Do you know: I am Xu Jiazi

Chapter 784 The Life-Saving Master! Thirteen! Middle! [Thank you! Bow again! 12k words owed]

"Son!"

Qingyun, who was behind Xu Zaijing, also heard the commotion.

Looking at the bandits who still wanted to charge, Xu Zaijing shook his head at them.

Before the Nong soldiers could figure out what Xu Zaijing was up to,

"Qingyun! Let's go!"

As Xu Zaijing shouted, he knelt down on one knee, leaning on his steel spear.

Qingyun, who was behind Xu Zaijing, didn't say much. He carried his bow and arrows and ran quickly toward Xu Zaijing.

Looking at Xu Zaijing's back, Qingyun stepped on the armor on Xu Zaijing's back. The moment he felt it, Xu Zaijing stood up, leaning on his steel spear.

Wearing armor, Qingyun used the momentum to leap into the air, grabbing the top of the high wall with both hands. With a strong push, he was already on the top of the wall.

Xu Zaijing took two steps back, took two running steps, and then jumped up with all his might, handing the steel spear in his hand upwards.

Qingyun, who had just grabbed the spear shaft, leaned to the other side of the wall in perfect unison.

Using the weight of his armor and his own strength, he pulled Xu Zaijing, who was using the wall for support, over the top of the wall.

"Snapped."

After falling off the wall, Qingyun staggered a few steps and finally sat down on the ground, landing on her bottom.

Xu Zaijing then bent his knees and squatted down steadily to dissipate the force of inertia and stand firmly.

In Xu Zaijing's field of vision,

In front of the brightly lit main hall,

"The Buddha Shakyamuni is declining! Maitreya is in the future!"

"Slay the wicked! May you be reborn in the Pure Land!"

"kill!"

A dozen or so fierce soldiers dressed in imperial guard armor, shouting slogans and carrying swords, shields and spears, strode quickly up the steps toward the main hall.

By the light,

Xu Zaijing could see that there were already more than a dozen corpses lying behind them, including palace guards, palace maids and female officials.

"Escort! Escort!"

The Grand Eunuch and Zhao Fang stood before the Emperor, Empress, and Crown Princess, surrounded by four concubines holding hairpins.

In front of Zhao Fang stood the limping Marquis of Xiangyang, holding a long spear, and several senior officials, their hands trembling as they struggled to hold their waist knives.

Further ahead were Cao Yi, He Guan, and two figures that Xu Zaijing found somewhat familiar.

"Bang!"

Outside the main hall, people were desperately pounding on the palace gate, trying to break it open to rescue the emperor.

However, the palace gates here are unlike those elsewhere; the bolts are extremely thick, and without specially made battering rams and other tools, they cannot be easily broken open.

"Bang!"

Another loud crash echoed through the palace gates.

While Xu Zaijing was observing the situation, the Marquis of Xiangyang raised his gun and shouted, "Your Majesty, hurry up and enter the main hall!"

"It's too late! The palace gates aren't even closed yet, and we'll be killed!" the emperor shouted urgently.

Before the emperor and his minister could finish speaking,

"The Buddha Shakyamuni is declining! Maitreya is in the future!"

"Slay the wicked! May you be reborn in the Pure Land!"

"kill!"

The imperial guards on the steps in front of the palace, who were plotting rebellion, engaged He Guan and Cao Yi in a life-or-death struggle, two against one.

For a time, the two of them were unable to escape.

"Ha!" Taking advantage of the gap, the old Marquis of Xiangyang, still vigorous, found an opportunity and gave the treacherous imperial guards a beating.

unfortunately,

The guards were wearing armor, which forced him to take a step back.

The two people beside He Guan and Cao Yi

Although one of them was highly skilled, able to fight three bandits single-handedly without being at a disadvantage, the other, who was smaller, could fight two at once.

However, the four of them were ultimately unable to resolve the battle quickly.
Once they were entangled, the bandits behind them were able to continue their attack on the emperor and empress.

"Zhang Shipan, you beast! I was blind!" The emperor's furious voice rang out. "I should have had that Xu family boy kill you back then!"

Zhang Shipan, clad in full armor, sneered, "Hmph! You old beast! Back then, you took a fancy to my great-aunt and begged to marry her into the palace, but you couldn't protect her! You let that vile woman from the Guo family humiliate her in every way!"

Zhao Fang shouted angrily, "Zhang Shipan! You son of a bitch! Such a big matter in Beizhou! Father Emperor, because of you, insisted on exonerating the Zhang family from Beizhou! I never expected you to do this!"

Zhang Shipan ignored Zhao Fang and continued, "My Zhang family has also been targeted by the Guo family because of this. Everyone in the family, young and old, has been frustrated and can only remain depressed in the small town of Beizhou! You old beast, what have you done as the emperor?"

"You keep saying how much you miss my great-aunt, but what happened? You've already forgotten about me, Zhang, after getting that vile Consort Rong."

“Duo—”

The sound of an arrow piercing a shield could be heard.

"what!!!"

One of Zhang Shipan's treacherous guards, seeing the arrow that had pierced his shield and lodged in his arm, couldn't help but cry out in pain.

As Zhang Shipan looked toward the direction of the arrow, he heard a voice coming from the open space in front of the hall: "Qingyun!"

Upon hearing this shout,

Zhao Fang couldn't help but turn his head and shout, "Brother Jing!"

Zhao Fang had just finished shouting,
Not far from the palace, beside the white jade railing, a figure flashed and Xu Zaijing, stepping on Qingyun's shoulders, jumped directly into the white jade railing.

"Bang!"

The palace gates in the distance were still being violently rammed.

"Young master, the spear."

The blue clouds outside the palace platform tossed the long spear high into the air.

Xu Zaijing reached out and caught it.

"Xu Zaijing, how did you get in?" Zhang Shipan frowned as he watched Xu Zaijing walk in, holding a spear in one hand and a bow in the other.

As he spoke, Zhang Shipan had already drawn his sword and quickly ran towards the Marquis of Xiangyang.

"Hey!"

The Marquis of Xiangyang thrust his spear at Zhang Shipan like a venomous snake.

"Snapped!"

The Marquis of Xiangyang was getting old after all. Although his spear pierced Zhang Shipan, it couldn't penetrate Zhang Shipan's armor at all.

After Zhang Shipan tapped the spear shaft with his knife, he quickly approached the Marquis of Xiangyang.

"Your Majesty!" The Marquis of Xiangyang tried to hug Zhang Shipan, but was kicked aside.

As the emperor watched Zhang Shipan's waist knife slash at Zhao Fang in front of him, his eyes widened in fury. Before he could react, he felt a figure flash beside him.

"Fang'er!"

The Empress instinctively stepped in front of Zhao Fang.

"Swoosh!" Zhang Shipan's blade sliced ​​open the empress's hair bun, strands of her black hair falling down.

When Zhang Shipan started running,
Xu Zaijing had already thrown the long spear in his hand with all his might.

Before the treacherous imperial guards who were running towards Xu Zaijing to entangle him could react, they felt a tightness around their necks, and all they could see was Xu Zaijing swiftly nocking an arrow from his bow.

"middle!!!"

With Xu Zaijing's roar, the powerful bow that Xu Zaijing had pulled to its limit was quickly released.

The arrow, imbued with immense power, shot out like lightning.

The arrow missed Zhang Shipan's head and hands, but struck his knee.

The powerful, armor-piercing arrow tore through the cloak fluttering behind him, penetrated his skirt armor, and sank deeply into Zhang Shipan's knee.

Zhang Shipan was already twisting his waist to swing his knife, and the immense force in that instant caused his lower body to lose its balance!

Zhao Fang, on a conditioned reflex, desperately hugged his empress and fell backward.

With the two forces combined, Zhang Shipan's sharp blade, after cutting off only a few strands of the Empress's hair, went astray.

However, Zhang Shipan was also extremely skilled. When he lost his balance after being shot in the knee, he actually endured the excruciating pain and tried to swing his sword again.

"This is back to you!!!"

The second arrow shot forth like lightning.

This time, the target is a vital spot—the neck.

The arrow pierced deeply into Zhang Shipan's neck.

Before he could react, a third arrow pierced his head.

"It's still yours!"

The Empress closed her eyes and embraced Zhao Fang.

Hearing Xu Zaijing's angry roar in his ears,

After stabilizing himself for a moment, he realized that he did not feel any knife cuts on his body.

"Wow!"

The palace gate directly in front of the palace was finally smashed open, and the imperial guards who came to the rescue rushed desperately towards the emperor and empress.

Before the Empress could say anything, she felt Zhao Fang peeking out from beneath her.

The Empress looked down and saw Zhao Fang sneering at Zhang Shipan, who was still blinking.

"Sister!" Yao Jialiangdi called out urgently from the side.

Zhao Fang, disregarding everything else, hurriedly turned around with the Empress to look.

He then discovered that the Crown Princess was losing her balance and falling backward. Zhao Fang rushed forward, but before he could even call out, Gao Taotao regained her footing.

“You stepped on the hem of her skirt,” Gao Taotao said.

"What about your stomach? Is there anything unusual inside?" Zhao Fang asked anxiously.

After shaking her head, Gao Taotao gave Zhao Fang a wink.

Zhao Fang turned his head and saw Xu Zaijing still drawing his bow and arrow to help He Guan and Cao Yi out of their predicament.

It was already the early morning, a time when everything was quiet, so any commotion in the palace could travel very far.

East of the palace,

Along the moat,

Chai Family Residence

The Chai family patriarch and his wife, draped in cloaks, stood on the northwest wooden building in the outer courtyard, anxiously watching the flickering torches atop the palace walls.

"What, what, what's going on here? How can there be shouts of killing in the palace?" Madam Chai asked, frowning.

"And there was a sound of the door being rammed!"

The head of the Chai family shook his head repeatedly.

"Madam, the young lady has arrived!" the personal maid said.

Under the wooden building,
"Father, Mother, your daughter is in the yard and hears shouts of killing all around!" Chai Zhengzheng said as she walked.

“Zhengzheng, that’s the commotion in the palace!” Madam Chai said.

"What?" The pace of her footsteps on the stairs quickened instantly.

Standing side by side with her parents, Chai Zhengzheng had not yet spoken.

"Here you go!!!" A thunderous roar faintly echoed from within the palace.

"Father, Mother, it's his! It's Brother Xu Wu's voice!" Chai Zhengzheng said urgently.

Another shout of "Here you go!" rang out, and the noise of the battle cries subsided considerably.

In less than a quarter of an hour,
Silence fell once again around the palace.

An hour later,

The first light of dawn,

Outside Xuande Gate,

Sheng Hong got off the carriage, yawning.

Seeing his colleagues standing outside the palace gate, Sheng Hong smiled and went forward to greet them.

Upon seeing Sheng Hong, Lord Liu, a fellow graduate of the same year, quickly approached him, cupped his hands, and said, "Brother Sheng, have you heard? This morning, shouts of battle were heard coming from the palace!"

"Huh?" Sheng Hong instantly sobered up and said uncertainly, "Could it be that the shouts of battle from the southeast were blocked by the palace walls and misheard?"

Lord Liu shook his head: "If it's a mishearing, then those near the Xihua Gate of the palace could also mishear? That's across the entire palace!"

"Has something earth-shattering happened in the palace?" Sheng Hong asked, dumbfounded.

"I hope so." Pointing to the sky, Lord Liu continued without finishing his sentence, "We'll find out after we enter the palace this morning at court."

Sheng Hong nodded and sighed, "Since yesterday, I feel like the days are so long! A few hours can feel like a lifetime has passed."

"Same here! Same here!" Lord Liu echoed.

quickly,

The palace gates were wide open.

After the officials entered the palace one after another, they lined up in the open space in front of the hall.

Sheng Hong frowned as he looked at the palace in the morning light. One of his colleagues said, "Hiss, why do I smell blood in the wind?"

"Silence!"

Not far away, an official from the Censorate, responsible for overseeing all officials, shouted.

At this time,

The high-ranking officials and ministers who had stayed overnight in the palace arrived one after another.

After joining the ranks of officials,

Uncontrollable buzzing voices broke out again within the group.

Sheng Hong looked at the young masters with curiosity.

suddenly,

Sheng Hong's gaze sharpened.
He noticed that the young master's hand was trembling uncontrollably, whether from fright or excitement, he couldn't tell.

(End of this chapter)