Ark, I got cold a little early

However, Xiao Twelve did not say these words, but just held them back silently.

But seeing that breakfast was ready and no one came out of the master's room, Xiao Twelve couldn't hold it anymore.

No, sisters, what are you doing? !

Sister Shu...she wants...

"I'm going to call them to have breakfast. Little brother, go and move the stools." After saying that, Shu walked towards the door.

"It's over." Xiao Twelve blurted out, but Shu didn't hear it.

Shu opened the door, and then a smile froze on his face.

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"Huh? Why aren't Xiansheng, Ling, Shu, Nian, and Xi at the table today?" Wang casually picked up a boiled egg and was a little surprised. "Isn't Nian usually the one who eats the most? Where are they?"

"Shh! Shh! Shh!" Little Twelve interrupted hurriedly, "Brother! Eat! Eat!"

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"Your Excellency, this is the Emperor's decree."

At noon, Hongyu was urgently summoned back to the imperial city of Dayan by an imperial edict. This surprised him a little. Although he usually handled some paperwork as the Sima Tai, he had never received an actual imperial edict directly from the emperor.

"Lord Yu, over the past few years, I have recovered many of the territories lost during the Great Hunting War. However, the laws of Great Yan no longer apply to some of these lost territories. I hold the corresponding authority over the fifth fragment, Jie, as mentioned by the ministers. Therefore, I will invoke your authority as governor to have Jie go to Great Yan to recover the territories. I decree this."

颉？

Didn't she go to Simuitai a long time ago to help those people whenever she had the chance?

The lost territory recovered by Da Yan...

"I understand. I'm reporting to Your Highness that the prefect is aware of it." Hongyu took the imperial edict and flew to Si Sui Tai without stopping. He grabbed Jie who was handling paperwork and flew to his own residence.

Jie was stunned for a moment, and then she returned to Hongyu's house after feeling dizzy. Seeing Hongyu holding her collar, she exclaimed, "Sir?!"

Hongyu waved his hand and beckoned Wang over: "Wang, are you interested in handling the paperwork for Jie and me at Simaitai?"

Wang pointed at himself: "Me?"

Hongyu nodded, thinking that there were some people in the palace who maintained the policy of killing those who were not of the same race, and that they were reaching too far.

I haven't been to the borderlands of Da Yan for a long time. Some kittens seem to think tigers are nothing special, right? It's time to chop off some of those dirty hands.

Alas - Shuo, you really picked a good time to go out. Forget it, I guess there won’t be many fools who would choose to attack you, the guy who inherited most of the power.

I'd better take care of this side.

Hongyu pulled down the silk that had been wrapped around his eyes, and the blue-gray light faintly drew out a line of light.

"Jie, come with me to Dayan's Fudi. There are some dishonest bugs that want to harm you, but I will be in the dark. Don't worry, leave your safety to me."

He opened his mouth slightly, and a sense of power emanated from him.

This momentum was not an acting performance like before. He, who had no emotions at all, actually felt a trace of anger rising in his heart at this moment.

Wang looked at Hongyu who took the initiative to tear off the silk in surprise, and thought to himself

"Brother, the master... also has feelings... but he just shows them to us."

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"Perhaps I shouldn't have agreed to Mr.'s request that day."

Looking at the pile of documents in front of his desk, Wang, who had already become a prefect, couldn't help but sigh.

He looked around carefully, and after making sure that no one would come in, he quietly took out the chessboard he had hidden and started to entertain himself.

"Master Governor, you're slacking off again." A female voice startled him, making him break out in a cold sweat. He turned around and saw the assistant from the Caster clan he had hired earlier, smiling and confiscating his Go board. "There's still a lot of work to do, you can't rest yet."

Looking at the smiling face of the brown-haired bunny girl, Wang felt like he was having a myocardial infarction.

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Chapter 11 Liquidation

"So now... tell me, who is behind this?"

The sky was almost dyed blood red, with houses blown up and countless debris scattered everywhere. Among them, Hongyu pinched the neck of a guy who looked most like the leader with one hand, exerting force, maintaining a level that could cause pain to the other person without affecting his speech.

"You...can't kill me...you know my father is..." The man struggled in Hongyu's hand. Just as he was about to say a few threatening words to Hongyu, Hongyu twisted his neck with a "click".

"Your father? If your father doesn't know what's best for him, I will kill him too." Hongyu wiped the blood off his hand and frowned.

Why are you talking so loud? Who gave you the confidence to yell at me? No matter how awesome your dad is, can he be as awesome as the Grand Tutor, the Grand Administrator, and the Grand Commandant?

Hongyu sneered at the corpse on the ground.

"Jie, let me take you back first. I'll take care of this matter." His tone was unkind. "From today on, at least during the reign of this emperor, none of you will experience this kind of thing again..."

These guys set a really good ambush... Almost all the civilians in this area are soldiers in disguise, and they know that Jie is at his most vulnerable when he exercises his authority. Attacking at that time would only require about half the casualties to kill Jie...

Not long ago, Hongyu thought that this would at most injure Jie, but he didn't expect that they were serious and really wanted to kill Jie, even using a lot of bombs triggered by Originium techniques that were rare in this era...

If he had not taken this ambush and betrayal seriously, there was a high probability that Jie would have been killed on the spot, and if the other members of the Sui family knew about it, what kind of chaos would have happened?

The others don’t know about it, but I guess he will be the first one to become a crazy family hero.

The more he thought about it, the more the anger in Hongyu's heart grew, and his frown did not relax for a long time.

"Sir..." Jie had never seen Hongyu's emotions fluctuate so much. He seemed to want to say something, but in the end he held it back silently.

"Talk to Wang when you get back and ask him to visit Simuitai more often to get familiar with it." Hongyu certainly heard Jie's hesitant words, but at that moment he returned to his usual smiling look.

Jie nodded. She knew that the gentleman she was familiar with would not change and he would still be omnipotent.

Although in this scene, the image of a person with blood on his face smiling at you is a bit too "beautiful".

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That day, the entire Dayan was shaken.

The reason was simple. In the imperial city of Dayan, hundreds of people were sentenced to death and dragged to the civilian execution racks. Some were beheaded and some were hanged.

And all these people were ministers who participated in the murder of Jie.

Hongyu watched all this coldly. He gave a command curse to the Great Yan Emperor in this area - never to do anything that would harm the Sui family.

He was willing to give Dayan another chance, so he didn't kill him directly, but chose to control him mentally.

After all, Shuo was still traveling in Dayan. It would be bad if he heard the rumor that the emperor was killed by the prefect and made him worry.

Not many people knew what Hongyu had done. They only knew that a group of suicidal people tried to ambush Jie, and were almost all killed by the prefect, with only a few left to be handed over to Dayan for judgment.

They only saw the furious emperor sentencing the remaining few people to death, and the ministers who had previously opposed him dying with their eyes open.

For a time, Hongyu's reputation reached its peak.

Look! Those who didn't understand the greatness of the Grand Administrator and tried to ambush him all ended up in a bad way! Even His Majesty the Emperor trusted the Grand Administrator so much!

Those idiots are so blind.

After knowing this, Hongyu spread his hands and just smiled, because what those people didn't know was that as long as Hongyu wanted, there would be no problem in asking the emperor of Dayan to abdicate and take the throne himself.

What? You mean people like the Grand Tutor disagree?

No, let’s say we can hypnotize even a real dragon with just one glance, so those people just want Hongyu to look at him a few more times, right?

However, Hongyu did not have such an idea, so the court of Dayan was able to escape the disaster.

However, the impact of this incident was still too great, and a lot of information was secretly passed on to the public, becoming known to more people and beginning to spread rapidly.

Even Shuo, who was far away somewhere unknown, took the time to send a letter to express his concern.

Then Hongyu instantly came to Shuo's side and told him to just continue his journey and there was no need to worry about his family every day. After all, he was not yet old enough to be unable to walk or speak.

Shuo, who was startled by Hongyu who suddenly appeared beside him and then disappeared quickly, just nodded numbly after he left, then pinched his arm and decided to rest early today.

Since there were rumors favorable to Hongyu, there were naturally a series of rumors such as "The prefect killed people like crazy", "The prefect is the next person to overthrow the royal family", and even more outrageous "In fact, the prefect is 'Sui' and the others are just a decoy of 'Sui'..."

Although Hongyu didn't care because if he wanted to solve these problems it would only take a look, Wang, who had been processing documents for Hongyu at Simuitai these days and had received a lot of information, was very angry.

He, who had always been well-educated, ran directly to the imperial city and launched a 360-degree, no-dead-angle attack on the people who spread these rumors, with his parents as the center and relatives as the radius.

If Wang hadn't lost his composure today, Hongyu would probably never have known that Wang's eloquence was so powerful.

Out of concern for Wang, Hongyu went to the palace again, and the next day the emperor ordered the homes of those who spread the rumors to be raided...

After that day, the atmosphere in the palace became many times more peaceful than before.

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"Brother, the master never seemed to tell you about what happened in the palace at that time, right?" At this time, Wang came to Yumen Pass, still processing documents in his hands.

Now the two of them were in Zhongyue's own tent in the barracks, with no one else around.

"At that time... do you mean when the whole of Da Yan was spreading rumors about you and us?" Zhong Yue pinched his chin. "No, you told me a long time ago, whether it was when he cast a mental spell on the emperor at the time, or when he raided the homes of the ministers for your safety..."

"Although I don't quite agree with Mr.'s decision to kill someone...it's understandable, and I don't blame him. If I were to put myself in his family's shoes, perhaps I would have been more ruthless."

"...What did you say? Out of concern for my safety?" Wang originally just wanted to come and have a casual chat with Zhongyue, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen.

“…” Zhongyue was stunned. It seemed that he had said something that he shouldn’t have said again, but since things had come to this point, he had no choice but to talk to Wang in detail.

"When you went to the Imperial City alone and scolded the ministers, didn't you consider that the same assassination attempt on Jie might happen to you? With this in mind, Sir, you conducted a thorough investigation of the situation in the Imperial Palace..."

Wang quickly interrupted the topic that Zhongyue was about to continue, and the two of them just chatted briefly before Wang was called back by his assistant to work overtime.

On the way, Wang felt a sense of surprise and fear in his heart. He just didn't expect that all of us were constantly causing trouble for the master in some way...

Including me...

Tsk, how could I be so stupid...

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Chapter 12: Chongyue, Years, and Jiao

[Sir, it has been two hundred and ten years since we last met.

Over the years, I have traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Dayan according to the guidance of your map, and also made friends with many chivalrous men worth making friends with.

I have experienced a lot and written many letters in the past hundred years. I wonder if you have received all of them?

During my travels, I never received a visiting card, and that was the first time I realized that battle was so ritualistic for humans.

Although I have long forgotten the outcome of that battle, perhaps I was curious. I somewhat yearned for human life. I wanted to see what kind of creatures humans were, and how they could live so comfortably on this post-disaster and suffering earth.

Just like weeds, even if they are ravaged by yellow sand, they can always find their own place to settle down.

The people of the capital are different from those of the borderlands, so please forgive me for my decision to stay in Yumen.

In addition, I have carefully considered your advice. A hundred years ago, I decided to give up my identity as "Shuo" and choose to enter the world as a human being. I sealed my consciousness as "Sui" into the sword. Now my name was given to me by a good friend, and it is called "Chongyue".

A hundred years ago, I arrived at the border of Great Yan and became a general here. But in the blink of an eye, a hundred years have passed. Although I have taught martial arts in this northwestern frontier position, protecting the country and the people, and have lived up to the title of a pillar of the country and become a world-renowned master...

But this March is cold and windy, and my good friends have passed away one after another without anyone to talk to.

I once climbed up the city wall and looked at the distant scenery. It seemed as if I had seen the figure of the master describing martial arts at that moment. I am writing to the master again. I wonder how he is doing these days?

After finishing the letter, Zhongyue gently placed the brush back on the brush holder.

The yellow sand at the border was constantly blowing in the strong wind, and the atmosphere was solemn.

"Alas, no one understands my intention to climb the mountain. How can I get through the remote border town, let alone the vast and desolate land? Thousands of miles of yellow sand remain today, but the shadows of my old friends are nowhere to be seen." Chongyue couldn't help but blurt out a poem that Hongyu had once recited.

He used to not understand why Hongyu kept reciting some poems from time to time, but now he has some understanding.

Unlike ordinary people, who would place their emotions on poems, Mr. Wang was trying to feel the emotions.