Chapter 116 Disposing of Corpses: I'm an Expert at This

Ning Shan held the short knife to his neck. "That's right, she is my precious daughter. Lord Wang, I've turned a blind eye to your arrogance and bullying of your subordinates in the past, but today you've bullied her, and I won't show any mercy."

"Ning Shan, I am—"

Pfft...

Before Lord Wang could finish speaking, Ning Shan plunged the dagger into his fat neck.

The blade is very short, only two inches long.

But if it's plunged in completely, it's enough to sever the carotid artery.

Ning Shan's attack was very precise, and he didn't draw his dagger to avoid blood splattering.

A short while later, Lord Wang breathed his last, his frog-like eyes bulging.

Ning Shan quickly took off his official hat and robe. "An important ceremony is being held in the palace. Daughter, put on this robe so as not to attract attention."

"Dad, you've done quite a few things like this since you transmigrated, haven't you?" Ning Jinli asked as she put on her official robe.

"Ahem..." Ning Shan coughed lightly. "The nature of my work is rather special. Sometimes I inevitably have to deal with some special situations. Don't be afraid, I will find a way to dispose of the body properly."

"Disposing of the body..." Ning Jinli thought for a moment, "Leave it to me, I'm good at this."

Ning Shan turned his head in surprise, his face slightly stiff. "What did you say?"

Ning Jinli was a little embarrassed, and chuckled, "What I mean is, I have a particularly convenient way."

"Is it using a time-space portal?" Ning Shan blurted out.

Ning Jinli was taken aback. "Dad, how did you know?"

Before Ning Shan could explain, Ning Jinli suddenly realized, "Oh, it must be Mom who contacted you."

Ning Shan stood up, straightened his daughter's clothes, and muttered to himself:

"You've grown so tall! Luckily, this fatso is short but fat, and his robe is long enough, otherwise you wouldn't be able to wear it."

"By the way, daughter, if you use the time portal to teleport the body away, wouldn't it end up in the factory? A body can't be disposed of so easily. What if it gets discovered over there?"

"No, no, let me think of a way to get the body out of the palace first."

Hearing the long-lost nagging, Ning Jinli felt a warm glow in her heart.

She opened her arms and gave Ning Shan a hug, saying with a smile, "Dad, it seems you don't know much about the time-space passage. Wait here for a moment, I'll take care of it quickly."

Since his daughter said so, Ning Shan, as her father, would naturally believe her.

Later, when he learned that there was also a time portal entrance in this royal palace warehouse, he expressed his desire to see it.

“Here it is.” Ning Jinli led him to a wall. “You can imagine the wall as the surface of water, and the entrance and exit of the time-space tunnel are like whirlpools on the surface of the water, with colorful light.”

Ning Shan looked left and right, smiled, and said, "Just like your mother said, we can't see."

"Dad, I'll head over now. See you later."

Ning Jinli dragged Lord Wang's corpse and plunged into the fluorescent vortex.

The next second, she was back in the factory's small warehouse.

Then they immediately moved to the other end of the time-space tunnel and dragged the corpse inside.

A flash of light, and in the blink of an eye, the surroundings transformed into Ye Zhi Qiu's training room.

Ning Jinli took out the walkie-talkie that she had already arranged for her mother from the cabinet, pressed the call button, and asked, "Hello? Is anyone there?"

Sizzle—

A hissing sound came from the electrical circuit.

A voice came through the receiver: "Please give your instructions, Miss."

Where is my mom?

"Reporting to Miss, you sent over a few excavators a while ago... what kind of machines? Sect Leader Ye selected a few disciples with strong learning abilities, and they are now learning how to use them quickly."

"Oh, that's called an excavator, how's your training going?"

"Uh... you've practiced quite well, you've already smashed down three houses..."

"..."

Ning Jinli paused for two seconds, then said, "No rush. Just practice slowly according to the instructional video. Send a few people to the practice room right away."

"Yes, Miss."

Soon, several disciples of the Tian Shu Sect rushed over.

Ning Jinli handed over Lord Wang's body to them and instructed, "Quickly throw this body into Falling Eagle Gorge. Don't delay, or it will stink in the hot weather."

The disciples were stunned for a moment, thinking to themselves, "No wonder she's the sect leader's daughter, so fierce..."

"Yes, miss." Without asking any further questions, the men quickly took the body away and carried out their orders.

Ning Jinli then used the time-space portal to return to the royal palace warehouse.

The entire process, from when she took the body away to when she returned, took less than three minutes.

Then the father and daughter tidied up the scene together. Ning Jinli chattered on and on, asking her father how he had been doing all these years. Ning Shan told her everything.

"Wow, I thought Mom was already amazing for becoming the leader of a major sect, but it turns out Dad is just as impressive, becoming the second-in-command of a secret intelligence organization?"

“Nominally, I’m the second-in-command,” Ning Shan said seriously, “but in reality, I’m the one who runs the entire Qingyoutai. The guy surnamed Wang is just a crony.”

Ning Jinli laughed and said, "No wonder you've always been able to ruin everything Mom wants to do all these years, and erase all the impact she's caused. You're amazing."

Ning Shan's cheeks twitched slightly. He hesitated, then turned to the side and picked up a melon the size of a fist, handing it to Ning Jinli. "There's not much good food in this era. This is a local melon. It can't compare to the fruits and melons from our area, but it'll do for quenching your thirst."

"Thank you, Dad!" Ning Jinli took the melon and started eating it heartily.

Although it's called a melon, for modern people who have tasted all sorts of modernly cultivated and selected fruits, it only tastes a little sweeter than a cucumber, and also has a slightly sour and astringent taste.

It's quite moist and has a unique aroma.

It wasn't bad.

Ning Shan pondered for a moment, "Um... you're really dating Xiao Qidi?"

"Pfft...cough! Cough cough cough!" Ning Jinli was caught off guard and almost choked.

Ning Shan patted her on the back, "Eat slowly."

"No... cough cough..." Ning Jinli pounded her chest, embarrassed, "Mom even told you about this? I... I told her to keep it a secret."

Ning Shan sighed, "Alas, the ancients were right, a daughter is like a tree that cannot be kept at home once she grows up."

"Dad! What do you mean?" Ning Jinli's face flushed.

Ning Shan smiled and said, "I was just reminiscing. Before I traveled here, you were just a twelve-year-old girl. Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. You've not only grown up, but you even have a boyfriend now."

Ning Jinli suddenly felt a little nervous, "Dad, then...you won't stop me like you stopped Mom, will you?"

Ning Shan's expression changed drastically in an instant. "What do you mean? Your mother found someone behind my back?!"

"No, no!" Ning Jinli said, both amused and exasperated. "What are you talking about! What I meant was, you're afraid she'll influence this place and change history, thus stopping her! So, do you think that if I'm with Xiao Qidi, it will also have an impact and thus stop me?"

Ning Shan breathed a sigh of relief. "So that's what you mean. Well, let it change. Your mother already told me that this is a parallel universe."

"At first I didn't quite believe it, thinking she was just making up another excuse to convince me. But when I found that the death of Marquis Le'an was many years earlier than the time recorded in our history, and the circumstances of the incident were different from those in the historical records, I realized that everything was fine and there were no abnormal situations caused by any historical paradoxes. So I really believed it."

Hearing these words, Ning Jinli breathed a slight sigh of relief.

But that wasn't what she was most nervous about.

Because the problem itself is already easily solved, it no longer seems to be a problem.

She was afraid that her father would also think that it was too dangerous for her to be with Xiao Qidi.

My mom is only accepting this temporarily out of reluctance; she might change her mind in the future.

Therefore, my father's attitude is even more important.

"Dad..." Ning Jinli held a half-eaten melon in both hands, looked at Ning Shan, and asked cautiously, "What are your thoughts on my relationship with Xiao Qidi?"

Ning Shan said seriously, "Yes, of course!"

Ning Jinli's heart, which hadn't yet settled in her stomach, jumped straight to her throat.

“Daughter,” Ning Shan put his hand on her shoulder, “I think—you’re absolutely awesome!”

"Huh?" Ning Jinli was stunned.

She couldn't tell if her dad was genuinely praising her or being sarcastic.

Ning Shan's eyes gleamed, and he grinned, "Xiao Qidi is the Xuanzu Emperor, also known as the First Emperor! He laid the foundation for the great unity ideology that is etched into the bones of later generations of China. Even after the end of the more than two thousand years of feudal era and the country entered modern society, the core cohesion of the Chinese people has never changed. You conquered such an awesome guy. Aren't you amazing? Dad is proud of you!"

Ning Jinli listened, completely stunned.

This seems like... a genuine compliment!

“But Mom said it would be dangerous to be with a king,” Ning Jinli asked tentatively.

Ning Shan smirked, "If you run into a bad man, his identity won't stop you from being in danger."

Ning Jinli was stunned again, and instantly thought of that scumbag ex-boyfriend.

"Daughter, what do you think of Xiao Qidi's character in private?" Ning Shan asked.

Ning Jinli came to her senses and said, "His character is fine, I believe him."

Ning Shan nodded. "If anything goes wrong in the future, you can at least go back to your original world, so don't worry, I won't stop you from being with him."

Ning Jinli finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you, Dad, hehe."

“But!” Ning Shan’s expression turned extremely serious. “You have to promise me that if one day you find that Xiao Qidi’s feelings for you have changed, and he might do something unfair or hurtful to you, you must break off your relationship with him without hesitation! You absolutely cannot abandon your modern values ​​to accommodate him just because he is from ancient times! Because you’re not here and can’t go back. You have a choice, understand?”

Ning Jinli looked into Ning Shan's eyes and solemnly replied, "Okay, Dad, I know, I promise!"

After the father and daughter tidied up the fallen shelves and scattered items in the warehouse, they went together to the site of the sacrificial ceremony.

Ning Shan didn't want his daughter to kneel in the sun, but she insisted on seeing it, so he had no choice but to agree.

The sacrificial ceremony is now nearing its end.

Ning Shan discovered that the group of eunuchs who had been tricked by Lord Wang were still waiting obediently in the corner under the scorching sun.

He quietly circled around from behind.

The head eunuch almost burst into tears when he saw him. "My lord, where is the lord who was with you just now? That lord clearly said that the sacrificial ceremony was short of helpers and told us to come and wait, that someone would make arrangements, but... it's almost over, and no one has come to find us..."

“We were supposed to be short of people, but now we don’t need them anymore, so no one came to us. We apologize for the trouble you all made this trip for nothing,” Ning Shan said, taking out a handful of gold coins from his sleeve. “This is a reward for you all.”

"Oh dear, I can't accept this." The head eunuch accepted the gold coins with a broad smile.

The eunuchs nearby instantly felt that all the suffering they had endured while standing there was worth it.

Ning Shan smiled and said, "Don't mention it, take care, and don't bother seeing me off."

After dismissing the eunuchs guarding the warehouse, Ning Shan returned to the very end of the official ranks.

"The sacrificial ceremony to Heaven is complete!" the priest announced loudly. "All officials, please proceed into the main hall to pay your respects to His Majesty!"

Hundreds of officials of all ranks within the royal city stood up one after another, lined up and walked up the steps, entering the royal palace hall in turn.

Although the main hall can accommodate so many people, it is still not as spacious as the outside. With several hundred people standing inside, it feels a little crowded.

The first few dozen people are core ministers of the court, and we can't crowd them.

As a result, the closer an official was to the main entrance of the hall, the less space they had to stand.

So much so that Ning Shan and his daughter Ning Jinli's heels were already touching the threshold.

"Your subject pays his respects to Your Majesty!" Situ Wei, standing at the forefront, shouted loudly.

All the officials shouted in unison, "Your humble servants pay their respects to Your Majesty!"

Then, Situ Wei took the lead in kneeling and kowtowing, completely disregarding whether there was room for the people behind him to kneel.

"Gentlemen, you may dispense with the formalities," Xiao Qidi's voice rang out in the hall. "The hall is crowded; there is no need for the kowtow."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" the crowd said in unison.

"Your boyfriend is really handsome," Ning Shan teased in a low voice.

Ning Jinli's ears burned, and she secretly glanced towards the throne.

Today, Xiao Qidi wore a magnificent black imperial robe, which perfectly suited his temperament. His tall and upright figure sat firmly on the throne, and his deep black eyes calmly looked down, truly exuding the aura of a ruler who reigns over the world.

At that moment, Xiao Qidi met Ning Jinli's gaze.

His pupils trembled suddenly, and after a brief moment of astonishment, excitement quickly welled up in his eyes.

However, due to the special occasion, and the fact that this was ostensibly a coronation but in reality he was prepared to bring down Situ Wei today, he could not afford the slightest mistake. He could only suppress his joy and even secretly pinched his thigh hard to prevent himself from laughing.

Others didn't see Xiao Qidi's fleeting reaction, but Ning Jinli did.

She felt a sweet warmth in her heart, and no matter how tightly she pursed her lips, she couldn't suppress the corners of her mouth from turning up.