Chapter 1 The Descent of Magic

A Fei helped Chen Xianba back to the village.

However, instead of letting Chen Xianba go home, he first settled him in his own house.

This was Chen Xianba's own request because he didn't want his elderly parents to see him in such a miserable state.

A Fei began to grind herbs, preparing to make a poultice for Chen Xianba to dispel blood stasis.

Chen Xianba couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart.

He said;

"Tell me, that guy with the greatsword today, the one who hit me three times, is he one of the legendary Four Great Swordsmen, Li Liangshen?"

A Fei didn't stop grinding the herbs.

He answered;

"He already announced his name."

"Ha, I actually took three moves from Li Liangshen and didn't die!"

Chen Xianba's face was full of pride.

A Fei shook his head.

"Sigh, I didn't expect you to be the Young Marquis. You knew you were the Young Marquis all along, right? Hey, you clearly know your identity is so noble, but you're still willing to hang out with me, why?"

A Fei answered naturally:

"Because I'm afraid of being bullied, because I'm afraid of being hungry."

Chen Xianba had always had a good relationship with A Fei. After growing up a bit, Chen Xianba often helped A Fei with farm work, or caught some fish to eat. Anyone who dared to bully A Fei, or laugh at him for being a cripple, would have to ask Chen Xianba's fists first.

"It looks like you're going to leave our Chen Family Village." Chen Xianba leaned against the bed, looking at A Fei, "I'm really a little reluctant."

"I don't want to leave, I think it's pretty good here."

"Tell me, if you go back, will you have the chance to see the Marquis of Pingxi in the future?"

The Marquis of Zhenbei, who is now the Prince of Zhenbei, still holds an unshakeable position in the hearts of the older generation, but in the hearts of young people, the Marquis of Pingxi is the real idol because he possesses most of the elements that young people admire.

In comparison, the Prince of Zhenbei appears much more low-key, to the point that the entire Marquis's mansion's actions are also extremely low-key.

A Fei smiled, "Are you so eager for me to leave?"

"If you leave, your life will be much better than in the village, no, it's like heaven and earth."

"I said, I don't want to go back. The nanny brought me out in the first place because I couldn't stay at home."

"It's hard to say, my dad used to like to hit me with the sole of his shoe, but now that he's older, isn't his temper much better?

Your dad,

Maybe it's the same."

After a pause,

Chen Xianba continued:

"Besides, if they want to take you away, not to mention that Li Liangshen, you've seen the armored soldiers all over the mountains and plains, if they really want to take you away, who can stop them?"

A Fei wrapped the herbs in gauze and put them in a pot to steam.

The use of local herbs doesn't really have any fixed rules. In short, the predecessors did it this way, and the descendants follow suit, regardless of whether it actually has any effect, but the person "being treated" should get a lot of comfort in their heart.

"A Fei."

"What is it now?"

"Brother."

"What do you want to say?" A Fei turned his head to look at Chen Xianba, "You want me to take you with me?"

"Tch!"

Chen Xianba snorted dismissively,

"I don't care about the Zhenbei Army or the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion. My dream is to go to Jin, to Jin East, and rely on the Marquis of Pingxi!

Only the Marquis of Pingxi is worthy of my Chen Xianba's loyalty, my service!!!"

Chen Xianba spoke with a resounding voice, and this was indeed what he thought in his heart.

All along, Marquis Zheng and the devils around him had put a lot of effort into building their persona;

Of course,

In fact, they didn't think so far ahead. At most, they would make preparations in advance when opening schools in Jin East, preparing some backup forces that could be seen with the naked eye;

They didn't have such high expectations for absorbing and attracting other ambitious people. From the perspective of the blind man, building a persona was for the convenience of rebelling in the future.

If they really wanted to play some long-term plan, or learn from Sima Yi,

It wasn't impossible,

But it wasn't in the first choice of Marquis Zheng and the devils, because that always felt not straightforward enough.

"Then what did you want to say just now?"

"A Fei, if it really can't be helped and you have to go back, you have to endure it. Wait a few years, and after I've made a name for myself in the Marquis of Pingxi's place and made it through, I can continue to protect you."

This was a young man's foolish words,

But A Fei believed that Chen Xianba's words carried unparalleled sincerity.

A Fei nodded,

He said;

"Okay."

…

Mr. Zhou on the small pier was still telling stories, and had already reached the part where the Four Great Pillars of the Great Chu were besieging the Marquis of Pingxi.

Although, maybe Marquis Zheng himself didn't know where the Great Chu could gather the Four Great Pillars after two pillars had already died.

But in Mr. Zhou's story, Marquis Zheng had already fought with them anyway, and it was a battle that shook the mountains and rivers.

The old woman got up first,

The old scholar reached out to support her. He always said that his legs and waist were bad, so he needed Chen Xianba to carry him when he went out, but at this time, as a man, the old scholar felt that he should reach out to support the woman next to him.

That's right, a woman.

He always thought that she was very good-looking, very elegant, and very cultured. As for her age, it didn't matter, he was already full of white hair anyway.

The old woman didn't refuse the old scholar's support,

But what made the old scholar strange was that the old woman wasn't thinking about going back, but was walking towards the entrance of the village.

There was a stone tablet at the entrance of the village. Behind the stone tablet, there was originally a memorial arch, but last summer, five old people died one after another. The villagers invited a feng shui master, who said that the memorial arch was blocking the lifespan, so the villagers demolished the memorial arch.

But two stone benches were left behind.

The old woman sat down on the bench, and the old scholar also sat down next to her.

The old scholar thought that the old woman wanted to be alone with him, and he was very happy in his heart. He couldn't help but say again:

"Actually, I'm a really good person, except for being a little lazy."

The old woman smiled.

"You look really good when you smile."

The old woman smiled even more happily.

"Hehehe." The old scholar also laughed along.

"What are you doing, hiding in this village?" the old woman asked.

"My deceased wife was from Chen Family Village. After she passed away, I stayed in Chen Family Village."

The old scholar had always lived a good life in the village. He was the village's teacher, and many children from surrounding villages and hamlets also went to him to study and learn to read.

Of course, his greatest skill wasn't just these.

"You want to marry me?" the old woman asked directly.

"If you're willing, I will."

The old woman remained noncommittal.

"Are you agreeing?" The old scholar suddenly felt that today's surprise had come so suddenly.

The old woman said, "I'm old."

"I don't mind."

"But I still want a betrothal gift."

"Easy to say, you'll have everything you would have if you were sixteen and getting married!"

"My betrothal gift is very simple, it's a sword."

"I'll have someone go to the city to have a blacksmith master make one right away, with both of our names engraved on it..."

The old woman pointed forward,

She said;

"I want that one."

Li Liangshen, in full armor, walked slowly, with a pixiu (mythical wild animal) behind him.

"Kirin Black Armor..."

"Pixiu..."

"Ancient Sword..."

In fact, just these three elements were enough to narrow down the identity of the person to a very extreme range, this extreme was one.

The old scholar shook his head immediately,

He said;

"Well, no chance."

Li Liangshen walked up to the old woman,

Took off his sword,

And saluted very respectfully,

He said;

"Greetings, Nanny."

The old woman came from the Marquis's mansion, to be exact, she accompanied the Old Madam into the Marquis's mansion. In the beginning, she was the head of the Old Madam's personal maidservants, and she was quite a bit older than the Old Madam.

"I didn't expect the Marquis's mansion to find this place."

Li Liangshen frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed.

Yan Feizi used the Marquis's mansion's token to exchange for his own freedom. In Yan Feizi's words, Nanny thought that she was old and could no longer protect the Young Marquis, so she let Yan Feizi out to find people from the Marquis's mansion.

Obviously, Yan Feizi was lying.

But,

It didn't matter,

The most important thing was,

That the general of the Marquis's mansion had finally found their Young Marquis.

In fact, all along, the Zhenbei Marquis's mansion had been a very special existence. From the general to the soldiers below, for a long time, they only had their own Marquis in their eyes, not the ruler.

The Jingnan Army was because its backbone was personally promoted by the Prince of Jingnan, and because the Prince of Jingnan had been invincible in the south and north wars in recent years, creating an extremely strong prestige in the army.

And the Zhenbei Army,

In fact, from a long time ago, it was the Zhenbei Marquis's mansion's... private army.

Looking at it from another angle,

The Situ family, the Helian family, and the Wenren family had been independent for a hundred years, and were only lacking the last formality. In essence, they had long been no different from a country within a country.

What difference could there be for the Zhenbei Marquis's mansion?

It was just that the current Marquis of Zhenbei, with his own strength, forcibly tied the Marquis's mansion's accumulation and foundation to the chariot of Great Yan, and sent the princess to Yanjing City, showing an attitude to the world, mainly to the military leaders of the Zhenbei Army under his command, that he, Li Liangting, would not rebel against Great Yan.

The official of the Qian Kingdom and the Regent of the Chu Kingdom had both lamented that it would be great if they could have Li Liangting and Tian Wujing under their command.

But it was just a lament;

The Chu people had also been wary of Nian Yao in recent years;

The Qian people had even tacitly killed their tattooed Prime Minister.

This couldn't be said to be wrong, because the Zhenbei Marquis's mansion had actually been too powerful to control for a long time. Perhaps, in ten such situations, the Marquis's mansion would probably rebel nine times in the end;

Just like the founding emperor of the Qian Kingdom, when he led his troops on an expedition, he was directly given a yellow robe.

Therefore, if not for the existence of the iron triangle, this model of the Yan Kingdom would not have been able to operate at all, or rather, Great Yan would have already fallen into internal strife and become unable to extricate itself.

It was the Marquis of Zhenbei who single-handedly promoted the division of the Zhenbei Army,

But in reality,

If there had been a male heir in the Marquis's mansion at that time,

It was really hard to say what the military leaders below would have done.

Li Fusheng had hinted that Zheng Fan should join them. Join them to do what? It was self-evident.

It was just that these generals, these military leaders, were troubled that after their Marquis "made up his mind," they had no way to find a reason to gather together or a goal to fight for, so they had no choice but to turn to Yan and fight for the Yan Kingdom.

And once there was the existence of the Young Marquis,

Not much was needed,

As long as two generals violated the Marquis's military orders, directly attacked the court's stationed area, and directly formed a forced situation in the name of the Young Marquis, let's see how the Marquis would choose?

To put it a thousand times, to put it ten thousand times,

Don't look at the Zhenbei Army's repeated military achievements and contributions in several foreign wars in the Yan Kingdom, but in reality, the private army nature of the Zhenbei Army was only higher than the Qingluan Army of the Qu family.

Of course,

Now, of the original six garrisons of the Zhenbei Army, two garrisons were in the Jin region, Li Fusheng's unit, and the original unit of Li Bao was divided into two units.

One unit was near Yanjing, acting as the garrison force;

And three units remained in Beifeng County.

The time when 300,000 iron cavalry gathered together and the seven generals almost tacitly agreed to seize the dragon throne was no longer there.

It was just,

They were missing him.

"Nanny has worked hard these years, I'm here today to take the Young Marquis back." Li Liangshen stated his purpose.

The old woman snorted coldly,

She said;

"Your sword, Li Liangshen, is powerful, but don't think that just because I'm old, I'm really insignificant."

When the old scholar heard this, he felt heroic and straightened his chest, meaning that he was still here!

Of course,

The old scholar himself also knew that he would never be Li Liangshen's opponent, and the distance was so close!

"Actually, I've always been very strange, no, we adopted sons have always been very strange, why Nanny took the Young Marquis away without saying goodbye back then;

Why,

The Young Marquis said to me before,

That the Marquis,

Wants to kill him."

"Isn't that so?" the old woman retorted, "The Marquis is already obsessed for Great Yan, he's obsessed!"

As she spoke,

The old woman pointed at Li Liangshen's face again,

"But in the final analysis, isn't it because of you adopted sons, you generals, who are holding onto your troops and becoming too powerful to control!"

Li Liangshen laughed,

"Because of us?"

"Hehe, dare you say it's not?"

The old scholar stroked his beard and interjected, "If that's the case, my Great Yan would never have the atmosphere it has today."

Li Liangshen looked at the old scholar,

The old scholar immediately deflated, shut his mouth, put away his shoulders, and curled up his body.

Li Liangshen said to the old woman:

"Even Tian Wujing didn't kill his own child, but handed him over to the Marquis of Pingxi to raise. How could the Marquis possibly lay a hand on his own child?

The Marquis, wouldn't."

"Then how did the Young Marquis's leg become crippled? That day in the palace, if I hadn't risked one of my eyes and sacrificed my qi sea to protect him, the Young Marquis might have already died in the Marquis's mansion!

That's why I took the young Young Marquis and fled the Marquis's mansion directly, and I haven't dared to have any contact with the Marquis's mansion all these years!

You, Li Liangshen, put your hand on your conscience and tell me,

Looking at the world,

Who can kill the Young Marquis in the Marquis's mansion,

Except for the Marquis's authorization,

Who else could there be?"

Li Liangshen's eyes suddenly sharpened,

He wasn't questioned by the old woman's words,

Because,

He thought of,

A person.