Prologue Five
"Okay, that villain will go with Lord Lu." Wang Jien replied, knowing in his heart that he had to get the edict before Lu Duan, otherwise all efforts would be in vain.
As he said that, Lu Duan walked out of the hall and walked towards the Secretariat of the Secretariat, and Wang Jien followed closely. Then, several adults also wanted to see what was going on and wanted to go there with him. Who would have thought that after Lu Duan and Wang Jien walked out of the hall, several imperial guards immediately came to catch the door. At this time, a burly seven-foot-strong man stood in front of the door and drank: "Before the new emperor ascended the throne, no one was allowed to enter and exit the hall without permission!" This person was the general of the Song Dynasty, the brother of Queen Li, Li Jilong.
"General Li, what do you mean?" a court official asked.
"I would like to give in to you, since the turmoil of the Li Tang Dynasty, the people have suffered, and there have been turmoil everywhere. With the mighty and dominance of Taizu, he is in power and the emperor is united with the Central Plains. Since I have gained the trust of the late emperor, I have given me the responsibility of dispatching troops and generals, I will protect the foundation of the Song Dynasty." Li Jilong looked at Empress Li and replied, "Now that the late emperor has passed away, I will take it here on the order of the Empress. Today, unless the new emperor is ordered, I will never let anyone go here." This is obvious. Today, the new emperor must confirm the ascension of the throne, otherwise no one will let go out. Several adults also looked out. The main hall had been surrounded by heavy troops, so they had to walk back to the main hall in disappointment.
Lu Duan walked slowly in front of him, and Wang Jien followed closely. Wang Jien and his brother were both born in troubled times. They had entered the palace since the time of Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong. By chance, they learned martial arts. Although they were eunuchs, they had followed Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and Emperor Zhao Guangyi to fight south and north. Naturally, they were powerful and steadily, unlike Lu Duan, who was over 60 years old and round. He was anxious when he saw Lu Duan so swaying. Twenty-two years ago, he saw Zhao Guangyi ascended the emperor step by step, and it was also when he helped Zhao Guangyi pass a message to succeed the throne at the most critical moment. Twenty-two years later, he planned to play with the words and stage the "Axe and Candle Shadow" of that year again.
Wang Jien kept urging: "Mr. Lu, please hurry up, the ministers in the hall are still waiting?"
Lu Duan said, "Okay, I'll speed up now." He walked faster symbolically. After walking for a while, he slowed down panting and said with a smile: "I'm old now, Eunuch Wang, please take care of me." Wang Ji'en was both hated and angry, and then he thought: Why did I have to wait for this old thing? I'll go there first and find the edict, and then I can go back to the hall. What does his life and death have to do with me? Then he said, "Let's do this, Lord Lu, you don't remember the specific location. I'll go and look for you first. If I find it, I'll come to find you. If I can't find it, wait for you to come and search together."
Lu Duan said breathlessly: "It's all we can do. It's also a pity that I'm incompetent, but I've been burdened by the prince."
"It's okay, it's okay." As Wang Ji'en said that, he immediately used his light skills. With a flash of effort, he arrived at the Secretariat, entered the courtyard of the Secretariat, and went straight to the imperial palace.
There were two guards outside the gate of the Edict Pavilion. When they saw Wang Ji'en, they lowered their heads and signaled. Wang Ji'en had no time to care about these two people, and nodded perfunctorily, just wanted to find the Edict quickly and walked into the Edict Pavilion with big strides. As soon as the Edict Pavilion entered the Edict Pavilion, there was a set of mahogany tables and chairs. Behind the tables and chairs was a large bookcase. The bookcase had hundreds of drawers, and there were different documents. Wang Ji'en muttered while searching: "What is the third and fourth cabinet? When did I find so many cabinets?!" Even so, Wang Ji'en was still flipping through each drawer, thinking that since it was an edict, it must be gorgeous and gorgeous, and it must be different from ordinary documents and letters.
Just as Wang Ji'en was looking for it, he heard a "bang!" sound. As the light in the house gradually dimmed, Wang Ji'en looked back and saw that the door of the Edict Pavilion had been closed. Wang Ji'en quickly walked out of the door, but found that the door was locked. He looked out through the crack of the door. He saw Lu Duan standing there with a smile, and took out a rolled golden cloth from his arms with great pride and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wang, I have found the edict. Today, this edict Pavilion is very honored by Mr. Wang, so I asked Mr. Wang to stay here for a while and wait for my official duties to finish it. Then I will sing with you." Wang Ji'en then realized that he had been fooled and shouted: "Good you, Lv Duan! The edict has been on you from the beginning. Do you think such a broken door lock is like trapping me!"
Wang Jien used his internal force with both hands, and hit the hinge on the two doors. The wind of the two palms flew towards the two doors like a bamboo shoot! He heard two "bang bang" sounds, and the two door panels and locks smashed towards Lu Duan standing opposite each other. Seeing the door flying towards him quickly, Lu Duan also retreated in a panic. Suddenly, a guard stood in front of Lu Duan, and a golden light in his hand swung up rapidly. He saw that the two doors had become scattered and dispersed to the side.
The guard slowly lowered the big knife in his hand and turned around and asked, "Mr. Lu, are you okay?"
Lu Duan bowed and thanked, "It turned out to be Li Zhentian, Master Li! Thank you for your help, I'm fine."
When Wang Jien saw that it had not hit Lu Duan, he was very angry and walked out the door with big stairs. As soon as one foot stepped out of the threshold, a cold air filled his whole body, instantly turning Wang Jien into a human-shaped ice sculpture, and a sword shadow pierced Wang Jien's heart. However, when the sword pierced the ice layer and stabbed Wang Jien's body, a blue sword bent like a bow and arrow string. The "bow string" reached a limit and bounced open. The person holding the sword felt the reaction force of the sword, and jumped back with the force of the sword, and staggered back a few steps when he landed on the ground. Mind: Wang Jien's golden bell cover is indeed powerful, and even at this moment, the Sichuan sword did not cause any harm to him.
Li Zhentian held a big knife in both hands and jumped up, slashing Wang Ji'en's left shoulder from top to bottom, slashing his shoulder with one knife. Wang Ji'en felt like a thousand pounds of stuff, shattering all the ice on his body. Wang Ji'en took this move and knelt on the ground on one knee, and countless cracks radiated from the stones that fell. Even though he practiced this golden bell cover, he felt that his shoulders were as if they had been hit hard by an iron rod, which was extremely hot. Wang Ji'en shouted loudly, stood up suddenly, and shook all the ice chips in his body. Li Zhentian felt a powerful force sweeping towards him. He flew out with the people and the swords, then turned around in the air for a few times, landed on the ground with a single knife, stabilizing his body.
Wang Jien shouted at Lu Duan angrily: "I said Lu Duan, how dare you come alone with me? It turns out that I have prepared early!" Then he turned his head to look at Liu Zhan holding the carved sword and said: "Liu Zhan, I haven't found you yet, you came to the door. Today you join forces with Lu Duan to kill the imperial officials and attempt to usurp the throne in the throne. This is the death penalty."
Liu Zhan replied: "Mr. Lu has an edict left by the emperor, and he has made the crown prince Zhao Heng the emperor, so how could he plan to usurp the throne in the court? But you, the prince, have the intention to rob the edict, but have ulterior motives."
Wang Ji'en didn't want to waste his words and said, so he rushed towards Lu Duan. Li Zhentian, who was standing by his right hand, directly slashed Wang Ji'en's stomach. Wang Ji'en took the opportunity to grab the blade directly with his left hand, and directly held Li Zhentian's right wrist with his other hand. Li Zhentian practiced martial arts since he was a child and was very confident in strength, but the hand that Wang Ji'en could not move, which was very surprised. Wang Ji'en twisted Li Zhentian's wrist with his right hand. Li Zhentian's wrist hurt, and the handle of the knife was removed. Wang Ji'en let go of his right hand and slapped Li Zhentian's chest with his backhand.
Li Zhentian could not resist the palm, so he had to bear this palm. With the powerful impact, he flew back several meters away, pressing the ground with both feet hard before slowly stopping. Wang Jien pinched the blade of the Breaking Sky Sword with his left hand, threw it up, lifted it into the air, took the hilt of the knife with his right hand, turned around and threw it to where Li Zhentian was. The knife flew straight towards Li Zhentian. Seeing this, Li Zhentian hurriedly dodged. The knife passed by Li Zhentian and penetrated into the wall. A black and golden sword left the hilt outside. Wang Jien ignored Li Zhentian and reached out to grab Lu Duan again.
When he was about to catch Lu Duan, he saw that the entire left arm had turned into ice and could not be controlled. Liu Zhan kicked Wang Ji'en's chest again, and Wang Ji'en took two steps back. Liu Zhan winked at Lu Duan. Lu Duan understood and knew that he could only get in the way here, so he quickly ran to the door. Wang Ji'en shouted, "Do you want to run?" He used his internal force to shatter the ice layer of his left arm and flew towards the door. Suddenly, a foot-wide ice wall blocked Wang Ji'en's face. Liu Zhan held the sword and waved to Wang Ji'en's face. Wang Ji'en's body leaned back, avoided the sword, and reached out to his hand.
He grabbed Liu Zhan's hand holding the sword, but Liu Zhan had already retracted his hand and slapped Wang Ji'en in the face with his left hand. Although this palm had no effect on Wang Ji'en, Wang Ji'en felt humiliated and became even more angry after being beaten by this palm. He jumped and kicked Liu Zhan. Liu Zhan immediately dodged to the side and avoided the foot. Wang Ji'en stood firm on the ground and rushed towards Liu Zhan. Liu Zhan moved forward to meet the enemy, and broke up with Wang Ji'en and retreated. At this moment, Wang Ji'en and Liu Zhan looked at each other, and Wang Ji'en was furious, wishing he was a tiger and tore up the person in front of him.
At this time, Li Zhentian had pulled his sword back and stood behind Liu Zhan and said, "Brother Liu, today, you and I will join forces to kill this eunuch."
Liu Zhan did not look back and said, "Zhentian, you go to protect Lord Lu to the main hall. At the entrance of the main hall, someone will definitely be blocked. Time is urgent, you must escort Lord Lu back to the main hall! Just leave it here to me."
"But, can you deal with him alone?"
Liu Zhan looked at Wang Jien vigilantly and said, "Yes, don't worry. I promised me that the grudge against Wang Jien should be settled."
"Okay, be careful in everything."
As he said that, Li Zhentian went to Lord Lu. Wang Ji'en was about to stop him, but a sword edge was already standing in front of him, emitting a burst of cold air.
Liu Zhan said with a smile: "Wang Ji'en, let's have a good talk!"
Chapter completed!