Chapter 18 The Decline and Fall of the Aristocratic Family
At this time, Xia Changyuan's eyes were as sharp as an eagle's, and he coldly scanned every man in black present.
The man in black lost his arrogance just now, because he knew that if this man could return safely from the emperor, it meant that things had changed.
What's more, what the other party is wearing is the python robe that symbolizes the king!
The next second, an eagle circled down in the sky and flew onto the shoulder of the man in black.
He removed the eagle and found a note on it.
After reading the above content, his pupils shrank suddenly.
Then he quickly put the note away and knelt down with the courtesy of a warrior.
"The sixth commander of the Royal Forest Army has met King Wuyou!"
Seeing him like this, all the people in black around him knelt down.
"I and the Imperial Guard have met King Wuyou!"
The momentum was so great that it shocked everyone present.
Before Xia Changyuan could say anything else, a sharp and harsh voice came over.
"The imperial edict has arrived!"
At the gate of the inner courtyard, several eunuchs were already standing there. The leading eunuch dragged a long yellow cloth in his hand and shouted.
"The forty-third emperor of the Tianyuan Dynasty, King Chiyuan, has a decree!"
Everyone present knelt down one after another, and people with official positions shouted in unison.
"Your Majesty, accept the order!"
"Xia Changyuan, the former judge of Kyoto, cared for the emperor during his reign and loved the people like his own children. He made great contributions and was specially named King Wuyou.
A new king should be established, and the people of the clan should be pardoned. If there is any violation of the laws of the Tianyuan Dynasty, it will be forgotten..."
When the eunuch finished speaking, all the people in black were dumbfounded.
Although I don't understand what happened, I am sure of one thing.
Not only will the Xia family not end their fun this time, but they will become famous!
"I accept the order!"
Xia Changyuan, who was wearing a python robe, accepted the imperial edict, and after the eunuch left, he looked coldly at the leader in black.
"Is there anything else?"
"No, since the misunderstanding is gone, I will resign first, but we have to take away the embezzled money."
Xia Changyuan did not embarrass these people and just let them go.
After everyone left, his two sons immediately gathered around.
"Father, what happened?"
"Yes, Dad, it scared me to death. I thought I was going to finish playing!"
It was okay for Xia Xiangwu not to speak, but Xia Changyuan was angered when he spoke.
He kicked him directly.
"You incompetent thing, you got into such an obvious trap!"
Even though Xia Xiangwu was very stupid, he realized it now.
It turns out that I was deceived!
Looking at these people in his family, Xia Changyuan sighed.
"Hurry up and pack your things these days. Those who hold official positions will resign and will leave Kyoto soon."
"Why is this?" Xia Xiangwen asked.
"It was because the prime minister of the dynasty had bad intentions and seemed to want to monopolize power in the dynasty. Many big families would be eradicated by him one after another.
If I hadn't had a personal relationship with my emperor and given me a king with little real power, I would have really fallen into his hands this time!"
After this incident, everyone was more or less afraid. Naturally, they did not dare to disobey Xia Changyuan's wishes and hurriedly started to deal with various things.
Xia Po and Xia Sichou also returned to Xia's house after seeing the men in black leaving in embarrassment.
Xia Changyuan's plan for the future is to stay away from Kyoto. In the future, he will not take sides with his wealth and life to participate in this power struggle.
Now the emperor is almost controlled by those civil servants. If anything happens, they will be executed.
Xia Po had no objection to this.
Anyway, he just wants to survive safely. As for where he survives, he doesn't care at all.
After half a month like this, all the Xia family's affairs in Kyoto were settled, and the Xia family compound where they had lived for decades was returned to the court.
A family of nearly twenty people, together with a few confidants, headed south towards the Xia family's ancestral land.
By this time the carriage had arrived at a deserted place.
Xia Po and Xia Sichou were in the same carriage.
Xia Sixou has been depressed these past few days, and seems to be still thinking about the girl from the Li family in Kyoto.
He stretched his head out the window with a melancholy look on his face.
"After I leave this time, I don't know when I will come back, my sister Li Qing!"
"Okay, don't disgust me here."
After saying that, I remembered a poem from my previous life.
"There are few willow trees blowing on the branches. Where in the world is there no fragrant grass?"
After hearing Xia Po read this poem, Xia Sichou immediately looked at Xia Po with a strange look.
"What are you looking at? There are flowers on my face?"
"No, I've wanted to say it a long time ago. Is your martial arts practice a waste of talent?"
Xia Po was speechless.
Just as he was about to say a few flirty words, he sensed something and quickly pushed down Xia Sixou's head.
Just as he pressed Xia Sichou's head down, countless arrows flew through the carriage and flew in.
At the same time, the screams of people and the screams of horses were intertwined, and the entire carriage spun.
"Who! Ah!!!"
The Xia family hired several capable warriors to accompany them this time, but these warriors only had time to let out a miserable howl before they were immediately hacked to death.
Xia Po's reaction was extremely quick. He drew out his long sword and cut a crack into the top of the carriage with one blow.
Through the cracks, he saw a large number of imperial guards killing the Xia family members and servants.
The scene was extremely miserable, even Xia Changyuan was cut in half with a knife!
"It's broken! Something big happened!"
Xia Sixou also saw everything outside. He also saw a man in black running towards him quickly.
His whole body began to tremble with fear, and he had no idea what to do.
Xia Po used this time to carefully observe everything outside and think about countermeasures.
There are more than twenty men in black in total, and each one has an innate advanced level of cultivation. With their own strength, they are definitely no match.
Now there is only one way to escape!
Just when the man in black walked near the carriage, a bloody long sword passed through the carriage and stabbed him directly in the heart.
The unsuspecting man in black just received the lunch box.
The movement here immediately attracted other men in black, eight of whom were flying towards this side at extremely fast speeds.
Xia Po, with quick eyes and quick hands, directly led Xia Sichou onto an uninjured horse, and drove the horse to run forward quickly.
When the group of men in black saw this, they all looked at each other. Some of them were holding bows and arrows and shot directly at Xia Po's horses.
However, Xia Po, a veteran game player, knows how to move very well, so he immediately started to move in an S-shaped snakeskin position, and the horse rode faster and faster.
There was no other way, so several men in black had no choice but to mount their horses and chase after him.
After all, letting one or two people go is a responsibility they cannot afford.
At this time, Xia Changyuan was stabbed several times in the body and was already dying.
He looked at Xia Po and Xia Sichou leaving, and thought of Mr. Wei's last words before his death.
"You'd better let him practice martial arts with peace of mind. What the emperor is doing now will definitely cause disaster one day. Then maybe your Xia family will be saved from this disaster because of him."
Although he did not see the disasters caused by the Tianyuan Dynasty's emphasis on civility and neglect of military affairs, Xia Po did not save the Xia family from disasters.
But as long as Xia Po can keep a trace of the incense of his Xia family, he can die in peace.
Just as he was thinking this, a sharp knife pierced his throat, causing him to stop thinking completely.