Chapter 224: Punish Her
After seeing off Duan Xiaolin and his wife at the dock, Zhao Yulin went home to take a rest.
Lu Youpeng hurried in to tell him that the hot air balloon explosion case had been solved, and the real situation was unimaginable.
Zhao Yulin looked at him curiously.
How unimaginable is it?
Lao Lu told him that Shunfeng had conducted a comprehensive investigation of the accident site and found remnants of a thunder bomb explosion.
Xiao Si, a member of the Qingcheng sect who was of the highest rank, was in charge of the security of the hot air balloon experiment. Just now, a large thunder bomb that only the Qingcheng sect had was found in his room.
Zhao Yulin was suddenly confused.
Damn, what’s going on? The problem actually lies with Xiaosi. He has never had any doubts about the Qingcheng Sect.
When he fell ill in Xinshi Town and almost died after taking the golden elixir given to him by Yuyangzi, everyone suspected that Yuyangzi was up to something, but he denied it against all odds.
Lao Lu said that the Thunderbolt bomb was not brought in by Xiao Si, but was passed to Xiao Si by the beautiful girl with a melon-seed face from Lin'an.
Zhao Yulin found it even more strange. How could the explosion of the hot air balloon involve two beautiful girls?
One of these two beauties is a thin girl, and the other has a melon-seed face. How could the melon-seed face be a spy? What does it have to do with them?
Lu Youpeng told him: It turns out that the girl with the melon-seed face from Lin'an had already been possessed by Zhao Wangbing.
When King Zhao learned that this girl was chosen, he wanted to take revenge on Zhao Yulin. He did it on purpose. He went to the palace where Mei Ji lived and harassed her nine times in succession, hoping that she would get pregnant with his child and marry Zhao Yulin, thus making him a cuckold.
Ever since Oval Face and Zhao Wangbing had a physical relationship, she decided that she belonged to Zhao Wang. Zhao Wangbing also promised Oval Face that he would take her back to be his concubine and treat her well.
Thinking of his bright future, the girl was determined to work for him.
Damn, this world is so damn dark.
Fortunately, Zhao Yulin was not the pervert that Zhao Wangbing imagined, who would rape anyone he saw. He left the two beauties in the academy and thus escaped the disaster.
The girl with the oval face was also extremely lucky. Zhao Wangbing used all his tricks to make her pregnant, but she didn't get pregnant. Instead, she stayed safely on Cuiping Mountain.
With the convenience of her identity as a beautiful girl, she found Xiaosi, a member of the Tian generation of the Qingcheng Sect, showed him the secret letter from his master Yuyangzi and the token from Zhao Wangbing , and promised Xiaosi that he would become a general in the future.
With his master's will and the expectation of becoming a future general in mind, this fellow was obsessed and put a goose egg-sized thunder bomb into the inflatable charcoal furnace of the hot air balloon. When coal was added to start the fire and inflate the charcoal furnace, the temperature inside the furnace became higher and higher, and finally the charcoal furnace exploded and ignited the hot air balloon.
Zhao Yulin shook his head, finding it unbelievable.
Lao Lu continued to tell him: But they haven't finished it yet. The accounting office of Shopkeeper Xiaoju's family was bribed and became a transit station for the outside of this incident. The melon-faced man confessed that the thunder bomb, King Zhao's token, and Yu Yangzi's letter were all obtained from the Ju family's accounting office.
However, the person who sent the thunder bomb was not caught.
I guess by the time he saw the conspiracy coming to fruition, he would have already escaped and returned triumphantly.
Lu Youpeng said with great relief that the gunpowder formula of the Qingcheng School must have been passed on to Zhao Wangbing, and it must have flowed to our enemies. Fortunately, Guigu did research, and our gunpowder has been continuously improved over the years, and its power has greatly increased. It is no longer called gunpowder, but explosives.
Zhao Yulin nodded heavily, thinking that the security of Guigu needed to be improved. He told Lao Lu about the idea of relocating Guigu, and they both agreed. Lao Lu said that the money earned from selling arms to Dali this time would be used to build a new Hongmeng Valley.
He smiled and said that the location had not been found yet and the deal had not been completed yet.
Zhao Yulin asked Dale Li from the Imperial City Department to come for an investigation, sort out the case files and report them to Lin'an to let the government know, and send the formula of Qingcheng School's gunpowder to the Military Equipment Bureau in Lin'an.
Lu Youpeng nodded and said that Dellley had a sharp nose and had come when he found them conducting an inspection at the dock, so he would definitely let him take a closer look.
Zhao Yulin told him that the key to military weapons must be kept secret. King Zhao could reach out to Shu to cause trouble, so how could we know who was behind him?
Lao Lu agreed to leave.
Zhao Yulin was annoyed when he thought about the several forces that were targeting Cuiping Mountain. His mind was a mess, so he returned to the study and asked Feihu to get him a new cup of tea.
Not only Zhao Yulin is worried in this world, the emperor in Lin'an is also worried.
Secret report from the Imperial City: Zhao Wangbing has been acting a little strange recently. Judging from the people he comes into contact with, he may be secretly interacting with the Northern Barbarians.
It’s Mag’s fault. These kids don’t want to live anymore.
The emperor was furious and started cursing again.
What the emperor couldn't understand was that these kids were obviously the future crown princes, so why couldn't they stand the loneliness and wanted to commit suicide?
This is all because of the monarchy designed by his ancestors. As long as the emperor is alive, he will stay on the throne forever and will not move away unless he is tired of playing. How can the prince emperor have the opportunity to display his talents?
Therefore, usually the crown princes and heir apparent of every dynasty sit in the East Palace, either waiting to die or trying to gain power by any means possible.
In this way, it is not difficult to understand Zhao Wangbing's difficulties.
He was forced to do so, because the current emperor is in his prime and in good health.
The emperor has many empresses and concubines. If he gives birth to a son to inherit the throne, wouldn’t his trip to Lin’an be in vain?
The emperor thought about it over and over but he was at a loss. It was impossible for him to kill this kid.
Royal sons are precious. It is rare for the Zhao family to have a boy with a penis, so they must try their best to keep him.
What if he killed this child and couldn't give birth to a son? Wouldn't he really have to use Zhao Qi'er from Shu to inherit the throne and keep his kingdom?
The emperor was depressed and full of anger.
He heard the queen gently calling him to bed, and immediately thought of his own lack of effort and lack of successors. He suddenly felt a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. When he entered the room and saw the queen in gauze, he immediately found his goal...
The next day, Zhao Yulin went to Cuiping Academy early to have tea with Zhang Xiangyang. After explaining his purpose, the old man felt that he had a great responsibility and specially asked his wife Liu Haitang to find the beautiful and thin girl.
After the thin girl came in, he asked about Meiji's health and daily life and then said: She is who she is, and her oval face is still a oval face. The Shenwei Army has clear rewards and punishments, and will not punish her for breaking the law just because her oval face broke the law.
The young woman was trembling all over when she came in, and only after hearing what he said did she calm down a little. She even said that she knew nothing about it and that it was all the work of the man with the melon-seed face.
Zhao Yulin was too lazy to care about these sneaky things. He told her to study hard and then said goodbye and left. When he got home, he told her to set off for Jiading.
He traveled all the way to Jiading, but his father-in-law Chen Yun told him with a dark face that Chen Chen was pregnant and after knowing that he had married a new wife, she was in a bad mood and very depressed. She took her maid to the back mountain where the head of Emei was practicing to take care of the pregnancy and refused to see anyone .
As a father, he now travels between Jiading and Yibin, doing the work of two people for one dollar's salary.
Zhao Yulin was completely speechless. He knew that if this girl started to act tough, all his tricks would be useless. So he accompanied his father-in-law to eat a plate of cross-legged beef and then headed straight to Chengdu.
Because Chen Chen dumped him, Zhao Yulin originally planned to go directly to Baoning Prefecture. However, Prefect Ding insisted on keeping him and Manager Qu for a drink. The group then went to Liu Fengxian's Wenjun Restaurant, only to find Qu Tao and her father were already waiting there.
During this gathering, Qu Tao was much more lively. He called Yulin "Brother" with a smile on his face, making him feel like a different person. Although he couldn't be said to be passionate, he was much more comfortable.
Shopkeeper Qu said happily that the jade from Dali could be taken to Chengdu and then directly unwrapped and made into jade articles, which greatly reduced the cost and created profit margins. Their jade business would be much easier to do, so he had to thank the young man very much.
Mr. Ding said that with the jade obtained from the Shenwei Army, the business of Manager Qu has become the biggest business in Chengdu, and the bosses in the jade business all regard the Qu family as the leader of the industry.
Haha, I see.
Just as they were enjoying their meal, a guest brought a secret letter from the court: Zhao Yulin, commander of the Shenwei Army, was ordered to go to Anfu Temple tomorrow to receive the imperial edict.
Mr. Ding congratulated Zhao Yulin with a smile, saying that he had heard that the government wanted to confer the title of King of Shu on his brother, and that in this way all the officials in Shu would follow his lead.
Zhao Yulin, however, had a look of disdain on his face. He was not interested in these titles at all and thought they were just tricks used by the emperor to win people's hearts and minds.
However, Mr. Ding said cautiously that in the past, the imperial edict was always delivered in the government office, but this time the imperial envoy went directly to Anfu Temple to deliver the edict, which showed that the emperor favored him. My brother should know how great the emperor's grace is.
The aide quickly said that the imperial envoy was Bao Aida, the deputy envoy of the Imperial City Administration, who had also sent someone to deliver the message as soon as he arrived.
When Zhao Yulin heard that it was someone from the Imperial City Bureau, he was immediately startled. He smiled and invited Mr. Ding to go with him to see the Imperial Envoy tomorrow.
When he returned to the post station, Dongmei from Chengdu Shunfeng Office and Zhang Guoan, the garrison captain, were already waiting in the living room. Dongmei reported to him that Bao Aida from the Lin'an Imperial City Department had led a hundred tall and burly imperial guards directly to Anfu Temple, but he didn't know what they meant.
Zhao Yulin said with a smile that Mr. Bao had come to convey the imperial decree to appoint him as the King of Shu.
Zhang Guoan was delighted when he heard this, and immediately shouted respectfully, "Congratulations, young master, congratulations on becoming king." However, Dongmei frowned, feeling very strange.
Zhao Yulin asked Guoan what he would do if the imperial envoy issued a secret order to kill him?
Guoan was immediately stunned and shook his head in disbelief.
Zhao Yulin said that he could not escape the disaster, so he just had to wait and see, and the outcome would be clear tomorrow. He asked Dongmei to prepare a large official uniform for him, and asked Zhang Guoan to go back and think about it, and to gather his trusted brothers to go to Anfu Temple to help after dawn.
Zhao Yulin had a good sleep. After breakfast, he took out the official mask prepared by Dongmei, cut off half a foot of the sole of his foot and wrapped it around the 800 million pole to camouflage it.
Then he put on the bulletproof tactical vest brought by Zhu Congwen, put on the newly made wide-brimmed helmet, checked the magazines and grenades, then picked up the 800 million lever and ordered to set off.
The group marched in neat steps straight to Anfu Temple.
