Chapter 870: You are targeting my treasure, and I am targeting your life.
The next morning, Magistrate Zhang went out early in the morning. At the same time, everyone in the Zhang Mansion seemed to have gotten up very early. From what they said, it seemed that they were going to do a thorough cleaning of the entire Zhang Mansion.
I don’t know why, but when Mo Cheng and Shen Xueqi left the room, they couldn’t see anyone. It seemed that the servants consciously avoided them.
Not only that, but a table was placed in the yard outside the guest room at some point, with two bulging-looking gift packages on it.
Mo Cheng didn't even open the package to check. The two of them each picked up a package and walked towards the side door.
As expected, the old doorman who was supposed to be here was nowhere to be seen, but the door was open. When Mo Cheng and Shen Xueqi stepped out of Zhang's house, the housekeeper and the doorman appeared from nowhere, discussing how the master had lost his temper last night and scolded the city guards at the west gate for being good-for-nothings and falling drunk at the door while on duty.
Mo Cheng naturally heard such a voice. He didn't say much. He bowed to Zhang's mansion and turned to walk towards the west gate.
Along the way, Mo Cheng took Shen Xueqi on small paths. With his own spiritual perception, he often discovered each other earlier than others, thus avoiding encounters.
When they arrived at the West Gate, the gate guard was dispersing the crowd, shouting that the West Gate would not be open before noon today, and asked others to enter the city from other places.
After everyone had left, the captain of the city gate guards saw a scholar and a white-haired girl. He didn't say anything, but just picked up the wine beside him and poured it into his mouth. After a few sips, he fell down due to being drunk.
The other city gate guards also followed their captain's example and fell drunk to the ground.
But Mo Cheng saw clearly that the guards at the city gate were simply pouring wine on themselves, and it was estimated that not even a sip went into their mouths. Even when they were drunk, they poured wine on both sides of the city gate, leaving the middle road open.
Mo Cheng was too lazy to expose the poor acting of these city gate guards, so he took Shen Xueqi and walked through the city gate and left the city.
After walking about a hundred or two hundred meters outside the city, I looked back and saw that the city gate guards who should have been drunk stood up again.
"them……"
"Zhang Zhifu is an official of Northern Qi State after all. Although he is dissatisfied with the orders from the palace, he has no way to provide us with direct assistance."
Mo Cheng explained: "Otherwise, even if he has someone in the court to back him up, he can't get around the fact that he disobeyed orders. So he needs an excuse, an excuse that he can shirk responsibility."
"For example, he kindly took in the seriously injured Mo Cheng, and for the sake of the emperor's face, he persuaded Mo Cheng to hand over his belongings. Unexpectedly, the student Mo Cheng was not a man to be trusted. The next day, he took some of the money from the prefect's family and fled out of the city."
As he spoke, Mo Cheng opened the package and took a look, then counted them: "Yes, there are gold and silver, and they are not official silver. Is the salary of the prefect so high? There are also maps, which should be second only to military maps in clarity. There are even corresponding documents..."
When Mo Cheng saw the prefect's official seal on it, he couldn't help but grin, "Okay, now we have one more crime, which is misappropriation of the official seal."
"A serious crime?"
"Don't hang around Northern Qi from now on. This crime is bullshit."
"That eunuch will file a complaint."
"Don't worry. All the internal eunuchs sent abroad will accept bribes. If they don't receive any, they will go back to complain or even fabricate charges. This is an unspoken rule that everyone knows. Local officials who don't want to cause trouble will offer bribes, and officials who want to clear their names will just confront them head-on and strive for a good reputation."
Mo Cheng sneered, "If we go back and file a complaint, and want to make a local governor lose his official hat, at least there must be a bandit problem in the area under his jurisdiction, which will affect the surrounding areas and cause a rebellion."
"It's not that serious. If the eunuch goes back and complains, the most he will get is a few words of accountability. If the Northern Qi emperor dares to remove Prefect Zhang's official hat because of the eunuch's complaint, the censors will have a passionate confrontation with him at the court the next day."
“Snap, snap, snap!”
Suddenly, a burst of applause rang out, followed by a gust of cold wind, and then a figure appeared in front of Mo Cheng and Shen Xueqi, blocking their way.
The man had red lips, a white face, and no beard. He was dressed in eunuch clothes. He was as skinny as a zombie and gave off a cold aura.
Rather than being a living person, Mo Cheng felt more like a zombie in a Lin Zhengying movie.
"You are worthy of being the pillar of Jixia Academy. It took me a whole night to think of Zhang Junmao's actions, but you said it in just a few words."
"Half human, half ghost, with a green face, practicing the Qingjian Secret Scroll." Shen Xueqi immediately revealed the origin of the man in front of her. "Only the inner eunuchs can practice the Qingjian Secret Scroll. Be careful. He has reached the realm of [Qingyun Zhuan], and it is not difficult for him to enter and exit Qingming."
"As expected of a disciple of the Three Immortals of Yunping, you can tell my origins. My last name is Hai, and the people in the palace respectfully call me the chief steward."
Mo Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, "I wonder why Chief Hai came here?"
Chief eunuch, fifth rank...
This predecessor obviously wanted to be an official. At least there was not much other knowledge left in this body. The official ranks, eunuch ranks, and even the precautions for the examination were all very clear.
"Your Majesty is a man of virtue and integrity , and it is fitting that a rare treasure will be born now..."
Before he finished speaking, Manager Hai pointed his toes and slid backwards like a ghost.
He glided at an extremely fast speed and narrowly avoided the throat-slashing blow from the Flowing Sword.
Mo Cheng was too lazy to listen to the eunuch's nonsense. He swung his sword and released green lotuses that floated towards Chief Steward Hai.
When Manager Hai saw those green lotuses, he did not dare to be careless. He immediately circulated his true energy throughout his body, and his whole body turned green and hard, as hard as steel.
He could tell that the green lotus was formed by the condensation of countless sword energies, and that sword was one of the Nine Abyss Famous Swords. If he was careless, he would be torn into pieces by the infinite sword energy in an instant.
“How dare you…”
Chief Steward Hai was about to say something, but in return he got a cold shout from Mo Cheng: "Nonsense!"
For Mo Cheng, Manager Hai's status, background, and even his practice of martial arts have nothing to do with him. In Mo Cheng's eyes, Manager Hai has only one label: experience value.
He rolled the long sword in his hand, and suddenly the sword energy gathered into a long river and rolled towards Chief Steward Hai. Green lotuses were held up on the long river of sword energy, but wherever the long river and the green lotus passed, everything was cut and shattered.
Mo Cheng had already noticed that, in addition to the eunuch in front of him, there were many guys lying in ambush along the road.
"Hey!"
With a sneer, the long sword in Mo Cheng's hand flew out, turning into a stream of light that pierced through Chief Hai's body and nailed him to a big tree.
"How dare a mere eunuch of the fifth rank, who has not yet reached the realm of [Yan Luo Yin Shen], appear in front of me ."
" Really ... don't know how to live or die!"
After retracting the Flowing Water Sword, Mo Cheng released his own perception and felt that those guys who had left the city some time ago were now lying in ambush on the road.
There is no need to guess what their target is, it is the so-called [secret treasure] in Mo Cheng's hand.
It's just that they are eyeing Mo Cheng's [Secret Treasure], while Mo Cheng is eyeing their lives.
