Hongqiao understood that the Jin Kingdom had reached a life-and-death edge, and King Liang intended to make one final struggle.
Originally, they were servants of the Second Prince’s mansion, but were later rescued by King Liang, who spent his life striving for Consort Tong and the Second Prince. How could they, the servants, have any reason to retreat?
Hongi nodded: "Yes!"
"Release Fan Yuhuai and those generals who followed , let him accompany to rescue my father!"
"What about Li Mao and those ministers?" Hongi asked again.
"Useless fools, what’s the point of rescuing them? Let them fend for themselves!" King Liang adjusted his sleeves and stepped out of the prison.
·
Luohong City was in turmoil, screams echoed everywhere, and flas soared into the sky...
So dared to enter the prison to rescue King Liang, while others took advantage of the chaos to save their children.
The people, whose children were forcibly conscripted by the Crown Prince for the Emperor, saw Luohong City in chaos and thought of their children, caged like livestock in the Governnt Office, which made them anxious.
Those n who feared death for their children’s sake took the opportunity to knock on doors, calling on n whose children had been taken. They gathered more than twenty n, each ard with suitable tools, and charged towards the Governnt Office to rescue their children.
All the soldiers within the Governnt Office had been sent to the city gates to fend off enemies, leaving only six to guard the children locked in cages within the office.
The leader among the people feared harming the children in their fearless rush, and seeing the distant fire, had an idea. He led three others to set fire to the rear residence of the Governnt Office.
The fire drew away the officials guarding the children, allowing the people to break in, smash open the cages chained with iron, and protectively flee with the children...
However, at the entrance of the office, they saw ten soldiers wielding blades charging in. The twenty-odd n hurriedly shielded the crying children behind them, so holding up their sickles, others their hoes, each ready to fight to the death.
"Dad! I’m scared!" a little girl clung to a man’s leg, tears in her eyes, looking at the soldiers at the door and cried.
Before entering the city, Bai Qingyan had commanded that after entering the city, a hundred soldiers would divide into ten, heading to the Governnt Office to rescue the children held there, ensuring their safety.
Unexpectedly, upon opening the city gate and heading to the Governnt Office to rescue these children, they found the children’s fathers had beaten them to it...
The squad led by Great Zhou soldiers sheathed their swords, bowed to these n: "Under Bai Jinxiu, Mrs. Qin’s command, we are soldiers of the Empress of Zhou, here to rescue the children forcibly restrained in the Governnt Office. Since you have preceded us, quickly take the children ho. The city is in chaos... temporarily stay indoors! The Empress commands... not to harm any civilians! Once the war subsides, you will surely be notified!"
After speaking, the squad did not linger, turning back to rejoin the battlefield.
"Empress of Zhou?" The people of Luohong City were sowhat bewildered.
"I know Bai Jinxiu, she’s the sister of the Princess of Zhen!"
"I heard that the Princess of Zhen has rebelled while leading troops to aid Dadu City, rescuing children forcefully conscripted along the way. It’s possible... the Princess of Zhen intends to ascend as the Empress!"
"Now is not the ti for such talk, quickly get the children ho as instructed by the soldiers... stay indoors and don’t co out!" the man leading the child rescue said, "Hurry!"
The n took each child, hidden in dark shadows against the walls, rushing ho at utmost speed.
·
In Luohong Tower, the Emperor was like a trapped beast. He stared intently at Bai Qingyan, yet did not push away Gao Demao who held him securely.
The Emperor knew clearly that he was not Bai Qingyan’s opponent, and outside there was no one at his disposal. And at this mont... Bai Jinxiu had already marched into the city with troops, the great power of the Jin Kingdom was gone.
But he was the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom! How dare Bai Qingyan rebel against him!
The Eldest Princess looked at the Emperor, whose eyes burned with fury, her speech slow and deliberate: "Once, before the Bai family had any intention of rebellion, you suspected they would betray you, and the treacherous ministers in court eagerly acted to eliminate the Bai family, this thorn in your heart. Now, as you wished... the Bai family has rebelled, sothing that should have been anticipated, so why are you so angry?"
"Traitors! Traitors! You are all traitors!" The Emperor, his veins bulging on his forehead, shouted, "You, as the Eldest Princess of the Imperial Family, aided your granddaughter in destroying the Lin family’s sovereignty, aren’t you afraid that after you die, you’ll have no face to et the ancestors?!"
Sitting under the lamp, the Eldest Princess
"Shafully, as a grandmother, I have not helped my granddaughter on her path to the throne in any way, instead I have sched against her for the Lin family’s sovereignty!" The Eldest Princess leaned against her pillow, showing signs of old age, her voice slow. She looked at the Jin Kingdom’s Emperor, shook her head, her gaze sharp with intense hatred and disgust, "But it was you who, in pursuit of eternal life, built the Nine-fold Terrace, used children’s lives for alchemy, incited heaven’s wrath and people’s anger in Jin Kingdom, causing uprisings everywhere! You... were the greatest support in pushing my granddaughter towards the throne. Knowing all of this, Emperor... why deceive yourself and always bla others?"
"Regarding the Lin family’s sovereignty, I ask myself... I have a clear conscience. When I et the Lin family’s ancestors soday, I will have an explanation. But this vast industry of the Lin family... the realm entrusted to your hands, you cut off your own arm, killed King of Zhen Bai Weiting, and ultimately ruined the Lin family’s sovereignty in your hands." The Eldest Princess’s sandalwood Buddha beads slid from her wrist to her hand, she calmly began to move them, "The one who should worry about how to answer to the Lin ancestors is the Emperor yourself! What I should worry about is how to answer to the Bai ancestors after death! We are both gravely sinful beings, one... sorry to the Lin family, one sorry to the Bai family! Soday when we et underground... I might have to tell your father, you must rember the taste of his cane."
ntioning his father’s cane, even now the Emperor’s backside still faintly aches. He was furious and embarrassed, refusing to listen to the Eldest Princess, shouting: "Traitors! Traitors! You are all traitors! You will surely die without a burial place!"
The Emperor was consud by his aunt’s betrayal of Lin family sovereignty and perceived his grandmother’s granddaughter as a traitor in the Jin Kingdom.
At this mont, the Emperor deeply regretted that he should have eradicated all the Bai family’s won when all Bai family n died in the southern frontier, so Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinxiu, these two vile won, would not have beco trouble and ruined his grand plan of ascending the Nine-fold Terrace.
The Bai family indeed was his curse, when Bai Weiting went to the southern frontier battlefield, why didn’t he take all Bai descendants to show loyalty, why didn’t they all die in the southern frontier!
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