Chapter 640 Questioning
Hearing this question, Si Zijing still lowered his eyes, but his heartbeat could not help but accelerate slowly.
This question of the Third Young Master can be understood as the concern of the brothers, friends and brothers, but it can also be understood as the concern for the inheritance rights of the prime minister's house.
After all, if the eldest son dies, no one can compete with the third son for the "throne" of the prime minister's house.
Thoughts flashed by, but Si Zijing did not make a conclusion blindly. He carefully considered his words and replied slowly:
“Back to the young master, another group of people encountered the master of the Jiantian Pavilion, and I only learned about it from Mr. Huang.”
Xu Yuan was slightly disappointed when he heard this and said:
“So you don’t know either?”
Si Zijing raised his eyes and glanced at Xu Yuan's expression, and said:
"If you want to know the inside story, you can use the communication crystal to contact Di'an."
Xu Yuan snorted softly, clasped his fingers and said helplessly:
"I would like to do this, but the Black Scale Guards, Zhenxi Mansion, Secret Investigation Department, and those large chambers of commerce here have basically been infiltrated into sieves by the sect. If the communication crystal used has been tampered with, even if they use code words to communicate There is also a risk of exposure.”
As he spoke, Xu Yuan sighed softly:
“Okay, I’ve finished asking my personal questions, and there’s one more thing I need to trouble Mr. Si to take care of.”
Si Zijing looked solemn when he heard this, cupped his hands and said:
“Sir, please speak.”
Xu Yuan clasped his hands together, propped himself on the document, and looked into Si Zijing’s eyes:
“Before Mu Qing came to Xizezhou, he held an important position in the Gyeonggi Division. Mr. Si, you should be familiar with him, right?”
Si Zijing's heart twitched. After weighing the pros and cons for a moment, he still chose to tell the truth: "When we worked together, I introduced him as a close friend."
“Hey, close friends?”
“Sir, Lord Lou Ji knows very well that subordinates always distinguish between public and private matters.” Si Zijing cut directly.
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Xu Yuan smiled slightly when he heard the words, waved his hand and interrupted: "Don't be nervous. Even if I can't trust you, how can I not trust Lou Ji? But since you can distinguish between public and private affairs, it is just right to leave this matter to you. Before it happens, It’s up to you to keep an eye on Mu Qing.”
“Watch it?” Si Zijing whispered tentatively.
Xu Yuan’s eyes had a slight chill in his eyes and he replied:
"I don't care what method you use. I have only one request from you. Mu Qing cannot do anything when the saint attacks the city."
Si Zijing pondered for a moment: "Master, are you worried that he will break the formation from inside the city?"
Xu Yuan smiled noncommittally and said: "Yes and no, I still keep him, mainly because he still holds the whereabouts of the Black Scale Guard's resources in Xizezhou. He needs the resources needed to maintain the high-power operation of the city defense array." Jing is not a bit of a loser, that resource may make a big difference."
As he spoke, Xu Yuan seemed to remember something, his voice lowered slightly, and he began to put pressure on Si Zijing:
"Oh, by the way, Mu Qing was seriously injured not long ago. If you still fail under this situation, then Mr. Si, you and Mu Qing will really just be confidants."
Si Zijing’s expression did not change at all, but a smile appeared on the corners of his lips and he bowed solemnly:
“Young Master, don’t worry, I will definitely fulfill my mission.”
“Alright, let’s go on.”
Xu Yuan waved his hand at the other party, but Si Zijing still stood there, with a trace of hesitation on his face.
Seeing this expression, Xu Yuan frowned, then turned to smile and said:
“If it’s about Xu Mengxi, there’s no need to say more. I don’t care about her life or death.”
"You misunderstood. I want to talk about the eldest son."
“Don’t you know this?”
“I really don’t know, but I can get some clues from some details.”
"explain."
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Si Zijing took a deep breath and said quickly:
"Before Xiaguan came to Zhenxi Fucheng, he contacted Di'an City three times in total. They were with Lord Xiangguo, Lord Lou Ji, and the Deputy Director of the Black Scale Guard Gyeonggi. The official could not figure out the thoughts of Xiangguo and Lou Ji, but the Deputy Director The commander and his subordinates report that the current situation in Di'an is as usual."
Xu Yuan’s eyes revealed a hint of confusion.
Seeing that the third young master failed to turn the corner, Si Zijing said directly:
“Since the death of the second young master, the eldest young master has taken over all the affairs of the second young master, and the situation has increased even more in recent years. If something happens to the eldest young master, it may cause great turmoil in the prime minister’s palace.”
As the door closed, the military hall returned to silence.
After staring at the direction Si Zijing left for a few breaths, Xu Yuan leaned slightly tiredly on the back of the chair behind him. At this moment, a beautiful figure in a black dress appeared on top of him almost teleportingly. side.
Tianye glanced at his side face and said with a smile:
"It seems like your eldest brother survived. The Lord Supervising Heaven has no reason to let him go."
Xu Yuan looked tired, but obviously in a good mood, and said with a smile:
"Perhaps your pavilion master is afraid that Xu Changge will force him to change his position."
“One for one?”
Tianye's beautiful eyes flashed, slightly surprised, she jumped on the desk and sat down, crossed her legs, and murmured: "The night you and the golden retriever fought, I was wondering what that smell was, but it turned out to be you As expected, the eldest brother has cultivated the Tao of Cause and Effect."
As she spoke, her golden eyes narrowed slightly:
“However, although the cause and effect Tao Yun is strong, the Origin Stage is not enough to make the Master of the Supervisory Heaven Pavilion retreat.”
Xu Yuan was silent to reminisce about the past, and sighed softly:
“Perhaps he has broken through the mortal realm, alas.”
Tianye seemed to see the joyful and sad emotions in Xu Yuan's heart. She stretched out her slender hand and patted his shoulder, and said with a smile:
"If you want to get angry, I can help you beat him up."
Xu Yuan chuckled:
“With his character, he might just drag you to exchange for one.”
“Tian Yan has countermeasures against the likes of Karma and Dao Yun. Just because the Master of the Supervisory Heaven Pavilion is wary, it doesn’t mean that I will be wary.”
Tianye crossed his hands across his chest, with a hint of eagerness in his eyes: "I like the feeling of having these geniuses trampled under my feet~"
A hint of amusement flashed in Xu Yuan's eyes:
“Will you win?”
"Huh?" Tianye was a little unhappy at Xu Yuan's gaze: "What do you mean?"
Xu Yuan smiled and shook his head, stood up from his seat:
“It’s not interesting, it’s time to get down to business.”
Hand without moving all night, he glanced at the pile of corpses on the ground and asked softly:
"As soon as I came back, you rushed over to take care of Zhan Xian'an. Is it necessary to be in such a hurry?"
Xu Yuan stopped and asked with a slight smile:
“You think I shouldn’t be so anxious to kill him?”
Tianye tilted his head and thought about it, then smiled and said:
"The sooner you kill Zhan Xian'an, the better. After all, the saint of the Mu family is outside the city. The two send a message that the shadow double in your hand may be scrapped at any time. If he is on guard and wants to kill him, it will be almost impossible. It's possible, but I think you started the city defense formation too early, and now Zhenxi Fucheng's city defense system is in complete chaos."
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Xu Yuan was silent for a while and sighed helplessly.
What Tianye said was exactly what he originally expected.
The best option is to kill Zhan Xian'an, first use Li Junwu's identity to build momentum, stabilize the situation and military morale in the city, and then activate the city defense formation.
Killing Zhan Xian'an and activating the city defense formation at the same time is undoubtedly a bad move. It is almost equivalent to telling the senior generals below that their boss has been dealt with.
The good-breasted brother is not a breast-clad princess, and her prestige in the Zhenxi Army is completely insufficient to support such a thing of beheading the commander in battle.
Whether it is loyalists or insiders, people will be panicked.
But the problem is that Xu Yuan has no choice at all.
Xu Yuan raised his finger and tapped his head, Xu Yuan said softly:
“If the Master of the Tianjian Pavilion found you last night, he must have brought Lingtianyi here. If she brought Lingtianyi, my position would naturally be exposed.”
Tianye frowned and whispered:
“Are you afraid that they will come into the city and kill you?”
Xu Yuan did not deny it and nodded. Tianye’s eyes showed a hint of thought:
"Is this possible? I was looking for Linlang last night, and my encounter with the Master of the Supervisory Heaven Pavilion can be said to be a test of trump cards between the two sides. On the surface, you already have two saints, Linlang and me, protecting you, so take this risk."
“Are assassination and protection equally difficult?”
Xu Yuan interrupted Tianye's words and said with a faint look in his eyes: "And don't forget, everything the sect did in the Western Desert, whether it was recruiting the Zhenxi Mansion or manipulating the Tarchao Royal Court, was all to prepare for war with me. The Prime Minister's Mansion and the Jiantian Pavilion regard me as a catastrophe for the world, and they have every reason to take the risk and enter the city first to kill me here."
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After Tianye listened carefully, he nodded somewhat boredly, and then asked:
“Okay, what you said makes sense, but what are you going to do now?”
“Just in case, let’s go to Li Junwu first to see how she is handling it.”
“You really don’t trust her at all?” Tian Ye said teasingly.
Xu Yuan looked away, with a little worry in his eyes:
“I can’t help it, I’m too familiar with her, I always feel like she’ll fall off the hook.”
The warm sunshine became a little distorted because of the sky that enveloped the city, and there was silence in the front yard of the military headquarters.
A woman stood on the stairs, with two masked men standing around her. The dozen or so senior generals in military uniforms in the courtyard were all staring at the woman, with a little surprise and uncertainty in their eyes, and they were shocked. Just what the other party said.
Zhan. Is Commander Zhan a traitor?
And there will be saints coming to attack the city soon?
The deathly silence in the courtyard was finally broken.
A wrinkled veteran looked at the woman in uniform on the stairs and took a deep breath:
“Princess, you said Commander Zhan has been having an affair with the clan for a long time?”
Li Junwu responded to the call and roughly recognized the other party’s identity. The deputy commander of the Mingting Army in the Second Town said slowly:
“Commander Jin, do you think I would play trifling with such a major military matter?”
The veteran was silent for a while and said slowly:
"Since the princess has joined the army, it's no big deal to think about it. But is there any evidence for all the talk?"
Li Junwu said nothing, but glanced sideways at the masked man standing beside him.
All the generals present also cast their sights on Huang Shiwei, and those with advanced cultivation frowned unconsciously.
They saw that this strong man's cultivation was extremely profound, so there was more or less worry in his eyes.
Huang Shiwei suppressed his voice and called out in a low voice:
“Take off the veil.”
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As soon as he finished speaking, the man on the other side of Li Junwu made a move. He raised his hand and pulled the veil off his face, and calmly glanced at the murderous battlefield veterans below.
The moment he saw this person's face, some confused comments slowly sounded in the courtyard.
“Lao Jin, do you know who this is?”
“You ask me, who should I ask?”
"If what the princess said is true, this person should be the one who contacted Commander Zhan."
"Are you out of your wits when it comes to fighting? If he was the one who was in charge, why would he obey the princess's orders?"
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The generals present had high status in Great Yan, and most of them had followed the Marquis of Zhenxi to the capital to see the world. However, there were too many nobles in Great Yan. Except for people like Xu Changge who were famous all over the world, the rest of them were The popularity of his face is actually not that wide.
Looking at the reaction below, Li Junwu frowned unconsciously and clenched his hands under his sleeves unconsciously.
If no one can recognize the shadow's appearance, it will be a bit of a problem.
In the discussion below,
Lu Baizou, who had been silent all this time, suddenly looked at the shadow and said aloud:
“This man looks somewhat similar to the eldest son of Qin in the south of the Yangtze River.”
Hearing this, Li Junwu felt relieved, and the comments around him also came to a halt.
The veteran surnamed Jin asked in a low voice:
“Lao Lu, who do you think this person is?”
Lu Baizou pondered for a while and said in a low voice:
“Nine swordsmen, born with sword bones, Qin Weijiu.”
“I know this person well. He seemed to be quite famous more than ten years ago.”
“Qin Weijiu sounds a bit familiar.”
“He’s the guy who was rumored to be on par with that guy Xu Changge, but ended up being chopped down by three swords in the Tianyuan Competition.”
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The whispers gradually fell silent, and the veteran Jin asked Li Junwu slowly:
“Princess, this person’s identity is”
“Qin Weijiu’s younger brother, Qin Weishu’s shadow substitute.”
Li Junwu said loudly: "I asked him to defraud Zhan Xian'an, but he actually obeyed the shadow and allowed him to enter the important place of the government office."
As soon as these words came out, the generals below immediately went into a panic, but after all, these people were experienced in battles and quickly calmed down after the commotion.
“Princess Princess, you said that Commander Zhan is having an affair with an outsider. Can you call him out to confront this person?”
"Is now the time for a confrontation? If what the princess said is true, the army will be in chaos when they suddenly rise up. The saints are about to attack the city. Now we must quickly take orders and go back to organize the soldiers!"
"Yang Xigong, can you please stop thinking about it? Don't tell me that you can't sense the cultivation level of the person next to the princess? There must be someone behind a person with such a high level of cultivation. Have you forgotten that the princess was in the past? What should I do if I am deceived?"
“Hey, it makes sense, why didn’t I think of that?”
The dark-skinned middle-aged man in military uniform thought for a moment and gave Li Junwu a military salute:
“Princess Princess, I think we still have to call Commander Zhan out.”
"He is dead."
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Li Junwu's cold words once again plunged the front yard of the Junshu Hall into deathly silence. Because of these words, many people quietly began to use the military formation skills. A huge and terrifying aura gradually filled the air above the Junshu Hall. They gathered together and locked onto the people on the stairs.
But it was not Li Junwu, but Huang Shiwei beside her.
In their opinion, the princess must have been bewitched and killed the commander before the battle, but the marquis could not do such a ridiculous thing.
The princess's fault can be investigated after the marquis comes back, but the people around him who are bewitching must be captured or killed first.
General Li Jun saw what happened below and shouted coldly:
“Zhan Xian’an, as the commander-in-chief of the second town, can be killed unexpectedly when he is in charge of military formations and city defense formations. Isn’t this the biggest evidence that his rebellion is!”
As soon as she finished speaking, she also activated the military formation technique. In an instant, the general below lost control of the huge aura surging above the sky.
The natural suppression of the mother's skill on the child's skill was revealed at this moment, and the price of the suppression was a wisp of blood staining the corners of quietly Li Junwu's bright red lips.
She simply cannot bear the power of such a huge military formation now. Even for just a moment, she has already suffered a huge backlash.
Wiping the blood from the corners of his lips, Li Junwu narrowed his narrow eyes slightly, scanned the generals below, and shouted loudly:
“Are you trying to gather a crowd to rebel?!”
(End of this chapter)