Fairy, please let me explain

Chapter 640 Questioning
Hearing this question, Si Zijing still kept his eyes down, but his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up.

The Third Young Master's question can be understood as a concern for one another out of brotherly love, but it can also be understood as a concern for the right of succession to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After all, if the eldest son died, no one would be able to compete with the third son for the "throne" of the prime minister's mansion.

The thought flashed through his mind, but Si Zijing did not make a blind conclusion. He carefully chose his words and replied slowly:
"My lord, another group of people encountered the master of Jiantian Pavilion. I just learned about it from Mr. Huang."

Xu Yuan was slightly disappointed when he heard this and said:

"So you don't know either?"

Si Zijing raised his eyes and glanced at Xu Yuan's expression, and said:

"If you want to know the inside story, you can use the communication crystal to contact Di An."

Xu Yuan snorted and said helplessly while counting on his fingers:

"I would like to do this, but the Black Scale Guards, Zhenxi Mansion, Secret Investigation Department, and those large chambers of commerce have basically been infiltrated by the sect. If the communication crystals used are tampered with, there will be a risk of being exposed even if we communicate in code."

As he spoke, Xu Yuan sighed softly:
"Okay, I have finished asking my personal questions. There is one more thing I need you to do, Mr. Si."

Si Zijing's expression became serious when he heard this, and he bowed and said:
"Master, please speak."

Xu Yuan clasped his hands together, leaned on the desk, and looked into Si Zijing's eyes:

"Before Mu Qing came to Xizezhou, he held an important position in Jingjisi. Mr. Si, you should be very familiar with him, right?"

Si Zijing's heart twitched for a moment, and after weighing the pros and cons for a moment, he decided to tell the truth: "When we worked together, we regarded each other as close friends."

"Oh, a close friend?"

"Sir, Lady Lou Ji is well aware that I always distinguish between public and private matters." Si Zijing said directly.

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Xu Yuan smiled slightly when he heard this, and waved his hand to interrupt, "Don't be nervous. Even if I don't trust you, how can I not trust Lou Ji? But since you can clearly distinguish between public and private matters, it's just right to hand this matter over to you. Before the matter is resolved, you can keep an eye on Mu Qing."

"Keep an eye on him?" Si Zijing whispered tentatively.

Xu Yuan's eyes were a little cold, and he replied:
"I don't care what method you use. I have only one request for you. Make sure Mu Qing can't do anything when the saint attacks the city."

Si Zijing hesitated for a moment and asked, "Sir, are you worried that he will break through the formation from inside the city?"

Xu Yuan smiled noncommittally and said, "Yes and no. I still keep him now, mainly because he still holds the whereabouts of the Black Scale Guard's resources in Xizezhou. To maintain the high-powered operation of the city defense formation, the source crystals needed are not just a little bit, and that resource may play a big role."

As he spoke, Xu Yuan seemed to remember something, and lowered his voice slightly, and began to put pressure on Si Zijing:

"Oh, by the way, Mu Qing was seriously injured not long ago. If you still fail under such circumstances, then Mr. Si, you and Mu Qing will only be close friends."

Si Zijing's expression did not change at all. Instead, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips. He bowed solemnly:
"Don't worry, sir. I will definitely accomplish my mission."

"Okay, go on."

Xu Yuan waved at the other party, but Si Zijing still stood there with a hint of hesitation on his face.

Seeing this expression, Xu Yuan frowned, then smiled and said:
"If it's about Xu Mengxi, then there's no need to say more. I don't care whether she lives or dies."

"You misunderstood. I wanted to talk about the eldest son."

"Don't you know about this?"

"I really don't know, but I can get some clues from some details."

"explain."

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Si Zijing took a deep breath and said quickly:
"Before I came to Zhenxi Prefecture City, I contacted Di'an City three times, namely with the Prime Minister, Lady Lou Ji, and the Deputy Director of the Black Scale Guards. I cannot guess what the Prime Minister and Lou Ji are thinking, but the Deputy Director and I reported that the situation in Di'an is normal."

Xu Yuan's eyes revealed a hint of doubt.

Seeing that the Third Young Master was unable to change his mind, Si Zijing said directly:
"Since the Second Young Master passed away, the First Young Master has taken over all of the Second Young Master's affairs, and the workload has only increased in recent years. If something happens to the First Young Master, it will probably cause a lot of turmoil in the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"Squeaky-"

As the door closed, the Junshu Hall returned to silence.

After staring at the direction where Si Zijing left for a few breaths, Xu Yuan leaned back on the chair with a slightly tired look. At this moment, a graceful figure in a black dress appeared beside him almost instantly.

Tian Ye glanced at his profile and said with a smile:
"It looks like your elder brother is alive. The Master of Jiantian Pavilion obviously has no reason to let him go."

Xu Yuan looked tired, but was obviously in a good mood. He smiled and said:

"Perhaps your Pavilion Master is afraid that Xu Changge will force him to swap one for the other."

"One for one?"

Tian Ye's beautiful eyes flickered, and she was slightly surprised. She jumped onto the table and sat down, crossed her legs, and murmured, "The night you fought with the golden-haired girl, I was wondering what that aura was. It turned out that your elder brother really cultivated the causal Dao essence."

As she spoke, her golden eyes narrowed slightly:
“However, although the causal essence is strong, the origin realm is not enough to make the master of Jiantian Pavilion retreat.”

Xu Yuan was silent about the past and sighed softly:
".Maybe he has achieved a breakthrough, alas."

Tian Ye seemed to see the mixed emotions in Xu Yuan's heart, stretched out his slender hand, patted his shoulder, and said with a smile:
"If you want to vent your anger, I can help you beat him up."

Xu Yuan chuckled:
"Given his personality, he might just pull you in for a one-for-one."

"Tian Yan has countermeasures against the Dao Yun of Karma. Just because the Pavilion Master of Jiantian is afraid of it doesn't mean I will be afraid of it."

Tian Ye crossed his arms over his chest, his eyes filled with eagerness: "I love the feeling of stepping on these geniuses the most~"

Xu Yuan's eyes flashed with a hint of amusement:
"Will you win?"

"Hmm?" Tian Ye was a little unhappy with Xu Yuan's gaze: "What do you mean?"

Xu Yuan smiled and shook his head, then stood up from his chair:
"It's nothing interesting. It's time to deal with business."

Tian Ye did not move. He glanced at the pile of corpses on the ground and asked softly:

"As soon as I came back, you rushed over to deal with Zhan Xian'an. Is it necessary to be so anxious?"

Xu Yuan stopped, chuckled and asked back:

"You think I shouldn't be so anxious to kill him?"

Tian Ye tilted his head and thought for a while, then smiled and said:

"It is naturally better to kill Zhan Xian'an as soon as possible. After all, the saint of the Mu family is outside the city. The two of them are conveying a message. The shadow substitute in your hand may be scrapped at any time. By then, he will be prepared and it will be almost impossible to kill him. But I think you opened the city defense formation too early. Now the city defense system of Zhenxi Prefecture is in chaos."

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Xu Yuan was silent for a while, then sighed helplessly.

What Tian Ye said was exactly what he had originally expected.

The best option is to kill Zhan Xian'an, use Li Junwu's identity to build momentum, stabilize the situation and morale in the city, and then activate the city defense formation.

Killing Zhan Xian'an and activating the city defense formation at the same time was undoubtedly a bad move. It was almost equivalent to telling the senior generals below that their boss had been dealt with.

The good-breasted girl is not the bound-breasted princess, and her prestige in the Zhenxi Army is totally insufficient to support such a thing as beheading the general on the battlefield.

Both the loyalists and the traitors will be in panic.

The situation they are facing now is that not only external worries have arisen, but internal troubles have also begun to spread.

But the problem is that Xu Yuan has no choice at all.

Raising his fingers and tapping his head, Xu Yuan said softly:

"The reason why the Pavilion Master was able to find you last night must be that she brought the Lingtian Instrument with her. If she brought the Lingtian Instrument with her, my location would naturally be exposed."

Tian Ye frowned and said in a low voice:
"Are you afraid that they will enter the city and kill you?"

Xu Yuan did not deny it and nodded. Tian Ye's eyes showed a trace of thought:

"Is this possible? I was looking for Linlang last night, and the encounter with the Master of Jiantian Pavilion can be said to be a test of our cards. On the surface, you already have two saints, Linlang and I, protecting you. Why take this risk?"

"Are assassination and protection of the same order of difficulty?"

Xu Yuan interrupted Tian Ye's words and said with a gloomy look in his eyes, "And don't forget, everything the sect has done in this Western Desert, whether it is taking over Zhenxi Mansion or manipulating the Tartar Chao Royal Court, is to prepare for a war with my Xiangguo Mansion. Jiantian Pavilion even regards me as a great calamity for the world. They have every reason to take the risk to enter the city first and kill me here."

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Tian Ye listened carefully, nodded somewhat boredly, and then asked:
"Okay, you have a point, but what are you going to do now?"

"Just in case, let's go to Li Junwu first to see how she is handling it."

"You really don't trust her at all?" Tian Ye said sarcastically.

Xu Yuan looked away, with a hint of worry in his eyes:

"I can't help it. We are too familiar with each other. I always feel like she will fail."

The warm sunlight became somewhat distorted by the sky covering the city, and the front yard of the Military Hall was silent.

A woman stood on the stairs, with two masked men standing on her left and right. The dozen or so senior generals in military uniforms in the courtyard were all staring at the woman intently, with some doubt and uncertainty in their eyes, shocked by what she had just said.

Commander Zhan is a traitor?

And a saint will soon attack the city?

The dead silence in the courtyard was finally broken by someone.

An old general with wrinkles all over his face looked at the uniformed woman on the stairs and took a deep breath:

"Princess, you said that Commander Zhan has been secretly communicating with the sect for a long time?"

Li Junwu looked over and roughly recognized the other party's identity. He was the deputy commander of the Second Town Mingting Army. He said slowly:

"Commander Jin, do you think I would treat such a military and national matter as a joke?"

The veteran was silent for a while, then said slowly:

"Since the princess has joined the army, I think she will not take it lightly. But all her words are not enough. Do you have any evidence?"

Li Junwu did not say anything, but just glanced sideways at the masked burly man standing beside him.

All the generals present also turned their eyes to Huang Shiwei, and those with high cultivation levels among them frowned unconsciously.

They could see that this sturdy man had extremely profound cultivation, and therefore there was a hint of worry in their eyes.

Huang Shiwei lowered his voice and whispered:
"Take off the veil."

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As soon as he finished speaking, the man on the other side of Li Junwu took action. He raised his hand and pulled down the veil on his face, calmly glancing at the murderous veterans below.

The moment they saw this man's face, some puzzled discussions slowly sounded in the courtyard.

"Old Jin, do you know who this is?"

"You ask me, who should I ask?"

"If what the princess said is true, this person should be the one who contacted Commander Zhan."

"Have you lost your mind after fighting? If he was the contact person, why would he obey the princess's orders?"

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The generals present had high status in Dayan, and most of them had seen the world when they followed the Marquis of Zhenxi to the capital. However, there were too many nobles in Dayan, and except for people like Xu Changge who were famous all over the world, the faces of the others were not widely circulated.

Looking at the reactions below, Li Junwu frowned unconsciously, and his hands clenched unconsciously under his sleeves.

If no one can recognize the shadow's appearance, that would be a problem.

In the discussion below,
Lu Bozou, who had been silent all this time, suddenly looked at the shadow and said:
"This person looks somewhat similar to Young Master Qin from Jiangnan."

Hearing this, Li Junwu felt relieved and the discussions around him also stopped.

The old general surnamed Jin asked in a low voice:

"Old Lu, who is this person you are talking about?"

Lu Bozou hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice:

"Nine Sword Sect, born with sword bones, Qin Weijiu."

"I know this person. He seemed to be quite famous more than ten years ago."

"Qin Weijiu sounds a little familiar."

"He was the guy who was rumored to be on par with Xu Changge, but was chopped down by him with three swords in the Tianyuan competition."

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The whispers gradually died down, and the veteran General Jin slowly asked Li Junwu:
"Princess, this person's identity is..."

"Qin Weijiu's younger brother, Qin Weishu's shadow substitute."

Li Junwu said loudly: "I asked him to defraud Zhan Xian'an, but he actually obeyed the shadow and allowed it to enter the government office."

As soon as these words were spoken, the generals below were immediately in an uproar, but these people were all experienced in battle after all, and they quickly calmed down after the commotion.

"My Lady, you said Commander Zhan was secretly communicating with an outsider. Can you please call him out to confront this person?"

"Is this the time for a confrontation? If what the princess said is true, the army will be in chaos if the battle is suddenly launched. The saint is about to attack the city. We must quickly receive orders and go back to organize the soldiers!"

"Yang Xigong, can you not be so stubborn? Don't tell me that you can't sense the cultivation level of the person next to the princess? There must be someone behind such a high level of cultivation. Have you forgotten the princess's style in the past? What if you are deceived?!"

"That makes sense, why didn't I think of that?"

The dark-skinned middle-aged man in military uniform thought for a moment and saluted Li Junwu:
"Princess, I think we still need to call Commander Zhan out."

"He is dead."

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Li Junwu's sudden words made the front yard of the Military Hall fall into silence again. Many people began to practice military formation skills quietly because of this sentence. A huge and terrifying aura gradually gathered above the Military Hall and locked onto the person on the stairs.

But it was not Li Junwu, but Huang Shiwei beside her.

In their opinion, the princess must have been bewitched. Even the marquis would not do such a ridiculous thing as killing the general on the battlefield.

The princess's faults can be investigated after the marquis returns, but the people who deceived her must be captured or killed first.

Li Junwu saw the changes below and shouted coldly:

"Zhan Xian'an was the commander of the Second Town, in charge of the military formation and the city defense formation, but he was unexpectedly killed. Isn't this the biggest evidence of his treason?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she also started to practice the military formation technique. In an instant, the generals below suddenly lost control of the huge aura surging above the sky.

The natural suppression of the mother technique over the child technique was revealed at this moment, and the price of the suppression was a streak of blood that stained the bright red corners of Li Junwu's lips.

She was simply unable to bear the power of such a huge military formation, even for just a moment, and she had already suffered a great backlash.

Wiping the blood from the corner of his lips, Li Junwu narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at the generals below, and shouted loudly:
"Are you planning to gather a crowd to rebel?!"

(End of this chapter)