Chapter 49 Assignment of Tasks

Time flies, and more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

One day in mid-May, Qingshi finished listening to Elder Xu of the Inner Courtyard of the Martial Arts Academy, and while continuing to think about the content of the course, he walked out of the teaching area of the Inner Courtyard of the Martial Arts and was suddenly stopped by a person.

"Senior Brother Qingshi, walk slowly."

Qingshi looked at it, but it was a person he didn't know, wearing the clothes of the inner courtyard of martial arts, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, tall and heroic, with sharp eyes.

"My name is Teng Shouqian," the person who came arched his hand towards Qingshi and said politely, "Senior Brother Zheng Fangyi asked me to invite you to go, there is something important to discuss." ”

"What is Zheng Fangyi looking for me?" Qingshi replied with a salute and asked suspiciously.

"It's about the Academy's assignments." Teng Shouqian said.

"Academy assignment?" Qingshi knows that in addition to the tasks that the school publicly announced that students voluntarily accept, there are also active suggestions for application tasks and college assignment tasks, but he has never suggested applying and has never been assigned by the college.

"Yes, there is an important academy assignment this time, and you and I are both assigned." Teng Shouqian said, "Why don't we talk while walking." ”

The task assigned by the college cannot be refused, Qingshi had to follow Teng Shouqian, and the direction should be to go to the student union.

Teng Shouqian said as he walked, and when he walked outside the office of the president of the student union Zheng Fangyi, Qingshi had a basic understanding of the situation of this mission:

During the holidays, Jiang Suhe, a second-year student in the inner courtyard of martial arts, returned to her hometown of Hatoyama Guojianming Mansion, which was the first time she went home in ten years since she entered the academy.

The two sons of the Sun family, Sun Xiong and Sun Ba, a big family in Jianming Mansion, returned from traveling outside a few years ago, and the two brothers were strong, and after returning to take charge of the family, they quickly swept away several families and sects that were originally equal to the Sun family in Jianming Mansion, and became the overlord of the mansion.

The Jiang family, which had a good development trend because of Jiang Suhe, was also suppressed and excluded, and the Jiang family was originally very small and did not have much conflict of interest with the Sun family, so they took the initiative to back down, and the Sun family did not make it too difficult for the Jiang family.

The Jiang family was afraid that it would affect Jiang Suhe's study and cultivation, so they didn't tell her, but instead asked her to study with peace of mind and not worry about family affairs, and she was not allowed to come back during the holidays.

This time, Jiang Suhe was anxious for his family and went back to his hometown without telling his family. After returning home, Jiang Suhe found that he had been away from home for ten years, and originally thought that the family had grown a lot, but it backfired, and the current power of the family was faintly not as good as it was at the beginning, in order to gather resources for his own cultivation, the family's financial resources were already stretched.

Jiang Suhe was furious, and immediately went to the Jianming Mansion to ask the mansion owner why he didn't take care of his family according to the laws and regulations of the country.

Seeing that Jiang Suhe was already a student of the Inner Martial Arts of Tianlong Academy, the lord of the mansion did not dare to slack off, so he immediately invited the Sun family and the Jiang family to the mansion to discuss the meeting, and at the meeting, the Sun family was willing to share a part of the benefits to the Jiang family, Jiang Suhe was not satisfied, and wanted to monopolize the profits and taxes of Jianming Mansion.

After the discussion failed, the lord of the house submitted the opinions of the two families to the Hatoyama royal family in writing, and asked the two families to wait for the royal family to decide.

As a result, while waiting, Sun Xiong, the eldest brother of the Sun family, proposed to Jiang Suhe to take her as a concubine.

Although Sun Xiong has traveled abroad for more than thirty years, he has already married a wife and concubines and had several children before going out, and he is over eighty years old at this time, although it is not too old for a monk who is already at the lower level of the Yuan Dan Realm, but his marriage proposal is undoubtedly an extreme insult to a young genius like Jiang Suhe.

In a fit of rage, Jiang Suhe killed the matchmaker and the Sun family envoy. Sun Xiong was furious, and immediately led people to kill the Jiang family, and after a scuffle, the fierce Sun Xiong was actually killed by Jiang Suhe, but the Jiang family also killed and injured a large number of clansmen.

Sun Ba, who lived in Sunjiaping outside the city, brought people into the city after learning about it, and it was said that the original intention was to stop the fight, but when he saw that his eldest brother was killed, he immediately poured the strength of the whole family to kill, and finally Sun Ba killed Jiang Suhe and wiped out the entire Jiang family.

The Sun family bribed the lord of the mansion with a lot of money, and fabricated a false message unfavorable to the Jiang family, asking the lord of the mansion to submit it to the lord of the country and deal with it.

The lord of the mansion accepted the bribe but did not speak for the Sun family, and rushed to the national capital to report it truthfully. The lord of the country was shocked, and hurriedly sent an envoy and the lord of the mansion to report to the court of the Tianlong Empire, and explained the reason to the Tianlong Academy.

The imperial court dismissed the head of the mansion, and immediately sent someone from the Criminal Department to investigate the incident, and then assigned the internal guard Xiang An to assist the academy in handling the incident on behalf of the empire.

The college set this task and assigned Zheng Fangyi, Qingshi, and Teng Shouqian to be responsible for handling it, and Zheng Fangyi was fully responsible.

Walking into Zheng Fangyi's office, Qingshi asked Zheng Fangyi directly; "Why did the academy assign me this task, you arranged it, right?"

"No," Zheng Fangyi said with an innocent face, "Dean Mo personally named you." ”

"Dean Mo?" Qingshi was surprised, but he knew in his heart that it would not be wrong, it was the master and the senior brother who were going to temper themselves.

"That's right," Zheng Fangyi smiled slightly, "I heard that your participation in the Array Dao Academy's exam last year was also approved by Dean Mo, so you can't be a senior brother with Chen Tianye, right?" ”

"Impossible." Qingshi replied categorically, but it was not a lie.

"Let's not talk about that, let's talk about the mission." Zheng Fangyi handed the academy's official document on the mission to Qingshi to read, and then said, "You all know the situation of the mission, the purpose of this mission is to eradicate the Sun family, we are only responsible for the operation, and we don't have to take care of the other preliminary investigation and aftermath." Qingshi is responsible for dealing with the Sun family's defensive array, Shouqian, your task is to lead a group attack team, and I will bring a key killing team. Tomorrow morning, gather at the west gate of the academy and set off, if you have any questions, ask them now, and if you have no doubts, go back and prepare,"

Zheng Fangyi's words were concise and to the point, and Qingshi and the two had no opinions, so they resigned and went back to prepare.

Early in the morning of the second day, Qingshi came to the west gate of the college on time, which is far away from the teaching area and living area, and is the most remote door.

Out of the school gate, I saw a fourteen or fifteen zhang long spaceship hovering in the air not far from the door, about two zhang high from the ground, and there were more than a dozen people standing on the side of the gate, Zheng Fangyi and Teng Shouqian were there.

Qingshi walked over and said hello one by one, Teng Shouqian's team had five people, three men and two women, all of whom were second-year students in the inner courtyard of martial arts, Qingshi didn't know each other, Teng Shouqian introduced them one by one, Hu Jiaji, Li Sikuan, Wang Ting, Lin Ling and Lu Xiaocheng.

Zheng Fangyi's team only has two members, both of whom are from the Martial Arts High Court, and Qingshi also knows each other, a girl Yin Yuhuang, a boy Ji Yujia, plus Qingshi A total of ten people. Bluestone was the last to arrive.

After Qingshi arrived, Zheng Fangyi still did not have the intention of ordering to set off, seeing that the hour was approaching, a small airship flew from the east in a hurry, and three people jumped off the boat.

Qingshi looked at it, but saw that this person looked a few years older than Zheng Fangyi, with a short beard, wearing a royal internal guard palace brocade robe and leather armor, and two feathers stuck in his hat and helmet.

Zheng Fangyi stepped forward to greet him politely, and introduced to Qingshi and Teng Shouqian, this is Xiang An, the second-class guard of the Royal Internal Guard Mansion, who has also studied in the inner courtyard of the academy martial arts for six years. The other two were the brothers of his subordinate fifth-class guards Li Yun and Li Xiu.

When a group of thirteen people arrived, Zheng Fangyi ordered to board the ship, all of them were monks, and it was no problem to jump on the spaceship, and all the boarding was completed at one time, but there was another crew of six people on the ship who was responsible for the operation of the spacecraft.

From Chaoge to the Jianming Mansion of Hatoyama State, it takes fifteen hours to fly. The ship was provided by the Empire, and there were more than thirty cabins on board, each of which was assigned a separate room.

Some of the team members went back to the room, some watched the scenery on the deck, Qingshi stayed outside the cabin for a while, chatted with other people, and soon went back to the room, but before returning to the room, he asked Zheng Fangyi to borrow a copy of the official report on the case.

On the morning of the second day, Qingshi washed up and walked out of the room, and saw Zheng Fangyi and Xiang An talking at the bow of the boat, and Qingshi walked over to greet the two.

Xiang An saw Qingshi, remembered something, and immediately asked Zheng Fangyi and Qingshi: "I don't know something, I want to ask, I see that only one of the Qingshi brothers in your team is a disciple of the Dan Dao Academy, and the rest are martial arts cultivators, according to intelligence, the Sun family's main defense relies on the magic circle, but they are not good at using poison, the Qingshi brothers are third-level Dan masters, if the Sun family wants to use poison, it can naturally be easily solved, but how to deal with this Sun family's magic circle?" Could it be that Brother Zheng or which other brother also has research in the Formation Dao? Or are we misinformed? ”

Generally, this kind of task, in the staffing, there is an alchemist who deals with poison and a formation mage who deals with the magic circle, and the academy performs this kind of public task, and the team members are all wearing school uniforms, and Xiang An saw that there were no students from the formation academy in the team, so he had this question.

"The news is correct," Zheng Fangyi said, "The Sun family has no means to deal with poison, let alone Qingshi, even among these people in our Martial Arts Academy, there are people who are better than his family." The formation is indeed his family's reliance, and the Qingshi brothers are personally designated by Dean Mo to deal with his family's defensive formation. Brother Xiang should also be a master of the formation path, right? ”

"Really?" Xiang An was taken aback, he really didn't expect that the alchemist in front of him would be proficient in the magic circle. But since it was said from Zheng Fangyi's mouth that it was Mo Sihai's proximity, how could it be wrong. immediately praised, "Brother Qingshi is amazing!" I'm just a little bit of a fan of the Dao, and I'm not even a formation mage, how can I compare with the Bluestone brothers? ”

After a word of praise, Xiang An suddenly remembered a legend, and hurriedly asked Qingshi: "By the way, I heard that in your academy's year-end assessment last year, there was an alchemist who crossed the academy to participate in the formation mage assessment, and finally beat a group of array academy geniuses to obtain the fourth-level formation mage qualification alone, could it really be such a thing?" Could it be the Bluestone Brothers? ”

"I praised my brother," Qingshi said lightly, "It's just a fluke." ”

"What a miracle! Marvel! Xiang An was amazed again.

Qingshi changed the subject.

"Senior Brother Zheng, Brother Xiang," Qingshi said, "I studied the report of Huang Yan, the lord of Jianming Mansion, and the report of the Investigation Department of the Criminal Department of the Tianlong Dynasty, and found that the two reports were not consistent in some places, and there were some suspicious points, but I don't know what the two of them think. ”

"Yes," Zheng Fangyi said, "There are one or two small inconsistencies in the two reports, but Sun Ba killed Jiang Suhe's junior sister, and the Sun family destroyed the Jiang family, but it is a certainty that we will go to eradicate the Sun family." ”

Xiang An also agreed.

Qingshi also said: "Senior Brother Zheng is right, the Sun family is naturally guilty. It's just that I always feel that something is strange about this. ”

"Brother Bluestone, if you have any discoveries, you might as well tell me about it." Xiang Andao.

"It's not that I found any problems, but I don't understand some doubts," Qingshi said slowly, "Although the Sun family and the Jiang family have not reached an agreement on the distribution of benefits, they have also agreed to report to the lord of Hatoyama to listen to his ruling, how could Sun Xiong ask for marriage at this moment and provoke Senior Sister Jiang?" This doesn't make sense. ”

"I also have this question," Zheng Fangyi said, "but I think Sun Xiong is used to bullying men and women, and after seeing Senior Sister Jiang, he was moved to be obscene, so that's it." ”

"Sun Xiong is a person who has already married a wife and had children over eighty years old, and it is reasonable to bully ordinary girls, dare to treat Senior Sister Jiang like this, but I don't believe it, unless this person is crazy." Qingshi shook his head and said.

"Yes," Xiang An said, "After reading the report, I also think that this Sun Xiong is simply faint and crazy." Could it be that the Bluestone brothers mean that what the report says is not true? ”

"That's not it," Qingshi said, "The report of the Huang Mansion Lord and the report of the Investigation Department of the Criminal Department both said that the marriage was solicited, and it is said that many people in the market at that time witnessed the Sun family's courtship team going to the Jiang family with great fanfare, which should not be fake. I wonder why Sun Xiong did this, if he was intent on provoking Senior Sister Jiang, then he should have been prepared, so as not to impulsively kill the Jiang family when he heard that the matchmaker and messenger were killed, but instead caused him to lose his life. ”

"So I said that Sun Xiong was crazy," Xiang An said, "He was carried away by lust, so he sent someone to propose, but Jiang Suhe not only refused but also killed his people, so Sun Xiong was angry and killed the Jiang family in one fell swoop to try to take revenge, but his skills were not as good as others and he lost his life." It seems that this is the only way to explain it. ”

"Yes, that explanation makes sense," Qingshi said, "but this explanation is to assume that Sun Xiong has lost his mind, and I don't believe this." ”

"What Qingshi said makes sense, and I also think it's unlikely that Sun Xiong is crazy," Zheng Fangyi said thoughtfully, "Maybe there's some misunderstanding in between?" By the way, you just said that there are inconsistencies between the two reports? ”

"Yes," Qingshi said, "The report of the Huang Mansion Master said that Senior Sister Jiang first asked the Sun family for land and other benefits, and the Sun family reported to the Mansion Master, and the Mansion Master came forward to invite the two families to discuss. However, the report of the Investigation Department of the Criminal Department was that Senior Sister Jiang directly asked the mansion owner why she did not take care of her family in accordance with national laws and regulations, and did not look for the Sun family first, but the mansion owner summoned the Jiang family and the Sun family to the meeting. ”

"Yes, Qingshi, you are right," Zheng Fangyi said, "I ignored this, there is a difference here, if Senior Sister Jiang directly went to the Sun family to ask for benefits first, it would be that she deliberately wanted to be an enemy of the Sun family." And if you ask the lord of the mansion to take care of your family according to the laws and regulations of the country, it will be different, if the Jianming Mansion wants to give the Jiang family benefits, it does not necessarily affect the interests of the Sun family, and the lord of the Huang Mansion invites the Sun family to talk about the division of interests, which is to deliberately make the Sun and Jiang families hostile. ”

"It makes sense," Xiang An also said, "but could it be that the investigation of the Investigation Department of the Criminal Department was not careful enough, and it was not discovered that the Jiang family had directly approached the Sun family to ask for benefits?" ”

"It's possible," Qingshi said lightly, "There is also a possibility that the Huang Mansion Lord lied." Speaking of which, I believe more in the report of the Investigation Division of the Criminal Division. ”

The three of them were silent for a moment.

After a while, Xiang An said: "There may be some misunderstanding here, but as Brother Zheng said, the Sun family's crime is certain, and Brother Qingshi also said that the Sun family's guilt is inescapable." ”

"Of course," Zheng Fangyi said, "but I think this matter should be investigated again." ”

"That's right," Aoshi said, "maybe it's just my blind guess that I'm delaying everyone's time, but if something really happens, I don't want to be used as someone else's murder tool." "The hint of bluestone is already more obvious.

"Naturally," Xiang An said, "then find out." How do the Bluestone Brothers want to find out? ”

"I don't have any good ideas for the time being," Qingshi said, "In this way, after breaking through the Sun family, leaving the lives of Sun Ba and several main figures of the Sun family for the time being, let's interrogate them together, maybe we can solve these questions." ”

Both Xiang An and Zheng Fangyi agreed.