The heroine eavesdropped on her heart, and my villain's character collapsed.

"This little guy who hides his sword in his smile goes too far to deceive others with his simple demeanor."

an official cursed angrily.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away in Youyun Prefecture. They are the local emperors here. Now let a royal guard from the capital ride on their head. Who can swallow this tone?

"How about letting this Mr. Tang die at the hands of the refugees?"

Someone made a murderous suggestion.

Huang Shangning denied it almost instantly: "No, no matter how this person acts, Jin Yiwei is working for the emperor after all. If he dies in our hands, the consequences will be very troublesome."

Jin Yiwei's identity is too special, and if he is disturbed, he will definitely cause big trouble.

What's more, Tang Yu's background is not simple.

After pondering for a moment, he sighed.

"We made a miscalculation this time and were deceived by this kid hiding a knife in his smile. Let's go meet him together first. If he insists on doing this, we will think of a way."

Everyone nodded. They would not agree to fill up the remaining cave with more than one million kilograms of lightning-struck wood even if they died.

After working hard as an official in Youyun Prefecture for many years, it is not easy to accumulate such a small amount of wealth.

When they ran to the mansion where Tang Yu was resting, several guards in royal robes guarding the door stopped them.

"Beizhen Fusi is on business and no one is allowed to enter without permission."

The Jin Yiwei who stopped many officials pushed them back with just one word.

"Then please tell Mr. Tang that it is Huang Shangning who wants to see you."

Huang Shangning was also very angry. This was the first time in Xuandu City that he was blocked from the door.

The Jin Yiwei nodded and went in to find Tang Yu.

After seeing Tang Yu, he reported the situation outside the door.

"How many are here?"

Tang Yu was holding a fist-sized green fruit and chewing it.

The room he was in had been turned into a temporary interrogation room.

A total of ten famous merchants and monks from the West were handcuffed. They each represented the ten or so largest merchants in Xuandu City. The backers behind them were naturally the group of officials outside.

The one closest to Tang Yu was a merchant monk in the transformation stage.

The other party was wearing a cheap robe that even Nascent Soul cultivators looked down upon, and his somewhat thin face looked out the window with a miserable expression.

"Master Huang, they still care about you. They came over immediately when they heard that you were caught."

Tang Yu did not answer the questions of his subordinates. He looked at the merchant monk with a smile while chewing the spiritual fruit.

"Master Tang, we are doing our business properly, why are you making things so difficult for us?"

The merchant monk with a thin face said bitterly.

"Is there anything in the world that is not the king's land? Whatever the emperor wants, I just help him get it back."

Tang Yu smiled slightly and said: "Look, you are the top shopkeeper in Xuandu City. You have been working hard for the adults for so many years. Now you are really in trouble, but they may not even be able to come in. You said you are not able to come in." Why bother?"

"If you want to incriminate someone, why bother?"

The merchant monk is bitter and helpless.

From the moment he became the shopkeeper, what awaited him was a long road of walking on thin ice.

He himself couldn't remember exactly how many spiritual stones he had earned over the years, but he was certain that almost all of them went into the pockets of these adults.

If not, how could his business be stable? How can it be so easy to do lightning-struck wood business?

"Don't pretend to be a white lotus. The bigger your business is, the more unscrupulous things you will do. When you were making money by doing business with your power, you should have thought that one day you would be treated like this. There’s nothing to feel aggrieved about.”

"I know the details of your Shixi family. If the family comes up with another 200,000 kilograms of lightning-strike wood, should we just wait and see?"

After Tang Yu finished destroying the spiritual fruit in his hand, he wiped his hands on Jin Yiwei's clothes beside him.

The Jin Yiwei had a cold look on his face and couldn't say anything.

Hearing Tang Yu's lion open his mouth, many merchants and monks in the room turned pale.

Two hundred thousand pounds of lightning struck wood?

This guy said it as easily as two hundred thousand high-grade spiritual stones!

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Tang Yu was not in a hurry and looked at Jinyi Weidao who had just entered the room.

"Let the people outside come in."

The Jin Yiwei turned around and went out to inform the group of people.

Soon, Huang Shangning rushed in with a group of officials to look at Tang Yu and asked.

"Master Tang, why did you suddenly arrest Shopkeeper Liu and the others? They did a lot of work in donating lightning-strike wood before."

"Yes, now that the refugees are rioting, businesses like them have suffered a lot of losses. Even so, they are still willing to donate so much lightning wood. They are people who are loyal to the imperial court. Isn't this kind of behavior chilling?"

An official from the Youyun Sect also stood up to advise.

Tang Yu leaned on the chair and looked at the officials with a completely arrogant attitude and smiled: "Do I look like a person who kills innocent people indiscriminately?"

"Master Tang, as a member of the Imperial Guard, works for the emperor, so naturally he will not be this kind of person."

Huang Shangning was still very polite when he scolded his mother in his heart.

"That's alright, there must be a reason to arrest them. These merchant monks secretly collude with the refugees in order to make money. Is this a capital crime?"

Tang Yu asked rhetorically.

After hearing Tang Yu say that a group of his people had colluded with the refugees, a group of merchant monks panicked and said that this was absolutely not the case.

Huang Shangning didn't expect Tang Yu's reason to be this. He said with a serious face: "Colluding with refugees is naturally a serious crime. Does Mr. Tang have any evidence?"

"some."

Tang Yu took out a storage ring, opened it and poured out some magic pills.

He asked while holding one of the bottles of elixir and throwing it to a merchant monk.

"Shopkeeper He, is this the elixir from your Jucai Building?"

Shopkeeper He from Jucai Building opened it and inspected it before nodding.

"It is indeed the Shenyun Pill refined by our family, but this pill does not prove that our Jucai Building has colluded with the refugees, right?"

"Then how can we prove it? I asked people to arrest a group of refugees. Everyone has the elixirs from your Jucai Building. These elixirs can restore the true essence after being taken. Wouldn't it be even more powerful for those refugees? Are you saying this? Aren’t you helping the tyrants do evil?”

Tang Yu asked rhetorically.

"Our Jucai Building only sells elixirs. We cannot guarantee where the elixirs will go."

Shopkeeper He of Jucai Tower is numb, can he blame himself for this?

"Then how do I know if you have secretly made a deal with the refugees in order to make money? For example, let them exchange the stolen lightning wood with you for elixirs and magic weapons?"

Tang Yu sneered: "What can't you business monks do to make money?"

Shopkeeper He could only look at Huang Shangning and the others for help.

Huang Shangning and others are also in a difficult situation at this moment.

Tang Yu first caught them off guard by hiding a knife in his smile, and then seized this opportunity to bite the merchants to death.

They were completely passive, and they really didn't know how to respond at this moment.