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Chapter 55: Mist
Kyoto.

Qianpingmen Street, Investigation Bureau.

The ordinary small building was hidden in the deep woods of the courtyard. There was nothing on the gate except a black flame logo.

It was not as magnificent and grand as other departments on the same street, nor did it have heavy doors and high thresholds, nor did it have fully armed guards wearing black and red uniforms of the Xi Kingdom. It was as if passing tourists could stroll in and take a look at any time.

But in Xi Country, no one dared to enter this place. The demonic jumping black flame symbol was enough to make anyone who passed by the gate subconsciously avoid it. It was as if this quiet and ordinary house was a ferocious beast that devoured people.

In the room on the second floor of the small building, Gu Mingxu, director of the Second Division of the Investigation Bureau, looked down at a piece of intelligence that had been sent by letter from Xiazhou in the northwest, his face gloomy.

"So, a small Su family, which was already buried in the ground," he raised his head and looked at the deputy who brought the information, "actually crawled up alive again?"

"It seems so," the deputy was also a little speechless, "After all, we didn't intervene, we just passed a message over there. A group of peasants from a remote town, their methods are still a little lacking, and by some coincidence, they just happened to attract people from Han Valley. It's also their fate..."

"Heh, fate..." Gu Mingxiu sneered, slapped the information on the table, and lowered his head to continue handling official business. A small wolf hair brush made circles and dots on the official documents at a very fast speed.

After a long while, he ordered without even looking up, "Send Sun Zheng. The Su family's situation is special, and His Majesty wants to show some mercy, but we've been chasing him for so many years, and we've wiped out all the well-known subordinates of that person, and we haven't found him yet, so the Su family will naturally not let him go.

"However, tell Sun Zheng to use a hidden hand. The northwest is the important place of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect. Didn't they have a conflict with Han Gu before? Let him go with the flow."

After reviewing a document, Gu Mingxiu put down his pen, picked up his tea and took a sip: "If you want to blame someone, you can only blame Su Jingyan's bad luck. Who made them choose the wrong one?"

"Yes." The deputy took the order and left.

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A fast horse rushed into the military camp like a rocket.

"Report!"

The knight on horseback went up along the path all the way until he came to the big tent on the hillside, then he dismounted and took two steps at a time into the tent to report.

"Twenty miles north of Wen'an City, Xijun, Xiazhou, a thick fog was discovered, stretching for more than ten miles."

"What?" Yan Xiao, who was thinking with his head down in front of a huge map, suddenly dilated his pupils. He snatched the military newspaper from the messenger's hand and looked down at it, his face changed drastically.

Dozens of military advisers and commanders gathered in the big tent were also in an uproar.

By the time Yan Xiao finished reading the intelligence with a serious expression, walked back to the map with heavy steps, and placed a red wooden sign at the location of Wen'an City in Xijun, Xiazhou, everyone had fallen silent.

The map was five meters long and wide, and was laid out on a special large wooden table. The mountains and rivers drawn on it covered all the known areas of Lanzhuo Continent since the new era.

Now, on this huge map, there are already twenty red wooden signs densely placed. Not only are there signs from the Nanxi Kingdom, but also from the Beijing Kingdom, the Wei Kingdom, and other large and small countries and city-states. At a glance, they look like bleeding wounds.

shocking!

"After three years of dormancy, the You Clan has finally made a comeback..." Yan Xiao muttered. After a moment, he came to his senses and gave an order, "Order the Northern Regiment of the Front Army to rush to Wen'an City to garrison immediately! In addition, notify the camps stationed in various cities in Xiazhou to immediately organize reinforcements! In case of an emergency!"

"Yes!"

# # #
It's winter now, and when the wind and sand start blowing, the temperature drops rapidly.

When I woke up in the morning, the wind on my face was already biting. The sky was yellow and hazy, and the sun was hiding in the wind and sand, leaving only a sparse halo. People could not feel the slightest warmth.

After putting on the thick cotton gown prepared by Pingting, Su Daoshan felt more and more like an old scholar. The girls also changed their clothes, and their curves were also wrapped tightly. Seeing them busy walking back and forth, they looked like a few tumblers spinning around the room.

Zhao Xing'er, on the other hand, with her naturally slender waist and the strong contrast between her plump and round body below the waist, could even walk in a seductive manner, which attracted Pingting and Huamei to call her a vixen from time to time.

Something big happened in the city and the county examination was approaching, so the academy simply gave everyone a holiday.

This finally gave Su Daoshan some free time.

The flowers, plants and trees in the fort had been shedding their leaves since late autumn, and in the past two days, they had all fallen off as if by agreement, and the gloomy weather added to the bleak and depressing feeling. However, the atmosphere in the Su family mansion and the fort became increasingly noisy and lively.

After a night of partying, many people in Sujiabao stayed in bed the next day.

On weekdays, many people would have gotten up after 12:00 on the 5th of the 11th hour, some making fire to cook, some cutting grass to feed livestock, some loading goods to go out... There were shadows everywhere, rustling and rustling, quiet but busy.

By the time of Mao, the sky was already light, and most people were up. Smoke rose from every household, chickens crowed, dogs cried, children cried, mules neighed, and horses neighed, and there was a bustle of people. But now, everyone either drank too much, ate too much, or slept too late because they were too happy and excited. Therefore, except for a few who had to get up early, most people got up slowly at Chen time.

If viewed from the air, Sujiabao on that day seemed to be in a different time and space from other places in Yishan City.

But just like that, this place has become the center of Yishan City.

Just after the hour of noon, the city lord Zhu Ziming came to visit. Not only did Zhu Ziming and his sons and several elders of the Zhu family come, but the old lady of the Zhu family and her family also came. The men in the front yard living room greeted each other and talked and laughed, while the women in the backyard flower hall laughed and chattered.

More importantly, the Zhu family's convoy of more than a dozen carts entered the fort. The first five carts were carrying people, and the last seven carts were all carrying various gifts. There were five carts of food and meat alone. Not only did they make up for the consumption last night, but they were also enough for ten more meals.

As if they had made an appointment, as soon as Zhu Ziming left, more people came one after another.

The Lin family came, and the heads of the twelve wards also came. Some of the heads of the families came in person, while others sent important people from their families. Cart after car of gifts flowed into the Su Family Castle, and everyone's eyes lit up and their faces were filled with joy.

The gift is secondary. What’s important is that Sujiabao hasn’t had such an honorable occasion for many years.

And respectability is never something given by others.

There was only one reason why these people were swarming here. That was because the Su family's status and voice in Yishan City had changed. Everyone even heard that even the Yue family and the Wang family had privately sent gifts and invited the eldest master Su Xianwen to a banquet.

Who could have thought that just yesterday, the Su family was almost destroyed?
This turn over was so great that it almost reached the sky.

Not only that.

After Xie Xunbai participated in the meeting of aristocratic families and sects, the handling of the Mi family entered a mode of cutting the Gordian knot.

All the major forces work together at an astonishing speed.

On the afternoon of the next day, the unrelated households in Mijiazhuang were assigned to different families. The land, shops, properties and other assets were also registered and divided up. Among them, the Su family got two-fifths of all the assets.

At the same time, the first batch of more than 500 Mi family members were driven out of Yishan City. Later, the second batch of more than 200 people and the third batch of more than 100 people were driven out.

It can be said that no one with the surname Mi or anyone who had a close relationship with the Mi family was left alive.

On the surface, this is just expulsion. Although these people have been deregistered as urban residents and cannot enter any city in the future, they can only fend for themselves in the wild, but at least they can save their lives. Maybe they can still survive.

But in reality, it’s not that simple.

The process is roughly like this, but there are too many different details in its execution.

Are they allowed to bring basic clothes and food? After leaving the city, where will the city guards send them? How far will they be dispersed before they are forced to get off the car? Will the Su family guards or other family members follow? Have some refugee camps received the news?

All this will determine their fate.

It may sound cruel, but this is the characteristic of this era.

A city is like a ship. Everyone is crowded on this ship, and they may have different thoughts, interests and camps, but the bottom line of the rules is cooperation.

Only in this way can everyone survive.

Once the conflict exceeds the critical point and internal strife breaks out, it will inevitably be a war far more tragic and brutal than on the shore. People on the shore can compromise and retreat if they cannot win, but in the middle of the vast ocean, the only way to survive is to fight to the death.

Especially those who broke the rules and committed serious crimes were killed directly.

If for no other reason than fear of capsizing.

Two days flew by.

People may still be paying attention and discussing it every day, but the chaos in the city has finally subsided. Apart from some feelings, sympathy, and curiosity, everyone has no other worries. Whether the Mi family dies or the Zhou family is abolished, everything is going according to plan.

Tomorrow, however, is the county exam. Today, everyone heard a piece of gossip that made them wonder whether to laugh or cry.

That nerd from the Su family actually wants a reference!
　It's stuck. As the plot unfolds, I'm afraid I haven't thought it through enough, I'm afraid I've written it wrong, and I'm afraid I've gone in the wrong direction.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)