Upx Chapter 60 (1/2)
Chapter 60: Looting and being looted Original and most updated translations are from volare If read elsewhere, this chapter has been stolen Please stop supporting theft
Just after celebrating the fact that Ning Yu knew nothing of the grain depot, Grand Preceptor Xie remembered the Imperial Jade Seal Immediately, he pounded the account book on his table Xie Laibao shut his mouth as soon as he saw the Grand Preceptor’s reaction
”Bring a few extra o over,” Grand Preceptor Xie ordered Xie Laibao, who hastened to demur
Then he asked tiht?” Almost everyone in the Grand Preceptor’s estate knew that His Majesty was at odds with their Grand Preceptor When Grand Preceptor Xieht of His Majesty
”If anything does happen,” Grand Preceptor Xie said coldly, ”There’s no need for you to risk your lives, either Just come back If they want to steal, then this old rain”
Three generations of Xie Clan rain depot in the western suburbs There was a switch inside the storage area that was connected to a systegered the switch by the entrance, the kerosene would be lit on fire and destroy the entire depot Grand Preceptor Xie’s paternal grandfather had set up the system in the past That was because if anyone discovered their Xie Clan secretly harboring army provisions, then they’d be hard pressed to escape the death sentence The fire was one through three generations of Xie Clandiscovered, this switch had ended up being an ornament instead If Grand Preceptor Xie hadn’t made his remark just then, Xie Laibao wouldn’t have even remembered the switch
”Grand Preceptor?” Xie Laibao could discern the rain, they could just watch the granary burn to ashes Even so, Head Steward Xie felt pained by the thought
”Go on,” Grand Preceptor Xie waved a hand
”Yes,” Xie Laibao could only obey
Grand Preceptor Xie pinched the thick account book between his fingers Since he and Ning Yu were on different paths no could he leave her any satisfaction? While Grand Preceptor Xie’s rain delivery, Supreht fell The four ates of the capital city were filled with people streaes formed a constant stream of traffic One hundred men dressed as peddlers, laborers or coolies mixed in with the crowd in twos and threes to leave the city Even if the guards had been given instructions by Grand Preceptor Xie to inspect for any people frouised Dragon Guards Meanwhile, the eunuch that Eer Xie had sent out with a letter for the Grand Preceptor’s estate was detained outside the palace by an iuard The letter was confiscated and the person captured, then locked away in one of the dungeons beneath the Supreme Splendor Hall
Ning Xiaoyao was conorant of Supre dinner, she and Erya started scraping off royal insignias frorew dark When the sun set, a crescent moon showed its face in the skies Black clouds rolled across the horizon until it began to rain heavily Ning Xiaoyao despaired in the face of such annoying weather, her bad ale and the rest began to worry that she’d hurt her digestive syste down food
”The rain’s too heavy,” Lou Zigui said as he looked out the”Maybe you shouldn’t go”
Ning Xiaoyao was putting on a palet about Zheng A’Niualready?”
Supre Xiaoyao had struck his Achilles’ heel
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After Grand Preceptor Xie finished his dinner, he started pacing back and forth in his study, seely anxious His second steward Xie Laifu rode a fast horse to the h to the study
”How is it?” Grand Preceptor Xie asked
Second Steward Xie was drenched from head to toe by the rain, but bowed and replied, ”May Grand Preceptor set your cares at rest The grain has long been delivered and the head steward is currently taking ranary”
”Have there been any unusual rain depot?” Grand Preceptor Xie asked again
Xie Laifu was quick to shake his head ”None Your servant brought ranary and didn’t see anyone”
Only then did Grand Preceptor Xie sit back down He’d really thought tooXiaoyao
”Grand Preceptor,” a servant in charge of the gates caood Elder L-Li brought a whole bunch of officials, and, andrunners from thehere”
Grand Preceptor Xie had hardly warain ”What’s he come to do?”
The gatekeeper said, ”Elder Li said that the estate had a t…torture chamber He’s here to inspect it”
”………” said Grand Preceptor Xie Which old and great families didn’t have torture cha ?!
Currently, Elder Li was standing in the heavy downpour, his skinny frae inside,” Elder Li said to his pupils and the Ministry of Punish at the half-open gates of the front door ”We live on the official’s salary given to us by the sovereign, so we have an obligation to repay that imperial benevolence”
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Xiaoyao ui placed his own cloak on her shoulders until she was entirely enveloped beneath his form
”Cold?” Lou Zigui reached out a hand to touch Ning Xiaoyao’s own
”Not cold,” Ning Xiaoyao rubbed her nose ”If I didn’t see wrong, this is a ceht?”
Although the barren hills before theravestones, each and every raves no matter how she saw them
”It’s a ce Xiaoyao into his eloorave mounds”
Ning Xiaoyao wanted to prostrate herself before Grand Preceptor Xie for placing his granary a place!