Evil of all ages

Chapter 236 Welcome Home~

"You say you were unaware of the situation and didn't know about the relationship between the Han family and me. How can I believe you?"

Huang Taihong asked.

"General Huang, I may be arrogant, but I'm not stupid. I know how to handle trouble."

“You are the son of the Ghost King, a prisoner in the Southern City Prison. I have seen you.”

"To provoke a second-generation ghost like you is a no-brainer unless I'm not afraid of having my yang energy drained and my lifespan stolen by the Ghost King."

"How could I not be afraid? I'm still young and haven't had enough fun yet."

Tell me, why did I provoke you?

Xu Zhengqi countered with a question.

Unlike others, Huang Taihong firmly believed that there was a ghost king in the southern prison of the city.

Because in the letters his elder brother wrote to him, he never mentioned the Ghost King once.

Therefore, his ghost king father probably does not exist.

But now he's even more curious: how did his older brother manage to do that?
What made everyone in the capital believe that there was a ghost king in the southern prison and so fearful?

"You said you were being used, that someone wanted me to make an enemy of your Xu family."

"Who is behind this?"

Huang Taihong asked.

"It's still unclear who it is, but there are very few people in the capital who could do something like this."

Xu Zhengqi said.

Who is using you?

How much of what you're saying is true, and how much is false?

“I will send people to investigate.”

"But the Han residence has been occupied, and my fiancée has been forced to sell herself for protection. What do you say to that?"

Huang Taihong's eyes turned cold.

"I will return the Han family to its original state. As for your fiancée, well..."

"bump"

Before Xu Zhengqi could finish speaking, he was punched by Huang Taihong.

He fell to the ground, his gums were bleeding, and his head was spinning.

After Huang Taihong delivered that punch, he was prepared for Xu Zhengqi's guards to attack him, or for a powerful figure to rush out from the Duke's mansion to suppress him.

There were no results!
This made him realize that the spoiled brat's behavior was entirely due to his father's guidance.

His father is not showing himself now, so he must be watching all this from the shadows.

Just then, the system beeped, and he accidentally completed the system task.

It means making him punch Xu Zhengqi.

However, he ignored it and did not claim the system reward, treating the system as if it did not exist.

He ignored even when the system issued new tasks.

As the buzzing in Xu Zhengqi's head subsided, he covered his face and lay on the ground, watching the lowly people around him pointing and whispering about him.

He felt incredibly frustrated.

He knew that once today was over, the title of the most handsome young master in the capital would no longer belong to him.

Instead, it was the son of the Ghost King standing before him.

He desperately wanted to stand up and let the guards kill Huang Taihong, but his father was watching, so he had to endure it.

I know that if I stand up, I might get beaten up again.

He lay there wailing.

"This isn't over yet!"

“If my fiancée gets hurt in the ghost market, you’ll be held responsible. You’d better pray that nothing happens to my fiancée.”

Seeing how advantageous the identity of the Ghost King's son was, Huang Taihong grew bolder and made threatening remarks in front of Xu Zhengqi's house.

At this moment, the Embroidered Uniform Guard arrived.

Upon arrival, they dispersed the onlookers and surrounded Huang Taihong and his personal guards.

The leader was Fan Hongyan.
"By order of the Empress Dowager, Huang Taihong has abandoned his post and is hereby imprisoned in the Imperial Prison to await his punishment."

"Take it down"

Fan Hongyan ordered the Embroidered Uniform Guards to take action.

Huang Taihong was also surprised to hear this, because dereliction of duty is the least serious offense.

Putting everything else aside, just bringing troops into the city, even a hundred personal guards, could be considered a rebellion.

As a result, no serious crime was committed, and he was simply dismissed from his post without cause.

Huang Taihong did not resist and ordered his personal guards not to resist either, allowing the Embroidered Uniform Guards to arrest them.

"take away"

Seeing that the man had been captured, Fan Hongyan didn't even glance at Xu Zhengqi lying on the ground, and led his men away. "You're saying the city's garrison general who let Huang Taihong into the city committed suicide!?"

Upon hearing the steward's report, Xu Ming frowned and immediately ordered the steward to prepare a carriage, as he needed to go to the palace.

"Behave yourself for the next couple of days and return the Han residence to its original state as soon as possible..."

After giving his son his instructions, Xu Ming got into the carriage and set off.

"Please...please summon the imperial physician, please bring the imperial physician to me."

When Xu Zhengqi saw that he had been punched and his gums were bleeding, his father didn't even offer him a word of comfort, telling him to take his anger out on the servants.

Royal Palace
Ziyun Palace

When Xu Ming arrived, he found that his elder brother Xu Yushu had already arrived.

"In order to let Huang Taihong into the city, a general guarding the city was sacrificed."

"This is more than just being willing to give; it requires enormous energy to accomplish this."

"Who will it be?"

"The old prime minister?"

"Or have most of the civil and military officials in the court joined in?"

Xu Ming disliked being in such a passive position, especially as the young emperor grew up and the civil and military officials became increasingly resentful of his sister's control of the government.

"That's not all; many things are gradually slipping out of our control."

“Opposition to us is growing louder and louder.”

"Sister, is He dissatisfied with us?"

"Unwilling to help us anymore?"

Xu Yushu looked at his younger sister.

"What 'He'? Who is there to help us?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Yunxue subconsciously denied His existence.

“Your second brother and I aren’t fools. Without His help, we wouldn’t have survived even half a year, let alone three years.”

"The only explanation for our increasing difficulty in controlling the world is that He has abandoned us."

Xu Yushu said.

Xu Yunxue fell silent upon hearing this, which was taken as an admission of His existence.

"Sister, what's going on?"

Why is He no longer helping us?

Xu Zhengqi asked.

“He has been visiting me less and less lately.”

Xu Yunxue didn't want to lose everything, so she had no choice but to tell the truth.

Upon hearing this, Xu Yushu and Xu Ming immediately understood.

Their sister was becoming less and less attractive to Him.

"Little sister, you've had a tough three years."

"But we can't lose."

“We still have to fight for Him. This can only be entrusted to you, my sister. No one else can get close to Him except you.”

“If He doesn’t help us, we can’t just sit here and wait to die.”

"If the enemy wants to watch us walk into the abyss, then we'll push them into the abyss first..."

……

South City Prison
Fan Hongyan sent Huang Taihong's personal guards to other prisons before sending Huang Taihong alone to the South City Prison.

Huang Taihong never expected that he would be imprisoned in his elder brother's cell.

All the way

Seeing the prisoners lying there, sickly and weak, the entire prison was so quiet that only their breathing could be heard.

He finally understood that the rumors of the terrifying nature of the Southern City Prison were not just empty talk.

Fan Hongyan locked him up on the first floor, in area A, and then left with his Imperial Guards.

Huang Taihong saw that he was no longer with the other prisoners and had become sickly and listless.

That's quite surprising. I wonder how my brother did it?
"tread"

"tread"

"tread"

People have arrived, and there's more than one person.

As the people approached, Huang Taihong recognized them as Uncle Ren and his three companions.

He was one of his father's former subordinates.

"Xiao Hong, welcome home~"

(End of this chapter)