The morning light shines through the forest, the birds are singing and staying in the scattered courtyard, the mottled moss and old trees, and in the sun, two groups of people hold their own weapons, confronting inside and outside.

"Shangshu Min."

The gate of the courtyard was tilted, and the horse at the door was wearing a green outer robe with leather armor. He lifted his cloak and dismounted, walked into the courtyard with a green-bottomed and yellow-patterned boots.

The four broken swords behind him reflected the morning light, which was cold and white, causing the seven guards inside to move backwards, protecting the old man with a white hair bun in the middle.

"You all get out of the way. If you really want to resist, no one of you can stop him."

Min Changwen held down a guard's shoulder, pursed his lips tightly, and walked out of the guards, shaking his wide sleeves and bowed.

"Zuo Qianwei, I haven't seen you for a long time."

On the other side, Zuo Zhengyang raised his hand and asked his subordinates to put away their swords and weapons. He felt relieved. As long as he did not face each other, the best result would be.

The two looked at each other for a while, and Zuo Zhengyang spoke first.

"Shangshu Min, you are a senior official of the court. Why did you suddenly abandon the capital? Your Majesty is angry? Zuo Mou knew that you were a human being and would never do this."

In the sound of weapons returning to sheath, Min Changwen nodded, reached out to invite him to sit down on the stone bench beside him, sighed, and looked up at the mottled mossy tree body.

"Zuo Qianwei, do you know that there are monsters in this world that are rampant?"

"I know, when I met a monster at night outside Zhou Ying's mansion, Zuo cut off a fox's tail with his own hands." Zuo Zhengyang put the thin knife on the corner of the table, stopped his hand, and suddenly looked at the old man opposite.

"Shangshu Min means that there are monsters in the capital, so you have to escape from the city?"

The old man remembered the movement that night, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Many, Mr. Gong, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, has been unexpected."

Zuo Zhengyang frowned, stood up in a flash, glanced at the two groups of people who were vigilant around him, waved his hand away, but his voice was lowered.

"It's impossible. When Zuo left Beijing, he saw Lord Gong going to court."

"Then do you think I'm lying to you?" The old man stood up and looked at him without a wave. "Zuo Qianwei and I have known each other for many years. Have you ever seen me in a wrong position?!"

Looking at the old man's tone and expression, Zuo Zhengyang clenched his fists for a while, then nodded.

"I believe in Shangshu Min!"

As he said that, he grabbed the sword at the corner of the table and turned around and shouted at the more than ten subordinates who brought outside the courtyard: "You stay here to protect Lord Shangshu, I will go back to the capital to find out the truth!"

"Zuo Qianwei cannot!"

The old man stopped him, and the latter grabbed the sword and strode out. As the cloak was stroking, the sound came to the gate of the courtyard.

"If the Lord Shangshu said, Zuo should share the worries for Your Majesty and kill the monsters, but it is not what the Lord said. Zuo will come back and arrest you and bring it to Your Majesty for disposal!"

As soon as he walked down the stone steps and stepped onto the horse led by someone else, Zuo Zhengyang's words suddenly stopped and raised his hand to let his deputy stop talking. His ears trembled slightly.

What I heard was a rustling rustling sound.

He suddenly looked at one courtyard wall and shouted: "Who is it?!"

The long sword around his waist was unsheathed, and the public from the Imperial City Acquisition Division pulled out their weapons. The thousand guards on the horse stepped on the saddle, and they jumped up like a big bird to the forest.

At this time, Min Changwen in the courtyard was standing near the gate of the courtyard and heard Zuo Qianwei's loud shout outside. The moss old tree not far away was shaking with branches and leaves.

The old man raised his gaze and the sunlight above twisted through the air, as if something was falling from the top of his head.

"Shangshu Min is careful--"

The sound of breaking through the air was loudly, and a thin knife was thrown, almost hitting the old man's forehead. With a few inches in front of him, something collided with, and the sparks jumped in the air.

Zuo Zhengyang snatched the old man, lifted his robe, kicked out the air ahead with one kick, but kicked it all in one go, turned around and pushed Min Changwen away with a palm.

"Protect your elders!"

He turned out a broken knife behind his back, and in an instant he drew two circles of knife shadows, compressing the space of the courtyard to a very small range. In the eyes of everyone inside and outside, there was a cold metal light reflected by the sunlight on the surface of the knife.

Bang—

The rotating blade slashed on the moss old tree, embedded in half, and the debris splattered everywhere. With the crackling sound, it dragged the dense branches and leaves to the courtyard wall.

boom.

The mud brick wall was crushed and the leaves fell down, and in a row, several leaves scattered across the air. The original trajectory seemed to touch something, almost quietly deflecting and falling to one side.

‘Finding you.’

Zuo Zhengyang narrowed his eyes, and another long knife rushed into the sky with his back hand. In the bright sunshine, the broken knife in his other hand swung across the broken knife.

bite--

The ripples of gold and iron clashed suddenly swept away the surrounding air. Zuo Zhengyang, who was rushing over, pressed the knife handle and pulled out of the semicircle. In the originally empty air, something twisted in the light, as if flying backwards, hitting the low wall of the courtyard gate, causing countless dust.

Buzz…..

In the sky, a long sword fell back, Zuo Zhengyang, who had a knife slashed from below, and kicked it out with one kick while closing the knife.

The toes are on the back of the knife.

The weapon that fell vertically suddenly turned horizontally and deflected, and a black shadow appeared in the sunlight, nailed to the earthen wall, and the knife head poked out from the other side of the courtyard wall.

Tat… Tat… Tat… Tat… Tat…

A bright red color appeared in the smoke and dust, forming blood drops along the blade, falling constantly.

The dilapidated courtyard became quiet, and Min Changwen was lingering in fear and was guarded by the guards in the middle. When the dust fell, he saw a woman in a purple-black cassock wearing a blade and nailing to the wall.

"How could it be a woman?"

However, the next moment, Zuo Zhengyang pulled out the long sword, and the body fell to the ground, his clothes were loose and crooked, and the body inside was like a paper man, revealing a gap in the back of his neck, and there was nothing inside his internal organs and bones.

"It's indeed a monster."

Zuo Zhengyang stared at the body and squeezed out a low voice. He took the weapon handed over by his subordinates, inserted it back, turned around and walked out, waved: "You must not leave Lord Shangshu, wait for me to go back to report this matter to Your Majesty and the Dharma!"

"Then the law of protecting the country is a monster!" Min Changwen stood in the yard and said.

The figure of the horse turned over was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at the old man with wide eyes. He couldn't say anything for a while. If the magic power of protecting the country was a monster, then Your Majesty...

Thinking of the end, Zuo Zhengyang tied the reins and turned his horse's head around and was about to leave. Min Changwen chased out of the courtyard: "Zuo Qianwei, don't be reckless. The civil and military officials in the capital are probably like this. Don't go back and lose your life. I have sent my little girl to Qixia Mountain to find Lu Liangsheng. Maybe he has a way."

"Zuo can't wait."

Zuo Zhengyang bowed his hand immediately, "No matter whether Lu Liangsheng has any solutions or not, I will go back to protect Your Majesty. This is my duty. Lord Shangshu, say goodbye!"
Chapter completed!