In the Blood Qin Empire, the color of blood is noble and the color of iron is the most noble. The two colors of iron and blood are deeply loved by high-ranking officials. WWw!QuAnBen-XIaoShuo!com
Therefore, in the outer city of Shuangyang Chilong City and the inner city where common people and ordinary merchants live, the colors of all the buildings are mostly light and elegant. However, once you enter the official city, the entire building, including the stone slabs paved on the streets, are transparent. A thick, depressing dark tone emerged.
Guancheng is okay. The people here are middle- and upper-class officials, and their houses and pavilions are just depressing in color.
As soon as he entered the palace city, Lin Qi felt as if he had returned to the Principality of Montenegro on the eastern plain of the Western Continent. The ground is paved with volcanic tungsten steel rock cast with metal solution. The surrounding buildings are as black as if they were made of copper and iron. Even the trees on the roadside are python-skin black pine, and the flowers and plants planted are all red-leafed iron cores. orchid.
The people living in the palace are all the royal nobles of the Blood Qin Empire, as well as the top court officials. Therefore, the palace is strictly guarded. Every tea time on the street, a group of two hundred armored guards will walk slowly by. , the armor is clanging, the steps are rumbling, all the guards are all at the peak of their cultivation, and the weakest captains are all mid-level.
There are strange lights flashing over all the courtyards on both sides of the avenue. This is the fluctuation of light and shadow naturally emitted by various defensive formations. At least hundreds of powerful mental thoughts swept through the void over and over again. Even if a mosquito flew by, one could instantly count how many dust particles were on it.
Riding on a tall horse, Lin Qi looked down at the giant stone slabs paved on the ground. Each stone slab is carved with countless runes in small characters, and the layers of runes are nested together to form a defensive array that is several times more powerful than the outer city wall. It is conceivable that once this formation is activated, the entire palace city will become a huge battle fortress.
Even Lin Qi could feel the terrifying energy tide below the street. Lin Qi couldn't imagine what those people who built Shuangyang Chilong City had done, or what they had done underneath the city. Just the threat posed to him by the energy tide beneath the streets he walked was several times more powerful than the energy fluctuations produced when the largest super volcano he had seen erupted in the Fifth Abyss.
Could it be that underneath the entire Shuangyang Red Dragon City is a super crater
A super crater hundreds of miles long and wide! Thinking of that terrible scene, Lin Qi felt cold sweat breaking out all over his body. Once such a volcano erupts, even terrifying beings like Emperor Yun and Yu Jun will be wiped out immediately, right
After walking in the palace for a long time, less than two miles away from the imperial city, Sha Xinyue led Lin Qi and his party into an alley.
Sha Xinyue's father, Hu Ye, was under the command of the Grand Lieutenant and was the chief spy directly under the Blood Qin Emperor. He was a powerful figure who was truly awe-inspiring and even terrifying. Sha Xinyue's grandfather was ignorant, but he was able to make orders under the rule of Taifu. This was another highly profitable job in the Blood Qin Empire. One of the father and son was rich and the other was powerful. Together with Hu Xinzhu, a close official of the emperor, although the Hu family was not prosperous, it was one of the most powerful and powerful families in the Blood Qin Empire. No one dared to underestimate the potential power of this family.
This Baoxing Hutong is said to be an alley, but it is actually large enough to accommodate four carriages traveling in parallel. The entire Hutong is flanked by the Hu family's mansion on both sides.
After entering the alley and walking a mile, there is a blood-painted door on the left with a plaque of Xuan Lebo's Mansion. This is the mansion of Sha Xinyue's grandfather Wu Tu. On the right side of a mansion door is a plaque with the words "Uncle Zhongsu's Mansion" hanging on it. This is the mansion of Sha Xinyue's father, Hu Ye. Walking more than a mile inward, there is a mansion on the left with a plaque with the word "Xuan Yi" hanging on it. Here live several members of the Hu family who have never been officials. …,
For example, Sha Xinyue's second uncle Hu Le, third uncle Hu Qu, fourth uncle Hu Xin, and many of Sha Xinyue's cousins live in this Xuanyi Mansion. Although he never served as an official, Hu Le served as a staff counselor and military affairs officer in Taiwei's mansion. He was responsible for the destruction of at least eighteen small countries around the Blood Qin Empire; Hu Qu worked as a diner in Taifu's mansion. It is said that Taifu's At least 40% of the official documents were polished by Hu Qu; as for Hu Xin, it was even more interesting. His favorite thing to do was to go to the Yamen of Chilong City to receive various complaints, and he specialized in litigating cases for free!
Although these three uncles of Sha Xinyue did not serve as officials, they were all troublesome figures in Shuangyang Chilong City. Especially Hu Xin. If the Red Dragon City Commander had an enemy that he wanted to kill with his own hands, it must be Hu Xin. Several Red Dragon City Commanders had been humiliated by Hu Xin and had to commit suicide in the end. Please transfer the position of Red Dragon City Commander!
As for Sha Xinyue's brothers and sisters, many of them have just started to enter official careers, and they are still working as low-level officials in various yamen, but. . . In the past year alone, the chief officials of seven yamen were forced to take sick leave due to the torment of Sha Xinyue's cousins. You can imagine what kind of characters Sha Xinyue's brothers and sisters are.
Xuanyi Mansion, in the minds of some people in Shuangyang Chilong City, this mansion is a devil's cave!
As for the opposite side of Xuanyi Mansion, there is a giant garden that covers an area larger than the previous three mansions combined. On the plaque directly above the gate of this garden, three big characters are mentioned in flying colors - Hu Xinzhu!
There was no name for the garden or the name of the mansion. Hu Xinzhu declared the ownership of this garden in this way. However, this unruly behavior won unanimous praise from many so-called elegant scholars in Shuangyang Chilong City.
The welcome guests in front of Hu Xinzhu's garden are also jaw-dropping. On the left are eight handsome men, all with high crowns and robes, holding feather fans, looking like celebrities. If a scholar or scholar came to visit him, it would be these handsome young people who would receive him.
On the right, eight elite secret spies from Prime Minister Feng Wen's subordinates, wearing half-body armor, wide-brimmed helmets, pleated iron war skirts, long knives hanging on their waists, and carrying heavy crossbows, stood here to welcome the guests. Most of all, it is to show Hu Xinzhu's attitude to all those who pass by - this is not a place that just anyone can get close to, and it is not a place that Hu Xinzhu is willing to meet. It is best to get away as soon as possible, and don't ask for trouble!
Sha Xinyue nonchalantly introduced the situation of her relatives to Lin Qi. Lin Qi was really amazed and had nothing to say about Sha Xinyue's family. There were only a small number of foxes in this den, but their tentacles reached out to all aspects of the Blood Qin Empire. There were people from his family in the mansions of Taifu and Taiwei. Hu Xin helped people fight lawsuits for free all day long. In fact, he was in the Taizai And the Red Dragon City Order also had an extremely far-reaching influence. It seems that no one in this family is really among the top courtiers, but in fact, the influence is not weaker than those of the top high-ranking Taifu, Taiwei and Dazai.
"Of course, the Hu family can't have only such a small number of people!" Sha Xinyue narrowed her eyes and smiled proudly: "As for the Hu family, they are all local wealthy families in the three provinces near the imperial capital. It's just that It’s just my grandfather’s lineage who entered the court as an official. My Hu family has a long history of serving as officials in the Blood Qin Empire. However, the Hu family has never produced a first-class official, and the highest-ranking ones are the ministers of various ministries. That’s it!”
Lin Qi nodded silently, and the group dismounted in front of the "Hu Xinzhu" garden gate. Sha Xinyue smiled triumphantly and walked slowly to the gate. The eight scholars on the left and the eight secret spies on the right saw Sha Xinyue and hurriedly bowed and saluted. Then the concierge opened the main door, and an old man in iron-colored robes quickly came out. …,
"Miss, you are back!"
Sha Xinyue nodded and pointed to Lin Qi: "This Young Master Lin Qi is my aunt... Xinyue's friend in the Western Continent, Xinyue narrowly escaped death several times, and it was he who helped him Save. This time Mr. Lin has prepared a heavy gift and paid a visit. Where is my eldest brother?"
The old man glanced at Lin Qi quickly, and his face was suddenly full of smiles: "The eldest young master has been ordered to enter the palace, and he is not sure when he will come back. I also invited Mr. Lin to come in and serve tea. The master has nothing to do today and is in the garden. I am drinking, writing poems and amusing myself. If I know Mr. Lin is here, I will definitely be very happy!"
When the old man spoke, the corners of his mouth curled up, really like an old fox snickering. Especially when he said the last sentence, there was an indescribable weirdness in his words. Lin Qi could tell that Sha Xinyue's father, Hu Ye, seemed to be very interested in him
Donkey came close to Lin Qi, the corner of his mouth moved slightly, and a high-pitched voice quickly penetrated Lin Qi's ears.
"Be careful, you have entered the fox's den! Don't reason with these foxes. When you find that you can't convince them, just use your fists! When dealing with the fox family, reasoning is useless, fists and violence are The best solution! Knock them all down and they will behave!"
Lin Qi narrowed his eyes and smiled, violence and fists? Is this what the Sha family is doing? Lin Qi thought of the two clear slap marks on Hu Xinzhu's face! It seems that not only Donkey, but also some people in the Blood Qin Empire have figured out how to deal with the Sha family!
Of course, it's not a big deal to take advantage of the Sha family. It would be even more terrifying to be retaliated by the Sha family!
A servant from the garden came out and entered the garden through the side door with a cart carrying gifts. Lin Qi entered the garden under the leadership of Sha Xinyue and the old man. He felt a sudden greenness in front of his eyes, and there were lush ancient trees as far as he could see. A sense of silence and deepness spread across the road, along a spacious avenue. After walking nearly a hundred meters inward, after passing two spacious halls, there is an exquisite garden with rockeries and flowing water behind.
At the end of a winding island paved with colorful seashells, a pavilion stands like a bird on the top of a cliff dozens of meters high. A middle-aged man with disheveled hair and a green robe was sitting in the pavilion, with his big bare feet, singing loudly, holding a big bowl in his hand, and filling his mouth with tea.
Seeing Lin Qi coming from a distance, the middle-aged man suddenly laughed loudly: "Lin Qi? I am Lin Hu, right?"
With a wild laugh, the middle-aged man suddenly flew into the air, suddenly flew over Lin Qi's head, and stepped down hard on Lin Qi's head.
"Back then, you beat me until my nose was bruised and my face was swollen. Today, I'm using his son to vent my anger!"