Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 193 Destruction (I)

The city of Jusai, built of black neodymium stone, stood majestically in the distance. It was difficult to fly in this area, so Gu Jingnian had to travel by carriage.

Since learning to fly, traveling by car has become increasingly slow and bumpy.

Whenever Gu Jingnian had some free time, he couldn't help but think of Gu Caiwei's death.

He couldn't let it go. Sadness was like a bottomless lake in his heart, and anger was like the huge waves on the lake, rolling and raging. He wished he could rush to the capital city and kill all those who killed Gu Caiwei.

But when he lowered his head, he saw Lu Anran sleeping soundly in his arms. He couldn't tell what expression was on that little face, but it made him feel distressed all of a sudden.

He had no choice but to suppress his anger and decided to take the child to fertile land and raise him personally.

Finally, the carriage arrived at the city of Jussez.

The person driving the carriage was a general under Gu Jize's command, who stepped forward and showed his command token.

"The Marshal and General Lu are both injured. Right now, the Fourth Young Master is in charge of the situation at the border, and the Eleventh Young Master will return to Jusai City first..."

When the gatekeepers heard this, they also knew that the Xiaoyi Army might change its leader, so they all paid their respects.

The clanking of armors rang out, and rows of soldiers shouted, "Greetings, Master Eleven!"

The shouting woke Lu Anran up, and she stretched out her little hands and burst into tears.

Gu Jingnian quickly patted the swaddling clothes and coaxed softly, "Don't be afraid, baby, go to sleep."

He is quite clumsy when it comes to coaxing children.

The carriage slowly drove into the city of Jusai. On both sides were brave soldiers performing ceremonial duties. Gu Jingnian did not take the opportunity to establish his prestige.

Occasionally, a general would lift the curtain of the carriage, and all they would see was the Eleventh Young Master making a gesture to silence them, asking them not to disturb the children.

After finally arriving at the Marshal's Mansion, a general arranged for Gu Dingxi's wet nurse to help take care of the child.

The wet nurse was called Rong Po. She had been weaned a long time ago, but she was good at holding a baby. Lu Anran stopped crying as soon as she got into her arms.

Mrs. Rong was amazed and said, "Such a well-behaved child is really rare."

"Behaved?"

Gu Jingnian held the child all the way and found it very difficult to coax him.

Rong Po said: "It's very quiet. Even this old servant has seen the fourth lady and the fourth aunt's husband. There is nothing like her eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose..."

"Wow!"

Lu Anran suddenly burst into tears.

Mrs. Rong was also very experienced, but she couldn't coax him no matter what she did. She finally panicked and kept calling him "little ancestor". In the end, she moved him to Gu Jingnian's arms again. Only then did Lu Anran stop making any noise and fell asleep with a pouty mouth, feeling aggrieved.

"Really..."

Mrs. Rong didn't expect that she had failed, and she didn't believe that she was worse at holding the child than Gu Jingnian. She guessed in her heart that the child was deliberately playing tricks on her.

She left the lobby, muttering to herself, "How could there be such a clever little fellow?"

Over there, Gu Jingnian finally put Lu Anran on the crib, and then heard someone report: "Sir, Minister Dong wants to see you."

Others were not in a hurry to meet him for the time being, but the Minister of Rites Dong Cailiang was the envoy sent by the Yong court, so Gu Jingnian went to the outer room to meet him.

The two of them came to Jusai City from Yongjing together and were quite familiar with each other. As soon as they met, Dong Cailiang called out to him anxiously.

"Marquis Chengye, something happened!"

"Hush, please speak softly, Minister Dong." Gu Jingnian said, "What happened?"

"Something happened." Dong Cailiang lowered his voice, "I'm afraid... the emperor escaped."

"what happened?"

Dong Cailiang rubbed his hands, looking very embarrassed, but he had to speak, "It was Princess Yin Shu who found me first and said that as long as Your Majesty could promise to let the Emperor live out his days, the Emperor would be willing to cooperate with Your Majesty. So I sent people to escort the Emperor and the princess back to the capital, but I didn't expect that not long after leaving Jusai City, my people were killed, and the Emperor and Princess Yin Shu disappeared."

After saying this, he sighed dejectedly, knowing that he had caused a big disaster.

Gu Jingnian was very surprised when he heard this, and wondered why Dong Cailiang would easily agree to Yin Kuo and Yin Shu's request.

But when he thought about it carefully, he understood.

The reason why Yin Jinggeng thought Yin Kuo was a threat was that he was afraid that Yin Kuo would collude with Gu Beiming and have both the name and the military force.

However, Yin Yuhe doesn't think so.

Dong Cailiang came this time to represent Yin Yuhe and negotiate a cooperation with Gu Beiming. Therefore, Yin Kuo, who has lost the military support of Gu Beiming, is no longer a concern. He can be killed, or even better, taken back.

As long as Yin Kuo is taken back, we won’t have to worry about another Yin Kuo showing up somewhere else in the future.

From Dong Cailiang's point of view, sending Yin Kuo back to Yongjing in advance would naturally be a much greater achievement. Blinded by greed, he naturally did so.

"Didn't you expect them to escape?"

"Of course I was prepared." Dong Cailiang said regretfully, "But I didn't expect the emperor to be so determined. He would rather live in exile outside than return to Beijing to enjoy his old age."

"Where did they flee to?"

"I don't know. I have to ask Cheng Yehou to find it."

Dong Cailiang knew that he had made a big mistake and the only person he could ask for help for the time being was Gu Jingnian, so he was very polite.

"Got it, Minister Dong, don't worry."

Gu Jingnian was not too worried about this. Since Gu Beiming was captured, the chaos that Yin Kuo could cause would be limited. Instead, he was more worried about Yin Yuhe's plan to cooperate with Gu Beiming, so he looked at Dong Cailiang deeply.

"Marquis Chengye, what's wrong?" Dong Cailiang felt inexplicably flustered when he was looked at.

"How about Minister Dong go somewhere with me?"

"where?"

"You'll know when you come."

Gu Jingnian carefully arranged people to look after Lu Anran, and then took Dong Cailiang out.

Before this, when Gu Jingnian and Gu Jize took Gu Beiming away, they sent people to control the refining field in Jusai City, but there was only a small group of people guarding the door, and they did not interfere too much because they were afraid of alerting the enemy.

This time when Gu Jingnian came back, he planned to take it away. He didn't dare to leave for too long and planned to dispose of it as soon as possible.

As Dong Cailiang followed him through the stone passage, he gradually became uneasy and asked again, "Marquis Chengye, where is this?"

Gu Jingnian said, "Didn't Minister Dong come here just to ask my father to bring you here?"

"what?"

Dong Cailiang pretended not to understand, but he was actually confused and wondered how Gu Jingnian knew about his private agreement with Gu Beiming?
In front, guarding the heavy gate was a team of soldiers under Gu Jize.

Gu Jingnian took out the command talisman and asked them to open the door, then asked, "Are there any of your people inside?"

"No, the four generals won't let us touch those refiners."

Gu Jingnian asked again: "Has anyone left these days?"

"No, it seems to be self-sufficient, with no shortage of water and food."

"Okay, then you guys continue to guard this place. I'll take Minister Dong in to take a look. Lend me this."

As Gu Jingnian spoke, he took a knife and a bow and arrow from the guard.

The door was opened and closed, and one could see many figures busy working inside.

Dong Cailiang already knew where this place was and swallowed nervously.

"Marquis Chengye, has something happened to Marshal Gu?"

"Why do you ask?" Gu Jingnian asked back casually.

Dong Cailiang said: "Perhaps, Marshal Gu's unfinished business..."

He was just thinking about winning over Gu Jingnian to serve Yin Yu and refine the salamander, but the next moment, he saw Gu Jingnian picked up the torch stuck on the wall and directly lit the dried salamander skin on the shelf.

"do what?!"

An alchemist rushed forward and shouted to stop him, but Gu Jingnian said nothing and chopped him down with his sword, knocking him to the ground.

Dong Cailiang widened his eyes, looking at the blood gushing out of the refiner's neck, and was so shocked that he was speechless.

"Boom."

With a loud bang, Gu Jingnian kicked over a large vat placed in the hall, and the mucus in the vat spilled out.

Seeing this, the handymen were frightened and ran away.

Gu Jingnian continued to move forward dragging the bloody knife, killing any refiner he saw and driving away any odd jobs he encountered.

Ahead was a vast room filled with bookshelves, and there were probably thousands of scrolls on the shelves.

Gu Jingnian unfolded one and took a look. It contained the record of refining.

He then extended the torch and lit the scrolls one by one.

"Eleventh Young Master?"

Dozens of alchemists came out from the room at the back and shouted, "These are all the hard work of the Marshal! Sir, are you crazy?"

"puff."

What responded to them was Gu Jingnian's ruthless swing of the knife.

Seeing that he was so unreasonable, the other alchemists showed no mercy and drew their weapons to meet him.

"He's crazy, do it!"

It is not convenient to use supernatural powers that require the help of external objects in Jusai City, so both sides can only engage in hand-to-hand combat. Although Gu Jingnian's martial arts are not the highest, he has the ability to heal himself, so he has no scruples in the fight.

While killing people, he did not forget to light fire and set fire to the scrolls on the bookshelf.

"No!"

The refiners' eyes turned red with anger when they saw their year's hard work being destroyed. Some of them rushed forward to try to put out the fire with their bodies, but were engulfed in the flames.

The fire quickly spread.

Gu Jingnian is not afraid of fire and becomes more and more adept at killing in fire. Even with the suppression of the black neodymium stone, the flaming wings behind him are already faintly visible.

Corpses fell one after another, and the remaining alchemists had to turn around and flee.

Gu Jingnian vowed to destroy his father's refinery and refused to give up. He chased after them and stabbed them to death one by one...

(End of this chapter)