Chapter 249 Determining the Goal

The world of blood rain, the imperial capital.

It looked like an ordinary restaurant, but its business was very good. Xu Jingming came to the second floor of the restaurant and ordered a few signature dishes.

"Miss Qiu Tong is really a gourmet. The recommended place is really good." Xu Jingming ate a piece of fish that was served. The fish meat was tender and smooth, and the natural fish aroma made Xu Jingming a little intoxicated.

"I've been in the imperial capital for so long, and this restaurant ranks first in terms of cooking fish." Xu Jingming approved, enjoying the food to his heart's content.

A large plate of pastries, Xu Jingming took one bite.

Xu Jingming also enjoyed the fragrant fruit wine.

"Have you heard? The empire's Western Region army was defeated! The main force of the army was 500,000 people, but they were all top-notch masters. They were completely defeated in the first battle... They were chased for hundreds of miles by King Wei's cavalry army in the Western Regions. The Western Region army was completely finished.

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"News came out from the palace today. I heard that His Majesty sent several officials to prison on the spot! The whole family of Meng Xu, the commander-in-chief of the Western Region Army, was arrested and put into the sky prison!"

"Yes, over there in Beicheng, the Meng family was crying loudly. All the Meng family members were taken to the prison, even the babies were not spared. The Meng family is completely finished."

There are people talking about real things in the restaurant.

Xu Jingming's ears suddenly stood up, and he was shocked: "The army of the Western Regions was defeated?"

He, the Bloody Rain Guard, only heard the news because he only went to the Nanfu headquarters occasionally and had dinner in a restaurant.

"The main force of the Western Region army is over?" Xu Jingming immediately realized that something was wrong, "The Western Region of the empire has been completely corrupted in recent years. It is very rare to be able to gather an army composed of 500,000 top-notch experts. This battle has been defeated! The entire

The Western Region is completely out of control."

"Once the Western Region loses control, the army of thieves can directly attack the imperial capital!" Xu Jingming said secretly.

It has been said before that the northwest is corrupt.

But there are still imperial troops in the Western and Northern Regions! The Western Region army can at least guarantee that the rebels cannot threaten the imperial capital.

"The Western Region has collapsed! The Northern Region is equally dangerous, and the Southern Region can barely maintain itself. As for the Eastern Region...the Eastern Region has the best order relatively speaking, and the Blood Rain Guards are strong enough." Xu Jingming said secretly, "The Eastern Region should be mobilized

The army from the region has entered the Western Region."

There was a lot of noise in the restaurant, and some people were panicking.

"The Western Region was defeated. If the rebels entered the imperial capital..."

"There is no army in the Western Region to stop the rebels. We have to think about it early."

"The walls of the imperial capital are towering, and there are also Blood Rain Guards and auxiliary troops. Defending the city is no problem."

"I can't say for sure about the war."

Those who can eat on the second floor of the restaurant are not ordinary people, and all of them are extremely concerned about the future fate of the imperial capital, because it is also related to the fate of themselves and the families behind them.

Xu Jingming finished eating, paid the bill, and left the restaurant.

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He walked around some prosperous places in the city and heard other places talking about the "Defeat of the Western Regions". The imperial capital was such a big place, and the explosive news could spread throughout the city in one day.

"The situation in the imperial capital is becoming more and more dangerous. I have to determine the target as soon as possible." Xu Jingming went to various alternative target places to investigate on the spot.

"The Yang family is considered a big family in the imperial capital. At least my team can still crack this hard nut." Xu Jingming came to a street where the Yang family was located. Families such as the Shen Gong family and the Feng Yu family could only deal with at most one person by themselves.

Ordinary children.

Those families were so terrifying that even the emperor did not dare to fall out with them.

A second-rate big family like the Yang family is the most suitable target. Just take one bite and run away! Just take one bite and you will be very satisfied.

"This street belongs to the Yang family." Xu Jingming looked at it, "The Yang family's mansion occupies half of the street. Many residences outside the mansion... are the residences of some branches of the Yang family and some of the guard servants."

Xu Jingming glanced at the mansion.

It’s so luxurious!

It is a huge mansion with a courtyard wall that is half a mile long and three feet high. This is the real mansion of a wealthy family in the imperial capital.

Xu Jingming walked past the mansion and came to some residential areas.

"Qiao San! The outside world calls you Mr. Qiao, but you have to understand that you are a dog of the Yang family! Your father, grandfather, and even your great-grandfather all ate from the Yang family. Your Qiao family has been the Yang family for generations.

The owner of our dog has given orders, but you, the dog, dare to disobey it?" A group of people blocked in front of a house, and a middle-aged man in the lead shouted angrily, "I really rebelled against you!"

In front of the house, a man in civilian clothes knelt there, holding his dead daughter, his eyes red: "Butler Bai, just because I declined the second young master this morning, you will kill my child?"

"A dog that doesn't obey its master will naturally die." The middle-aged man in charge said coldly, "Today I will kill one of your daughters. If you don't obey me, your two brothers, three sisters, and your mother... you

Everyone will die!"

"Third brother."

"Third brother." There were other people around who pulled Qiao San and persuaded him.

Qiao San looked at her daughter in her arms with tears in her eyes.

He wants to fight tooth and nail for revenge! But there is no hope at all with an egg hitting a stone. Moreover, his mother, his brothers and sisters, and their children... will all be implicated by him.

"I understand, I will set off with the second young master." Qiao San whispered.

"That's right. If you had agreed earlier, wouldn't there be so much trouble? Speaking of which, it was you who harmed your daughter." The middle-aged man at the head glanced around, and his voice was a little louder, "Don't think that you are here.

After living in the imperial capital for a hundred or two hundred years, you feel like you are a member of the imperial capital! Your ancestors have been members of the Yang family for generations! Whatever the Yang family asks you to do, do it obediently. If a dog is disobedient, the owner does not need to keep it anymore and can kill it.

have eaten!"

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he left with his men. As he left, he glanced coldly at Xu Jingming, a passing outsider. Even if he noticed Xu Jingming's bloody guard uniform under his blue robe, he didn't pay attention to it.

.

How could the dignified Yang family care about an ordinary Blood Rain Guard?

"Qiao San, you are stupid. The second young master asked you, who is willing to go with you? I asked you what you think, do you really honestly say that you want to stay in the imperial capital?"

"Remember from now on, do whatever the Yang family asks you to do."

"This is killing the chicken to scare the monkey."

People around were whispering.

Xu Jingming watched from the side, looking at the dead girl. There was a bloody whip mark on her chest. The whip was struck very hard, and the girl was whipped to death with one whip.

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That night.

Butler Bai hurriedly walked out of the Yang Mansion and walked towards his residence.

"I have to find a way to escape from the team and hide before leaving the city. By then, the Yang family will have no time to look for me in the vast imperial capital." Butler Bai thought, "If I follow the Yang family's team out of the imperial capital, there will be tens of thousands of people in the city.

How many people will die on this road?"

Butler Bai usually works in the Yang Mansion and only returns to his residence occasionally. It was rare for him to come out today.

"Um?"

Xu Jingming, who was investigating the terrain on the spot, noticed Butler Bai, who was the leader during the day.

call.

The spear came through the air silently.

"Not good." Butler Bai can be a housekeeper and is also a second-rate master. He sensed the fluctuation in the air flow and immediately drew a sharp sword from his waist.

But the spear was like a swimming dragon. When it touched the sharp sword, the spear was not blocked at all due to the strange rotation force, and naturally passed by the back of Butler Bai's head.

Tsk~~~

The gun barrel lightly grazed the back of Butler Bai's head. Butler Bai felt his brain tremble and fainted.

Xu Jingming walked forward, took Butler Bai with one hand, and left quietly.

*******

In an uninhabited residential woodshed.

Only then did Butler Bai wake up and saw a masked man standing in front of him.

"Who are you?" Butler Bai was about to move when he found that the joints of his hands and legs were dislocated. He was sitting there unable to stand up. "Hero, have you recognized the wrong person?"

"Butler Bai of the Yang Mansion, I want to ask you something." Xu Jingming's voice was hoarse. "Speak honestly and I will spare your life. If you dare to lie, you should know the consequences."

Butler Bai's heart trembled.

He captured himself alive in an instant, obviously his strength was far superior to his.

"Hero, just ask." Butler Bai was also timid and flattered, "I will tell you everything I know."

"The Yang family is leaving the imperial capital?" Xu Jingming said softly.

"Yes! The war situation in the Western Region is getting worse. Many wealthy families in the imperial capital are arranging some branches to leave the city." Butler Bai explained, "We are just worried that the imperial capital will be breached and the wealthy families will not be able to escape even if they want to."

Xu Jingming listened: "What's going on with the Yang family?"

"The Yang family has a great influence around Xuecheng in the eastern region of their hometown. The Yang family controls thousands of miles around. But the main branch of the Yang family is mostly in the imperial capital. This time, part of the main branch of the Yang family has brought many masters.
To be continued...