Chapter 27 - Impeach
Early the next morning the fog was still hovering around and it was drizzling. Wu Qi, with a pale face, was sitting in front of the General’s Office, popping his head out sneakily and staring in the direction of the Mayor’s Mansion. In his hand was the same porridge bowl and pastries, an odd smile was on his face.
Drinking the porridge one mouthful at a time and munching on the pastry slowly, those guards and servants passing by the Mayor’s Mansion were used seeing him like this, therefore, no one payed him any attention. At most, some servants from the Yi Family would scold him, treating him like a villager who didn’t know any manners, and who couldn’t even sit down properly when having his breakfast. Also, it seemed he had taught Lu Chengfeng the same bad manners.
The breeze brought carried with it the aroma of pine wood. Lu Chengfeng, holding a porridge bowl in one hand and had a pastry in his mouth, slowly strolled up to stand beside Wu Qi, then he sat on the door sill.
Popping his head and took a few glimpses at the Mayor Mansion, Lu Chengfeng whispered to Wu Qi, “What’s the show today?”
Wu Qi took a sip of porridge and, with some porridge in his mouth, murmured, “How would I know? I am just used to sitting here.”
Right after his words, they immediately saw few coffer room guards running madly with pale faces. These men looked like they had been haunted by ghosts, not even watching where they were running. As a result, when they came to a set of stairs, these men slipped at the same time, slamming onto the ground.
These guards cried out in pain, rolling and crawling on the steps for a short distance, then they stood up again and started running madly toward the Mayor’s Mansion. The leading guard let out a loud scream, his voice trembling like a string that had been pulled tight, making an ear-splitting noise.
“Young master! Young master! We were robbed! We were robbed! The coffer room was robbed! All the most valuable items among the offerings have been stolen! Soul stones, herbs, natural materials, and those treasures you gathered for a few princes and marquis! They have all been stolen!”
Hearing the unfortunate news, those guards who were standing in front of Mayor Mansion couldn’t standing still anymore, they sat down on the floor instantly while the weapon on their waist hit on the ground, making some subtle noise. The loud screams and howling, as if someone had just died, resounded within the Mayo’s Mansion. The few hundred guards of the Mayor’s Mansion had spread this bad news everywhere.
Each year, Little Meng City had to send a large quantity of gold, silver, and all sorts of treasures to the Lu Kingdom as a tribute. This was the biggest reason for Little Meng City existence. Dozens of marquises and princes in the Lu Kingdom had their own interests inLittle Meng City. Usually, they would purchase all sort of treasures through the Mayor of Little Meng City.
The offerings and treasures that had been gathered all these years had been stolen. This hit the most vulnerable spot of Yi Yan.
If Little Meng City couldn’t send gold, silver, and treasures to the Lu Kingdom, the government wouldn’t mind appointing a new Mayor. Losing all the treasures those marquises and princes had purchased for a huge sum of money, those high ranking men wouldn’t mind crushing Yi Yan and his siblings into tiny bits.
Hopeless and miserable howling burst out from the backyard of the Mayor’s Mansion. That was the howling of Yi Yan, Yi Xing, Yi De, and Yi Cu, “Oh Heaven, oh Earth, what sin have we done? Which deity or ghost have we offended? Why do you want to punish us in such a way?”
Although their personal wealth was stolen, which was a painful experience for them, as long as they were still the government officials they could get all the money back by squeezing people for a few years. But when those offerings and treasures, which had been gathered all these years, were stolen, putting aside if these four brothers can still maintain their jobs, first they need to worry about keeping their lives!
A series of hasty sounding steps came from the direction of the Mayor’s Mansion. Yi Yan, who was wearing nothing more than underpants and thus exposing his pale white fat, sprinted out from his backyard. Following behind of him were his three siblings, with their clothes in a messy state. They brought with them a group of guards and rushed in the direction of the coffer room.
With an extremely pale complexion on his face, Yi Yan kept spitting blood while he was running madly. The blood had smeared all over his pale chest, making him look really terrifying. Blood can be seen dripping down Yi Xing and the other two sibling’s lips too. They were breathing rapidly with their mouths open like a drowning dog.
“Hurry, hurry! Go and check what had been stolen!” While running in such a disorderly manner, Yi Yan kept yelling at his men.
Wu Qi shook his head, licking up the rest of the leftover porridge in the bowl. He knew what he had done yesterday. Wu Qi had spent fifteen pieces of lower tier water stone to replenish his energy. He kept pumping out his energy at the maximum level in order to increase his speed and strength. After spending two and a half hours, he had finally stolen everything that he could move in the coffer room.
There were too many things in the coffer room, and Wu Qi could only choose to steal the most valuable items. Besides that, he also stole all the gold and the majority of the silver. There were some items which he had no way to steal, and, thus, he had no choice but to destroy them. For example, those precious leather skins from all different kinds of rare beasts, they were now filled with numerous holes poked by Wu Qi with the dagger, making something worth a few hundred thousand gold coins became a piece of crap.
Because of the busy work last night, it made Wu Qi look pale today and look weak all over, but it just matches his ‘seriously injured’ condition.
Currently, there were two water stones underneath his armpits, and Wu Qi was constantly absorbing the energy within to replenish his lost energy. The cool and refreshing water vapor kept being absorbed by his arms, turning into waves of innate water energy and rolling through his body constantly.
However, by overusing and exhausting his energy, then replenished the losses with water stones, Wu Qi’s cultivation level had increased by another 30%! Once again he had come so very close to the peak of the Houtian level. But, Wu Qi used this innate water energy to strengthen his veins again, and did not attempt to break through to the Xiantian Saint level.
Some noise of hustle and bustle came from afar. It was a group of guards carrying Yi Yan and his three siblings, who had all fainted. Obviously, the aftermath of coffer room had given Yi Yan and his siblings excessive shock, making them all spit out blood like a water fountain, and faint again.
Wu Qi gazed at those guards who were carrying Yi Yan and his siblings back messily, then casually passed his bowl to Lu Chengfeng.
Lu Chengfeng, not paying attention to his actions, grabbed Wu Qi’s bowl, then he heard Wu Qi said, “Now that they lost their offerings, what will be their punishment from the Lu Kingdom?”
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