Chapter 128 Only allowed to win, not allowed to lose
On the road outside the north gate of Nantian City, a huge black shadow fell from the sky.
"Is this okay?" Zhong Wen looked at the city gate in the distance, "I can take you home directly."
"No need." Ziyuan shook her head, "When I enter the city, someone will naturally come to pick me up."
As the daughter of the Lord of Nantian City, she is as noble as a princess in the largest city in Southern Xinjiang.
"Okay, girl, be careful." Zhong Wen said with a smile, "Remember to be more careful in the future. Even the people closest to you may not harm you."
"Thank you, Zhong Wen." As the farewell was imminent, Ziyuan couldn't help but feel a trace of reluctance in her heart.
"It's just a matter of convenience." Zhong Wen waved his hand, "I'm leaving then, please take care of yourself."
After saying that, he patted the bald eagle gently and was about to greet it to set off when he suddenly heard Ziyuan's sweet voice: "Wait a minute."
"Girl, do you have any other orders?"
"Stop calling me girl, my name is Zi Yuan." Zi Yuan said dissatisfied.
"Isn't this girl very kind?" Zhong Wen muttered in a low voice, "Okay, Miss Ziyuan, what are your orders?"
"Are we friends?" As soon as Zi Yuan finished speaking, a blush appeared on her face unconsciously.
"Well... forget it." Zhong Wen hesitated for a moment, "After all, we have visited the manor together and ridden the Big Bird together."
"Pfft!" Zi Yuan was amused by him and laughed out loud, "Since we are friends, we should be honest with each other. You have seen my appearance, but I have not seen yours. Isn't it so unfair?"
"To be fair, I have seen your body before." Zhong Wen murmured, "Do you still want to see it back?"
"You... you're a bastard." Zi Yuanfen's face flushed red, her chest heaved, and she pointed at him with her trembling right hand and scolded him.
But Zhong Wen suddenly reached out and pulled off the black scarf wrapped around his head, revealing a delicate face: "Is this okay?"
"So you are so young!" Zi Yuan looked at Zhong Wen's young face and said in surprise, "You still dare to call me 'girl', I'm afraid you are younger than me."
"I have a good eye for beauty. In fact, I am already a hundred years old this year." Zhong Wen said with a smile, "Isn't it too much to call you 'girl'?"
"That's nonsense." Zi Yuan couldn't help but roll her eyes after listening to his nonsense. Zhong Wen's heart skipped a beat when she saw her charming and charming girlish attitude.
"If there are no other instructions, I have to leave." Zhong Wen said hurriedly.
"I, can I see you again?" Zi Yuan was a little shy in a rare way.
"We can meet each other if we are destined. Let's say goodbye." Zhong Wen whispered a few words to the bald eagle, and the big eagle flapped its wings and suddenly rose off the ground.
Seeing Zhong Wen's leaving figure, Zi Yuan's eyes turned slightly red and her heart felt slightly sour.
Suddenly, a loud voice floated from the bald eagle that was getting further and further away in the sky: "Girl, I live in Qingfeng Mountain, you can come and play with me when you have time!"
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of heroic laughter.
At the last moment, he finally felt that the way he left the scene was not shocking enough, so he couldn't help but show off.
Zi Yuan's delicate body trembled, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and her beautiful eyes were filled with mist.
On the table in the Imperial Study Room, memorials were flying like snow flakes and it was almost impossible to place them on the table.
Li Jiuye frowned when he saw the report about the civil and military impeachment of Lin Shangshu. "Why can't he tolerate Lin Zhenyue so much? I have never heard of any old grudge between the two."
In front of the desk, stood a middle-aged man in his fifties, dressed in red official uniform, with a face like a crown jewel, gentle and elegant: "It is said that Xiao Qing personally went to the Lin Mansion to propose marriage to Xiao Wenjian, but was rejected by Lin Shangshu. .”
"Just because of a mere marriage, you have to destroy the Minister of Household Affairs?" Li Jiuye heard this and sneered, "Has he taken me as the emperor seriously? It's rare that Lin Zhenyue doesn't want to join him. Do you really think that I will cut off my left and right arms?"
"Your Majesty, Xiao Wuhen lost another city." The man in red said solemnly.
Li Jiuye was silent after hearing this.
After a long time, the Daqian Emperor slowly said: "My eldest grandson, my majestic Emperor Daqian, will I always be under the control of the Xiao family and let them do whatever they want?"
It turns out that the man in red is none other than the Imperial Prime Minister Sun Jian.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that if you don't remove Lin Zhenyue from his official post and put him in prison, the war situation on the border will continue to get worse." Changsun Jian said with a hint of helplessness in his tone.
"What a Xiao Wuhen, he actually takes the safety of the empire as a child's play." Li Jiuye slapped the desk hard, stood there for a long time, and finally fell down on the golden bench behind him: "Let's see for two more days, if If we can't do anything, we have to temporarily aggrieve Lin Aiqing."
"Your Majesty, if Xiao Wuhen really abandoned the city just to take revenge on Lin Shangshu, then that would be fine." Changsun Jian suddenly hesitated, "I'm afraid things are not that simple."
"you mean…?"
"The Xiqi border has been peaceful for many years. Why did the Fulong Empire suddenly start attacking as soon as Lin Shangshu refused to marry?" Changsun Jian said slowly, "Your Majesty, you must be on guard."
"Are you saying that the Xiao family is actually collaborating with the enemy country?" Li Jiuye was shocked. Thinking of the possibility of collusion between the Xiao family and the Fulong Empire, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Of course, this is just my conjecture. Maybe Fulong Empire's attack is just a coincidence." Changsun Jian said seriously, "However, it is a fact that the border war is unfavorable. Your Majesty must make preparations in advance."
"What Aiqing said is true." Li Jiuye nodded, "Immediately send my secret edict to Yu Xuanji and Zeng Rui. Mr. Zeng has been pretending to be sick for so long, it's time to stretch his muscles and bones."
"Your Majesty is Holy Ming."
"By the way, you can send a message to Lao San for me. In the battle with Xiao Wenjian for the top spot, we can only win, not lose. If anything goes wrong, he, the Prince of Wu, should not be the one."
After many days of conditioning, Shangguan Tong's complexion became much rosier and his voice sounded full of vitality.
"Who knows, he probably went drinking with those bad friends again." Shangguan Mingyue curled her lips, "Besides aunt, who else can restrain him?"
"You girl, you are usually very smart, but why did you become so confused when you encountered Zhong Wen's incident?" Shangguan Tong laughed and said, "Those young masters are all distinguished people, and my brother-in-law will never be friends with them.
deficit."
"Yinhuan has tried to steal the formula of 'Sai Shen Xian' several times." Shangguan Mingyue changed the topic, "I am too busy dealing with him now, so I have no time to care about him."
"I heard that you set up the workshop for manufacturing the 'Sai Shenxian' in the imperial city?" Shangguan Tong asked.
"Yes, I asked Yiru to invest 30% of the shares, and she helped me arrange a place in the imperial city." Shangguan Mingyue nodded proudly, "If not for this, with the means of the Xiao family and Yinhuan Chamber of Commerce, I am afraid that we would have been killed long ago.
The recipe was stolen."
"Even in the imperial city, I'm afraid it may not be safe." Shangguan Tong shook his head and said, "Xiao Qing acts decisively and doesn't play by the rules. He might have been worried about Yiru's identity before, but now he has torn it apart
If he loses his face, he may not send someone to rob him."
"He dares to take action in the imperial city?" Shangguan Mingyue was stunned.
"Did you expect that he would send someone to assassinate me before?" Shangguan Tong frowned slightly, "The Xiao family's actions recently have been very radical and strange. I always have an ominous premonition that something big is going to happen."
"I will personally go to the Imperial City later to strengthen the defense around the workshop."
Shangguan Mingyue was very convinced of Shangguan Tong's intuition. Otherwise, how could he develop an ordinary Shangguan family into a large business firm that was second to none in Daqian in just a dozen years.
"Bring Lao Huo and the others with you."
"What should Daddy do?" Shangguan Mingyue asked worriedly.
"Since the assassination failed, he probably won't repeat his old tricks." Shangguan Tong said with a smile, "After all, he is the head of the Xiao family. He still needs to have the arrogance that he should have. Mr. Feng and your aunt are here, plus the princess's mansion.
The masters, if we don’t dispatch the two spiritual masters, they really can’t threaten me.”
"Okay, then I'll go now. Dad, please be careful."
Looking at his daughter's hurried away figure, Shangguan Tong reached into his arms with his right hand, took out a small medicine bottle, opened the cork, and poured out three pills.
If Leng Wushuang were here, he would definitely be able to recognize that these three pills were actually the "Shengsheng Dan" refined by Zhong Wen.
"Mr. Feng, I'm about to get started. Could you please help shield the fluctuations in spiritual power?"
"Master, please rest assured." Feng Lao's voice came from the roof.
Shangguan Tong sat cross-legged on the bed, put a "spiritual ascending pill" into his mouth, and started to run the technique...
A vague aura of spiritual master suddenly enveloped the imperial city. It did not contain any hostility, but it could be noticed by practitioners of the same level immediately.
"I wonder which master is here?" A blue figure slowly flew out of the imperial city.
"Old Xi, I'm here to avenge the slap I received back then." An old voice came from afar.
"It turns out you are Elder Chen of Yuxu Sect. You really don't know how to learn lessons." Venerable Xi sneered, "You were not my opponent back then, how can you beat me now?"
"Stop talking nonsense and change places!"
"Since you want to die so much, Xi will make it happen for you once."
The two figures flickered and quickly disappeared in mid-air.
…
"Xuanyuan Wudi, come out and die!"
A loud voice came from above the Jinjiawei camp.
"Ji Huangcheng, you are looking for death!"
The golden figure of Xuanyuan Wudi jumped out of the camp.
…
Several similar situations were repeated over the imperial capital, and several spiritual masters who guarded the imperial city were "seeking revenge" on the same day.
"I've heard for a long time that Master Jiu from the Imperial City of Daqian has the power to reach the gods. I'm here to learn a thing or two."
A subtle sound came into the palace, and only those who had reached the realm of spiritual masters could sense it.
Above the imperial city, Master Jiu appeared with an unkempt face and unkempt beard: "Your Majesty, you are very skilled."
"Please enlighten me!" The person who came was dressed in black and had a hood on his face. As a spiritual master, he was unwilling to show his face.
"It is no accident that so many spiritual masters appear in the imperial capital at the same time." Master Jiu shouted sternly, "What is your plan to lure away all the spiritual masters in the imperial city?"
"So what if you are seen through, you have no choice." The man in black said in a cold tone, "Fight with me somewhere else, otherwise, don't blame my men for being ruthless and hurting the lives of people in the imperial city."
"Let's go!" Lord Jiu sighed, "After I deal with you, it's the same if I go to question others."