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"When the prince and his entourage arrived in front of the Antai Temple, a desolate place, something unexpected happened. Dark clouds covered the sky, and dozens of black-clad assassins whizzed out from the woods!"

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The fat man was very excited when he spoke, and he acted out the battle scene as he spoke. Everyone's faces changed, and they seemed to be in the scene themselves.

"The two sides fought fiercely, their battles proving inextricable. The assassins were highly skilled, their strikes deadly. Though valiant, the prince gradually lost his strength... Just as everyone was about to despair, they heard a sudden sound of breaking air. Looking up, they saw a golden light radiating from the ruined golden dome of the Antai Temple. A monk, draped in a cassock, soared through the air like the descending Buddha..."

"The prince's carriage is here!"

Luo Dabiao was just about to get to the point when he was suddenly interrupted. Everyone looked up and saw the dark purple carriage, the hallmark of the Yong'an Palace, slowly approaching. They quickly stood up, pulled up their sleeves, and knelt to kowtow.

Bei Zhenting sat upright in the carriage with a gloomy face.

He returned to Beijing after becoming famous in one battle, and the tragic incident of the massacre of his family ten years ago was even brought up by storytellers. The story about a flying monk saving people was just a folk fabrication!

The scene of that night was deeply engraved in his mind, like a brand. For ten years, he was haunted by nightmares every night.

How could he forget?

That night, his father and mother saw that something was wrong, and in order to protect him, they ordered their personal guards to take him away by force.

He refused to leave and hid in the bushes, watching his parents fight bravely, their bodies covered with scars.

Just as he broke free from his father's personal guards and was about to go up to fight, the personal guard was stabbed through the belly by a sword. The man in black swung a bloody knife at him, and he was stabbed on the shoulder. The man in black also fell to the ground, and another man in black covered in blood chopped off the man's head.

Waking up in the farmyard, he was depressed for a while, but one night he woke up from a nightmare and finally understood that instead of hating and being sad, it would be better to bury the hatred deep in his heart, endure hardships and make those people pay a heavy price one day!

Thinking of this, Bei Zhenting's eyes turned red in the carriage.

He wanted to use his own power to make those people's lives worse than death. Now that he was recalled to the capital, he also had the power to take revenge!

Bei Zhenting clenched his fist, and the bulging meridians on the back of his hand seemed like a poisonous centipede circling...

Everyone watched the magnificent and noble carriage driving away. Only when it was out of sight did the people dare to stand up.

Half a year ago, the Duke's general and his wife died in the battlefield. Although they won the battle, Dacheng suffered heavy casualties.

There were 50,000 soldiers who went to the battle of Jang Geum. After fighting for four months, only a hundred of them returned, and more than 40,000 of them died in the arid Eight Valleys in the northwest wilderness.

This incident caused an uproar in the capital. The more than 40,000 men in Dacheng were all descendants of the people of Dacheng.

How many children have lost their fathers, and how many have lost their sons.

This incident caused the people to have complaints about the century-old Duke's Mansion, which shows how tragic the victory of this war was.

You should know that the Duke's Mansion has existed since the founding of Dacheng.

The ancestor emperor and the first generation of generals of the Duke's Mansion conquered every inch of Dacheng's land side by side. After the founding of Dacheng, the descendants of the Duke of Luo served as generals from generation to generation, expanding the territory and protecting Dacheng. They stood firm for a hundred years and can be said to be the pillar of Dacheng's stability.

Over the past hundred years, Dacheng has experienced several generations of emperors, but only the Duke's Mansion has remained standing. The Duke's Mansion holds great importance in the hearts of the people of Dacheng.

Jang Geum won an ugly victory, repelling the Dal Banner. But within a month, Northern Qi began to stir. The court already had few military commanders, and Jang Geum had lost several in the battle, leaving the remaining officers in the court ineffective.

The court was in a state of panic. Ministers knew the battle would be difficult, and the military commanders, fearing the emperor would send them into battle, cowered in fear. Civil officials clamored for peace by ceding territory. After much arguing, the emperor finally issued an edict, recalling Prince Yong'an, who had been exiled to a bitter cold land and largely forgotten, back to the capital. He ordered Prince Yong'an, Bei Zhenting, to lead a 100,000-man army to attack Northern Qi.

Prince Yong'an inherited the true teachings of the old prince and was a master of military strategy. In less than half a year, all the lost territories in the north were recovered, and the Northern Qi was forced to retreat directly to Hanxue Pass. The emperor was very pleased and appointed Prince Yong'an as the General Zhenbei.

When asked what reward he wanted, Prince Yong'an Bei Zhenting actually said that he was over thirty years old and still unmarried, and asked to marry Luo Yao, the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion!

As soon as this incident came out, the capital was in an uproar.

A man asking to marry another man was unprecedented in history, not to mention that the general and his wife had just died in battle, and the Duke's Mansion was not to be insulted. The emperor was furious.

Everyone knew that Prince Yong'an had a grudge against the Duke's Mansion, and they were all worried about the Duke's Mansion's eldest son. Although there was no clear evidence at the time and the emperor had banned the matter, everyone knew that Prince Yong'an and the Duke's Mansion had an irreconcilable feud.

Karma is a cycle of reincarnation. This is not a sincere request for marriage, I'm afraid it's just a personal vendetta!

Everyone sighed, fearing that the prince of the Duke's Mansion was in great danger!

The Duke's Mansion.

"This is outrageous!" Luo Lin's face was gloomy, his hands on the table were clenched into fists, and his whole body was shaking with anger.

The servants all lowered their heads and dared not say much.

The Duke's Mansion has always been sparsely populated. Ever since the general and his wife who defended the country died in the battlefield, the Duke's Mansion has been shut down and has become even more deserted.

The Duke liked a quiet life, and since the death of his son and daughter-in-law, he dismissed many servants in the mansion.

Nowadays, there are not many people living in the Duke's Mansion. Apart from the three generations of the Luo family, there are only two old women in the mansion, one is responsible for cleaning and the other is responsible for cooking. There are less than five servants and maids in total, and less than ten guards.

The emperor was not satisfied with the victory, and the people were not satisfied with the victory either.

But within a few months, the Duke's Mansion had lost its former bustle. Looking around the yard, there was only an old woman sweeping the floor.

Luo Yao looked at all this and couldn't help but tear up.

A little kid playing nearby reached out his hand and held his, "Brother, don't cry. It makes you look ugly when you cry."

“I never thought that the Duke’s Mansion would be defeated like this!”

A harsh and abrupt voice broke the heavy atmosphere of the Duke's Mansion, and it was extremely harsh.

Luo Yao looked up and saw Li Qingyun, the personal bodyguard of Prince Yong'an.

"You can't go in, stop!" The security guard at the door started arguing with the people outside.

"Get your filth out of here!"

The two sides were incompatible and drew swords during the quarrel.

"Let them in!"

The guards made way upon receiving the order, looking cautiously at their eldest young master. No one stopped them as the people outside carried in dozens of red boxes of varying sizes, placing them haphazardly in the yard.

"What a coincidence! This dirty thing is the betrothal gift from the prince to your prince!"

I don't know who said this, but several people laughed, threw down the boxes and left.

Li Qingyun walked behind, looked around the deserted Duke's Mansion, clicked his tongue twice, and followed the team away.

Who would have thought that the Duke's Mansion, where dignitaries had frequented for decades, would be in such a desolate state today.

The person who came to deliver the betrothal gifts disappeared at the door, and the two guards standing at the door again. The door of the Duke's Mansion was open, and someone was looking in curiously at the door.

Luo Yao was facing the wide-open gate of the mansion. The setting sun was sinking, and the last ray of sunlight gently fell from Luo Yao's face to the ground. He stepped over the threshold of the Duke's Mansion and left. Luo Yao was in a trance for a moment.

"Is my brother going to get married?"

Luo Xinchen looked at the red boxes on the ground, pulled his brother's sleeve, looked up and asked his brother.

His grandfather had taken him to see this kind of big red box before. A big red box means getting married.

Is my brother getting married?