Chapter 48(1/2)
Compared to the anxiety of the Tianjing Gang, Teng Jingcai was in a good mood at this moment. When he returned to the backyard, he called his concubine to have fun, and his appetite also became lust.
In the middle of the night, Teng Jing suddenly felt chest tightness and gradually started having nightmares. Then he woke up from the dream and found that his concubine's hand was pressing on his chest.
"Huh..."
Teng Jingcai gently moved the concubine's arm away and turned her body to continue sleeping.
Just when he was asleep, Teng Jing suddenly remembered something. He remembered that the sorcerer surnamed Zhou seemed to have said before that his magicians were limited. Some warriors formed qi and blood, but they did not have much effect when they met those with the most powerful martial arts. It was even more impossible to take effect when they met those with the innate martial arts.
Martial arts reach the innate, innate master?
The words of the young master of the Whale Gang came to my mind that day...
Teng Jingcai suddenly stood up, that man was lying! The magic of Zhou's surname is impossible to defeat the martial artist who reached the innate level!
Thinking back to the fact that the man with the surname Yu was seriously injured and unable to stand up, Teng Jingcai became more and more scared as he thought about it. He wouldn't have failed at all, right? Whoever did not have a surname Zhou was also arrested, right?
Teng Jingcai couldn't sleep now, and waited anxiously until dawn, so he couldn't wait to put on his clothes and prepare to go to the head of the Tianjing Gang. However, he couldn't see the person who was talking to the Tianjing Gang. He was just invited in for some tea. When a hall master came to chat, he said that the gang leader had gone out.
Teng Jingcai refused to give in and waited until the afternoon before leaving. He also ordered the Tianjing Gang's people to ask their gang leader to come back and go to find him.
But the next day, Teng Jing had been waiting at home for a day without waiting for anyone to come. He was unable to sleep or eat again and went to the headquarters of the Tianjing Gang early on the third day. This time he only saw some small minions, but no one else saw him, and he was still polite and did not dare to neglect him.
When he returned home to the study room, Teng Jingcai felt depressed and angry.
It was also at this moment that the servant came over carefully with a letter.
"Master, I have a letter from Yuezhou..."
"What, give it to me!"
Teng Jing couldn't wait to tear it apart as soon as he snatched the letter, and his face became worse and worse after browsing left and right.
With a "bang", Teng Jingcai slapped heavily on the desk, but the pain in his right hand immediately made him grin.
"You are the magistrate of Yuanjiang County, so poisonous..."
Teng Jingcai felt chill just after thinking about it.
"No, you can't sit still and wait for death!"
The next moment, Teng Jingcai immediately began to search for some valuable things hidden in his home.
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While the Tianjing Gang and Teng Jingcai were struggling in Wuzhou, another urgent memorial from Yuanjiang County had already arrived in Chengtian Prefecture.
This time the memorial focused on detailing the harm of witchcraft and evil magic. Unlike the last time, it immediately attracted the attention of the Ministry of Justice.
However, someone once again secretly sent news. When Sheng Shuying, the Minister of Personnel, learned about this in the middle of the night, he collapsed on the clerk's bed at home.
"It's over...what else did this bastard do? I'm going to kill me!"
Unexpectedly, Teng Jingcai dared to touch the witchcraft and harm people. This was a big taboo today, and ten heads were not enough to lose!
"Hiss...I can't sit still and wait for death!"
Sheng Shuying shook violently, pinched the paper in her hand into a ball, and then immediately searched in the study, finding the secret letter that Teng Jingcai had sent before. She was trembling slightly, taking several deep breaths before she could barely calm down, and immediately began to grind ink and start writing.
The next day, it was the grand court meeting. Sheng Shuying, who had not slept all night, put on her court clothes early and entered the palace. When she waited for the court room, he always felt that some officials were looking at him, as if they were just his own illusion.
When the court meeting finally arrived, a group of civil and military officials lined up to enter the Zichen Hall. Before the emperor came, Sheng Shuying was already very nervous.
"Sir, are you very hot?"
A colleague beside him spoke in confusion. Sheng Shuying reached out and touched his forehead, covered in fine sweat, and could only say awkwardly.
“Yes, it’s a little hot…”
"The Emperor arrived-"
Sheng Shuying lifted his spirit and looked upwards, and the ministers shouted together: "Welcome to the Lord--"
Under the guidance of the eunuch, a tall middle-aged man wearing a dragon robe and a black winged crown sat on the dragon throne and said calmly.
"All my dear friends are exempted from the gift!"
After the eunuch set aside, he said loudly.
"There is a book to report—"
When Sheng Shuying looked at the ministers, the officials of the Ministry of Justice, the prefect of Chengtian, and several other officials, he seemed to be coming out, so he quickly led the memorials to the public as soon as possible.
"Your Majesty, I have submitted a memorial to Sheng Shuying. I want to sue my old subordinate for corruption, abuse of power and murder. The man is even more shameless and tried to protect me with a secret letter. The crime is really unforgivable. I also want to confess that I have not found out that my former subordinates have committed such crimes. Please punish the emperor-"
The man on the dragon throne frowned slightly and looked at the minister below. Although there was a little distance, it could be seen that Sheng Shuying was very nervous.
Normally, this kind of thing is submitted directly to the Ministry of Justice. Even if it is really to be sent to the imperial court, you can go to the imperial study room in the afternoon. But Sheng Shuying was eager to choose to submit a memorial directly at the court meeting?
The emperor's expression became a bit intriguing.
“Show it.”
As soon as the emperor spoke, the eunuch took the memorial and delivered it to the emperor. After the emperor browsed, he looked towards the Ministry of Justice.
"Si Jingxiu, may a Yuezhou memorial be sent, can we tell that the case involving Teng Jingcai?"
The Minister of Justice walked out of the ministers.
"Reply to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Justice has indeed received relevant memorials, but has received two letters. Because it involves the imperial court's official, the previous one is under review and is preparing to discuss with the Supervision Department. Another letter was received yesterday..."
As he said that, the Minister of Justice looked at Sheng Shuying and then took out a memorial from his arms.
"I have roughly explained the contents, please read them."
“Show it.”
The emperor still said something unreasonable. But after the eunuch sent the memorial and unfolded it, his body began to sit upright, and his face gradually began to change. Then he glanced at Sheng Shuying and snorted coldly in his heart.
"Sheng Aiqing is worthy of being a pillar of the country, but he believed in the wrong villain. Maybe Teng Jing was still at peace when you were in Wuzhou."
After saying this, the emperor looked at the Minister of Justice and said lightly.
"A little Wuzhou magistrate, who has worked with merchants to harm so many folk women, just for the benefit of a brothel? Afterwards, he asked a demon to harm people with witchcraft. The Yuanjiang County Magistrate is afraid that there are still some things that he dare not report..."
As he said this, the emperor looked at his ministers.
"I dare to harm people by witchcraft, and there are even people in the martial arts world who dare to get involved in this matter, the Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple, and the Censorate. I will investigate this case carefully. Sheng Aiqing will stay in office first. If it is not related, it will naturally not be wronged."
"I will obey the order!"
Several officials immediately responded, and Sheng Shuying, who was on the other side, burst into cold sweats when she responded.
The emperor looked down with a expressionless face, but in addition to the witchcraft that made him feel bad, his eyes also glanced at the memorial on the side again, Midnight to examine the ghost?
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There were gradually storms in the court, but for the Yuanjiang County Government, the days became calmer, and there was no more twists and turns after the night attack.
Yi Shuyuan did not travel around during this period. In addition to completing the content of the county annals, he also savored the gains during this period.
This month Yi Shuyuan has lived a life of two points and one line between the kitchen hall and the Wenku, and has never even been to the bedding room. It is almost an alternative state of retreat, and it is not until today that he is considered to be the end of his mind.
For Yi Shuyuan today, every gain in his practice is worthy of joy, not to mention that he will gain more sense of accomplishment through self-understanding. Unfortunately, he still has a considerable distance to go from virtual to real.
Sitting in front of the desk, Yi Shuyuan's mentality, which had been retained by his previous harvest, once again flipped the book given by Huang Hongchuan, and played with the ebony with his other hand and nourished it with his own spiritual energy.
Although Yi Shuyuan does not understand any method of refining weapons, he feels that it is definitely not wrong to nourish himself with his own spiritual energy.
And Yi Shuyuan was able to memorize the whole book in front of him, but he still subconsciously turned it over.
At this moment, while Yi Shuyuan was reading a book, he recalled the various achievements of his previous practice, and could not help but think about it.
If I can really manifest this path, then in the future, the virtual and real thoughts can be transformed into thousands of things in my heart, and the illusion arises in my heart and then transforms into reality. It should be called a change of the earthly evil spirits!
Yi Shuyuan, who had more than half of his experience, couldn't help but smile again. In this way, there would be too many things he had to learn and adapt to. If he hadn't really practiced martial arts seriously and had reached the innate realm of internal strength, then it was still unknown whether he could succeed in this half.
However, Yi Shuyuan was not anxious, but felt a little happy. He traveled through the world and saw thousands of people seeing thousands of things and could do his own things, so why not do it?
"Hey, this is also fun! I can make Yi Shuyuan half a time, once, once, tens of thousands of times...tsk, it seems a bit too ambitious..."
Talking to himself, Yi Shuyuan suddenly looked at the door.
After a while, a child arrived nearby. He walked around the yard there, then stood on tiptoe and looked carefully in the library, but found that the people inside were also looking outside.
The child immediately scratched his head awkwardly and walked away.
However, Yi Shuyuan put down the ebony and Shubing, stood up and walked towards the door. He stood in front of the Wenku door and looked at the child who had left silently, the one he saved that day.
"Is there no one to accompany you?"
Yi Shuyuan's voice was calm and he tried not to scare the other party. The child was about to leave, but when he heard Yi Shuyuan's words, he stopped and stood in the corridor about ten steps away, answering crampedly.
"Just go around where you can go alone..."
The sound has a distinct non-local accent.
"Have you seen your father?"
The child's expression became a little panicked and scared. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded and answered timidly.
"I have taken me there and said that the person is my father... Sir, can I leave?"
"It's okay, you go."
To be continued...