Arknights, are you a good person?

"It's okay, I believe you." Qi Yuan nodded, "But what price can you pay for your sister?"

"Everything." Ji remained calm.

The "sister" Ji without any prefix does not refer to all the female Sui beast fragments ranked before him, but refers specifically to one person, Shu, who is ranked sixth. She was born almost at the same time as Ji, and they stayed in the same place for hundreds of years, depending on each other.

"Okay, let me see what you brought." Qi Yuan turned the topic to the treasure box next to Ji, "Everything depends on the situation."

"As a businessman, I should say this is a reasonable price, but I tell you, this is the highest price I can offer, regardless of any cost," Ji said as he followed the procedure and slowly opened the treasure box. A thick light shone through the gap in the box.

The auspicious aura came out of the box.

This was the first time Qi Yuan saw such a concrete "beautiful land."

The sky is full of red clouds and the sea is full of golden waves, just like a furnace of boiling molten steel, gushing out with dazzling golden light… The beautiful mountains and rivers, rivers, lakes and seas, thick clouds and light fog, birds and beasts, all seem to be contained in this ray of light.

"What is this?" Qi Yuan scratched his head.

Qi Yuan had never thought that the gift would be something like this. He thought it would be like Ling giving him a wine gourd, and a spindle would be the best thing, but it turned out to be this thing? !

"This is the fortune of the mountains and rivers of Da Yan. I spent a lot of effort to find materials that can carry the fortune and weave it in one go. I didn't sleep for fifteen whole nights to weave this thing and present it to you, Master Qi Yuan."

What Ji Ye presented to him was not the Seven-Star Sword, but a dragon robe embroidered overnight. Qi Yuan couldn't help but wonder whether Zhenlong and Taifu knew about this?

The real dragon might be happy to accept it, but it is hard to imagine that the old-fashioned Taifu would agree to such a dangerous thing.

Qi Yuan sensed danger.

"This thing is too important, I'm afraid I can't keep it. If outsiders knew that we secretly used the Great Yan's national destiny to bless ourselves, I wouldn't have enough heads to chop off even if I had nine."

Qi Yuan said seriously: "When you put it on, you will immediately feel like a child of destiny. No matter what you do, you will be blessed with national fortune. It's almost like your dreams come true. But do you know what will happen if this dress is torn?"

"There are mountains and rivers embroidered on the clothes. If the clothes are torn, the mountains and rivers will naturally be torn. As long as you put on this dress, you and Dayan will share the same fate. Even if His Majesty has tremendous power, he can't do anything to you."

"Um……"

The two of them were like TV shopping guides, singing the same tune and introducing the product's selling points, its biggest weakness, and the peak life that would follow after wearing these clothes in just a few sentences.

That's a future with unlimited potential.

Qi Yuan waited patiently. He had already heard the students' rapid breathing. He believed that they would not jump out at this time, but would sneak away and prepare to report to their superiors.

"Ok?"

Qi Yuan suddenly felt something unusual.

Another team of people started to act. They formed a circle silently and seemed ready to strike. They surrounded the scene tightly.

"Do it."

The team immediately moved, attacking like the wind.

However, their target was not Qi Yuan, but the students who were following him from the opposite side. The encirclement slowly closed in, and Qi Yuan heard five short screams in succession.

"Who?" Qi Yuan asked curiously.

As Qi Yuan urged, dozens of figures came out from the opposite room, carrying five sacks and looking serious. Qi Yuan noticed that many of them had been seen during the daytime ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heavens and the subsequent outing to enjoy the scenery.

"Someone from the Ministry of Justice?"

"Do you know what you are doing?"

The old minister of the Ministry of Justice looked distressed and said, "Ji, you are the elder brother, why did you do something wrong that would implicate her? And Master Xiao Qi, it is normal for young people to make mistakes, but you made a big mistake today."

"..."

There is another thing? Qi Yuan never expected it.

"Hurry up and destroy all of this. No matter what you are doing behind the scenes, stop as soon as possible... Let's pretend that nothing has happened. These five people are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice. No news will leak out. Protect yourselves!"

The old minister's words were extremely painful.

If any of the people he brought wanted to pursue higher studies or be transferred to the Dali Temple, the old minister would lose his head, but he still spoke like this without hesitation.

It's just that this will tarnish the reputation of the Year Beast Fragment who holds the power of God.

612: Qi Yuan is forced into a desperate situation again

"Who are you? Do you know what you are doing? This is a capital crime punishable by death!"

A faint sound came out from the black sack. The old minister of the Ministry of Justice remained calm. Immediately, a group of people gathered around and stomped on the sack several times. Wailing and screaming instantly replaced the shouting, which sounded particularly mournful in the moonlit night.

"Don't worry, we'll take care of it."

The old minister coughed and said, "But if you insist on doing what you did, we will not let you go on. We have so many people, you can't silence us no matter what. If this gets to the ears of the Grand Tutor, you won't be able to escape unscathed."

Fearful, but neither humble nor arrogant.

Qi Yuan was silent for a while, observing the expressions on these people's faces. They chose to take risks in the middle of the night and run to warn him. They must have made a huge decision.

Qi Yuan thought for a long time, but didn't know how to bring up this matter. So he had a meal together after get off work and casually said, "Hey, our old boss's brother seems to want to recruit someone to rebel. Should we old brothers try our best to give him a hand if we can?"

It is really hard to imagine that anyone who can talk about this matter must be a person with a huge sense of responsibility.

"You are in a... faith relationship?"

"Don't use words like worship and being worshipped to describe the relationship between us and our old boss. That is a complete taint. Also, don't confuse us with that group of Shanhai people."

"She is our superior. She speaks the law and her words are followed by the law. She has no followers and no followers. She is just an ordinary but great political and legal worker, nothing more."

All the officials in the Ministry of Justice spoke in an extremely serious manner.

Qi Yuan also understood that they were actually fundamentally different from the Shanhai people. They came to remind himself and Ji tonight only out of respect for their old boss. If they really did something wrong, the officials of the Ministry of Justice would probably sue them first.

After all the calculations, the one whose power was the fragment of the Year Beast in the field of law should be ranked fourth. Qi Yuan had never seen her and did not know her name, but he felt her power from another perspective.

"You still treat her as a human being."

"That's wrong. Your Excellency is the most outstanding political and legal worker. She was unable to preside over the work due to objective reasons. She has not let down Da Yan or His Majesty. It is only natural for us to help her. Although the law is merciless, you have not caused serious consequences. You have turned back from your mistakes and nipped the problem in the bud. You can still be saved..."

The old minister of the Ministry of Justice had sweat on his forehead. He was really risking his life even though it was so crucial.

"Destroy this dress quickly and spend the night in peace."

Qi Yuan nodded but did not move. He did not intend to let Ji destroy the clothes embroidered with mountains, rivers and the country. Nodding was just a way of acknowledging their behavior.

A long time ago, there was a special name for this kind of person.

righteous.

"Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want. I cannot have both. I would rather sacrifice life for righteousness..."

"Don't flatter me, and don't play dumb with me."

The old minister of the Ministry of Justice was very alert.

As a veteran worker in the political and legal sector, he only wanted to see the matter successfully resolved and to get these two "little friends" out of the vortex, so as not to let down the hard work of his old boss.

The sooner the better!

However, at this moment——

"Wonderful, really wonderful."

It was a quiet late night and there shouldn't have been so many spectators, but an old sinister laugh slowly came from the air, and a wheelchair was pushed out from a house a little further away and emerged from the shadows.

"The chief priest of the academy?"

There was another encirclement outside the encirclement, like a nesting doll. The chief priest was pushing a wheelchair, and on the wheelchair was an old figure with a long white beard, like an old Taoist priest.

"The last chief priest of the academy?"

"Why isn't that old guy dead yet?" Although it was the first time he saw him and he had never heard of this person before, it didn't stop Qi Yuan from trash-talking.

But unexpectedly, this burst of trash talk would ruin everything.

When the old man in the wheelchair heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his big hands covered with age spots grasped the two edges of the wheelchair, as if he was going to stand up from it.

"Why do you know me?"

His voice rose several levels: "Logically, for someone your age, I would have been indifferent to worldly affairs before I was born, but you know me and you spoke directly to me. Does your teacher, the current imperial tutor, still regard me as an enemy on the road to reform and tell his apprentice about my deeds?"

Qi Yuan: “…”

"Who are you?"

"It's too late to change your words." The old man tried for a long time but still couldn't stand up from the wheelchair. He could only cough a few times, "Back then, I fought against your teacher and only lost by a narrow margin."

A narrow defeat...

Qi Yuan thought about it in his mind, as the chief academic officer of the academy, he should only be responsible for the Baizao Academy, and he certainly does not have any more power.

In other words, when the Taifu system was reformed, the old Jijiu fought a defensive battle. Qi Yuan also got to know the current appearance of the academy, which was completely different from before... Wasn't it just fighting a defensive battle in the area that he firmly controlled, and ended up being defeated?

How can you say it was a narrow defeat?

Where did we lose?

Qi Yuan shook his head. He didn't expect that a joint fishing operation would actually catch such an old fish. It was an unexpected harvest. Qi Yuan's gaze passed through the two sour scholars and fell on the team of young officers behind him.

Perhaps it is because the characteristics of the various races on Terra are too obvious, either horns, tails or ears. Having no characteristics can also become a characteristic, and there seems to be no need to conceal the identity.

Everyone present today is showing their cards clearly and are very bold.

"You're just going to follow them, these two losers?" Qi Yuan asked with interest, "The general is walking so close to me, are you going to walk alone?"

"Qi Yuan, you farted."

"I don't know why these two old guys came out together. I feel sick just by looking at them. They are useless and they even stood in the middle pretending to be the organizers."

The people from the Ministry of War were more outspoken. They kicked the old priest of the academy over and tried to push the wheelchair aside. The old priest activated the wheel locking mode, but was still lifted up and carried to the side to face the wall. He could only move his old hands to rotate it back little by little.

The old priest was very angry.

"If it weren't for my qualifications, how could you have followed me all the way and exposed the treacherous ministers? This kind of thing must be led by an important minister to succeed. Don't be too nervous."

He raised his head, his eyes gleaming with a brilliance that didn't belong to his age. "Qi Yuan, the guilty minister, attempted rebellion late at night and colluded with the Sui Beast. And you, the people in the Ministry of Justice who protected him, what crime should you be charged with?"

"forgive me."

Qi Yuan cooperated by raising his hand, but he only raised one hand.

613: Blood Splattered Five Steps

"Qi Yuan, Ji, we can't protect you anymore."

The old minister of the Ministry of Justice did not react much. He sat down on the ground, took off his hat and threw it aside, scratched his half-white hair, looking like a bachelor.

"To be honest, when I was still a eunuch, my elder sister was in charge of Dayan's judicial system. The day I was appointed as the Minister of State was exactly the day she left. Many years have passed in a flash. I wonder every day if I had resigned at that time, would it have been great?"

"It's useless to think about anything now. I'm probably going to lose my head. Although His Majesty is kind, he can't tolerate such a thing. It's so sad. I wanted to retire after finishing this thing, but I didn't expect that I didn't get it done, and I got myself into trouble."

"You talk too much." Instead of confronting the fish that was caught, Qi Yuan still prefers to have a good chat with this old man who got into the trap by mistake. It is more meaningful than arguing with him.

"When this is over, you can do whatever you want, retire to your hometown, or farm, whatever you like."

"Do you believe this yourself?"

The old minister untied his bun, letting his sparse black and white hair fly in the wind, and his official robes were also scattered:

"Brother Qi Yuan, don't comfort me for the disaster you caused. Comfort yourself instead. Even though you ate so much beef and mutton that we sliced ​​during the day, there's a good chance that you'll be sliced ​​that thin tomorrow."

This old man is kind-hearted, but his words are a bit harsh.

Although he knew there was no danger, Qi Yuan still wiped his sweat and said, "Say less."

"My brothers and I are going to die, and you won't let us say a word?" The old minister's eyes widened, no longer calm, "Isn't it you who made me like this?"

angry.

He glared angrily, very unwilling to end up like this today.

Qi Yuan could only turn his gaze towards the group of fish he had caught, and asked with great interest: "Your general should have told you not to go against me, so why did you go alone?"

"We obey the Grand Commandant because he said what we wanted to say. The future of Da Yan does not need these immortal demons and monsters. He has changed. Why can't we elect a new voice to put you and your demon accomplices to death?"

Qi Yuan looked at them again.

The only people present at the scene were the political enemies who were killed by the Grand Tutor back then, and the Grand Marshal's subordinates who acted alone. This indirectly shows that... the old Grand Marshal's ability to lead a team is really hard to describe.

"Okay, you guys pronounce the verdict, what is my crime?"

Qi Yuan stretched out his hands just within the distance of the handcuffs, but unfortunately only his brother from the Ministry of Justice understood the joke. He fumed and glared, totally not understanding why Qi Yuan was so calm.

"As a favorite of His Majesty, you took advantage of your favor to become arrogant, embroidered dragon robes at night, and conspired with the beast of the year. This is a crime worthy of being cut into pieces."