The gloomy sky finally brought rain.

"Sir, there is still a fish that has slipped through the net!" Yan Le finally waited for this voice.

Zhang Buyi was dragged out of the yard by the collar, like a fawn with its throat strangled.

"Who are you? Let me go!"

Ren Xiao's pupils shrank slightly - this child was 70% similar to the person in Han Gong's portrait a year ago.

Yan Le pulled off the pendant from Zhang Buyi's body - the knot was wrapped with half a piece of faded brocade, and the totem pattern was embedded with silver threads, which was a unique pattern of Xinzheng nobles.

"Your Highness Princess has great means. She was able to escape from the Han Palace in the past, and now she is in danger and can get help from the descendants of the Han family. It is incredible."

As Yan Le spoke, he looked up again and found Ying Hehua holding the crossbow in his hand.

"With so many people watching, Your Highness the Princess wants to kill me to silence me because of the son of a traitor?" Yan Le didn't feel the pain on his face at all. When he saw Zhang Liang appear, he was overjoyed!

Lord Zhao really has a plan! With Zhang Liang here, are you still afraid that Ying Hehua won't surrender?
Yan Le learned from Zhao Gao that she had knelt and cried in the attic, begging her father to spare Zhang Liang's life, and even threatened to cut off her own escape route by returning to Chu to become a widow as a bargaining chip for resistance.

No one in the world could threaten Ying Zheng. Ying Hehua's kneeling and bowing made Ying Zheng feel that his daughter was useless.

Now, there is the prophecy of the word "Hu", plus the saying "Even if there are only three households in Chu, Chu will be the one to destroy Qin", which makes her stay in Chu have a different color.

If her father and brothers were suspicious of her, and she hadn't offended any of the nobles of the six countries, would that be enough?

As long as she left the bamboo forest and got on the cart, he bet that no matter how many masters were by her side and how many nets were set up, she would never be able to leave Kuaiji County! !

When the wind and rain came, the bamboo forest lost its color due to the change of weather, and the bamboo leaves fluttered in the wind.

However, what happened next left Yan Le dumbfounded!

Following the direction where Ying Hehua raised the crossbow, a man wearing a bamboo hat appeared in everyone's sight.

Ren Xiong knew him.

Zhang Liang - son of Zhang Ping, Prime Minister of Han; tutor of Ying Hehua; criminal minister implicated in Changping Jun's rebellion against Qin.

As soon as the slender light blue figure appeared, Zhang Buzhi, who was caught, immediately started shouting.

"Daddy!"

Yan Le's eyelids fluttered and his brows sank. The follower's feather arrow flew through the wind faster than him, hitting a corner of his white hat and suddenly flipping it open. A line of blood imprinted on his cheekbone, but he remained unmoved.

This appearance and demeanor do not seem like that of an ordinary person. As expected, he is Zhang Liang, who was once famous all over the world. No wonder Ying Hehua racked her brains to save his life.

Just three years ago, the rumor spread in Xianyang that Zhang Liang had disappeared. Not only in Han, but also in Yan and Qi, many scholars were extremely dissatisfied with his corrupt student.

They dared not vent their hatred for the loss of their country, and instead turned their anger towards Zhang Liang's fate. They even openly speculated that Ying Hehua might have murdered his teacher. However, these people soon disappeared, but their hatred and resentment continued.

Ying Hehua claimed to the outside world that she had no idea where Zhang Liang was.

And now, Zhang Liang is not dead, and he appears with those unclear bamboo slips.

Yan Le watched the scene with great interest. "Back then, Yao Shangqing volunteered to arrest the criminal, but failed and lost his position as prime minister. I didn't expect the wanted criminal to appear here." He glanced at Zhang Liang, then turned to Ying Hehua, "But is Her Royal Highness staying here really because of the Chu bandits, or because..."

Xu Zhi glanced at Yan Le and said, "Lord Yan is still an official of our dynasty even if he works like a dog or a pig. How can I favor one over the other?"

"...This, Princess Yong, Princess Yong'an, Your Highness! Sir has taken us in, we can't, we can't repay kindness with evil!" Fan Kuai hurriedly stood in the direction where the crossbow fired arrows.

Here, Zhang Buyi's pupils suddenly shrank and his fingertips trembled. He concentrated and saw clearly what was in Xu Zhi's hand.

He had seen this weapon before! He would never forget that it was this crossbow made of black iron that caused his mother to fall in a pool of blood!
He was shaking all over, tears welling up in his eyes. "I recognize this. Mom was right when she died. I shouldn't trust pretty people... they can be very bad people."

Yan Le walked around to the three loads of bamboo slips and said, "Princess, just give the order and we will clear up the mess for you. Then, we can all testify that the princess has nothing to do with it." He smiled and walked to Ren Xiao's side, "General Ren is also one of the witnesses."

"Nothing to do with it?" Her voice was cold.

"Yes." Yan Le bowed his head. "Come here, pack up these things." He hurried forward and said, "Princess, don't worry. We will immediately hand them over to the Kuaiji County post horse, stamp them with a seal, and send them to you at full speed."

"You're going to do it?"

"Don't worry, Princess. All of this has been reviewed by General Ren and Lord Chen Ping. Princess, just get on the carriage and return to Xianyang safely."

"is it?"

"I dare not lie." Seeing her expression relaxed, Yan Le quickly took out the bamboo tube from his sleeve and said, "As long as the princess can prove that she has nothing to do with these criminals, I will present this to Your Highness."

The sound of the rain became much louder, and then muffled thunder sounded. The heavy rain was no different from the one during the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai.

The rain was cold and poured down on her instantly, causing her to cough several times.

Ren Xiong opened the umbrella and Xu Zhi took it.

She looked at Zhang Liang quietly, still at a distance from him, but her umbrella was subconsciously tilted towards him.

"Have I ever met you, sir?" As she said this, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating his face.

She glanced at the bamboo slips and asked, "The bamboo slips were found by Huang Shigong in the cave. They may be the hard work of our teacher. Do you want these things to stay?"

She found the things. Huang Shigong also told her that it was written by a man named Tang Zhipei. Zhang Liang listened and thought that after all these years, she was still so good at misattributing things.

She didn't want them to know each other, and going along with her became his habit.

Perhaps the sound of rain was much quieter at this moment, otherwise she would not have been able to hear it so clearly.

"If we have never met, how can we care about each other?"

Zhang Liang's eyes were indifferent and unfamiliar, and his blue clothes were wet in an instant. He patted Zhang Buzhi's back and comforted him not to cry.

She recalled what Zhang Buzhi said and seemed to become more sober. If she guessed correctly, because of Tian Dan's incident, the name Song Lin also became a wanted criminal.

Perhaps Zhang Buzhi’s mother… was killed by the Qin people on the way from Yongcheng to Kuaiji.

Xu Zhi felt bitter in his mouth and his heart sank.

This is great.

The hatred for the loss of my country and the murder of my father is too great to be resolved.

After he lost his memory, he also had a hatred for murdering his wife.

If such a great vengeance were exposed, not to mention killing her, even skinning her alive would not be an exaggeration.

Yan Le urged her.

She pinched her palms, trying to make them bleed.

"Sir, I have only met you a few times. How can there be any unbreakable bond between us?"

Zhang Liang suddenly spoke up. "Buyi is young and has a bad fate. I beg Your Highness to spare him."

"In the past, I basically did what you wished, but I accidentally learned a new idea from somewhere else: either don't do anything, or do it to the extreme." She was smiling, with a playful cruelty on her face.

During the years he was away, she was actually dragged down by the Legalists.

The moment Xu Zhi pressed the trigger, Yan Le finally understood the coldness in her eyes - it was not the princess's contempt for the guilty minister, but indifference and chillness, besides which there was also a hint of uncontrollable bloodthirsty pleasure.

However, Zhang Liang's blood did not appear before his eyes.

A sharp pain struck him!
!!!

Yan Le widened his eyes in fear, blood gushing out of his neck. It was the pain brought by the sharp blade, and then the pain came from his heart. He didn't even have time to say a word!

He just died like that, killed by Ying Hehua? !

"!!"

The people behind Yan Le knelt down tremblingly, knocking their foreheads next to Yan Le's wide-open eyes: "Your Highness, your actions... may be impeached..."

There was a lot of blood on Ying Hehua's body, and under the rain, it seemed as if she was also covered in blood.

"Impeachment? General Ren wants to impeach me?"

"Your Majesty..." Ren Xiong held it in for a long time before he realized what Chen Ping meant by what he said before he came... Her staff and the eldest son planned to kill Yan Le, and the real fatal point was his heart.

However, Fusu probably could not have imagined that his sister would take action so quickly, directly and without any words.

Ren Xiong knelt on one knee, "…I dare not."

The princess kicked away the bamboo slips at her feet, and her skirt swept across Yan Le's twitching body. Then, a morbid smile appeared on her beautiful and flamboyant face.

"He secretly hid the forbidden books and framed the royal family. What crime has this princess committed by helping her father to clean up the corrupt officials?"

She turned around and squatted down, ignoring the large amount of blood on her face. She stared at Zhang Liang and said, "Sir, my hands are dirty."

Then, without waiting for anyone to answer, she pulled at his flawless sleeve and wiped the blood off her hands.

Yan Le's followers went from being silent to banging their heads on the ground, "Princess, please show some mercy!"

There were still blood spots on her hair, and this look was really creepy and extremely intimidating. This was no different from when Ying Zheng held the Tai'a sword.

She glanced at Ren Xiao and said, "You handle it."

"As for these bamboo slips——"

The sound of rain increased again.

Her red lips uttered two words lightly, "Burn it."

Until the end of his life, Ren Xiong did not know that the pile of green bamboo slips he saw that year was the "Preface".

The crazy prophecy was burned to ashes by a fire.

She originally thought that those hidden secrets were only known to her, Mo Qi, and Li Xian. However, Zhang Liang had a photographic memory, but he did not recognize these characters. It was not until two years later that he could recognize traditional Chinese characters. (End of this chapter)

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