Brocade Robe Unparalleled

Chapter 47: The entire department was astonished! [Please continue reading!]

early morning.

Jingbian Division.

Inside the guardhouse of a certain banner officer, Zhang Hu and Chen Bao sat on chairs. Zhang Hu would occasionally get up, walk to the courtyard to glance at the gate of the Jingbian Division, and then walk back with his hands behind his back.

Lin Xuan told them yesterday not to rush off this morning, as he had something to give them.

Half an hour had passed since the roll call, but Lin Xuan still hadn't appeared.

He used to be never late.

Zhang Hu couldn't help but feel worried.

at the same time.

One hundred households are on duty.

Huang Yue clasped his hands in a fist salute to Shen Qingya and said, "Sir, that Lin Xuan, relying on Wu Baihu's backing, is truly lawless. It's been half an hour since we arrived at the yamen, and he still hasn't shown up..."

Shen Qingya glanced at him indifferently and said nothing.

The consequences of what happened last time were more serious than he had imagined.

His mistake gave the treacherous faction a handle to exploit, which they used to their advantage in court, severely damaging the reputation of the upright officials.

Wu Xianren is currently riding high and doesn't give him any face as a centurion. He's protecting Lin Xuan to the death, and Shen Qingya is powerless to do anything about it.

He looked at Huang Yue and asked in a low voice, "Is your cousin reliable...?"

Huang Yue nodded and said, "Don't worry, sir, it's absolutely reliable. If they dare to go, they won't come back unscathed. We want everyone to know what happens when you get close to Lin Xuan..."

Just then, a figure walked in from outside the door.

Huang Yue glanced back, immediately shut his mouth, clasped his hands and bowed, saying, "Greetings, Commander Wenren."

Wenren Yue made no attempt to hide the disgust in her eyes and said indifferently, "Get out."

"Subordinates resign!"

Huang Yue bowed deeply and quickly slipped out.

Wenren Yue raised her head, looked directly at Shen Qingya, and questioned, "You ordered two of my flag officers to investigate the bandits' lair?"

Shen Qingya nodded and said, "These bandits robbed the official caravan, which is an unforgivable crime. They must be wiped out. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, it is necessary to find out their background first."

Wenren Yue asked, "Even a single flag officer from the Jingbian Division, along with the caravan's guards, is no match for those bandits. Sending two flag officers there is tantamount to sending them to their deaths."

Shen Qingya stood up and said in a deep voice, "This is their job. The duty of the officials of the Border Defense Command is to protect the border and ensure the safety of the people. Casualties are inevitable in their missions. If everyone is afraid of death, who will protect our country?"

Seeing Shen Qingya's indignant expression, Wenren Yue felt nauseous.

Shen Qingya stepped forward, his tone softening, and said, "Cousin, I know you have a sense of justice, but this is the officialdom, and the officialdom has its own rules. Do you know how much damage that Wu guy has caused us this time? If we don't use some other means, how can we fight against that group of treacherous people?"

Wenren Yue took a deep breath and did not refute Shen Qingya.

She neither understood nor wanted to understand the so-called rules of officialdom. Looking at Shen Qingya, she said in a deep voice, "I will not send my officers to their deaths. I will investigate the situation of those bandits thoroughly."

Shen Qingya's face darkened. The so-called bandits were at his behest, their purpose being to strike at Wu Xianren's faction. He said coldly, "Cousin, Uncle and the others sent you here to help me, not to cause me trouble!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a huge commotion broke out in the Jingbian Division compound.

At this moment, all the officers and guards of the Jingbian Division rushed out of their posts and surged into the Jingbian Division courtyard, looking at the figure standing in the courtyard.

The roll call time had long passed, and Lin Xuan, who was late, finally appeared at the Jingbian Division.

He wasn't wearing the uniform of a flag officer, but rather a coarse linen garment stained with blood. Several wounds on Lin Xuan's exposed arms were also bleeding.

Upon seeing this, everyone gasped in shock, utterly astonished. Who on earth was so audacious as to injure the Jingbian Commandery's flag officer so severely?
Zhang Hu and Chen Bao rushed to Lin Xuan's side immediately. Chen Bao helped him up and asked in alarm, "What happened?"

Zhang Hu's eyes turned bloodshot, and he roared in fury, "Who did this!"

Amidst the crowd, Huang Yue's face revealed a hint of joy. Although he didn't know who had done it, seeing Lin Xuan in such a miserable state filled him with pleasure.

At that moment, Commander Wu also came out of the duty room. Seeing this scene, his expression changed. He first turned and went back into the duty room, then hurriedly ran out again, poured out several pills from a porcelain bottle, and said to Lin Xuan, "Take these pills first..."

Lin Xuan took the pills from Wu Baihu and threw them all into his mouth.

After swallowing the pill, the pain in his body lessened somewhat, but the wound did not heal.

It seems that Wu Baihu's pills are not as effective as the ones Chen Baihu gave him last time.

At this moment, Shen Qingya and Wenren Yue also came out of the duty room. When Shen Qingya saw Lin Xuan, he was slightly taken aback for a moment, then quickly walked forward and asked with apparent concern, "Lin Xiaoqi, what happened? Who hurt you like this?"

Lin Xuan threw the two cloth bags he was carrying on the ground, clasped his hands slightly to Shen Qingya, and said, "Reporting to my lord, the bandits who robbed the Xu family's trading company, a total of forty-three people, have all been killed by my subordinates. These are the heads of the two bandit leaders..."

The entire Jingbian Commandery was quiet.

Zhang Hu stared at Lin Xuan with his mouth agape in shock.

Even though Wu Baihu had served in the Jingbian Division for more than ten years and participated in countless operations, he was stunned and could hardly believe what he was hearing.

The other flag officers looked even more astonished, as if they were listening to a story.

Lin Xiaoqi alone killed more than forty bandits?
Even slaughtering forty pigs would take a lot of effort, right?

According to the injured Song Xiaoqi, there was also a peak eighth-rank expert among this group of bandits!

How could he possibly do that by himself?

Shen Qingya snapped out of her daze, her throat bobbing, and asked incredulously, "You, how did you do that?"

Lin Xuan answered honestly, "Based on the intelligence provided by Commander Wu, I learned that the bandits who robbed the Xu family's caravan were a group of thieves entrenched in Black Wind Cave on Eagle Beak Mountain. So I rushed to Eagle Beak Mountain overnight, infiltrated Black Wind Cave, and assassinated more than ten bandits, including their leader, while they were fast asleep. During the process, I accidentally woke one of them, and then fought a fierce battle with the awakened bandits. Fortunately, I did not fail in my mission and managed to bring them all to their deaths..."

Although there was a slight discrepancy between what he said and the facts, Lin Xuan could not let them know about the man in black robes, so he had to embellish his experience of the previous night with a little artistic flair.

After Lin Xuan finished speaking, the Jingbian Division became even more silent.

Alone, he broke into the bandits' den at night, assassinated more than ten bandits, fought a fierce battle with the remaining bandits, killed them all, and managed to escape unscathed...

Is this something someone who just entered the eighth rank a month ago could do?
"This is impossible!"

Huang Yue rushed out immediately; he was the one in the Jingbian Division who least trusted Lin Xuan.

His cousin, a peak eighth-rank martial artist, and his forty-odd brothers, including a mid-eighth-rank second-in-command, were all killed by Lin Xuan.
I won't believe it even if I beat him to death!

He quickly opened a cloth bag that Lin Xuan had thrown down, and when he saw the second-in-command's head with its eyes wide open in death, his heart sank.

"Impossible, impossible..."

He kept reassuring himself, and with trembling hands, he opened the second cloth bag.

When Zhou Biao's head, with its eyes wide open, appeared before him, Huang Yue's vision went black, and he almost fainted.

He had been closest to this cousin since childhood, and the cousin had always taken good care of him. Upon hearing his request, the cousin agreed without hesitation.

At this moment, looking at his head, Huang Yue felt a deep sorrow in his heart, which he had nowhere to vent. Two lines of tears rolled down his cheeks uncontrollably.

Zhang Hu glared at him and said irritably, "Why are you crying!"

Huang Yue wiped away his tears, collapsed at Lin Xuan's feet, and said sorrowfully, "Lin Xiaoqi, why were you so impulsive? If anything were to happen to you, wouldn't our Jingbian Division be missing a pillar of strength..."

(End of this chapter)