Tianfu City Royal Garden, in the lobby of the main hall.
The Seventh Princess Yuan Miaoyu, who was wearing a white slim-fitting dress, sat tall and tall behind a large long desk, resting her left forearm on the long desk, leaning slightly sideways, looking coldly at Hou Yingtai and Qin Daye who were kneeling on the ground in the hall.
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The city lord Hou Yingtai and the patrol officer Qin Daye were not only kneeling there obediently, but their foreheads were also touching the floor.
The gesture can be described as extremely respectful.
However, Yuan Miaoyu had a cold face and did not say a word for a long time.
The atmosphere in the palace can be said to be extremely cold.
The only one who was not affected was probably Lan Ying, the guard standing beside and behind Yuan Miaoyu.
As Yuan Miaoyu's bodyguard, Lan Ying usually has an expressionless face and says nothing.
At this time, she still had the same expression that she would not let strangers approach her.
"I have been in Tianfu City for so long, and I have been urged by the Holy Order to investigate the case as soon as possible. Why do you give me such an assignment? Is this the explanation you give to me?"
The cold reprimand burst out from Yuan Miaoyu's mouth, putting great pressure on Hou Yingtai and Qin Daye who were kneeling in the hall.
Neither of them dared to raise their heads, but subconsciously lowered their bodies lower.
After Yuan Miaoyu finished speaking, Hou Yingtai quickly replied: "Your Highness, I know that I am guilty, but I am incompetent, so I can only give you such a responsibility, please punish me!"
Before Yuan Miaoyu finished speaking, her eyes suddenly shot out two bright silver lights. The silver lights flashed in front of Qin Daye and disappeared into Qin Daye's head in an instant.
The next second, an astonishing change occurred.
Qin Daye, who saw the silver light entering his body, suddenly raised his head in shock, and his whole body immediately shook like chaff, "Spare, spare my life...please, please, your highness, please spare your life...spare your life..."
Qin Daye's mouth trembled and he begged for mercy urgently, but the shaking on his body became more and more intense.
Hou Yingtai, who was kneeling in front of him, didn't know what was happening behind him, and he didn't dare to get up and look back. He still maintained his kneeling position, motionless.
Qin Daye, whose body was shaking like chaff, was surrounded by silver light. The silver light wandered erratically on his body surface. As the silver light continued to wander on his body surface, Qin Daye soon became unable to make any sound.
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The most astonishing thing is - as time goes by, Qin Daye's face ages rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. First, there are more and more white hairs on his head, and more and more wrinkles on his face.
Gradually, his figure became thinner and stooped.
In less than a minute, Qin Daye, who was shaking all over, saw teeth falling out one after another from his trembling mouth.
Soon, his whole body trembled suddenly, a sob came out of his throat, his body froze suddenly, and finally stopped shaking.
but……
His eyes, which had become extremely cloudy, suddenly dimmed at this moment, like two dim lights... completely extinguished.
His body, which had become old and thin, slowly fell to the ground, no longer moving or making a sound.
With one glance, Yuan Miaoyu's Tianji Pupil took away the life from Qin Daye's whole body.
Obviously, her Tianjitong ability is different from Fang Xingtong's Tianjitong ability.
This is normal. Historically, almost everyone who awakened the Tianji Tong had different abilities.
With a cold face, Yuan Miaoyu, who was sitting behind the long desk, saw that all the life in Qin Daye had disappeared. She slowly stood up, walked down the high steps step by step, and came to the city lord Hou Yingtai who was still kneeling on the ground.
before.
He said calmly: "City Lord Hou, get up!"
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Hou Yingtai trembled and stood up from the ground with a pale face. He still didn't dare to look back at Qin Daye behind him, but the movement coming from behind him just now, especially Qin Daye's begging for mercy, made him guess.
What will happen to Qin Daye now?
This made Hou Yingtai feel chilly in his heart.
It's not that he is timid. In fact, when he usually faces the officials below, those officials below him are also trembling with fear.
He is now afraid of Yuan Miaoyu, not only because of Yuan Miaoyu's identity, but also because of Yuan Miaoyu's thunderous method of killing people in anger.
As far as he knew, not all of the royal children were ruthless, some of them were born weak and did not dare to order killings from childhood to adulthood.
But the seventh princess Yuan Miaoyu is obviously not so merciful.
"Hou Yingtai! You care so little about human life. Do you know that as long as I tell my father the truth, your position as city lord and your head will be moved?"
Yuan Miaoyu softly asked Hou Yingtai, who had his head lowered in front of him.
Hou Yingtai quickly raised his hands and said, "I know! I know my crime."
Yuan Miaoyu raised a sneer at the corner of her mouth and asked: "Then do you know why I only executed Qin Qianshi and not you?"
Hou Yingtai said in his heart: I am the lord of a city. According to the law, even if you are a princess and you carry His Majesty's will, you do not have the right to execute me directly.
But he didn't dare to say this.
He was afraid that Yuan Miaoyu would become angry out of humiliation and would have him executed immediately, regardless of the consequences.
At that time, even if she would be punished by the above, it would be meaningless to him, Hou Yingtai.
Because at that time, he was already dead.
"I am stupid, please give me some advice, Your Highness!"
Hou Yingtai replied honestly.
Yuan Miaoyu's face darkened, she put her hands behind her waist and said coldly: "Hou Yingtai! I don't care if you are pretending to be stupid or not, since you asked me to give you a hint, I will ask you clearly, are you willing to ask me?
Loyalty?"
Hou Yingtai was so shocked that his whole body trembled.
Of course he knew what she meant by asking.
Allegiance?
According to the rules, every minister of the Dayan Dynasty only needs to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.
In addition, only when princes compete for the position of crown prince, they will win over their ministers in private and make them loyal to them in private.
But the seventh princess is a woman. According to convention, princesses are not qualified to compete for the position of heir apparent.
How dare she?
She actually has such ambitions?
This is so scary.
Hou Yingtai was so frightened that his back and a layer of cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead.
He did not dare to express his position easily on this issue, because this was definitely a road of no return. It was easy to say allegiance, but if the person who succeeded the throne in the future was not the seventh princess, then Hou Yingtai and his family would be in trouble.
They will all be buried with the Seventh Princess.
Reason told him that he could not be loyal to the Seventh Princess.
Because he didn't think the seventh princess would have a chance of winning in the competition for the crown prince position.
but……
Does he have any choice at this moment?
The evidence for his disregard of human life and the creation of unjust, false, and wrongful convictions has been handed to the Seventh Princess. If he dares to say no now, and the Seventh Princess sends a memorial to His Majesty the Emperor, Hou Yingtai can be killed.
It might even affect his whole family.
At this moment, Hou Yingtai's heart was full of bitterness. He regretted that he had taken the initiative to give such an excuse to the Seventh Princess.
He originally thought that the Seventh Princess only needed the outcome of one case so that she could return to Tianque City for business.
Therefore, after seeing that no valuable clues had been found in that case, he listened to the advice of the patrol officer Qin Daye - to use any means necessary to close the case as soon as possible and give the Seventh Princess an explanation so that she could send the Seventh Princess away from Tianfu City.
If he had known that the seventh princess Yuan Miaoyu had the ambition to compete for the throne, how could he, Hou Yingtai, take the initiative to provide her with such an excuse?
——Cleverness leads to misunderstanding, Qin Daye mistook me...
Hou Yingtai closed his eyes and this thought flashed through his mind.
Immediately, his knees softened, and he knelt down in front of Yuan Miaoyu again, his forehead touching the ground, and loudly expressed his stance: "My lord... Hou Yingtai, I swear to heaven that from today on, I will always be loyal to Her Majesty the Seventh Princess! I will never regret it! If
Those who violate this oath will be punished by heaven and earth!"
Yuan Miaoyu looked with satisfaction at Hou Yingtai who was kneeling in front of her and loyal to her.
A smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, she nodded slowly and said, "Very good! Hou Yingtai, you really did not disappoint me. Now you can get up and look back to see what happened to Qin Qian."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Hou Yingtai stood up respectfully and slowly turned back to look at Qin Daye behind him.
When he saw Qin Daye's death clearly, Hou Yingtai's face changed suddenly, his pupils suddenly shrank, and a look of shock flashed in his eyes.
"This this……"
His hands were shaking with shock.
Yuan Miaoyu turned around, walked up the steps step by step, and walked back to the back of the long case. As she walked, she said: "Hou Yingtai, I know that you just had no choice but to pledge your allegiance to Gu. In fact, you don't feel that Gu has a chance of winning, right?
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Hou Yingtai, who was still in shock, mumbled twice but said nothing.
Yuan Miaoyu: "Now that you have pledged allegiance to Gu, how about I give you a little confidence? How powerful is Gu's Tianji Pupil? Are you qualified to compete for the throne?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she turned around and sat back behind the long desk again. The rotating skirt and the half-smiling expression made her very powerful at this moment.
Hou Yingtai's hands were trembling, and he suddenly turned around and knelt down again. However, this time he did not throw himself to the ground, but knelt straight down, cupped his fists with his hands, and said solemnly: "Your Highness is so talented that you must be blessed with Zhong Shenxiu.
Your Majesty Yingtai swears to follow His Highness to the death!"
The smile on Yuan Miaoyu's face became brighter, but a murderous intent flashed in her eyes, and she said in a deep voice: "Very good! Now that the case is over, I will return to Tianque City tomorrow. After I leave, you must take good care of Tianfu City.
There is no need to expand the army on a large scale, lest anyone be alert, but I want you to recruit more top experts, the more the better, do you understand what I mean?"
Hou Yingtai bowed his head and accepted the order: "Yes! Your Highness."
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The same morning.
After dressing up simply, Li Zhongwu stopped a taxi on the street and went to buy various training equipment based on the information he found online last night.
Since he has accepted Yan Zhenxin as his disciple, he naturally wants to teach Yan Zhenxin some skills.
After all, Yan Zhenxin was his great disciple in this era.
In the future, he will represent Li Zhongwu’s face to a certain extent.
If the eldest disciple is defeated easily, people will definitely look down on him as a master, and they will also look down on his Unity Sect.
Therefore, he is really serious about teaching Yan Zhenxin real kung fu.
Sandbags, wooden dummies, plum blossom stakes, wooden knives, wooden swords, wooden guns...etc., he planned to prepare them all.
Because he felt that Yan Zhenxin, as the first disciple, should not only learn one set of grapples, as that would not be in line with his status as the first disciple.
Looking back, he planned to ask Yan Zhenxin what other kung fu he wanted to learn?
Anyway, he knows many kinds of kung fu.
He can basically master swords, guns, swords and sticks, and all eighteen kinds of martial arts.
When the time comes, he will be able to teach Yan Zhenxin in accordance with his aptitude based on his talents and interests.
Moreover, now that the eldest disciple has been accepted, he feels that it is time to accept a few more disciples.
It's like raising sheep.
One sheep is raised, and so is a group of sheep, so why not raise a few more at a time?
If you raise a few more, that's not right! If you teach a few more, there is usually an atmosphere of chasing each other among these disciples. From time to time, they can compete with each other and learn from each other, and everyone can progress faster.
With this in mind, he planned to build a plaque for the Heyi Gate as soon as possible.
Hanging up the signboard of the sect can attract people to come and become disciples.
When he arrived at the store that sold martial arts equipment, Li Zhongwu selected a batch of equipment according to his own plan. He only didn't buy the plum blossom pile, and there was no need to buy it here.
Moreover, there are no plum blossom stakes for sale in this equipment store.
In this era when ancient martial arts have been lost, no one should know how to practice plum blossom pile.
Later, he could buy some wood and bury it in the yard himself.
However, his yard seems a bit small and may not be able to fit a full set of plum blossom stakes.
Fortunately, there is no rush at the moment. For newly recruited disciples, if they want to practice to the extent that they can drive plum blossom piles, it will definitely not be possible in a short time.
After ordering the equipment he needed, leaving an address with the store, and asking the store to deliver it to his door in the afternoon, Li Zhongwu was about to leave when he suddenly heard a news report coming from the TV that was playing a program in the store.
"Criminal elements are becoming more and more rampant nowadays. Previously, gangsters attacked and killed three of our Tianfu City police officers in the street. One of the three police officers was gold-collar policeman Dai Youzhi, and the other two were also silver-collar police officers.
Our elite patrolmen in Tianfu City, the impact of this case was so bad that it even alerted His Majesty the Emperor, and ordered the Seventh Princess Yuan Miaoyu to come to Tianfu City to supervise the case..."
Suddenly hearing such a report on the TV, Li Zhongwu's eyes were subconsciously drawn to it.
Because it was Li Zhongwu who killed Dai Youzhi.
Li Zhongwu squinted at the female anchor who was still reporting on the TV news.
"Under the supervision of the Seventh Princess, the city's patrol office tried their best to pursue day and night. Finally, they made a breakthrough last night. They surrounded and annihilated the gangster Shi Congyi and others in their hiding place, and restored peace to Tianfu City. Please see the detailed news below
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The scene on the TV changed and turned into a scene of a group of city patrol horses and city guards patrolling in the dark, besieging a small courtyard of a private house.
Li Zhongwu saw all six people in the small courtyard killed.
Before he could see more clearly, the picture on the TV changed again, and it turned into a gray-haired policeman with a golden collar speaking at a press conference.
"Under the supervision of the seventh princess, the care of the city lord, and the command of our patrolman Fang Qin Qianshi, we made strict arrangements and carefully deployed, and finally surrounded and annihilated the flying knife master Shi Congyi and his accomplices last night
Yes! We originally wanted to arrest them alive, but these gangsters resisted desperately. In order to reduce our casualties, we could only order them to be wiped out..."
After seeing this in the news, Li Zhongwu's brows were furrowed tightly, his expression was very surprised.
He felt it was ridiculous. Li Zhongwu was clearly the one who killed Dai Youzhi and the others, but today the news said that the murderer had been wiped out.
Is the ability of these police officers to handle cases this bad?
Or...are these police officers deliberately creating unjust, false, and wrongful convictions in order to close the case as quickly as possible? Just like when Dai Youzhi wanted to pin the crime on him, Li Zhongwu?