Fighter of the Destiny

Zhou Tong looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and smiled, his smile a little deep and unfathomable: Are these Mrs. Xue's original words?

The middle-aged man looked a little uneasy and said, Zhuo Jing is impatient, but I don't think he would lie out of anger.

Thank you, Sir, for coming to speak to me.

Zhou Tong's attitude was very sincere and his eyes were very gentle.

But when Mr. Wei, the Minister of Rites, left, his eyes quickly became cold.

What happened that night was only a few days ago. As the person involved, he would naturally not forget it.

His loyal subordinates will naturally not forget it either.

To be precise, the beginning of that night was the flash of a knife in Haitang's courtyard. He almost died in the hands of Chen Changsheng.

Without that knife, the subsequent development of the situation would not have changed much, but his role in this matter would most likely be different from what it is now.

Xue Xingchuan is his only friend in the world.

Xue Xingchuan is the only person in the world who trusts him.

Therefore, he was poisoned to death.

That day in the palace, he received treatment from the Holy Light Technique, and with Shang Xingzhou's personal intervention, his injuries were almost healed.

He will have a higher status, greater power, and be more unshakable in the new dynasty.

In order to announce and prove this to the whole world, Xue Xingchuan's body was thrown outside the official road and was not allowed to be buried.

As a result, Chen Changsheng collected the body for Xue Xingchuan, Mrs. Xue was not going to leave the capital, the child named Brother Jin was going to be brought back, and the Xue Mansion... actually had to hold a sacrifice!

Of course Zhou Tong understood what these things meant, it was a slap in his face.

The crabapple tree had turned into debris, the courtyard was in dilapidated condition, and all the above-ground buildings of the Qing Lisi Yamen were abandoned. Only the underground prison was still intact.

Zhou Tong stood in the ruins, looking at the light clouds in the sky, silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

A subordinate looked at him with a slightly lonely expression and asked tentatively: Sir...

I have always had a thick face, otherwise I wouldn't be alive today.

Zhou Tong said calmly: Dean Chen has already slapped me on the left cheek. If he is still interested, I can turn around and give him a happy slap on the right cheek as well.

The subordinate said unwillingly: Why?

Zhou Tong looked back at the sky and said expressionlessly: Just because he is a student of Dean Shang, your Majesty's junior brother, and the successor chosen by the Pope, he is qualified to slap me in the face.

It was the imperial court's order to expose the corpses of Xue Xingchuan and those Yulin Army generals. Who dares to disobey?

If Chen Changsheng dares, who dares to punish him by violating Zhou's laws or resisting edicts?

Why? As Zhou Tong said, if the imperial court did not want to split from the state religion after just overthrowing the Holy Queen, it could only endure it.

The imperial court had to endure it, not to mention that Zhou Tong was just a member of the imperial court, even a high official.

The subordinate said angrily: How long do you have to endure it?

Zhou Tong was silent for a while and said: If the empress will die, then everyone will die.

He was not talking about Chen Changsheng, but His Majesty the Pope who admitted in front of the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books that he was old and about to die.

On the day when His Majesty the Pope returns to Xinghai, perhaps Chen Changsheng will really become the next generation of Pope, but neither the imperial court nor Shang Xingzhou, nor the collective consciousness of the state religion, will allow him to act like a young man again. Although he is still very young, this is the reason why if you want to wear the divine crown, you must bear its weight.

Zhou Tong just needs to endure this period of time.

A slap in the face is not killing someone.

There are many people in this world who want Zhou Tong to die.

Now many ministers of the new dynasty, including several princes including King Zhongshan, are eager to eat his flesh, but they can't do anything.

Chen Changsheng could use many ways to show his disgrace to Zhou Tong. He could slap him in the face in different ways, and it was impossible to kill him.

As I have said many times, he represents Shang Xingzhou's commitment to the entire world.

The subordinate was still a little uneasy and asked: What about the Xue Mansion holding a sacrifice?

Setting up a sacrifice? I think it's more like digging a hole. Zhou Tong smiled, and then said to his subordinates: It doesn't matter whether the courtyard can be restored to its original state, but I want a crabapple tree here to be the same as before. That crabapple tree is exactly the same, remember to dig the tree hole deeper, it will make life easier.

For this small courtyard in Beibingmasi Hutong, the crabapple tree is very important.

Just like he does with the current world.

They are all symbols of some kind.

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Rebuilding Zhou Prison was a very troublesome project. The Ministry of Works and Kyoto Prefecture sent many workers and excellent craftsmen.

The project went very smoothly, and it took only two days to take shape. However, time was still very tight, and the workers were still working hard after nightfall.

A tree pit was dug under the courtyard wall. The pit was dug very deep. It seems that no matter what kind of crabapple tree it is, it can grow well in it.

When the night was darkest, the laborers and craftsmen finally went to rest.

No one noticed that a figure came to the courtyard wall and jumped into the pit.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, the sound was like the sound of a knife cutting into tofu.

Countless rays of cold light flashed from the figure's fingertips, but they were obviously not weapons.

The soil on the pit wall swished down like real tofu.

Then, the figure disappeared.

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A sacrifice was held in Xue Mansion.

The mourning hall is in the mansion and cannot be seen from the street. Only Bai Pan can be seen. Other than that, there are no changes.

There was not even any crying or music, it was really deserted to the extreme.

There is no music because no music troupe dares to take over the job of Xue Mansion.

There were no cries because there were no guests coming to pay homage, so no matter whether it was true or false, the people in the mansion could not keep mourning there by themselves.

This is a scene that many people have expected.

Xue Xingchuan's remains were buried by Chen Changsheng.

The funeral of Xue Mansion naturally has a different meaning.

Some people even think that this is a contest between the imperial court and the state religion, and between the master and disciple pair, Shang Xingzhou and Chen Changsheng.

This funeral can clearly see the direction of the wind in Kyoto City and even the entire continent.

The people who came to worship Xue Xingchuan, in a sense, were also worshiping the Holy Empress.

There must be people who yearn for the old Tianhai Dynasty, but who dares to show it?

In the cold mourning hall, the housekeeper looked at Mrs. Xue and said sadly: It seems...no one will come again.

Not to mention the ministers in the court, the military generals, those old friends, even the palace did not respond.

Only King Linghai and Taoist Siyuan came to pay homage in the early morning.

The personal relationship between these two giants of the state religion and Xue Xingchuan is actually ordinary, but everyone knows that they, like Xue Xingchuan, are the staunchest supporters of Holy Queen Tianhai.

Mrs. Xue looked at the empty door and said calmly: There are always people who want to come. Even if it is inconvenient for them to come, we always have to wait.

Yes, there were many people in Kyoto who wanted to come to pay homage to Xue Xingchuan. Considering the friendship they had with Xue Xingchuan back then, it was unreasonable not to come.

But for various reasons, they did not dare to come, which made them extremely embarrassed.

As Zhou Tong said, setting up sacrifices in the Xue Mansion was like digging a hole for those people.

Do you jump or not?

Time flows slowly.

The sun moves slowly.

The time has come.

Xue Mansion is still deserted and no one has come yet.