The Ming Dynasty: Starting with the Somersault Cloud, Old Zhu was so envious he cried!

Zhu Ming pushed open the door and entered the room, his heart bubbling with joy.

As a child, he dreamed of having a glow stick, raising it up, and shouting "Tiga!"

Then, in a flash, it transformed into light, into a towering giant, and beat the villains until they cried for their parents.

Back then, it was just a dream.

I never imagined that my dream would come true today!

With the Spark Lens in hand, Tiga changed, and he did so in front of thousands of people.

How happy do you think he could be?

Moreover, after tonight, those people outside will definitely be terrified. Who in Qingshui County will dare to mess with this place in the future?

He was planning that when he saw Sister Miaoyun later, he would have to show off a bit and ask her if he was handsome just now.

As soon as he entered the house, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Inside the room, Wang Defa, Huang Zi'an, and the more than twenty men they had gathered were all huddled in a corner.

They stood side by side, hugging their arms and huddled together.

More than twenty grown men managed to squeeze out the imposing presence of a quail's nest.

No one dared to look up.

God knows what happened outside the courtyard just now.

It left a deep wound in their hearts.

The giant of light, sixty or seventy meters tall, flattened a patch of land with a single step; the commotion and the bloody light were still echoing in their minds.

Zhu Ming blinked and looked at it again.

That's right, it's huddled in a corner.

He was puzzled: Just now outside, these people were carrying knives, charging and shouting, each one more ruthless than the last.

Why did everyone turn into quails as soon as we entered the house?

"you……"

The two words had only just been uttered.

There was a "thump" sound.

Immediately afterwards, "thump thump thump," a whole group of people knelt down.

More than twenty people knelt on the ground in unison, their foreheads touching the ground, their bodies trembling like leaves, and they shouted in a trembling voice:

"Spare me, God!"

"Gods, spare me!"

"We were blind to your greatness, we beg you, Immortal Lord, to spare our lives!"

Zhu Ming: "..."

He opened his mouth, as if to say that he wasn't some kind of deity, but Ultraman Tiga.

But seeing everyone in the room trembling, he suddenly realized that nothing he said would make a difference.

"I'm not a god," he tried anyway.

"Spare me, God!"

"...I'm really not."

"Immortal Lord, spare my life!"

Zhu Ming fell silent.

He turned to look for Xu Miaoyun.

At this moment, Sister Miaoyun was standing at the door, not squeezing in with them.

She leaned against the door frame, arms crossed, looking at the men kneeling on the ground in front of her, her expression unreadable.

It's a bit funny, a bit helpless, and there's a hint of something complicated that's hard to explain.

Zhu Ming leaned closer and whispered, "What's wrong with them?"

Xu Miaoyun glanced at him and replied irritably, "Isn't it because I was scared by what you just did?"

"I?"

"That's right." Xu Miaoyun nodded. "A giant sixty or seventy meters tall, stomping down on hundreds of people with one step, with all that light and noise, what are they supposed to think?"

Zhu Ming paused for a moment, glanced back at the group of people kneeling on the ground, and suddenly curled his lip, saying with a look of disdain, "They're such cowards."

Xu Miaoyun: "..."

"I wouldn't step on my own people," Zhu Ming muttered under his breath. "Besides, I've already turned back to normal, so why are you so scared?"

"What they're afraid of is you as a person, it has nothing to do with whether you grow bigger or smaller," Xu Miaoyun said. "And the more you say that, the more afraid they become."

Zhu Ming thought about it and felt that it made sense, but something still seemed off.

He cleared his throat and shouted at the group of people on the ground, "Alright, alright, get up! You're all grown men, kneeling down at the drop of a hat. You have no backbone at all. Besides, you're not from the Zhao or Hu families, are you?"

As a result, no one got up.

Instead, everyone knelt even lower.

"Did you hear me! Get up, all of you!"

"Gods, gods... our legs are weak..." Huang Zi'an's trembling voice came from the crowd, "We can't get up..."

Zhu Ming: "What a mess! They call this one of the four great families..."

Huang Zi'an lowered his head in shame.

After the commotion subsided, the room finally quieted down.

Wang Defa and his gang were still kneeling in the corner.

Zhu Ming didn't bother with it anymore. He gave Xu Miaoyun a wink, and the two of them walked to the window.

Outside the window, most of the torches had gone out, and the courtyard was pitch black, with only occasional faint groans coming from the air.

"After tonight, the Zhao and Hu families will basically be wiped out," Zhu Ming said.

Xu Miaoyun nodded: "Qian Youde is dead, the Li family's property has been confiscated, and Zhao An and Hu Wan have also fallen. Qingshui County is now clean."

"No, it's not completely clean yet." Zhu Ming shook his head.

Xu Miaoyun looked at him.

"The head of the household is gone, but there are still a lot of people in the family." Zhu Ming counted on his fingers, "Zhao An's brothers and sisters, Zhao Le is dead, but he has other brothers and sisters; the sons and nephews of both families, not one of them can be spared."

"These people are a nuisance if we keep them around. With us here, they won't dare to cause trouble, but once we leave, they'll start acting arrogantly again!"

Xu Miaoyun was silent for a moment, then asked, "What about the women in their family?"

"Those ladies and young misses... who have never held a knife, never killed anyone, are they going to be included too...?"

She didn't continue.

Zhu Ming glanced at her and shook his head.

"They didn't carry knives," he said, "but where did they get their food?"

Xu Miaoyun was taken aback.

"Which of the houses, fields, and shops belonging to the Zhao and Hu families wasn't acquired through ruthless exploitation?"

Zhu Ming continued, "Those women lived in high-walled courtyards, dressed in gold and silver, ordered around servants, and ate and drank the finest food. The very provision they enjoyed was exploitation."

"If you enjoy the benefits of the Zhao family, you must also bear the sins of the Zhao family. There is no such thing as taking the benefits without taking responsibility."

Xu Miaoyun did not respond.

Zhu Ming added, "But don't worry, I can tell the difference."

"I will have Wang Defa investigate, house by house. He will find out clearly who is a good person and who is a bad person."

He paused, his voice turning serious:

"We will never let a bad person get away with it."

"But we will never let an innocent person be wronged."

Xu Miaoyun looked at him without saying a word.

After a while, the complex emotions in her eyes slowly dissipated, replaced by bright approval.

The way she looked at him was completely different from before. It wasn't like she was looking at a child, nor at a god who could transform into a giant. Instead, it was like she was looking at someone who could truly take on responsibilities.

"Everyone praises me as a little Zhuge Liang," she said. "But in my opinion, you are the real little Zhuge Liang."

Zhu Ming was taken aback.

"I?"

"Yes, it's you," Xu Miaoyun said. "You're ruthless when you need to be, and considerate of people's feelings when you need to be thoughtful."

"I don't have the ability to be decisive yet measured in my actions."

Zhu Ming had never heard of this before.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something modest, but didn't know what to say. After hesitating for a long time, his face suddenly turned red.

"I... I just thought of it randomly..."

Seeing his expression, Xu Miaoyun couldn't help but burst out laughing.

This little kid is usually precocious and mature beyond his years; it's rare to see him shy.

She couldn't resist reaching out and pinching his cheek.

Zhu Ming: "!!!"

In the corner, Huang Zi'an and Wang Defa happened to look up and saw the whole scene.

Their eyes widened like saucers, and their hearts nearly jumped out of their throats.

That was the divine being who just stomped hundreds of people to death!

Miss Xu, you...you pinched his cheek?!

Wang Defa's legs buckled, and he knelt down again.

Huang Zian quickly buried his head, wishing he could shrink into a corner and pretend he hadn't seen anything.

It seems that only Miss Xu would dare to do this in this room.