Prime Minister Zheng probably did not expect that someone would rush to punish him.
"Don't you have any strange hobbies?" He frowned and stared at Zhu Quan in front of him, asking with a slightly stunned expression.
Zhu Quan didn't answer his question and just took out a stack of banknotes from his arms.
"This is the silver tael obtained from the liquidation of my family's property, totaling three hundred and sixty-seven taels. Please take a look at the details!"
"Huh?" Zheng Xiang was stunned again. He looked at the banknote in Zhu Quan's hand, and his face suddenly showed emotion.
He didn't want to pay attention to Zhu Quan. After all, compared to the matter at hand, he had received more important orders from Zheng Lingyin on other matters.
But if you just say a few words, you can get hundreds of taels of silver. No one would refuse such a good thing.
He took the banknote, and there was a piece of letter paper under the banknote. Zheng Xiang glanced at it and saw that it was probably a list of some items, with their values converted into silver taels attached.
Zheng Xiang didn't care about this. He just carefully checked the banknotes and confirmed that they were genuine. He suddenly smiled.
"Are these for me?" He looked at Zhu Quan and asked, feeling that this guy who had caused him a lot of trouble before looked much more pleasing to the eye now.
"Your Excellency, you misunderstood. This is handed over to the Sword Master Hall." Zhu Quan also looked at Prime Minister Zheng and said.
"Hehe, one idea, one idea." Zheng Xiang grinned.
Zhu Quan did not refute this, but simply asked: "Now, Master Zheng, are you willing to punish me?"
Prime Minister Zheng was stunned. Although it was strange, it was obviously not his style not to take advantage of the situation in front of him.
He nodded, coughed and said, "Since Mr. Zhu is so determined, it's not impossible."
"On this letter, there is a detailed list of all the assets I currently own. I converted them into silver coins and handed them over together. I also asked you to check them. If necessary, you can go to my residence to review them." Zhu Quan
A thoughtful reminder.
"Young Master Zhu came to your home to receive the punishment on his own. His admission of mistake is obvious to all, so there is no need to go to so much trouble. I believe Mr. Zhu." Zheng Xiang said with a smile.
Zhu Quan nodded when he heard this: "In that case, please ask Mr. Zheng to issue a certificate of punishment according to the sword hall. I have also made a backup of this asset list. I also ask you to stamp your official seal and give the backup to me to avoid any disputes in the future.
.”
Zheng Xiang naturally had no doubts about this, and quickly ordered someone to get the official seal, and returned one of the backup lists to Zhu Quan.
After doing this, Zheng Xiang happily put away the banknote.
He was about to leave, but Zhu Quan stopped him.
"Why are you regretting it?" Upon seeing this, Zheng Xiang frowned and looked wary.
Zhu Quan looked at Prime Minister Zheng seriously and said at that time: "Master Zheng forgot that there are still twenty court staffs."
Prime Minister Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then he stopped laughing.
"Or forget it..." He said, even a shameless person like him felt a little embarrassed to take someone's money and then beat them up.
But Zhu Quan said seriously: "The legal principles are so good, how can it be abolished?"
"If Zhu Quan is not punished, and if someone in Tianxuan City has such luck in the future, how will Zhijian Tang manage the millions of households in Tianxuan City?"
"Sir, the law has no mercy, please use your court staff quickly!"
At that moment, as Zhu Quan said these words, the golden light in his eyes seemed to be flowing again.
Prime Minister Zheng did not see such a strange thing, but felt that at the same time as he said these words, Zhu Quan's whole body seemed to be filled with a sacred aura.
He was stunned for a while, and then he said.
"Then let's fight..."
…
"Do you think there's something wrong with that guy?"
"You can still find someone to beat yourself up!"
"I really feel like I have lived too long!"
On the way home, Meng Jin muttered angrily.
Chu Qingxiao rarely saw Meng Jin like this. He couldn't help but look at him a few more times. Without waiting for him to speak, Sanniang beside him looked sideways at Meng Jin and asked, "Miss Meng seems to care about Brother Zhu very much."
Meng Jin was stunned and his face turned red: "I...why do I care about him! I just think...his father has gone to such an extent to let him live, how can he still act so wantonly and not cherish him so much?"
Uncle Zhu asked for his life."
Chu Qingxiao also said at this time: "Miss Meng's words are wrong."
"Uncle Zhu really hopes that Zhu Quan will live a good life, but living a good life does not mean living an ignoble existence."
"In other words, Uncle Zhu and Zhu Quan have different understandings of the four words of living well."
"As outsiders, it is difficult for us to empathize with his experience, so we don't need to be too anxious to evaluate his lifestyle."
"At least if you wait a little longer, maybe there will be results."
Meng Jin couldn't quite understand the meaning of Chu Qingxiao's words. She frowned: "I didn't comment on him, but he is still provoking the sword master. What is the difference between what Uncle Zhu did before his death?"
?”
"Didn't you also say that? Although he is doing the right thing, his method is too stupid and will harm others and himself one day!"
Chu Qingxiao shook his head: "On the contrary, I think what he is doing now is very different from the past. I don't know if it will harm himself, but it should be able to save many people."
Chu Qingxiao spoke with confidence, but Meng Jin frowned. She really couldn't figure out how to save people after such a stupid thing like running to receive twenty courtyard sticks, especially when she thought about how he was beaten after twenty courtyard staffs.
Unable to straighten up and looking embarrassed as he was being helped away, Meng Jin became increasingly angry.
She stamped her feet and said to Chu Qingxiao: "I have something to do, you go back first!"
Then, he left quickly.
Seeing this, Chu Qingxiao was a little confused and looked in the direction Meng Jin was leaving: "Miss Meng! Go..."
Before Chu Qingxiao could ask his question, Sanniang beside him tugged at the corner of his clothes.
"Why are you stopping me?" Chu Qingxiao asked, looking confused.
"Qingxiao, are you really that slow?" Seeing him like this, Sanniang showed even more confusion than Chu Qingxiao.
"Why am I so slow?" Chu Qingxiao asked puzzledly, "In the past, in Wuling City, Mr. Luo from the academy often said that I was the smartest among a group of students!"
He also said something angrily.
Sanniang rolled her eyes and said in frustration: "Forget it, Qingxiao, it's really hard for you to understand this kind of thing."
Chu Qingxiao was still a little confused.
He looked at Sanniang and was about to continue asking questions. He didn't know if he was a little scared by Chu Qingxiao's stupid temperament. Sanniang quickly changed the subject: "Where are those guys going in a hurry just now? Are they related to Tianxuan recently?"
Is it related to the disappearances in the city?”
After Zheng Xiang solved Zhu Quan's strange request, he left quickly with his disciples in a hurry.
"I'm not sure. It seems that the disappearance case has been in Tianxuan City for half a year. It happens every month and a half. Now a total of thirteen people have disappeared, but it seems that there is nothing in the sword-wielding hall so far.
I don’t know whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster." Chu Qingxiao responded.
"That's hard to say. The lack of protection could be a divine disaster?" Sanniang responded casually.
Chu Qingxiao frowned: "You mean the Outer God?"
"That's hard to say. It could be an outside god, it could be a demon god that is not tolerated by the current human race's heaven, or it could be an ancient god like Qingxiao."
"After walking around Tianxuan City for half a day, I felt at least four to five divine auras." Sanniang said with a very calm expression.
"Huh?" Chu Qingxiao looked horrified: "Four or five divine auras? Are there so many gods in Tianxuan City?"
"This is only on the surface. There may be many existences that hide divinity." Sanniang said: "Based on the memories I inherited in the divine pillar, this is not a strange thing."
"Before the seven ancestral gods of the human race ascended to heaven, this world was a place where humans and gods lived together."
"Even if we go back hundreds of years, although the ancestor gods of the human race are on guard against the ancient gods and foreign races, they are not very hostile to most of the demon gods. However, in the past few hundred years, for some unknown reason, they have suddenly changed their attitude and hunted and killed the demigods who were cultivated from monsters.
Therefore, many demons and gods either hide in the mountains or forests, or sneak into busy cities, and live like ordinary people."
This was the first time Chu Qingxiao heard such a statement, and it took him some time to digest it.
"So, Sanniang, do you think the disappearances in Tianxuan City were caused by these gods hidden in the busy city?" Chu Qingxiao asked again.
Sanniang shook her head: "I just said it casually. After all, I only heard about this case from your mouth."
"As for the truth, we can only know it after the people in the sword-wielding hall find out."
"It's just that, from what Zhaozhao and the others said, it seems that the people in Zhijian Hall are not keen on investigating cases, but prefer to do things that safeguard the interests of Tianxuan Mountain."
Chu Qingxiao was also a little helpless about this: "This case has caused quite a stir in the city. After all, Tianxuan City is the gathering place for the disciples of the outer sect of Tianxuan Mountain. Logically speaking, Tianxuan Mountain should not be so unconcerned. Just now I saw Prime Minister Zheng.
That group of people looked so anxious, I think there should be nothing more urgent than this in the entire Tianxuan City."
Sanniang shrugged her shoulders, she understood Chu Qingxiao's temperament.
He is good at everything, but sometimes, he always thinks too well of people, or always overestimates their bottom line.
But Sanniang's experience made her understand that there is no bottom line for things like human beings.
She didn't argue, she just said: "I hope so."
…
Sun Li walked all the way back to the door of his small courtyard.
He was already a bit drunk, but this bit of drunkenness didn't bother him. On the contrary, it just aroused his interest.
While humming a little tune, he staggered to the door of his house.
"Old man, I heard that the Jiuqu River in Quzhou stretches for three hundred miles, like water from the nine heavens, falling straight down to the earth. It is so powerful that it makes people gasp for breath."
"Do you think it can compare with the magnificence of Yuhu Lake? And can it compare with the mighty and long Qiyue River?"
"We have been traveling in this world for thirty or forty years, and we have never been to any place, but we missed the beautiful scenery at our doorstep."
The sword in his arms trembled slightly when he heard the words, as if in response to the old man's words.
A smile appeared on Sun Li's somewhat drunken face. In the past few years, his body was not as strong as before, so he had been staying in Tianxuan City without moving around.
Especially in the past year or two, his health has been deteriorating. It was precisely because he knew that his end was approaching that he thought of sending the prairie fire sword back to the sword pool.
He and his sword have stayed in this hanging city for too long.
it's here.
The wind beside the weeping willow river was too gentle to wrinkle his clothes.
The wine at Xiaoyue Si was too weak to quench his sorrow.
Even the sunrise and sunset here are dull and dull.
He doesn't belong here.
He is a swordsman, and he should roam the world with his sword.
In the company of strong wine and yellow horses, I sleep with the west wind and mountain rain.
He has to walk on the road until that day comes.
This enlightenment came a few years late, but as long as he was still alive, it was not too late.
There was fire in his eyes.
The thought of being able to set off again soon made his mood as good as his sword.
"Don't worry, old man. I'll go to the market tomorrow to find a good horse. If everything goes well, we can set off the day after tomorrow." He patted the sword in his arms and softly comforted the obviously anxious old man.
As if he understood what the old man said, the prairie prairie sword stopped trembling.
However, this silence only lasted for less than a few breaths. The next moment, a rapid and sharp sword sound suddenly rose from the blade of the prairie prairie sword.
Sun Li, who has been with the Liaoyuan Sword day and night for many years, suddenly became alert - he knew that this was the Liaoyuan Sword warning him!
He looked around and saw dozens of figures surrounding him from everywhere.
The leading man looked familiar to him, but before Sun Li could remember who he was, the other man turned to Sun Li with a ferocious smile and said, "Sun Li, a disciple of the inner sect of Shenhe Peak, violated the sect's rules and hid the spiritual sword secretly."
"Zheng Xiang of the Sword Hall has been ordered to bring you to justice!"