Uncle Lin also regained his strength and hurriedly got up from the ground to protect A Ying behind him: "Master Guan, these pearls are really earned by the common people going to sea. My ancestors have lived here for generations, but I have never seen any mermaid!"
Just as Wang Chongxi was about to speak, Qu Chunfeng had already interrupted him, his voice was light, as if he was not worried: "It's just an ordinary bead, if the princes continue to entangle, I'm afraid it will already be sunset, we can wait, Your Majesty can Can you wait?"
Ah Ying and Lin Bo had already recognized him, and they all showed surprise, but they didn't dare to say a word. Obviously, they didn't expect that the poor and sour show who came to borrow the road to ask for water was actually the national teacher of the dynasty.
Wang Chongxi heard that he had moved His Majesty out, and he couldn't do anything else. He weighed the tears of the merman in his hand: "The national teacher doesn't know anything, others can hold it for the time being, but the father and daughter must stay, to be found out. The details will be dealt with later.”
After waving their hands, the imperial guards who were brought out of the palace immediately stepped forward to tie A Ying and Lin Bo and forcibly escorted them to the boat. Wang Chongxi had already said that for this reason. agree.
They searched the sea with such a big fanfare that ordinary fish were too frightened to come forward, not to mention the mermaid, so Qu Chunfeng was not worried and let Wang Chongxi toss, the bigger the tossing, the better.
I just hope that the merman won't be so stupid that he comes out on his own...
Qu Chunfeng and Wang Chong liked to get on one of the boats. The other dozen boats went to search in three directions, east, west, east, and west. There were also hundreds of water experts who went directly into the water and set up nets. They knew they were searching for mermen, but they didn't know. I thought I was catching some great court felon.
This method is stupid and time-consuming. If the merman does not show up, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and it may not be possible to find it in ten years. Qu Chunfeng didn't say anything, he found a place to sit down, and stared at the undulating sea surface calmly.
Wang Chong was getting older, and the first time he was on a boat, he was unavoidably dizzy and vomited on the side of the fence in less than two hours. Qu Chunfeng glanced at it and retracted his gaze: "My lord, why don't you go to the shore and rest? Well, if you go wrong, I don't know how to explain it to Your Majesty."
Wang Chongxi poured several sips of hot tea, and then he regained his strength. His pale face was helped by his attendants and sat down. He saw that everyone in the Tianyi Clan was standing aside, and Qu Chunfeng was completely motionless. While watching the joke, I felt a little annoyed in my heart, and said in the direction of the imperial city: "Your Majesty trusts the national teacher and regards you as a minister of the arm, so he entrusts the heavy responsibility, but our family looks at it today, and it turns out that it is not enough. In this way, there are so many capable people and scholars in the Tianyi Sect, is the national teacher sitting on the boat like this every day to search for the merman?"
Ming Xuan heard it and thought to himself, how could they search for this dead eunuch without sitting on the boat to search, jumping off and not drowning.
Qu Chunfeng didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in his words, he sat in the same position, motionless like a mountain: "I'm ashamed to say, I'm not familiar with the junior and junior brothers, I'm really powerless, making my father-in-law laugh."
Wang Chongxi's face turned pale and pale when he heard the words. He was a little bit jealous of Qu Chunfeng, so he took a sigh of relief. However, the sailors who were sent out soon came back in embarrassment, because the weather was cold and cold. , all of them are frozen straight to the pendulum.
Seeing this, Wang Chongxi quickly stepped forward and asked, "Have you found any trace of the merman?"
The man in the lead knelt on the ground, his frozen lips were blue and purple, and he shivered: "Hui... Master Hui... This sea is vast... It's really hard to search for your subordinates..."
"waste!"
When Wang Chong's voice was high with anger and anger, his tone was broken. He paced back and forth on the deck in a hurry, like an ant on a hot pot, and at the end he didn't know what to do, and suddenly stopped: "Come on! Bring those two fishermen up!"
Hearing the words, Qu Chunfeng opened his eyes and looked over with no expression on his face: "What does your father-in-law want to do?"
Wang Chongxi didn't pretend anymore, put his hands in his sleeves, and said yin and yang strangely: "Since the national teacher is unwilling to contribute, our family can only find a way, since the fishermen have mermaid tears, they have a relationship with mermaids. Even if his mouth is made of iron, our family has to pry it open."
There are many methods in the palace, and Wang Chongxi has come up all the way. He is the eunuch maid in charge of the entire inner court. He is the best at interrogation. Heart, means vicious.
A Ying and Lin Bo were quickly brought up by the soldiers, and they were tied to the pillars on the deck. Wang Chongxi paced in front of them, and finally stopped beside A Ying: "What a wonderful little girl, if you throw it into the sea Feeding the fish is a waste of youth."
Lin Bo's face turned pale with fright: "Master Guan, the little girl has nothing to do with this matter. We are just fishermen with our duty and have never violated the king's law. Please be kind, please be kind!"
Talking about the old tears, if it wasn't for being tied up and unable to move, I'm afraid that I would have already knelt down and kowtowed.
Wang Chongxi was unmoved, and turned the whisk in his arms in a circle: "Our family is not that hard-hearted person, as long as you honestly explain, where did the tears of this merman come from, and how can we find the merman? People, I will definitely let you go, and the glory and wealth will be inexhaustible."
Ah Ying bit her to death without changing a word, and turned her head coldly: "I don't know what mermaid tears, let alone mermaids, this bead was picked up by my father in the sea."
Wang Chongxi saw that she was a hard-bone, and if she didn't suffer a little, she was afraid that she wouldn't open her mouth. She raised her hand and waved her sleeves, and sneered: "Come on, throw her into the sea, I want to see how your daddy picks up this shark. Tears, if the girl can pick up another one that is exactly the same, our family will fetch you up."
In this kind of weather, the sea water is freezing cold, and the iron man is afraid that he will not be able to survive it, let alone a weak woman.
Ah Ying's hair was messed up by the sea breeze, her complexion was almost transparent, and she was bloodless. Hearing this, she spat directly, her voice stubborn: "God officer, kill me if you can!"
Qu Chunfeng thought about the last time he and the mermaid named A Jin fought underwater, and the other party didn't even want to save A Ying's life. Slowly rubbing his fingertips, he was thinking about what to do when the system popped up.
The system flew to Qu Chunfeng and landed on his shoulder, and patted the back of his neck with his wings anxiously: [Dear, save her.]
Qu Chunfeng thought that this evildoer was kind-hearted. Seeing the two officers and soldiers escorting A Ying to the fence, he glanced at Ming Xuan, who immediately took someone forward to stop them from going: "Stop!"
Wang Chongxi stared at this: "You guys are bold, don't retreat quickly!"
The people of Tianyi Sect remained motionless, holding swords against each other. The meaning of confrontation was too obvious.
Wang Chongxi subconsciously looked at Qu Chunfeng, pointed at Ming Xuan and the others, and his hands trembled, he asked aloud, "Dare to ask the national teacher, is Tianyimen trying to make your Majesty's back?!"
Tianyimen is chartered by imperial power, so it can be seen that officials do not worship, and only one person needs to obey the orders, that is, the monarch of the dynasty.
Wang Chongxi really didn't expect them to be so courageous. He looked around and saw that there were only more than 100 royal guards on this ship. He couldn't help but panic: "Disobeying Your Majesty's order is a capital crime!"
Tianyimen has always been that the younger brother listens to the elder brother, the elder brother listens to the master, and the master listens to the emperor. Now that the emperor is away and the master is under house arrest, they naturally only obey Qu Chunfeng.
Qu Chunfeng didn't want to tear his face for a while, he glanced at him and seemed to be smiling, but he couldn't see any smile: "No need to panic, I have no intention of disobeying, it's just that Your Majesty loves the people like a son, this girl He is also delicate and weak, and there is only one way to die when thrown into the sea, wouldn't it be tarnishing His Majesty's holy name by spreading it out?"
Wang Chongxi has always been loyal to Emperor Zhaoning. Now Emperor Zhaoning is seriously ill and urgently needs mermen to refine the longevity medicine. He can't be delayed for a moment. At the moment, he only feels that Qu Chunfeng did it on purpose, and his teeth are itching with hatred: "It's just two pariahs. , If you die here today, it is also their destiny. The national teacher has repeatedly blocked it, regardless of whether it is high or low. Could it be that I wish that His Majesty would die soon, but don’t waste the painstaking efforts of Lord Hong to cultivate you!”
Hearing him mention Hong Guanwei again and again, Qu Chunfeng's eyes became cold: "Since Your Majesty has entrusted me with a heavy responsibility, then I can't allow others to issue orders. In terms of honor and inferiority, my father-in-law is only a fifth-rank internal prisoner, how can he be courageous? Bullying in front of me?"
After he finished speaking, his palms condensed profound energy, he flipped his sleeve robe and slapped the chair beside him directly, only to hear a loud bang, the wooden chair actually burst open in an instant, causing Wang Chongxi to stagger back in fright. The trembling dare not speak any more.
Qu Chunfeng looked around coldly: "Anyone who is disobedient and committed will end like this."
Wang Chongxi clutched his heart and couldn't catch his breath. It only made people think that he would faint in the next second. The guard hurriedly took him aside and sat down, and invited the accompanying medical officer to give the pulse acupuncture.
Seeing this, Ming Xuan glanced at A Ying: "Senior brother, what should I do with this girl?"
Qu Chunfeng: "Let it go."
Wang Chongxi jumped up from the chair when he heard the words: "Can't let it go!"
Qu Chunfeng glanced at him, Wang Chongxi slumped again, and subconsciously shrank back into the chair, his voice subconsciously dropped a few tunes, but still stuck his neck: "Can't let it go, these two can't let go, as long as there is a relationship between the two. The mermaid can't be released without hurting their lives, and they will be escorted directly to the prison after landing, forgive them for not daring not to recruit!"
If it weren't for the lack of torture equipment on board, Wang Chongxi would have already started.
Ah Ying saw that they were trying to search for the merman, and she was a dead end both vertically and horizontally.
Hearing that, Qu Chunfeng was about to speak when suddenly there was an exclamation behind him, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling into the water. He subconsciously turned his head and saw that A Ying had jumped over the guard's block and jumped down. When he called, he disappeared in an instant.
Lin Bo's eyes were splitting and he shouted, "Aying!"
Ming Xuan also panicked: "Senior brother, what should we do, she is still tied with ropes!"
Qu Chunfeng walked to the fence and looked down, but did not find any trace of A Ying, and ordered in a deep voice, "The one who is familiar with water, go into the sea quickly, and rescue me!"
Many of the officers and soldiers on the boat were from the navy. Hearing this, they took off their clothes and jumped into the sea like dumplings. Wang Chongxi also squeezed up: "Quick, quick, pick up people, absolutely can't let it go. She ran away!"
The government dispatched dozens of warships and chased away the fishermen. How could the merman not notice such a big movement? A Jin was worried about the Lin Bo family, who had been hiding in the dark, but saw that they were caught by officers and soldiers, and tried to save people several times. , but was blocked by his companions and could not break free. Now, seeing A Ying jumping into the sea, he couldn't bear it any longer, and struggled to break free and swim towards the official ship.
Although Wang Chongxi's eyes are dim, he is not completely blind. He was standing by the fence to observe the situation, but suddenly he saw a shadow of a human upper body and a fish lower body swimming quickly on the sea surface. Hai Facing the officers and soldiers instructed: "Quick, quick, shark... merman!"
Those officers and soldiers were looking around for A Ying's figure, but when they heard Wang Chongxi's voice, they couldn't help looking at the boat, but they saw him pointing at the sea and saying something excitedly, but the sound of the waves was too loud and the distance was too far. , can't hear clearly.
Qu Chunfeng raised his eyes lightly, looked at the officers and soldiers and said, "Your Majesty asked you to hurry up and save people, can't you hear me?"
After he said that, he picked up a gravel and hit Wang Chongxi's ankle in secret. The latter was unstable, and fell directly from the fence with a thud, and fell heavily on the deck.