Chapter 174: Corpses Hidden in the Ice Cellar

Xie Shouzheng also understood the meaning of those words and snorted coldly: "You use your power to oppress others, saying the Xuanjing Division is a rabble and can't be brought into the light—is that okay? Knowing that we have a Princess presiding over the Xuanjing Division, you talk about magnanimity? I'll magnanimously... magnanimously kick your grandmother's leg!"

Libationer Feng was so angry that his beard trembled: "You, you... you are vulgar! A child who cannot be taught!"

Lin Qingyue was still thinking about the case and had no time to waste words with them, only telling Hong Yao to remember which families those people belonged to, so they could settle the score later.

"Men, open the ice cellar!"

At the order, the guards directly dismantled it with force.

The students behind Libationer Feng were indignant:

"Libationer, are you just going to let them bully us like this?"

"Exactly, she even had someone hit us! The face of scholars is about to be beaten away by her!"

Libationer Feng sighed: "You all don't know, Princess Chaolan is using her power to oppress us. Not to mention she wants to scrap one of my ice cellars, even if she really tore down Tianxiang Lou, I would be helpless!"

"Don't worry, my grandfather is a Censor. When I go back, I will report to my grandfather and submit a memorial to impeach her!"

"My uncle is Duke Zhao. She hit me today, which is equivalent to hitting the face of the Duke's Mansion!"

Libationer Feng was preparing to say a few more words to incite them, as he was best at using his glib tongue.

But just at this moment, an exclamation came from Xie Shouzheng inside the ice cellar: "Corpses! Deputy Envoy Lin, we really found corpses!"

Lin Qingyue was investigating outside the ice cellar, and after hearing Xie Shouzheng's words, she leaped down into the ice cellar.

To maintain the temperature, the ice cellar was a full seven or eight meters deep from the ground.

After reaching the underground, there was another secret door. Behind the secret door was the ice storage room.

When the weather was freezing in winter, ice blocks were collected and transported to the ice room. In well-preserved conditions, the ice blocks could be kept for a year.

The temperature in the ice storage room was very low, but fortunately, people like Lin Qingyue who possessed supernatural abilities were not so sensitive to temperature.

At first glance, the entire ice room was neatly stacked with piles of ice bricks half a person high, numbering over a thousand in total.

An ice room of this scale could only be afforded by a family as wealthy and powerful as the Feng family.

In the innermost part of the ice room, there were more than a dozen corpses, men and women, old and young.

Because they had been kept in a low-temperature environment, the corpses did not show signs of severe decay.

Usually, the workers at Tianxiang Lou took ice starting from the outermost layer.

And those corpses were hidden in the innermost part of the ice room, covered by layers of ice blocks, so they had never been discovered.

The ghost of Wang Shu, kept in the Nether Umbrella, sensed his own corpse and anxiously wanted to come out, but was patted by Xie Shouzheng:

"You are already dead and cannot return to your physical body. Stay quiet, we will help you collect your corpse!"

He was just about to order people to carry the corpses out when Lin Qingyue suddenly sensed something and hurriedly shouted: "Don't get close!"

Everyone was startled, and when they looked closely again, they saw that the stomachs of those dozen corpses were swelling little by little.

In the blink of an eye, they were as big as the stomachs of pregnant women about to give birth.

At this moment, the corpses' stomachs were still moving, as if there was really a fetus inside wanting to break out.

Following this came a "rustling" sound, like silkworms gnawing on leaves.

"This is..." Lin Qingyue suddenly thought of something and hurriedly shouted, "Run, run quickly!"

The guards were a bit confused about the situation, but they still obediently turned and ran.

Xie Shouzheng and Hong Yao were demons and also instinctively sensed danger, turning and running at the first opportunity.

When Hong Yao ran to the exit of the ice cellar, she found that Lin Qingyue had not followed, so she hurriedly turned back to look, only to find that she was still standing in place.

"Deputy Envoy Lin!"

At this very moment, "Bang! Bang! Bang!"—a series of explosions were deafening, and the powerful impact instantly sent Hong Yao crashing into the stone wall of the passageway.

The surroundings began to shake violently, and the sound of collapse kept coming from the ice storage room.

Hong Yao still wanted to save Lin Qingyue, but was wrapped around the waist by Xie Shouzheng's blood thorns and dragged to the ground with a "whoosh."

The next moment, "Boom!"

The ground in the backyard of Tianxiang Lou collapsed and sank, turning into a large pit of ruins.

"Deputy Envoy Lin!" Hong Yao lay on the ruins and shouted, extremely anxious.

Xie Shouzheng scratched his head and said in confusion: "Strange, why didn't Deputy Envoy Lin run out with us just now? Don't just stand there, dig quickly! Deputy Envoy Lin has been buried alive inside!"

So the people of the Xuanjing Division, whether injured or not, began to dig, shouting as they dug: "Deputy Envoy Lin, Deputy Envoy Lin!"

The collapse just now also gave Feng Ying and the others a big fright.

When Feng Ying came to his senses, he found that the entire backyard had collapsed, and those expensive ice blocks stored inside had all been destroyed.

He stomped his feet in heartache: "You, you destroyed my ice cellar, the ice cellar! Didn't you say just now that you would guarantee the ice cellar would be intact? Why did it collapse now?"

"Without that ice, iced wine and iced desserts will all be unavailable! Do you know how much loss this will bring us?"

As soon as the words fell, with a "slap," a blood thorn lashed fiercely at Feng Ying, instantly leaving a bloodstain.

Feng Ying screamed, trembling all over from the pain, and cursed: "Xie Shouzheng, you have such guts! A mere Fifth-Rank minor official, actually daring to beat a superior! I, I will unite all the students and all the noble families to impeach you until you are dismissed from office!"

Xie Shouzheng said: "What time is it, and you are still worried about those ice blocks? If Deputy Envoy Lin has any accident, you can just wait to be buried with her!"

Only then did Feng Ying discover that Lin Qingyue was missing, and seeing that those brutes from the Xuanjing Division were all busy digging.

Feng Ying's face changed slightly: "This has nothing to do with me! It was you who insisted on breaking into the ice cellar and didn't know what tricks you played inside that caused the ice cellar to collapse. Even if Princess Chaolan has an accident, it's her own carelessness. A noble lady from a noble family, not being a good Princess Jin, mixing with a group of brutes..."

"Slap!" Another whip lashed across Feng Ying's face.

Xie Shouzheng said: "Men, tie up this old scoundrel's hands and feet, and plug his mouth! Otherwise, if I keep listening to his nagging, I'm afraid I won't be able to stop myself from whipping him to death!"

"Audacious Xie Shouzheng, I am the Libationer of the Directorate of Education and have been your teacher. A teacher for a day is a father for life; how can you be so rude, woo woo..."

It was not until Feng Ying's hands and feet were tied and his mouth sealed that it finally became quiet. ===== CHAPTER 175 =====