Chapter 3211: Where did you drink it?

Although Ye Chen was full of confidence, Yin Xiaoyang felt somewhat uneasy. He couldn't help but ask Ye Chen, "Sir, how do you intend to deal with that Inspector Song? Her strength is unfathomable. If you need it, I can organize the strongest brothers among the Brave Cavalry Guards to kill her together!"

Ye Chen said, "Since she is a high-level official of the Right Military Governor's Office, she still has some use to me. I cannot simply kill her."

After saying this, Ye Chen added, "What is the organizational structure within your Brave Cavalry Guards?"

Yin Xiaoyang said, "The Brave Cavalry Guards are divided into three battalions, nine banners, and twenty-seven teams. Each battalion has one Thousand-Household Officer and one Deputy Thousand-Household Officer. Each banner has one Banner Chief and one Deputy Banner Chief. Each team has one Team Leader and one Deputy Team Leader."

Yin Xiaoyang continued, "Among the three battalions, the first battalion is responsible for mining, the second for production, and the third for logistics and security. The brothers you saw on the platform when you arrived are from the third battalion. They are mainly responsible for patrols and security. In addition, they are also responsible for transportation and loading. Furthermore, many brothers in the third battalion are working overtime to build watchtowers. This is also a requirement from above; we need to strengthen our defenses."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "Gather all the people in charge of the three battalions and nine banners. I will go meet that Inspector Song first. After I resolve her, I will bring her to see you all."

Yin Xiaoyang asked hurriedly, "Does Sir not need the assistance of me and the brothers?"

"No need." Ye Chen said with a calm face, "Her strength is indeed not bad, but to me, she does not yet pose a threat."

Yin Xiaoyang cupped his hands and said with utmost respect, "There are over ten thousand people here, everything depends on you, Sir!"

Ye Chen nodded slightly and then said, "Drive, go to your office building."

"As you command!"

Yin Xiaoyang agreed and immediately drove back.

When the car arrived downstairs at the office building, Ye Chen used his Qi to isolate the space inside the car and said to Yin Xiaoyang, "Gather them in the conference room, but do not tell them anything about me until I appear."

Yin Xiaoyang immediately said, "I understand, Sir!"

After speaking, he said to Ye Chen, "Sir, let me take you to see that Inspector Song first!"

Ye Chen waved his hand, "No need, I know where she is."

After saying this, Ye Chen withdrew his Qi, pushed the door open, and got out of the car.

At this time, there were not many Brave Cavalry Guards left in the office building. Since production ran 24 hours a day, except for a few people on shift rotation in the dormitory area, the rest were mostly on the front line of work. Only a few people in charge were sitting in their offices waiting for orders.

Inspector Song was currently in her office on the fifth floor. Her office was divided into inner and outer rooms, each nearly a hundred square meters in size, and the decoration was very luxurious.

The outer room was mainly for office work and receiving guests, while the inner room was a place for living, resting, and meditation. It was also equipped with a complete restroom and bathroom. During the few days Inspector Song had been at Duke Mining, she had lived and worked here.

This office was originally prepared specifically for the Special Envoy. Every time the Special Envoy came, they would stay here for a few days. It was the best room in the entire Duke Mining, so Yin Xiaoyang naturally arranged for Inspector Song to stay here.

Inspector Song's real name was Song Ruyu. She had just turned 24 this year. She was the first cultivator produced by the Song family in hundreds of years and also the greatest hope of the Song family in hundreds of years.

For hundreds of years, the fate of the Song family had been tied to the Wu family, sharing both fortune and misfortune.

At first, they had daughters who married into the Wu family and bore offspring for the Wu family. Later, as the Anti-Qing Society grew stronger and the secrets of the Wu family became more numerous, Wu Feiyan required the Wu family to develop the families they married into into collateral families, so that they could be permanently tied to the Wu family.

Wu Feiyan's method of binding these collateral families was also very direct: poisoning.

As long as the collateral families honestly attached themselves to the Wu family, they could get a steady stream of antidotes, as well as money, power, and status. But if they dared to defy the Wu family, the only outcome was the extermination of their entire clan.

The reason why Wu Feiyan wanted to bind these collateral families was that as her lifespan grew longer and the secrets of the Wu family became more numerous, the Wu family in the future became less and less suitable for marrying into other families from the outside.

The Wu family was Wu Feiyan's maternal family, and Wu Feiyan could not let the Wu family's lineage be affected. Therefore, she instructed the Wu family to develop many collateral families like the Song family into the Wu family's breeding machines.

According to Wu Feiyan's requirements, the girls of the Wu family were not allowed to marry for life and had to serve the Wu family for their entire lives, while the boys of the Wu family could only marry suitable girls from the collateral families.

For hundreds of years, the Song family's greatest task had been to continuously send girls of suitable age to the Wu family to marry the Wu family's offspring.

Because the two families had been breeding synchronously for hundreds of years, the genetic tree had long since branched out. Therefore, the blood relationship between the offspring born to the Song family and outside women and the descendants of the Wu family had long been so distant that it could be ignored, far exceeding the scope of close-kin marriage. This could ensure the normal continuation of the Wu family's genes.

In order to ensure the provision of girls with excellent genes to the Wu family, the males of the Song family needed to find excellent Chinese women in the outside world to combine with and give birth to offspring;

And in order to protect the family secrets, the males of the Song family were often top-tier scumbags.

They would use fake identities to fall in love and talk about marriage with suitable women in the outside world. One day after the other party gave birth to children for them, they would take the children and disappear from the world.

If it was a boy, they would bring him back and cultivate him into the new generation of the Song family;

If it was a girl, she would be cultivated entirely according to the preferences of the Wu family. If she could be selected by the Wu family after she became an adult and marry a male with high status in the Wu family, she could bring more wealth and opportunities to their family. If she could not be selected by a male with high status in the Wu family, she would inevitably have to marry those male descendants who were not valued or even despised by the Wu family.

After all, even if the males of the Wu family were trash, they were still members of the Wu family. The Wu family could not let them be bachelors for life. Even if they had no prospects, they at least had to start a family, have offspring, and give an account to his parents or even grandparents.

And in order to keep the secrets of the Wu family, they could only marry women from collateral families.

Therefore, almost 80% or more of the marriageable women in collateral families like the Song family would be selected layer by layer by the Wu family.

Because the strength of the two families was vastly different, the girls who married into the Wu family had almost no status to speak of. Being despised by their husbands was normal, and being wronged was a common occurrence. In more serious cases, they would even be killed by their own husbands. But even so, their maternal families dared not have any doubts or dissatisfaction. After all, their lifeline was entirely held in the hands of the Wu family.

As for those girls who were lucky enough not to be selected by the Wu family, the Song family would not allow them to leave the family, marry, and start a family, because they had to stay in the Song family to guard the secrets of the Song family and the Wu family for hundreds of years, acting as tools for their entire lives.

Song Ruyu was the only cultivator the Song family had produced in hundreds of years, and it could even be said that she was the only one produced by all the collateral families combined. Therefore, what she carried on her was the hope of the entire Song family.

And Song Ruyu knew the power of the Anti-Qing Society and the Lord. Coupled with the influence of her family, she dared not have any thoughts of defiance against the Anti-Qing Society. She only knew that if she wanted to change the fate of her family, there was only one way: continuously improve her strength and continuously take on more important roles in the Anti-Qing Society.

Once her strength could catch the eye of the Lord, the Song family would definitely be able to receive better treatment. Perhaps one day, there would be a chance to get rid of the fate of being a breeding machine.

Based on this heavy burden, Song Ruyu was loyal to the Anti-Qing Society, hoping only for more opportunities to perform meritorious service to accumulate more capital for herself.

This time, the Governor's Office allowed her to be solely responsible for the blood replacement work of an entire station, which could be considered a manifestation of their greater trust in her. She thought to herself: "As long as I have no mistakes in this mission and complete it smoothly and on time, the Governor's Office will definitely give me more important tasks in the future. At that time, it will be the good opportunity for me, Song Ruyu, to perform meritorious service!"

Just when Song Ruyu was longing for the future in the depths of her heart, she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside, disrupting her hopeful thoughts.

She came back to her senses and asked coldly and with disgust, "What is it?"

Outside the door, Ye Chen said, "Inspector Song, the Commander asked me to come and pass on a message."

"Pass on a message?" Song Ruyu said disdainfully, "He is just a mere Commander. If he has something to do, he doesn't come to see me in person, but instead sends someone to pass on a message. What a big official air!"

Ye Chen said hurriedly, "Reporting to Inspector Song, there is a problem with the goods, and they may not be completed on time. Commander Yin does not dare to delay, so he has gathered all the Thousand-Household Officers and Banner Chiefs and is currently studying countermeasures. He really does not dare to leave to delay the progress, so he sent me to report to you."

"What did you say?" Upon hearing Ye Chen say that there was a problem with the goods and that it would even affect the progress, Song Ruyu's anger immediately arose from her heart.

Her mind moved, and her Qi sensed that Yin Xiaoyang was indeed in this office building, and many leaders among the Brave Cavalry Guards were gathering towards him. So she immediately used her Qi to open the door instantly, looked at Ye Chen outside the door, and said coldly, "Explain it clearly to me, what exactly is the problem! If there is any more matter that affects the progress, I will cut off the head of the person in charge first!"

Although Song Ruyu was young, she had regarded human life as worthless since she was a child.

This was not because she was born cold and heartless, but because she knew very well that the Wu family had always regarded the lives of the Song family as worthless.

From childhood to adulthood, she had accidentally heard of no less than five cases of women from the Song family who married into the Wu family being killed.

These people were all her elders. The reasons they were killed by the Wu family were also very far-fetched. Some were because they could not give birth to boys, some were because of accidental miscarriages, some were simply disliked by their husbands, and some were even just because they were greedy and ate too much, causing their figures to go out of shape.

And contrary to the Song family being regarded as worthless by the Wu family, the Song family also disdained the women they found outside, even more so than the Wu family disdained the women of the Song family.

Song Ruyu's eldest brother had disguised himself and entered the world a few years ago to find suitable women to breed offspring. He first had a child with a woman, and when that woman discovered that her eldest brother had another family in another city, her eldest brother killed her directly to silence her.

That woman didn't even have time to accuse her eldest brother of even a single word before she was shot dead by her eldest brother. The reason was also very simple: her eldest brother and the Song family could not bear any risks. Their original intention was to find an opportunity to disappear with the child after the woman gave birth and before the child was one year old. Since she was discovered, they killed her directly to eliminate future troubles.

Song Ruyu had been influenced by such an environment since she was a child. Killing had long since ceased to have any psychological burden for her. These Brave Cavalry Guards had a status far lower than that of the Song family; they were just a group of house slaves raised by the Anti-Qing Society. She naturally cared even less about the lives of these people. Once someone provoked her or affected her, she would just kill them!

Seeing her full of murderous intent, Ye Chen was truly a little surprised. Such a young face, such extraordinary appearance and clothing, combined with such majestic and bloody murderous intent, was truly a bit shocking.

Seeing that Ye Chen had not answered her question just now within three seconds, Song Ruyu's tone immediately became a bit more serious. She stared at Ye Chen with her eyes and said sternly, "If you don't speak quickly, I will cut off your head and go ask that Yin fellow myself!"

Ye Chen was dumbfounded. Looking at Song Ruyu's expression full of killing intent, he chuckled and said, "Little girl, where did you drink tonight? You are so drunk that you want to cut off my head?"