The fear in Li Yannian"s eyes was extremely strong, as well as despair and indignation.

Thus, when An Zhe saw the look in Li Yannan"s eyes, he had already guessed that Li Yinian knew who those a.s.sa.s.sins were.

""After the late king goes, the country will fall.""

Li Yenian suddenly laid down on the table and cried until his body trembled violently.

An Zeng didn"t say anything. He walked to the side and poured himself a cup of wine. He leaned against the window and looked at the night sky while quietly tasting it.

He didn"t know why, but today the wine seemed so spicy after entering his throat.

Li Yinian cried for more than ten minutes. When he raised his head, he looked as if he suddenly aged thirty years. He looked extremely haggard.

""Your career is over.""

""Since you don"t want to say it, I won"t ask.""

I"ll find a place for you to settle down, and then I"ll send you to the south of the Da Xi River to reunite with your wife and son.

From now on, you will spend your life with a family of old and young, and the temple is so high that it no longer has anything to do with you.

""You belong to the clear heart of the countryside.""

Li Yenian looked towards An Zeng, then kneeled on the ground and said, ""Thank you!""

An Zhan didn"t help him up and instead accepted Li Yenian"s bow. Then he smiled and said, ""Isn"t this a good thing for you? You can safely pa.s.s the rest of your life in peace.""

No matter how powerful your opponents are, you won"t dare to be impudent with the Da Xi.

I accept your bow because I can afford it.

""Therefore, since you"ve thanked me and acknowledged me, you don"t need to mention this matter in the future.""

Li Yinian stood up and said, ""You"re a true hero. I"ve offended you earlier. I"m sorry.""

An Xuan said, ""Sleep then. The people who want to kill you tonight will frantically search for you in the city, but they won"t be able to find me in a short period of time.""

Tomorrow, as soon as the sun rises, there will be a storm in your family"s affairs.

The Fang family, the Ministry of Justice and the justice courts would all intervene.

""At that time, those who want to touch you will be more restrained, but tomorrow, all the city gates will be guarded by their people. Once you show your face, you will still die.""

Li Yinian let out a long sigh. ""I served the country for twenty years and thought that I could return back to the countryside. But now, it seems that this imperial court could no longer tolerate people like me.""

An Zeng walked over and placed the wine jug beside Li Yinian, then turned around to leave.

Li Yenian looked at An Zeng"s retreating back in silence for a while, before stopping An Zeng, ""Speak with me. There are some things I need someone I can trust to help me remember.""

""Are you sure you want to tell me?""

Li Yinian said, ""Although we"ve only just met, I know that you can entrust it to someone.""

I don"t know if I"ll be able to survive until I leave the city tomorrow. Even if I do, I don"t know if I"ll be able to reunite with my wife and children alive.

""So if I die, I want you to help me tell my child who my enemy is.""

""I guess that"s why you didn"t want your son to cultivate?""

Li Yinian said, ""I knew long ago that I would definitely be killed by someone. After these few years of being safe and sound, I finally relaxed my guard.""

It"s been a few years, and I thought they wouldn"t cause any more trouble … But I know, if I"m killed, my son will avenge me.

The other party is too powerful, if he avenged me, he might also die.

""I won"t let him cultivate. If he doesn"t have the ability, he won"t take revenge for me … But from the looks of it, I was wrong.""

He looked at An Zhe and said, ""Just now, in my house, if you weren"t here, I wouldn"t even have a chance to fight back before I was killed.""

If they find out where my family is, I"m afraid they will chase them. They don"t know how to cultivate, and like me, they have no ability to resist.

So I think I was wrong.

""Since Vishnu can cultivate, then let him cultivate. At least in the future when faced with danger, he will have the ability to protect his mother, his brother, and himself.""

""As for revenge … Forget it. Even if I die, I won"t be able to avenge this grudge. The other party"s influence is too great.""

""Who is it?""

Li Yinian was silent for a moment. ""It is the Su Family.""

An Zhan asked, ""You"re just a Minister of Rites and a guest of the Department for Purging Officials. What conflict do you have with the later generations?""

Li Yinian was silent for a long time, then said with a heavy tone, ""That was a few years ago, and it has something to do with Da Xi … I"m telling you this because I want you to help me. If anything happens to me in the future, it will also let my wife and son know who I"m wary of in the future.""

The people from the later generations have always done things without any leeway. Even if they knew that my wife and son went to the Da Xi, they wouldn"t let them go, because this also involves a great character of the Da Xi. ""

An Zaihai"s heart skipped a beat. He suddenly felt that this matter was related to him. The great character of the Da Xi that Li Yenian spoke of must be Emperor Huai of the Da Xizhi Kingdom.

After all these years, only such a powerful person had been to the Yan Country.

Li Yinian poured a cup of wine and gulped it all down in one gulp.

""That was more than four years ago, when the allied forces of Yan and Zhao fought their way into Yongguo. They defeated Yongguo and almost destroyed Yongguo.""

Later on, in order to mediate the war, the Da Xi sent a man with a lot of weight to... the son of the Holy Emperor of the Da Xi, King Hui, Chen Zhong.

""I originally thought that the arrival of the heavy weapons was just to mediate the war, but when the heavy weapons arrived, I felt that something wasn"t right.""

""Why?""

Anjou asked.

Li Yannian said, ""After Chen Chong arrived at the Yan Kingdom, he never left the Yan Kingdom, nor did he summon the Eternal Kingdom and You Country"s envoys to travel around the world all day long. Where did he come from to mediate the war?""

Furthermore, the sixteen kingdoms in the north were no more than sixteen ants to the Da Xi. There was no need to send a prince himself.

So I thought then that something was wrong.

Later, he thought that perhaps this prince was just visiting the north and settling the affairs of the sixteen kingdoms.

""Furthermore, with his status, there"s no need for him to personally receive envoys from other countries. Even for him, there"s no need for him to meet the emissaries from other countries.""

""All he has to do is send someone with a message. Which country in the sixteen kingdoms dares to disobey Da Xi"s mediation?""

Li Yenian drank another cup of wine and looked at An Zhe. ""Until one day, when I was responsible for leading Chen Chong around Swallow Mountain, he suddenly disappeared.""

An Xuan"s eyes turned cold. He knew that Chen Xinjie"s disappearance was related to his arrival.

Li Yinian said, ""At that time, we were all panicking. The entire etiquette department was in a mess, sending people to search everywhere.""

After searching for five days, there was no news at all. On the sixth day, he suddenly received a letter saying that Chen Chong had left Yan Country and returned to Da Xi.

He poured himself a third cup of wine and drank it all in one gulp. ""What"s wrong is that the King of Swallow was not worried at all when such a powerful figure disappeared.""

The Board of Rites was already going crazy. They had met the King of Yan several times, but the King of Yan was always worried, but he had always done it half-heartedly.

""According to the rules, if Chen Chong and his followers all go missing, the King of Yan will definitely dispatch all the experts to search for them. However, the King of Yan"s orders are … .All the experts from the Board of War, the Board of Justice, and the Supreme Court and the Heavenly Temple are not allowed to act rashly. Whoever dares to leave the city without permission will be killed without mercy.""

Li Yenian glanced at An Zeng. ""Aren"t you surprised?""

An Chao nodded. ""It is indeed strange.""

However, An Zhe knew clearly in his heart that when King Yan ordered all the powerful warriors not to leave Fang Shoucheng, it was also when those powerful warriors from the Da Xi Empire ambushed him.

Li Yenian continued, ""Originally, things had come to this point, and a letter from Chen Chong said that he could end it after returning to Da Xi. Although it was strange, nothing happened.""

""And I won"t get involved at all.""

He drank one cup after another, then his pale face quickly turned slightly red, ""But one day, a wounded person came to the station and said that he came from Da Xi.""

When he pa.s.sed by the Cang Man Mountain, he encountered a demonic beast. He could only escape after fighting hard. However, he fainted when he arrived at Fang Shoucheng.

At that time, the people at the inn hurriedly sent the news to the Protocol Department, and I brought them to the inn. ""

""That man gave me a letter, telling me to deliver it to Her Majesty personally.

""After handing the letter to me, he fainted. Although he was treated urgently, he still died in the end.""

An Zaihai clenched his fists in his sleeves. He knew that the truth was about to surface.

Li Yinian said, ""I was also curious at the time. Why didn"t the emissary from the Da Xi hand the important letter over to Duke Yan, but rather the empress at the time?""

""So you stole a glance at the letter?""

Li Yannian nodded. ""This is the beginning of the disaster … I was too curious at the time. I felt that there was some heaven-shaking secret behind this matter.""

Although the envelope was sealed with wax, it meant nothing to me.

I have been in touch with letters all year round, and it is not difficult to restore the lacquer.

So I found a secret place and opened the letter. ""

A hint of fear flashed across his eyes. ""I really didn"t think that … the secret would be so big, so big that it was hard for me to bear.""

The letter was addressed to the empress dowager by Emperor Daxi Huai. He told her to get rid of the informer, including … the King of Swallow!

An Zaiyan"s heart immediately lit up … That"s right, not long after his accident, the Duke of Yan died. Only then did Empress Dowager Su send someone to fetch him back.

The more Li Yannian spoke, the more excited he became. He stood up, trembling, and said, ""That s.l.u.t actually wants to harm the King!""

She colluded with people from the Da Xi with the intention of destroying our Yan Kingdom … As a subject of the Great Yan Dynasty, I cannot sit idly by and do nothing.

However, I know that I will not be able to meet the King of Swallow.

At that time, the palace had announced that the Swallow King was seriously ill, and the imperial court affairs were left to the empress and the Prime Minister Zhuge Yan.

""My position is too low to enter the Heavenly Temple.""

""Although Zhuge Yan"s authority was almost nullified at that time, she was still a person of great virtue and prestige.""

And among all the civil and military officials in the kingdom, he was the only one who could enter the palace to meet the King of Yan at any time.

""Therefore, I told this to Zhuge Yan.""

An Zhan"s expression changed, ""So … Zhuge Yan died a few days ago.""

Li Yinian nodded, his eyes filled with pain. ""I was the one who killed the prime minister, I … after I told the prime minister about this, he entered the palace the next day.""

But at that time, the Duke of Yan was surrounded by the empress dowager, so it wouldn"t be easy for him to tell her the news.

""Zhuge Yan asked me to seal the letter and send it back to the Embroidery Palace, because she couldn"t hide the matter of the inn.""

""At that time, I had no choice but to seal the book and personally send it to the brocade palace.

""Because the letter seemed to be intact, the Empress Mother did not seem to be anything unusual at the time.""

When Li Yannian said this, his body suddenly seemed to have lost all his strength and he sat on the chair, ""But who knows, Duke Yan still wasn"t able to protect himself … The day after Zhuge Yan entered the palace, Duke Yan pa.s.sed away.""

Li Yannian"s face was filled with grief and indignation. That sort of rage was enough to set the sky on fire.

""That s.l.u.t killed the King just like that.""

By the time of the dispute, the whole thing must have been clear to him.

Chen Chong wanted to kill him, but he didn"t dare to do so within the Great Xi. That was why he had deliberately asked the Holy Emperor to send him to the Yan Kingdom.

After arriving at the Yan Kingdom, he immediately sent someone to send back a message saying that he was in danger.

At that time, the Saint King had been preparing for a major event. He could not send his clone over, so he immediately informed An Zaihai.

This was because the Sacred Emperor knew that within the imperial court, the relationship between An Zaiyue and Chen Zhongcun was the best. If An Zaiyue went, An Zaiyue would definitely do his best.

All of this was linked together … Now, the Yan Emperor, Su Qing, wanted to remove all of the loops in the country of Yan.

King Yan was the biggest and Zhuge Yan was the smallest.