When she returned to her residence, Xu Wenjuan summoned her henchmen to monitor Xiao Che and others, which showed that she was not without suspicion of Xiao Che.

Xiao Che naturally knew this, but he didn't say anything, but pretended not to know.

That night, Xiao Che was alone in disguise and left the inn.

With his disguise skills, it was easy to fool the surveillance officers.

He was going to contact the people of Tianyan and mobilize people to help Shui Mufeng clean up Xu Wenjuan.

Speaking of which, it is very beneficial to the Xuanfu.

You must know that the Xu family of Northern Qi is a behemoth, and its power is much stronger than that of Shuicheng. Although Shui Mufeng's cultivation is not weak, he does not dare to offend the Xu family.

The reason why he hates Xu Wenjuan so much is why outsiders don't know.

Back then, Mizuki Feng was still a handsome son.

It was spring, and after a winter, everything began to sprout, and the plants and trees revived.

On the shore of a clear and quiet lake, Shui Mufeng met the love of his life, He Xiaohe.

He Xiaohe's family has been in business for several generations. A lot of industries have been placed. It was also a well-known business family in the southern part of the Northern Qi Empire.

This clear lotus lake is the property of the He family.

By chance, Mizukifeng passed by here and met He Xiaohe, who was in the prime of cardamom at that time.

Shuimu Feng has excellent appearance and graceful demeanor, which naturally attracts He Xiaohe's love.

The two of them were boating on the lake and swimming together, poetic and picturesque, so happy.

That was their first acquaintance.

Later, Shuimufeng returned to Shuicheng and did not leave Shuicheng for three years.

He Xiaohe has also grown up and become a big girl.

Otherwise, it is said that people who are destined can meet each other no matter what.

He Xiaohe followed the family's caravan to do business with Shuicheng, and accidentally saw Shuimufeng, who had become the young lord of Shuicheng.

Although Shuicheng is the chassis of the Shui family, the people in the city lord's mansion have always been low-key.

The same goes for Mizuki Wind. In the water city, the lord of the city rarely shows up, and only when the lord of the new city takes over, he will appear in front of the citizens.

However, that kind of occasion must be complete with etiquette, and the heir must wear the clothes belonging to the lord of the city, and usually wear civilian clothes, and he will not be recognized at all.

This is the case with the successive lords of Watercity, and this is their tradition.

On this day, for some reason, Mizuki Feng, who has always rarely gone out, seems to have a premonition and must go out. In fact, he didn't have anything to do, he just wanted to go out and hang out. This idea is particularly strong.

The result can be imagined, in the largest trade area in Shuicheng, the two people who have been separated for three years meet again.

He Xiaohe is no longer the original girl, but a slim girl.

Mizuki Kaze is more mature and attractive than before.

Under the firewood, the two of them made a private decision for life.

If things continue to develop, it must be a beautiful story, but the world is impermanent, and fate always likes to play merciless tricks on people.

Mizuki Feng told his father about the two of them, who knew that his father was like a bolt from the blue after hearing it.

Not for anything else, just when Shui Mufeng and He Xiaohe made a private decision for life, his father had already set a family affair for him.

The woman is Xu Wenjuan of the Xu family.

The Xu family is a well-deserved wealthy family in Northern Qi.

The children of the Xu family have been officials for generations. even once achieved the position of prime minister.

Although the Xu family never had that kind of glory later, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the protégés of the Xu family were all over the world in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Although Xu Wenjuan's father's generation is only a member of the Ministry of Construction, the power of the Xu family should not be underestimated.

In real terms, it is much stronger than Shuicheng.

Shui Mufeng's father and Xu Wenjuan's father are good friends, even if the power of Shuicheng is not as good as the Xu family, it is not much worse, besides, Shuicheng exists as an independent city-state, and its significance is extraordinary in the Northern Qi Empire, and the Xu family has no objection to this marriage.

The two are a good match. At that time, Mizuki Feng did not have anyone in love, and the two families settled the matter.

How do you know that you will kill a He Xiaohe halfway. This made Mizukikaze's father not know what to do.

You must know that the marriage between the Xu family and Shuicheng is considered a marriage to a certain extent.

Who knew that after the matter reached the Xu family, Xu Wenjuan was not angry, but also agreed to let Shui Mufeng marry He Xiaohe, but on the condition that He Xiaohe could only be a concubine.

Shui Mufeng did not hide He Xiaohe, but He Xiaohe did not take the name very seriously. She also agreed to this condition.

Until now, things have been moving in a good direction. In this way, Shui Mufeng married a wife and a concubine, Xu Wenjuan, and He Xiaohe.

But no one thought that Xu Wenjuan was a woman with a good face and an evil heart, she not only had a femme fatale-like heart, but also had very vicious methods.

After marriage, she and He Xiaohe got along like sisters. made others very envious. Even Mizuki Feng was deceived by her, and she once admired their sisters' love.

Who knows, the truth is not like that at all.

Since Xu Wenjuan married into Shuicheng, the power of the Xu family began to infiltrate Shuicheng. In the past, Mizuki Feng didn't care about these at all, and he didn't have the slightest doubt.

Later, Xu Wenjuan brought his younger brother Xu Yong to Shuicheng to do business, so that the power of the Xu family became entrenched in Shuicheng.

Xu Yong is very much like his sister, both are hypocritical people to the extreme. After so many years in Shuicheng, the reputation has always been very good, and there has never been the slightest bad review. But in fact, Xu Yong is a cunning and vicious, insidious and despicable person. The affairs of the Dongya family are one of Xu Yong's countless evils.

In order to get a market in Shuicheng, Xu Yong first secretly looked for bandits to destroy his competitors. Then he pretended to be a good person and gave a lot of money to the poor businessman's widow and the young child who had lost his father, and even helped the orphan and widow to open a storefront, but he had to pay rent to Xu Yong. The orphans and widows are still afraid and do not know that their husband, the father, was killed by the great good man in their eyes.

The list goes on and on. The most vicious thing is what he did to the Dongya family. Fortunately, Dongya relied on his own ability to get revenge. Otherwise, Xu Yong didn't know how many people he would kill.

With Xu Yong's help, Xu Wenjuan's power is getting stronger and stronger. Those years were the happiest and happiest times for Mizuki Kaze.

He and He Xiaohe are in love with each other, and they are very affectionate. Xu Wenjuan naturally hated He Xiaohe in her eyes, but she hid it very well and did not expose the slightest.

She didn't want to kill He Xiaohe all the time. But there has never been a suitable opportunity.

It was in those years when He Xiaohe was there that Shui Mufeng handed over all the big and small things in Shuicheng to Xu Wenjuan to deal with. This also contributed to Xu Wenjuan's control of Shuicheng.

By chance, Shui Mufeng was going to the imperial capital of Northern Qi to meet His Majesty. Speaking of which, there is also the influence of Xu Wenjuan's father. In this way, Mizuki Feng went to the capital alone to meet the emperor. He Xiaohe and Xu Wenjuan stayed at home.

He Xiaohe is not a person who lives in a mansion for a long time. She is active by nature, and Shui Mufeng is not in Shuicheng, so she plans to go back to her parents' house. Who knows, these are all in Xu Wenjuan's eyes. And Xu Wenjuan was ready to harm her a long time ago. happy

Such a God-given opportunity, Xu Wenjuan will naturally not let it go.

She arranged for people to loot and kill He Xiaohe on the way back to her parents' home, creating the illusion that it was a mountain bandit attack.

On this day, He Xiaohe took six or seven entourages to say goodbye to Xu Wenjuan early in the morning and returned to her parents' house.

Although Shuicheng is not far from Hejia, it is also thousands of miles away. With the strength of their feet, it only takes one day to get there. Who knows, this time, He Xiaohe never came back.

Xu Wenjuan had already arranged for the killer to pretend to be a mountain bandit, kill He Xiaohe and his party halfway, and loot. Xu Wenjuan arranged for He Xiaohe to be humiliated to death, making the illusion that he was attacked by mountain bandits.

In this way, a beautiful life withered. He Xiaohe didn't know who killed him until he died. She would never have thought that Xu Wenjuan, who usually treats her like a sister, would use such dirty and brutal means to kill her.

The news of He Xiaohe's murder soon spread to Shui Mu Feng, and when he heard the news, Shui Mu Feng was stunned. At that time, he was still in the capital of Northern Qi. Upon learning of this, he made a trip to the emperor. The emperor naturally knew about this, and not only allowed it, but also sent guards to accompany him. And announced to the world that once the mountain bandits who killed He Xiaohe were found, they would all be executed.

He Xiaohe's death brought a blow to Shuimufeng that was not ordinarily big. He hugged He Xiaohe's body and didn't cry. Instead, he shut himself up in his house for ten whole days.

In the past ten days, all the mountain bandits within a radius of thousands of miles around Shuicheng have been destroyed. In Northern Qi, a vigorous anti-bandit operation was launched.

That sweep of the mountain bandits made the mountain bandits disappear for two whole years. There are no traces of mountain bandits in a radius of thousands of miles in Shuicheng, and to this day.

Although he killed the mountain bandit who claimed to have killed He Xiaohe, Mizuki Feng didn't believe it. It was as if he had grown overnight. However, when he came to his senses, he found that almost the entire Water City was under Xu Wenjuan's rule. I, the lord of the Water City, has been hollowed out.

By this time, he still didn't know the truth of the matter. However, he did not directly attack Xu Wenjuan and Xu Yong's sister and brother. He knew that he didn't have the capital to compete with the two of them. Despite the fact that he is the hereditary lord of the water city.

Since then, Shui Mufeng has concentrated on practicing martial arts, the inheritance of the Shui family is very powerful, and his own talent is not weak, and under his diligence and concentration, his cultivation has also been improving day by day, until today.

He was always looking for an opportunity to find out what happened back then, and after he entered the Supreme Realm, he recruited henchmen from the outside, and sure enough, he found out the cause and effect of the whole thing. also knew the real purpose of Xu Wenjuan marrying him at the beginning.

At that time, the Xu family was in a stage of decline, so they agreed to marry Shuicheng so easily. Moreover, the Xu family has a deeper purpose for marrying Xu Wenjuan, that is, they hope to be able to partially control Shuicheng.

Who knows, at that time, Shui Mufeng didn't pay attention to the matter of Shuicheng at all, and fell in love with He Xiaohe wholeheartedly. This gave Xu Wenjuan more opportunities and more space. Able to control the water city more and more.

Such a result was something that the Xu family did not expect.

Originally, Xu Wenjuan was just a junior in the Xu family. Even if she is the wife of the lord of Water City, her status is only the same as that of a family elder. But later, as Xu Wenjuan's control of Shuicheng became stronger and stronger, her status in the family also rose.

Until now, her status is no longer the same as that of her father, the patriarch of the Xu family.

In the Xu family, the biggest official is the patriarch, and it has always been like this, without exception. And Xu Wenjuan has such a status with her own strength, which is very rare.

When Shui Mufeng found out all the truth, he couldn't help Xu Wenjuan. But he never gave up. He is clear about the bad things Xu Yong has done. He collected the evil deeds of the Xu sisters and brothers.

He even secretly helped the person who was killed by Xu Yong.

As a result, no one expected that the appearance of Dongya would cause a crack in the Xu siblings' firm control of Shuicheng.

Xu Yong's death, the biggest blow is still Xu Wenjuan. Her grip on Watertown is not as firm as it used to be.

How could Shui Muran give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, naturally he arranged for his own people to take over the position vacated by Xu Yong's death.

Xu Wenjuan can't say anything about this. She can only swallow this loss.

Don't look at her now that she is very calm on the surface, but in fact, she is already anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

She first held her power firmly in her hands, and at the same time asked the Xu family for help.

Shui Mufeng wants to use this opportunity to completely eliminate Xu Wenjuan's forces.

Although cooperating with the Xuanfu will inevitably give away some of the interests of Shuicheng, for Shuimufeng, there is nothing more important than taking revenge on He Xiaohe.

Moreover, even if the forces of Xuanfu are allowed to enter Water City, it is much better than in the hands of Xu Wenjuan. After dealing with Xu Wenjuan, Shui Mufeng will definitely be able to completely control Shuicheng, and even the Xuanfu will be under his control at that time.

In fact, Shui Mufeng didn't know Xiao Che's real plans at all. The reason why Xiao Che wanted to let the forces of the Xuan Mansion infiltrate was more for the purpose of setting up a trading point here. Conduct trade.

More importantly, it can also rely on this to further spread the power of Xuanfu in Northern Qi.

You must know that now the countries are strictly controlled, and it is difficult for Xuanfu to infiltrate, but if it is based on a special city like Shuicheng, then it will be much easier to enter the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Under Xiao Che's secret arrangement, the Xuanfu sent a large number of people to Shuicheng.

However, they all came here with legitimate identities, and before they knew it, the forces of the Xuanfu had initially infiltrated in.

These days, Shuicheng seems to be as calm as ever, but it makes Xu Wenjuan deeply uneasy. It is said that women's intuition is keen, and Xu Wenjuan is no exception, although she can't find anything wrong, but she has a strong sense of crisis.

Xiao Che and the others were also waiting for a suitable opportunity to make a move against Xu Wenjuan's forces.

This is the largest commercial market in the water city. Originally, the manager of this market was Xu Yong. But after Xu Yong's family was wiped out by Dongya, Xu Wenjuan's henchmen were temporarily in charge of this place.

On this day, a group of Beiyan caravans came here to buy a large number of water lotus flowers, which are special products of Shuicheng.

Water lotus flowers are warm and water-attribute elixirs, which are rare on the big continent, but Shuicheng can be mass-produced. The main reason is that the climate, temperature and light here are suitable, and a large number of water lotus flowers can be planted.

Many people think that wild elixirs are stronger than artificially cultivated elixirs, but in fact this is not the case, and artificially planted elixirs are no worse than wild ones at all.

You must know that the elixirs that can be cultivated artificially are basically not unique in the world.

But no matter what, the water lotus flower is also a relatively rare elixir. In addition to cultivating the preciousness of daffodils, what is more difficult is to preserve. If it is picked, it needs to be placed in special utensils, otherwise the medicinal properties will be lost, and eventually it will become a dead flower and a dead grass, which is useless.

The price of the water lotus flower in Water City is not high, but if it is sold to other countries, such as the Qingxuan Empire, then his price can increase nearly a hundred times.

This is a huge profit, but apart from the storage reasons, and the long distance, not many people will do such a business.

Besides, in the past, several major empires were constantly disputed and the relationship between them was tense, and the price of water lotus flowers was even higher. Coupled with the danger of crossing the border and the threat of mountain bandits, the water lotus flowers in Shuicheng could only be sold within the territory of the Northern Qi Empire.

Now that the major empires of the Terran race are truceing and trading with each other, this is what gives Shuicheng such an opportunity.

This caravan is not weak, it comes from the Northern Yan Empire, and it can be seen from their clothing and language that they are authentic Northern Yan merchants.

However, something unexpected happened. Somehow, the Beiyan caravan and the vendor selling the water lotus flower quarreled over the price. As a result, no one expected that it would lead to a fight, and even caused deaths. It's going to blow up.

The one who was killed was the manager of the business zone, Xu Wenjuan's subordinate. Now the Beiyan caravan is in trouble.

At this time, it reached Xu Wenjuan's ears, and she ordered all the Beiyan caravans to be taken down without saying a word. However, to her surprise, instead of taking down the people of the Northern Yan caravan, the people she sent sparked a bigger fight.

It turned out that her subordinates wanted to slaughter the Beiyan caravan ruthlessly, but who knew that these Beiyan merchants were clear about the market of Shuicheng Water Lotus, and the two sides were arguing. Where can the managers of the trade zone let these foreign businessmen bully, they will naturally be ruthless and gather people to teach them a lesson.

However, no one could have imagined that these Northern Yan merchants were not weak, not only were they not bullied, but they also killed the trade managers. This is a big disaster.

In fact, for the death of the business manager, for the shops in the business district, it is all applause. Since this person took over this place, he has been even more greedy and hateful than when Xu Yong was managing it before. It can be said that under his management, the merchants dare not speak out.

Now that he is dead, it is really happy.

Xu Wenjuan is an expert in conspiracy, but she is not a person who knows people and makes good use of them.

This can be seen from this incident. The people she uses are really capable, and there are not many who have the ability. Except for her younger brother Xu Yong, there is no one around her who can take on the big responsibility.

The incident continued to ferment, and instead of achieving the desired effect, the people sent by Xu Wenjuan provoked an even greater popular uprising. Now the people in the entire business area and some residential areas are on the side of the Beiyan caravan against the people sent by Xu Wenjuan.

Xu Wenjuan is such a proud person, naturally she will not let them be intimidated, and then she did something even more stupid and sent people to suppress it, which not only did not ease the contradiction, but made the contradiction more intense.