The Emperor is Above

Chapter 117 There is a huge conspiracy behind
"What do you mean they were all stolen?"

When Qing Yi heard what Tun Shigu said, he felt a surge of anger in his heart.

Ever since he moved to Guqiu Fengtu, he has been racking his brains over how to protect himself in the face of many unpredictable dangers. Even though he has four powerful dragon-claw locust tree spirits guarding him, they are unable to protect him all the time.

After all, as a noble, he was also responsible for protecting the safety of the surrounding area, and even responded to the monarch's call at any time and led his private army to fight.

To this end, Qing Yi tried every possible means to obtain body-building and guiding techniques from Mu Ling for the militiamen to practice, and even opened them to all the villagers in Guqiu to cultivate spiritual herbs and medicines, all in order to enhance the overall strength of Guqiu.

When Tun Shigu unexpectedly appeared in front of him today, Qing Yi was so happy at that moment. After all, it had been two months since he had entrusted him with the task, and the excellent armor and weapons that Guqiu urgently needed would soon be fully available.

He never expected that Master Tun Gulai would say that all the weapons and armor in his home had been stolen, including the armor made from the skins of more than 40 wild wolves that he had been commissioned to tan, as well as a large number of animal teeth and bones used to make weapons.

"Brother, I'm sorry!"

Tu Shigu's face was full of guilt. He saw Qing Yi's anger and couldn't help shrinking his head in fear. He lowered his head and whispered,
"Before we moved last month, I had already made you forty sets of high-quality leather armor, and used wolf skin scraps to make ten sets of low-quality leather armor.

Especially the three wild wolf beasts were larger in size, so a total of six sets of excellent armor were made. I kept one set of eighth-grade wild wolf leather armor, and the others were packed for you, ready for you to pick up after the new tomb is built.

I didn't expect that these armors were stolen on the night they were made. In addition, the 100 sets of armor that the Minister of the Imperial Household Yuan Mu Shang had commissioned me to make were also stolen."

To be honest, Qing Yi was extremely angry at the moment and wanted to kick Tu Shigu hard twice. After all, he was just an ordinary person with his own joys and sorrows.

However, anger does not help solve the problem. The most important thing is to find out the whole story.

He took a few deep breaths and tried to calm his anger. After a long time, Qing Yi slowly asked, "Brother Shi Gu, since you have laid so much groundwork before, you should have guessed that the lost weapons and armor were caused by the cat ghost, right?

We two are good brothers. Now that there is no one else around, tell me the truth. How many armors and weapons has your family accumulated over the years?
And how many of the other weapons and armor you made this time were lost? Don't be perfunctory with me, you must tell the truth."

Tu Shigu tried hard to recall, while flexing his carrot-like fingers and quietly calculating: "The types of weapons are quite diverse, including halberds, spears, halberds, guns, knives, swords, hooks, forks, lances, etc. There are at least twenty kinds of weapons.

Starting sixty years ago, my grandfather kept a sample of each set of armor. From my father to my generation, the total number is about 2,700 pieces.

There are about 370 sets of old-style armor collected in the Hyogo. These leather armors are of different styles and are all various animal skin armors ordered by the surrounding nobles.

Recently, many titles have been made in large quantities and there are quite a few newly manufactured weapons, including more than a thousand knives, swords, halberds, spears and halberds.

In addition, there are 300 newly made mulberry wood bows, 50,000 arrows, and 150 to 160 sets of armor newly made for you and the Shaofu..."

The more Tun Shigu calculated, the less confident he became and his voice became smaller and smaller until it was almost inaudible. He lowered his big round head and dared not raise it. It was obvious that he also realized the seriousness of losing so many soldiers at one time.

"hiss--"

Qing Yi couldn't help but widen his eyes and take a deep breath. He had always known that three generations of the Tunshi Gu family had specialized in making armor and weapons, but he had never expected that there would be so many accumulated over the years.

He couldn't help but whispered angrily: "Brother Shi Gu, are you crazy? Lost 4,000 weapons, 300 bows, 50,000 arrows, especially more than 500 sets of armor, such a big news, why didn't you report it to the king earlier?"
"Brother, I'd be crazy if I really dared to report it!" Tuan Shigu raised his head carefully and said with a sad face, "Now Maoqiu Pavilion is worshipping cat ghosts everywhere, even Pavilion Chief Maosheng and Qiudao Kou Rui are on good terms with the cat ghost priests.

Not only Maoqiu Pavilion, but also many surrounding pavilions are full of cat ghost statues. How dare I report such a thing? If I dare to go to the capital to report it in person, I can't escape the eyes and ears of the cat ghost, and I'm afraid I can't save my life. "

Hearing this, Qing Yi could not help but frowning. He certainly knew the difficulties of Tun Shigu. In the capital area where cats and ghosts were rampant, many titles in the pavilions had been bribed. Even if Tun Shigu was not afraid of reporting the danger, it would be difficult for him to be conveyed to the king.

He still couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Brother Shi Gu, so many armors were stolen, and they all have your family's mark on them. You can't hide it. Even if you can conceal it for a while, once it is used by bad guys in the future, your whole family will be implicated."

Hearing Qing Yi's words, Tu Shigu was so anxious that tears came to his eyes.

While wiping away tears, she whispered, “When I first discovered that so many weapons in my home had been stolen by cats and ghosts, I didn’t think too much about it.

I just think that the cat ghost is greedy for money. It must be that it thinks that I am quite famous in the area around Maoqiu Pavilion, so it wants to sell these armors and weapons for money and profit.

Therefore, no one dared to make it public at the time, and just considered it as a loss to avoid disaster. They took the opportunity of moving to quietly demolish the armory, and pretended that no weapons were lost.

After all, my family has been making armor and weapons for three generations, and I don’t know how many of them we have sold over the years, so I will have an excuse to shirk responsibility when the time comes.

After they moved to Xiema Pavilion, they no longer enshrined cat and ghost statues in the burial mound. They were busy building houses and reclaiming the burial mound, and thought that this matter would pass over time.

But a few days ago, Ma Zhiyuan, the head of Xiema Pavilion, suddenly visited me secretly, saying that his family had inexplicably lost a lot of weapons, bows and arrows, and armor. Knowing that I specialize in making armor and weapons, he came to me privately to buy a batch of weapons and armor, but where can I sell them to him? "

"The head of Xiema Pavilion, Ma Zhiyuan, also lost his weapons and armor at home?"

Qing Yi shook his head slightly, stared at Tu Shigu and asked, "Brother Shigu, are there many people worshipping the Cat Ghost God in Xiema Pavilion recently? Do you think this was also done by the Cat Ghost God?"

Tu Shigu kept nodding and said, “Brother, you are absolutely right. You also know that my reputation as a maker of armor and weapons is quite good.

In addition to the pavilion chief Ma Zhiyuan, there were also people like Qiu Dao and Diannong from Xiema Pavilion, and even some of the nobles in the surrounding pavilions secretly sent people to find me. When I saw so many people wanting to buy weapons and armor, I started to panic.

If the cat ghosts stole these weapons and armor just to exchange for money, it must have been done on a small scale. But now the weapons and armor of the nobles are being stolen everywhere. I am afraid there is a huge conspiracy behind it. "

At this point, Tu Shigu knelt down again, grabbed Qing Yi's sleeve, and said with fear on his face: "No wonder my grandfather always nagged me before, saying that we should not be superstitious about ghosts and spirits, and that the most reliable thing is our own hands.

The number of weapons lost by the dukes and ministers I know of alone is over ten thousand, and the number of armors is in the thousands. God knows how many weapons and armors were lost in the entire capital area.

Tens of thousands of weapons and armor, if used by bad guys to cause chaos, I will be in trouble, maybe my whole family will be executed, brother, you must help me."

PS:
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