Fang Yun said: "I heard that there are many mechanisms in the Wenbao Wuhou Car, the most common of which is poison arrows, which consume talent to activate and are powerful enough to rival a university scholar. If there are lake shells or even larger river shells in it, wouldn't poison arrows and other things be able to be continuously supplied?"
Li Fanming said: "There are indeed Yinjiangbei in the Wuhou Car of the evil king, as well as a page of the holy text written by the sage! As long as the holy text is there, no one below the great scholar can shake him in the slightest, and the great scholar can only drive him away but cannot hurt him. The key is that the Wuhou Car is extremely fast, as long as the talent is sufficient, even the great scholar's rapid rise to fame cannot catch up with it."
After hearing the Holy Text, Fang Yun remained silent. This was the foundation of the Semi-Saint family. Even if those wealthy families or even the Virtual Saint families were powerful for a while, as long as they did not have the Holy Text, they would be powerless in front of the Semi-Saint family.
"A Wuhou car can only show off, but it won't make him too famous, right?" Fang Yun asked.
"Wu State and our Qi State have always been in opposition. In order to increase his status in Wu State, he deliberately provoked the Hanlin of our Qi State. He had three literary duels a day, and won nine consecutive games on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth day. In the ninth game, he even defeated a newly promoted university scholar. No one in Qi State dared to have a literary duel with him. In those days, Yi Zhishi of Wu State swept our Qi State, and in this generation, there was Shi Jun in Qi State, who suppressed Wu State. Then, Xiong Jun came out of nowhere, avoided Shi Jun by half a generation, and suppressed the disciples of the same generation in our Qi State. Alas..." Li Fanming sighed lightly.
Only then did Fang Yun realize that this was a dispute between countries.
Qi and Wu were both among the most powerful countries, and the two countries happened to be bordering each other. Their hatred lasted for nearly two hundred years and they had always been in opposition.
Fang Yun realized the cleverness of the evil king and the Meng family. As long as they did not become enemies with the Wu Kingdom's royal family and the Wu Kingdom's noble families, and fought against the enemies of Wu Kingdom with all their strength to enhance Wu Kingdom's prestige, even if they did something excessive, the Wu Kingdom's noble families would turn a blind eye, and even protect him and let him be a sharp sword for Wu Kingdom. Although Meng Sheng was cruel in the past, he never offended the Wu Kingdom's noble families too much. At most, it was just friction.
Like Meng Sheng, Xiong Jun had some minor flaws, but they were loyal to the greater good, because both of them practiced their own military skills by killing monsters and barbarians, and their military achievements were outstanding, far exceeding their peers.
As long as the evil ruler does not destroy the wealthy family, but only suppresses or "borrows" some literary treasures and military books, there is no need for other semi-saint families to take action, and at most they can just give a warning.
It was precisely because of the warning of the military saint Sun family that the evil king did not want to offend the military strategist to death. He wanted to give up Han Xin's reviewing platform in exchange for the blood-dropping animal skin and take a step back to give the military saint Sun family a face, but Fang Yun refused.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
"Is Fang Yun here?"
The violent banging on the door and the arrogant shouting almost revealed the Meng family's intention.
The Wei couple went to open the door. When it opened, a group of wild bulls rushed in aggressively and formed two rows between the main hall and the door.
An old man walked over slowly with his hands behind his back. He had silver hair and was wearing a white embroidered sword-shaped imperial scholar's uniform. He stood straight with his head held high, his face full of arrogance.
Following behind him was Niu Manshuai and the rest of the Niu Man generals, walking slowly inside.
The people in the main hall stood up one after another, and three disciples from semi-saint families even bowed and greeted them.
"Uncle Meng."
"Uncle Meng."
"Mr. Meng."
Fang Yun then realized that this person was the younger brother of the current head of the Meng family. Meng Li, the second uncle of Xiong Jun, was a very arrogant person. He was always proud of being the descendant of a half-saint.
"Yeah." Meng Li nodded casually. In his eyes, these side branches of the semi-saint family had no status at all, and they were not those famous geniuses. He didn't care at all.
Meng Li looked at Fang Yun and Li Fanming together, his face darkened, and he snorted coldly: "You are Fang Yun who stole my Meng family's things? Xiaotang offered you the Han Xin Reviewing Platform in exchange, but you refused to do so, and even spread rumors to slander him?"
Fang Yun stood straight, with countless thoughts flashing through his mind. He quickly said bluntly, "Uncle Meng, you are joking. If the thing in my hand really belongs to the Fang family, according to your Meng family's usual style, you will definitely come to rob me and then destroy my palace. Uncle Ji can testify that I bought this thing with my own money."
Li Fanming immediately said: "I can find my uncle to testify for him."
When Meng Li heard Fang Yun mocking the Meng family, he was not angry. Instead, he smiled contemptuously and said, "No need. We have found the peddler who stole my Meng family's things. He has personally admitted to stealing my Meng family's things and then sold the blood-dropped animal skin to the antique dealer. He has signed and sealed it in my Wu State. I have the document here."
After saying that, Meng Li threw a piece of paper towards Fang Yun.
Fang Yun didn't even look at it, letting the paper hit his chest and then fall, because even a fool would know that it must be the Meng family who used their power to find that person and forced him to write this document.
Last time, Xiong Jun's cousin came to sow discord between him and the Ji and Han families. This time he even went a step further and slandered him in person for buying stolen goods. Fang Yun could no longer tolerate it!
Fang Yun's eyes were filled with anger, and he said, "Since the Meng family said so, and this concerns the reputation of the Mengsheng family, and this is at the foot of the Holy Court, with many saints above us, then we might as well ask the Holy Court to judge. If the Holy Court says that it is your Meng family's property, I will admit that I bought the stolen goods, apologize, and go to the Meng family to burn incense and worship the Mengsheng to apologize. If it is not your Meng family's property, all you need is for the evil king to write the three words 'I was wrong' to me, how about that?"
Meng Li was in a trance for a while, thinking how come this kid is more arrogant than me and more vicious than the evil king, asking for the Holy Judgement as soon as he opens his mouth, does he think that the Half-Saint is the county magistrate? No one in the world can ask for the Holy Judgement as soon as he opens his mouth, why doesn't he speak according to common sense
Li Fanming and the others were also secretly shocked. Fang Yun was so cruel. Not only did he dare to ask for the Holy Judgement, he also dared to let the Evil King write "I was wrong". He was indeed a genius who was on the front page of "The Holy Way". He knew that he could not retreat at this time. Once he retreated, he would definitely lose everything when facing the Mengsheng Family.
Meng Li cursed Fang Yun in his heart for being treacherous, and the arrogance on his face was much less. He said, "Do you think that the saints are waiting to ask for a holy judgment for you? How arrogant! However, our Meng family is always willing to reason. Even if you bought stolen goods, we are still willing to exchange a great scholar's treasure for your blood-dropped animal skin. Tell me, what do you want to exchange? As long as my Meng family has it, you can ask for it."
"Oh?" Fang Yun looked at Meng Li and said, "Since the Meng family is so eager to help others, I will reluctantly agree to change to a Wuhou carriage. I don't want the holy text in the Wuhou carriage, but the Yinjiangbei must be kept for me. After changing to the Wuhou carriage, I will take the carriage back to Ji County immediately and will not go to the Holy Ruins."
Li Fanming and a few others almost laughed out loud. Fang Yun was such a good choice. The Wu Hou Chariot was baptized by the talent of a semi-saint, and its value was greater than Han Xin's reviewing platform. The Yinjiangbei was even more like a good cultural treasure of a great Confucian scholar. These days, Tian Xiongjun had been using the Wu Hou Chariot to show off the power of the Wu State. If it was really exchanged by Fang Yun, who knows how much people would laugh at it.
Meng Li didn't know what to say for a moment. He thought, since Meng Lintang is a vicious king, then Fang Yun must be a mad king. He is so mad!
"Except the Wuhou chariot, you can exchange for any other." Meng Li stared at Fang Yun fiercely, full of threats.
Fang Yun nodded and said, "Okay, let me think about it... How about this? The Three Essays of Han Xin is equivalent to a great Confucian literary treasure. As long as the evil king returns the Three Essays of Han Xin to the Han family, I will offer the blood-dripping animal skin with both hands. We are all human beings, so it is better not to do such shameless things as robbing other people's heirlooms."
Li Fanming looked at Fang Yun in surprise. He didn't expect Fang Yun to be so clever. Without the "Three Essays of Han Xin", the Evil King couldn't enter the Holy Ruins. Even if he had the blood-dropping animal skin, it would be useless. Therefore, the Evil King could not be replaced. But Fang Yun said this. Not only would the Han family be grateful to him afterwards, but all the enemies of the Meng family would have a good impression of him. At the same time, it also resolved Meng Li's offensive.
Meng Li's face was somewhat embarrassed, and his arrogance was almost gone. He said with a dark face: "You can't choose "Three Essays of Han Xin" either."
Fang Yun shouted angrily, "You, the Meng family, are going too far! First you slandered me for buying stolen goods, but you didn't dare to ask for a judgement. Later, I took a step back and was willing to exchange, but what about you? You didn't want to exchange this or that, you are clearly bullying a poor kid like me! If you push me to the limit, I will ask for a judgement right now. I don't believe there is no reason in this world!"
Meng Li knew that his trip was a complete failure. Except for robbing or paying for the truly important cultural treasures, it was impossible to obtain the blood-drop animal skin. However, this was Kongcheng. The private army could be more arrogant and even bully those famous and wealthy families. But if they robbed Fang Yun's things in Kongcheng, the Kong family and Dongsheng would never let the Meng family off.
Fang Yun’s literary reputation is too great. If the Kong family has to watch Fang Yun being robbed in Kong City, then they will forget about the title of the number one family.
The arrogance in Meng Li's eyes completely disappeared, replaced by coldness, anger and a hint of murderous intent.
"Fang's kid, seeing that you have some literary reputation, the Meng family first asked Lin Yu to persuade you with kind words, and now I'm personally visiting you, but you are so aggressive. If you don't admit your mistakes, don't blame me, the Meng family, for turning against you!"
As Meng Li spoke, he suddenly became full of confidence. He raised his head again, and a little bit of arrogance returned to his face.
"Take the Wuhou Chariot or the Three Essays of Han Xin in exchange. I have already quoted the price. You can go back and ask the evil king. There is no point in saying more. Send him away." Fang Yun said calmly. The people around him secretly praised that Fang Yun had already become a famous scholar.
The Wei couple only took a symbolic step forward and did not dare to force the guests to leave.
Meng Li said slowly: "You have to know that I not only represent myself, I represent Meng Lin Hall and the evil king!"
"So what?" Fang Yun asked back.
"Because no one can refuse the Evil King twice! Even if you want to be a mad king, you can't be mad in front of the Evil King!"
Fang Yun was puzzled and asked, "Mad King? Who said I want to be a Mad King? As for rejecting a vicious king, there will be a second time if there is a first time. You just have to get used to it."
Fang Yun's tone was so light that it almost made Meng Li explode with anger.
Some scholars standing by secretly gave Fang Yun a thumbs up. There were really not many people in the world who dared to speak so highly of the evil monarch.
"You're looking for death yourself, don't blame me!" Meng Li glared at Fang Yun fiercely, then turned and left.
Meng Li had just taken two steps when his conch shell emitted the sound that Fang Yun had heard.
"Indeed, if there is a first time, there will be a second time. You are qualified to say so, so I will give you a third chance. Tomorrow at the Mid-Autumn Festival, you will present me with the blood-stained animal skin in your hands, kneel down and apologize, and our affair will be written off. Otherwise, you can enter the Holy Ruins, but you can't walk out! Forget about the title of Mad King!"
.(To be continued..)