Chapter 9: Crisis
In the small pavilion in the garden, Gongsun Yi looked frightened and at a loss.
He has been up and down in the sea for decades, but such a danger that he can't guard against and deal with, and he doesn't even know the source of the sword, may be hanging above his head, but he can't calm down no matter what, he still has a precious son, his wife, and the hope of enjoying his old age after leaving office, how can he lose his life at this time?
"I'm moving to the Imperial Division!" Gongsun Yi blurted out, this is the safe area he can think of at the first time, the Governor is the governor's office of the soldiers and horses of the entire Dongchen Kingdom, it has always been heavily guarded, and it is also the place where he works, there, nominally safe can be guaranteed, it should be the best choice.
Fang Junyue smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's all up to your lord." β
"Today, I will move to the Imperial Governor with my wife Mo'er." Gongsun Yi stood up and paced, anxiously calculating.
"Lord Yu, Lord Li, the secretary of the Criminal Department, visit the mansion!" Without waiting for Lord Shangshu to think for long, the little servant hurriedly came in again to pray
"Lord Gongsun, there is a lot of competition between my Divine Arrest Division and the Criminal Department, but it is inconvenient to see each other again, so I will allow my subordinates to leave first." Fang Junyue heard this, got up and retired.
Sure enough, as Lord Zhuo expected, since the Divine Arrest Division could get the news, the Criminal Department would not be far behind, and it was actually so quick to make a move, and it was actually Lord Shangshu who came in person.
"Okay, okay, then you go through the back door." Gongsun Yi didn't have the leisure to think about this, since the Divine Capture Division was unwilling to run into the Criminal Department, then he also went with him, and this point of determination He also had the strength of the Military Department.
Gongsun Yi tidied up his expression, peeled fruit as usual, and looked calm.
The third prince of the Divine Capture Division said goodbye, bypassed the cloister water pavilion, glanced back without a trace, and was in a trance for a while, whether it was Lord Shangshu who looked panicked just now, or was the person who was light and breezy now Lord Shangshu.
Watching the purple-shirted Divine Hunting Division Sanzi leave the courtyard, Gongsun Yi saw the middle-aged man in ink in the front yard walking steadily across the corner and appearing in the back garden, followed by a young scribe in Tsing Yi with clear eyebrows.
Chu Qingqing and Liu Shuang saw the person clearly through the gap in the rockery.
It was a middle-aged man who was stronger than Zhuo Sidian, with a sharp and angular face with hard lines, an ink-colored power suit, powerful arms, broad shoulder blades, and a body that was fearful at first sight.
"It's Li Xianmin!" Chu Qingqing shouted in a low voice, she recognized the number one person in the Criminal Department, Li Xianmin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Lord Zhuo said that this person's attainments in martial arts are not below him, and he also has a general technique, if he really fights with his life, I am afraid that even he is not an opponent.
And the young man behind Li Xianmin was much thinner, wearing a green shirt, shaking a folding fan, and a smile like a spring breeze on his face.
"Li Xianmin? The book of the military department! Liu Shuang could also feel that this guy who suddenly appeared must be a master among masters. Although I haven't seen it, as one of the eight Shangshu adults, of course, this name is like thunder, and it is impossible not to know.
"Yes, don't be fooled by his appearance, think he's a simple-minded man with well-developed limbs." Chu Qingqing's face was gloomy, "On the contrary, this person is thoughtful, and several major cases have been solved before the Divine Capture Division. β
In the back garden, Li Xianmin came to the pavilion in three steps and two steps, and arched his hand: "Lord Gongsun." β
"Master Li, sit! Let's try loquat. Gongsun Yi smiled back, "Who is this?" β
"Grass people Xu Baishui, I have seen Lord Shangshu." The Tsing Yi scribe bowed, but his smile did not move at all, as if engraved on that white face.
"Everyone in the city calls him a smiling scholar." Li Xianmin laughed and explained.
"You're the smiling scholar?!" Gongsun Yi's eyes widened, he couldn't believe that the young man in front of him who was weak was the genius who moved the royal city and even the king of Chen couldn't stop praising him, he had only heard of it, although he had only learned people, but for some reason he had not been reused, he came to the royal capital three years ago, and within a few months he moved to the city in the name of talent, and since then Wang Sun Daguan has recruited many people, even he has been obsessed with the library building, and he has not been able to send people to ask for success, but he has been addicted to the library, and he has not come out for several months, and he actually does not know when he was cast under the command of the criminal department? Gongsun Yi said slowly, "Let's try loquat." β
"Lord Gongsun is so Yaxing!" Li Xianmin was not polite, sat down with his buttocks, picked up a loquat by himself, and swallowed a fruit with his rough big hands, "Well, that's good!" β
"Why did Master Li come this time?" Gongsun Yi asked.
"My criminal department was ordered by the king to investigate the three murder cases of the ministers, and I dare not forget it all night." Li Xianmin was upright, his burly body sat up straight, "There are ears and eyes to report, the murderer's next target may be Lord Gongsun." β
Gongsun Yi's hand that was peeling the fruit shook, and the loquat fruit in his hand fell on the table.
"I'm moving to the Imperial Division!" Gongsun Yi blurted out.
Although it was the second time that he heard the news in a short period of time, the military department Shangshu, who was well-trained in human feelings, still did it seamlessly, as if it was the first time he heard it. Whether it is the Divine Capture Division or the Criminal Department, he doesn't want to offend.
"Don't worry, my lord, I'm here for this purpose." Li Xianmin smiled heartily, "Come, Bai Shui, show it to Lord Gongsun." β
"Yes." The Tsing Yi scribe named Xu Baishui nodded, closed the fan in a chic manner, and made a strange gesture in his right hand, and a golden flame appeared out of thin air, shining in the spring sun.
The firelight jumped on the fingertips of the people in Tsing Yi, like a bird. Seeing that Gongsun Yi's eyes widened, he couldn't take his eyes off it.
"Xiaosheng is not talented, compared to Wenmo, Caomin is better at magic." Xu Baishui withdrew his hand, and the golden flame disappeared into the air in the blink of an eye.
"Dare to ask Mr. Xu where he is?" Gongsun Yi's eyes widened and he asked. Although he doesn't practice martial arts or magic, he still understands some of them, such as Li Shangshu and Zhuo Sidian, both of whom are among the best masters in the royal capital.
"Heavenly Art Realm." The scribe's smile was fixed on his face, unchanged.
Liu Shuang looked at the flame that was born out of thin air from a distance, the kind of control that was so skilled in the flame, and the precise manipulation, even he who traveled back and forth to the second in the world all the year round, he was rarely encountered, and that person's age would not exceed Fang Junyue, and the person who could have such attainments in the field of magic at such an age was by no means an ordinary person. Liu Shuang's eyes showed an imperceptible chill.
"That person, at least the Heavenly Art Realm." Liu Shuang muttered in a low voice. Now it seems that he can't stay here for a long time, the sturdy criminal department Shangshu is obviously prepared, and the Tsing Yi scribe who came with Li Xianmin is obviously sent to protect Gongsun Yi, and the third prince is unwilling to bump into the criminal department, so it is inconvenient for the two of them to be discovered.
"Stupid, let's go." Looking at the figure of the young scribe who was both familiar and unfamiliar, Chu Qingqing's face turned blue, and there was uncontrollable emotion in his voice.
"Okay." Liu Shuang nodded, and found that Chu Qingqing's expression was strange, and he couldn't help asking, "Sister Chu, what's wrong with you?" β
"It's okay, let's go." Chu Qingqing turned his head away, jumped lightly from the corner of the wall, and jumped out of the wall.
The two people behind the rockery quietly hid and left, and in the garden, the corners of Li Xianmin's eyes swept over the entire courtyard, and the corners of his mouth rose imperceptibly.
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The main hall of the god catches the division.
Zhuo Zhenggong closed the flying pigeon letter in his hand, held it in the palm of his hand and gently crushed it, and the letterhead turned into powder and flowed down between his fingers, falling to the ground and disappearing without a trace.
Over there in Lieyu County, the movement of the sea people is not small.
The letter said that in a few days, Emperor Geng's 40th birthday, the people of the sea who had been dormant for a hundred years would send a delegation to congratulate Emperor Geng on his birthday, and congratulate ten cars and millions of money, among which the leader of the congratulatory gift was the legendary divine object, the moon pearl of the sea.
After a hundred years of absence, those alien races who live in the Nine Abysses, what are they going to do at this time?
Six thousand years ago, there were originally five races living in the land of Zhongzhou, the wise land people were good at business, the long-lived demon people traveled back and forth in all directions, the rich sea people roamed the seven seas, the free feather people lived poetically, and the kind white people benefited the four tribes.
Somehow, a fierce war broke out between the five clans, the most powerful land people with the power of one clan against the four tribes led by the demon people, at the end of the war, the ancestor of the land people in Zhongzhou, Emperor Zun Zhao expelled millions of demon people to Hoshino in a war, and built a tall city wall in the north that was enough to resist the demon people, known as the "middle wall", the huge black city wall towered in the north of the northernmost city of the northern part of the country, he had been there, standing under the middle wall, the towering city wall with a wordless deterrent, so that he only felt small for a while.
He looked at the tall barrier that stretched for thousands of miles from east to west, and there was no end as far as his eyes could see, completely isolating the middle land from the Hoshino hills, the times changed, and the dynasties changed endlessly, but this middle wall has been repaired and guarded by large armies, blocking the demons from the middle wall again and again.
He had read from the ancient history books that in the decisive battle that decided the lord of Zhongzhou, those sea people in the ocean with endless wealth changed the entire battle situation, for some reason, at the last moment of the war, they defected to the land people, providing a steady stream of financial resources, Lu Min defeated the demon coalition army in one fell swoop, expelled the demon people, and the white people and Yu people, who originally supported the demon people, saw that the general trend had gone, and took the initiative to retreat to the Western Continent and no longer set foot in Zhongzhou.
And the people of the sea did not ask for the treasures on the earth, and quietly returned to the Nine Abyss Sea Palace, where they had lived for generations.
From that time on, only one of the five races originally lived in the land of Zhongzhou, and the rich and fertile land was exclusively enjoyed by the Lu people.
Zhuo Zhenggong doesn't know much about such old news, such as why did the people of the sea defect? For example, why did you quietly withdraw after victory?
For 6,000 years, apart from trade and worship, they have lived in seclusion and never set foot too far in the earth. Since the chaos in Zhongzhou a hundred years ago, the people of the sea have been silent until now, and today, a hundred years later, why are they ready to move?
It seems that the crisis is not only in the royal capital, there is already a crisis on this side, and there is probably an undercurrent surging in Xuzhou. Can that taciturn colleague handle it?
Huashang, you have to be careful.
"Weekly meeting." Zhuo Zhenggong called a code order and ordered: "You go and help me check something, the moon pearl of the sea." β
"Yes, sir." The official named Zhou Hui respectfully accepted the order, turned around and ran into the seventh prince who had just returned, and hurriedly bowed and retreated.
"My lord, we're back!" Chu Qingqing and Liu Shuang didn't have time to change their clothes, so they went straight to the Ming Hall to report.
Chu Qingqing uncharacteristically did not speak, which was Liu Shuang's reward for fifteen and ten.
"Oh? That person. After listening to Liu Shuang's description, Zhuo Zhenggong pondered a little and spit out the person's name, "Xu Baishui, a smiling scholar." β
"Lao Li can actually subdue this person." Zhuo Zhenggong groaned, he didn't expect the Criminal Department to get the news so quickly, so a sense of foreboding sprouted and made him more and more worried.
"Has Lord Gongsun left Shangshu Mansion?" Zhuo Zhenggong frowned and asked.
"No, before we left, we didn't see anything unusual in Shangshu Mansion." Liu Shuang told the truth.
"It seems that the Criminal Department is determined to get ahead of us." Zhuo Zhenggong smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Forget it, with the protection of the Criminal Department, Lord Gongsun should be fine." β
"My lord, who is that Xu Baishui?" Liu Shuang couldn't stop his doubts and asked.
"Ahem, Qingqing, you go down first." Zhuo Zhenggong's face was embarrassed and commanded.
Seeing Chu Qingqing's depressed face retreat, Liu Shuang faintly guessed something.
"Tell me, you guessed what." Zhuo Zhenggong's eyes were clear, and he could see that the kid in front of him could more or less guess a few points.
"That person, has something to do with the Seventh Prince?" Liu Shuang hesitated, not knowing how to organize the language, so as not to make a mistake.
"Yes, three years ago, Qingqing came to the Divine Capture Division because of this person." Zhuo Zhenggong nodded, did not deny it, just took over the conversation, and said slowly, "Three years ago, Qingqing's father, Chuxiong, the governor of Hun Prefecture, decided for Qingqing, and that person was Xu Baishui, the son of the county guard in the state, at that time, Qingqing was eighteen years old and Xu Baishui was twenty-two years old. Speaking of which, it can be regarded as a talented and beautiful woman, a pair made in heaven.
Although Qingqing is a woman, she is focused on martial arts, that Xu Baishui is a scholar, she has no power to restrain the chicken, Qingqing looks down on her, and she is married, she is unwilling, but it is not easy to refuse, but she obediently listened to her father's words and was ready to get married.
If it ends like this, there will be no aftermath. On the day of marriage, just like the clichΓ© plot in the excerpts, and on the night of the wedding, Xu Baishui entered the cave room, only to find that Chu Qingqing regretted and ran away from the marriage.
Qingqing was expelled from the house by his father, and later, it was Qingqing who entered my God Hunting Division.
Later, I heard that although the Chu family did not blame the Xu family, but lost the bride in the Xu family, and always had to give an explanation to the Chu family, Xu Baishui was almost broken by his father's leg, and then he was expelled from the family. Perhaps, Qingqing's father took a fancy to his talent, but he didn't expect his daughter to be so obstinate and hurt the two families.
Qingqing felt sorry for his father, and even more sorry for him who was innocent, so she always felt guilty.
Unexpectedly, I would meet him at this time. It's only been three years, and that guy actually has such attainments in magic, what a genius! β
After hearing what Master Sidian said, Liu Shuang's hanging heart was slightly lowered, fortunately, it was not a grievance that could not be resolved.
"This is Qingqing's heart knot, I hope she can untie it." Zhuo Zhenggong sighed softly, "Liu Shuang, can you help her." β