The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Chapter 2010 Daring to do it but not daring to admit it?
Langjie frowned and asked, "May I ask your honorable name?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "My surname is Long, and I am the ninth child in my family. You can call me Long Jiu. May I ask who you are...?"

Langjie said, "Langjie!"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Oh? Greetings, Mr. Langjie! I've heard that Tibetan names are very meaningful and profound. May I ask what your name means?"

Langjie suddenly straightened his back and said loudly, "Lang means victory, Jie means conquest, Langjie means total victory! It symbolizes invincible wisdom and power!"

Feng Jiuxiao laughed, "What a fine 'invincible' statement! It seems you are quite confident!" He glanced at Prince Jiacuo, "May I ask who this gentleman is...?"

Langjie glanced at Prince Gyatso and acted according to his signal!

When Gyatso saw that the white-clad youth was holding a gold medal, which made Prefect Liu quite wary, he immediately knew that this person must have a powerful background. After a moment's thought, he smiled and said, "I am Gyatso."

Feng Jiuxiao looked him up and down and smiled, "You're from Qing Tang City?"

Gyatso was immediately startled!
He then laughed and said, "Then why don't you think I come from Liangzhou?"

Feng Jiuxiao smiled and said, "Liangzhou has been predominantly inhabited by Han people since ancient times. Historically, it has been a place where Han people and other ethnic groups have crossed paths many times, such as the Xiongnu and Qiang people. After many years of blood fusion, the appearance of Liangzhou people has become similar to that of Han people. Qingtang, on the other hand, has been mostly inhabited by Tibetans since ancient times, with few Han people. This is still the case to this day. So I guess you are most likely from Qingtang!"

Gyatso noticed that the other person's demeanor was nothing like that of a young man, but rather resembled that of a seventy-year-old! Mature beyond his years, he was simply extraordinary!
He immediately asked, "Do you serve in the Song Dynasty court?"

"Excellent! I am grateful to the imperial court for not neglecting me and for bestowing upon me an official position!"

"May I ask what rank you hold in your official career?"

"I am rather special; I have no rank!"

"No rank?" Gyatso was taken aback. "Are you joking?"

Feng Jiuxiao said seriously, "I never joke!"

At this moment, Langjie reminded Prince Gyatso, "Master, don't delay important matters!" He saw that His Highness was getting more and more off-topic with the white-robed youth, how could this be allowed?

Feng Jiuxiao's face immediately darkened. "Lang Jie, what do you mean by this? Don't you know why I'm here?"

Ever since the white-clad youth appeared, Langjie had been feeling uneasy! He had a bad feeling that all his plans might be ruined by this youth!
He looked displeased, but given the other party's special status, he couldn't afford to turn hostile before figuring out their background, so he had no choice but to reply, "I truly don't know, please enlighten me!"

Feng Jiuxiao approached Liu Zhiheng and said slowly, "Excuse me, Lord Liu, please move aside!"

Liu Zhiheng immediately stood up and offered his seat!
Feng Jiuxiao sat down with an air of authority. "From now on, I'm taking over this case!"

what?
Lang Jie's brow furrowed involuntarily!
The onlookers outside the hall also began to discuss it animatedly!
"Isn't this kid just messing around?"

"Yes, so young and yet so arrogant!"

Why does Lord Liu seem so afraid of him?

"Yeah, why does he give up his seat every time he's asked? Is it because... he has some kind of leverage over him?"

"Don't talk nonsense. Didn't that kid just show off a gold medal? He seems to be someone important!"

Suddenly, the gavel struck, and everyone fell silent! The young man solemnly declared, "I am the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial City Guard of the Great Song Dynasty, Long... Long Zhentian!" He then brandished a golden token, "Execution first, reporting later, by imperial authority! Anyone with doubts may come forward to verify!"

Everyone fell silent!

It turns out this person is actually the Deputy Envoy of the Imperial City Guard of the Great Song Dynasty! That's the second-in-command, second only to the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial City Guard!
Even the lowest-ranking commoners of the Great Shu Dynasty knew what kind of entity the Imperial City Guard was!

That was a power institution directly under the emperor's control! Executing first and reporting later, a privilege granted by imperial power—how terrifying! It is said that many civil and military officials had their heads cut off by skilled members of the Imperial City Guard while they were asleep, without even being interrogated. They didn't even know what crime they had committed to be killed before they met their maker!

Langjie couldn't help but glance at Prince Gyatso!
Prince Gyatso gestured for him not to be nervous and to improvise. He had never expected that a powerful figure from the Song Dynasty's Imperial City Guard would appear here! It seemed that the operation plan had become much more unpredictable!

Lang Jie had already decided to kill him!
He suspected that the boy in white had already discovered their plan and was now, whether intentionally or unintentionally, trying to stall for time or even sabotage his plans!

If the Han-Tibet conflict cannot be stirred up and bloodshed is not caused at Shengxue Tower as originally planned, then the news of "Han people oppressing Tibetans and killing Tibetans at will" will not spread in Gaozhou City today, and the Tibetan army outside the city will have no excuse to attack the city!
Langjie said in a deep voice, "Lord Long, if you don't send someone to catch the murderer soon, the murderer will escape!"

Feng Jiuxiao asked calmly, "What does the murderer look like?"

Langjie said coldly, "He looks much like other Han people. There's no particular distinguishing feature, but you can recognize him as soon as you see him. Now I'll lead everyone to identify him!"

Feng Jiuxiao gave a strange smile: "Going now would be a waste of your time!"

Langjie was taken aback. "Why?"

"Because the Holy Snow Pavilion is now completely deserted! The person you're talking about is no longer there!"

"Impossible! How do you know the place is empty?"

"Because I saw it with my own eyes! When I left, they had already set off! They had already headed to Nyangboyeze Mountain!"

"I don't believe it!" Lang Jie's expression changed slightly! Everyone's gone? Are you kidding me?
Feng Jiuxiao said calmly, "If you don't believe me, you can send someone back to take a look! Or you can ask those people outside the hall; they just came out of the Holy Snow Mountain Restaurant too!" Feng Jiuxiao's gaze swept over the Eight Immortals of Thieves a few times.
The Eight Immortals were all taken aback!
Langjie followed Feng Jiuxiao's gaze and saw that many new faces had appeared outside the hall. There were seven people on the left and eight on the right. Their clothes and appearances were clearly different from the Tibetan spies he had planted in the crowd!

The eight men on the right all had sharp eyes. Some had the air of a tiger, some had the air of a monkey, and some had the air of a fox. You could tell at a glance that they were old hands in the world!
The Eight Thieves were surprised that Feng Jiuxiao had actually "pointed out" them, which meant that Feng Jiuxiao had noticed them long ago!

They couldn't help but feel a little flustered, but they all pretended to be calm and showed no fear on their faces.

Langjie glanced at the eight people and felt that the beautiful woman seemed easier to approach, so he asked Lady Baibao Naxuxian, "Excuse me..."

Nasu-sen's expression immediately tightened and he spoke very quickly: "Lord Long is right, everyone has already headed towards Nianboyeze Mountain."

Langjie looked suspicious. "Did you all just come from our Holy Snow Pavilion?"

Bai Yuanxian's face immediately darkened. "Our eight brothers just spent several hundred taels of silver at your place, and you've already forgotten? You're quite the snob, aren't you!"

Lang Jie immediately apologized, "I'm sorry, I wasn't in the shop just now, so I didn't see you gentlemen. Please forgive me. I have a question, and I would appreciate your guidance. Since everyone else is heading to Nianbo Yeze Mountain, why are you all going to the prefectural government office?"

White Ape Immortal frowned: "Are you doubting us?"
"No, no! I was just curious!"

"We brothers were just curious! We've never seen officials adjudicate cases before, so we came to see what was going on!"

Langjie was speechless! Damn it, I said I was curious, and you all said you were curious too!

These men had the air of notorious bandits and the slickness of businessmen; they were definitely seasoned veterans. How could they not have seen the government adjudicate cases?
They followed us to the government office; there must be more to the story!
If these eight people are enemies, not friends, and they start fighting now, we'll likely suffer a great loss! Even if His Highness is a master of martial arts, he's ultimately outnumbered and outmatched!
At the moment, only Tenzin and Jigme are present, so please be patient!
Once Qiangba and Yixi arrive, our side will have the strength to fight!
If Dawa comes, he will surely turn the tide and achieve a complete victory!
Since the other party isn't telling the truth, let them be; there's no need to dwell on it. Lang Jie looked at Feng Jiuxiao and said, "Vice Envoy, now that we know the suspect has gone to Nianbo Yeze Mountain, let's send people to arrest him now! There's still time!"

Feng Jiuxiao suddenly stared at Lang Jie and asked seriously, "Mr. Lang Jie, may I ask who the deceased is?"

"Zaxi and Sangye."

"How did you die?"

"He was stabbed to death with a sword!"

"Who is the murderer?"

“I don’t know him, but he’s quite tall, has fair skin, and is wearing a luxurious blue robe…” Feng Jiuxiao interrupted him directly, “Did you see the murderer commit the crime?”

Langjie replied decisively, "Yes!"

"Then why didn't you arrest him back then?"

"Well... there are six of them in total, they outnumber me and I'm all alone, I don't dare to fight them head-on!"

"So what did you do next?"

"To keep them calm, I didn't argue with them!"

"You didn't hold it against them? That doesn't make sense, it doesn't follow the normal course of events! Your own employee died in front of your own restaurant, and you didn't even care? Do you believe that?"

"letter!"

"Heh, you have to believe me! How could you not believe yourself! Didn't you report it to the authorities?"

"I already reported it! Isn't that why I came here to report it to the authorities?"

"Did you report it to the authorities back then?"

"No."

Why wasn't it reported to the authorities?

Lang Jie's brows furrowed as the young man pressed closer and closer, and he found himself increasingly unable to keep up.
Feng Jiuxiao said calmly, "You can either answer truthfully or lie through your teeth. Which one do you choose?"

Langjie immediately retorted, "What are you saying, sir? Of course I'd tell the truth; how could I possibly lie through my teeth?!"

"Alright! Then tell me from the beginning, why did that person stab Zaxi to death?"

"Why? Why ask why they killed us Tibetans? That Han Chinese fundamentally discriminated against us Tibetans! They called us Tibetan dogs!"

"and then?"

"Then, when that man saw Zaxi's waist knife, he tried to snatch it! To calm things down, I asked Zaxi to take off his waist knife and hand it to that man to admire. As a result, that man stabbed Zaxi to death without warning! My nephew kindly handed him the knife, and he actually accused my nephew of trying to stab him with the knife! My nephew handed over the hilt, but he held the blade himself. How the hell can you stab someone like that?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Don't get agitated. What did you do next?"

"This one……"

"You look quite straightforward, but you stutter like a woman when you speak!"

Langjie cursed inwardly: Damn it! This is too much! Anyway, Dawa Lama and the others will be here soon, and that brat's death is not far off. What am I afraid of?

Now that he'd come to terms with it, he decided to stop pretending and said coldly, "What should I do next? Of course, I'll angrily confront them! Knowing they're in the wrong, they'll say they'll settle the matter by paying compensation."

"How much did you lose?"

"Two hundred thousand taels!"

"Yes, quite a lot."

Langjie's anger flared up: "Is 200,000 yuan too much to compensate for my nephew's life?"

Feng Jiuxiao said calmly, "Whether it's a lot or a little is your business. You'd better be more polite when you talk to me! I'm just asking you, did you accept this 200,000?"

Langjie said arrogantly, "I'll take it, so what?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "What else? Since you accepted 200,000 taels of silver from them, it means you have agreed to settle this privately and turn the page. So why did you report it to the authorities?"

"He killed someone, so of course I have to report it to the authorities!"

"Heh, you speak with such righteous indignation, well done!" Feng Jiuxiao changed the subject, "You took their money and then reported them to the authorities, isn't that breaking your promise?"

Liu Zhiheng frowned deeply! Was the Deputy Envoy trying to force these people to rebel on the spot?
Langjie sneered, "So what if I break my promise? As long as I can avenge my nephew, what does it matter if I'm accused of breaking my promise?"

Feng Jiuxiao snorted coldly, "What are you pretending to be so righteous for? Since you took their money, don't cause them any more trouble! If you want their lives, don't take their money! You want both money and lives, you're not even as good as the Six Mantises!"
A life for a life, a debt for a debt! Since the Six Mantises killed Zaxi, they naturally deserve punishment! If you had chosen to report it to the authorities, they would have been hunted down! But you didn't report it to the authorities; instead, you chose to settle it privately, so you accepted 200,000 taels of silver from them!

Then you allowed them into the restaurant, and all the guests on the third floor can testify to that! Because they all know that the Six Mantises killed Zaxi! They also all saw that the six of them were still allowed to dine on the third floor after killing someone!

This matter should have ended there! But under the guise of avenging Zaxi, you sent over a dozen Tibetans to lure the Six Mantises out of the restaurant, then divided and defeated them one by one! And then you brought the bodies of several ordinary Tibetans who had just died at the hands of the Six Mantises back here, insisting that Prefect Liu send men to arrest them. Tell me, the Six Mantises are all dead now, so who are you asking Prefect Liu to arrest at the Holy Snow Mountain Restaurant?”

Langjie and Gyatso were both shocked!
Liu Zhiheng was also greatly surprised!
The Eight Thieves looked at each other in disbelief, all of them utterly horrified!
This boy is simply a prodigy! How does he know everything? It's as if he personally experienced everything!
Langjie immediately retorted, "The Vice Envoy's imagination is admirable! But that's not the case! We don't know anything about the Mantis Six..."

"Since you say you don't know him, then you don't know him! Zaxi died at the hands of Jade Mantis, one of the Six Mantises! That 200,000 taels of silver is still in your possession! Do you believe that you've forgotten someone who gave you 200,000 taels of silver so quickly? I certainly don't!"

Langjie said, "We didn't send any experts to pick off and kill the six Mantis Spawns one by one!"

Since you won't admit it, what can you do about it?

Feng Jiuxiao said calmly, "It's normal that you don't admit it! Do you think I can't do anything about it just because you don't admit it? My two brothers were watching when you killed the Golden Mantis. It's fine if you pretend to be blind, but my brother won't. He's afraid of being looked down upon!"

Gyatso frowned, recalling that there seemed to be someone nearby when he killed the Golden Mantis. He had been careless and hadn't taken it seriously at all. He never expected that the spectator was actually the deputy envoy's brother!
Langjie was also puzzled. He hadn't seen anyone watching when His Highness killed the Golden Mantis! He could only console himself that the spectators were probably too far away for him to notice!
Langjie said, "Sir! You said your brother saw us killing that Golden Mantis. May I ask to know your brother?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Brother, I wanted you to keep a low profile, but things didn't go as planned. People are questioning me, so why don't you come out and show yourself!"

Pang Shiwu swaggered into the hall, approached Langjie, and smiled. "I'm the Vice Envoy's brother. What, when your master was killing people, you were only staring at him? Didn't you see me? I was standing right at the entrance of your Holy Snow Mountain Grand Hotel the whole time! I saw it all clearly from beginning to end! I saw the Golden Mantis's body carried away by two lamas with my own eyes, I'm not blind! After you killed him, you said eight words—'Central Plains martial arts are nothing special!' My memory isn't bad, is it?" He looked at Prince Jiacuo at the end.

Ever since meeting Pang Shiwu, Gyatso had felt uneasy. He couldn't pinpoint the exact reason for his discomfort, but he just felt uncomfortable all over, and his internal energy circulation even began to become disordered!
The inability to stop is the most maddening thing!

Pang Shiwu's tiger-like eyes gleamed with a sharp light as he stared intently at Prince Jiacuo, "You dare to do it but not to admit it?"

Gyatso felt that his blood flow and the speed of his internal energy circulation both began to slow down at the same time, as if they were being suppressed by some invisible force field, causing his blood circulation to stagnate!

Although the signs were faint, they were enough to send chills down one's spine!
Will these signs suddenly become obvious once the two start fighting?
Gyatso had a strange feeling, that this oppressive feeling seemed to come from the long sword at the other party's waist. The sword seemed to have an innate suppressive magic that could make his aura disordered!
Moreover, he vaguely sensed that the other party seemed to be trying their best to control the leakage of this suppressive magic power! In addition, the bloodthirsty aura of this sword was too strong, and it seemed to be suppressed by some kind of shield!

He had a feeling that once the restriction was lifted, the overwhelming killing intent and suppressive magic would be unstoppable!
This feeling was very mysterious, ambiguous, and when he saw the other person's young face, he felt that he must be thinking wildly!
How could that be? How could the other person be more skilled in martial arts than me? Perhaps I'm just imagining things because I'm nervous!
Prince Gyatso looked at Pang Fifteen and said arrogantly, "Who do you think dares to do it but not admit it?"

Pang Shiwu said without any politeness, "Of course I'm talking about you!"

Langjie snapped, "Do you know who you're talking to?"

Pang Shiwu sneered, "I don't care who he is! Does he think he's more powerful than the Emperor of the Song Dynasty or the Empress Dowager of the Liao Dynasty?"

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty and the Empress Dowager of the Liao Dynasty are the two most powerful people in the world today!
Langjie was taken aback, then sneered: "Look at your smug face, do you think you know the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and the Empress Dowager of the Liao Dynasty?"

Pang Shiwu said proudly, "Congratulations, you're right! We often eat together!"

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