C20 Before They Attacked

While Ding Yuan's family was immersed in happiness for a month, something happened in the imperial court.

On this day, Ling Emperor suddenly issued a decree on a whim, ordering his officials to denounce Feudal Provincial and the county governor as harming the commoners, according to the popular ballads. Both Grand Commandant and Sikong Wu were among the three officials, but they had long ago turned to powerful eunuchs and accepted bribes. Although the eunuchs and guests who served as Feudal Provincial and the county governor were corrupt, infamous and unscrupulous, they did not dare to ask anything of them.

As a result, the subordinates of these officials and the commoners under their jurisdiction went to the entrance of the Luoyang Palace to complain for them. Situ Yang Ci wrote back, "This time, the Public Emissary's actions were mostly to cover up their own private parties. They were the so-called evil birds that were set free and the phoenix was imprisoned." Ling Emperor blamed Xu and Wu for this, and named all the officials who had been called in to question for so-called ballads as the prime minister.

One month later, Ding Xing and Dink came back. Unexpectedly, the two of them didn't have the slightest bit of joy at Ding Qi's return. Instead, they showed a very annoying expression and didn't have the slightest bit of good impression of Yang Feng. The next day, under Yang Feng's pleading, Mrs. Ding finally told him that Ding Xing, Ding Ke, and Sun Tie were half-brothers and that their mother had died a long time ago. Not only were they not respectful towards Yang Feng, but they also didn't dare to be too presumptuous in front of Ding Yuan.

During this month, Yang Feng could be considered to be very happy. He didn't expect that he would have to put in so much effort to enter the Liu Steel Manor only to discover that Ding Yuan's wife was actually his aunt. This way, he would be treated even more highly than Lv Bu in front of Ding Yuan.

However, there was one thing that gave Yang Feng a headache, and that was, Ding Qi kept pestering Yang Feng to cure him of the poison in his body. Yang Feng was his sister-in-law, which was beyond Ding Qi's expectation. However, it made Ding Qi extremely happy. Since there was such a relationship, Yang Feng would definitely cure him of the poison.

Ever since the two of them had arrived at Wu Steel Manor, Yang Feng and Ding Qi had been together every day. Because of Ding Yuan's arrangement, Yang Feng was in charge of teaching Liu Tie martial arts, and the third young master of Lord Feudal Provincial, Lord Feudal Provincial, knew martial arts, how could he not know martial arts. If this was known, Ding Yuan's face would be very ugly, so he handed the task to Yang Feng.

Ding Qi was used to idling around outside. Learning martial arts was a difficult task, and Ding Qi couldn't take this kind of pain, not to mention that the best age to practice martial arts was long past. Ding Qi was just afraid of the poison on his body, so he had to pretend that he wasn't there. However, half a month had passed and Yang Feng never mentioned helping Ding Qi detoxify the poison, which made Ding Qi a little impatient. Thus, he went to Yang Feng in private and begged him to detoxify the poison for him.

Yang Feng's heart was also extremely conflicted. If Wu Tie detoxified the poison, then if he harbored resentment towards himself and told Ding Yuan and his wife about this matter, then all his plans would be in vain. It would be even more difficult to have a chance to come out in the future. However, he was now an aunt and brother to Ding Qi. If he didn't get the antidote, then it would be a bit unreasonable and cause Ding Qi to misunderstand him.

Therefore, Yang Feng used the antidote to be difficult to make and needed a lot of rare herbs. Those herbs basically stayed in the village, and after collecting the herbs, he would temporarily help Ding Qi to make the antidote. At the same time, he pretended to send someone to the Taihang Mountains to get the herbs, causing Ding Qi to temporarily stop.

In order to prevent Ding Qi from finding out that Wu Liang had coaxed him to come back and pester him, Yang Feng would drag Lv Bu to practice every day to avoid the harassment from Ding Qi. At the beginning, Yang Feng could only perform 80 rounds under Lv Bu, and after 10 days, he would be able to perform more than 100 rounds. One month later, if Lv Bu wanted to win against Lv Bu, it would have to be at least 300 moves away.

Lv Bu was secretly surprised by the rapid improvement of his martial arts skills. One month later, when Yang Feng was pestering Lv Bu again, Lv Bu used all kinds of excuses to shirk his responsibility and didn't dare to continue practicing with Yang Feng. Yang Feng understood Lv Bu's sudden change, so he didn't say anything. However, he couldn't force Lv Bu to practice martial arts with him. Having lost Lv Bu's sparring partner, Yang Feng was no longer interested. Therefore, he stopped practicing and wholeheartedly taught Ding Qi martial arts.

Right at this moment, something happened, causing the Ding family to fall into a huge panic.

The situation was as such. The strife between the Han and Liu dynasties had been going on for a long time, and it was naturally no different from the Liu dynasties. Moreover, it was extremely fierce. As Ling Emperor had pampered his eunuchs, he was especially wary of the outsiders. As a result, the imperial court did not have any interference from the outsiders in the dispute. Only the eunuchs and the Qing Liu Group were involved.

Ding Yuan had always been an official who hated evil like an enemy. He looked down on those eunuchs who had caused chaos and chaos throughout the imperial court. He had always been a core member of the Pursuit Sect and Situ Yang Ci's right-hand man. In order to suppress the Qingliu Group, Zhang Guan had to overthrow Yang Ci. In order to overthrow Yang Ci, he had to go to his claws first. Therefore, Ding Yuan became the first target of Zhang Jean's attacks. After more than two years, Zhang Yang had finally come up with a reason. However, the Clear Stream Sect people protected Ding Yuan, and in the end, Ling Emperor took a compromise and sent Ding Yuan to a poor and remote place, where he would often fight against people from low cultivation. This was one of the reasons why Ding Yuan came to Bing Zhou as Feudal Provincial. Although Ding Yuan was no longer in Luoyang, Zhang Yang and the rest would not let him go easily. They sent out a large number of spies, asking about Ding Yuan's situation, and prepared to catch Ding Yuan's weakness and topple him in one fell swoop.

However, Ding Yuan, as an upright person, after coming to Bing Zhou, did many good deeds for the citizens and his reputation was very good. A few years had passed, but Zhang Liang still could not get any information from Ding Yuan. Just when Zhang Lian and the rest were preparing to give up and continue attacking Yang Ci, Zhang Nan reported the return of Ding Qi and Yang Feng to Zhang Wei.

Zhang was overjoyed. This was an excellent opportunity. Ding Yuan's son and Lady Ding Yuan's nephew had actually become a bandit and had even killed thousands of soldiers. Gathering a crowd to revolt against the imperial government was a great crime of exterminating nine clans. In front of him, there were rebuttal voices from all four seas. What Ling Emperor loathed the most were the people who rebelled.

Zhang Jean had planted many spies in the Bing Zhou, so Ding Yuan naturally had many eyes and ears in the Luoyang. Before Zhang Jean could find sufficient evidence, Ding Yuan had already received a secret letter from Sun Steel Yang Ci, which warned Ding Yuan to be wary of Zhang Jean making a big fuss over this matter. Zhou Steel suggested that Ding Yuan bring Ding Qi and Yang Feng to the capital before Zhang Jean launched an attack, and report the whole matter to the Emperor.

Ding Qi was scared to death when this happened. After ten years of wandering, he finally got home, and not only were his clothes beautiful, but the maidservants beside him were also more beautiful than the other. Although they were not as gentle and delicate as the women in Jiangnan, they were still limpid, and their voices were much louder than the women in Jiangnan.

Ding Qi had just tasted the taste of a blissful life, so naturally, he didn't want to die. Furthermore, Ding Qi had never been a bandit. Ding Qi did not even know about the matter of his Officer Army being defeated that year. If it wasn't because of Yang Feng's lies, how would he have gotten involved in this matter?

No matter what, the poison and the head-slaying poison were still fatal, and it would take at least three months for him to die from the poison. Then, he would have three months to enjoy fine wine, delicious food, and beautiful women. If he was escorted to the capital for execution, he would not even have three months. Wine and beauties would immediately leave him.

Who Yang Feng was, he could naturally guess Ding Qi's thoughts. If Ding Qi told Ding Yuan the truth, regardless of whether Ding Yuan believed it or not, he would definitely protect Ding Qi and let Yang Feng bear the consequences of his crimes. Since ancient times, if Ding Yuan decided to be the boss, Mrs. Ding had nothing to say. Furthermore, compared to her nephew, her son held a higher position in her heart.

Yang Feng knew that it would be difficult to block Ding Qi's mouth at this time, unless he killed him. However, that would be too risky, and it would also expose him. Thus, Yang Feng took a simple step forward and said to Ding Yuan and Ding Qi, "Uncle, aunt, don't worry, master has already calculated Feng's fate. Although there will be a calamity, but his life will not be in danger. When the time comes, something will definitely happen to resolve this dilemma."

Of course, Zuo Ci's name was known to Ding Yuan. Seeing Yang Feng's indifferent expression, Ding Yuan naturally believed Zuo Ci's words. Since both Yang Feng and his son would not be in danger, Wu steeled his heart.

Even so, Ding Yuan was still worried that the matter of Yang Feng's daughter, Wang Mian, being robbed and taken up the mountain by Yang Feng, would be discovered by Zhang Yong's henchmen. This matter must not be let Zhang Gang know, otherwise Ding Qi and Yang Feng would not be able to escape death and would possibly implicate their families. As a result, Ding Yuan killed all those who knew about this, other than Lv Bu, Cao Wei, and Hao Meng. More than a thousand people were killed.

Lu Li accepted Ding Yuan as his foster father, after all, it was only for the sake of his future meteoric rise, so his heart had always had his own little Jiujiu. This time, Lv Bu actually leaked the news about Ding Qi and Yang Feng stealing Wang Mian to Zhang Jean in order to get Zhang Jean to promote him in front of Ling Emperor. This time, Lv Bu actually leaked the news about Ding Qi and Yang Feng stealing Wang Mian to Zhang Jean in order to get Zhang Tie in order to get Zhang Tie to promote him in front of Ling Emperor.

Mrs. Yan was reluctant to send Ding Qi and Yang Feng to the capital, but Mrs. Yan knew the stakes involved. She bid farewell with tears in her eyes and watched Ding Yuan and the other two enter the capital.