At night, dense clouds had already covered the moonlight.
The strong wind is still breathing, but the snowflakes flying all over the sky have long disappeared in the past few days.
City Lord's Mansion, inside the study.
A little candle light illuminated the entire study as bright as day.
Dressed in brocade clothes, City Lord Fang Datong sat on the chair in front of the desk. He took the confidential documents on the desk in front of him and opened them one by one, looking at the contents recorded on them.
It was freezing cold outside, and it was equally cold inside the study. The brocade clothes on his body looked frighteningly thin, but he couldn't feel the slightest chill.
Just between normal breathing, there seemed to be flames burning around Fang Datong.
"Pfft..." There was a muffled sound.
It seemed as if a cold wind was blowing, blowing open the study door.
Fang Datong frowned, and he casually put down the half-read letter in his hand.
He clearly remembered that the door to the study where he was sitting had already been bolted shut by him. Logically speaking, no matter how strong the wind outside was, it should be difficult to blow the study door open directly.
Standing up, he glanced around. After making sure that there seemed to be nothing unusual in the house except for the cold wind still howling outside, he walked to the door in a few steps, closed the study door again, and bolted the door again.
tight.
After doing all this, when he turned around and was about to sit back at the desk again, his expression changed and he was stunned on the spot.
"It's been so many days, Fang Datong, there's still no result for the things we told you to investigate carefully?" In front of the desk, above the seat where Fang Datong was sitting just now, I don't know when, there has been an additional person.
There are two figures, one white and one red.
Tianyin, who was dressed in white, sat on the chair, while Meiji, who was dressed in red robe, sat directly on the desk.
Of the two of them, one had a cold face, and the other always had a smile on his lips, and their eyes fell on Fang Datong.
"Datong below pays homage to Emperor Tianyin, and pays homage to Empress Meiji..."
With a shiver in his heart, Fang Datong reacted instantly. He knelt down on one knee and without saying a word, gave a big salute to the two people in front of him.
Immediately afterwards, he trembled and continued to report: "Emperor, Madam, during this period, I have dispatched all the personnel in the city lord's palace."
"It's a pity that although many people have been arrested and all the prisons in the city lord's palace are overcrowded, we have still had little effect. We have not found any clues about the person the two adults are looking for."
"With the purpose of preferring to kill the wrong ones, we have spared no one who has entered our Donglin City in the past few months. We have carefully investigated them. Now those people are either dead or still in detention."
In the prison of the mansion..."
With his head lowered, Fang Datong did not dare to raise his head, let alone face the sharp eyes of Tianyin Meiji and the other two people looking at him.
To be honest, he has really tried his best on top of what Tianyin Meiji told him.
But if he can't produce outstanding results, no matter how much he does, it's still just a waste of effort.
"Fang Datong, what do you want me to say about you?"
"If I remember correctly, Donglin City is in your hands and has been under your control for thousands of years. How little control do you have? I just asked you to find someone, and you have been searching for six or seven days, but you still haven't found any clues?
"
"Just asking you, can you find someone? If you can't, just take the blame and resign, and find someone to take over your position and take control of Donglin City!"
Tianyin, who had always had a gloomy face, looked directly at Fang Datong and snorted coldly.
Although Mei Ji on the side did not speak, there was also an obvious chill in her beautiful eyes as she looked at Fang Datong.
"Emperor, empress, give me another five days, and I will definitely find that person's traces."
"If I can't do it, I won't have the shame to continue sitting in the position of the Lord of Donglin City. I will leave by myself and go back to the Demon Palace headquarters!"
"When the time comes, no matter how the palace masters punish me, I will accept it!"
With his head so low that it almost dropped to his crotch, Fang Datong gritted his teeth and promised.
His words were almost equivalent to issuing a military order, but how confident was he in finding the person Tianyin Meiji and the two were looking for?
He was not sure at all. In this situation, he was forced to make this oath.
"Five days?"
"Remember what you said. When that time comes and you still haven't found anything, don't blame us for being ruthless and merciless!"
Looking at each other, Tianyin Meiji and the two nodded.
After leaving a few words, a cold wind blew by, and the two people who were still in the study just now disappeared completely as if they had never appeared.
…
In the early morning, the wind and snow that had lasted for a long time finally stopped completely, and a red sun slowly rose from the sky.
Unfortunately, it was still freezing cold on the streets, and the rising sun could not bring much warmth to the people in Donglin City.
"The damn wind and snow made me huddled in the house for a long time and I couldn't go out. If I go out to the city today, if I can't get any more harvest, my family will run out of food!"
"To each other, who knew that this snowstorm would last for nearly half a month? If I had known this earlier, I should have gone to gambling houses less often and kept more bacon at home."
"Boss Wu, if you want to leave the city, you can't go this way. You have to go through the East City Gate. I don't know what the city lord's mansion is doing. All the city gates are closed. Only the East City Gate allows us to pass!"
…
It was rare that the weather improved, and the streets were crowded with people. Many people gathered in groups and headed towards the city gate.
It's a pity that after receiving the news that the city gate here has been closed, most people had to turn back, change the direction out of the city, and continue moving forward.
"drive……"
A skinny maroon horse, a tattered carriage, and a hunchbacked old man who looked like he could be blown away by a gust of wind, leaned listlessly on the shaft of the carriage, waving the whip in his hand, and mingled among the crowd.
Sitting in the shabby carriage, Chen Hai flipped through a miscellaneous book to pass the time.
All the other servants in the mansion have been dismissed by him.
After all, their strength is limited, and it is not suitable for Chen Hai to take them back to Jinxia Island across a million miles.
When he left Donglin City, he took Qingmu with him.
Aoki, who refused to be a coachman even to death, did not escape this fate after all. He picked up his riding whip, drove the broken carriage, and drove slowly towards the only passable gate of the East City.