Joy of Life: I'm really not a saint

This imperial envoy is very bold, to the point of being a bit crazy. This is not just killing chickens and dogs, this is killing people! With the people from the Ming Mansion, I'm afraid he is going to kill 2,000 people. Kill them all? Ming Lanshi swallowed his saliva.

"Will outsiders believe our reasons?" Wang Qinian asked uncertainly.

"I don't care whether they believe me or not. I'm a little impatient now and don't want to play this game with them anymore. Killing them will put an end to it all!"

Fan Xian smiled sinisterly and said, "By then everyone will be dead, so who will cry out for justice?"

"Your Excellency is wise!"

Chapter 266 Different endings for the Ming family.

It is hard to describe the feeling in the heart of Mr. Ming Si, who was sitting in the carriage waiting to die.

He didn't know whether they were sending people to kill him alone or if they were also sending people to kill his other brothers. He could still recognize the voice of the old servant of the Ming family outside. He was in despair, and his hatred for the old lady of the Ming family had already broken through the sky.

But he is not good at either civil or military affairs, so what other options does he have except waiting to die?

But he was wondering why there was no movement after so long? It would only take two stabs to kill him, but the killer didn't get into the carriage. Could something have happened?

Although there was no sound outside the carriage, the frightened Fourth Master Ming still did not dare to lift the curtain to check.

Just like hiding in a quilt to avoid being caught by ghosts, the carriage curtain was his psychological defense line at this time. Ming Siye was like an ostrich burying his head in the ground, as if he was safe as long as he could not see him.

"Get off the carriage and follow me!"

The man held a long knife in his hand, breathing heavily, and glanced at the parked carriage. He lowered his voice and said, "After some time, the master will need you to testify in the yamen!"

It's Gundam who's talking!

It turns out that he came to Suzhou City quietly!

He is an eighth-grade cultivator, and although he has not made any progress in many years, his martial arts skills are comprehensive and varied.

It made him breathe a little faster, so it was obvious that the killer was quite capable! But was it a bit of a waste for such a skilled fighter to kill a useless person?

Mr. Ming Si raised his head in astonishment, and slowly opened his eyes. A glimmer of hope shone from his confused and turbid eyes. He supported himself on the carriage with his arms, his whole body sore, and he did not speak for a long time.

Although he didn't even see the killer, he felt completely exhausted and dizzy, and was grateful that he had escaped death!

"Sir, please wait a moment and let me recover some strength!" Fourth Master Ming swallowed his saliva and forced himself to calm down. He pulled open the door curtain and saw the bloody scene outside. His stomach, which had just relaxed, began to feel uncomfortable again.

"You don't need to get off the carriage, just turn around and go back to the mansion! When the master has finished his business, he will come to find you!"

Gundam didn't say whether he would be in danger in the future, but thinking that Lord Fan still needed him, Fourth Master Ming had nothing to worry about.

"Thank you very much for saving my life!" Mr. Ming Si bowed to Gaoda. He did not ask Gaoda's name, nor did he linger. He just pulled the reins and steered the carriage back.

"Find two skilled people in the academy to keep an eye on him." Gao Da was from the Tiger Guards and was the leader of the Tiger Guards. Although he and the Supervisory Council were under Fan Xian's command, they were not in the same system. Just in case, he just reminded the people around him. "I have finished my job, so I will leave first!"

After saying that, Gundam climbed onto the wall behind him and disappeared on the spot.

After Gundam left, several people from the Overwatch Council arrived at the scene and began to set up the murder scene without saying a word. They first took away all the arrows, then took out some special weapons and began to point them at the corpses.

After everything was arranged, they picked up a beggar with difficulty walking and threw him under the eaves of the opposite house.

Two fat chicken legs and a steamed bun in a cloth bag, this was the beggar's reward.

A person from the Overwatch Council smiled and walked up to the beggar, saying, "Do you know what to say?"

"Don't worry, Master. I know everything!"

The beggar didn't touch the chicken leg, and even ate the steamed bun slowly. He really looked more like a rich man than the rich man.

The official from the Supervisory Yuan smiled again. He was worried that he might choke, so he prepared some clean water in advance. But judging from his current condition, it seemed that it would not be of any use.

He nodded, waved his right hand, and several people cleaned up their own traces and returned to the original path, disappearing in the field.

After the officials from the Supervisory Council left, the beggar put away all his things. Then his face suddenly changed and he started shouting at the top of his voice: "Murder! Murder! Help!!!"

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In the Governor's Mansion, the leader of the Jiangnan Road was sitting quietly in the study at this moment. He did nothing but wait for news on the wooden chair.

"How long has the Imperial Envoy been in Mingyuan?"

Xue Qingqiang held back from asking this question just now; this was the limit of what he could do after years of scheming.

There was another person in the study, not the housekeeper that Xue Qing used to use, but a staff officer in the city guards.

The man clasped his fists and responded, "It's been an hour. Although Lord Fan has gained nothing, he has no intention of retreating."

"So he is sure that the problem lies in Ming Garden?" Xue Qing couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "I don't know who he buried in Ming Garden, but he can even find out such news."

"Sir, it is better for us to know less about the affairs of the Overwatch Council."

The city guard staff officer smiled slightly, even though he was sitting in the room, as if he was experiencing the scene himself.

Xue Qing looked at him and frowned, then closed his eyes and said nothing after a moment.

The two of them fell silent at the same time, waiting for news from Mingyuan again. At this moment, the butler of the Governor's Mansion walked quickly into the study, walked behind Xue Qing, leaned over and whispered softly in his ear.

Xue Qing was stunned, his lips slightly parted, with an expression of disbelief.

Seeing the staff officer looking over, he just sighed and said, "I'm going to send troops to Mingyuan."

The staff officer no longer had his confident look on his face. Even with his intelligence, he couldn't figure out what had happened that would cause the governor to take such a risk.

"This Ming family is really not simple. No, perhaps it is more appropriate to describe them as ruthless and cruel!"

"But there was a fight in Mingyuan?" asked the staff officer.

"If that were the case, it would be simple!"

Xue Qing shook his head: "The incident did not happen in Ming Garden, but in Hua Garden in the city where the Ming family was holding a birthday banquet!" He stood up and ordered: "We are not going here to stop the imperial envoy, but to protect his safety!"

The staff officer's expression changed and he asked, "Could it be that the Ming family has an excuse?"

"Let all the military officers of the city guard come to the Governor's Mansion to discuss matters!"

"Use the excuse of inspecting the city governance as an excuse to secretly transfer half of the troops to Mingyuan, and the remaining half will surround Huayuan! No matter who the guests are, don't let them get away for the time being."

The old lady of the Ming family is dead!

The fourth master of the Ming family was assassinated on the way to Huayuan! And the person who killed him was the servant of the first house of the Ming family! This has become known to everyone in the city.

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"Great! That's a damn great job!"

Fan Xian's face was full of bitter smiles at this time. Apart from shock, he had no other emotions. He originally wanted to use swear words to vent his emotions, but he didn't expect that after just one curse, more swear words followed in his heart.

"This is even more cruel than me!"

Fan Xian had anticipated the situation and circumstances of their search of Ming Garden. The other party was submissive and would not fight back or retaliate. He did not expect that they would cause him a big disaster at the birthday banquet!

The outside of Ming Garden was now surrounded by the Black Cavalry. It seemed that the news could not be transmitted in so quickly. He still had time!

When Gaoda used his Qinggong skills to come in front of Fan Xian, he brought the news that the fourth son of the Ming family had escaped from danger and that the old lady Ming had hanged herself to death.

"Sir, Huayuan has released news that the old lady Ming hanged herself because she couldn't stand our harassment for many months and today's oppression. Although we have to bear some infamy, her suicide was her own business, and we didn't ask her to do it!"

Gundam cried out in indignation.

"It's different!" Fan Xian just shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Chapter 267 No one will bother you anymore!

"If it had been earlier, I would have wanted that old woman to die, but she died before I could do anything. This is a big problem!"

Fan Xian clapped his cheeks with both hands, then rubbed them again, forcing himself to cheer up.

No matter what he said to Xue Qing before or the threat to Ming Lanshi today, they were just some complaints. No matter how the senior officials viewed the Ming family, they had a very good reputation in the eyes of the people in Jiangnan.

Not to mention the previous floods in various parts of the south, the Ming family not only distributed porridge and sent people to control the floods, but also donated a lot of silver.

Not to mention the reputation accumulated over all these years of operation. I wonder how many good deeds he has done, such as building roads and bridges, and sponsoring students!

Just one point, the Ming family's business is so big, how many jobs have been created, and how many people depend on them for their livelihood. It is not an exaggeration to say that the status of the old lady of the Ming family in Jiangnan is so great that every family in the world can benefit from it.

It was such a person who, under Fan Xian's suppression for several months, could not bear the humiliation and chose to commit suicide to show his determination by death, which would bring endless troubles to Fan Xian.

"If he really committed suicide, I would accept it!" Fan Xian gritted his teeth, "Once I think about it, I know something is wrong. Everything is wrong!"

You said you couldn't bear the humiliation so much that you wanted to commit suicide, so how could you still have the mind to host a birthday party and invite guests?

It’s better to die early or late than to celebrate your own birthday!

I think this is the last resort she has planned. If the situation becomes a last resort, she will use every possible means to deal with me!

But Old Lady Ming probably doesn't want to die. She hasn't even found what she wants yet, so why does she want to die?

Maybe her son helped her?

In the early morning of Hua Garden, both the servants and the masters and ladies in the mansion got up early, and while preparing a grand birthday banquet, they also dealt with the mess that Fan Xian had left for them in recent days.

Faced with the pervasive intimidation and oppression of the Supervisory Commission, they also began to arrange people to do things and rose up to resist.

When the time was approaching the eve of the banquet, Old Lady Ming learned the news that Fan Xian had led his men to surround Ming Garden. In an instant, the world spun around her, and endless humiliation overwhelmed her like a tide.

"How dare he!?"

Old Lady Ming was full of disbelief, but even more of a sense of sadness: "The Governor didn't even stop him? Does this mean he acquiesced?"

Standing beside her, bending over, was his most beloved son in the past - Ming Qingda.

"I guess Fan Xian has reached an agreement with him."

"What a bastard!" Old Lady Ming narrowed her eyes in anger and said anxiously, "Do you know that since Ming Garden was built, there has never been a case of officials entering the garden to search for people? Even if Fan Xian didn't get any evidence against us in the end, if this gets out, where will our Ming family's face be?"

She looked at her son coldly, full of disappointment. Her eyes no longer had the tolerance of the past, but were filled with deep disgust: "Look at what you have accomplished! Since you became the head of the family, there have been constant troubles at home! You love money by nature, but the cash flow in the family has almost dried up in the past two years, and we have to rely on loans to make ends meet. The entire Ming family is about to be ruined in your hands!"

Ming Qingda lowered his head and remained silent when he heard this.

His heart was already filled with rage, and he was too lazy to even give the fake responses he had in the past!

Do you still know that I am the head of the Ming family?

Isn't the Ming family still firmly in your hands?

Now that something has happened, all the dirty water is thrown on my head!

“Hurry up and do something!” Seeing Ming Qingda still standing there, Old Lady Ming shouted angrily, “Are you just going to watch our Ming family being humiliated like this?”

No one knows a child better than his parents, and Ming Qingda knows Old Lady Ming best.

The implicit meaning of these words was to let him quickly use the few backup plans he had left behind.

Ming Qingda's face turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he said in a deep voice: "The people sent to kill Lao Si have already set out this morning."

"Why are you going now?" How can you accomplish great things without being ruthless? Old Lady Ming was getting more and more disappointed, and her disgust for her son was so deep that it showed on her face. "All these methods should be used in advance. If we only try to remedy the situation afterward, how can we wait until the day when Kyoto can turn the tables?"

"After all, the fourth brother is still our brother." Ming Qingda looked embarrassed and explained in a low voice.

"Bullshit brother!" Old Lady Ming was almost laughing out of anger, "When will you learn to be more ruthless!"

Ming Qingda looked at the devil-like mother in front of him, and his heart was empty. At this moment, it seemed as if all his emotions were taken away, and all that remained was the wrinkled old face in front of him.

All the previous events flashed by, and Ming Qingda seemed to have some enlightenment and lowered his head silently.

After a moment, his body seemed to become much lighter, and he raised his face with a respectful and gentle smile.

"The mother is right, the son knows what to do!"

"It's good that you know!" Old Lady Ming felt a little pain in her heart, and immediately stopped her anger and asked about the current situation: "After the fourth brother dies, it should be possible to keep Fan Xian busy for a while."

"What we need to do now is to protect Mr. Zhou. As long as he is fine, Fan Xian can't do anything to us!"

Ming Qingda was puzzled. Now that the matter had come to this, why was his mother still unable to make up her mind to cut the grass and avoid future troubles?

"The Supervisory Council must be going after Mr. Zhou when they enter Ming Garden. Now that things have come to this, my son doesn't dare to bet on whether they will find that place. Why don't we do the same?" Ming Qingda gestured to silence the witness.

Old Lady Ming gave him a cold look. She understood that her son was doing this to protect himself.

But it was precisely because of this self-protection that she felt so disheartened.

Although Ming Qingda is now the head of the Ming family, the old lady has never let him participate in the affairs of the Junshan Society. One reason is that the fewer people know about the many inside stories, the less they know. The second reason is to keep some mystery for herself so that she can control the entire Ming family.

But the son's behavior undoubtedly shows that he was not involved in the incident, but now he has to take the blame. This is an expression of dissatisfaction!

"He is the eldest princess's man, you know that! If it were someone else who was not so relevant, we would have killed him. But Mr. Zhou is not only the eldest princess's man, but also the accountant of Junshan Society. He has too much information in his hands and is an indispensable and important person. Whether to kill him or not is not up to you and me!"

Old Lady Ming thought about it in her mind and her mood became much calmer.

That secret place was indeed within Ming Garden.