Chapter 135 Hero, Run Away
There were many pedestrians on the street, and there were more people in the shops and restaurants on both sides. They opened their eyes wide incredibly and they were stunned for quite a while as they saw this scene. Until there was no movement in the sky, they rushed over, craned their necks, and peered at the big hole.
“Isn’t he the Inspector General?”
“Oh, my god! Is he really the Inspector General?”
“Why did the Inspector General... hit out a big hole on the street? And why was he lying still there?”
“This... Don’t you find out that the Inspector General was attacked seriously by a cultivator and fell down hard? Don’t you see that the Inspector General doesn’t move at all?”
“Is he already dead? The Inspector General was always arrogant and extremely imposing. He never put anyone in his eyes, acting like a local despot. But now, he is hit to death here?!”
“Well done! This treacherous official bullied the ordinary people, so he should have died long ago!”
“You’re right! I’ve said that this kind of treacherous official wouldn’t die well! It’s great that the retribution has finally come. Haha!”
“Who killed the Inspector General?”
“Who is the hero?”
After discussing for quite a white, they recovered to their senses and looked at Inspector General’s Manor. They saw a young man in a white robe standing on the top of the gate wall to look afar with his robe fluttering. He was carrying a half-dead Taoist in his hand.
“This person is very young. Is he the person who killed the Inspector General?” a strong man said in reverence.
“He is the only person standing on the gate of Inspector General’s Manor. If it’s not him, then who is it?” A scholar gave the judgment.
“He’s very handsome. He deserves to be the hero who has killed the Inspector General. Are heroes all so good-looking?” A young woman’s eyes were shining. “The beauty is as pretty as jade, and the graceful childe is incomparable! Isn’t he that kind of person?”
“He is so young, but he has done this kind of righteous deed, so he is not simple! Alas, sure enough, heroes will appear in large numbers as the chaotic time comes!” A white-haired old man sighed.
“I have never thought that there would be someone in this world who dared to wield his sword to kill the treacherous official alone! This hero has an imposing appearance and extraordinary temperament. He must be somebody and he will have great achievements in the future! If I can make friends with him, it will be a great pleasure in my life. But I don’t know this hero’s name and that if he will think highly of me, an ordinary person!” In the wine shop, a Confucian scholar leaned out, looking excited and declaiming.
Li Ye listened to everyone’s discussion and received the attention of countless people, not saying a word.
He looked at the direction of the gate at the end of the main street and silently felt the wave of Spiritual Qi in the city in search of the masters hiding in the dark.
However, no cultivator had high enough cultivation for him to pay attention to.
It was no wonder that Licheng was the capital of Qizhou and many masters would hide in the city, but compared with Chang’an, the capital of the country, where talents and dignitaries were everywhere, it fell too far behind.
There were more than 300 states in Tang Empire, but there was only one Chang’an!
But soon, Li Ye saw a special group of people, which made his mouth twitch and outline a sneer.
A group of officials with knives and a group of armed sergeants rushed over from both sides of the street not far away and soon gathered on the street in front of Li Ye.
They came aggressively and yelled at the people who were in the way to tell them to get out of the way. The people who dodged a little bit slowly would be punched, kicked, or even put a knife on them.
Such a big movement quickly attracted people’s attention and also quickly cleared a passage for them.
When the people in the wine shops on both sides of the street noticed the officials and the sergeants, their expression changed. Some of them were so frightened that they pulled back their heads in fear of being seen; some of them directly closed the windows as if they had seen dreadful monsters.
Li Ye narrowed his eyes as he saw this scene.
As the relationship between the government and the people had reached this point, how could the imperial court win the support of the people?
“Since the officials and the sergeants are coming, the hero is going to suffer!”
“Why hasn’t he left yet? When the officials and the sergeants arrive in force, he won’t be able to leave!”
“No matter how high the cultivation he has, he won’t be able to fight against a thousand guards in Qizhou!”
“I think he is carried away by your flattering so that he doesn’t know the danger is coming. He is not a hero but a foolhardy man!” someone said sourly.
The person who said this sentence was quickly beaten to scurry off.
“Hero, leave now! If you don’t leave now, it’ll be too late!”
“The officials and the sergeants won’t let go of you, so you’d better leave before they have come!”
“Hero, don’t stand still!”
Since Li Ye didn’t move at all, everyone was anxious. For the hero who killed Wu Huainan, most people felt grateful and respectful from the bottom of their hearts, so they didn’t want him to be caught by the officials and have a bad end.
Li Ye didn’t move.
He certainly wouldn’t leave.
“Want to leave? Is he able to leave?” The officials and the sergeants rushed over. Their face darkened as if they were ready to kill someone. They spread out on the street to disperse the crowd rudely and surrounded Li Ye firmly.
Someone went down to the hole to check Wu Huainan’s condition, but soon, he climbed up with his expression changing. He said to the surrounding nervous colleagues, “The Inspector General is dead!”
“What? Dead?”
“This bastard not only broke into Inspector General’s Manor but also killed the Inspector General? He really knows nothing of death and danger!”
“Surround him, and don’t let him run away!”
All the officials rushed over, and the sergeants blew the horns to issue an emergency warning and an assembly notice to the military camp and the four city walls. After a short time, the horns sounded at four directions one after another. When the army in the military camp outside the city received the order, they would also take action urgently.
A hundred officials and sergeants surrounded Li Ye firmly, but they didn’t rush to fight. Of course, they didn’t dare to act rashly. After all, Wu Huainan was dead, so they deeply feared Li Ye’s power.
Although they didn’t fight, it didn’t mean that they wouldn’t yell. They swore, talked wildly, and pointed to Li Ye to shout abuse.
The onlookers didn’t disperse, and they just stood further away. The people in the wine shops leaned over the windows and discussed to each other.
“Alas, the hero is over, and he can’t leave now!” The scholar sighed.
“Most of the important officials of the government and the generals of the army are the relatives of the Inspector General, so they will definitely avenge Inspector General!” The white-haired old man looked mournful.
“As long as the army arrives, the hero will have no chance to escape! It’s a pity that such a hero is going to die here!” the strong man said angrily.
“Why didn’t he leave early? Why would such a handsome young man be so dull? I feel worried!” The young woman covered her plump breasts with her hands and looked at Li Ye nervously, afraid to see that Li Ye would be killed on the spot.
The officials and the sergeants were waiting for the army to come. The onlookers also knew that when the army arrived, the hero would suffer a disaster, so they craned their necks to look at the end of the main street with the officials, but the two sides’ expression was different.
No matter what mood they were in, their hearts were beating fast. Only Li Ye stood at the top of the wall in a calm look and didn’t think himself in a dilemma, just like the person enjoying the scenery, calm and relaxed.
Loud clops finally sounded, coming from afar like gales and heavy rain and approaching quickly. In the sight of the public, at the end of the main street, there was a group of tall and strong cavalries in black armors running into the city gate. They rushed over unstoppably with the momentum like Mount Tai and floods.
The main street trembled slightly, and the ordinary people’s hearts beat faster. Only the officials and the sergeants felt excited and pleased with their eyes brightening. They looked at Li Ye again, chin up and chest out, like looking at a dead man.
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The leading official shouted, “You bastard. You’re going to die soon. Get down quickly.”
The chief sergeant was a junior colonel. He pointed at Li Ye and swore, “You bastard, you dared to kill the official, the Inspector General. Today, if the cavalries can’t kill you, I will change my family name to yours!”
Li Ye looked at them with indifference and said nothing.
“You pretend the demeanor of a master. I wait and see how long you can last pretending!” The leading official sneered.
“The demeanor of a master? He just plays the fool!” The junior colonel scolded.
As the cavalries approached, the pressure came in the face.
Then, finally, a sergeant found something wrong and said in shock, “The robes and armors are not right, so they are not our men!”
“What? If they’re not our men, who are they?” The junior colonel looked back hurriedly. As a glance, he stood stunned there. The coming cavalries were dressed in fine clothes and riding strong horses with bright armors and sharp spears, and their momentum was extraordinary. But in the junior colonel’s eyes, their robes and armors were too bright, so he thought when had the cavalries of Qizhou changed their armors to such bright armors?
There was no such thing!
When the cavalries rushed in quickly, the junior colonel felt more surprised and confused, just like when he opened the door of his home, he saw strangers instead of his own wife and children!
The leading cavalry was riding a white horse and wearing a white robe with silver armor and a knife, extraordinary and imposing, looking like a valiant general!
However, the junior colonel didn’t know her at all!
How was that possible?
He was very familiar with the commanders of the cavalries in Qizhou!
The junior colonel stood stunned on the spot, flustered.
Of course, he didn’t know that commander because they were not the cavalries of Qizhou and surely the leader wasn’t the commander of the cavalries in Qizhou either.
They were the eight hundred elite guards of Prince An’s Manor and the commander was Shangguan Qingcheng!
In the eyes of the people in awe and hatred, four hundred cavalries rushed to the gate of Inspector General’s Manor, causing dust everywhere. Shangguan Qingcheng raised her arms to press down on both sides, and then the elite cavalries divided to surround all the officials and the sergeants at the gate.
When the cavalries reined in their horses and stopped, they aimed their crossbows and spears at the officials and the sergeants who surrounded Li Ye in the onlookers’ surprising and doubtful gaze!
The sudden change made the officials and the sergeants flustered. They looked puzzled and dull. Staring at the shining and sharp spears and crossbows, they felt extremely strange and absurd.
“Who are you?!” the junior colonel finally couldn’t help shouting, “you’re not the soldiers of Qizhou, so why could you enter Qizhou?!”
“Why couldn’t we enter as the gate is open?” Shangguan Qingcheng glanced at him coldly. She dismounted neatly and stepped forward to the gate, passing through the officials. She cupped her hands towards Li Ye. “Military Commander!”