Chapter 156: Misfortune

The Punishment Hall of the Innocence City, which is served by the Empire and sits on one of the three giants of the Innocence City, the master of the Torture Hall and the county guard of the Innocence City, is hidden like a beehive in the stone chamber inside the city walls, and behind a curtain, sits a gray-haired man.

No one would have thought that the master of the Torture Hall, one of the three halls of the Innocence City, and the real nominal county guard of the Innocence City, would be such an old man in his old age.

As everyone knows, there is only one county guard in the city of innocence, but there are three city lords, and the three halls are the extension of the hands and feet of these three city lords, and the decision of the three halls is the decision of the three city lords.

Unlike the other cities of the Empire's four domains, the Eastern Territory is a place where the rogues gather, wandering in a remote area under the jurisdiction of the Tianji Camp under the command of Emperor Yang, where there are many criminals, and it is also a good place for the brave to hide.

Before the county warden Sima Xie was competent, the city of innocence was still a place of chaos, and even if the imperial military intervened, it only suppressed a small part of the resistance, forming the current three-legged situation. Everyone knows that the Torture Hall has been suppressing the other two halls, and they have not been able to suppress it, because the Caitang and Fenghou Hall have the strength to suppress the Torture Hall. The Caitang has abundant resources, a large number of people, and its forces are all over the inside and outside of the Innocence City, and the Fenghou Hall was originally the dominant force in the Innocence City before, but it was strongly suppressed after the intervention of the Torture Hall, and gradually disappeared, but its foundation must be strong, and I don't know how many reckless people were among them.

Therefore, Sima Xie has not been able to swallow any of the other two halls over the years, and the two halls have also been jealous and restraining each other, and the three-legged trend has continued to this day.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows that this situation will not last long, after all, in this world, in addition to financial resources, only ownership is difficult to abandon. The open and secret battles that the three halls saw never ended, as long as the balance was tilted, the three-legged pattern of the innocent city would be broken in an instant.

Among the three halls, only the master of the Wealth Hall knows the golden spoon mostly. He who controls the lifeblood of the wealth of the Innocence City, he needs to appear more in people's field of vision, expand his financial path to further beyond the Innocence City, and he needs more fame.

The other two city lords rarely appeared in people's field of vision, but were forgotten by people, and few people even knew their appearance. Just like Sima Jie, the real city lord, many people's fantasies are about a sturdy middle-aged man, but they never thought that he was close to his sixtieth birthday and his temples were gray.

Sima Xie sorted out the copywriting in his hand, and the unknown incense and warm hot tea were lit on the table as usual, compared to Xue Ding and the heroic unknown, Sima Jie, who was also the master of artistic conception, wanted to light a pot of charcoal fire under his feet after the heavy snow fell in the middle of winter, so as to remove the cold in the stone room for him.

Even if he relied on his internal strength, Sima Xie could also get rid of the cold that invaded his body, but his high position forced him to be vigilant at all times and keep his body in the best condition in case of accidents. After all, it is only in middle age that Kankan touches the corners of the artistic conception, and in the year of the sixtieth year, he sees the scenery of the highest artistic conception of martial arts, but his body is no longer as good as Xue Ding and that person, so he needs to use foreign objects to drive away the cold, and Sima Xie is really helpless.

At this moment, his brows are tightly locked, and there is not a single hairy hair neatly combed on the back of his head, and he himself has implemented the style of Tianji Camp, from life to clothing, he is clean and meticulous.

The gloomy cloud between his eyebrows had almost dissipated, knowing that the secret letter came from outside the door just now, which made this gray-haired old man show a trace of glory. The dark clouds between his eyebrows finally dispersed today.

It's been a year, and I've been thinking about how many elite soldiers and good generals I've lost, and I finally have a result.

In a good mood, Sima Xie also put down the unfinished copywriting in his hand, walked out of the dark stone room, and saw the first snow of the year falling on the wall of the Innocence City.

Last year's winter snow saw this year, and the time was so fast that it was already the middle of winter. But today, the snow is so pleasant.

In the end, I, Sima Jie, have spent my life in vain, and I have fallen one step in the martial arts, and even my career is so troubled, and I have fallen into the absurd place of Innocence City, but today is finally coming to an end!

Who doesn't love the warm bed of the western-style building? Who wants to live with this cold stone? All this I have endured is just to accomplish that thing, but to wait for the day when I will return to the city of innocence and take all the eight corridors and three courtyards into my pocket! All this will be realized in the middle of winter!

Sima Xie was in a good mood, and secret orders came out from the stone rooms of the torture hall from within the high walls of the impregnable innocent city.

Sima Xie looked up at the inch of sky in the middle of the high wall, and he could see God, because he saw not only flying snow and thick clouds, but also the unreachable starry sky behind the thick clouds, and above that starry sky, there was a star hanging high, hanging in the sky above the Eastern Earth Domain.

Only, if it takes some more time, I'll have a chance before that star notices here!

……

The Trial Tower of Innocence City is home to the largest auction hall in the inner city, and there is almost nothing that cannot be found in the trial auction hall. Therefore, many people like to send things to the Trial Tower for appraisal and auction, and once they are appreciated by the wealthy, they may be able to auction a price that is enough to make them worry about food and clothing for a lifetime.

On the 8th corridor and 24th street, there are also some small pawnshops, but the pawnshop shop is small, and few people choose to pawn their goods in these places, except for some gamblers who owe huge sums of money to the casino and urgently need money.

And among these pawnshops, there are also some shops, and there are all kinds of wanted notices of the Tianji Camp hanging in the door, although the innocent city is a gathering place for many rogue criminals, it is not the same as the gangsters, and there is nothing to do, which does not prevent some people from wanting the heads of the wanted people on the wanted list to exchange for the bounty of the Tianji Camp, and the grievances between those wicked people and the Tianji Camp can also be temporarily resolved in the face of money.

Some of the clean people in this kind of pawnshop are responsible for handing over the heads of wanted criminals to Xing Tang or the Tianji Camp in the outside world, and they take a part of the bounty as a reward.

The first corridor, Black Market Street, also became much less crowded after the heavy snowfall, and the street was trampled into black dirty snow and turned into slippery ice. People who walk on it carefully may accidentally slip and fall, and when it is snowing heavily in the middle of winter, when night falls, a few people in black are walking briskly on the streets of the black market.

They walked like the wind, walking steadily on the slippery ice, and the team walked in a hurry, but it was methodical, always maintaining a formation, and several people outside always surrounded the middle one.

A pawnshop in the black market called "Black Wood Fang", Xiao Si called the shopkeeper and whispered something in the shopkeeper's ear, and the two of them were full of anxiety, hurriedly closed the door of the shop, stepped on the dirty snow, and rushed to the depths of the black market.

As soon as they left, a group of people in the dark came to the door of this shop, but when they saw that the door of the black wood shop was closed, several men in black also showed strange looks. They walked out of one person, and knocked on the knocker on the door, two long and two short, and in the alert look of everyone, the black wood carving gate that has a history of many years slowly opened.

The door was open, but there was no one inside, the men in black glanced at each other, put their hands behind their waists, hugged the man in black in the middle, and walked slowly towards the door.