Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 762 Sleepless Night
Many members of the Yang family served as abbots of temples throughout Dali, so they had many devout believers in the Dali Kingdom.

These believers were spread across various tribes, and there were also many believers of the Yang family among the officers and soldiers of the Dali Imperial Palace.

Because of their presence, the palace gate was easily opened.

An alarm was sounded in the palace, and a fierce battle broke out between the palace guards and more than a thousand private soldiers led by Yang Liangao.

The Dali Emperor Duan Zhengxing immediately blocked the gates of the inner palace and sent warriors to seek help from the royal guards stationed outside the city and the Chongsheng Temple.

The monks of Chongsheng Temple are either emperors or princes, including many royal family members. For their safety, they have many monk soldiers with extraordinary martial arts skills.

As long as these two armed forces come to support quickly, Yang Liangao will not be able to succeed.

However, the commander of the Royal Guard was Gao Zhengda, and Dali Prime Minister Gao Zhenshou had left him a strict order when he left Dali City.

Without the personal written order from the Prime Minister, no one may obey orders from anyone else.

So, when Gao Zhengda heard that there was a change in the palace and the emperor asked him to send troops to quell the rebellion immediately, he just calmly replied:
Our Imperial City Guards are under the control of the Prime Minister. Without the Prime Minister's handwritten order, the Imperial City Guards will not dispatch a single soldier.

The person who went to Chongsheng Temple to report the news successfully entered the temple.

Because there is a secret passage from outside the temple to inside the temple.

This is an escape route prepared for the many royal monks of noble birth in the temple just in case.

The current emperor Duan Zhengxing naturally knows of its existence.

As the situation was extremely urgent, Duan Zhengxing naturally told his confidants about the existence of the secret passage.

The secret passage was not very long. When this confidant opened the secret passage, it was discovered by the Tantric master under Gao Shuyao.

He was just a step too late, and still managed to sneak into the temple successfully.

When Duan Heyu heard that Yang was plotting a rebellion, he immediately guessed that Prime Minister Gao Zhenshou, who happened to have left Dali at that time, had acquiesced to it, and he was furious.

Although he no longer has any hair.

Duan Heyu was the uncle and father-in-law of former prime minister Gao Liangcheng. Because of their close relationship, Gao Zhenshou could no longer tolerate Duan Heyu after he took away his uncle Gao Liangcheng's position as prime minister.

Because of this, Duan Heyu had to become a monk and abdicate.

Fortunately, he became a monk, and his living conditions were not bad at all. Even his concubines continued to serve him in his bedroom.

But he didn't expect that Gao Zhenshou was still not satisfied and actually wanted to change someone else to be the emperor.

He could tolerate replacing the emperor with a member of the Duan family, but how could he tolerate replacing the emperor with a person of a different surname, as that would mean the end of the Duan family's empire?

The imperial guards controlled by Gao Zhenshou were obviously unreliable, so he could only rely on the monks in the temple.

Duan Heyu immediately went to see the abbot and explained the matter.

The abbot was one of his uncles. When he heard that the Duan family's empire was in danger, his eyes immediately turned red.

The abbot immediately gathered all the monks in the temple, more than 800 people in total, lit torches, picked up swords and long sticks, opened the gate and rushed out.

"My fellow monks, you have already transcended the Three Precepts and are no longer within the Five Elements. Why do you need to wade into the muddy waters of this earthly world now?"

Outside the tall and magnificent mountain gate, a person stood there quietly.
She was wearing a hooded robe and had her head slightly lowered, so the monks at the mountain gate could not see anything clearly.

Judging from the voice, it's a girl.

Without looking up, she said calmly, "Go back, close the gate, recite your sutras, and worship your Buddha, and then everyone will be able to live in peace."

The monks in the temple would never listen to her advice. Seeing that she was alone and frail, several monks immediately rushed out with a loud roar.

"Woo~"

A sharp howling sound like that of a ghost from the underworld was heard, and two faint shadows flew up from the sleeves of the man in the hooded robe.

Two shadows drew arcs in the air, slicing down from the sky at an extremely strange angle.

“Swish, swish!”

Incredibly fast and without any hindrance, the shadow passed between the necks of the two monks.

The two monks, one holding a stick and the other holding a knife, still rushed forward four or five steps, but they were already headless.

As the two shadows passed by, their heads and bodies were separated.

Two heads fell to the ground, and the running figure rushed out four or five more steps before suddenly falling to the ground.

The two shadows crossed each other, drew an arc, and flew back into the hands of the man in the hooded robe. Only then did she raise her head slightly.

She has long thin eyebrows, bright fox eyes, a beautiful smile on her lips and a compassionate face.

If she hadn't been born with a pair of fox eyes and a natural charm, she would have looked like a majestic female Bodhisattva.

In front of him, another monk stood up with his sword drawn.

It was only when he rushed closer that he discovered that the deaths of his two senior brothers were strange.

However, he was unable to retract his attack at this moment. The overwhelming fear caused his flying sword to unleash a power that he could never display under normal circumstances.

With this knife, the man was flying in the air and the knife was slashing down like an eagle snatching its prey, with unparalleled sharpness.

"You really don't know how to be gentle with women."

Gao Shuyao smiled coquettishly and raised her arms.

The black robe spread out like the wings of a bat.

Under the wings, golden light was flowing, and they were a pair of cymbals with edges as sharp as knives.

“Chachacha…”

The series of teeth-grinding friction sounds meant that the cymbals in Gao Shuyao's hands did not collide violently with the monk's sword.

Everything is under Gao Shuyao's control.

After three or five blows, in just a moment, the monk retreated with his sword in hand, staggering to his knees. His chest was ripped open, and his internal organs were all over the floor.

The monks' eyes turned red and they rushed out roaring.

Gao Shuyao struck the cymbal in his hand hard, and it made a clang sound.

The vibration of the cymbals caused the blood on them to turn into a cloud of blood mist, which made her pretty face even more charming under the light of the torch.

As the cymbals sounded, one after another Tantric masters rushed out from the darkness and faced the monks and soldiers from Chongsheng Temple.

Gao Shu raised her head and dropped her hood, revealing a smile that seemed neither angry nor smiling, like a fox that has become a spirit, indescribably charming and lively, captivating and alluring.

The beauty of that moment, as if the starry sky and the torches under the mountain gate, were all overshadowed by her.

Then she flew up.

Her figure was as agile and nimble as a fox, her face as charming and seductive as that of Ming Fei, but the cymbals in her hands, with their mournful and sharp whistles, kept reaping lives.

The man and his blade are like an antelope hanging on a horn or an elephant crossing a river. They are formed by nature and cannot be uncannily understood.

At the palace, Duan Zhengyan waited for a long time, but no reinforcements arrived, and his heart sank.

How could he not understand at this moment that the Gao family had abandoned him?

There was no movement at Chongsheng Temple. Either his father and the monks of royal family had given up, or they were intercepted by the rebels.

There is no possibility of reinforcements.

Duan Zhengxing sighed and ordered, "Open the palace gate!"

With an order from the Emperor of Dali, the heavy palace gate opened with a creaky sound.

Yang Liangao stood in front of the palace gate, holding a knife. Behind him were rows of crackling torches. The smell of pine resin and blood filled the air.

At the palace gate, Duan Zhengxing, the emperor of Dali, walked out slowly, wearing a white shirt and long pants, with his hair loose.

He was awakened from a deep sleep, so dressed like this, he looked like a naked sheep.

"Yang Liangao, you win!"

Duan Zhengxing said sadly: "I agree to abdicate to you and become a monk in Chongsheng Temple. Are you satisfied?"

Yang Liangao stared at Duan Zhengxing for a long time, then sheathed his sword with a "shua" sound, took three quick steps forward, and bowed:

"Your Majesty has issued an edict, and I dare not disobey it. I am willing to choose an auspicious day to receive the abdication order and the imperial seal!"

In the darkness of the night, a charming voice suddenly came from afar: "Mr. Yang is destined to be the son of the Emperor. Shu Yao observed the celestial phenomena at night, and tomorrow will be a very auspicious day."

When the voice first spoke, it seemed to be still a hundred steps away. When it said "auspicious time", a graceful figure was already in front of him.

……

"Who allowed you to come? It's not proper for a girl to run around everywhere!"

"Do you think this is Lin'an? Is it peaceful? If you are kidnapped by the barbarians and taken to the mountains, where can I save you?"

When Yang Yuan met Feng Niang and Tae Hee, he was not as surprised as they had expected.

I was a little scared.

This is too scary. Although they brought seven or eight guards, this place is in chaos...

If his soldiers had not already crippled and frightened the three barbarians of Xuzhou, it is hard to say whether they would have encountered some trap or ambush and ended up getting killed.

If they fall into the hands of the barbarians, nothing good will happen to them. The consequences are chilling to think about.

However, Yang Yuan didn't want to say it too harshly.

After all, Feng Niang calls him uncle and is Brother Li Dao’s beloved daughter.

And Tae Hee... is his sister-in-law.

Although the sister-in-law didn't know that he was her brother-in-law, this relationship was not easy to make public.

Therefore, Yang Yuan suppressed his anger and said, "Alright, just stay with my army and don't run around. After we finish the matter in Southern Xinjiang, I will take you back to Jianzhou."

"Oh……"

Feng Niang and Tai Xi nodded their heads and agreed, being extremely obedient.

In fact, Yang Yuan was overthinking. Feng Niang and Tai Xi were not sad at all because of his slamming of the table in anger and his harsh tone of reprimand. They felt happy in their hearts.

Why is Fu Shuai so angry? Because he is worried about us.

Why is Fu Shuai worried about us? Because...

Thinking of this, Feng Niang and Tai Xi felt sweet in their hearts, and they wished he would scold them a few more times. The harsher he scolded, the more it showed that he cared about them.

Yes, that’s the curse.

Eh? No more scolding?
He...he really does love me.

He couldn't bear to scold me.

The two love-brained kids were still smiling when they were brought to the back house and handed over to Dao Feifei to settle down.

This night was also a sleepless night for the officials in Xuzhou.

Because when sending them away, Yang Yuan told them a few things:

A post office was set up, a court was established, and a military station was stationed. The three barbarians of Xuzhou went down the mountain to farm, mine and engage in transportation. The three gangs, big and small, were appointed as leaders of the corresponding industries.

Yang Yuan only said these few words, asking them to think of a set of rules and regulations and present them for public discussion tomorrow.

Now Yang Yuan has only killed Ke Zhizhou, and has not yet held his subordinates accountable.

This is a sword hanging over their heads, how dare they not work hard?
(End of this chapter)