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Chapter 1201: Burning Incense to Pray for Life (Part )

When they saw Cheng Yaojin appear, the Cui clan members all cried out in tears: "Uncle, please save me, I am Lixian. I am still wishing you a happy new year."

"Uncle, it's me. I'm Xiaobin. Last year, you accompanied Aunt to Cui's house to visit her relatives. You stroked my head and said I was smart and cute."

"Uncle Cheng, I am Jianye from the third branch of the family. I have asked after your whole family in my heart."

"Uncle Cheng, last year I rode your horse secretly and you beat me up. You kicked me on the butt a few times. Do you remember? I was wrong. Please don't bother with me, a child. Please save my life."

“I’m still young and don’t want to die.”

"Uncle Cheng, I am the same. Ever since I was old enough to understand, I have gotten up early and gone to bed late, studied hard, and strictly disciplined myself. I have not yet married and do not even have children. Now I am eighteen years old and have never even touched a woman. I am dying like this. I cannot accept this!"

"Uncle Cheng, if you save me, you will be my godfather from now on, and I will take care of you until the end of your life."

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Some young people of the younger generation, regardless of why Cheng Yaojin appeared here, wailed and tried to make connections. They had long lost their usual arrogant demeanor of aristocratic families, and in the face of death, they were no different from ordinary people.

In order to stay alive, they all do their best to flatter others. Before they die, some people even reveal the wishes that have been suppressed in their hearts for a long time.

Cheng Yaojin smelled the faint stench in the air, glanced at the crotches of these people, and felt secretly happy when he saw their ugly appearance before death. He was a duke of the current dynasty, one of the twenty-four heroes in Lingyan Pavilion, and even the emperor treated him with courtesy.

But ever since the marriage with the Cui family, he seemed to have taken great advantage of them. Every time he accompanied his wife to Qinghe to visit her relatives, he was ridiculed by these people.

A branch of the Cui family, they were also proud of their noble bloodline and looked down on a general who had risen from the grassroots. The noble families were thousands of years old and the dynasties were hundreds of years old, let alone a general of the moment. How could they be compared?

It seemed as if marrying a daughter of the Cui family was more glorious than marrying a princess.

Now that disaster has struck, these once extremely "noble" people have lost their clan pride and are being slaughtered by the barbaric Turks like slaughtering pigs and dogs. They have died in large numbers, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of blood.

The Cui family, one of the five surnames and seven families, also knelt under the Turkic butcher's knife, waiting for death. Those bastards who ridiculed him were now begging him to save their lives with snot and tears. Seeing this scene, Cheng Yaojin felt a surge of pleasure in his heart.

He suddenly thought of the poem by the Right Wise King: "The streets of heaven are trampled with the bones of nobles, and the inner storehouses are burned to ashes."

The scene of corpses piled on the execution platform was very similar to that poem. Suddenly, Cheng Yaojin felt that these noble families relied on the world, rode on the heads of the people, and enjoyed the honor of generations. Such an end was a matter of time.

One day you will have to pay for what you have done.

"Humph, Cheng Yaojin, you are so outrageous!"

Cheng Yaojin's thoughts kept drifting away, but Zhuolibuhua followed the script. He stood on the edge of the execution platform and said, "Don't forget, you are also a prisoner now. If you anger me, I will chop you off right now."

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of Turks in front of the execution platform drew out their scimitars and surrounded Cheng Yaojin.

It seemed that he only needed Zhuolibuhua's order to hack Cheng Yaojin to death.

The atmosphere became tense again for a moment, and the people around were stunned. Only then did they realize that this person was actually Cheng Yaojin, Duke of Lu of the Tang Dynasty. Some well-informed people knew that Cheng Yaojin was the main general of the Tang army who came to destroy the Turks, but they did not expect that he had fallen into the hands of the Turks.

Cui on the execution platform felt a tightness in her heart. It seemed that Cheng Yaojin's situation was not so good. He might not be able to save himself!

"Hahaha"

Seeing Cheng Yaojin was speechless, the people around him also shrank back. Zhuolibuhua laughed loudly and waved his hand. The Turks who surrounded Cheng Yaojin immediately withdrew: "Cheng Yaojin, the Khan appreciates you and has given you some courtesy. Don't take advantage of your age, please."

"If you still don't surrender in three days, you will be killed by me."

Everyone immediately understood that it was the Turkic Khan who wanted to persuade Duke Lu to surrender, so he spared his life. It seemed that Duke Lu had not surrendered yet, but in the current situation, the Turkic people were powerful, and the outcome was probably worrying.

"General Zhuolibuhua, I, Old Cheng, have heard of your fame for a long time."

After this incident, Cheng Yaojin regained his composure and began to act: "In your early years, you followed the Turkic Khan Jie Li in his campaigns to the east and west, to the south and the north, and made great contributions to Jie Li Khan in wiping out the grassland tribes and unifying the Turkic people."

"After Great Khan Jie Li passed away, you became an important minister entrusted with the care of the young master, wholeheartedly supporting him until the current Great Khan Shi Luodie regained power."

"You are an old minister of two dynasties, a great Turkic official, and you are highly respected and famous on the grassland. I, Cheng Yuan, have long heard of your reputation in Chang'an and admire you very much. It is a great honor for me to meet you at this time!"

"Uh" Zhuolibuhua was stunned. He didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin, a reckless man, could say such a thing. His words were full of praise and flattery, which made people feel very comfortable. He knew that the leaders of the various tribes on the grassland now privately said that they were slaves of three surnames.

Although he was angry and annoyed, he had no choice but to accept the fact that he had surrendered to the Right Wise King.
What's more, the tribal strength of those people is greater than his, and they don't care about his opinion at all. Even if he knew, he wouldn't dare to say anything.

But when it came to Cheng Yaojin's mouth, with just a few words, he made himself a loyal and prestigious old minister. Even the people around him looked at him in surprise. They didn't expect that this plain-looking general could be so majestic.

This really hit the spot for him, and he couldn't hold back his tense expression anymore. He laughed unconsciously, "Haha, Cheng Yaojin, you may not be good at fighting, but your eyesight is pretty good. I didn't expect that the generals of your Tang Dynasty also knew me."

"The general's name is so prestigious that even though I am in Chang'an, I can still hear it like thunder in my ears." The two of them talked smoothly. Seeing that the atmosphere had eased, the Cui family members who were kneeling on the execution platform also subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that they were saved this time.

Just as this thought flashed through his mind, Zhuolibuhua's face turned cold again: "Since you have some knowledge, I will not punish you for trespassing. Go down and don't delay my execution. After beheading these hundreds of people, I still have to go back to report."

"It's the coldest time of the year, I didn't expect the Central Plains to be so cold that it makes people shiver"

Cheng Yaojin clasped his fists and said, "To be honest, General, the Cui family on the execution platform is my wife's family. Can I have a few words with them? We are acquainted, and I would like to send them off. Please give me a favor, General."

"What a hassle, go ahead!"

Zhuolibuhua waved his hand impatiently: "For the Khan's sake, I'll give you a chance, hurry up"

'what'

The Cui clan members were dumbfounded. Cheng Yaojin had just made such a grand appearance, trying to establish a relationship with the Turkic general, and flattering him. It turned out that he was just talking to them. They had no relationship with this son-in-law who was trying to establish a relationship with the Cui family.

For a moment, everyone fell into despair again, and even when Cheng Yaojin came forward, they lost interest in paying attention to him.

Cheng Yaojin walked calmly to an old man with disheveled hair and a sad face.

This person is none other than Cui Demao, the head of the Qinghe Cui family. He is seventy-eight years old this year, slightly thin, with wrinkles and age spots all over his face. He kneels in the crowd and looks unattractive. At this moment, he is looking at Cheng Yaojin with a pleading look on his face.

"Zhijie meets Uncle Cui." Cheng Yaojin's father-in-law is Cui Demao's cousin, and the two are very familiar with each other.

Cheng Yaojin looked at Cui Demao, who was hunched over on the ground and looked haggard, and felt very sad.

What a changing world! Who could have thought that the patriarch of the most prominent family in the world would end up like this?

In the past, Cheng Yaojin would bring his wife back to Qinghe to visit his relatives every few years, and they even had dinner together last year. Every time they met, Cui Demao would sit at the top of the table, accepting greetings from the younger generations of each branch of the family like an emperor.

Then he gave some gentle words of encouragement, and Cheng Yaojin was naturally one of them.

At that time, Cui Demao's hair and beard were trimmed very neatly, his face was full of majesty, and he wore a luxurious robe embroidered with gold and silver cranes, which was no less than the emperor's dragon robe. His deep old eyes were full of wisdom, and he could talk about the general situation of the world at will.

Talking about the demeanor of the world, Cheng Yaojin was stunned. He felt that the thousand-year-old family was indeed extraordinary.

Now it seemed that Cui Demao was kneeling on the bloody execution platform like a dead dog, no longer having his former demeanor.

Cui Demao had never thought that he would look up at his son-in-law in this way. The expression on his face was extremely complicated. But at this moment, he could no longer care about his face. He wanted to use the last opportunity to find a way out for the hundreds of people in the Cui family.

"Zhijie, why are you here?"

Cheng Yaojin was stunned for a moment, then he realized that these people had been captured after the Turks moved south, and they knew nothing about what was happening outside. So he explained the whole story to them, and did not shy away from mentioning the failures in the two wars.

"The Turkic Khan Shiluodi wanted to force me to surrender, so he spared my life. But the time is running out. You just heard it. If I don't reply in three days, I will inevitably follow in my uncle's footsteps."

Cui Demao was excited and asked tremblingly, "My dear son-in-law, what are your plans?"

"Humph, I am a general of the Tang Dynasty. I have received great favors from the late emperor and the emperor. How could I possibly betray the Tang Dynasty?"

Cheng Yaojin puffed out his chest, put his hands behind his back and said righteously: "Zhijie has been in the army since he was young, and has fought on the battlefield for decades. His life has long been handed over to God. Along the way, many righteous brothers have died."

"And yet I am still alive today, fifty-six years old, with a rich family and many children and grandchildren. What else can I be dissatisfied with?"

"After three days, I will die bravely to repay the late emperor and the emperor for their kindness. I will be happy to be with Shubao, Xiongxin, Junda and others."

(End of this chapter)