Time passed, and before spring came, it rained again in Changling.
Winter rain is no better than spring rain, and it is often tiresome.
What's more, for the vast majority of practitioners, rain and water mean femininity, and there are only a very small number of practitioners in Changling, such as Ye Celeng, whose natal breath is in line with the meaning of water.
The rain can act as a barrier to the practitioner's perception, and can cover up a lot of breath.
Therefore, in the world of practitioners, many major events often occur with the arrival of heavy rain.
Huang Zhenwei stood under the rain eaves on the top floor of a turret, silently watching a yellow-robed practitioner enter the palace.
This is a person from Jiaodong County.
Since Yuan Wu ascended the throne and Zheng Xiu officially became the hostess of the entire Great Qin Dynasty, the color of the yellow robe, which resembles dry soil, has become a unique symbol of the envoys of Jiaodong County.
Perhaps for some privileges, or to show their distinctive status, these envoys from Jiaodong County never concealed their identities, and they must wear such yellow robes when entering Changling.
In the eyes of many old people in Changling, this is even a naked humiliation of Jiaodong County to the old dignitaries of Changling.
The earliest strategic significance of Jiaodong County to the entire Qin Dynasty was just a port that could provide rich seafood to supplement the army's meat. Even with the help of fishing boats and some overseas scarce elixir trade, Jiaodong County accumulated huge wealth. In his eyes, the people in Jiaodong County are just country bumpkins and fishermen, as well as second-hand traders.
It's just that today, the entire Great Qin Dynasty, and even the entire world, have realized the strength and terror of Jiaodong County.
The scary thing is that most of Jiaodong County's huge wealth seems to be used in arranging eyes and ears.
Jiaodong County has various sources of terrifying news.
Many secret things can be hidden from Shendu Supervisor and Jiantian Temple, but not from Jiaodong County.
In addition, practitioners who died for Zheng Xiu and Jiaodong County often came from outside Jiaodong County.
Especially in Zheng Xiu's "family", the Zheng clan that cultivated practitioners like Zheng Xiu, the outside world is almost ignorant of what kind of practitioners there are.
It is precisely because of its remoteness that in the eyes of Changling people it is just a rural area, so since the Zheng clan took charge of Jiaodong County, no war has ever ignited in Jiaodong County.
Even Zhao Gao, the yellow-robed practitioner who followed Zheng Xiu to Changling and witnessed how Zheng Xiu changed from a country girl to the mistress of the Great Qin Dynasty, didn't know what was going on in the clan of the Zheng family. Such people, how many people are there.
Even though Zheng Xiu mobilized countless forces in Jiaodong County to siege Wang Jingmeng and suppress the Bashan Sword Field, none of the cultivators from the Zheng family's clan officially showed up and took action.
So all these years, the home of the Zheng family in Jiaodong County is still mysterious.
Those who walk outside are all peripheral children of the Zheng clan, and there are even very few collateral blood relatives surnamed Zheng.
However, Huang Zhenwei felt completely different about this yellow-robed practitioner walking towards the palace today.
First of all, this yellow robe practitioner is too old.
This yellow-robed cultivator was at least fifty or sixty years old, a whole generation ahead of those yellow-robed envoys from Jiaodong County.
Secondly, he couldn't see how strong this yellow-robed practitioner was.
The aura of this yellow-robed practitioner was perfectly hidden in the rain. Even though it was impossible to reach the eighth realm, Huang Zhenwei had a very strong intuition, an intuition that he might be killed if he confronted this yellow-robed practitioner.
For practitioners of Huang Zhenwei's level, a strong intuition means necessity.
Therefore, this yellow-robed cultivator must be a real "family member" of the Zheng clan.
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This yellow-robed man with slightly smudged temples and a medium build who looked to be in his fifties entered the imperial city, followed the rules to make an announcement, and then went straight to the Queen's study.
Queen Zheng Xiu was waiting for his arrival at the door of the study.
"Uncle."
When the yellow-robed man appeared and stood in front of her, she bowed her head as a salute, and then said with a blank expression: "You shouldn't come."
This man's appearance is very ordinary, and he doesn't have any big man's aura, but he smiled slightly when he heard Zheng Xiu's words.
His little smile is charming.
When you are young, just such a smile can easily fascinate some girls.
However, facing Zheng Xiu with such a smile at this time, it made him inexplicably full of a majestic and powerful aura.
He smiled back and asked, "Why shouldn't I come?"
"You have revealed the background of Jiaodong County." Zheng Xiu looked at him and said coldly: "It is to show weakness to others."
"Showing weakness and poor skills?" The man in yellow robe smiled even more. He even looked at Zheng Xiu with some sympathy. The gaze he looked at her was the gaze of a real elder looking at a junior. You are too disappointed and think that you may get out of hand, so why should I come?"
Zheng Xiu glanced at him indifferently, "Disappointed?"
The man in the yellow robe looked at her plainly and sighed: "In recent years, you have not paid attention to the opinions of the family, and have even been threatening the family. But the family has been letting you more and more before, not because you are afraid of your threat, but because Jiaodong For the future of the Great Qin Dynasty, the status of the county has become more and more unstable... After the reform, the food, grass, and even meat of the Great Qin Dynasty are not so scarce. My Jiaodong County, which was originally the most indispensable meat supply place for the Great Qin Dynasty, is in decline. If you disappear, the army will become less and less dependent on us. So in a sense, our foundation is disappearing, and you are the future of our Jiaodong County."
Speaking of this, the yellow-robed man smiled again, but the smile was filled with sincere emotion and sincerity, "The family let you come here before, not because you were afraid of any external factors, but because you are perfect. In all fairness, You are the most perfect genius in my Jiaodong County for hundreds of years. Everything you performed before was perfect, but these two years are different. You have caused more and more accidents, and too many people died around you. But it is still It's not what the family is really worried about, what the family is really worried about is your spring expedition this time... You are betting too much, and it is easy to bet the entire Jiaodong County on it."
Zheng Xiu's face was still emotionless, and her fair skin was blooming with a beautiful porcelain light: "So the family doesn't have confidence in me?"
The man in the yellow robe still didn't answer her question directly, but shook his head and said: "It's not a question of confidence, but the family thinks that you should understand that you and the family are always one. You should understand that it should be you and the family. Let's go to the future of the Great Qin Dynasty together, instead of you going to the future, and the family becomes your pawn."
Zheng Xiu glanced at him, but before he had time to speak, the man in yellow robe stopped looking at her, turned around, looked at the sky above Changling Street in the distance, and said softly: "I remember the son of Marquis Li called Li Xixing, he drowned a dog when he was a child... Don't forget, you also drowned a dog when you were a child."
Zheng Xiu raised his head slightly, and frowned perfectly.
Suddenly she laughed very rarely, very cruelly.
"Since I was a child, any things I really love will be deprived of my family, my favorite dog will be killed, and my playmates who study and practice together will be arranged to be assassins who are trained to kill and die at my hands... Everything is possible to let I am distracted in my practice, and things that may cause me to worry about them will be removed by the family."
She said slowly: "Without distractions, without anything that can affect me, there is no weakness, so even Wang Jingmeng will die in my hands. The family asked you to come and talk to me, including yourself, but Have you really thought it through?"
"Before you killed him, you may not have any weaknesses, but now it is different. Your position and your ambition are your greatest weaknesses. Unless you are willing to live under Yuan Wu."
The man in the yellow robe looked at her with emotion, and shook his head, "It's a pity that I know you too well, so unless you let the family have confidence in you again, I will act on behalf of the family's wishes in the next period of time."
Zheng Xiu was silent for a moment, then she looked at the back of the man in yellow robe and asked, "In this case, you should at least tell me what you are going to do next."
"kill."
The yellow-robed man gave an unusually simple answer, showing his white teeth with a smile.
"Shen Xuan, Pan Ruoye."
He turned his head slightly, glanced at Zheng Xiu, and continued: "There is one more person I will do, I haven't made up my mind yet."