A hint of white appeared on the horizon.
Outside the capital of Chu State, many commoners were carrying freshly picked vegetables on their shoulders, planning to sell them for a good price in the city.
Su Che and Qing Yi were in the crowd.
It was very easy to enter the Imperial City.
Because they had all used a disguise technique, their appearances had changed quite a bit.
It was impossible for the soldiers guarding the city to recognize them.
However, Qing Yi was too beautiful and easily attracted attention when walking on the street.
So Su Che separated from her after entering the city.
Su Che had planned to come back alone.
However, Qing Yi was very determined to accompany him.
Su Che didn't stop him.
"You are the only family I have in this world. Even if I die, I will accompany you.”
Qing Yi said.
No matter how hard Su Che's heart was, it instantly softened.
Back then, he picked up Qing Yi, who was wandering on the streets, and brought her home. He provided her with food and clothing, and even personally taught her how to read and write, as well as teach her martial arts.
In Qing Yi's heart, Su Che had an unparalleled position.
For Su Che, she was willing to give up everything.
Including his life.
"After entering the Imperial City, don't act rashly, especially don't try to sneak into the Imperial Palace to assassinate Zhao Yinman.”
Before entering the city.
Su Che reminded him.
He had watched Qing Yi grow up, and no one knew her better than he did.
This time, Qing Yi definitely wanted to kill Zhao Yinman to avenge him.
However, Zhao Yinman wasn't that easy to kill.
Especially after what happened last time.
Now that the Imperial Palace was heavily guarded both inside and outside, it was even more difficult to enter.
Su Che didn't want Qing Yi to put himself in danger.
"Alright, I promise I won't go."
Qing Yi pouted after Su Che saw through his thoughts.
"You know me. I like to do my own things.”
"I will settle the grudge between Zhao Yinman and myself.”
Su Che said.
He had done everything for Chu Country, but in the end, all he got was backstabbing.
It would be a lie to say that she didn't care.
Even a saint could not be so broad-minded.
Therefore, he had to take revenge.
If he didn't kill Zhao Yinman, he would be letting down the blood and sweat he had put in for the past ten years.
Su Che was on his way back to the Imperial City.
They passed by Yan City.
The manager told Su Che that there was a branch of Langya Pavilion there.
Ever since that incident, the security of the Royal Palace of Chu had become extremely tight.
From the servants and eunuchs to the imperial guards, they were all replaced by Zhao Yinman.
From this incident alone, one could see how much Zhao Yinman feared Su Che.
In fact.
Zhao Yinman was right to do this.
Su Che had been in Chu for many years, and his influence spread all over the country, including many of his men in the palace.
But now that Zhao Yinman had changed all the people in the palace, it meant that his spies in the palace were useless.
Of course, what Su Che didn't expect the most was that even the commander of the Imperial Army, Xu Yi, had been replaced by Zhao Yinman.
One had to know that Xu Yi was specially placed by him to Prime Minister Li Yu's side, and then Li Yu recommended him to Zhao Yinman for the position of Commander of the Imperial Army.
Su Che didn't think Xu Yi had exposed his identity.
He felt that Zhao Yinman was too afraid of him, so she didn't even trust Li Yu's people.
He had to change all of them to his trusted aides.
Only then could she feel at ease.
It was obvious that Su Che had become a nightmare in Zhao Yinman's heart.
……
With Xu Yi around, Su Che could easily enter the palace.
He could only think of another way now.
But Su Che wasn't in a hurry.
His main purpose for coming back this time was to rescue Xu Yannian.
After returning to the Imperial City, Su Che first went to his mansion.
Just as he had guessed.
There were hundreds of soldiers guarding both inside and outside.
If Su Che wanted to go in, these soldiers wouldn't be able to stop him.
However, he did not want to alert the enemy for the time being.
After leaving, Su Che went to Shen Lang's residence.
He wanted to use his family's secret passage to reach the depths of the imperial prison and rescue Xu Yannian.
However, he was in the same predicament as Shen Lang.
The secret passage had collapsed, and the road ahead was impassable.
"Ah, this…"
Looking at the blocked secret passage, Su Che couldn't help but be speechless.
He carefully recalled.
Then, he remembered that three years ago, there was an earthquake in Yan City, and even the Imperial City was shaken.
However, he was not in the Imperial City at that time, so he did not expect the earthquake to collapse the secret passage.
It was indeed a little careless.
"Looks like I have to think of another way."
The method of using the secret passage would not work.
Su Che retreated again.
He heard that Chai Jin and Shen Lang were trapped in the Imperial City. Zhao Yinman found an excuse to prevent them from returning to their encampment. Naturally, they could not mobilize their troops. It was equivalent to imprisoning them.
However, they still had the right to move around freely.
It was just that he couldn't leave the Imperial City.
Moreover…
Zhao Yinman had sent people to keep an eye on Chai Jin and Shen Lang because she was worried that they would use other means to bring the news out of the Imperial City.
After all, if the two of them added up, they had a total of 200,000 troops.
Zhao Yinman was very afraid of this.
If Zhao Mengfu had not kept telling her, he would have tried to convince Chai Jin and Shen Lang to be loyal to her.
Zhao Yinman had already found a reason to send the two of them to the imperial prison.
Anyway, she had already gotten rid of Su Che for a groundless crime.
Zhao Yinman did not mind doing the same thing and killed Shen Lang, Chai Jin, and Xiao Xun.
This way, he could save himself the trouble of worrying about the future.
After all, the influence of these five brothers in the military of Chu was simply too great.
It was an underestimation to say that it was half of the country.
It was only because Zhao Mengfu tried his best to persuade her that Zhao Yinman chose to believe him this time.
Because she had thought about it carefully.
If Shen Lang and Chai Jin could really be of use to her, it would not only be beneficial to her, but it would also be beneficial to Chu.
Moreover…
He thought about how he could make Su Che's sworn brother betray him and join him.
Zhao Yinman felt that it was a very fulfilling thing.
If she could, she even hoped that the entire Chu Country would believe that Su Che was a traitor who colluded with the enemy and planned to rebel.
The Chu people that Su Che had risked his life to protect became one of the backstabbers!
Zhao Yinman felt that it must be something interesting.
She was also looking forward to seeing Su Che's expression when he was stabbed in the back by all the citizens of Chu.
……
Su Che didn't know that Zhao Yinman's mentality was gradually twisted.
He saw that Shen Lang's house was empty.
There were no signs of living in the room.
He knew that Shen Lang was staying at Chai Jin's house.
However, on the way to Chai Jin's house, Su Che noticed that the pedestrians on the street were avoiding him.
Someone was blowing a gong to clear the way.
He listened for a moment and found that there were a total of eleven rings.
From afar, Su Che saw a sedan with a silver roof and black sides. It was carried by four people.
Feudal society was very particular about the rules of hierarchy.
This kind of rule permeated every aspect of society, even if it was riding in a sedan chair.
In terms of occasion, the palanquin could only be used in a range that did not involve ceremonial places.
The palanquins that each country's monarch sat on were called the three palanquins. They were respectively the Buyu, the Liyu, and the Qingbuyu.
These three types of palanquins were all carried by sixteen people, but there were differences in usage and style.
In the capital of Chu, in order to show that the status of the ministers was lower than that of the royal family.
The Imperial Court had a rule that in the Imperial City, officials were not allowed to sit in the eight-carry sedan.
As for officials above Rank-3, they could sit in a sedan chair carried by four people.
The roof of this sedan chair was silver, and the entire body was black.
As for officials below Rank-4, they would use two people to carry the sedan chair.
The sedan chair had a tin roof and was black in color.
At this moment, Su Che saw that the sedan chair had a silver roof and a black body.
This meant that the person sitting in the palanquin was an official of the third rank and above.
Logically speaking, a Rank-3 was already a high official, but this was the Imperial City.
There were a lot of third-grade officials.
It was really not rare.
However, the gong sounded eleven times.
This was the standard of a first-grade official.
Therefore, the identity of the person sitting in the sedan chair was obvious.
In the entire Chu Country, there were only two First Rank officials.
One was the former Su Che.
One was Prime Minister Li Yu.
One of them was the leader of the civil officials, while the other was the leader of the military officials.
Therefore, the person sitting in the sedan chair not far away was the current Prime Minister, Li Yu.
He didn't plan to look for Li Yu at first.
She did not expect him to come to her door with such great fanfare.
Su Che naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity.
It was indeed difficult to kill Zhao Yinman now.
But killing Li Yu…
It was a piece of cake for Su Che.
He waited until Li Yu's sedan chair passed by him.
Su Che quietly followed.
Su Che had also reflected on his actions during those few days in Bei Liang.
In the past, Zhao Yinman and the officials were all afraid of him, they didn't even dare to breathe loudly in front of him.
Why did they still dare to join forces to deal with him now?
Later.
He had thought it through.
He felt that…
Perhaps it was because he hadn't killed many people since he relinquished his military power.
They felt that they could not lift their sabers.
In that case…
Then let's kill them!
Let them know what a human butcher was and what a god of death was!!
Tonight,
It would definitely be a night where blood flowed like a river in the Chu Country's Imperial Capital!!!
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I just returned to my hometown in the middle of the night. It was snowing heavily on the way, and the visibility on the highway was very low, so I didn't dare to drive too fast. After I got home, I installed the computer and immediately started typing. This chapter is more than 3,000 words. He really couldn't take it anymore. When he woke up, he would write 20,000 words to celebrate the upcoming New Year's Eve!
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