Chapter 140: The Next Victim (Added for ally “Little Dolphin’s Ling Xiao Chen”)

“My humble servant was ordered to investigate the Sang Po case, and after looking into it, I realized that this case is actually related to King Yu.” Xu Qi’an lamented.

King of Goodwill glanced at him and shook his head with a calm expression, “This king has long been semi-retired, it shouldn’t be an attack on slander, tell me, what’s going on?”

Despite saying so, there was disbelief as well as contempt in his eyes. It was clear that he didn’t believe what Xu Qi’an said.

“More than a year ago, there was a monk named Heng Hui at the Green Dragon Temple who had an affair with a female incense burner, and the two of them made a secret love affair and fled with one of the Green Dragon Temple’s magical artifacts that could conceal their breath.

“Because that woman’s identity is extraordinary, if she didn’t carry a magic weapon to conceal her breath, she wouldn’t be able to escape the capital’s boundaries at all.”

King Yu, who was drinking tea with his head bowed, raised his head violently and stared at Xu Qi’an, dead on.

Xu Qi’an said, “That monk’s name is Heng Hui, King Yu may not know his name, but I think he recognizes the woman, who is your first daughter, County Princess Pingyang.”

Bang!

Honorable King hard to crush the blue and white tea cup, look agitated mixed with hideous, angrily said:” a nonsense, a nonsense, Ping Yang since young know how to be reasonable, how can it be and wild monk elope …. Come on people, come on people, drag this thief down and chop him up for me!”

The guards outside the hall poured in at once, surrounding Xu Qi’an, he was not the least bit panicked, looking at his old father with his teeth and claws, he just felt a little emotional, such news, any father who heard it would have a breakdown of the mind.

And for King Goodwill, it was just an appetizer.

After the guards poured in, King Yu, who had been storming out a moment before, suddenly deflated and waved his hand, allowing the guards to retreat.

“Yes, I am not surprised, before Ping Yang disappeared, I had arranged a marriage for her, but she opposed it with all her might, and had said she had someone she liked.” King of Honor let out a bitter smile:

“How ridiculous, marriage is a matter of parents’ orders and matchmakers’ words, is it not a woman who can make her own decisions? How does she know that others are not deceiving her and have other plans for her.”

While I don’t subscribe to the whole parents’ orders and matchmakers’ words thing, it’s true that free love is incredibly deadly for this day and age; after all, there’s no way to make splitting up a deserved common sense like it was in my day.

Xu Qi’an nodded.

“When I heard this, I became furious and slapped her, and not long after, she disappeared. Must have been abducted by that wild man …. Here’s what I think.

“In the beginning, I hated her with gnashing teeth, hated her for not knowing shame, hated her for disgracing the clan. But the more time passed, the more I missed her, I just wanted her to come back, to return to my side, to call me Father, I don’t care about anything else.”

….. Perhaps, you will never see her again.

From that night’s conversation between Heng Hui and the first son of Uncle Ping Yuan, it was not difficult to hear that Heng Hui was a person who had died once, and if Heng Hui was still like that, what about the County Princess Ping Yang who had eloped with him?

There are only three endings that that woman faces: one, death. Two, being taken over.

The third is a combination of the first two.

“I didn’t come here to reveal King Yu’s scars, nor to inform you of who the man is who eloped with County Princess Pingyang.” Xu Qi’an said.

King Yu’s reality froze, then became agitated, he took three steps to pounce in front of Xu Qi’an, clasping his wrist with one hand and yanking on his collar with the other, “You have news of her? Where is she, where is she!!!”

Xu Qi’an frowned.

“…. This king has lost his temper.” King Yu loosened his hands and took a step back as he straightened his back and suddenly bowed in a deep voice:

“If Lord Xu can help this king find her, this king owes you a huge favor. I will definitely return the favor in the future.”

“I came here, precisely for this matter …. The Pingyuan Burial Mansion extermination case, has Your Highness heard about it.”

“Not yet.” King Honor was a little surprised.

“How is His Majesty’s relationship with Uncle Ping Yuan?” Xu Qi’an asked.

“He is also a member of the nobility, and used to have frequent dealings with them. However, Ping Yuan Bo was ambitious and unwilling to accept the existing power in his hands, and was disliked by the other lords as he frowned upon the civil officials.” Honorable King said.

Xu Qi’an nodded and continued, “I heard that the king almost entered the cabinet?”

King Yu was silent for a moment and said, ”His Majesty did have this idea last year, the cabinet is now Wang Zhenwen’s world, and despite the checks and balances of the other parties and Wei Yuan, it is only barely keeping the balance.

“I have honored nobles behind me and am a member of the clan, so His Majesty wants to support me in the Cabinet and stir up the waters.”

Yuan Jing emperor is very powerful ah, although often ignore the government, not moving to spread the money to lose, but idleness for more than ten years, still maintain a high degree of control over the dynasty, this power skill can be described as pure fire ….. Xu Qi’an asked casually:

“The king is now recuperating in the mansion, who has the most to gain?”

“Chief Minister Wang Zhenwen, and Minister of War Zhang Feng …. Heh, that would have been my position.” King Yu helplessly laughed.

After saying so much, he could hardly hide his fatigue, and Xu Qi’an, knowing the information he wanted to know, got up to take his leave.

The hooves were brisk, the young filly had been ridden first by her second uncle for several years, and now then by her nephew, and despite the different people above her, she was not in the least bit sad or sad, and remained docile and happy.

Xu Qi’an’s mood was not so lighthearted, and according to King Yu’s words, he deduced that the matter of the elopement of County Princess Pingyang and Heng Hui might be a setup in itself.

If I can’t handle you, can’t I handle your daughter?

What tactics can’t a person who plays politics do? This is highly probable.

Heng Hui’s revenge also side-steps this.

“Who could it be, Chief Minister Wang? Minister Zhang? Or both ….. But here’s a question, what does the struggle between the civil officials’ group and the honored group have to do with the Sangpo case, and with the demon race?”

“Besides Emperor Yuanjing, who else knows that something is sealed underneath Sangpo?”

“Not good, Heng Hui’s next target for revenge is either the Chief Minister or the Minister of War.”

Xu Qi’an’s heart sank as he clamped his horse’s belly hard and spurred his horse towards the palace city as fast as he could, and was stopped at the mouth of the palace city.

“Is Lord Wei still in the palace?”

“It’s been gone for about half an hour.” The feathered guards guarding the city replied.

Xu Qi’an immediately turned his horse’s head and left the imperial city all the way, galloping through the spacious streets of the inner city for a long time before finally seeing Wei Yuan’s carriage.

Hearing the sound of horses’ hooves approaching fast behind them, Wei Yuan’s guards swept back alertly, gripping the hilt of their swords obediently.

But after seeing that it was Xu Qi’an, he relaxed his guard again.

“Wei Gong, Wei Gong …. I have something to report.” Xu Qi’an shouted.

Jiang Lunzhong heard Wei Yuan’s voice coming out of the carriage, “Stop the car.”

He instantly reined in his horse and stopped.

Xu Qi’an steered his horse to the window of the car and whispered, “Lord Wei, humble servant has something urgent to report.”

The curtain of the car window lifted, and the old handsome man with profound features and frosty sideburns frowned, “When are you going to change this problem of reporting intermittently?”

After spitting at Xu Qi’an, he asked, “What is it.”

“Heng Hui’s next target will most likely be the Secretary of the Ministry of War, or Chief Minister Wang, if anything happens to these two, you will be in trouble, Duke Wei.” Xu Qi’an said in a deep voice.

…..

Zhang’s house.

Zhang Feng, the Minister of War, returned to his residence in a carriage and asked the housekeeper who greeted him, “Where is Yi’er?”

The butler replied, “It’s not up yet.”

The Minister of War’s face was grim as he said, “Tell him to dress up in a quarter of an hour and meet me in the study.”

The old butler carefully glanced at Zhang Shangshu’s face and led the way.

Zhang Feng returned to his study and took off his robe and handed it to his attendant as he sat down on a large chair, leaning his body back and resting his eyes.

A quarter of an hour was about to pass when Zhang Feng’s eldest son, Zhang Yi, came in at the right time.

“Father, what’s the matter with calling out to me.” Zhang Yi’s face was slightly pale, and the puffy bags under his eyes and deep dark circles under his eyes revealed his identity as a Time Management Master.

“Pack up your belongings and leave the capital immediately.” Zhang Shangshu uttered words that had been deliberated over and over again.

“Huh?”

“Now!” Zhang Feng’s gaze was stern.

“…. Good.” Zhang Yi had always been afraid of his father, and he did whatever he said.

With the help of the subordinates in the mansion, Zhang Yi packed clothes, dried food, gold and silver, and other items that were easy to carry. With a dozen or so retainers kept by the mansion, he rushed towards the outer city.

Who knew that when the carriage arrived at the gate of the inner city, the soldiers guarding the gate asked for the identity and stopped the people.

“His Majesty has decreed that officials above the sixth rank, including their families, are not allowed to leave the capital.”

…..

At dusk, Chu Caiwei, who had spent the day in the Rapunzel’s mansion having a good time, rode her horse to the Xu Mansion and knocked on the door of the small courtyard.

“Caiwei.” Xu Qi’an had already taken off his errand clothes at the moment and replaced them with unusual garments, which Sister Ling Yue had sewn for him stitch by stitch.

The thread in my sister’s hand, the clothes on my brother’s body.

Chu Caiwei took out two porcelain vials from the deerskin pouch on her waist, “Save your food, the Power Pill is very expensive, two taels of silver for one capsule.”

A grain is my salary for half a month ah …. Chu Caiwei is actually an invisible rich woman, young age has a flyer …. It doesn’t matter if you are a disciple of the Supervisor, the main thing is to bring her up ….. Xu Qi’an envies this kind of “rich second generation”, although he has more than 900 taels of gold, but this money is used to buy a mansion.

“Miss Caiwei, come in and have a cup of tea.” Xu Qi’an had a compelling smile on his face.

Chu Caiwei red face “bah”, angrily: “The sun will soon go down, you invite me into the courtyard at this time, what is the intention.”

After saying that, she cut him off, took the horse’s reins, and walked away, twisting her little ass cheeks.

Hmph, the front is not convex and the back is not warped, the small pair of A ridiculous ridiculous …. Xu Qi An also gave her back a blank stare and closed the yard.

When the Sampo case is over, make the humble version of chicken essence and treat the girl.

After having dinner at the main mansion and chatting with the clear and elegant sister for a long time, Xu Qi’an returned to his own small courtyard and exhaled in the house for half an hour.

“Meow~”

Suddenly, he heard the clear sound of a cat purring.

“The door is unlocked.” Xu Qi’an said.

The door to the room was pushed open and an orange cat walked in with graceful steps, tail held high, yellow-orange cat eyes gazing up at him and spitting out human words:

“What did Luo Yu Heng say?”

….. Has Taoist Master Golden Lotus opened the door to some new world? Or a special fetish?

Xu Qi’an scrutinized the orange cat and said, “The Yuan Gathering Pill has been obtained.”

PS: This case took a bit longer to write, mainly because it’s so important. It’s arguably the cornerstone of the book, and will affect the second, third, and fourth volumes that follow, and I had to extend it to have enough room to buy ambush. Well, it’s ending soon, not many chapters left.

PS: By the way, tomorrow’s noon update may be delayed until the afternoon or evening, I have something out in the morning and won’t be able to code in the office.