In the early morning, a figure covered in blood and armor rushed to the city wall of Jiangzhou.
The guarding soldiers at the gate of the city quickly noticed the figure lying on the ground, and hurriedly brought him into the Jiangzhou mansion.
At noon, Li Chengfeng, who was sitting in the room, was awakened by the sound of being promoted, and walked out of the room to the court hall of the state capital.
Above the court hall, Wen Qu was wearing a purple official robe and sitting behind the court desk.
The master sat on the left and right of Wenqu, and on both sides were the government servants with killing sticks waiting in full force.
Under the court hall, a man in rattan armor with bandages all over his body knelt on the ground, sweating profusely.
Seeing Li Chengfeng walk into the court hall, all the eyes in the court hall were attracted by him.
After what happened a few days ago, no one in the Jiangzhou mansion knew about this noble man.
And the man kneeling on the ground saw Li Chengfeng appearing, ran to Li Chengfeng's side, and grabbed his trouser leg.
"Eighth prince, only you can help me now!" the man begged bitterly.
Li Chengfeng frowned slightly, and looked at the man under his feet with a look of bewilderment.
Judging from the man's attire, he should be from Baiyue. Why did he come to Jiangzhou? Also asked to do it yourself?
But soon Wen Qu on the stage gave an answer to his question.
Wen Qu walked quickly to Li Chengfeng's side, and whispered the whole story in his ear.
Only then did Li Chengfeng know the identity of the man and the reason behind it.
It turns out that the man's name is Lei Ying, and he is the lieutenant next to Marshal Ran Zhi of Baiyue.
But in the early morning of this morning, he came outside the Jiangzhou state capital with injuries all over his body.
The gatekeepers didn't dare to delay reporting all the way to Wenqu, and sent the man all the way to the Jiangzhou government office.
Facing the sudden arrival of Lei Ying, Wenqu didn't dare to entrust Dalian with his promotion, but Lei Ying kept silent.
He didn't mention why he came to Jiangzhou and the injuries on his body, and kept repeating a sentence:
"I want to see the Eighth Prince Li Chengfeng!"
After understanding the cause and effect, Li Chengfeng nodded slightly, and helped Lei Ying stand up.
"Didn't you want to see me? Now that I'm here, if you have anything to say, just say it!" Li Chengfeng said slowly.
Lei Ying sized Li Chengfeng up and down, but he still seemed to be concerned: "The Eighth Prince, please take a step to speak..."
The two left the Jiangzhou government office and came to Li Chengfeng's bedroom in the backyard of the government office together.
"Tell me, there is no one else here!" Li Chengfeng sat on the grand teacher's chair condescendingly looking down at Lei Ying who was kneeling in front of him.
Lei Ying glanced around, and slowly explained the reason for his trip and the purpose of finding Li Chengfeng.
A month ago, King Baiyue held a clan meeting, and the leaders of all major clans gathered in King Baiyue to discuss major issues.
At this critical juncture, the High Priest who had been loyally assisting the Baiyue King led an unknown force to arrest the Baiyue King, including the Baiyue King.
Lei Ying, who was stationed outside the city, led his troops to help but was killed, throwing away his helmet and armor, and fled to Datang in desperation.
For a month, he wandered around to avoid being hunted down.
Just yesterday, he suddenly received a secret letter from Ran Bing, the eldest princess of Baiyue.
The secret letter told him that Li Chengfeng was in Jiangzhou, and gave him a token, asking him to go to Li Chengfeng for help.
Hearing this, Li Chengfeng interrupted Lei Ying's narration, and took out a portrait from the desk beside him and handed it over.
"Is this the eldest princess you mentioned?"
Lei Ying took the rice paper with a puzzled face, but his eyes widened when he saw the person drawn on the paper.
"Where did the Eighth Prince get this painting? This person is my Princess Baiyue!" Lei Ying's voice trembled.
"Yesterday I met her once, and here is another portrait, you can recognize it"
After speaking, Li Chengfeng picked up another portrait and saw clearly the person painted on it.
Lei Ying couldn't help but gasped, and her breathing became short of breath: "How could it be him!"
…
Three hours later, a figure quietly left the Jiangzhou mansion and went straight to the west of the city.
Li Chengfeng held a Gu worm that Lei Ying gave him in his hand, and the Gu worm fluttered its wings to guide her the way forward.
Originally, he had stated that he would not intervene in the matter of Baiyue, but Lei Ying's conditions were too generous.
If Princess Baiyue can be rescued from the previous white-robed man, Princess Baiyue will hand over the holy relics of the Baiyue tribe to Li Chengfeng.
In fact, Li Chengfeng didn't want to get bogged down in the Baiyue incident. Instead of dealing with this mess, it would be more interesting for him to travel to the blossoming Yangzhou.
It's just that Lei Ying told her an even more exciting news, that is, the so-called sacred object was bravely snatched by the ancestors of the Baiyue tribe from the four holy places a hundred years ago, and there was only one of them.
Hearing this, Li Chengfeng's heart skipped a beat. Was it time and space fragments that were snatched from the Great Sacred Land a hundred years ago?
Especially after Lei Ying described it, he was basically sure in his heart that the so-called holy land of the Baiyue tribe was a fragment of time and space.
In this way, Li Chengfeng couldn't stand by and watch.
He asked for a tracking Gu from Lei Ying, and followed the Gu's guidance towards the northwest corner of Jiangzhou.
…
At this time, in a garden in the northwest corner of Jiangzhou City, Ran Bing was sitting on a tea table, pouring tea and water in a leisurely manner.
Standing opposite her was the strong man with a white scythe in his hand.
Next to the brawny man was a skinny man, his thin body was hidden in a wide purple sleeve robe, his pale face and deep eye sockets, it seemed that just a gust of wind could knock him to the ground forever stand up.
But Ran Bing didn't dare to underestimate the man in front of him, because it was this man who imprisoned his father.
He is Baiyue's current high priest: Chi Ming!
"High Priest, please tell me if you have anything to do here!" Ran Bing said, holding back the anger in his heart.
Chi Ming stretched out his hand to take the tea that Ran Bing handed over and drank it down in one gulp.
"Don't worry! Princess, don't you still have a distinguished guest?" Chi Ming nodded slightly.
If he didn't know the vicious heart of the person in front of him, Ran Bing would even think that he was a handsome scholar.
Wait...he just said nobleman, did he already know? Ran Bing was shocked!
"How can there be any noble person, I was captured by you, what else can I do!" Ran Bing shook his head
Chi Ming suddenly stood up, walked to Ran Bing's side and patted her shoulder.
"If he heard what you said, how sad would the eighth prince who was invited by you be?" He whispered in Ran Bing's ear.
Hearing these words, the eldest princess Ran Bing, who was originally calm and composed, panicked instantly.
She pointed at Chi Ming with her finger and opened her mouth wide but she couldn't make a sound for a long time, and it took a long time before she let out a mournful cry.
"Is Lei Ying your man? So all of this is a trap?!" She fell into deep despair.
Originally thought that if Lei Ying could invite reinforcements from Li Chengfeng, the Baiyue royal family might still have a chance of survival.
But she never expected that Lei Ying, who was single-handedly promoted by her own father, was also a person of Chi Ming!
Her self-righteous rescue operation is actually just a carefully calculated conspiracy by Chi Ming...
"It's over, everything is over..."
Ran Bing tightly woven his robe, and looked out of the room with empty eyes!
Chi Ming looked at the bewildered Ran Bing, a wanton smile bloomed on that feminine and handsome face.
He didn't just want a Baiyue, the reason why he let Ran Bing go was to lure out the famous Eighth Prince of the Tang Dynasty!