After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 1363 The Crisis Ahead

Xue Zongwu sneered: "Yes, but the account is gone. It was burned down by a scoundrel."

"In the past, when encountering such a situation, the royal envoys could only return home and report the truth to our king." General Xue's power is there. Besides, Shuangxi County is also a victim. The warehouse was burned down.

"now what?"

"If it's 'that person' you must investigate. You'll still be in big trouble."

Xue Zongwu was puzzled: "The accounts are all gone, so where did the trouble come from?"

"Here, I mean, the accounts of Shuangxi County are gone, but the accounts below are all there. There are so many mines, horse farms, markets, warehouses, large and small chambers of commerce and wealthy households... all kinds of items, they all have their own set of accounts!" Tong Huan explained to him, "If 'that person' is determined to investigate, once an order is issued, Shuangxi County Government must summarize the accounts of previous years and rebuild the accounts!"

Hearing this, Xue Zongwu felt something was wrong: "What's the problem?"

Isn't it just a matter of burning it?

"The burned account books were leveled out by Qian Yu a long time ago, and outsiders have been unable to find any problems for many years." Tong Huan said in a deep voice, "But if the accounts are rebuilt on a large scale and in a unified manner, those accounts, those erased accounts, will definitely be exposed!"

The principle of accounting is that if there is a reduction, there must be an increase, and if there is a hole, there must be a filler. The changes that Qian Yu made in the account book over the years were very complicated. It was difficult for anyone except himself to sort out the clues, and the auditors sent by the Yao Wang Court never found any loopholes. Now that the account book has been rebuilt, many items will not match. "

He coughed softly and said, "At this time, the account books lost by Shuangxi County Government will be useful. They are the originals. As long as we compare them with the newly established accounts, then..."

He didn't need to say anything more, Xue Zongwu understood and was rubbing his temples hard.

Reconcile the accounts! Qingyang stole his account book for the final "court battle"!
"No wonder Shuangxi County reported to us a few days ago that the royal envoy notified the two mines to check their accounts and asked them to hand in the accounts for the past ten years. Oh, it turns out that the Qingyang Regent was secretly planning to deal with me!"

In such a rage, he stopped mentioning "that person" and just called him Qingyang.

This was also the reason why he hurriedly sent Qian Yu to Shuangxi: to check for any deficiencies and fill in the gaps, so as not to let anyone catch him.

"That's why those two people in black wanted to kill Qian Yu." Tong Huan said seriously, "Qian Yu settled all the accounts. Once he dies, no one will remember the details, and all the accounts will have to be rewritten from scratch!"

"Moreover, the royal court's special envoy will come to check the accounts in ten days. By then, you will most likely have arrived in the capital and will not be in Shuangxi or the army!" Since Xue Zongwu could not stay in Shuangxi, it would be difficult for him to interfere with the supervisory audit sent by Qingyang.

"The original accounts were a mess and difficult to review; but since they were burned down in a fire, the people sent by the Qingyang Regent have reason to ask for a new account."

"What a good plan, what a trick!" Xue Zongwu was anxious, pacing back and forth on the martial arts training ground, "How insidious!"

He is not good at deciding the outcome in this area.

He would rather fight a real battle on the battlefield than resort to these tricks.

"What now?"

"The remaining accounts cannot be burned! There are still ten days left. You must make up the accounts as soon as possible and try to make them even before Qingyang Regent sends someone to audit. Otherwise, it will not be you who will supervise the accounting of Shuangxi County Government, but people sent by Qingyang!"

"Ten days..." Xue Zongwu was speechless, his mouth bitter. All the accounts of the past five or seven years, all the complicated and tedious details, had to be redone?

Redoing the work is not the most troublesome thing. The trouble is to make the accounts as balanced as possible!

Not to mention ten days, even two months wouldn’t be enough!

"Hurry up." Tong Huan knew that what General Xue lacked most now was time.

"Damn it!" Xue Zongwu punched the air hard and hurriedly left the training ground.

Tong Huan added: "You are about to leave for your country, so you must be careful on the road."

Xue Zongwu hummed. He had been feeling anxious recently, always feeling that something bad was about to happen. The last time he had this kind of impulse, he immediately changed the battle layout, which was why he didn't fall into the enemy's ambush.

Even if Mu Liao didn't mention it, he planned to be cautious on his journey back home.

……

The fine and dense rain, like a thread of shuttle, has been falling all day.

It was only a few steps away, and Dong Rui was too lazy to hold an umbrella. But when he walked into the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce branch, his clothes were already half wet.

He shook the water off his hair and heard a low sound of a xiao.

There are few people in the Chamber of Commerce today. Besides, the only person who can play a musical instrument here is a willful boss.

Dong Rui walked to the backyard of the Chamber of Commerce, which was off-limits to outsiders, and jumped onto the second floor. Sure enough, he saw He Lingchuan leaning against a wooden pillar in the corridor and playing the xiao. The gorgeous purple jacaranda flowers bloomed boldly on the second floor, nodding gently to the sound of the xiao and the breeze.

The melody was melodious, with the unique desolation of the ancient xun, and it became increasingly distant with the sound of rain outside the eaves.

Even someone like Dong Rui who was not familiar with music could hear the deep loneliness, as if the person playing the xiao was isolated from the world, with only the breeze and drizzle to accompany him.

This long corridor and corners separated by blooming pomegranates and jacarandas is a world for one person.

Dong Rui slowed down his pace unconsciously.

Sometimes, he would forget that He Lingchuan was also a human being with emotions, worries, and flesh and blood.

The passionate young man who rescued Ke Jihai in the Deer Garden of Yuan Kingdom in the past has become the cunning and taciturn Emperor Jiuyou.

Dong Rui never knew what He Lingchuan was thinking.

The song ends, but the lingering sound remains.

He Lingchuan put down the ancient xun, opened his eyes, looked at Dong Rui and said, "The kitchen has made a lot of taro and bamboo shoots buns, and there is also freshly made sweet and spicy sauce."

There is still a little bit of bamboo shoots left in the bamboo shoot season. Use taro paste to make the skin, fill it with diced meat, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and other fillings, and steam it in a steamer. It is a breakfast that the locals love very much.

Dong Rui came over at this time just to get a free meal: "I'll be there in a minute. Your music skills have improved again."

"Let's make do with it." Jucheng was peaceful and quiet, but the Panlong world was in flames. He Lingchuan had been preparing for war at night these past few days and was deeply touched.

He was playing with the ancient Xun, and Dong Rui's eyes fixed on him: "Hey, when did you open the last hole?"

The last hole of this xiao has been sealed since He Lingchuan left Lingxu City. Why is it open now?
No wonder the timbre sounds a little different.

"This?" He Lingchuan shook the xiao in his hand. "It has been opened for several days."

Dong Rui was shocked. That meant...

"I have a feeling that the trip to Yao Kingdom is full of dangers, and we need to go all out." He Lingchuan said slowly, "When I go to Tianshui City this time, Qingyang will definitely be very unhappy to see me, and he might take some action; the intentions of King Yao are unclear, so we must be on guard."

He could feel that Yao State was not friendly to him.

Haha, maybe Yao Kingdom is not friendly enough to anyone.

"Besides, your colleagues are not easy to deal with either. They have strange means and can even kill Situ Yu. If someone hires them to deal with me..."

He was confident that his cultivation and fighting skills were far superior to Situ Yu, but there was always a saying that one can only steal for a thousand days, but never be on guard against thieves for a thousand days. If the mysterious demon puppet master organization did not take action, it would be fine. Once it took action, it would be like a torrential rain hitting a duckweed. The victim was really difficult to deal with.

"There is another force that must be mentioned—" The rain outside the eaves suddenly got heavier. He Lingchuan's words drowned out the sound of the rain and reached Dong Rui's ears, "—Tiangong and Beijia."

"How could Bejia notice us from such a distance?" Dong Ruiqi asked, "Is it bored?"

"The rise of the Black Armor Army and the legend of the Nine Nether Emperor first aroused the vigilance of the lesser gods." He Lingchuan jumped onto the railing and sat down, his back against the pillar. "According to the information collected by the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce in the central part of the Shining Gold Plain, some of the believers of the lesser gods have converted to the Nine Nether Emperor. Even a few days ago, Yutuo City built a shrine dedicated to the Nine Nether Emperor."

Dong Rui laughed and said, "They worship you as a land immortal, so they are not afraid that you will shorten your life."

"When people pray to God, isn't it all for hope?" The hope of living a good life, the hope of peace and less illness.

For civilians who are suffering from injustice and bullying but are powerless to resist, what they hope for is someone to uphold justice for them and eliminate evil and violence, right?
In all these years, has there ever been such a hero in the Golden Plains?
In order to attract believers, gods have to expend their divine power to perform miracles to convey to the world the signal of "I exist, I am powerful". On the other hand, the Nine Nether Emperor and his black-armored army, who are everywhere acting on behalf of heaven and punishing evildoers, are not these miracles to the world?
What is a miracle?
Isn't it just about showing strength that ordinary people can hardly imagine and accomplishing things that ordinary people dare not imagine?

What the Jiuyou Emperor did was in line with what ordinary people would judge.

If he wants to perform a miracle, all he has to do is come out and kill a few villains. How can he not be stronger than other gods who have to work hard for two or three years to perform a miracle?
Therefore, it is not surprising that the "Nine Nether Emperor" has followers in just a few months, and the number of followers is increasing. Moreover, He Lingchuan has the Qianglong armor that can collect wishes, so he is not afraid of others building a shrine for him.

But this angered the other lesser gods.

The Golden Plains has always been a good place for gods to compete for followers, which means that there are the most small and wild gods here. If there is any disturbance, they will know it first.

What is the difference between the divine world and the human world? News spreads quickly. Therefore, He Lingchuan believes that the appearance of "Nine Nether Emperor" and the actions of the Black Armor Army should have attracted the attention of more and more gods.

Every time the Nine Nether Emperor eliminates evil, a dragon head totem will appear in the area for three days. It's hard for Beijia not to mind this——

The Demon Emperor is a descendant of the dragon clan. After hearing about the abnormalities in the Shining Gold Plains, how could he not be interested in the Nine Nether Emperor and the Black Dragon Totem?

"Just because we didn't see Bejia making any moves doesn't mean it will really behave itself." He Lingchuan took a breath, "The barking dog doesn't bite. Who knows if Lingxu City has already made a plan? So, this is the fourth hidden danger."

"I haven't taken into account the risk of getting rid of Xue Zongwu. But if we want to break the impasse, we have to go to Yao Country." This trip was a must. He asked Dong Rui, "By the way, was your transformation successful?"

(End of this chapter)