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Li Xiuyuan left Qiufu with Qiurong and Xiao Xie and returned to Yangzhou with a car.

During the period of time when it became the history of Yangzhou, the overall national strength of the Great Song Dynasty declined, and the people were still withering, and it seemed that Zhao Jing's coming to power did not change anything, but Yangzhou under his rule was becoming more and more prosperous and peaceful, so that more and more people came to Yangzhou to beg for a living in the next few years.

In the following months, Li Xiuyuan paid attention to the movements on the side of the imperial court.

As Zhao Jing sat on the throne, he also showed some of the emperor's methods, and the civil and military officials were replaced in just one year, and those civil and military officials who were replaced either returned to their hometowns or disappeared inexplicably.

The traces left by the national teacher Cihang are gradually disappearing.

After all, without this big demon in charge, the monsters under his command will not be able to become a climate, let alone the situation that Li Xiuyuan's avenue has been completed.

And one day, there was also a murder in the capital.

Du Ze, the resigned servant of the Criminal Department, was stabbed above the mansion.

The murderer was Du Ze's son, Du Wen.

According to the people in the neighborhood, Du Wen stabbed Du Ze to death with a peachwood sword and shouted words like "avenge his father."

Cui Wei of Six Doors was in charge of the case and sent someone to arrest Du Wen, but he fled, and Du Wen has not appeared in the capital since then, as if he had disappeared.

It's just that a year later, when a literati who knew Du Ze in the capital was released as an official, he met a Taoist who looked exactly the same as Du Wen on the road, and the Taoist looked a little leisurely, carrying a peachwood sword on his back and hanging a cloth bag around his waist, saying that there was a demon somewhere, and he was going to a certain place to punish the demon

After that, there was no news of Du Wen.

In the north, rumors about the detention of bulls and horses gradually began to spread among the people.

In the south, some people also began to spread the story of black and white impermanence.

It's just that within this year, in addition to official duties, Li Xiuyuan and his wife and concubine travel in the mountains and rivers, sometimes go fishing on the shore of the East China Sea, sometimes climb strange peaks and dangerous mountains, and sometimes swim in big lakes and rivers.

Because of the close relationship on weekdays, the wife and concubine next to him gradually became pregnant, and even Du Chunhua next to him became pregnant.

Father Li Dafu was very happy, and after a wife and concubine around Li Xiuyuan had a bad child, he set up a banquet for wine.

So much so that Guobei County continued to have wine banquets, and the people in the town could also see how many heirs of the Li family were from the number of times the Li family put wine.

Since then, the doom of the Li family's several generations of single transmission has ended, and it is inevitable that it will spread out.

Within two years, Li Xiuyuan's children were born one after another, among them, the son born to the third sister of the fox was the most handsome, with the handsomeness of the fox, he must be a beautiful man when he grew up, and Qing'e gave birth to a woman..... Among them Du

Spring flowers are so special, and after someone else gave birth to her first child, she became pregnant again.

No wonder the third sister of the fox said that she looked like she was good at birth.

A calm, peaceful life always passes quickly.

Ten years have passed in a flash.

Li Xiuyuan's children are all ** years old, they are all studying, and his father Li Dafu has also realized his wish, and his children and grandchildren are full, but he is not old at all when he is over sixty years old, perhaps because he has eaten He Shou Wu Jing, and he still has fun playing with his grandchildren every day.

During this decade, there were several wars in the north of the Great Song Kingdom.

But because of the existence of Han Shizhong, the border defense of the Great Song Kingdom was safe, but the world became more and more difficult, only Yangzhou still maintained the prosperity of the prosperous era, and more and more people fled here.

At the same time, Wang Ping, who was in charge of the book of life and death in the underworld, became more and more burdened with the effectiveness of the governance of ghosts and gods, and one day he suggested to Li Xiuyuan that another person should be recruited to manage affairs, one person to manage reincarnation, and one person to manage punishment.

Li Xiuyuan felt justified, so he asked Wang Ping to choose a virtuous and capable ghost among the dead ghosts to share with him.

Yan Kuan, who was in charge of the six doors of the capital before his death, Lord Yan was selected because he was upright, and Yan Jin was selected.

Li Xiuyuan was also stunned for a moment when he heard Yan Kuan's name, and then very much agreed that this Lord Yan was in charge of punishment in the underworld, after all, he took good care of the six doors during his lifetime, and he had the ability and virtue to be competent in the underworld.

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Yan, Wang, the names of the two gradually spread among the ghosts and gods.

Twenty years later.

The drawbacks of the declining national strength of the Great Song Kingdom finally broke out.

In this year, the northern barbarians went south, crossed the border pass, killed all the way, and actually broke through the capital, the emperor was taken captive, and many civil and military officials were martyred, including Zhang Bangchang's name.

I heard that in the imperial palace of the capital, Guo Zhendao in order to protect the capital, cast a spell in front of the imperial city to set up a formation, and wanted to repel the barbarians with the power of Taoism, but was forced by the evil spirit in the army, vomited blood on the city wall and died, the Yaksha general Xu Bao and Xiahou Wu died in the capital, and in the same year, Yan Chixia heard the news and drank drunk on a certain day

Drunk, he died in Lanruo Temple on the second day, leaving the Taoist system to pass on to an apprentice named Ye Zhiqiu before his death.

After the capital was destroyed, Han Shizhong led his troops to rescue.

But the 20,000 elite cavalry under his command are no longer the 20,000 elite cavalry formed by Li Xiuyuan back then.

Twenty years can make the war horse die of old age and old age, even if there are recruits to supplement it later, but how can it compare to the group of brave generals back then?

Han Shizhong did not rescue Zhao Jing, only rescued the crown prince and some ministers, but he also suffered heavy losses and had to abandon the capital and go south for help.

The northern barbarians are in hot pursuit.

It wasn't until they caught up on the banks of the Yangtze River that they stopped the soldiers and horses.

Li Xiuyuan, who had never appeared for twenty years, stood up.

He raised his arms and shouted, ordering the general soldiers from all over the country to gather, and in an instant, the Yangtze River was like a cloud of flags, swords and guns.

Li Xiuyuan still put on black armor as always, rode a snow-white dragon horse, held a newly cast tiger-swallowing golden spear, hung a Tai'a sword at his waist, wore a golden cloak, held a gun immediately, and led the army to press.

The years have left no mark on his face, only adding a bit of majesty and maturity.

"Han Shizhong, you are old. ”

Before the three armies, Li Xiuyuan looked at Han Shizhong, who fled in a hurry, and said with some emotion.

Han Shizhong, whose temples were already white and his face was full of wrinkles, was now in his fifties, and he bowed his head and knelt down in shame: "I disappointed the eldest young master." ”

"No, you didn't disappoint me, it's providence, I want to protect the country for twenty years, and now the twenty-year period has arrived, and the fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty are corrupted, and the previous covenant is in harmony. Li Xiuyuan said: "The change of dynasty is not far away, but it is not ..... today."

After speaking, he glanced at the son of Zhao Jing when Han Shizhong was the current crown prince.

The prince didn't dare to raise his head when he saw Li Xiuyuan in fear, he heard his father mention it when he was a child, and anyone in the world and the court didn't have to take it to heart, but Li Xiuyuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, must be afraid.

Back then, he asked Zhao Jing: Why is his father so jealous of a mere assassin worthy of the imperial court.

Zhao Jing said seriously: "Because Li Xiuyuan has the ability to take the Great Song Dynasty, he is still alive for a day, and the court will always avoid him and rely on him." ”

At this moment, the crown prince understood what his father Zhao Jing said.

Seeing these 100,000 elite soldiers, the barbarian marshal who went south stood still and stood still on the bank of the Yangtze River, facing each other across the river.

The barbarians felt that Li Xiuyuan's 100,000-strong army was nothing more than that, and the capital of the Great Song Dynasty had been breached, so what brave army could there be?

But the third day of the confrontation between the two armies.

A force of 10,000 cavalry crossed the Yangtze River and fought its way out from the flank, while 100,000 elite soldiers crossed by boat.

The barbarians were defeated, and their marshal was even more heartbroken by Wu Xiang's killing, and fled on horseback, and on the way they even looked up to the sky and shouted: "Why did the Great Song Dynasty lose the capital with such an elite?"

From then on, the barbarians retreated to the north and did not go south.

As a result, Li Xiuyuan's reputation also regained and resounded in the Great Song Dynasty.

The following year, in a certain county in the south, there was a scholar named Zhang Bairen, riding a donkey and hanging a sword, walked into Yangzhou, to meet Li Xiuyuan, and ask for a university question about governing the country and quelling the chaos.

Li Xiuyuan taught him for three years.

Three years later, Zhang Bairen left Yangzhou, and no one knows where he went, only that Zhang Bairen did not become an official.

The Great Song Dynasty is still the Great Song Dynasty, but half of the country has been lost, and the crown prince ascended the throne in Jinling City and then established a new Song Dynasty.

And Han Shizhong retreated into the background because of that war, only defending the city and the land, losing his enterprising spirit and sharp spirit, and the one who led the army to fight abroad was a rising star named Yue Fei.

Li Xiuyuan ignored this.

Thirty years later.

During this period, many people died, and the concubine Xiao Xie Shouyuan around her was exhausted, and was personally sent to the underworld by Li Xiuyuan, and Xiao Xie was not sad when she left, because she was waiting for her husband to reunite in the underworld.

Forty years later, Li Xiuyuan was sixty years old.

He said goodbye and returned to his hometown.

Although he still looks young, only in his early twenties, he knows that if he continues to serve as the assassin, it will only be surprising, after all, his appearance has not changed for forty years, which is a very unbelievable thing, after all, the things of ghosts and gods have decreased a lot in forty years, people, officials

The things of the ghosts and gods have become more and more unfamiliar.

Li Xiuyuan didn't want to be treated as a monster, so he told his old man to return to his hometown.

Fifty years later.

There are more relatives who have left, and their parents Li Dafu and Li died without illness and lived more than 80 years.

But he didn't go to reincarnation, according to Li Zhong, Li Dafu stayed in the underworld, saying that he was going to wait here for his son to go to reincarnation together..... For this reason, he also asked Li Zhong to find a few female ghosts and wait.

Looking at the posture, he wants to be a master in the underworld.

Sixty years later, Li Xiuyuan's wives and concubines are gone, Fu Qingfeng, Qingmei, Xiaodie, Du Chunhua......

But again, they don't want to be reincarnated.

took advantage of Li Xiuyuan's status as a wife and concubine to engage in privileges, so there was an additional Li Mansion in the ghost city of the underworld.

Seventy years later.

Li Xiuyuan's appearance remains the same, but according to Wang Ping, his longevity has not yet arrived, and it is not the time to die.

He felt that he would scare future generations by doing this, so after arranging family affairs in his early years, he left the Li Mansion and moved to Lanruo Temple.

If you are accompanied by ghosts and gods, at least you will not cause trouble to future generations.