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The people outside the palace were quickly called in. Two men, dressed in coarse linen clothes, slowly walked into the hall.

The ministers' eyes could not help but fall on the two of them, and suddenly, gasps were heard in the hall.

I saw two people walking forward side by side, one with a broken arm, and the other with a haggard appearance and white hair.

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty."

The two men knelt down in the hall and bowed respectfully to the emperor.

When the ministers heard the two men calling themselves "minor generals", they suddenly remembered that Si Yan had said that they were two generals.

"Stand up." The emperor felt that the man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember his name.

"Isn't this General Li?" The fifth prince Qi Guang'an stood up and exclaimed.

After Prince An’s reminder, all the ministers in the court couldn’t help but open their mouths wide.

Gradually, people recognized that the man with the broken arm was Li Yao, the commander of Beiyan Pass five years ago.

Li Yao was from a prominent family. After his father Li Gao died in battle, he became the supporter of the Li family.

Five years ago, Li Yao was ordered to follow Prince Yong to Beiyan Pass and became the commander of Beiyan Pass. At the order of His Majesty, the Li family also moved to Beiyan Pass.

When the enemy massacred Beiyan Pass, all members of the Li family were killed, but unexpectedly Li Yao was still alive.

Li Yao is only twenty-five or twenty-six years old now. He became famous at a young age. When he went to the border, he was just an adult and had not yet married.

When I saw him again, General Li's face was full of vicissitudes of life, and the empty sleeve on his right hand made people feel sad.

"General Lee."

A hoarse voice sounded in the hall, and Qi Ziyu walked towards his subordinates with heavy steps.

General Li Yao was handsome and heroic back then, but now he has a broken arm.

Qi Ziyu's eyes were red, tears welled up in them, wetting his eye sockets.

"Your Highness Prince Yong." Li Yao had already seen Prince Yong. He called out with a sob, then turned around and knelt down in front of Prince Yong.

Prince Yong took two steps forward and supported his former brave general. When Li Yao raised his eyes, tears were streaming down his face.

The two hugged each other, tears in their eyes.

"Your Highness Prince Yong." At this moment, a trembling voice came from the white-haired man's throat.

Qi Ziyu looked up and opened his mouth at the white-haired man whom he almost couldn't recognize.

"General Niu, is that you?" King Yong's voice was also trembling.

"It's me, Your Highness, it's me..."

Niu Hong rushed over and knelt at King Yong's feet, tears streaming down his face.

In Qi Ziyu's impression, Niu Hong was only in his thirties, a strong young man.

Now his face is full of wrinkles and has no luster, like an old man in his twilight years.

Qi Ziyu could no longer hold back the tears in his eyes, so he held one of them with one hand and helped them both up.

The court officials in the hall were deeply moved, and even the emperor felt inexplicably sad.

Niu Hong was also a general who followed King Yong to the border. When he was at Beiyan Pass, he was mainly responsible for protecting the food and grass in the rear.

When Prince Yong was transferred back to the imperial court by the emperor, his subordinates were left behind at Beiyan Pass, and almost all of them died in the battle at Beiyan Pass.

"I thought you had already..." King Yong, who shed blood but not tears, was now crying uncontrollably.

Many court officials were furious. Many of them had never been to the border and had never witnessed the cruelty of the battlefield.

But today, they felt the deep comradeship among the soldiers.

Si Yan stepped forward and spoke softly, "Two generals, let's talk about Beiyan Pass first."

Li Yao and Niu Hong quickly wiped away their tears and regained their composure.

Li Yao bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I have lost my composure. I beg your Majesty to forgive me."

"That's all right," the emperor said graciously. "Since you're still alive, why don't you return to the capital?"

Li Yao fought back the tears in his eyes and said, "Your Majesty, I have always wanted to return to the capital to expose Prime Minister Xin. Now I have finally received this opportunity."

Xin Rui's expression had turned pale. It was obvious that Si Yan had been planning this for a long time, and he wanted to kill him today.

Li Yao sternly accused, "Your Majesty, tragically, my arm wasn't lost on the battlefield. It was chopped off by assassins sent by the Prime Minister on my way back to the capital. I fell off a cliff and barely managed to escape with my life."

"The Prime Minister sent assassins to kill you?"

The emperor's eyes were filled with shock. Was Xin Rui already so rampant five years ago?

"That's right, Your Majesty."

Li Yao's knife-like gaze swept towards Xin Rui, and he only wished he could cut Xin Rui into pieces.

"When Beiyan Pass was massacred, more than 300 people in the city, led by General Ling, had already fought their way out. But we didn't expect that in addition to the pursuing Beimang National Army, there was actually a group of hundreds of black-clad assassins waiting for us, intending to kill us all."

Li Yao choked up and said, "Young General Ling died at the hands of these assassins in order to protect me and others."

The Young General Ling that Li Yao mentioned was Ling Yuefeng's eldest son, Ling Mohan's biological brother, Ling Moran.

"What's even more unimaginable is that these assassins in black were actually sent by the Prime Minister."

The hall was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.

The court officials held their breath, not daring to make a sound. Young Master Ling actually died at the hands of the Prime Minister?

Xin Rui didn't expect that a Beiyan Pass defender would suddenly appear on the road, and he was almost unable to hold back.

"What evidence do you have?" He has been asking this question all day.

Li Yao calmly replied, "Even if the man in black turned to ash, I would recognize him. He was the Prime Minister's youngest son, Xin Rong. Before I fell off the cliff, I desperately tore open his mask and ripped his longevity lock from his neck. It had Xin Rong's name engraved on it."

He took out a longevity lock from his arms and showed Xin Rong's name on it to all the ministers.

Eunuch Gu presented the longevity lock, and the emperor glanced at it with a gloomy expression.

Xin Rui argued cunningly: "This is not my son's longevity lock. My son has always worn the longevity lock on his body. The longevity lock is still there."

When Rong'er came back, he asked someone to remake his lost longevity lock.

Li Yao sneered: "Prime Minister Xin, it is not difficult to forge a longevity lock again, but there are no two pieces of jade that are alike. I also have a piece of jade that I tore off from Xin Rong."

When a red jade pendant appeared in Li Yao's hand, Xin Rui's breath was caught.

His son did not say that he had taken the jade with him, he only said that the longevity lock was lost.

This piece of jade is not ordinary jade.

Before Xin Rui could speak, the Fifth Prince Qi Guang'an exclaimed in amazement, "Your Majesty, isn't this the blood jade that Your Majesty rewarded to the young master of the Prime Minister's Mansion for saving Your Majesty when Your Majesty was on the verge of assassination? It's this jade. I remember it very clearly."

The emperor was silent for a moment, then said, "Yes, it is this piece of jade. I remember it as well."

The emperor vaguely remembered that at that time he praised Xin Rong for his promising young age and said that he would become a pillar of the country like his father in the future.