Xuanxia

Chapter 997: Consider Defeat Before Victory

"Okay, it's time for us to go."

After the last cut, Yuanye looked at the trimmed potted plant in front of him with satisfaction: "Take it."

"Yes, sir."

Gu Jinchen lowered his head and responded, then walked forward and picked up the basin.

Outside Yuan's house, the carriage was already ready, and the servants and maids had also prepared their things long ago. They didn't bring too many things, only some gold and silver jewelry.

The two men got on the carriage. The roar of the battle in the capital continued to be heard, but they seemed not to hear it. The carriage started and slowly drove towards the city gate.

Gu Jinchen sat in the car, opened the window curtain, and looked towards the capital city under the night sky, with a hint of reluctance in his eyes.

"unwilling?"

Yuan Ye asked with a smile.

Gu Jinchen lowered the curtain and smiled helplessly: "Master, what you said is true... After leaving today, I don't know when I can return to Beijing. This is the capital of my Yan Kingdom, how can I bear to leave?"

"Haha, it's understandable that young people would have such thoughts."

Yuan Ye said leisurely: "But my family has survived for a thousand years, and the most important thing is to understand one thing... nothing lasts forever."

"Nothing lasts forever?" Gu Jinchen seemed to be thinking about something.

"Don't fight for your pride, and you'll have a green mountain."

Yuan Ye smiled and said, "As long as the plan succeeds, the way we leave the capital today will be the way they will welcome us back tomorrow."

Gu Jinchen responded, "Master, you are wise," and said nothing more.

As the most important person currently pushed to the forefront by the aristocratic family, he is of course aware of all the current plans.

Using Ning Wuwang as bait and forcing Ning Baimei to their side is the most important step in this plan and the key to determining victory or failure.

But…it could certainly fail.

If this plan fails, the aristocratic family will suffer a devastating blow.

The Mingjian Pavilion might not do anything to them for the time being, but the rebel army and the Xuanmeng didn't think so... Gu Jinchen could guess with his toes that the rebel army and the Xuanmeng, which were not recognized by the court, could directly enter the capital as gangsters and kill all the people from the aristocratic families!

When they come back to "raise an army to hold them accountable", Mingjian Pavilion will produce some evidence to prove that these aristocratic talents are the rebels... The righteous army and Xuanmeng will be following the great way and doing justice.

Yes, when Gu Jinchen thought of the eight words "follow the great way and do justice", he felt sarcastic in his heart.

He never believed in chivalry.

Everything is just about interests.

No matter how nice it sounds, who would sacrifice their lives for profit? Are you crazy?

It was precisely because they were worried that the most important figures of the family would all be killed that they decided to... escape at this critical moment.

The direction of escape was naturally the base camp of the aristocratic family, Fuhe Province.

The reason why I chose to escape now was, of course, to give confidence to my subordinates. The people in the Imperial Guards and the Patrol Battalion are all as cunning as ghosts. If you run away in advance and they see that something is wrong, who will still work for you?
Therefore, I can only wait until they are too busy to take care of me before escaping.

Those young masters and young ladies had been arranged in batches to various villas near the capital in the name of summer vacation a few days ago. Now it is time for them to embark on the road of escape. They are the hope of the future of the aristocratic families and are naturally very important.

And... Gu Jinchen knew that Ning Wuwang’s woman and his two sons were also among them.

Thinking of this, Gu Jinchen sneered in his heart.

Xuanxing master?

The son of a swordsman?
The best expert under the lord's command now?

He is nothing but a useless person controlled by a woman.

……

The woman's name was Fan Duo. She had a clean and poor background. She was bought into the Ning family as a maid when she was in her teens.

Ning Wushu knew everything that happened later. She was in charge of the daily life of Ning Wuwang, the eldest son of the Ning family. As they grew older, they both reached the age of being interested in the opposite sex, and girls would often become more open-minded at this time. But what Fan Duo learned was not something like childhood sweethearts or love between a man and a woman.

Having lived in the lower class since childhood, she was educated by the other older maids in the Ning family very early on - women like them should either marry a servant or a small family outside the mansion in the future and live an ordinary life, or simply take a gamble and try to climb over the walls of a wealthy family.

Fan Duo is the woman closest to Ning Wuwang, so naturally she wants to try it too.

Of course, to Ning Wuwang, Fan Duo was not that kind of particularly outstanding and incomparable woman.

He is the son of a swordsman. There are few second-generation rich people with higher status and position than him in the whole capital, or even in the whole world. What kind of woman doesn't he want?
However, young people often have a special mindset...

The more people around him opposed, the more he felt that this woman was his true love.

Not only that, he will also fight against the whole world for her!
Once he develops this kind of thinking when he is young, it will be difficult to change it for the rest of his life.

Therefore, although Ning Wuwang no longer fought against his father and sister and sent Fan Duo out of the Ning Mansion, he had been secretly in contact with her and even had a child with her.

"later……"

Fan Duo hugged her two sons tightly and whispered, "The Lan family found me. They gave me a house and many things, and also arranged a very good private school and teacher for Huier and Yaoer."

Ning Hui and Ning Yao are the names of Ning Wuwang's two sons.

Fu Qingzhou held his forehead.

It's a very vulgar method, but it works quite well.

Ning Wuwang secretly kept a woman and had a child outside. If he wanted to arrange things for them quietly, it would be easy to be discovered - but since this was done by the Lan family, everything could be done silently.

There may be other reasons why he turned to the aristocratic family, but starting with his wife and children is obviously the best way to make a breakthrough.

"I don't know where we are going."

Fan Duo lowered his head and stammered, "We are just following the instructions..."

Fu Qingzhou sneered: "It seems that I am too easy to talk to."

He stretched out his hand, and Hua Wuying beside him understood. Although he was a little helpless, he still silently handed over the sword in his hand.

Fu Qingzhou grasped the sword.

Seeing this, Fan Duo suddenly became nervous and exclaimed repeatedly: "I don't know, I really don't know!"

Fu Qingzhou didn't waste any words with her. He reached out to grab the child in her arms. He randomly picked a little boy and pulled him out. The little boy immediately screamed and cried. Fan Duo wanted to pounce on him, but Ning Wushu had already silently drawn out the knife.

Fan Duo screamed and almost collapsed.

"..."

"Oh, forget it."

Fu Qingzhou finally shook his head and stopped pulling the little boy's hand.

He is not a morally perfect person, but if he really has to do such a thing, even if it is just threatening with other people's children, he still can't get over it in his heart.

It would be better to use the soul-stealing dart.

"I said! I said!"

But before Fu Qingzhou could take the next step, Fan Duo could no longer hold on.

She is not a person with a particularly strong will, otherwise, she would not have become the starting point for the aristocratic family to conquer Ning Wuwang.

"I really don't know where they are taking us, but, but I have a way to contact Wuwang!"

As she spoke, she pulled a pair of pendants off the necks of the two little boys.

The twins each wore a pair of jade rings, which when put together formed a jade disk.

"As long as they're put together, it means something's wrong with us!"

Fan Duo burst into tears. She hugged her son tightly and handed over the two jade rings: "Wuwang will know immediately!"

(End of this chapter)