What if I haven't had any contact with the Shandong Shi clan all along? How good would it be if you didn't covet prestige and marry a woman with five surnames? How good would it be if you didn't insist on going your own way despite dissuasion? If I had known that there would be this day, I wouldn't have done that kind of thing if I was killed...... Cheng Yanjin kept sighing, looking at the not majestic city wall, and his heart was entangled in every way.

If you protect your wife, it's fine, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, the daughter who marries out is the water that is spilled, and it has nothing to do with the family, even if the family falls, the daughter who marries out will not have an accident, but can still get a piece of family property and continue to live by herself, but the laws of the Tang Dynasty are just a piece of paper, the document is dead, the person is alive, and the final interpretation is in the emperor's place, what the emperor wants to do, can't he still do it?

Is it true that the law has no dignity at all......

Cheng Yanjin sighed like this.

But what now?

In the midst of depression, a flying horse came to Cheng Yanjin's side under the leadership of the guards, and saluted Cheng Yanjin and said: "General Cheng, on the orders of Su Hou, came to announce that the head of the Boling Cui family is dead, and the Boling Cui family surrendered the city, and all of them were arrested. ”

Cheng Yanjin shuddered suddenly, and finally stabilized his mind, and said in a majestic voice: "Ah, General Ben understands, come on, follow Su Hou's words to give an ultimatum to the Cui clan in the city, and tell them that the Boling Cui clan has surrendered, and the Qinghe Cui clan will not surrender the city within an hour." General Ben will personally lead the army to level the Qinghe, and the chickens and dogs will not be left! ”

Cheng Yanjin's last sentence particularly accentuated the sound of the word "personally", he understood, he knew very well that there must be people by his side, and the emperor attached great importance to himself, so his surveillance of himself would not be reduced, especially at this important moment. How will you stand in line. How to express one's stance is the best time for the emperor to test himself, and if he doesn't express his position well at this time, he will be finished.

For the Cheng family. For the sake of loving wife. For a couple of stinky boys. Father-in-law, my son-in-law is offended......

A knight immediately went to the city and conveyed Cheng Jin's words as they were. The Cui family generals in the city also quickly spread the matter to the headquarters and conveyed it to the Cui family's decision-makers who needed to know the most.

"Boling...... ...... fell" Cui Zhang, as if he couldn't believe his ears, asked again: "Boling, has it really been lowered?" ”

The general who came to the newspaper said with a sad face: "Seriously, seriously, it was said by the army outside the city, and they also said that in the last hour, if the city is not surrendered, General Cheng will personally lead the army to level the Qinghe, and there will be no chickens and dogs!" ”

was silent for a while, and dozens of Cui's decision-makers were silent for a while, and they all recalled the days when Cheng Bingjin came to drink and talk in person during the New Year's holidays. Swinging the clear river? Chickens and dogs don't stay? Does he really want to be that unkind and unfilial person? Kill his father-in-law with his own hands? Cui Zhang, the head of the Cui family?

They shifted their eyes to Cui Zhang's body, Cui Zhang's face was very bad, cyan, and it looked like he had accumulated a lot of anger, and finally, Cui Zhang slapped his palm on the table in front of him and shouted: "Okay! All right! What a person who personally led the army to level the Qinghe! Chickens and dogs don't stay! All right! All right! Old man, I really have a good son-in-law! really married the old man's good daughter to a good son-in-law! A good son-in-law still has to level the Qinghe with his own hands!

All right! All right! Cheng Zhijie! You're doing a great job! The old man admires you! You unkind, unrighteous and unfilial! The old man is blind and has taken a fancy to you! I married my eldest daughter to you! All right! You've gotten to this point where you have forgotten who helped you! That's how you repay the old man in the end! All right! All right!

Hahahaha, hahahaha! Everyone, everyone, you always say that the old man is indecisive, always say that the old man does not know people, and now the old man admits that the old man is blind and married his daughter to such a bastard thing! Hahahaha, well done, well done! The old man has to throw himself to the ground! How can he be so good at doing things and talking! It feels so good to be a dog for the emperor? It's that good? Hahaha!

You, you go to the city, you go and call Cheng Zhijie under the city wall, you sue him like this, and the old man is sitting at home, waiting for him to come and take off the old man's head in person! If you want Qinghe, then come and get it yourself! Come on your own! The old man is sitting here waiting for him! Waiting for him! Don't go yet! ”

Cui Zhang roared wildly, and didn't dare to say a word that everyone yelled at, and the family general ran away with a crawl, I don't know if it would follow his words, but everyone's hearts also sank, Cheng Biting Jin's words completely angered Cui Zhang, he would fight to the death with Cheng Biting Jin regardless of a qiē, even if the jade was burned, they didn't hesitate, they were very sure that Cui Zhang had made up his mind.

However, this is not in the interest of all of them......

If they survived, who would want to die? People are all selfish, people want to live, people are life-sparing, even if this is a "scholar" who reads poetry and books and knows the truth of saints, it is the same, everyone is the same, who wants to die? Cui Zhang is obviously unwilling to open the city gate and surrender, but no matter whether the Boling Cui clan has opened the city and surrendered, there is no reason for the Qinghe Cui clan to be martyred for all Cui Zhang, even if Cui Zhang is the head of the family, the supreme head of the family.

Cui Zhang got angry, left, left the council hall in a rage, and entered his study, he still has a lot to think about, and he also needs to be quiet, in this unprecedented dangerous time, he has to stay calm, she has to stay calm.

"Maolin, you say, what evil did I create and what wrong things did I do to get to this scene? What did our gentry do wrong? What did Shandong do wrong? How did it end up like this? Where are we wrong? Embattled, embattled, we can't find anyone to help us, even our son-in-law has to personally lead the army to level here, hehehe, why? Maolin, tell the old man about it. Why exactly? Cui Zhang was talking to himself in the empty study, oh no, as if he was talking to someone.

An old man dressed in black who was about the same age as Cui Zhang stood up, holding a glass of water in his hand, and said: "Master, no matter what, you still need to calm down now, there is a mess outside, if the master can't keep calm, go out and preside over the overall situation." Then things will just get out of hand. ”

The old man in black put the water cup in front of Cui Zhang. Cui Zhang sighed, picked up the water cup and drank all the water in one go, and sighed: "I really can't think of any way to deal with it, embattled." It's really embattled. I really didn't expect it to happen almost overnight. I can't even think of any way to deal with it, Li Shimin's speed is too fast, too fast. Before I could react, the DPRK-China forces were wiped out, and there was not even a single person who could speak.

Now that the entire Central Plains has fallen into the hands of Li Shimin, the world is so big, where else can we go? Losing the land of Shandong, how can we survive? Where to? Where else can I go? Northern? Guanzhong? Shuzhong? Gangnam? Where else can you go? Now it seems that there is only the land of Jiangnan, which is a place that Tang Ting has not fully mastered, if we lose Qinghe, we can only go to Jiangnan, Xu Tu will make a comeback, aren't those people also in Jiangnan? It seems that at this time, we can only rely on them......"

The old man in black asked, "Does the master plan to join forces with those people, accept their protection, and then make a comeback?" Those people, can they be trusted? ”

Cui Zhang said: "No matter who is not credible, we don't have any way to choose, we can only choose the elite children of the Cui family, leave Qinghe from the secret road, leave here, and then go south, cross the Yangtze River, to the land south of the Yangtze River, avoid Jinling and Xiangyang, the further south the safer, this is our only way to live, I don't know if other counties have done this, but we have to do this, Boling is too late, Cui is only left with us Qinghe County, we must survive."

I have decided not to compromise with Li Shimin, fight to the end, Mao Lin, you go to do this, choose the children, women, and elite children, take the soft with you, and leave from the secret passage, the old man is here, buy time for you, it only takes one day, Tang Ting will not be able to find you at all, they will never think of it, we still have this way, those people definitely don't want us to be wiped out, once we are finished, they will lose their greatest help, they will never think that they can go back.

The enemy of the enemy is the friend, Mao Lin, at this time we can only believe them, by the way, and that, that time Suning wrote me a letter, do you remember? I'm going to write it out, stay it, leave it to the emperor's people, let the emperor see this letter, as long as he sees this letter, it will be difficult for Suning to threaten me if he doesn't die, as long as Suning is eliminated, we, huh? Well...... We, we're safe! Cui Zhang suddenly frowned, feeling that something was not quite right.

After listening to Cui Zhang's words quietly, the old man in black said: "Master, your idea is very good, if this is the case, your Qinghe Cui clan will definitely be able to leave the fire, and then Xu Tu will make a comeback, cooperate with those people, and stir up the wind and clouds in the south of the Yangtze River, there is still a chance." ”

Cui Zhang nodded, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter, his hand covered his stomach, and he felt a little uncomfortable, and then his eyes widened, looked at the old man in black and asked, "Maolin, you, what did you just say?" You Qinghe Cui clan? You guys? ”

The old man in black showed a weird smile: "Yes, master, you Qinghe Cui clan, that's it, as for the letter Su Hou wrote to you, what letter?" Has there ever been such a thing? Why didn't the old slave remember? Master, when people are old, they will have a bad memory, and if they have a bad memory, they will remember things wrongly, and treat what has not happened before as if they had happened, which is a very bad thing, master, you have to remember!

Su Hou has never written a letter, the old slave has not passed it on, the master has not read it, the Cui family has no secret way, and he has never known about the affairs of Jiangnan, and it has nothing to do with them, so the Cui family has only one path to choose, that is, to surrender the city and surrender to His Majesty the Tang Emperor, which is the most correct path, isn't it? ”

Cui Zhang's eyes widened and widened, and at the same time, he felt that the discomfort in his abdomen had turned into colic, very painful, but the old man in black had no intention of stopping, and he didn't care about Cui Zhang's movements: "The old slave decided to do this for the sake of the master's plan, and the master deeply felt that he had failed the expectations of his ancestors, so he committed suicide by taking poison, and left a suicide note before he died, deciding to let San Lang take the position of the head of the family, and at the same time, I hope that everyone can sacrifice the city and surrender, and all the blame will be borne by the master alone." ”

Cui Zhang felt that his consciousness was becoming more and more blurred, the colic in his abdomen was getting worse and worse, and his vision had begun to blur, but at this time, the old man in black took out a piece of paper and put it in front of Cui Zhang, asking him to take a look, this, this is clearly his own handwriting, this is clearly his own handwriting...... No, no, when did you write this suicide note? When, obviously not, Mingming, don't remember...... (To be continued......)