Chapter 45

This was not the first time Wei Zhuang had shown interest in Su Xuan.

As early as when he heard that the Han Wang had selected Su Xuan as the candidate to investigate the case.

He had already developed a great interest in Su Xuan.

Because if the rumors were true, Su Xuan himself was somewhat incredible.

Summoning wind and rain was something that only existed in myths and legends, but Su Xuan not only did it, but it wasn't a scam; he had effectively resolved the State of Han's drought.

However, unlike Han Fei, although Wei Zhuang wanted to meet Su Xuan, he was not in a hurry to think about through what channels to meet Su Xuan; he believed more that as long as Su Xuan was still in the State of Han, still under this sky, they would meet sooner or later.

Especially now, Su Xuan had used the excuse of ghosts and gods to eradicate Jade Tiger, one of the four fierce generals of Yemu, in one fell swoop, deeply offending Ji Wuye.

Ji Wuye probably already harbored killing intent toward this person.

And coincidentally, he also didn't like Ji Wuye; the few people in the Purple Orchid Pavilion right now all wanted to deal with Ji Wuye.

Perhaps they could pull this Mr. Su Xuan into "Quicksand."

After all, in dealing with Ji Wuye, their goals were consistent.

In the General's Mansion.

Since Jade Tiger was arrested by the Han Wang's men and his mansion was confiscated, and all the goods were taken by the Han Wang to compensate for the hijacked military pay, Ji Wuye's mood had also become extremely bad.

After returning to the mansion, he dismissed all the beauties who served him and sat alone on the chair in the hall, with wine and water in front of him, but he didn't drink. His face was ugly, and there was a raging fire burning in his eyes.

Jade Tiger was not only the premier wealthy merchant of the State of Han but also one of the four fierce generals of Yemu under his command; it could be said that Jade Tiger's money was all his money.

Jade Tiger colluded with officials from both military and political sides to manipulate the market and collect wealth; it seemed like Jade Tiger's greed, but in reality, it was all at his instruction. He wanted to indirectly control the entire State of Han's trade through Jade Tiger.

Once this matter succeeded, the entire State of Han's financial affairs would be decided by him.

By then, even if the Han Wang was still the King of the State of Han, he would have to be restricted by him.

But Ji Wuye never expected that this time he would lose Jade Tiger, this capable subordinate.

Earlier, he had concocted the ghost soldier hijacking case and evolved it into the ghost demanding lives affair. Besides embezzling 100,000 taels of gold in military pay, he had also successfully managed to eradicate dissidents.

He couldn't help but be complacent.

He had even thought about using this matter to completely defeat his old rival Zhang Kaidi.

As a result, he did not expect the subsequent development of the matter to exceed his expectations.

First, the Han Wang rarely did not agree with his recommendation to appoint Zhang Kaidi as the chief judge to investigate the case, but chose the man named Su Xuan to investigate.

He originally thought that the man named Su Xuan was a person who had some skills but only knew how to pretend to be a ghost; as a result, the other party really found out the truth and found the whereabouts of the lost military pay.

Although, for Ji Wuye, Su Xuan's so-called theory of ghosts and gods and other remarks were all nonsense and a scam.

But for the Han Wang, these were not important.

What was important was that after confiscating Jade Tiger's family assets, the gap caused by the lost military pay had been filled, and there was even a lot of surplus.

Ji Wuye never looked for reasons in himself.

It was clearly him who embezzled 100,000 taels of gold in military pay first, which led to Jade Tiger becoming that scapegoat.

At this moment, he hated the culprit who led Jade Tiger to his end in the mansion, "Damn it, I was blind that day and didn't see you clearly. If I had known you would ruin my good deeds, I should have killed you then!"

Before Jade Tiger met with disaster.

Although Su Xuan was working for the Han Wang.

Ji Wuye had always had the idea of wanting to subdue Su Xuan for his own use.

Not to mention the mysterious summoning of wind and rain, just the elixir Su Xuan refined for the Han Wang—Ji Wuye had also managed to get a few pills through the Tide Witch's channel, tasted them, and the effect was truly extraordinary.

But after this matter ended, no matter how mysterious Su Xuan's methods were, Ji Wuye's only thought about him was "kill him to satisfy his hatred"!

Even if Su Xuan was powerful and his methods were mysterious, if he couldn't be used, it was better to kill him directly to avoid him ruining his good deeds again.

"Mo Ya!"

After Ji Wuye's killing intent gradually arose, he immediately called someone.

As his voice came out, black feathers flew down, accompanied by a figure dressed in black feather robes appearing.

"Notify the Tide Witch, find an opportunity to finish that man off!"

Beside the Han Wang, there was no need for such a person.

It was enough for him to be the one favored by the Han Wang, and there was no need for this man named Su Xuan.

With this man continuing to stay by the Han Wang's side, no one knew if he would ruin his good deeds again in the future.

Therefore, for the sake of the big picture, Ji Wuye prepared to take lethal action.

After giving instructions to Mo Ya, Ji Wuye thought of Chancellor Zhang Kaidi and the Han Wang, gnashing his teeth and saying: "These two old guys!"

If the ghost soldier hijacking case was seamless because of his planning at the beginning and no one saw any clues, then as Su Xuan later revealed the truth about the vanished gold.

I fear these two had guessed some of the truth.

Zhang Kaidi took the opportunity to kick someone while they were down because he knew Jade Tiger was related to him; the Han Wang saw the mastermind behind the case and didn't want to cause a bigger disturbance, so he pushed the boat with the current and used Jade Tiger as a scapegoat. After all, Jade Tiger was just a merchant; even if the military pay disappeared, as long as his family assets were confiscated, it would be enough to compensate for the vanished military pay.

In the palace.

After the ghost soldier hijacking case ended, Su Xuan's life returned to the right track.

Refining alchemy and medicine, eating and cultivating.

Although the days were monotonous, his strength was indeed steadily rising.

Until someone rudely pushed open the door and broke into his place.

"Hey, can you really summon ghosts and gods?"

Counting through the palace, who else besides the Han Wang's most favored youngest daughter, Princess Honglian, had the courage to break into his place and be so rude?

Honglian seemed to like pink clothes very much, perhaps because there was a "Red" (Hong) character in her title. Today, she was still wearing a pink dress and came to Su Xuan, looking at Su Xuan with curiosity.

"Princess, you rushed to my place so impatiently just for this?"

"That..." Before the word "of course" could leave her lips, Honglian felt it was inappropriate. One should be prudent; how could she say she came to Su Xuan because she hadn't seen ghosts and gods even at her age and wanted to see? That would make her seem too imprudent.

So she quickly changed her tune: "Can't I come to see you if I have nothing to do?"

Once these words were spoken, Honglian felt something was wrong.

How could she say such things?

Thinking that these words might make people think crookedly, her pretty face couldn't help but turn slightly red.