Chapter Forty-Eight: Murder by a Knife
Ye Fan and Xingliuer entered a shop with a booming business, which had the most innovative menu in the entire Sunset City, of course, there were certainly no expensive wine dishes in the first restaurant, but they were all farmhouse dishes that ordinary people could afford. Ye Fan has seen people begging on the street, and he has also seen people who are tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and then look at the people who come here to eat, they are not the best and not the worst, and they run around every day to support themselves and their families with these two pieces of silver.
"Some people are already working hard when they are alive, why do they have to compare?" Ye Fan sighed, knowing that life is not easy, and spiritual cultivators and spirit pattern masters are several times better than ordinary people, especially in such a spiritual realm where the weak eat the strong, ordinary people really have to work hard and rack their brains to live! In the eyes of spiritual cultivators, they are just ants, they are tools and chess pieces dominated by superiors, and their future has already been properly arranged by fate, without any power to resist.
"Yes, this world is respected by the strong, ordinary people are just like chickens, ducks and geese to be slaughtered, and it is a blessing that God has made them to live a safe life!"
"Just like this cup of hot tea, everyone will want to taste it when it's hot, and when the tea is cold, it will be poured clean by Xiao Er!" After speaking, Ye Fan pointed in the direction of Xiao Er, and he poured a whole pot of cold tea into the back kitchen. Ordinary people provide food and goods for these spiritual practitioners, and ordinary people are divided into many professions, the peasant is considered a basic profession, and the other professions are extended from this root, and once those who are in high positions feel that the peasants are useless, they will abandon these peasants. It's like cold tea!
"Birds choose good trees to perch, and people choose rich halls to go. This is the rule of the world, and it cannot be changed. Ye Fan said lightly. Xingliuer looked at Ye Fan, he is a little special today, he likes to talk about some reasoning, and likes to see the root of things through the surface. Xingliuer put his hand on the back of Ye Fan's hand and stroked it, Ye Fan felt the temperature coming from his hand, and he and Xingliuer looked at each other and smiled.
Xingliu'er knew that he would leave him after all, and the dark side of his body was completely unable to resist with his own strength, and he could only pin his hope on the mysterious ice blue Xingliu'er, the other her who revealed a chill all over her body!
In the remaining days, she just wanted to stay by Ye Fan's side and accompany him more, the person in front of her was already her most important person, so how could she be cold and not pull him.
Ye Fan looked at Xingliu'er, the girl in front of her had a strength in her body, a strength that refused to admit defeat! Even in the past, the resistance to the body of Doom was completed by her will, not with the help of the outside world, so if the will is not strong, it may have been infected and destroyed long ago, how can there be such a girl sitting here.
"Let's have dinner!" Xingliu'er gathered her thoughts, looking at the food just served, she couldn't resist the temptation, she wanted to quickly move her chopsticks and taste these delicacies, she was used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, how dare she not taste this different people's deliciousness!
"Hmm!"
In the city lord's building, the smoke and dust in a white robe sat in the courtyard, the breeze blew through his hair, and the sleeve robe rose and fell with the wind, and he didn't care about all this, but there was a game of chess in front of him in front of him, and there was also a person sitting opposite, who was wearing a phoenix crown on his head and holding a fan in one hand, and saw his palm gently swaying the fan, which was quite noble.
"You're the new city lord of Sunset City?" the man asked faintly. He had been to Sunset City several times before, and it was the old city lord who came to receive him before, but now it was this man in white who met him and played chess with him, and he wondered why the old city lord did not recommend his daughter to be the city lord, but the young man of the same age as him in front of him, which was what he was puzzled about.
"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince, the old city lord is in poor health and can no longer serve as the city lord, I have been selected by the high-level to sit in this position, I am afraid that I will not be able to do it, but I hope to give it a try!" Yanchen looked at the man in front of him, he was wearing a dragon robe, his face was like a dragon luck descending on him, and an aura of arrogance and contempt swept over, this is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Great Yan Dynasty now, Yan Chaoyang! And Sunset City was created under the rule of the Great Yan Dynasty, and there are more places like Sunset City in the Great Yan Dynasty, just because this is the most central part of the entire Sunset Continent, and its strategic position is very important!
"Well, no matter who it is, as long as you can pay for food and property every year!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yan Chaoyang held a white piece and landed on the chessboard, and the smoke and dust could see the chess moves played by Yan Chaoyang, but he saw through it and didn't say anything, and let him finish the chess moves he wanted naturally!
"As soon as this son falls, it will become an encirclement, and there is no way out for you to retreat!" After speaking, Yan Chaoyang's palm fell, but the encirclement chess that was about to be completed was missing a siege, and the last chess piece was landed in the distance by Yan Chaoyang, "Retreat one of his sons, you and others also have a way to live, and it will not become a siege and kill!"
"Thank you Your Highness for your mercy!" Yanchen looked at the chess move that came back from the dead, how dare he not know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in front of him used this chess move to tell him what to do, His Royal Highness used the chess game to show him that Sunset City had no power to rebel under the rule of the Great Yan Dynasty, even if it had the intention of rebellion, his own strength could not resist the attack of the Great Yan Dynasty at all! And the retreat left for Sunset City is the mercy of the Dayan Dynasty, His Royal Highness hopes that Sunset City is best not to rebel, otherwise such a city will fall into war, the people will be in trouble, the soldiers will turn against each other, and the war will be raging!
"It's good to understand, it's not too early, I should go out for a walk!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yan Chaoyang stretched, then got up and slowly walked out of the courtyard.
"Your Highness, do you need the company of your ministers?"
"No, you don't. After speaking, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yan Chaoyang disappeared into the courtyard, and for a while, only smoke and dust remained in the courtyard and the unfinished chess game.
Not long after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince disappeared, a man walked into the courtyard in a menacing manner, and when he saw the man in white sitting on the ground, he was angry and was about to walk up.
Suddenly, Yanchen said lightly: "Come here, I know it's you, you don't need to be so angry." ”
The person who came was none other than Xing Yan of the Xing family! He came this time for the sake of the county lord, even so, Xing Yan, the young master of the Xing family, still retained his etiquette and walked to the opposite side of the smoke and dust, and sat down.
Yanchen looked at Xing Yan, whose face was a little ugly, he knew what Xing Yan meant by coming this time, he just didn't want to say it in advance.
"What do you see the current chess situation?" Xing Yan followed the direction of Yanchen's finger, and he saw that the few black chess pieces in the middle were surrounded by countless white chess, but unexpectedly, the white chess that was sure to be surrounded and killed was missing the necessary chess pieces at a chess corner, and Xing Yan fixed his eyes and saw that the key white chess pieces fell on the blank chessboard not far away.
"If white moves first, black will already lose!" Xing Yan suppressed the anger in his body and said lightly.
"What if black moves first?" said Dusty with a smile.
"Then the white chess will lose momentum, the siege will fail, and the black chess will live!" Xing Yan said, pointing to the chessboard. Then Yanchen swapped all the chess pieces in front of him, and the original white chess pieces killed the black chess, but now it has become a black chess game to kill the white chess, and the black chess is also missing a piece, and the black piece in the hand of the smoke and dust can just correspond to the defective corner, as long as it falls there, the white chess is lost!
"And now?" said Smoke and Dust, still smiling.
"This must be a black win!" Xingyan said nonchalantly. He already couldn't understand the purpose of the smoke and dust, and he didn't understand why it was like this!
"What if white moves first?" said Yanchen lightly.
"What exactly does the city lord want to say to Xing someone?" Xing Yan asked with a gloomy face. Yanchen glanced at Xingyan, only to see him drop the chess pieces into the chessboard, then got up and turned his back to Xingyan.
"The rules of the chessboard are not set by you, so the choice of winning or losing is not in your hands, only I can decide the rules, you are just a chess piece for me to set the rules!"
"Aren't you afraid of the Xing family behind me when you say that?" Xing Yan said angrily, he knew that he was a chess piece in the eyes of Yanchen now, but when these words came out of Yanchen's mouth without reservation, he still felt uncomfortable in his heart!
"If I'm afraid, how can I say it. But...... ”
"What's the matter?" Xingyan wondered.
"Do you just want to win the tournament at the tournament, I can help you!" said Yanchen lightly.
"There are conditions, though. ”
"On what terms?"
"I want your Xing family to consume the power of the Yan family, within a month of the martial arts competition!" As soon as Yanchen talked about the Yan family, his five fingers clenched into a fist. The Yan family has always been his hate, and now that he is the city lord, he has no way to attack the Yan family, so he can only use the Xing family to consume the Yan family, this trick is called borrowing a knife to kill!
"Deal!"