He hasn't been a sister-in-law for many years

Lu Xingzhou looked as usual, followed the female officer through the long corridor, and came to the office of the regent. The Minister of Subduing Demons, Xi Lingshao, was sitting outside the door with his head in his arms. Hearing footsteps, he raised his head.

Seeing his face, Lu Xingzhou was slightly startled, he hadn't seen him for more than ten days, but this guy had lost a lot of weight, his eyes were black and blue, he was so haggard that he didn't look like him anymore.

"Hey, wait a minute." The Minister of Subduing Demons reached out to stop them.

The female officer bowed her knees: "Forgive me, the regent is waiting for the minister of punishment and prison."

"I just have a few words with Brother Guang, and it will be ready soon." The Minister of Subduing Demons stretched out his hand to hold Lu Xingzhou and walked away quickly.

Shi Yinyu was just about to follow.

The Minister of Conquering Demons suddenly pointed at him: "You wait here."

Lu Xingzhou was dragged to the corner by the Minister of Conquering Demons. He didn't know what this guy was going to do, so he looked at him calmly and didn't make a sound.

The Minister of Conquering Demons asked in a low voice: "Ah Man and A Lu must die?"

Lu Xingzhou narrowed his eyes slightly, and saw a trace of subtle pain in this guy's eyes. He was suspicious, and said lightly: "The regent has arranged for a substitute..."

"That's a lie," the Minister of Conquering Demons interrupted him, "Even if I don't die today, my sister will send people to assassinate them afterwards, just like she destroyed the Tushan clan, no one who offends her can escape. "

Lu Xingzhou: "Because she is the regent, whoever the king wants to die will have to die."

"Even if they are descendants of the family?"

"They committed a heinous crime."

"But..." Minister Conquering Demon bit the tip of his tongue fiercely, and lowered his voice, "Brother Guang, do you really think they want to plot rebellion and seize power?"

Lu Xingzhou remained silent, and looked at him with deep eyes.

The Minister of Subduing Demons knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and struggled for a moment. Then he made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Aman and the others did not rebel for the sake of power. He told me that he has no desire for power, and he does not want to be a demon king." , just want to save the common people, the common people...is the common people really suffering?"

Lu Xingzhou did not expect that this well-known dude could say such words.

He didn't know how the real Minister of Prisons and Prisons would respond, so he looked away, not looking at him, and said cautiously: "Whether the common people suffer or not has nothing to do with us. You and I come from noble families, and we only need to care about whether the nobles suffer or not." , just follow the regent’s leadership.”

The Minister Conquering Demons showed great disappointment, drooped his eyelids dejectedly, and murmured: "But if the common people are really suffering, the suffering is extreme, and the suffering can never be more painful, wouldn't it be Xungui's turn to suffer..."

Lu Xingzhou suddenly turned his gaze back to look at him.

"What?" The Minister of Subduing Demons was worried, "Am I wrong?"

The female officer urged behind her.

Lu Xingzhou patted the Minister of Subduing Demons on the shoulder, and said in a low voice: "You are right. Next, you might as well think about what you can do with your strength to improve the current situation."

Walking into the Prince Regent's office, Xi Lingxiao was sitting at the desk, resting his stomach with one hand, looking at the documents in his hand, frowning.

Hearing the voice, he said without raising his head: "How is the substitute arrangement?"

Lu Xingzhou: "Everything is safe."

The regent nodded: "If you do it yourself, there will be no problem. After this period of time passes smoothly, I will send someone to arrange for them to get sick and die."

"Yes." Lu Xingzhou responded calmly, but his heart trembled violently: the doubles arranged by the regent did not replace Mastiff Teman and A Lu to die, but wanted to kill the real person, and let the doubles replace their real identities.

Regent: "Did you meet Ah Shao outside the door?"

"Correct."

The regent laughed with some unknown meaning: "Those so-called aristocratic families are even worse than Ah Shao, a dude."

Lu Xingzhou didn't know what she meant, so he said vaguely, "Ah Shao is as wise as a fool..."

"Ah Shao is stupid, but those aristocratic families, they are bad." The regent sneered, "There is no such thing as blood relationship."

Lu Xingzhou looked at her suspiciously.

"Brother, do you know how much the Qingya clan can do to get rid of the relationship with A Lu?" The regent said and stood up, "Come with me."

She walked to a two-meter-high safe by the wall, pressed a few commands, verified the iris, and then the door opened, and what appeared in front of the two was a hidden elevator.

Lu Xingzhou walked in with the regent, the elevator descended silently, the space inside was small, and the regent was wearing complicated costumes, Lu Xingzhou subconsciously leaned against the wall.

The regent said Xu Xu: "Ah Shao has been arguing with me for several days. This idiot only knows how to miss the little friendship he had with Aman and Alu when he was young, but he doesn't know that once they succeed in reforming, we will all die. Imminent."

Lu Xingzhou considered for a moment, then tried to answer: "If it can evolve peacefully, there may be a turning point..."

"Naive." The regent said, "There is no reform without bloodshed. The road to power has always been paved with bones. Even if there is a peaceful evolution, the people may go on as usual, but you and I will definitely die without a burial place."

The elevator shook slightly and stopped. The regent raised his skirt and walked out.

Before Lu Xingzhou walked out, he had already guessed that the end of the elevator should be the King Regent's secret room. He was already mentally prepared to face a stale, damp basement that smelled eerie and bloody.

Unexpectedly, it is very clean and spotless, like a simple lounge, with a luxurious sofa in the middle, surrounded by some bookshelves and safes, but it is very empty, so empty that it is a bit uncomfortable.

But it's better to be open than gloomy, at least Xiling Xiao is not as perverted as he imagined.

There was no heating in the secret room, and it was bitingly cold.

The regent dragged his gorgeous skirt, walked to a row of cabinets covered with red velvet cloth, turned his head, looked at Lu Xingzhou and said with a smile, "The Qingya family sent this one the night Ah Lu was captured. , Brother, guess what’s in here?”

Lu Xingzhou had an indescribably bad feeling in his heart, tried his best to control his expression, and asked with a smile, "I can't guess, what is it?"

The regent lifted the velvet.

Lu Xingzhou's heart skipped a beat suddenly, and his internal organs twisted crazily.

——In the cabinet is a row of human heads soaked in potion, some old and some young, pale and hideous.

The regent said coldly: "This is Alu's biological mother and sisters. The Qingya family expressed their loyalty to me with the heads of their concubines and their own daughters."

Lu Xingzhou stared at the heads in the cabinet, and pursed his lips tightly. A violent indignation surged in his chest, which made it painful for him to breathe.

"If they succeed in reforming, then the head soaked in the potion will be ours." The regent said, "Ah Shao is thinking about his childhood feelings, but he doesn't know that the situation has developed to the present, and it is your life and death. It's over."

Lu Xingzhou suddenly said: "Actually, you understand in your heart that the demon world needs reform, don't you? The reason why you have always stood firm is because you are in charge of politics. You are a representative of the honorable class, so you must hold on to power for the honorable class. , and your inner opinion is no different from Mastiff Man and the others."

The regent was stunned for a moment, and replied indifferently: "The system of the demon world is rotten, like a pool of dirty stagnant water, and like a broken car that is about to be scrapped. One more dirty day, one more mile for this poor car."

Lu Xingzhou: "You know it's wrong, why do you make the same mistake again and again?"

"Brother, you and I come from noble families, so we are not qualified to talk about right and wrong," the regent raised a white hand, under the thin skin, there were blue blood vessels scattered all over, and she said softly, "In our blood vessels, there is the so-called Our noble blood also flows through our original sin."

Lu Xingzhou frowned.

The Regent: "Right or wrong will be judged by future generations after our pool of stagnant water is broken. At that time, we will all be nailed to the pillar of shame."

Lu Xingzhou looked at her: "So you're going to continue doing the opposite?"

"Yes," the regent said frankly, "I am a selfish person, sacrificing myself to save the common people? I can't do it. I choose to go all the way and go retrograde. I don't like failure."

Lu Xingzhou: "Life cannot be all success, and why do you think that you must sacrifice yourself in order to save the common people? You can obviously embrace reform, establish a new system with Mastiff Man and the others, and lead hundreds of millions of demon people to a new life .”

"They won't let me go," said the regent. "Your Excellency, you are too naive. Politics is bright and bloody, just like this secret room, which looks spotless, but do you know what is in these cabinets?" ?”

Just as Lu Xingzhou was about to speak, his heart skipped a beat and he looked at her expressionlessly.

The regent smiled slightly: "Can you tell me, what did you do to my brother?"

Revealed!

Lu Xingzhou's brain was spinning extremely fast, his face was calm, and he said stiffly: "What nonsense are you talking about? Brother, am I right in front of you?"

Prince Regent: "Xiling Guang is an extreme conservative, he can only blame me for not being cruel enough, how could he persuade me to accept reforms? You also said that Ah Shao is wise and stupid... Haha, who doesn't know that in your eyes, Ah Shao is just a bastard, etc. Dead waste? Also, in the elevator just now, you were so far away from me, afraid of bumping into me, we grew up together, have we ever been so estranged? I guess, you must be gay, right?"

Lu Xingzhou: "..."

"Are you Lu Xingzhou or Shi Yinyu?" The regent narrowed his eyes dangerously, guessing, "It can't be Shi Yinyu, after all, it's a monster. It only wants to see the demon world perish. The more deaths, the happier it will be. Worrying about the future of the common people...you are Lu Xingzhou."

"..."

The regent raised his chin provocatively: "Why don't you answer?"

Lu Xingzhou said helplessly: "Sister, you are so good at guessing, you must be good at playing mahjong, right?"

"So-so," the Regent sneered, "Everyone save face, and call him a royal sparrow god."

Lu Xingzhou didn't expect that she still had the heart to make a joke, so he smiled along with her, but unfortunately the smile didn't reach his eyes, and he frowned: "What I just said was all from the bottom of my heart."

"Mine too." The regent said lightly, "Differences in ways do not conspire with each other, we stand in different positions, and of course we have different views, so it's not speculative, so stop talking nonsense, since you dare to pretend to be my cousin, They should be able to bear the consequences."