Chapter 1530

West of Changancheng.

Hongfu Inn.

The room in the Heaven category was terrifyingly quiet, and one could almost hear a pin drop.

"Finished!"

"Everything is finished!"

Pei Cheng stumbled and sat on a chair, clutching the latest Da Qian Daily tightly in his hand, his soul lost.

"Father, what exactly happened?"

Pei Ji's face was still swollen, and he was lying on the bed; seeing Pei Cheng's expression, he felt something was wrong and asked.

But Pei Cheng acted as if he hadn't heard, lowering his head and saying nothing.

Pei Ji couldn't care about that much anymore; he forced himself up, came to Pei Cheng's side, and took the Da Qian Daily.

When he saw the content on the Da Qian Daily, Pei Ji was dumbfounded.

A sky-high chill shot from his tailbone straight to his crown.

"The Pei family... the last moat, the interpretation and annotation of the classics, is also gone?"

The low price of bamboo paper and the birth of the Da Qian Daily could completely allow Wu Zhao to promote a great Confucian, set the standard for the imperial examinations, and spread it!

In that case, the Pei family's interpretation and annotation of the classics would be useless!

Pei Cheng closed his eyes in pain.

He saw more than Pei Ji and thought deeper.

The blow to the Pei family was not just a blow to their financial resources, but a blow to their prestige, a subtle blow!

Why was the Pei family so strong that even the emperor had to show respect?

The fundamental reason was that although the Pei family was not in Changancheng and not many people were officials in the court, the Pei family had used the interpretation and annotation of the classics to gather a large group of officials around them.

And they formed a virtuous cycle; under the great Confucians of the Pei family, there was a steady stream of students entering the court; they were fellow disciples, and because of their relationship, they could huddle together for warmth in the court and in the localities.

It was precisely because of this that the Pei family was in its prime and had a deep foundation.

But now, everything was gone...

"This movable type isn't printing books... it's a manifesto to execute my Pei family and the scholars of the world!"

"My Pei family's century-old foundation... is dying today!"

Pei Cheng slammed the table, his voice full of deep unwillingness.

He looked at Pei Ji and slapped him, "You beast, did you hide something from your father? Did you offend that Living Yama? Otherwise, why would he chase us so relentlessly, vowing not to stop until he destroys my Pei family?"

Pei Ji took a slap, his face burning with pain, but he looked dull, lost, and unable to speak.

"Father, your child really didn't say anything!"

"I don't know why the Living Yama is chasing us so relentlessly, this... this shouldn't be!"

Pei Ji was almost crying.

He just wanted to reason with him, and although he said some harsh words, he had been beaten up by the three generations of the Gao family; shouldn't that have vented his anger?

He was also completely confused!

At this time.

Outside the inn.

A huge noise came.

Pei Cheng frowned; he could vaguely hear that these sounds were directed at him.

"Head of the family, something is wrong; our inn is surrounded by excited Changancheng scholars, and they are shouting for the head of the family to apologize!"

Pei Cheng's face was ugly, and he said with shock and anger, "My whereabouts are mysterious; how did these scholars know I was at the Hongfu Inn?"

The old servant heard this and showed a smile uglier than crying, "It was that Living Yama; he 'happened' to meet the excited Changancheng scholars on the road, and the Living Yama warned them not to come to the Hongfu Inn, and not to do anything reckless, otherwise the yamen runners would come to arrest them, and he couldn't help it!"

"What?"

Pei Cheng felt a fishy sweetness in his throat.

Was this a chance encounter?

Was this a warning?

This was clearly hoping that these excited scholars wouldn't know where he, Pei Cheng, was staying!

"Living Yama, I f..."

The next second!

Pfft!

Pei Cheng spat out a mouthful of blood, and before he could even curse the last dirty word, his eyes went black, and he fell down directly.

"..."

Wang Prefecture.

Wang Zhong was drinking dull wine.

Beside him, the old servant was holding a copy of the Da Qian Daily, talking about the content on it.

"This sentence, 'it has always been this price for so many years', and asking the Changancheng scholars to look for problems in themselves, and whether their monthly salary has increased too much."

"The angry Da Qian scholars won't swallow the Pei family alive, right?"

"The Pei family... is finished!"

Wang Zhong drank the wine in his cup and said with a sigh.

How much time had passed, and that Pei family, which was hailed as the family of sages in Da Qian and whom everyone had to respect, was heading toward destruction just because its young master went to reason with the Living Yama and was beaten up.

The Living Yama... is truly ruthless!

Wang Zhong shook his head to himself.

But at this time, the old servant's face was strange.

"Head of the family, there is also one about you on the front page of the Da Qian Daily today; would you like to hear it?"

"About me? Let's hear it!"

Wang Zhong frowned and took a sip of the spicy wine while holding the cup.

The old servant said directly: "The Da Qian Daily says—a rare strange event in the world! Why does the sow in the mansion of General Wang Zhong, who broke the captives, scream frequently in the middle of the night, why does the male dog run away with its tail between its legs every night, and why is the seventy-year-old grandmother accidentally pregnant? Is this the distortion of human nature or the loss of morality? Let us look forward to it..."

PS: (A new big plot is coming, and I have to hold a wedding on the 19th of this month, so there are too many things to deal with, and the plot is a bit stuck, so I'll tentatively update twice a day, and I ask all the readers to understand.) **CHAPTER 1532**