Chapter 1492
The Final Battle, Something Happens
Chapter 1492 The Final Battle, Something Happens
Upon hearing this, Qi Tianshi smiled at Second Master Weng... Hiss, this man is truly handsome!
The next moment, Old Master Weng had no time to admire Old Qi's good looks, and only heard Qi the Angel say, "That's right, it is indeed this angel."
Qi Tianshi then stepped towards Master Weng, and with a flick of his wrist, Master Weng saw a flash of silver light.
Immediately afterwards...
Pfft!
With a loud bang, Second Master Weng was stunned.
When the excruciating pain struck, I looked at the shoulder that was causing the pain... There was a through wound there, bleeding profusely.
"Ah, Second Master, Second Master!" Second Master Weng's concubine cried out, tightly hugging her son, and looked at Second Madam Weng.
Mrs. Weng Er remained silent with a cold face... That bastard Weng Er actually used her family's servants to do the heinous crime of 'forging enemy letters and coercing meritorious officials'.
If it weren't for Qi Tianshi's skill in uncovering the truth, and instead a corrupt official were to investigate, wouldn't her family have had to take the blame for Weng Er?
So don't expect her to plead for Weng Er. The fact that she didn't verbally abuse him already shows how deep her feelings for him are.
As for clarifying to her family that she was not involved in the case?
No need.
If Qi Tianshi wanted to target her family, he wouldn't have come to arrest Weng Er.
"Take them away to the Chen family's residence on the next street." With that order, everyone sped away like a whirlwind.
Before leaving, Qi Tianshi shouted in the courtyard, "Anyone who dares to take advantage of this opportunity to bully the women and children of the Weng family will be executed on the spot!"
The resettlement house is a mixed community, and some residents are worried about a major outbreak of plague. With Weng Er also being captured, they might become reckless and do evil. That's why we have to shout this.
This can also be seen as a sign of respect for Empress Yan.
In the same courtyard, the other residents who had been resettled dared not speak.
Only after Qi Tianshi and the others could no longer hear their footsteps did they dare to open a crack in the door and peek into the annex room of Master Weng's house.
Soon, with a bang, Mrs. Weng and her son propped up the broken door and blocked the doorway. They then brought over a table and heavy objects to prop the door shut.
A low sob echoed through the room.
Madam Weng said, "Don't cry. The city has suffered too many casualties. The government troops won't implicate us. If we listen to the court and help fight the enemy, we will have made a contribution. After the war, we can make up for our mistakes."
"Really?" asked the concubine and the two maids who had children.
Mrs. Weng did not answer them again, but took out the medicine she had been given and used it to treat the house as a plague prevention measure.
Seeing this, the other members of Master Weng's family also stopped crying and silently went about their business...
The resettlement house of the Chen family, who owned a spice shop on the neighboring street, also became a scene of commotion.
Actually, there wasn't much of a commotion. Although the Chen family, who owned the incense shop, were wealthy in Dongming Prefecture, they were insignificant in front of Qi Shitian. The culprits involved in forging enemy letters were quickly apprehended and taken away. The women and children of the Chen family, as well as the men of the Chen family who were not involved in the case, were able to continue living in the house.
After crossing two more streets and entering an alley, they caught both the hunter Liu family and the bird breeder Luo family.
Those who are not infected are all in the west of the city. The things that Qi Tianshi caused quickly spread in the west of the city, and some noble slaves could not hold back and began to scatter.
This was exactly what Qi Tianshi wanted.
However, the aristocratic slaves did not immediately seek out their backers, and Qi Tianshi also retreated after alerting them, waiting for them to expose more evidence of their crimes.
Meanwhile, the lurking Northwest Army and assassins continued to keep an eye on the aristocratic slaves according to the roster... That's right, Qi Tianshi was able to accurately capture people because he had a 'distribution list of aristocratic families and powerful clans in various regions' compiled by the Wei royal family over several generations.
The imperial court has been keeping a close eye on these forces.
When powerful families serve the imperial court, the court turns a blind eye to these forces; otherwise, it arrests and eliminates them!
On the evening of October 11th, after a day of commotion, a messenger shouted throughout the city, announcing: "The pages of books supposedly handed over by the enemy during the day, claiming to represent Qin and Jiang, were forged and spread by cowardly Wei people. Those involved have been apprehended, a total of thirty-six people. Four suspects resisted arrest and were killed on the spot by the Qi envoy! The Qi envoy orders that the suspects will be beheaded and displayed to the public on the daytime of October 13th!"
The forged letter stated that the enemy army had to send Qin and Jiang out of the city by 9:00 AM on the 13th, so the Qi envoy set the execution date for the 13th.
The shouting lasted for half an hour, only stopping when it was completely dark, ensuring that even those Wei people who had plugged their ears could hear it.
Upon hearing this shout, Wei Min was shocked: "It's a forgery! What are these bastards trying to do? Do they really want to defect to the enemy and open the city gates for them?"
"Shut up! You're just an ordinary person who's only attended a private school for a few years. What right do you have to talk about national affairs? All of you shut up, even if you're just discussing it in your own home." The old man of the house was instructing his family: "We are citizens of Wei, and we should just do what citizens of Wei should do... National affairs are all about fighting and strife, and we're not destined to get involved."
Ordinary Wei citizens had no interest in these conflicts other than fear and worry.
But that night, the servants of the noble families, who were the "masters" of Master Weng, were in a panic and used every means at their disposal to contact each other.
Judge Zheng thought they were utterly foolish!
They weren't really stupid; they were just trying to find a way out of this mess and were choosing a sacrifice for the angel Qi, hoping that whoever they offered could save them and their family patriarch from this calamity.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
At night, the enemy troops outside the city continued to bombard the capital city with flints in an attempt to dampen the fighting spirit of the Wei people inside.
But the Wei people inside the city were no longer so afraid... It had been three days, and the city walls had proven their high level of defense; the enemy would not be able to break through in a short time.
What the people in the city fear is the increasing number of new infections and deaths... The east, south, north, and central areas have completely become severely affected areas, with infected people in every street and alley.
Meanwhile, these aristocratic slaves inside the ward have received orders from the aristocratic personnel outside the ward... to cause chaos!
Therefore, on the night of the 11th, apart from the eastern city where the Wei army had a large number of troops, incidents occurred in the northern, southern, and central cities.
Bang bang bang! Loud banging on the door, Ling Baihu knocked on the door of the Prince of Ye and shouted: "Your Highness, get up quickly! Something terrible has happened in the North, South and Central Districts! Wei people have taken to the streets to smash and burn things, trying to break through the checkpoints. Some people are even shouting that they want to die together with the uninfected Wei people!"
The King of Ye was startled awake and rushed to open the door without even putting on his shoes. He asked Ling, the centurion holding a torch, "How many houses have been burned? How big is the chaos? Have any soldiers gone in to quell the unrest? Don't kill them. Someone must have instigated them, otherwise the people of Wei wouldn't have caused such a disturbance!"
Ling Baihu was speechless: "Prince Ye, we have to kill a batch of them, otherwise this chaos will not be stopped... Commander Gu has already led troops into the central city ward to quell the rebellion."
"Commander Gu has led his troops into the infected area?" The King of Ye was heartbroken, and hurriedly said, "Tell Commander Gu, and tell all the commanders and soldiers guarding the infected areas that even if I, Wei Anong, die in the city, my Guan family's property elsewhere can take care of their families, so they don't have to worry about their livelihoods. Take care of yourselves, I will wait for them to come out."
"Messenger, immediately go and tell the soldiers what the King of Ye said!" Commander Ling shouted, and three groups of soldiers immediately left to head to the three districts of North, South and Central.
They galloped at full speed, just to get there as soon as possible so that the soldiers who went into the ward to quell the rebellion could die in peace!
When they arrived at the town's outpost in the infected area, they saw flames shooting into the sky and could even hear shouts of battle and the sounds of fighting.