There were only servants in the palace, and there was no one to give rise to any gossip.

Xie Huaiyu glared at Wang Huaiyang coldly. He brought five people to Yuzhou. Yan Zhoudu did not know martial arts and was no match for the Wang Mansion. As long as Wang Huaiyang dared to draw his knife, she could arrest Wang Huaiyang with justification.

A silver light flashed across everyone's pupils, and the mud on the ground splashed onto the bamboo curtain with the spring rain. The black figure rushed out from behind Wang Huaiyang, and stabbed King Shuochang with the sword.

King Shuochang looked at the woman in the black veil with cold eyes. Those evil eyes were like a poisonous spider clinging to the eyes of a snake, cold-blooded and vicious.

This woman is only in her twenties, but her murderous aura is enough to bring bloodbath to the whole city.

King Shuochang quickly drew out his sword to block the woman's sword. The swords collided with a sharp sound that was piercing.

The woman took out an axe with her hands behind her back and chopped fiercely at King Shuochang's other uninjured leg.

King Shuochang had difficulty walking, but Xie Huaiyu beside him blocked the axe with a sharp sword in his hand. Xie Huaiyu had been practicing martial arts with Zhu Wujian and had never slacked off in the past few months since returning to Yuzhou, so he was able to take on a few moves.

In an instant, the old servants hiding everywhere straightened their backs, tore off the gray wig on their heads, pulled out daggers from their boots, and fifteen of them rushed towards Wang Huaiyang.

The woman yelled, "Catch Xie Huaiyu."

Emperor Hui is firmly on the throne, and heroes from all directions have not yet fought for the throne. If Xie Huaiyu dares to command the state troops, it will give Emperor Hui a handle to punish her. She can only let the guards in the palace take action!

Wang Huaiyang leaped towards Xie Huaiyu and slashed at her neck with the sword in his hand. Xie Huaiyu raised her head to avoid it and used her sword to pierce the white cloth bag hanging behind the bamboo curtain.

The sound of "big and small pearls falling on a jade plate" pierced Wang Huaiyang's ears. Countless soybeans rolled to the ground, and he slipped and almost fell.

Xie Huaiyu has less time practicing martial arts than Wang Huaiyang, so in this unfair martial arts duel, she uses whatever wisdom she had as a proton to deal with her enemy.

At the moment when Wang Huaiyang steadied himself, a horizontal knife was pressed against his waist and back, and he felt the powerful fighting atmosphere of the battlefield.

"Stop it all!"

A man about thirty-seven or thirty-eight years old walked out from behind Wang Huaiyang. There was a three-inch long scar on his forehead. His bronze skin was like the iron shield that built the wall of Yuzhou City, standing in the rain and blood.

Wang Huaiyang saw that Yan Zhoudu had been captured. He looked at the sturdy man in front of him and asked, "Who are you? How dare you point a knife at me?"

The man said, "Cao Yanfeng."

Wang Huaiyang saw that this man kept his eyes open for a long time without blinking. His pupils seemed to be constantly expanding, as if he was looking for something in the dark. His every move was like that of an emotionless killing machine.

King Shuochang covered his abdomen, which was stabbed by the woman's sword, with one hand and raised his chin slightly, because the woman was standing behind him and holding him hostage with a sword.

He was captured! Although King Shuochang had a disability, he had practiced martial arts diligently over the years. The woman had just fought him, and her moves were fierce and accurate, and she was able to outsmart him.

Just when Xie Huaiyu was picking the soybeans, the woman stepped on King Shuochang's injured leg, chopped King Shuochang's abdomen with an axe, and put a sword against his neck.

She was so fast that the guards in the courtyard had no time to support her.

King Shuochang asked, "Who are you? What school do you belong to? What is the grudge between you and me?"

The woman curled her lips slightly, and smiled mischievously: "Spy Shadow! No sect or school! I just like to catch the prince!"

Now both sides have hostages, it depends on who will surrender first?

Prince Shuochang's cold gaze was full of love when he looked at Xie Huaiyu. He and his wife did not dare to have a child until a long time after they got married. He also hid Xie Huaiyu because he was worried that Emperor Ming would be wary and take his child as a hostage.

But in the end, Xie Huaiyu still became a hostage who suffered all kinds of grievances and was lonely and helpless.

That year, the secret maid he sent to Ziming Palace brought back news that several princesses and princes insulted Xie Huaiyu for her humble background and her mother being a low-ranking maid. Xie Huaiyu had no choice but to endure it silently.

Someone poisoned her food at a palace banquet, but fortunately it was at a palace banquet, otherwise she would have lost her life. But Emperor Ming let her off so easily despite such a blatant poisoning!

Someone burned her hand with a candlestick, and the scar was left in a conspicuous place.

Xie Huaiyu could only hide in the palace and cry at night, shouting over and over again: "Father, I want to go home. Ziming Palace is too cold."

The only response she got was the wind and snow blowing in from the window, drowning out the bright moon that illuminated her way home in the darkness.

She endured countless years of humiliation and forbearance, watching the wintersweets outside the palace wither and the willow branches sprout, but her father still did not come to take her away.

The nanny beside her initially taught Xie Huaiyu etiquette, but later found out that she was secretly studying, so she started to bully and ignore her.

When Xie Huaiyu had her first period, the nanny did not teach her how to deal with it. Xie Huaiyu lay on the couch alone, holding a brush in her hand, writing a suicide note to her father and mother.

She said that she might be dying, and wanted to see her father and mother in her dream before she died, but her father and mother never appeared in her dreams.

Xie Huaiyu cried every day until the maid appeared. She realized that Yue Xin would not want her life. She was a "good girl" who would grow up quickly and leave the palace to live in her own mansion. At that time, no one would bully her.

The maid died after telling King Shuochang the news. King Shuochang was afraid of killing his daughter, so he dared not send any secret agents or send any letters to Xie Huaiyu.

Every night when King Shuochang lay asleep, he could see the villain stabbing Xie Huaiyu with a sword and throwing his daughter into the endless candlelight.

His daughter, whom he regarded as the apple of his eye, was held as a hostage for more than ten years and was bullied by those despicable evil people. His wife had become sick with longing for Xie Huaiyu before she went to find him, and was depressed and eventually lost her life!

He dragged his crippled leg and lived in despair of not being able to see his wife and daughter. He wished he could raze the Ziming Palace to the ground!

King Shuochang was waiting for Emperor Ming to die every day. Once he died, he could take Xie Huaiyu away.

Blood was dripping from Prince Shuochang's abdomen. That blood was the only thing he could do to show his love for his daughter. He looked at Xie Huaiyu with reluctance in his eyes:

"Huaiyu, your father is ashamed of you. The soldiers of Yuzhou are the iron shield I left for you. Don't retreat!"

In the past few months since Xie Huaiyu came back, she has often played chess, learned martial arts, and had meals and played with her father, but the relationship is still somewhat unfamiliar. Deep down, she resents her father for not sending her a letter and not even telling her the news of her mother's death.

But at this moment, she understood what her father meant and cried out, "No!"

Wang Huaiyang's face changed and he shouted anxiously, "He wants to commit suicide!"

The spy held the sword tightly in his hand and stood two inches away from King Shuochang, but King Shuochang tried his best to hit the sword. If King Shuochang died, the people lurking outside the palace would immediately surround and kill them.

The tens of thousands of soldiers from Yuzhou will surely tear them to pieces, and the imperial court will no longer be able to come here to check military rations easily.

If the Western Frontier is attacked and Mu Jin'an threatens the north, and if Yuzhou in the south rises up again, Sheng'an City will be surrounded by enemies on all sides.

Wang Huaiyang came to check the military rations, not to instigate rebellion!

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