Lin Xu was tied up and handed over to the court for disposal. Tan Chaoli turned around and walked out, heading straight to Lin Ge Lao's yard.

But Lin Ge Lao's courtyard had already become noisy, and her trusted maid hurriedly came to report it.

"The old master's secret guards have all appeared and are mobilizing people into the mansion!"

...

Mr. Lin Ge felt something was wrong when he felt abdominal pain at night. He resisted the pain and got up, when he heard the secret guards coming to report, It was said that the capital was in chaos.

Lin Ge was shocked. The capital was in chaos, but no one from the Cheng family stationed in the capital came to report to him.

Could it be that Cheng Luo has rebelled?

He thought it must be impossible, so the only possibility was that Cheng Luo was controlled!

Elder Lin Ge endured the abdominal pain and asked the guards to find someone, but he found that the guards on duty tonight were all unconscious.

Drops of cold sweat overflowed from his forehead. There was a spy in his house!

But after all, he was a veteran minister who had been immersed in the court for many years. He immediately thought of his son Lin Xu who had abdominal pain at noon, and his daughter-in-law personally cooked the soothing soup and medicine for the father and son.

He had never doubted his daughter-in-law before, but Tan Chaoli’s surname was Tan!

Lin Ge Laoqiang kept silent and asked the secret guards to leave the house immediately from the secret passage and call all the other Lin House guards over.

About a quarter of an hour later, just when Lin Ge was about to faint from pain, the secret guards arrived one after another!

Mr. Lin Ge must leave this place.

As long as the prince has not entered the imperial city, he can order the imperial troops to fight against the prince on the grounds of causing trouble in the East Palace and intending to rebel...

All of this must start from leaving his own mansion.

It's just that the mansion has been under the control of Tan Chaoli for more than ten years. How could he have imagined that the eldest lady of the Tan family, who he specifically asked to be the wife of his son, would not work for the Lin family wholeheartedly after the Tan family was defeated? He even rebelled against him!

But now it's too late to worry about all this. As long as he can return to the palace and defeat the prince, there will be many opportunities to clean up the family in the future.

However, when he asked the secret guards to carry him and escort him away, Tan Chaoli appeared in front of the door.

She only had a few maids and women with her. Mr. Lin Ge was not afraid at all, but sneered.

"How capable do you think you are? Can you manage me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the secret guards that Mr. Lin Ge had raised for many years suddenly appeared in front of the door, as if falling from the sky. There were nearly a hundred of them.

Not to mention taking Mr. Lin Ge out of the Lin Mansion, it is not impossible for these people to break out of the capital.

However, when the secret guards appeared one after another with overwhelming momentum, Mr. Lin Ge saw that his daughter-in-law Tan Chaoli was not afraid at all, and instead snorted.

"How powerful do you think you are? Can you turn the clouds around?"

She asked suddenly, and Lin Ge's eyelids jumped up.

At this moment, eardrum-shattering footsteps suddenly came from all directions in the Lin Mansion. Those footsteps gathered together thinking about the Lin Mansion. In just a few breaths, the dark surroundings of the Lin Mansion became completely bright.

He heard Hearing Tan Chaoli's laughter, "I have been diligently in charge of the Lin family for more than ten years. Tonight, I no longer want to guard it. At this moment, all the doors are wide open. None of you can even think of escaping!"

As the words fell, there were many footsteps. The sound and the dazzling torch light have completely poured in from all directions.

Instead, the hundreds of secret guards around him became isolated islands. Among the thousands of officers and soldiers who came, they were pitifully few and far between.

Mr. Lin Ge opened his eyes wide and saw a man holding a sword and walking forward with countless men and horses densely packed behind him.

The torch illuminated his young face, and for a moment Lin Ge seemed to see the young man's father, grandfather, and even his great-grandfather who was his teacher.

At that time, the Changming Lin family was just an ordinary family under the glory of the Qingkan Tan family...

Lin Ge was in a trance, but Tan Ting stepped forward with determination.

He looked at the prosperous Mr. Lin Ge and said lightly.

"The Cheng family has been captured, the Chen family and the Li family have surrendered. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived at the gate of the imperial city. If there is anything else that Mr. Lin wants to do, he can clearly inform Tan."

As soon as the words fell, Mr. Lin Ge grew old. , a pair of eyes that had been shrewd for decades suddenly lost their luster and became cloudy.

The tide is over!

Everything he had worked hard for decades and spent most of his life trying to build for future generations fell apart tonight.

"How... did you do it?" He was stunned.

Tan Ting looked at the old man in front of him with an extremely dull expression.

"The prince is a benevolent king, and not all aristocratic families are as greedy and cruel as your four major families. The imperial examination is a bright road for people all over the world, and no one can take it away. More importantly, no one is born inferior to anyone else. How can you possibly succeed in your delusional attempt to distinguish people by their surnames?"

Not to mention that they have killed so many loyal people over the years, and everyone has a debt of reluctance in their hearts. They discovered the intentions of the four major families early, and the prince was a benevolent king. He was destined by destiny and the direction of all the people. He returned to the capital and suppressed the four families without any difficulty.

At this point, it was useless for Mr. Lin Ge to resist pointlessly. He looked at his son who was being pushed over by Tan Chaoli, looked at the huge Lin family mansion, recalled the past scene, and seemed to also see the future. The ruins of the ruins...

He was defeated, he was completely defeated.

He saw Tan Ting's face from Tan Chaoli's body again.

Tan Ting met his gaze.

The young eldest son of the Tan family had resolute eyes, and was surrounded by the generosity and righteousness inherent in the Tan family. He stood in the firelight under the boundless night, as if the light of thousands of torches were all bright because of him.

Abdominal pain came one after another. Lin Ge's energy and blood surged, and he vomited a mouthful of blood on the bluestone board.

The Qingkantan clan, the leader of the clan that he tried his best to suppress, finally stepped on him.

He hissed.

"The Tan family won, the common people won, you all won, only I...lost..."

As he finished speaking, he bent his knees and fell to the bluestone floor, fainting. On the ground,

no one came forward to help.

The surroundings became quiet for a few hours, and only Lin Xu made a trance-like cry-laughing sound.

Tan Ting watched all this quietly and looked up at the starry sky.

The moonlight is thin tonight, but the stars are shining brightly, and the Milky Way seems to be galloping and roaring in the quiet and lively night sky.

Tens of thousands of bright night stars flicker or shine, silently watching everything in the world.

Tan Ting raised his head but closed his eyes.

My father, father-in-law, and all the loyal ancestors who were harmed by the four major families, please close your eyes at this moment.

...

No one stopped him, and the prince returned to the palace smoothly.

All the members of the four major families were arrested. Tan Ting tied up Lin and his son with his own hands and sent them to Dali Temple Prison.

All the chaos receded quickly like an ebbing tide.

Since the prince's return to Beijing went smoothly, the early morning in the capital was as peaceful as ever. If it weren't for the fact that one after another criminals were arrested and taken to the streets, it would not be much different from the past.

Tan Ting came out of Dali Temple and was about to return home when he was invited into the palace by people from the East Palace.

Everything was settled, but his wife was kicked out of the house by the traitor and was still living outside. He had not had time to take her home.

It's just that he has made great achievements this time. The prince specially invited him to enter the palace. How could Tan Ting resist and disobey the order?

But as soon as he arrived at the East Palace, he saw Gu Yansheng walking all the way out of the palace. The man's steps were light and fast.

Under the tall, deep red palace walls, Tan Ting felt something bad as soon as he saw his brisk steps.

As soon as the two approached, Tan Ting couldn't help but ask him.

"Where are you going, Master Taoist?"

Gu Yansheng's smile did not diminish and he saluted politely, but his words were not polite at all.

"Yizhen sent me the news, so of course I'm going to look for her outside the palace."

After he finished speaking, he made an elegant gesture, "Master Tan, please do as you please."

After saying that, his handsome posture didn't linger too much, and he quickly Walked out of the palace.

Tan Ting almost didn't come up in one breath.

His wife left him a letter of departure and left. He didn't know where she was at this time, but she actually sent a letter to Gu Yansheng, and he couldn't leave the palace at all.

The corners of Tan Ting's mouth were pressed into a downward arc. He pursed his lips and breathed for a long time, then called Zhengji and ordered him to leave the palace immediately.

"Go take Madam home!"

Outside the palace.

As soon as the gate of the capital opened, Xiang Yi and Xiang Yu hurried into the city.

Xiang Yi has already learned from the guards of the Tan family where Shen Yan and Ning Ning are. Now that the Lin clan has collapsed and Lin Xu has been captured, Xiang Yi just wants to find Shen Yan and Ning Ning as soon as possible to prevent their mother and daughter from returning. Involved in Lin's matter.

...

Lin Xu’s secret courtyard.

When the little girl heard the noise outside the house all night, she knew something was wrong, and Lin Xu, who had promised to come early this morning, did not come either.

She discussed with Shen Yan, "Mom, has something changed in the capital? I see that the servants are also panicking. Should we wait for an opportunity to escape?"

Shen Yan also noticed something was wrong, but they were tightly detained by Lin Xu's people. The rules are even stricter than at the hot spring villa. How can I get out?

The mother and daughter were eager to escape and immediately started discussing in low voices.

Then, Shen Yan asked people to go outside to check what happened in Beijing last night.

Normally, these people would not leave, but there was too much noise last night, and no one from the Lin family has been here since.

Shen Yan reprimanded several guards before sending them out.

She pretended to be taking a nap with Ning Ning in the room, waiting for an opportunity to escape through the back door, knocking down the two guards.

But how could the guards of the Lin Mansion be restrained so easily by the two women? As soon as they knocked down the first man, the second man heard the noise and ran over.

"Madam! Girl! The master has told you not to leave!"

As soon as he shouted, there were footsteps nearby.

Shen Yan no longer wanted his daughter to be locked up here, so he stepped forward and grabbed the guard guard, "Ning Ning! Run! Run out!"

Seeing this, the little girl knew that she would be able to find a way out if she managed to get out alone. When he came back to save people, he immediately unbolted the door bolt, opened the door and ran outside.

However, the guard had some skills and restrained Shen Yan with one hand, and stepped forward to block Ning Ning's path.

The little girl gasped in shock.

At this moment, the door was suddenly kicked open.

The edge of the door rubbed against the little girl's side and opened wide, and the draft suddenly hit her face.

The wind carried the faint scent of a familiar person. She looked up and saw a thin and handsome young man appearing in front of her as if falling from the sky.

"Ningning..."

"Ayu!"

Just when the guard was about to grab the little girl, a young man appeared from the sky and kicked the man's hand away.

The young man opened his arms and hugged the frightened little girl tightly into his arms.

The familiar young man's breath completely surrounded her in an instant.

Over the past few days, she has changed her identity, escaped from other places, and been taken back to the capital and locked up in a strange house... The uneasy mood is always entangled in the little girl's heart.

She doesn't know what her future will be like, who she will be with, and what kind of life she will live.

Everything was so strange and unsettling to her.

But these uneasiness suddenly disappeared the moment he was held tightly in the boy's arms.

She couldn't help but cling to his arms and shed tears.

Xiang Yu looked at the person with tears falling down in his arms, feeling anxious and distressed. He raised his hand to wipe away her tears.

Just as he raised his hand, he heard the footsteps of his sister Xiang Yi coming to the side.

Both of them realized something, and when they saw each other's eyes, they both stopped.

Ning Ning turned away instantly, and Xiang Yu could only let go of his hand. The two of them awkwardly remained two steps away from each other.

They are no longer as close as before, and can no longer be as carefree as before.

There was a hint of early autumn loneliness in the draft.

But the scene between them parting also fell into Xiang Yi's eyes.

But this was not the time to say such a thing. The guards left by Lin Xu gathered around.

Xiang Yi repeatedly asked the two of them to leave quickly. Fortunately, Gu Yansheng had enough manpower, and the Lin Mansion's guards wanted to force Shen Yan and Ning Ning to stay, which was no longer possible.

Gu Yansheng's people quickly took control of the entire courtyard.

Both Shen Yan and Ning Ning were fine, but when Xiang Yi mentioned the Lin family's rebellion and that Lin Xu and his son had been arrested, Shen Yan couldn't help but cover his mouth.

No wonder Lin Xu didn't show up again today. It turned out that it was impossible for him to show up like this again...

The identities of mother and daughter were sensitive, so Gu Yansheng suggested not to stay too long in the capital and leave the capital as soon as possible.

He has a village outside Beijing where he can temporarily accommodate people.

Unexpectedly, when leaving, Dali Temple pressed the prisoners to the palace, and sitting in the prison car were none other than Mr. Lin Ge and Lin Xu and his son.

Lin Xu saw Shen Yan in the crowd at a glance, and also saw his daughter beside him.

"Yanyan, Ningning..." He became excited, but did not dare to speak out, and murmured on his lips.

How cool and handsome he was before, now he is in such a miserable state.

For more than ten years, Shen Yan was trapped by his side and was not allowed to leave. She thought about escaping from this man every day.

But now, when she saw him sitting in the prison car, unable to trap her like before, she shed inexplicable tears.

Seeing her burst into tears, Lin Xu felt a sharp pain in his heart in the prison car.

He was wrong after all.

Back then, he met Shen Yan during a youth study tour.

He didn't care about the aristocratic family, he only remembered Shen Yan at that time, and the painting with a wonderful pen came into his heart. From then on, he vowed to only love her and marry her as his wife in this life.

But his father despised the commoner girl he brought back and told him to either marry Miss Tan and abandon Shen Yan, or to leave the Lin family and become a commoner without a noble surname.

Under such a hellish choice, he was lost.

This loss lasted for nearly twenty years...

If only at that time, he could act like a real man, abandon his identity as the heir of the Lin family, and fly away with Yan Yan, how great it would be!

Unfortunately, nothing will happen again.

He harmed Yanyan and delayed Tan Chaoli. He followed his father's words and became his father's executioner. In the end, he had nothing left.

He knew that he deserved to die, but he looked embarrassed and ugly, and he never wanted to be seen by Yanyan and his daughter again.

He took one last look at the mother and daughter in the crowd and turned away.

But in the next breath, he heard the hoarse voice of the woman he had been trapped in all his life in the noisy crowd.

"Lin Xu, pleading guilty and obeying the law is the right path."

Tears suddenly fell from his eyes.

Lin Xu didn't look back and answered her.

"Okay!"

...

The prison car pressing Lin and his son creaked away.

Shen Yan wiped away the tears that couldn't help rolling down and turned around to see her daughter.

The little girl's feelings towards her biological father were very dull and complicated, but with the end of it all, it no longer mattered.

Shen Yan wants her daughter to be named Xiang and become a clean member of the Xiang family.

But when she saw the young man whose eyes couldn't help but fall on her daughter, she also remembered that her daughter had often talked about the young man before, but then suddenly stopped talking about it one day later.

Shen Yan had some other thoughts.

She called Xiang Yi.

"Do you have anything to tell me?" Xiang Yi asked her.

Shen Yan's eyes fell on his daughter.

"Yizhen, I think Ning Ning can resume her identity openly in the future. She has nothing to do with anyone else. She is just my daughter. Let her last name be Shen."

Shen Ning.

Xiang Yi vaguely understood something in Shen Yan's eyes, and she nodded immediately.

"Okay, Shen Ning is really a very nice name!"

...

Also escorted in the prison car were Cheng Luo and other people who held important positions in this chaos.

And more people who were attached to the four major families, and those who also wanted to use this for their own personal gain, were also wiped out. The streets were full of officials, looking for the criminals who once held high positions in the imperial court but murdered the people. .

These people were taken away, and officials like Xiang Zhiyuan who were persecuted by them in those years would be rehabilitated and regain their innocence.

Xiang Yi's heart was filled with waves.

My father has a spirit in heaven, he must have seen it!