today, but also all the masters that the court can win over.As long as nothing happened to those four people, with the help of the hostility of the water cemetery, they could always fight the two great masters.

So he gritted his teeth and shook the reins directly, "No, I can't retreat. Keep going."

At this time, the sky had begun to dim and brighten, and at any rate, he could already see the figure clearly, and he no longer couldn't see his fingers.Before he got close to the water cemetery, he heard Bi Canglang talking loudly.

"I have made you struggle for so long, do you think you can be saved when the rescuers come!? Wishful thinking!"

Wen Zhen vaguely saw a figure in a luxurious coat lying on the riverside, and around him were four other people lying or lying on their backs in the snow, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.Those four people were undoubtedly Qing Yangzi and the others, and he was also very familiar with the coat, with white borders around the cuffs and collar, which he gave to Ning Yunjin back then.

He suppressed the pain in his heart, and turned his attention to Bi Canglang and Wu Qianyi.Wu Qian looked at them silently with his hands behind his back, while Bi Canglang, who had finished speaking, jumped up and rushed towards the two people on the river bank.

One of the two men was dressed in apricot yellow prince's suit, while the other was wearing a squirrel fur. Their hands were on each other's shoulders, and they were only one step away from falling into the ferocious river. Bi Canglang's attack was really It is inevitable.

The closer they got here, even the well-trained war horses panicked and unconsciously slowed down.Wen Zhen clamped his legs to force the horse forward, and raised his hand to shoot out the sleeve arrow in his hand. Once the arrow had been shot, he raised the arrow at the fastest speed and fired again. The one who made the same movement was Ning Jing Xian and Mu Jianming.

The sleeve arrows in their hands can shoot three arrows at the same time. Wen Zhen's first set of sleeve arrows was easily dodged by Bi Canglang, but the other arrows were blocked by Wu Qian and directly hit the ground.

But this kind of harassment finally delayed Bi Canglang's action by half a minute, which was enough for Wen Zhen to rush closer.He directly jumped towards Bi Canglang, after all, he had already faced Bi Canglang once before, and he didn't panic when facing Bi Canglang directly. forward.

Bi Canglang's movements didn't stop at all, and he rushed over directly. Wen Zhen didn't want to fight him head-on, so he grabbed Hong Ming's arm and wanted to bring him back to his camp.

This pull didn't pull much, Wenzhen immediately realized that his son hadn't let go of the other person at this time.This son of his own would not sacrifice himself to save others, he felt something strange, and was about to turn his head to take a look, but Bi Canglang didn't give him that chance, and a wave of palms came over him.

Wen Zhen took the two of them and moved two steps aside. He thought that Bi Canglang would take advantage of the situation and continue to attack him, but he didn't expect that Bi Canglang's right palm turned around and hit Hong Ming directly. The chest of the man next to him.

The great master's palm was more than a thousand catties, and the man flew up directly. Hong Ming reflexively shot to grab him, but he only grabbed the fur, and then his whole body was taken back again and again. to fall into the river.

Wen Zhen hugged him, and moved two more steps to the side, his gaze met the man's gaze as soon as he landed.

Those eyes are so familiar, yet so strange.It was as plain as if there were no waves, but behind that plainness was ridicule, awareness and a calmness like ashes in the heart.

"No!"

Wen Zhen let go of Hong Ming and jumped up, wanting to catch Ning Yunjin, but he was already a step too late, with a thud, Ning Yunjin had already fallen into the icy river.

Hong Ming threw the fur fur in his hand to the ground, jumped up and said, "What should we do, Qing Yang has injuries all over his body!"