Father's love is like a mountain

Chapter 181
"The little girl picking mushrooms, carrying a small bamboo basket..." Xia Qixi hummed a slang folk song from Chiling County, reeking of alcohol, and wandered to Xia Mansion.

Seeing that the gate was closed tightly, he didn't bother to call the door. He just smiled, walked around the tall wall to his own small courtyard, and jumped in directly.

"Who?" The night guard called out vigilantly.

There was a light coming, the sentry looked over here, and then fell silent.

It's a habit these days.

Xia Qixi entered his room, and the maids had already fallen asleep.

He didn't bother to wake them up, he tiptoedly turned on the switch of the tap water, and the clear spring water gushed out from the emerald green bamboo tube and poured into his wooden tub for bathing.

He quickly picked up a bucket of water, and he took a pinch, and after a while, the water became hot.

With another wave, the wine jug on the table flew towards him, Xia Qixi raised his head and moved his palm vigorously, the amber liquid shot out from the spout and fell into his mouth accurately.

Although it cost a few hundred taels of silver, it was really worth it.

The Xia Mansion is not short of this money, even if he plays and sings every night, spends ten lifetimes, he still can't spend all the money in the Xia Mansion.

Of course, this refers to the situation where he broke through to Jindan and lived for 800 years.

If it is calculated according to the life span of ordinary people, a hundred lives will not be spent.

Xia Qixi was intoxicated when suddenly there was a commotion outside.

Xia Qixi frowned, this is Xia Mansion, in the middle of the night, who would dare to make trouble here?
With his skill, if he wanted to hear what was going on outside, it would be a breeze.

But Xia Qixi didn't have the mood to listen, and he didn't think it was his business. The people in the Xia Mansion didn't trust him. They clearly regarded him as the real master, but they all regarded him as an outsider.

Now that his mother and aunt are gone, he has no sense of intimacy in this mansion.

If something happened to the Xia Mansion, he would definitely ride a cloud and fly into the air to watch the fun and not interfere.

After such an interruption, he was not in the mood to take a bath anymore. He stood up and worked a little, the water stains disappeared immediately, and then he dressed slowly.

"Dong dong dong!" There was a rapid knock on the door, "Open the door!"

The maid woke up with a start, hurriedly got up, put on some clothes, went outside, and opened the courtyard door.

Xia Qixi was puzzled, and when he came to the door of the house, he saw a steward running over in a disheveled expression, "Second young master, it's not good, something happened, the palace sent guards to lock you up!"

Xia Qixi was speechless for a moment.

He didn't know if the manager in front of him was crazy, or the emperor was crazy, or his ears heard it wrong!
He could not establish a logical chain of judgments.

After hesitating for a moment, Xia Qixi asked, "My brother... the regent rebelled?"

The steward looked at him like a lunatic, and shook his head decisively: "I didn't hear that. There was no chaos outside, but a group of guards came out of the palace and knocked on the door, trying to lock you back. They are polite to the rest of the mansion." , I just said that in the name of the emperor, I will lock you back to question your crime."

"Ask the crime? Ask me what crime?" Xia Qixi was even more confused.

The steward just shook his head: "I don't know, they didn't say anything."

Xia Qixi thought for a while and told him: "Just tell them, I'm not here, if I commit a crime, the Xia Mansion will not protect me, and if they find me at dawn, they will send me to the palace."

Seeing that the steward was still standing there in a daze, Xia Qixi said angrily: "Why are you standing there stupidly? Go and reply quickly. Just say that you didn't find me, and you don't know which brothel I spent the night in."

"Oh, good, good." The steward stumbled back and returned to his command.

Xia Qixi stretched his consciousness, and after confirming that there was no one behind the fence, he jumped up and jumped out of the fence.

After identifying the direction, he ran straight to the Prince Regent's Mansion.

He vaguely felt that there was probably no misunderstanding, but a conspiracy unfolding.

If you don't want to be framed and framed in a daze, you shouldn't throw yourself into the trap at this time.

Although that big brother is quite annoying...

But at critical times, only relatives can trust it.

Xia Qixi had just run to the back door of the Prince Regent's Mansion, when suddenly a black shadow came out.

Xia Qixi was taken aback, his spiritual sense had been detecting with all his strength, but he didn't know there was anyone there.

He immediately stopped and looked again, it turned out to be his elder brother Xia Qilie.

"elder brother……"

"I know all about it," Xia Qilie interrupted him with a calm tone, "Don't come to my house, you have too many eyes and ears."

Xia Qixi couldn't help but smile bitterly: "What do you know? I don't know anything yet, so you know?"

"You don't know because you haven't cared about it. I know because I've been paying attention," Xia Qilie said. "In the past month, you often went to the palace to have trysts with Princess Lu Jing and play tricks on her. Just in two days Two hours ago, you had another tryst with the eldest princess, but there was an argument for some reason, when the maid of the eldest princess rushed over, she found that the eldest princess had passed away, and you were missing."

Xia Qixi wanted to open his mouth to refute at first, but he soon settled down and listened.

After listening, he just shook his head and didn't speak.

"I know it's not you," Xia Qilie's tone remained flat, "and according to the maid's report, every time you had a tryst with the eldest princess, you stayed with a few famous prostitutes. But if you go to those prostitutes now Courtesans, you'll find them all dead or bought."

"Who's planning this?"

"I want to know too," Xia Qilie nodded, "Do you know who is going to deal with you?"

Xia Qixi squeezed his fist: "I can guess a few names."

He raised his head, "Brother, you know all this, why didn't you remind me earlier? Why didn't you protect those women? Why did you wait until the tragedy happened!"

"It can be prevented for a while, but it can't be prevented forever. Either they die or someone else dies. Your opponent will always find a chance to frame you. And don't think I'm a god. I just know that someone is going to deal with you, but I don't know they What method will be used, I only learned of these details through investigation and speculation after the death of Princess Lu Jing."

Xia Qixi's hands and feet were cold.

He looked at Xia Qilie and suddenly felt that this big brother was so strange.

He didn't know whether to believe Xia Qilie's words.

I don't know if Xia Qilie's heart is dirty.

Of course, maybe Xia Qilie would think that those who achieve big things don't care about small things?
But Xia Qixi couldn't accept it.

He turned away.

"What are you going to do?"

"Kill." The cold words were almost squeezed out between the teeth.

"Kill the emperor? Or kill your opponents? Your opponents have magical powers. Are you sure you can deal with them?"

Xia Qixi turned around sharply, "So what? Could it be that I just watched them commit crimes, and they kept involving innocent people in order to deal with me!"

Xia Qilie stared at him: "The incident that caused you to be expelled from the head of Qu...was you also framed?"

Xia Qixi said coldly: "Of course it is. No matter how cold-blooded I am, I will never kill my fellow nephew. However, you probably won't believe it!"

It was this incident that led to Xia Qixi's expulsion.

A girl in the Qi training period of the "Hai" generation ran to the law enforcement office of the Zongmen and cried, saying that Xia Dongxi had broken into her residence.It happened that two other members of the "Hai" family passed by, heard her cry for help, and went to stop Xia Dongxi. Xia Dongxi killed one person, wounded another, and then fled in a panic.

After investigation by the law enforcement team of the Zongmen, Xia Dongxi had indeed expressed his affection for the girl of the Hai family many times in public, but the girl had never agreed.

Xia Qilie asked: "The person who sued you..."

"It's their gang!" Xia Qixi gritted his teeth, "She treats me lukewarm on the surface, but in fact, she has already gotten along with me several times in private. On that day, it was she who offered to play tricks and speak loudly there. Call for help. When the other two broke in suddenly, I was about to argue, but they had already struck. I had no choice but to fight back, but I clearly controlled the strength, and somehow killed one person. The one who was injured was also a group of them. I'm speechless!"

Xia Qilie nodded: "I believe you."

Xia Qixi sneered: "If you believed in me earlier, this would not be the case. I don't want to tell you more. Since this incident happened because of me, I went to fight with them. I can't let them pour dirty water on me."

"Then what? Was he beaten to death by them? Will he be wronged and humiliated after death?"

Xia Qixi calmed down a little bit, he really couldn't beat the supernatural powers... He looked up at his elder brother: "Then what do you think?"

"Leave here, leave the capital, and I will take care of the rest."

"Aren't I absconded in fear of crime? Besides, I can't go back to the Huaming Sect. Where do you want me to go?"

"Man, man, where in the world can't you go?" Xia Qilie said, "If you really have nowhere to go, go and seek refuge with your brother Xiong. He runs a market by himself, called 'Yuan Sui Fang', and the location is in Yueyin. Next to the old place of the clan. He is living a happy life, and he has recruited several peak supernatural powers under his command, and he is already well-known in the practice world. If you go to him, at least there will be no shortage of cultivation resources. "

"As for your charges, I will clear you up. But now you must go!"

Xia Qixi bit his lip, "I'll go say goodbye to Panpan..."

"Don't be in a hurry, there will be a chance to meet in the future, so let's leave now!"

Xia Qixi was reluctant, but he had no choice but to grit his teeth and run out of the city.

After Xia Qixi left, Xia Qixiong appeared from the darkness, "I have made arrangements. If those people dare to catch up, none of them will survive."

After a pause, he looked at Xia Qilie with a half-smile, "Take your own brother as bait, Ariel, you really have grown up."

"It doesn't matter that he won't be in any danger," Xia Qilie said calmly, "Brother Xiong, you dared to attack the Huaming faction. It seems that you also have many unknown cards."

Xia Qixiong smiled, but did not speak.

The harvest in the Sui Garden is his biggest secret. Maybe one day he will tell his father, but he will never tell these brothers and sisters.

Thinking of his father, he thought of that Master Liu, and his eyes flashed.

He always believed that his father would be fine.

Otherwise, he would have killed that real Liu long ago.

The reason why I still let it go now is because I don't want to take over the kitchen as my father's enemy. When my father comes back, he will take care of it himself.

As for the father not coming back?

Xia Qixiong was never worried about this possibility.

In his mind, his father is omnipotent.

"Axi went to your place, and I still need your help."

Xia Qixiong smiled and said, "Naturally. After talking about this matter, what are you going to do with that Emperor Chu? Let him abdicate? Or abolish him? Or let him die and change the emperor?"

"Let's see how he behaves, maybe I'll keep him." Xia Qilie's eyes were deep.

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The capital of Chu State shook.

The second young master of the Xia Mansion, the well-known playboy Xia Qixi, entered the palace at night, and met Princess Lu Jing by chance.

The poor princess Lu Jing had already made a marriage contract, and she was going to get married in the next spring, but she suffered such a sudden disaster, and her soul was lost.

It is said that the son-in-law was sobbing in front of the princess's body and vowed not to marry for life.

The Emperor Chu was furious and demanded that Xia's mansion hand over the murderer, but Xia's mansion said that Xia Qixi had fled and disappeared.

At the court meeting, Emperor Chu asked the regent to pursue Xia Qixi back, but the regent said that there were many doubts in the case and asked the emperor to investigate again.

In a rage, Emperor Chu deprived the title of the regent and ordered the regent to reflect behind closed doors.

He also ordered Yin Mizhou to be responsible, and Xia Qixi was arrested and brought to justice within a time limit.

In the following period of time, officials of the Regent's faction were purged one after another.

When things got out of control, Yin Mizhou led troops to surround Xia Mansion, and searched Xia Mansion on the grounds of "hiding fugitives".

Many people thought that the Xia Mansion was about to come to an end, and the Prince Regent was about to lose his glory.

But just three days later, things took a dramatic turn.

Emperor Chu issued an imperial edict, thinking that he had listened to the slander and blamed Xia Qixi for failing to investigate clearly. In fact, there was something else hidden about the murder of the eldest princess Lu Jing.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial envoy impeached Yin Mizhou, knowingly breaking the law, accepting bribes, selling officials and nobles, and forming cliques for personal gain.

Emperor Chu ordered a thorough investigation.

What followed immediately was a series of major events that stunned the people of Chu: Mi Zhou pleaded guilty, was dismissed and exiled; Mi Zhou's officials were purged; There will be no heirs; most of the Chu clan died in the previous civil war, and they died of illness one after another during this period, and there is no close clan to inherit the great line; the Emperor Chu announced his abdication on the sickbed, The emperor was his sister, Princess Zhaochang, and Xia Qilie resumed the title of regent.

The state of Chu has changed.

After Zhaochang ascended the throne, Xia Qilie's long-planned series of reform measures began to be implemented across the country, involving land, taxation, commerce, military system and other aspects.

Most of the reform measures have been tested and improved in some places.

This time, these measures were successfully implemented across the country. The process was not without resistance, but they were easily overcome.

Xia Qilie optimistically estimates that in the next few years, Chu's population, food reserves, fiscal and tax revenue, and military strength will all experience explosive growth.

(End of this chapter)