The Witch's Taste

Therefore, the farther your blood relationship with the current emperor is, the lower your gene version (impure blood), the weaker your status and power in the royal family, and the less restraint you are subject to.

As for the blood relationship between the mother and the current emperor, it must be traced back to the No. 17 emperor, as far away as the relationship between Liu Bei and Han Lingdi.

Such a remote branch of the lineage was originally not qualified to marry any prince. In addition, her mother kept her father's affairs secret, so that for a long time, Xia Qingyu thought that "father is a prince" was only a matter of mother's marriage. It's just fabricated bragging capital.

It wasn't until her mother left without saying goodbye one day, and the emperor's secret agent went to the house in person, that she realized that although her mother was usually dissolute, she had never lied to her about this matter.

She is the daughter of Xia Qiwen, the No.14 son of the current emperor.

An illegitimate daughter, to be exact.

His father was the most noble prince in the royal family (second only to the emperor), while his mother was the lowest in the distant lineage of the royal family, which made Xia's royal family quite critical of Xia Qingyu's existence.

For the royal family, genes are the most precious resource.The Zongzheng government arranged internal intermarriages, which were also matched according to the distance of the genetic version.

Xia Qingyu, a product of violations, should be executed according to the law and her genes should be recovered.

The fourteenth prince, Xia Qiwen, entered the palace overnight, pleaded guilty to the emperor Xia Chonghuai, claiming that he had "never had an affair with anyone" and "had no knowledge of the gene leakage", and implored his father to "handle it impartially".

The emperor didn't comment on this, but called Xia Qingyu into the palace at night, and let the father and daughter question each other.

The questioning process is absolutely confidential, and only the emperor knows what the father and daughter said, and the final ruling shocked the entire royal family:

The fourteenth prince Xia Qiwen was "mean and ungrateful", imprisoned in the back room of the cold palace for life, and was eliminated from the throne contest ahead of schedule.

The illegitimate daughter Xia Qingyu was formally included in the royal family lineage, and was granted the title of princess. Because "both parents are gone", he ordered Dazong Zhengxia Jinyan to take care of her, which is equivalent to the emperor's own admission that "this is my granddaughter".

After a short period of confusion and confusion, the Xia clan finally reached a new consensus, that is, Xia Qingyu, a girl who must be so awesome that she can defeat her father in just one night of criticism and questioning, and let the emperor judge her. "Her value is above that of the prince", and even made the shocking decision of "leave the father and keep the daughter".

However, only Xia Qingyu knew that when he was still young at that time, there were actually not many outstanding things that were worthy of others' admiration.

Because she was ruthlessly abandoned by her biological mother first, and then faced her biological father who wanted to kill her, she didn't say much in front of the emperor that night, but stared indifferently at the strange man named "father" in front of her. man.

The whole person exudes a strong sense of despair, dead silence and hatred.

It's a pity, what I didn't know at the time was that the person I should hate the most was not the father on the other side who was only thinking about self-protection.

It's the grandfather who has been watching the scene of father and daughter killing each other all the time, and has used cruel calculations, intrigues and darkness to arrange her life properly.

... His Majesty the Emperor who is fanatically worshiped, admired, feared, and cursed by the entire human empire.

"Qing Yu, we're here." A gentle voice sounded from the side.

Xia Qingyu opened his eyes, got up from the seat silently, and looked at the man next to him.

Da Zongzheng of the imperial family, Xia Jinyan.

The current identity is her uncle.

"Did you sleep well?" Xia Jinyan asked with a smile.

"Very bad." Xia Qingyu replied.

"Well, you can't say that to the outside world later." Xia Jinyan reminded her, "If you don't sleep well, you either have poor physical fitness, or you are not good at regulating emotions and rhythms. No matter what the reason is, you will Tell other royal families to look down on you."

"Do they dare?" Xia Qingyu said contemptuously, "Show contempt in front of Dazong?"

"Of course they don't dare." Xia Jinyan said hehe, "but they will laugh at you in their hearts."

"Using violence to force others to submit is a very simple thing; but to conquer others psychologically is a goal that really requires a lot of hard work and may not be achieved for a long time. The so-called "thief in the mountain is easy, thief in the heart is broken" Difficult’, that’s the reason.”

"But you should know that I don't care what they think."

"Of course I do, so I'm trying to convince you to change your mind."

"It doesn't make sense." Xia Qingyu said with a sneer, "If you want to convince me, how about sorting out the logic first?"

"Don't just focus on the interests in front of you." Xia Jinyan said leisurely, "Their perception of you is really meaningless at this moment, but who knows if it will come in handy in the future?"

"There are too many things that may come in handy in the future. If you have to keep everything in mind, you are like a scavenger looking for garbage. Sooner or later, you will be crushed by the increasing weight. Instead of placing large bets on uncertain things , how about spending energy on identifying the things that really affect the future?"

"So, what are the things that will really affect your future?"

Xia Qingyu didn't answer, but silently took out her phone.

Received an interstellar mail from Yuuki Izumo.

"I have to go back to Gaotianyuan." Xia Qingyu said suddenly.

"Okay." Xia Jinyan didn't ask much, but after seeing her mobile phone screen, he guessed what happened in an instant, "You go first, and I will explain to the royal family meeting."

However, after Xia Qingyu left, Xia Jinyan did not rush to the meeting, but also took out his mobile phone.

"..."

"...It's me, Your Majesty."

"...Until now, His Highness has not shown anything suspicious."

"...Yes, I have already arranged for an investigation."

"...But the suspicion cannot be completely ruled out, because Your Highness..."

"... is so good at disguising that it is difficult to see through her inner thoughts."

"...Understood, nothing will be done next."

"... Regarding the matter of Gao Tianyuan, we will unconditionally cooperate with any arrangement of His Highness."

"...everything is subject to your will."

192. Chapter 191 Superhero, Transformation

Another uneventful day passed.

Chen Ziang failed to contact the witch, as the other party said before, "She can't trust anyone at all now."

Even if he took the risk of contacting himself, it was probably out of a certain attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and he didn't have too much expectation.

The only good news today is that some unemployed miners seem to be unable to bear it anymore and have already started to leave Extreme North City.

Although the number of these people is less than one-tenth of the total, it is a good start after all.

When Chen Ziang returned home, he saw that Xia Zili had prepared a table of meals in advance and was feeding Xiaozhu.

"Welcome back." Seeing Chen Ziang changing shoes in the hall, Xia Zili stood up and brought him new slippers, "I'll wash the slippers you were wearing for you."

"Oh, thank you." Chen Zi'ang was a little strange, but thinking that the other party was staying here temporarily and didn't need her to pay the rent, he would feel indebted and spontaneously do some housework, which was also a reasonable way to repay the favor.

"I also took the initiative to change and wash the sheets and clothes at home." Xia Zili continued, "I replaced them with new ones."

"It's okay." Chen Ziang waved his hand, "I was supposed to change it regularly."

"After the cleaning, I was a little bored, so I made dinner by the way." Xia Zili said shyly, "I ran out of the ingredients in the refrigerator, so I'll go buy some later."

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome." Chen Ziang said quickly, "It will be the same if you buy it tomorrow."

"But there is a discount at the supermarket tonight." Xia Zili took out her phone.

Chen Ziang took a closer look, and it was indeed a limited discount for all products tonight. It seems that due to the large number of unemployed miners gathering in the city center, the supermarket also felt the pressure of security, and wanted to cash out the goods in the warehouse into funds as soon as possible.

"You eat first, I'll be back soon." Xia Zili quickly put on all her armor and hid her face tightly, so fast that even Chen Ziang didn't have time to stop her, so she could only say:

"Be careful on the road."

Even though this girl has mysterious powers, five or ten gangsters can't get close to her, and she doesn't think she will encounter any danger, but he is still vaguely uneasy.

"Yeah." Xia Zili pushed the door and went out.

Not long after she left, Chen Ziang regretted it, because the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

call her.

"Well, I'm going to the supermarket soon." Xia Zili deliberately lowered her voice, and came from the other end of the phone, "I'll be back after shopping."

"Okay, be careful." Chen Ziang repeatedly urged, and hung up the phone.

Xia Zili did not lie.

At this time, she was already standing at the door of the supermarket, and she was indeed "coming to the supermarket", and at the same time, she really planned to "come back after shopping".

Before buying something, however, there is one important thing to take care of.

"Mother." Xia Zili asked anxiously, "Do you really want to do this?"

"It's too late to regret it now." The mother beside him said slowly.

"No." Xia Zili shook her head, "I won't let the turmoil spread to the Qunma District, after all Chen Ziang... he and his sister live here, I can't put them in danger."

"But besides using force, is there really... really no other way?"

"No more." The mother replied softly, "Zili, my silly child, you are obviously so smart, why can't you see through this matter?"

"The people above...they don't care about those unemployed miners. What they really care about is the mainstream public opinion in Extreme North City."

"Most of the citizens in the extreme north are ordinary people with no political literacy. Before endangering their own lives, they generally have subconscious sympathy and compassion for the unemployed miners, and they are opposed to the plan of violent suppression. It is this anti-violence trend of public opinion that makes it impossible for the authorities to use force to disperse the unemployed miners."

"However, once these unemployed miners start to riot, causing huge security threats and property losses to the citizens of the extreme north, the mainstream public opinion will undergo an earth-shaking reversal in a short period of time."

"Thus, those people above will definitely try their best to restrain the security officers at first. Even if the unemployed miners really rob, smash or even kill people, and in turn endanger the safety of the security officers, they will not treat them in the short term. Any prevention and punishment—after all, they need to commit a lot of evil deeds before they can use these bloody facts to change public opinion and turn the public opinion situation in their favor.”

"In this way, the initial turmoil is inevitable. Zili, you don't want the turmoil to spread to the Qunma District and endanger Chen Zi'ang's residence, right?"

Xia Zili was speechless, but immersed in unspeakable sadness.

Why... why can't everyone understand each other and must be hostile to each other?

But she also knew that the Heart of Mary could not solve the problem, so she just immersed herself in the emotion for a while, then whispered:

"Mom, I'm ready."

"Then give your body to me." The mother's voice became more gentle, "It's just right, let me teach you too..."

"How to fight like a hero."

Xia Zili stood in the shadows that the street lights couldn't reach, her head gradually lowered.

Soon, her skin began to squirm violently, as if something crawled out of the cuffs and collar, quickly covering her whole body.

What finally came out of the darkness was a black beast covered in hard leather.

"Zi Li." She whispered to herself, "If you want to become a hero and stop crime and evil, the first thing you need is to get rid of your fragile body."

"How can you be a superhero if you're going to get hit by a bullet, right?"

"This power is called [Feng Rang Ritual], which can activate your flesh and blood into a form with strong vitality. Now I will teach you it. From now on, I will ask you to activate the [Feng Rang Ritual] in advance every time you prepare for battle. ], you must not expose your fragile body to the enemy."

"After strengthening your body, all you need is to spread your eyes and ears."

She stretched out her slimy upper limbs, and the flesh at the end suddenly split open, releasing a large amount of corruption clouds from it.

Each of these tiny droplets is a strange insect with a large number of compound eyes.This cloud of festering insects quickly spread out along the streets and highways under the cover of night.

"[Festering Cloud and Mist], although the name is a bit ugly, but it is surprisingly easy to use." She let out a brisk, joyful laugh, "They will become your eyes and ears, and they will detect hundreds of thousands of miles away for you. Any movement of the camera can also help you quickly capture the target you are looking for in this complex urban environment."

"Ah, found it."

As her mother adjusted her powers, Xia Zili's consciousness quickly connected with an insect.

Following the insect's ultra-wide field of vision, it saw that among the miners sitting quietly at the entrance of the Dijing Building, a rumor had already begun to spread:

"Hey, do you know why Lao Liu and the others left early?"

"Why? I heard it seems that the family has run out of food and can't hold on..."

"Fart! It's because Dijing Group secretly paid them resettlement fees!"

"What?! But...why don't we? We also have families and children to raise!"

"I don't know, but..."

"...I heard that all the people who got the money were from the Lu tribe."

193. Chapter 192 The Mother Called Angel

As the rumors spread, the depressed emotions within the miners quickly ignited.

Because they really found out that all the miners from the Lu ethnic group who had agreed to come together had really disappeared at this time.

As the saying goes, "Don't worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality." If everyone doesn't get the money, they can still maintain unity for the time being and jointly fight against Dijing Group.