While Changqing was still shocked by Qiang Yujun's archery skills, Afu said coldly: "Now the Pure Light Goddess has thousands of people following her. If she is shot to death in full view of everyone, it will immediately cause turmoil.
The gain outweighs the loss. It’s best not to do it unless it’s absolutely necessary.”
"Then listening to what you say, we can't mobilize the army to encircle and suppress you?" Qiang Yujun said angrily, then crossed his arms and became sulky.
If Afu followed his own style, he would have secretly discovered the movements of Pure Light Goddess, and then looked for opportunities to assassinate her, coming and going like the wind, and getting the job done quietly.
As for other people, they can be used casually to help attract attention to themselves and make it easier for her to start.
When dealing with Anquiti, Afu used this method, but something changed at the last moment. With the help of Star Essence, Anquiti was very powerful, so she miscalculated and lost.
As a high-ranking vampire, Afu cannot allow herself to make the same mistake. Even though this Pure Light Goddess may not be as good as An Quti, she doesn't want to experience the taste of failure again.
"You continue to send people to monitor the movements of the Pure Light Goddess." Afu became cautious: "I will go find that Xue Yongnian later and ask him to contact the governors of various states in Hebei Province to restrict the movement of people everywhere."
The Fifteenth Road of Daxia was not a government office to govern the people, but to supervise the jurisdiction. Therefore, except for the prefectures and counties that were clearly under the jurisdiction of each border town, the other states did not have a clear superior-subordinate relationship. Usually there were only inspectors appointed by the court.
Envoys, interview envoys, and Xuanfu envoys can dispatch states, but these positions are not permanent.
At present, the Xuanfu envoy responsible for disaster relief is still on the way. To prevent unexpected changes, Afu plans to ask Xue Governor of Hebei Province to come forward to put an end to refugee activities, thereby trapping Jingguang Tiannv in one place for her own convenience. p>
"Wait!" Changqing heard the words and immediately stopped him: "Hebei has been suffering from drought for months now, and the affected people have to flee for food. Now that you are asking the states to beg their neighbors and close their borders, aren't you letting the refugees starve to death?" p>
"Unless you have a way to stop the Purity Goddess who is leading thousands of refugees to run around." Afu looked at Changqing with a hint of contempt, as if she was looking at a naughty and shouting child.<
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Changqing's face darkened, Afu looked away, and was about to continue speaking when she suddenly heard Changqing shout: "I'll go!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall attracted attention. Changqing had no intention of flinching: "I will personally meet with the Pure Light Goddess!"
"You seem to have forgotten the real responsibility of this trip." Afu reminded with a cold expression: "Praying for rain and calming the people's hearts is what you should do. As for the other things, you can follow the arrangements when the Xuanfu envoy arrives, or you can follow
Wang Yuanbao's merchants contacted each other and asked them to distribute food to the hungry people fleeing famine."
"I know you want to deal with the Pure Light Goddess, but you don't even know the depth of her magic power or the extent of her cultivation, so how can you do it?" Changqing faced Afu's eyes and became more courageous: "
Moreover, all of the people in your Ministry of Internal Affairs are murderous and hostile, and they will definitely be noticed by the guardian ghosts and gods. I am afraid that they will not be able to even walk in front of the Pure Light Goddess! But I can."
The corner of Afu's eyes moved, and she felt that she hated this little baby even more. Although his abilities had improved slightly, his self-righteousness, as if he was the most reasonable person in the world, all touched on what Afu disliked. Xiudao
He has not learned the slightest bit about human selfishness. He is indeed a fake Taoist!
"Isn't the Pure Light Goddess using the Buddhist magical power to bring rain to eliminate disasters? Then I will go to her in the name of praying for rain." Chang Qing said: "If she sincerely brings benefits to the people and relieves disasters, I will personally persuade her to work together.
Instead of gathering refugees to travel through the prefectures and counties."
In fact, Chang Qing has long been dissatisfied with the style of the chamberlain who is always threatening to kill. The motive of Jingguang Tiannv’s method of gathering refugees and walking around is indeed ambiguous, but how can she deal with it in detail? How can she be so careless and negligent?
"Innocent." Afu said with her hand: "The Pure Light Goddess should be punished, it has nothing to do with her intentions. How many evil people, with a heart to save the world and save the people, have done things that harm the country and the people. Our Ministry of Internal Affairs is
Nip the incident in the bud. If you allow the Pure Light Goddess to take over and cause uncontrollable turmoil, then your current weakness will kill tens of thousands of innocent lives."
"Absurd!" Chang Qing waved his sleeves and angrily shouted: "How can there be such a reason in the world to attack before committing a crime? Such cruelty has already harmed the country and the people!"
Qiang Yujun sneered, and Afu's expression gradually became cold, and she said: "Kid, seeing as you are the son of Prime Minister Lu, I won't argue with you. The internal servants are doing their work, so don't bother me anymore."
Changqing took a deep breath and turned around to leave. At this moment, Cheng Sanwu suddenly said: "Wait!"
"What? Do you want to stop me too?" Changqing asked with a slightly sideways face.
"Oh, why are you so anxious?" Cheng Sanwu looked calm and calm, as if he didn't hear the previous verbal exchange between the two: "I think Chang Qing's method is quite good, so let him try it."
Hearing this, Afu turned to look at Cheng Sanwu and said expressionlessly: "You should know that this Pure Light Goddess has been regarded as a traitor to the party, and her practice of Buddhism has long been banned by the imperial court."
"I didn't say that Pure Light Heavenly Lady is a good person." Cheng Sanwu said with two palms: "But whether she is a human or a ghost, let's check it carefully before saying. If it is inconvenient for the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then let Chang Qing
Help with testing. If we let all the states close their borders now, dozens of gangs of bandits will appear on the ground without enough protection, and they will be unable to kill us."
"That's right!" Seeing Cheng Sanwu's support, Changqing immediately said: "Do you think that relying on states to close borders, the refugees will just stay where they are? People have to live, and if you block their way of survival, they will
Fight a bloody path! Is it really the result that a saint would like to see if the Ministry of Internal Affairs does this?"
Afu remained silent. In her mind, those ordinary people, who were already as numerous as grass and grass, would die in hundreds or even thousands without even frowning. She had seen a lot of life and death in the world, and only Changqing was the only one.
Young children will struggle with this.
But what made Afu feel most uneasy was that Cheng Sanwu ruined her arrangement by speaking out at this time.
This matter is not about who is right or wrong. Regardless of the facts, it has become increasingly obvious that Cheng Sanwu is out of his own control.
If he were still his personal servant, Afu could completely exclude Cheng Sanwu from discussing important matters and let him alone be his sharp sword.
However, Cheng Sanwu, who became Zhaoyang Lord, was like a wild horse without any restraints, running rampant everywhere, eager to mess up every situation.
"Okay, the matter of sealing off the borders of various states has been put on hold for the time being." Afu weighed it again and again and chose to compromise, but then said: "But the killing of Jingguang Tiannu cannot be discussed. If you are not satisfied, you can go back to Chang'an to find Eunuch Feng.
Argument."
Changqing still wanted to defend himself, but Cheng Sanwu stood up and hugged his shoulders and said, "Don't worry, I don't know yet what Changqing's abilities are? She's just a demon nun, and she can be suppressed by drawing a few talismans!"
Although this was an exaggeration, Changqing felt greatly reassured by Cheng Sanwu's approval.
"You can go and meet that Pure Light Goddess." Cheng Sanwu looked at Changqing and patted his chest repeatedly: "I will follow quietly behind you. If she dares to harm you, I will rush over immediately and take off her head.
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Changqing nodded helplessly, and Afu said: "In that case, you all go and prepare... find out the location of the Pure Light Goddess, and report back at any time."
The latter part of the sentence was naturally addressed to Liu Changxu. He did not dare to judge the argument just now, so he could only say yes with crossed hands.
After everyone else left, Cheng Sanwu and Afu were the only ones left in the room. She couldn't hold it back anymore, so she sat on a chair and asked, "What exactly do you want to do?"
"Huh? Are you asking me?" Cheng Sanwu pointed at himself.
"Are you happy pretending to be like this and teasing others?" Afu didn't have any smile on her face.
"I've said it before, I'm not pretending." Cheng Sanwu looked at Afu and asked, "What's wrong with you? You don't seem to be in a good mood."
"Feng Yuanyi should have told you not to act too openly this time, right?" Afu sighed helplessly: "You are now Lord Zhaoyang. If you make a big mistake, not only will I not be able to protect you, I will even be unable to protect you."
It will implicate myself, and I don’t want things to evolve into that.”
Cheng Sanwu remained silent, but Taotie suddenly appeared next to him, signaling to Afu: "This dominatrix always thinks of training you like a dog, does she really think of herself as someone superior to others? Give her some color.
Look, you don’t have to be pretentious all the time.”
"You don't seem to like to follow the rules." Cheng Sanwu said.
"That's right, I don't like rules. If possible, I just want to go my own way and be free and easy. No one can restrain me." Afu lowered his eyes. When he said this, he seemed to be calm, but in fact, he had a hint of determination.<
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"Did you enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs because of... that powerful enemy?" Cheng Sanwu asked curiously: "I never asked before, what kind of person can make you so afraid?"
Afu was silent for a moment, as if lost in memories, and then talked about unrelated things: "Do you know what a high-ranking vampire like me is best at?"
"It shouldn't be blood-sucking, right?" Cheng Sanwu laughed, and then thought seriously for a moment: "Could it be...disguising?"
"Your eyes are really vicious." Afu praised, with a wonderful meaning: "Low-level vampires are no different from wild beasts. They only obey the desire to suck blood. When my tribe and I came to the Central Plains, we abandoned many low-level vampires, especially
It's in the Western Region."
Cheng Sanwu nodded slightly when he heard this, and finally understood why there were flying yakshas appearing in the Western Region.
Afu continued: "The high-ranking vampires are different. We are mortals from the beginning, and are naturally accustomed to appearing in the human world. But our blood-sucking nature will urge us to harm mortals, or to treat mortals as livestock."
"But you can't do it." Cheng Sanwu said straight away: "There are practitioners in the Central Plains who kill demons and eliminate demons, and there are also people in foreign lands in the West."
"Yes, and it is even more ruthless. There is no room for tolerance. Once discovered, you will be tortured." Afu said with a bitter smile: "Faced with this situation, we can only choose to pretend to be mortals and lurk in the world.
to avoid being surrounded and suppressed, or to flee far away.
"I'm not afraid of your jokes. In fact, we fled all the way eastward and traveled for a long time before arriving in the Central Plains. At that time, the Central Plains was ravaged by barbarians and the war was in chaos. We used a little trick to occupy a fortress, and there were thousands of families of refugees under our command.
As a source of blood food. As a result, the people here became violent and didn't bother to care about the vampire yaksha. They just heard that we had food for the population and sent troops to burn, kill and loot."
Cheng Sanwu imagined the scene of a group of Yaksha being robbed by the rebels, and found it funny. He held back his laughter and asked, "Who is so powerful? How dare you deal with you like this?"
"Back then, the refugee commanders who defended themselves in Jianghuai area, there were many masters among them." Afu lamented: "I have a brother who originally planned to assassinate the refugee commander at night, but he failed to assassinate him and was captured by the opponent instead.
He was killed and his limbs were torn off. The next day, he was picked up with a spear and hung in front of the military formation. He was chopped into pieces in public and finally burned to ashes."
"It's really cruel." Cheng Sanwu could tell that this method was not that of a Buddhist or Taoist master slaying demons. It was just an indulgence in malicious violence and abuse in troubled times. Even high-ranking vampires could not escape from it. "Don't you have revenge?" Cheng Sanwu asked.
Afu shook her head slightly: "The vampires have never been entangled in hatred. Moreover, at that time, we had been seen as inhuman and had no place to stand, so we had to flee. After arriving in the Wuyue area in the south of the Yangtze River, we picked up the tradition again and pretended to be mortals.
, haunting the towns and villages. I took the opportunity to join the Taoist sect, and for a time became the local Taoist altar's sacrificial wine, interacting with the children of the aristocratic families, but it was quite popular."
Cheng Sanwu touched his chin with a strange expression: "No wonder you want me to shave off my beard."
"Even if you shave your beard, you still don't have the integrity of those children from aristocratic families." Afu mocked.
"Is this the manner of a bunch of sissies?" Cheng Sanwu smiled contemptuously.
"But then... the Taoist Immortal Rebellion broke out in the land of Wuyue. My people were almost wiped out, and I myself was seriously injured." Afu hugged one leg and rested his chin on his knee, as if he was unwilling to do so.
Recall that experience.
"Wait a minute, the Taoist Immortal Rebellion?" Cheng Sanwu didn't quite understand: "Weren't you from the Taoist sect back then?"
"At that time, there were many Taoist sects, and the Taoist altars in various places had mixed inheritances, and they criticized each other endlessly. It was different from now." Afu explained: "And the group of immortals were mainly poor serfs from the land of Wuyue.
They came with those noble families and killed many people. Even the aristocratic families who have worshiped Taoism for generations were not spared."
"Is your powerful enemy a member of the Immortals?" Cheng Sanwu asked.
"Yes, it may not be." Seeing Cheng Sanwu's doubtful look, Afu said: "I know this is strange, but I haven't found out the identity of that person yet. I suspect that he used the immortal
There is another plan for the rebellion. My compatriots and I were so easily seen through the disguise. It was that person who was fueling the flames and leading some fanatical Taoists to come to crusade."
"According to what you said, this guy is not an ordinary person." Cheng Sanwu asked: "What does he look like? If I meet him in the future, I will be able to recognize him."