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Chapter 459 [Arrogant]

In the evening, He Sheng and several of his men enjoyed a feast. I don't know if the cook came from the palace, but she cooked more than fifty dishes in one go. Every dish was delicious, and no one said it was not tasty.

After the chief steward arranged for several people to rest in the guest rooms, the other party returned again, took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it over.

"Master, these are the gifts that Lord Wu and some families working in the Qianhu Office sent to you while you were having dinner. They were afraid of disturbing you, so they just put down the gifts and left tactfully."

"Oh?"

He reached out to take the letter and looked at it carefully.

"interesting."

In addition to some common gold and silver jewelry, the folders also contained carriages, horses, jade, silk, the four treasures of the study, calligraphy and paintings, antiques and other items.

The most important items were the ones he urgently needed - flames, the three types of flames: Green Wood Flame, Black Yellow Earth Flame, and Taibai Golden Flame.

The first two flames were sent by Wu Ming and his good brother Qian Mian Lang, whose codename is still unknown. The Taibai Golden Flame was sent by the Liu family, a family that served as a centurion in the Qianhu Office.

Now, all that’s missing is the Xuanyin Water Flame.

"Gao family."

At first, Xiao Ma inquired about the news. This flame was owned by the Gao family of Taiyue Prefecture, but they followed the prefect and had always been at odds with the thousand households.

"I want to be in seclusion. Don't let anyone disturb me."

"Yes!"

In the mansion, there is a secret room specially used for retreat and cultivation. In other words, almost 100% of the big families have a secret room for cultivation in the mansions where they live.

After the chief steward introduced the servants, he led the group on a tour of the mansion to give He a general understanding of his new home. He then quickly entered the secret room.

The training room, as a whole, is not very luxurious. It only has two most important elements: solidity and sound insulation.

After walking around, He Sheng found that it could be used as a temporary safe house. Even if someone attacked from outside, the impregnable secret room, as well as the food and water stored in advance, would be enough to hold out for a while.

Sitting cross-legged on the mat, he took out the bottles containing the three kinds of flames one by one, and inhaled them all into the five internal organs without hesitation. After a period of pain in which all the five internal organs were burning, he finally got everything done, and planted the flames into the corresponding organs one by one.

【正在偿还中：《火里种金身·种火篇》——赤阳心焰1/1、青木生焰1/1、玄黄地焰1/1、太白金焰1/1、玄阴水焰0/1；心1/1（种赤阳心焰）、肝1/1（种青木生焰）、脾1/1（种玄黄地焰）、肺1/1（种太白金焰）、肾0/1（种玄阴水焰）。】

"All I need is one flame to pay off my debt."

Before, when he was in Songlin County, after he paid off the debt of "The Great Stone Opener", he happily opened the "Future Advance System" and prepared to use the remaining advance times to try to advance "Golden Body in Fire" to see if he could find a bug.

The result was, of course, no. Because the options given by the Future Prediction System did not include "Growing a Golden Body in Fire", and I could only sigh inwardly.

Get up, we have to go to Qianhu Suo tomorrow.

The next day, Mr. He specially put on a dragon robe.

As it happened, someone sent a carriage and horses yesterday, and I harnessed three horses. The coachman drove the carriage to Qianhu Suo. On the way, I once again received the gazes of countless people and the eyes of the lieutenants of the Husuo.

"This doesn't seem to be a carriage from the Qianhusuo?"

"Silly boy, didn't someone say yesterday that a centurion in the city below was promoted to deputy centurion for destroying a branch of the Tianli Sect? I guess the one in the carriage is him."

"Not only that, I heard that the emperor also bestowed a dragon robe on him. Well, the only living person in the court who was bestowed with a dragon robe, besides the current cabinet chief, Lord Li, is the deputy commander of the Thousand Households Office of our Taiyue Prefecture."

A group of captains, seeing the carriage go away, began to chat with each other.

"Okay, we have one more round before we go off duty, hurry up." The leading flagman spoke out to stop them. Since yesterday, they had been hearing so much about the new deputy captain that it almost made their ears hurt.

In the Qianhu Division, under Wu Ming's introduction, He Sheng met the ten centurions in the division. The centurions did not make a fuss by relying on their family status. After all, the bright red dragon robes looked very visually impactful, and no one dared to show off.

There are two Qianhu in Qianhu Office, usually called the Left Qianhu and the Right Qianhu. Otherwise, just call them Qianhu directly, which is indeed respectful to the two deputy Qianhu, but the real Qianhu may not be happy to hear it.

Of course, Wu Ping and Wu Ming are brothers. But in the huge Gu Yu country, with more than 30 states, there are several thousand households, and there are brothers serving as thousand households and deputy thousand households.

If you call him deputy captain directly, and meet a petty person, who knows how he will hate you. In addition, because the two deputy captains are in charge of different matters, there is a left and right distinction, which is similar to the left and right prime ministers of Guyu Kingdom in the early years.

The only difference between the two may be that at that time, the ancient Yu Kingdom respected the right, but now it respects the left.

Zuo Qianhu: Wuping, responsible for criminal and internal affairs, judicial trials, official assessment and appointment, and other specific administrative work, is quite busy. He stays in his small room every day, and didn't even have time to welcome his good brother to Taiyue Mansion last night.

Right Captain: Congratulations on the victory. He focused on military operations and foreign affairs. As for the so-called foreign affairs, such as suppressing local riots, rebels, bandits, etc., he only needed to follow orders from above and kill whoever he was told to kill.

Then he found that he was really free.

The last time the barbarians attacked, Qi Zhi plowed the entire Shanzhou. Basically, there were fewer bandits. The remaining ones were all small fry, and it was not worth it for Taiyue Prefecture to send troops to suppress them.

He was free, his good brother Wu Ping said hello in the morning and started to deal with official business. There was nothing he could do, because his elder brother was fully preparing to reach a higher realm, and he would practice every day when there was nothing important to do.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have to be so busy.

After he had some free time, he went to his good brother to get a note saying that all the expenses of his soldiers would be reimbursed. Then, he took the note to the treasury of Qianhu Suo, received 100 sets of armor, and ordered the strongmen to deliver them to his residence.

Then, he contacted Tianshu's Qianmianlang and asked him to contact Tianshu in Songlin County and tell Zhang Yue that he was looking for 100 strong and well-married young men to be sent to Taiyue Mansion to serve as his family soldiers.

Songlin County is his base camp, and the families of his family soldiers all live in the county, so the probability of backstabbing is infinitely low. If one day, a family soldier really backstabs him, he can only say that it is bad luck and he has to admit it!
After all, if the family soldiers don't care about the lives of their parents, wives and children, what's the harm in getting stabbed in the back? After arranging everything, he began to think about the Gao family's Xuanyin Water Flame.

Buying or asking for something will definitely not work. If someone is involved with the prefect, he must be a traitor and defect to the Qianhu Office. Even if you use your toes to think about it, you know it is impossible.

As we all know, traitors never have a good ending.

"Hey! Wait a minute, I am the only one who owns the python robes of the Tianli Sect. Do I need to be polite to a family that is involved with the prefect?"

Suddenly, He Sheng came back to his senses. It seemed that he had complicated things. He could have just charged in without thinking. Unless, the Gao family of Taiyue Mansion was more valuable than him.

But, it’s not possible!

To put it bluntly, even if he openly shouted in the restaurant that he wanted to rebel, if the emperor knew about it, he would say that he was drunk and crazy, and that he just said it unintentionally.

"Damn it, I just came to Taiyue Mansion, so many people gave me gifts, but you guys don't know how to appreciate it, damn it." Without identity and status, I was submissive and secretly accumulated strength. With identity and status, wouldn't I have to strike hard?

“Li San, Li San!!”

"grown ups."

Outside the hall, Li San came in immediately and responded with his hands clasped together.

"Gather the troops and charge to Gao's house. I'm going to lose my temper today."

"Yes!"

Li San turned around and left immediately after hearing this, without asking why or how many soldiers there were. After a while, when He left the hall and came to the gate of Qianhu Suo, he was stunned.

"???"

Well, there are 500 officers and lieutenants standing outside, ready for battle. That's not counting the small flags, the general flags, and the centurions. All together, there are a total of 565 people, all fully armed and murderous.

"Sir, the troops are ready." Li San said respectfully.

Isn't that a bit exaggerated?

In response, Li San looked at him and said, "Don't blame me!"

He just gave a notice, saying that the right captain had to gather his troops.

As a result, who would have thought that so many people would want to curry favor with their master.

"Okay, let's go to Gao's house."

"Yes!"

The people on the street were talking and speculating about the nearly 600-man team. There was nothing they could do, the noise was too loud. The last time the Qianhu had such a big move was many years ago.

District 3, Gao family.

"boom!!"

Some servants in Gao's mansion who were doing their own jobs heard a loud noise and saw that their front door had been smashed in from outside.

Before anyone could exclaim in surprise, teams of fully armed and murderous captains walked in.

"Don't move, or you'll kill me!"

The person who spoke was a centurion, holding a steel knife and pointing it at a servant who was about to turn around and leave to report to the mistress of the house.

Unfortunately, that person didn't listen.

"call out--"

A crossbow arrow instantly pierced the man's back, causing him to stagger. He finally fell to the ground after taking only a few steps. The floor paved with precious stones was stained with scarlet.

"Who dares to come to my Gao Mansion?"

A group of men dressed as security guards walked out of a central gate.

When he saw that they were soldiers from the Qianhu Suo, his face suddenly changed.

"Oh, it's Captain Liu. Has our master offended Lord Wu recently? Besides, even if he did offend someone accidentally, it wouldn't be necessary to mobilize so many troops, right?"

"Haha, Lord Gao did not offend Lord Wu. But it's a pity, who told him to offend the Right Captain?" After he finished speaking, He Sheng walked out from the crowd.

"hiss!!"

Damn, a dragon robe?
If it were an ordinary person, they would only sigh that the robe on He's body was expensive, but they would not be able to tell what grade it belonged to. But he was a guard of a noble family. Regardless of his skills, his knowledge was ten blocks ahead of ordinary people.

"Wow--"

The guards knelt down immediately and shouted in unison.

"Meet the Right Thousand Household."

Don't say that he is a third-rank official in front of the prime minister. The fact is that he is indeed like this. But you have to look at who he is facing. He didn't kneel down to salute when he saw the dragon robe. Haha, you can understand the disrespect, the dungeon of the thousand households, and the whip full of pepper water.

"I suspect that the Gao family has some connection with the Tianli Sect."

In a word, the guards were almost scared to death.

In the Ancient Fish Kingdom, you can be a bandit, a mountain robber, or even raise the flag of rebellion. If you are lucky and don't make too much noise, no one will bother to pay attention to you.

But if you are related to Tianlijiao, no matter how loud you are, you will be caught. Tianlijiao = Nine Clans Elimination, it is not a joke.

"My Lord, it's a misunderstanding."

Before he finished speaking, He Sheng waved his hand.

"Move all the suspicious items back to the Qianhu Office for careful inspection."

"Yes!"

So, a group of servants, guards, the women and grandchildren of the Gao family could only watch as the captains carried out the valuable things in their house one by one.

Prevent?

Who dares!
They have already brought up the banner of Tianli Sect, so let them do whatever they want.

Of course, forbearance does not mean not fighting back.

When the Qianhu Suo found nothing, it was time for the Gao family to fight back. Breaking into an official's home and ransacking it without any evidence, they would be dead or dead, right?
There was no way. It wasn't that Gao was trying to boost others' ambitions and destroy his own prestige. It was really that the dragon robe was too intimidating, which made them lose confidence.

"You can't enter here. This is the ancestral hall of my Gao family. Inside is the Xuanyin Water Flame passed down from our ancestors. If the water flame is damaged, we will have no way to explain."

Faced with the captain of the Qianhu Suo who wanted to break into the ancestral hall, the captain of the guards forcefully stopped him outside the door.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Xuanyin Water Flame is the lifeblood of the Gao family.

Special flames have special uses.

For example, the Red Sun Heart Flame was suitable for refining some spiritual elixirs. With the same materials, the elixirs refined with the Red Sun Heart Flame and those refined with ordinary flames were two different elixirs.

The Gao family made rapid progress and became one of the dignitaries in Taiyue Prefecture, and the Xuanyin Water Flame played a huge role in this.

"Chong-"

Captain Liu narrowed his eyes and drew the steel knife from his waist.

"My lord, please."

As the saying goes, he who knows the times is a hero. The dean of the guards was very aware of the times. He stepped aside quickly and made a gesture of invitation.

It's not that he couldn't beat Captain Liu, but the nature of the situation was different after the fight. He was already accused of being involved with the Tianli Sect, and then he started fighting with the Captain of the Qianhu Office.

Well, the right captain wearing a dragon robe was so happy, he was just worried about not being able to find a reason.

"Don't worry, we, the Right Captain, are not bandits. We are just taking it back for inspection. When the inspection is completed, we will naturally return it to you."

The dean of guards turned his gaze to the mistress of the house, and Mr. Gao's original wife shook her head.

"Have you finished searching?"

"Your Excellency, the search is complete!"

He Sheng nodded and said again.

"Let's go to the next house."

"Sir, who's the next family?"

In response to Captain Liu's question, he spoke loudly.

"Whoever didn't give a gift yesterday will be the next one."

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(End of this chapter)