The Return of the King: A Generation of Prodigies

Chapter 231 Death Struggle

When Shen Tingzhi and Tong Tai surrounded the Governor's Mansion in Pingzhou, the situation in the Governor's Mansion was much better than that of the Qian family.

After all, as the governor's mansion, no matter how arrogant and reckless it is, it will still be guarded.

As soon as Shen Tingzhi and Tong Tai arrived, a guard ran to tell Yin Qihui about the situation outside.

Yin Qihui, who was half asleep, was stunned for a long time before he reacted when he heard the news reported by the guard.

"Who is so bold as to lead troops into Pingzhou City and even surround the governor's mansion?"

"What are those people at the city gate doing? Where's Gan Jiu? Is he dead?"

Yin Qihui was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe. He knew that Gan Jiu, an outsider, was unreliable.

"Sir, you'd better go out and take a look. There are so many people outside." The guard had never seen such a big scene before, so he urged Yin Qihui to go out and take a look.

Yin Qihui didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at this time, and he walked out nonchalantly.

But when he walked to the gate of the governor's mansion and saw the dense crowd of soldiers outside, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground. He no longer had the dignity he had just now.

Seeing Yin Qihui's cowardly look, Tong Tai turned his head away and didn't bother to look at him anymore.

The guards of the governor's mansion were so frightened when they saw their master that they didn't know what to do for a moment.

"Sir, what should we do now?" Yin Qihui's master was the first to calm down. He walked over to help Yin Qihui up, looked at Yin Qihui and asked.

"Go, go, go ask them who they are and how dare they lead troops to besiege the governor's mansion? Is there any law in this?"

It is really ironic and ridiculous to hear these words coming from Yin Qihui, a man who has never taken the law seriously.

The master took the order and ran out. He grabbed the soldier closest to him and asked, "Whose men are you? Where is your leader?"

The soldier seemed not to hear the master's question and didn't even look at him. The master, feeling bored, stopped asking questions and stood on tiptoe to look around.

"What are you looking at!" A loud roar was heard, almost sending the master away.

The lawyer shivered and looked back, only to see a strong man with a shiny black beard staring at him.

The advisor, who just now had a sense of superiority as a popular figure around the governor, has now completely wilted.

The burly man in front of him was taller and stronger than him, but with his small body, the other party could probably beat him to death with just one hand.

The now obedient advisor looked at the burly man before him and tremblingly asked, "I am the advisor to Governor Yin. May I ask, sir, who led the troops to besiege the Governor's Mansion?"

"Is there some misunderstanding here? This is the governor's mansion of Pingzhou."

"That's right, we're besieging the Governor's Mansion in Pingzhou." The burly man looked at the advisor in front of him with a proud expression and said, "We are from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, and our second son is here on the emperor's orders."

"As the governor of Pingzhou, Yin Qihui showed no concern for the people, no ambition for progress, and no desire to improve the welfare of the people of Pingzhou. Instead, he committed all kinds of evil and wicked deeds."

"Not only did they allow the Qian family to harm the people, they were rich and unkind, and they even dared to mine iron ore privately, showing rebellious intentions."

"Today, our Second Young Master has come here on the orders of the Empress to redress the grievances of the people and eliminate the evil that befell Yun Li."

"Go back and tell Yin Qihui that if you know what's best for you, come out and surrender immediately. If you don't, you might lose your life later."

The lawyer was so shocked by the strong man's words that he almost fell to his knees. This was someone from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion!

Oh my God! Can he afford to offend the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion?

It was the second son of the Marquis of Zhenbei, who brought people here in person on the emperor's orders.

The master was so nervous that his whole body was shaking. He turned around and walked back slowly, but suddenly stopped halfway.

Wait, what did that person just say? Iron ore, illegally mining iron ore?

The lawyer felt dizzy and wished he could faint on the spot and pretend he heard nothing.

Everything else is fine, but illegally mining iron ore is a crime punishable by genocide. This time we are really finished.

The lawyer stumbled and didn't know how he walked back.

Yin Qihui jumped up from his chair when he saw his master coming back. "Did you find out? Who are they?"

The master looked up at Yin Qihui blankly, and after a long pause he said, "It's over, it's over, we're all finished this time."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Yin Qihui looked at the master who was already in a trance and couldn't help but raise his voice and shouted: "Tell me, who are they?"

The master was startled by Yin Qihui's roar. When he came to his senses, he looked at Yin Qihui and said, "We are all finished this time. There is no hope. No one can save us."

Yin Qihui looked at the advisor in front of him and said impatiently, "What on earth happened? Who are those people? With the Duke here, what's there to be afraid of?"

"Even if the king of heaven came, he would still give the Duke some respect. Who in Yunli doesn't know how great a figure the Duke is?"

"I think these people are looking for death. Why would they pick on our Qian family when they could pick on anyone else?"

"Let's wait and see what they will do when the Duke comes back."

The master looked at Yin Qihui, who was still so arrogant, and felt sad. It seemed that the Qian family was really doomed this time.

"The man who came is the second son of the Zhenbei Marquisate. He is here on the emperor's orders. The matter of the Fuping Iron Mine has been exposed."

"Ah, you, what did you say?" Yin Qihui, who had just been shouting that he would teach the outsiders a lesson, was suddenly dumbfounded.

He, what did he hear just now? The person outside is the second son of the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion?

The second son of the Marquis of Zhenbei, Shen Tingzhi, the governor of Ganzhou, why didn't he stay in his Ganzhou instead of running here?

Although Yin Qihui had never met Shen Tingzhi in person, he was not unfamiliar with Shen Tingzhi.

Putting aside the fact that Shen Tingzhi was the second son of the Marquis of Zhenbei, just as the governor of Ganzhou, he was someone who could not be ignored.

In just a few years, Ganzhou, which was in a state of chaos, was governed in an orderly and well-behaved manner.

It's hard for others not to know such a person.

Now Shen Tingzhi has brought so many people to surround his governor's mansion. What does Shen Tingzhi want to do?

Because he was too shocked, Yin Qihui didn't listen to everything his master said just now.

Yin Qihui suddenly looked up, stared at his master intently, and asked, "What is Shen Tingzhi doing here?"

The lawyer just felt a little sad in his heart, and he had no way to escape this time. Now looking at Yin Qihui's appearance, he was completely desperate.

It's also my fault that I was greedy for fame and fortune, which led me to follow such an unreliable and brainless guy.

"He was ordered by the Empress to investigate the Qian family, you, and the Fuping Iron Mine."

The housekeeper's words were like thunder, completely waking Yin Qihui up.

Come to investigate the Qian family, come to investigate him, come to investigate the iron mine in Fuping?

Who could tell him what had happened? What had happened to the Duke of Chen's mansion in the capital? Where was his cheap father?

For the first time in his life, Yin Qihui felt fear. Although he was just an illegitimate child born to a concubine, his father was Duke Chen.

He was pampered and brought up like a baby.

No matter what kind of trouble he got into since he was a child, his father would at most scold him a few words and then help him settle the matter.

Even when he was caught by the men of Zhenbei Hou for secretly reselling military rations and was almost killed, he was not afraid.

Because he knew that he had his father, Duke Chen, to support him, and no one dared to touch him.

But now it’s different. Shen Tingzhi directly brought his troops to surround his governor’s mansion, saying that he came to investigate the Qian family, him, and the iron mine in Fuping.

Investigating the Qian family and investigating him would not cost him his life, but the iron mine in Fuping was different, it would really send him to the guillotine.

How could Duke Chen not know that Shen Tingzhi came to Pingzhou with such fanfare?

The scary thing is that Duke Chen knew about it, but he didn't stop it. Perhaps it wasn't that he didn't stop it, but that he couldn't stop it.

This can only mean one thing, that is, something happened in the Duke of Chen's mansion.

And it's not just a small matter, but a big matter that can lead to the confiscation of property and the extermination of the entire family.

Thinking of this, Yin Qihui collapsed in his chair. This time, the Chen Guogong Mansion was finished, the Qian family was finished, and he was finished too.

"Sir, now is not the time to be in a daze. You need to come up with a plan quickly."

Even if you know that there is only death ahead, you still have to struggle in order to survive, right?

Yin Qihui turned around to look at his master, suddenly stood up from his chair and said, "Go, call Lao Wu."

"Sir, what are you doing?" The master, who originally wanted to persuade Yin Qihui to give up resistance and go out to surrender, was so frightened by Yin Qihui's words that he almost jumped up.

"What to do? What else can I do? Of course, I'm going to fight to the death."

"They've brought their troops to kill us. Are we just going to sit there and wait for them to kill us?"

"I'm going to die anyway, so I might as well die in a blaze of glory rather than in a cowardly way."

Yin Qihui, who has always been a coward and a wimp, was so stimulated that he lost his mind and tried to use the few troops he had, which were not enough to compete with Shen Tingzhi's army, to engage in a fierce battle with Shen Tingzhi.

The master looked at the idiot in front of him and was so speechless that he didn't know what to say.

Not to mention the huge gap in strength between the two sides, just because those people outside are from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion, they have already lost.

Now Yin Qihui is still having such a wild idea that he wants to have a fight with the people from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion. He is really like a fool.

The fool wants to die, but he doesn't want to die, and he doesn't want to die with the fool.

"Sir, the governor's mansion is now surrounded. Our people can't get out. How can we call Lao Wu back?"

"Why can't we get out? Take the tunnel. What are tunnels for? Aren't they used for times like this?"

After Yin Qihui became the governor of Pingzhou, he ordered people to dig a tunnel under the governor's mansion to be on the safe side.

This is the only way he is smarter than Qian Yaozu, he knows to leave a way out for himself.

"Sir, you may have forgotten that the tunnel has not been dug yet." The lawyer became more and more speechless. He didn't want to say another word to Yin Qihui now.

Only then did Yin Qihui realize that his life-saving tunnel had been dug less than halfway, and it was probably too late for him to use it to get out.

"Carrier pigeons, we still have a lot of carrier pigeons. Release them all."

When one plan failed, Yin Qihui quickly came up with another one.

The lawyer simply shook his head in silence. He was too lazy to say anything. He was going to die anyway, so he just let this fool continue to act recklessly.

Soon all the carrier pigeons in the governor's mansion were released, but they only flew from inside the governor's mansion to outside.

Because as soon as they flew out, none of them could escape and they were all shot dead.

The pigeons that were shot down were not wasted. They were plucked, their internal organs removed, and roasted over the fire.

When waves of fragrance drifted into the governor's mansion from outside, Yin Qihui realized how stupid he had been.

The carrier pigeon he released did not carry the letter, but instead became a delicious snack for the enemy.

Yin Qihui was so angry that he pinched his philtrum and completely collapsed.

He didn't know that something even more devastating was happening at this moment. The reinforcements he had been thinking of bringing over to fight against Shen Tingzhi had been wiped out.

The credit naturally belongs to Gan Jiu. He provided the information, and the people who followed him just contributed.

"Okay, stop resisting. We're completely defeated this time."

Seeing that Yin Qihui was finally exhausted and had nothing more to do, the master, who had been silent for a long time, finally couldn't help but speak again.

"Sir, we cannot defeat the Zhenbei Marquisate. The second son of the Zhenbei Marquisate came here on the Queen's orders."

"You know better than me what this means. The fact that he was able to lead his troops here safely and smoothly can only mean that something has happened to the Duke."

"Our Queen is also from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion. Her iron fists are not just talk."

"Prince Jin, Prince Qing, Prince Cheng, which of these people is not powerful?"

"But so what? Didn't they still fall to the hands of the Queen? Some escaped, some died, and some were imprisoned?"

"Which of them can rival the Empress? Although our Duke is also a person of character, he is no match for the Empress who has greater means and abilities."

"It's no surprise that he's been defeated by the Queen now."

"So, stop struggling. It's useless to think about calling for help or how to escape."

"Even if our people come, they can't defeat those Shen's army outside."

"Those people are just filling the gaps between people's teeth, and it's still not enough."