In the end, Liu Pan wasn't able to outplay Huang She and was beheaded by Huang She's men in his own residence. His head was hung on the city gate tower outside Xiangyang City.
In a single night, Jingzhou had a new master. Liu Biao was also declared dead from his injuries. The murderer who killed Liu Biao was Liu Pan.
Under Huang She's leadership, Young Master Liu Zong ascended the throne and inherited the position of Jingzhou's Governor.
The Huang Clan's troops also moved from the salt pond to Xiangyang City.
Huang She returned to the residence in high spirits. After looking around, he pulled a servant aside and asked, "Where's my father?" Huang She's father, Huang Zu, didn't appear at Young Master Liu Zong's enthronement ceremony today.
Therefore, the first thing Huang She asked after returning to the residence was Huang Zu.
"Old Master, Old Master, he's making a sacrifice to the spirit!" The servant said to Huang She.
"Sacrifice to the spirit?" Huang She frowned. "Bring me there!" The place where the sacrifice to the spirit was located was none other than the Huang Clan's mourning hall. The Huang Clan's ancestors were inside.
Huang She strode towards the mourning hall and pushed open the door. As expected, his father was kneeling in front of the spirit tablet.
"You're here!" Huang Zu didn't turn around. Instead, he spoke to the person outside the door as if he knew who it was.
"Father!" Huang She also shouted to Huang Zu.
"How was the Provincial Governor's Estate today?" Huang Zu asked Huang She.
Hearing his father's question, Huang She immediately beamed with joy. He recounted everything that happened at the Provincial Governor's Estate to Huang Zu. None of the officials in Jingzhou dared to disobey. Those who disobeyed were all killed by Huang She, leaving only those who flattered Huang She. How could Huang She not be happy with the glory of having thousands of people kneeling on the ground?
Huang She had always wanted to gain Huang Zu's approval. In the past, he was incompetent, but he was arrogant and always did things that went against his wishes. During the chaos in Jiang Xia, Huang She forcefully handed victory to the King Of Shu, Liu Mang. After that, he made a fool of himself again and again. In the end, Huang Zu couldn't stand it anymore and directly sent him to Xiangyang, making him a small civil official in Xiangyang.
Therefore, Huang She had always wanted to gain the approval of his father, Huang Zu. Now, the opportunity had come. In the past, Huang Zu had always said that Huang She was a good-for-nothing. But now, he could be said to be above everyone in the world. Even the young master, Liu Zong, was very dependent on Huang She.
It could be said that Jingzhou no longer believed in the Liu family, but in the Huang family.
Huang She originally wanted to see a kind of joy in his father's eyes, a kind of recognition and relief. However, Huang She didn't see it. Instead, he saw a kind of indifference.
"Kneel!" Huang Zu said coldly to his son, Huang She, who was beside him.
"Ah ah!" Huang She was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand what his father wanted to do.
"I told you to kneel. Didn't you hear me?" Huang Zu repeated in an even colder tone.
"Father?" Although Huang She didn't understand, Huang She had to kneel because of Huang Zu's accumulated power. However, when Huang She saw the memorial tablet in front of him, he suddenly stood up.
Or rather, he jumped up because the name written on the memorial tablet was none other than the late Governor of Jingzhou, Liu Biao.
"Father, you want me to kneel to him?" Huang She widened his eyes and pointed at the memorial tablet in front of him. He couldn't believe it. "Father, he's already dead. He's already dead. He died in my hands. He died in your son's hands. Now you want me to kneel to him?"
"Kneel! I told you to kneel. Did you hear me? " Huang Zu angrily glared at his son as he roared.
"Regicide and treason. How can I, Huang Zu, have a son like you?" Huang Zu glared at his son.
"I regicide? That Liu Biao wanted to kill me? Liu Biao and his son repeatedly pointed at your son's face and scolded him. Our Huang family is just a dog of the Liu family. If he wants to kill us, he can kill us. If he doesn't want us, he can't! He forced me to do this. Everything was forced by him. If I didn't resist, if I didn't kill him, then the one who would die would be me, your son, and the one who would be destroyed would be the Huang Family, the Huang Family! Huang She roared at his father.
So much so that he even slapped him across the face.
"Pa!" Huang She's face was slapped.
"Father, you hit me?" Huang She looked at his father in disbelief. He covered his face and said.
Looking at the red palm print on his son's face, Huang Zu's heart couldn't help but soften. He was full of anger just now, so the slap was basically with all his strength. Suddenly, Huang She's face turned red. Huang Zu felt very distressed.
However, he didn't have time to show his tenderness to his son. On the other side, Huang She was rebellious.
"Good, good, good! Be loyal to your lord. You don't have the Huang family in your heart at all. You don't have me, your son. Just treat me as if I'm dead! " Huang She directly refused and slammed the door. "Look after the old master!" His tone was cold.
"Sigh!" Looking at Huang She slamming the door and leaving, Huang Zu's face was full of bitterness. He shook his head and his face was full of vicissitudes.
Save the Huang family? Huang Zu shook his head. He didn't deny that some of the things his son did were right, but some of them were wrong.
Liu Biao exterminated the Huang family? Huang Zu also wouldn't sit still and wait for death, but he wouldn't jump out directly.
As the saying goes, the gun shoots the bird that sticks out. The tallest tree in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. According to Huang Zu's idea, if Liu Pan accepted the Huang Family, then the Huang Family would remain as a family under Liu Pan's rule. Some benefits could be given away as long as the Huang Family remained unchanged.
If Liu Pan couldn't keep the Huang family, Huang Zu wouldn't sit still and wait for death. One of the options was to rely on the Cai family and the Feng family. If the three major families of Jing Province were to unite, unless Liu Pan wanted Jing Province to be completely in turmoil, he wouldn't be stupid enough to take action against the three families.
However, he forgot to inform his son. In other words, he neglected to discipline his son. Therefore, Huang She couldn't help but take action. Regicide was really not a good thing.
Although on the surface, it was said that Liu Biao was the traitor who killed the Governor of Jing Province, Liu Biao, anyone with a discerning eye knew that it wasn't Liu Pan at all. Liu Pan wasn't stupid. Liu Biao had already expressed that he wanted to pass the throne to Liu Pan. If Liu Pan took action at this time, wouldn't he be looking for trouble?
Therefore, everyone knew that the person who killed the Emperor was Liu Pan.
On the surface, Liu Pan controlled Jing Province and was incomparably glorious. However, there was a very serious disaster inside. Although the Huang family was a major family in Jing Province, how much land could they control?
Just relying on the 50,000 troops of the Huang family? In Jingnan, Liu Pan's remnants were still there. If things went wrong, it would lead to a war. On the side, the Cai family and the Lao family's attitude was also unclear.
Although the Cai Family's young nephew, Liu Zong, inherited the throne, the attitudes of these two families were really unclear. If the Cai Family were to turn around and support the young master Liu Zong together with the Lao Family, then the Huang Family would be giving the dowry to someone else. They would also have to bear the name of regicide.
This didn't include whether Liu Zong would spread the news. If Liu Zong spread the news and knew that his father was killed by Huang She, then the Huang family wouldn't be able to eat good fruit.
Now that the title of regicide was given, the Huang family went from the back to the front. If things went wrong, the Huang family would be destroyed. Therefore, Huang Zu was angry. If he knew that Huang She came to kill the Emperor, then he, Huang Zu, would never have brought his troops here.
Originally, he thought that Liu Pan wanted to kill Huang She. He was worried about his son so he brought the troops here. However, the situation completely went out of control and became regicide.
Huang Zu was worried about his son.
"Milord, should we stop the young master?" Just when Huang Zu was sighing, a black-clothed man came out from the shadows and said to Huang Zu.
Huang She didn't notice this person when he entered the room.
"Forget it! Let him go! " Huang Zu sighed bitterly and shook his head. If Huang She decided to do something, then let him go. Besides, it was too late to stop Huang She now.
"You, go and prepare two gifts. Send one to Nanyang!" Huang Zu said to his subordinate. The gifts sent to Nanyang were naturally for the Kuai family and the Cai family. Although Cai Mao and Kuai Yue had fought with Huang Zu for many years, the three of them had a tacit understanding. Therefore, Huang Zu hoped that the two sly old foxes would take care of Huang She on account of their past relationship. Even if they didn't kill him in the end, it would be fine.
"There's another gift!" Huang Zu hesitated. His face showed that he was struggling. He gritted his teeth and said, "Send him to Mianyang!"
"Mianyang?" Even the subordinates behind Huang Zu were stunned for a moment.
"Milord, are you really going to send it?" He naturally knew what kind of place Mianyang was. Although it was a small city in Jingzhou, there was a family that was different. They also had the surname Huang, but this Huang was called Wenhuang.
Huang Zu represented Wenhuang, but he knew that whether it was Wenhuang or Wenhuang, they were actually a family.
The head of Wenhuang was called Huang Chengyan. He was a famous person in Jingzhou. Pang Degong and Master Shui Jing were good friends, so he had a lot of prestige in Jingzhou. However, he had another identity that was unknown. He was Huang Zu's younger brother.
Back then, the two brothers had different connections, so there was a gap between them. Later on, Huang Zu killed Mi Heng, so their relationship was at a freezing point. Huang Zu thought that Huang Chengyan was too pedantic, while Huang Chengyan thought that Huang Zu was a brute.
The two of them quarreled until their faces turned red. They even said that they didn't want to see each other for the rest of their lives.
But now, Huang Zu was actually willing to put aside his pride to send a gift to his younger brother? This was no less than kneeling down and begging for help.
That was why Huang Zu's subordinates were shocked.
"Forget it! No need! " Huang Zu said to his subordinates.
"Phew!" Huang Zu's subordinates heaved a sigh of relief. Because Huang Zu was humiliated, as his left hand, he didn't feel good either. As the saying goes, the servant of the master must die.
However, the following words really shocked him.
"I'll go there myself!" Huang Zu said to his subordinates.
"What! Milord, you have to think carefully. Second Master, he … " Huang Zu's subordinates tried to dissuade him. They hadn't seen each other for decades, and the second master of the Huang family had a strange temper. If things went wrong, Huang Zu would be rejected at the door. That wouldn't look good, and he might even become a joke.
"There's no need to say more. Even if there's a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of me, I still have to go!" Huang Zu shook his head. He had no choice. The Huang family had already reached this point. If he didn't go, the only thing left for the Huang family was destruction.
"But Milord, Second Master!"
"Don't worry!" Huang Zu comforted his subordinates. "At least he's still a member of the Huang family. He won't sit idly by and watch the Huang family be destroyed!" Huang Zu thought of his younger brother. At that time, he was the one who kicked Huang Chengyan out of the family. Huang Chengyan even swore that he would never return to the Huang family in this life. That was how the Huang family came to be.
He didn't have much confidence in going there this time.
But there was no other way! The future of the Huang family, and even Huang She's future, was in Huang Chengyan's hands.
"Second Master gave birth to a good daughter!" Huang Zu couldn't help but be envious. In the past, Huang Zu always thought that Huang Chengyan was disappointing. He only gave birth to a girl and didn't even have a son. After a hundred years, the family line would be cut off. Moreover, the girl was a yellow-haired and dark-skinned girl. At that time, he was ridiculed by Huang Zu. He even sent a congratulatory gift to ridicule him.
But now, it seemed that the daughter that Huang Chengyan married off was the savior of the Huang family.
Zhuge Liang, the son-in-law of the Huang family, was now the Minister of Justice in Yangzhou. He was also very favored by the King Of Shu, Liu Mang.
The crisis in Jingzhou could only be solved by the King Of Shu, Liu Mang. Huang Zu no longer hoped for the Huang family's wealth. Now, he only wanted to protect the Huang family's foundation and the life of his son, Huang She.
"Sigh!" At the side, Huang Zu's subordinate also felt that it was a pity. However, he could only comply with the Patriarch's decision. He cupped his fists towards Huang Zu and retreated. The two gifts needed to be prepared. The gifts for the Cai Family and the Kuang Family must at least be acceptable. After all, these two families were also aristocratic families that shared the same name as the Huang Family.
As for Second Master Huang, he also prepared a gift. As for whether Second Master Huang would accept it or not, it was not up to him to decide.
"Let's hope that everything is not too late!" Huang Zu looked at the bright moon in the sky. He suddenly felt that he was old and tired. After this chapter, he should be able to enjoy life.
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