Dragon's Origin

Chapter 666: Not Dead (Part 2)

The Emperor hadn't had any new information for a day and a night, which probably meant that the real mastermind had cut off all the clues. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so silent.

Wang Sheng had no feelings for the Third Prince. He hadn't met him before, and he didn't plan to meet him again in the future. What was there to care about with a dead man? He was too lazy to even see him, too lazy to ask anything. He'd just bury him to avoid getting annoyed after seeing him.

The reason he wanted to bury him at the place where he was attacked was also a knot in Wang Sheng's heart. After all, the dead guards died to protect Mei'er and Rose. Burying them there was also a way to pay tribute to them.

Mei'er had already arranged the compensation for the guards, which was unprecedentedly generous, making many guards in the mansion feel regretful that they weren't the ones who were there at the time. He believed that they would work just as hard next time.

The cause and effect were also clear. The Emperor wanted the Third Prince to learn some economic knowledge in Lizhen Workshop, but this guy had thoughts he shouldn't have, and he really took himself too seriously. He was instigated by a few guys with ulterior motives and got hot-headed, wanting to do something about Lizhen Workshop, which led to all of this.

"Are you sure it wasn't the Emperor who wanted to do something about Lizhen Workshop?" Wang Sheng asked Zhou, the manager, directly, regardless of whether Zhou was embarrassed or not, speaking bluntly.

"His Majesty would never use such clumsy methods," Manager Zhou replied to Wang Sheng with a wry smile.

Thinking about it, it was true. If the Emperor wanted to do something, how could he be so unclear? Want to change the chief manager of Lizhen Workshop? Was the Emperor not full or did he drink too much water to come up with such a mindless method? As for killing people, that was even more excessive. Would the Emperor be so cruel as to attack his own daughter? Even if the Emperor agreed, I'm afraid the Empress would not agree, right?

"It's not His Majesty." The Empress was in the Changsheng Duke's mansion, and she also came forward to defend the Emperor at this moment. She was angry with the Emperor, but if it wasn't something the Emperor did, she would still speak for the Emperor. After all, they were a couple who had gone through thick and thin together, and the Emperor had already unhesitatingly sent the person over to Wang Sheng for disposal. What else could she be dissatisfied with?

Of course, the most satisfying thing was Wang Sheng's attitude. No matter who you are, as long as you touch Mei'er, then there's nothing to say. Look at how Wang Sheng handled it? A simple sentence, drag him to the place where he did it and bury him! How domineering? This son-in-law was really hard to find anywhere. When she was wronged, she didn't see the Emperor being so decisive in venting her anger.

"That means some people have become foolish from reading too much." Wang Sheng heard Li, the chief steward, repeat the Third Prince's confession from Mei'er's mouth, and directly gave his judgment.

How brain-dead does one have to be to firmly believe that all other occupations are inferior to the study of books in this world where cultivation is respected? What can't be held in the hands of women, what are ingenious skills? This is clearly the batch of ideas from ancient China on Earth that have been proven to be inappropriate. Now, this batch of guys who originally had no status are still firmly holding on to them. Besides the evaluation of being foolish from reading too much, what else can Wang Sheng say?

"Changsheng Duke, there may be people behind those dead guys pushing them. Don't you have any thoughts?" The Empress was not a kind person either. She and the Emperor were angry, and the Third Prince was also dealt with, but those conspiratorial black hands were still hiding in the dark. As a member of the royal family, the Empress naturally couldn't just watch the royal family suffer losses while the major vassal states were safe and sound.

"Don't worry." Wang Sheng gave the Empress an answer: "Let me recover for two days first. Mei'er can spread the word these few days, saying that the two of us were chased and injured and are in a bad mood, and we don't plan to sell the map for the time being. The person who did it has been caught, but the mastermind is still at large, which makes me very unhappy."

"They won't admit it," the Empress said with a wry smile. "Your method is useless. Even if they did it themselves, they couldn't admit it. Otherwise, who would dare to work for them in the future?"

"Who told them to admit that they did it themselves?" Wang Sheng laughed: "They can find evidence that another family is the mastermind, or directly kill a few people from another family and say that they are the mastermind! Who can object? It wasn't me who killed them."

"Uh!" The Empress didn't expect that Wang Sheng's idea was actually this. She was stunned when she heard it. But after careful consideration, she found that Wang Sheng's purpose was still achieved.

Does it really matter who the mastermind is now? What matters is that the families have to attack each other and lose manpower. After understanding this, the Empress also became happy. Anyway, as long as she can cause trouble for those lords, as for who it is, every family has them, and there will be no omissions.

As soon as the news came out, all parties were dumbfounded. Wang Sheng was killed on the way back, which meant that someone had planned to capture Wang Sheng alive. But targeting Mei'er and Rose was really to disgust Wang Sheng and the relationship between the royal family, and it would be best if they could fall apart, so the purpose would be achieved. As for touching Mei'er, it was also to test, to test the defense strength of Lizhen Workshop.

All parties basically participated in the open or in the dark, all intending to drive a nail between Wang Sheng and the royal family. The ultimate goal must be attributed to how to seize Lizhen Workshop. In the end, everything is about interests, and Lizhen Workshop has already become big enough to move all the vassal states.

But Wang Sheng let Mei'er send out such a word, and all parties were dumbfounded. If Wang Sheng had already sold the map, then naturally there would be nothing to attract them, and they could be manipulated at will. But now, they had to face this embarrassing situation. If they didn't give an explanation, Wang Sheng wouldn't sell the map. This was terrible. Could it be that they admitted that their own people did it?

Soon someone reacted. Wang Sheng didn't say which family to give an explanation, but just wanted a mastermind. Wouldn't it be enough to give him a mastermind?

The Xia family and the Qiu family were two families that had already obtained the core area map, so they naturally became thorns in the side. The reason was too legitimate, it was to anger Wang Sheng and then not give the map to other families, so they planned to do it. In less than two days, the heads of at least twenty masters from the Xia family and the Qiu family were sent to Changsheng Duke's mansion, saying that they were the mastermind.

Of course, these two families were not so easy to provoke. After reacting, they immediately counterattacked. All parties fought in a melee, which lasted for half a month. The total number of casualties exceeded two hundred masters before it slowly subsided.

During this time of watching the show, Wang Sheng stayed in Changsheng Duke's mansion in the name of recuperating from his injuries, and also took good care of Rose.

Naturally, the news that Rose was not dead also spread through various channels and reached the ears of many people. When everyone heard this news, their unified reaction was, how is that possible?