If time could be turned back, if things could be done again.
As the prefect of Tong'an City, Xu Tao will definitely choose to live and die with the people on that night when fire rains from the sky, and advance and retreat with the officials. He will never be an escaping prefect again, and he will never be a timid person afraid of death. , he will definitely be a good official who loves the people as his son, instead of a faint official who cares about human life, neglects his duties and has no humanity.
Because... all of this is the source of his nightmare that would be worse than death!
Xu Tao couldn't remember how long it had been since he had looked in the mirror. He even closed his eyes when drinking water, and did not dare to look into the water to see his own appearance.
Because he knew that he must be a human or a ghost at this time!
The dense pustular tumors on his body were fine, but the itching and pain that would occur at a fixed time every day was the real source of pain that made him miserable.
Just when Xu Tao revealed his identity, he felt another itching sensation on his body. Everyone saw him let out a shrill scream, and began to scratch his body with both hands. In just a few strokes, he scratched the tumor pustules on his body. Thick black and blue juice flowed out, and the stench was unbearable. It only made some people around them turn their heads and vomit, and some covered their mouths and retched.
Xu Tao rolled around on the ground and scratched his body frantically: "Itchy! It's so itchy!!"
His body was fat and huge. When he rolled on the ground, the people around him made room for the boss. They all covered their noses with disgust on their faces, but no one wanted to leave. They all stared with curiosity. watching.
After a while, Xu Tao scratched himself all over his body, and he screamed again: "It hurts!! It hurts!!" As he said that, he struggled to crawl towards the nearest gold-holding blood guard. : "Kill me! Please! Kill me!!"
The gold-wielding blood guard who was armed to the teeth was so frightened that he kept retreating with the magic-breaking gun in hand. No matter where Xu Tao climbed, people retreated in fear, but when he crawled in other directions, they all started to retreat. Come forward.
The bursts of itching and severe pain made Xu Tao wail and scream incessantly. He scratched desperately and banged his head on the ground, but it was all to no avail. He couldn't die, and he even doubted that he would never die.
After being tortured like this, Xu Tao deeply realized that life is worse than death. He thought about committing suicide, but no matter where he stabbed himself with a knife, he could not die. Even wiping his neck would only make more concentration flow out of his neck. The juice only made him more painful and itchy.
He fell off a cliff, he threw himself into a river, he burned himself, he hanged himself, but he couldn't die like this!
The curse placed on him by the monster tortured him every minute and every second, making him rush to the capital desperately, because the monster told him: if he wanted to end all this, he must confess all his crimes to the world.
He struggled to tell his identity to the guards in the city along the way, but no one believed him. They beat him crazily, drove him away, hated him like a plague devil, and avoided him.
Xu Tao had no choice but to struggle desperately to reach Shenjing.
But when he found that even the gold-holding blood guards in Shenjing were unwilling to believe his words, Xu Tao was completely desperate. He made the most terrifying howling sound in the world, crying and begging loudly: "Kill me, please." , please kill me!!"
The blood guard who was closest to him felt the hair on his body stand on end when he heard this voice, and his bones were a little cold. He clenched the magic-breaking gun in his hand, gritted his teeth and was about to shoot Xu Tao.
But as soon as he moved, someone next to him grabbed the barrel of his gun. When he turned around, he saw his team leader glaring at him.
"What are you doing?" the team leader shouted angrily.
The blood guard couldn't help but said: "Captain, kill him, this is too terrible! He is in pain, and so are we!"
The team leader stared at him coldly and asked: "Are you crazy? If he is really Xu Tao, the prefect of Tong'an, what should you do?"
The Blood Guard was speechless and said: "Him? No, it's impossible!?"
As the leader of the team, his brains, vigilance and political sensitivity are naturally much stronger than those of his subordinates. He sneered and said: "Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of what happens! If he is really Xu Tao, if you kill him, just I’m afraid you don’t have enough heads to chop off even if you have 10,000 heads!”
These words made the Blood Guard shudder, and he immediately retracted the magic-breaking gun in his hand.
"Then what should we do?" the blood guard said happily.
The leader of the team frowned and covered his nose as he looked at Xu Tao, who was writhing and wailing on the ground, and said, "Let Jing Zhaoyin and officials from the Ministry of Personnel come to collect the people and identify their identities!"
Jing Zhaoyin, as the agency directly under the jurisdiction of Shenjing, has a status equivalent to the prefect of a state. If something like this goes wrong, it is natural to find the officials directly responsible for the management of Shenjing.
The Ministry of Personnel is in charge of hundreds of officials. To confirm the identity of a suspected official, that matter must be done by the Ministry of Personnel.
The blood guard said in shock: "Here?"
The team leader rolled his eyes: "Nonsense, then you carry him in?"
Seeing Xu Tao's terrifying appearance, the blood guard was so frightened that he immediately ran away: "I'm going to inform Jing Zhaoyin and the officials!"
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Shenjing, Qianshan Mansion.
"What? Did you find Xu Tao?"
Qian Shanyue looked at the old housekeeper in front of her in surprise. The brush in his hand was frozen in the air, and the ink dripped down, completely destroying the unfinished picture of the bright moon in the Qiu Mountain below.
As the patriarch of the Qianshan family, Qian Shanyue returned to Beijing this time to take over the post of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. This in itself was an extremely sensitive political event.
This means that the Qianshan family will once again enter the core area of Shenjing, the political center!
Yes, the Qianshan family is a rare aristocratic family in Daqi. It has produced five first-class officials, and the highest title is marquis, but... starting from the previous generation, the Qianshan family began to decline.
The simplest example can prove it: As the patriarch of the Qianshan family, he actually took up the post of governor in Taizhou, which is thousands of miles away!
This means that the Qianshan family has been exiled from Shenjing! It means that the power and strength of their family have been exiled!
If the Qianshan family hadn't produced Qian Shanxue, a peerless genius, the Qianshan family would have entered further decline.
It can be said that Qianshan Snow is the biggest reason for the prosperity of Qianshan family!
However, what Qian Shanyue didn't expect was that the Tong'an incident broke out!
As the patriarch of the Qianshan family, he certainly knew what was going on and who was the initiator. Although he extremely hated and despised his nephew's cold, cruel and careless character, but... after all, he was a descendant of the Qianshan family and the hope of the Qianshan family.
Therefore, he must wipe his ass and hide this tragedy!
Even if this goes against the laws of nature, even if it is even more inhumane than Qianshanxue!
But... for the survival of a family, he must do this!
However, when Qian Shanyue spent countless manpower and material resources to cooperate with Xu Tao, the prefect of Tong'an, to suppress the Tong'an tragedy, a shocking bad news came: Qian Shanxue was dead! He was defeated in the Lingshan Sect's assessment battle, and was subsequently set on fire by his maid and died in his mansion.
This news almost crushed Qian Shanyue!
But thanks to Qian Shanyue's strong spirit and strong character, he was able to survive this difficult period. His first reaction was not to immediately seek revenge on the culprit Li Chengfeng, but to choose to cut his losses!
The method was to change the family. From a neutral faction, he joined the fourth prince's sect without hesitation. Therefore, after Pei Rengui, the left minister of the Central Plains Ministry of Civil Affairs, was impeached and stepped down, Qian Shanyue could immediately replace him, and then Qian Shanyue came to power. Only then can the Shan family return to the center of political power.
Qian Shanxue's death meant that the Qianshan family lost the protection from the spiritual world, so Qian Shanyue immediately took refuge with the fourth prince who was on the side of the spiritual world.
But the Tong'an tragedy was not over. The cover-up murder was revealed again. What's even more terrifying is... the prefect Xu Tao actually appeared in Shenjing!
what does that mean
At this moment, Qian Shanyue vaguely felt that the bloody storm was heading towards their Qian Shan home!
Qian Shanyue's old face was full of sternness. He said in a deep voice to the old housekeeper in front of him: "Go and inquire again immediately! Also, prepare the sedan chair, I want to visit His Highness the Fourth Prince!"
The old butler quickly agreed and quickly prepared an inconspicuous sedan for Qian Shanyue. He came out of the back door and quickly headed towards the fourth prince's residence.
But what none of them knew was that not far away, there was a figure quietly hiding under the shade of a tree, looking at the gate of the Qianshan family's mansion, hesitating.
And this person was none other than Mingzhu, who had gone through so much trouble to escape from Lingshan with Qianshanxue and returned to Shenjing.
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Last night, my mobile phone was in arrears and the Internet was disconnected. I called to check and found out that this was the reason.
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