Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 244 Life experience
While Chu Shizhao and his men were busy suppressing the rebellion by the remnants of the Dark Night Cult in the capital.

However, an accident occurred at the northwestern border.

Lin Yuanqing, the border guard, was standing on the watchtower at this moment, and the sheepskin map in his hand was shaking violently.

The fall of Blackwater City was a heavy blow to him.

Before, Chu Shizhao promised him that as long as the problems in the capital were solved, the war at the border would be easily resolved.

Who would have thought that the issues in the capital had not been resolved yet.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed, and Chu Shizhao didn't come back in time.

Even the Black Water City was captured by the Northern Di army.

Lin Yuanqing was very worried.

According to the scout's report.

The next attack route of the Northern Di army will be directly towards Guyan Pass.

If even the Guyan Pass is lost, even if Chu Shizhao brings his men back, it will probably be too late.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuanqing suddenly felt overwhelmed.

At this time, the general behind him spoke up to remind him.

"General, call a meeting immediately!"

"The Northern Di came too quickly this time. We have to make a decision as soon as possible!"

Lin Yuanqing strode down the city wall.

The city council hall.

Lin Yuanqing kicked the door open, and several staff members and generals stood up in unison.

He slammed the map on the table.

"Blackwater City will be conquered in half a day. Beidi's next move will be our Guyan Pass."

"Tell me, what should I do?"

Everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to speak first.

At this time, the aide Mr. Zhou slowly stood up.

"General, in my opinion, this Lone Goose Pass cannot be defended."

"Now that the Northern Di are strong, why don't we retreat to the second line, preserve our strength, and wait for reinforcements from the imperial court?"

"Preserve your strength?"

Lin Yuanqing sneered and looked at Mr. Zhou.

"Are you asking me to give up resistance and abandon the city?"

Mr. Zhou's mouth twitched slightly, and he stuffed something into his sleeve calmly.

Although the small action was very covert.

But the sharp-eyed Lin Yuanqing still saw it at a glance.

Although he didn't see the whole thing, he caught a glimpse of a corner of parchment sticking out of the other person's sleeve.

With just one glance, he instantly made up his mind.

The material of this parchment scroll is exactly the same as the secret letter from the Northern Di people that was intercepted by the army a few days ago.

Lin Yuanqing's heart was shocked.

In order not to alert the enemy, he pretended to be ignorant and continued talking about the previous topic.

"Mr. Zhou said it lightly, but if we lose this pass, the northern barbarians will march straight in. What will happen to the people in the northwest?"

Before Mr. Zhou could answer, the door of the conference room was slammed open.

Lin Yuanqing frowned and looked up.

Madam Su rushed in with disheveled hair, followed by several servants.

She threw herself at Lin Yuanqing's feet.

"Master, please save Chengye!"

Before he finished speaking, fifteen-year-old Lin Chengye was carried in.

The boy's face was pale, and there was a black snake-shaped pattern on his neck.

Lin Yuanqing squatted down and gently stroked his son's face with his fingers.

"What's going on?" Lin Yuanqing gritted his teeth and looked at Su.

Su took out a piece of paper from her bosom with shaking hands. On it was written: "If you don't leave the city, this poison will eat away your bones in three days."

Lin Yuanqing snatched the paper, glanced at it, and his face turned pale.

He suddenly looked up at Mr. Zhou.

The guy was looking down.

Lin Yuanqing narrowed his eyes, "Mr. Zhou, how much do you know about this?"

Only then did Mr. Zhou raise his head.

"General, I am just a scholar, how can I understand these sinister tactics?"

"But Madam is right. The young master has been poisoned. I'm afraid the city is not safe anymore."

Lin Yuanqing stared at him intently, with murderous intent growing in his eyes.

Just then, there was a burst of hurried horse hoof sounds outside.

The personal guard Li Si stumbled in.

"General, the Northern Di vanguard is already thirty miles away!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd who were previously discussing military intelligence suddenly fell into chaos.

Lin Yuanqing gave the order immediately.

"Pass the order down, at 3:30 pm, evacuate the entire city."

"Bring the classics and transfer the context."

As soon as these words came out.

Su, who was originally crying, suddenly felt relieved.

Mr. Zhou was secretly delighted.

It seems that his plan was successful!

At midnight, the snow fell even harder.

Three hundred guards escorted ten carriages and hurried out of the city.

Lin Yuanqing rode on his horse and looked back at the city wall of Guyan Pass.

He knew that if he left, the Northern Di people would come in and the people inside the pass would be in trouble.

But he couldn't ignore his son.

When the team reached Yingchoujian, the wind suddenly stopped, but a low sound of horse hooves came from the front.

Lin Yuanqing suddenly pulled the reins and squinted his eyes.

Under the moonlight, a team of black-armored soldiers blocked the way.

The leader, Li Batian, was wearing heavy armor and holding a meteorite iron shield.

He snorted coldly.

"General Lin, it's so late. Where are you going with the convoy?"

Lin Yuanqing's heart sank, but he suppressed his panic and said in a deep voice, "I have been ordered to transfer the veins and avoid the Northern Di's edge."

"Transfer context?"

Li Batian sneered and waved his hand to signal his men to move forward.

Several people opened the bookcase of a carriage, revealing several thick crossbow parts underneath.

Lin Yuanqing's pupils shrank suddenly and his head exploded.

He suddenly turned around to look at Mr. Zhou, but the guy had already retreated to the back of the team with a sneer on his face.

Li Batian kicked over the bookcase.

"Transfer context?"

"Lin Yuanqing, do you think I'm blind?"

"This thing can attack cities and break walls. Can you tell me this is cultural context?"

At this moment, Mr. Zhou suddenly jumped up and shot out a poisoned arrow from his sleeve, heading straight for Lin Yuanqing's face.

Lin Yuanqing was unable to react and was about to be hit when a sword flashed from the side.

"Ding!"

The sleeve arrow was blocked.

Chu Shizhao appeared beside the team at some point.

He glanced at Mr. Zhou coldly, raised the tip of his sword and pointed it directly at the other's chest.

"The puppet of the Dark Night Cult is hidden very deeply."

Mr. Zhou laughed wildly and suddenly tore open his clothes, revealing a blood-red rune on his chest.

Then he took out a fuse from his pocket and lit it.

"The whole city's wells are filled with corruption, and none of you can escape!"

Before he finished speaking, Chu Shizhao's sword flashed, his right arm was severed at the shoulder, and blood gushed out of the rune.

The puppet strings on the execution ground flashed through Lin Yuanqing’s mind.

This smell, this luster, they are clearly of the same kind! In the chaos, Lin Chengye suddenly staggered to his feet, grabbed the sword dropped by his personal guard on the ground, and rushed towards Chu Shizhao.

His movements were clumsy, but his sword moves were murderous, very much like the "Nineteen Styles of the Cang Wolf" of the Xiliang royal family.

Chu Shizhao raised his sword to block.

Lin Chengye exclaimed: "How come you have my Xiliang national treasure?"

Chu Shizhao was slightly startled, looking at the young man in front of him, he was a little dazed for a moment.

The national treasure of Xiliang?

This jade pendant was given to him by his father before he died. He said it was his mother's relic and asked him to keep it well. How did it become Xiliang's?

He was about to ask when Lin Chengye suddenly went crazy, swinging his sword and attacking again, screaming, "Give me back my things!"

The boy's sword moves were sharp and fierce, totally unlike the fierceness of a fifteen-year-old child.

Chu Shizhao blocked the attack while trying to explain: "Calm down, this jade pendant..."

Before he could finish his words, Lin Chengye suddenly slipped and lost his balance. The sword in his hand flew out of his hand and stuck straight into the snow.

He fell to his knees helplessly, clutching his chest.

"Chengye!"

Seeing this, Lin Yuanqing didn't care about anything else. He rushed over, hugged his son, and shouted anxiously, "What's wrong with you?"

Lin Chengye's face was pale, his lips were purple, and he pointed at Chu Shizhao and said intermittently: "He...he has...has..."

Before he finished speaking, he fainted.

"Chengye! Chengye!"

Lin Yuanqing shook his son's body but couldn't wake him up.

He raised his head, stared at Chu Shizhao, and said with gritted teeth: "It's you! You killed my son!"

Chu Shizhao frowned, he was sure that Lin Chengye's coma had nothing to do with him.

Although the origin of the jade pendant is unknown, it is definitely not an evil object that can harm people.

He was about to explain when Li Batian suddenly stepped forward and stood in front of him.

He said in a deep voice: "General Lin, now is not the time to talk about this. The most urgent task is to find out what Mr. Zhou is up to!"

Lin Yuanqing then remembered Mr. Zhou. He turned around suddenly, only to find that Mr. Zhou, who had been standing behind him, had disappeared.

He was startled and thought to himself, this old guy must have a backup plan!
"General Li, take your men and chase him! You must catch him!"

While giving the order, Lin Yuanqing picked up his son and turned to mount the horse.

"Where are you going?"

Chu Shizhao stopped him and asked in a deep voice.

"I want to take my son back to the city! It's too dangerous here!"

Lin Yuanqing gave him a cold look.

"no!"

Chu Shizhao flatly refused.

"Your son's condition is unknown right now, so don't move! Besides, the city has been poisoned by the Dark Night Cult, and going back will only be more dangerous!"

"You bullshit!"

Lin Yuanqing didn't believe him at all.

"My son was clearly... "

"enough!"

Chu Shizhao interrupted sharply.

"Now is not the time to argue! If you really care about your son, you should trust me!"

Lin Yuanqing looked at Chu Shizhao's determined eyes and hesitated.

Although he hated Chu Shizhao, he had to admit that in the current situation, staying here might be the safest thing.

"Okay! I'll trust you for once!"

Lin Yuanqing took a deep breath, carried his son to the side, and gently placed him on the ground.

He unbuttoned his son's shirt and carefully examined his injuries.

Chu Shizhao also came over, squatted down, and observed Lin Chengye carefully.

The boy's face became paler and paler, and his breathing became weaker and weaker. The situation was not optimistic.

"The poison he was poisoned with was strange."

Chu Shizhao frowned, "I have never seen this kind of poison."

Lin Yuanqing suddenly looked up and stared at Chu Shizhao.

"Why do you know Xiliang's national treasure?"

Chu Shizhao was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "This jade pendant was left to me by my mother."

"Your mother?"

Lin Yuanqing was stunned for a moment, "Who is your mother?"

Chu Shizhao raised his head, his eyes were deep, and his voice was low: "My mother is the...Princess of Xiliang."

Lin Yuanqing was struck by lightning and froze in place.

Princess Xiliang?

Chu Shizhao's mother turned out to be Princess Xiliang? !

He always thought that when the Xiliang royal family was exterminated, only the young princess was sent to the frontier to marry and escaped.

But I never thought that the princess would be the concubine of the current emperor!
He never imagined that the orphan from Xiliang whom he had been looking for would actually be the current crown prince!

He looked at Chu Shizhao in disbelief, as if he was meeting him for the first time.

The son of this enemy whom he had always wanted to kill, actually had the same blood as him, and was his...

nephew?

"You...what you said is true?"

Lin Yuanqing's voice trembled.

It was as if he couldn't believe his ears.

Chu Shizhao nodded, took out a folded silk handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Lin Yuanqing.

"This is what my mother left me. She said that if one day I meet someone who holds the other half of the handkerchief, I must treat him well, just like a relative."

Lin Yuanqing took the silk handkerchief with trembling hands, unfolded it, and saw a lifelike wolf embroidered on it, which was the totem of the Xiliang royal family!

The material and pattern of this silk handkerchief are exactly the same as the dowry that his wife brought from Xiliang!
He burst into tears immediately and sobbed inconsolably, holding his silk handkerchief.

Over the years, he has been missing his homeland and his deceased relatives all the time.

Now, he finally found clues about his relatives, but discovered that he had always wronged his benefactor!

"Chengye..."

Lin Yuanqing suddenly thought of his unconscious son, and quickly put away the handkerchief. He turned to look at Chu Shizhao, "Hurry up and take a look. What happened to Chengye?"

Chu Shizhao nodded and reached out to feel Lin Chengye's pulse.

The boy's pulse was weak and intermittent, and there seemed to be a strange force running around in his body, impacting his heart.

"Not good! This is an extremely vicious poison!"

Chu Shizhao's face changed, and he said in a deep voice, "If the poison is not detoxified in time, his life will be in danger!"

"Poison?"

Lin Yuanqing was horrified. "Where can I find the antidote in this remote place?"

"Let me try!"

Chu Shizhao took out an exquisite silver needle bag from his arms. This was left to him by his mother and it was said to be able to cure all kinds of poisons.

He held his breath and concentrated, inserting a silver needle into Lin Chengye's acupuncture points, trying to use his internal force to force the poison out of his body.

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Lin Chengye's body suddenly began to tremble violently, and he let out a painful roar.

The clothes on his body moved without wind, and a powerful force burst out from his body, pushing Chu Shizhao back several steps.

"Chengye!"

Lin Yuanqing was horrified and rushed over. Instinctively, he wanted to hug his son.

"do not come!"

Chu Shizhao's face was solemn, and he shouted sternly, "He is in danger now!"

Lin Chengye stood up slowly, his eyes were red and his face was covered with black blood vessels.

He looks horrible, not like a normal person at all.

He slowly raised his head, his cold eyes swept over everyone, finally falling on Chu Shizhao.

"You are mine..."

Chu Shizhao's pupils suddenly shrank.

Lin Chengye's eyes were filled with red light, as if they were on fire.

Chu Shizhao's heart trembled, and he felt a strong murderous aura from the other party.

This kid is being manipulated and wants to kill me.

Not to mention Chu Shizhao, even Lin Chengye's parents felt the changes in their son.

This crazy young man is not their son at all.

(End of this chapter)