Chapter 869: Fighting in the Same Boat
Almost half an hour later, Comrade Xiao Xu's reply confirmed that this was indeed her hairpin.
According to Xu Qingwan, she had carefully kept the hairpin in a secret compartment and had never worn it since her wedding night, except to take it out and look at it occasionally.
There were many other jewellery stored together with the hairpin, but now only this gold hairpin is missing.
Comrade Xiao Xu was naturally heartbroken about the loss of the hairpin, which was of great commemorative significance. In the letter, he repeatedly asked Wei Changtian how he knew that the hairpin was lost.
However, Wei Changtian didn't have time to think of reasons to explain all this. He told Li Zimu to smooth over the matter and then left with Zhang San.
Since the hairpin is real, then my guess is very likely to be true as well.
This also means that the sword of Damocles is once again hanging over his head. Since Xiao Feng's death, Wei Changtian hasn't felt this sense of crisis for a long time.
Facing such an enemy with enormous power and whose identity is still unknown, he is undoubtedly at a disadvantage as he is in the open.
If he wants to turn the situation around, or at least ensure that he won't be "stolen", then Wei Changtian must find the opponent's weakness as soon as possible.
Just like the nuclear deterrence in the previous life, only when you can threaten what the other party really cares about, will you not be led by the nose.
It’s easier said than done.
And now his only breakthrough is the most special son of heaven, Huo Tianyang.
"Sir, where are we going?"
He bent down expressionlessly and got into the carriage. Soon, Zhang San's voice came from the front.
Wei Changtian turned his head to look at the scene outside the window, then closed the car curtain and said lightly:
"Linchuan Prefecture."
"Everyone, be quiet! Be quiet!!"
Linchuan government office, meeting hall.
Just as Wei Changtian was rushing over here by car, everyone in the room was discussing how to plan to keep this living devil in Linchuan forever.
The spacious hall was filled with noise. All the important figures in Linchuan Prefecture were present, except for the four people from the Jiuzhen Sect.
Obviously, after learning that the four people had most likely defected to Wei Changtian, Su Qi naturally would not let them participate in this meeting.
The absence of the four of them cast an even greater shadow over the meeting.
The Tengu Army stationed outside the city, and the 200,000 "hostages" in their hands. Yesterday's assassination was completely unplanned. Wei Changtian changed the date of the massacre from ten days to five days. The four Nine True Sect masters who were suspected of rebellion . All of the above were like huge rocks pressing on everyone's heart, making this meeting extremely depressing and chaotic from the beginning.
Everyone has their own ideas and everyone has their own interests to represent.
Although they are all from Daqian, they all understand that if Wei Changtian doesn't die, they will all be in trouble.
But no one wants to sacrifice more in this chaos that is bound to result in rivers of blood.
Even at this time, some people still proposed such absurd suggestions as "negotiating peace with Wei Changtian at all costs", which was enough to show the extent to which people's hearts were demoralized.
In fact, this really can’t be blamed on Su Qi.
Yes, he was indeed in charge of handling this crisis on Jing Guoqing's orders.
But after all, he was just a third-rank prefect.
He couldn't even fully control the people sent by the "official" Daqian, let alone the civilian forces sent from various sects and religions to help.
On the surface, everyone follows him as the leader, but in reality, everyone has their own little plans.
So we didn't come to any conclusion after discussing it for a whole morning today. Instead, the arguments among ourselves became more and more fierce, and it seemed that we were about to have an internal conflict first.
"You, you guys."
Watching the leaders of various forces, some with glaring eyes, some cowering in fear; listening to words that seemed high-sounding on the surface, but were actually selfish.
At a certain moment, Su Qi, who had been patient for the whole morning, finally couldn't stand it anymore. He no longer cared about each other's face and stood up angrily and shouted:
"Everyone, shut up!!!"
“.”
The noise stopped abruptly, and with this roar, the meeting hall became dead silent in an instant.
Everyone's eyes were focused on Su Qi, whose face was flushed red. Their expressions varied from surprise to disdain.
Su Qi just stood there straight, his face gradually turning from red to white, and finally he lowered his head as if exhausted, and said slowly in a disappointed tone: "Everyone, are you really willing to see my Daqian become another Dahui?"
“.”
The breeze blows through the window, ruffling the embroidered robes all over the room.
Everyone thought Su Qi would curse in anger, but when they heard these words, they were stunned for a moment.
Faced with such a question, the answer in everyone's mind is undoubtedly the same.
But the key point is that each of them has to leave a way out for themselves and the forces behind them.
No one wants the country to be destroyed.
But if there really comes such a day, I must live. The struggle in my heart turned into a slight sigh, drooping eyelids, and a helpless shake of the head.
And Su Qi knew what everyone was thinking.
He raised his head with a wry smile and glanced around the room. His voice was not loud, but it came from the bottom of his heart.
"Everyone, even if you haven't seen Wei Changtian's methods, you must have heard of them."
"In Dahui, he killed the entire family of Lu Yuansong and Lu Xiangshan in just two days."
"Yes, but other than that he didn't kill too many people in the big fight."
"But you all must know that it was because no one in Dahui dared to disobey him at that time."
"Except for Lu Yuanjin, all the forces in Dahui were silent, allowing him to do whatever he wanted in Dahui. This gave him a way out."
"But what about you?"
"From the moment you walked into this meeting hall today, do you think Wei Changtian would let you go?"
“.”
Pairs of eyes suddenly widened. When Su Qi pointed out the difference between Daqian and Dahui's situations, everyone suddenly felt like they were being plotted against.
And this is indeed the case.
The reason why Su Qi openly gathered everyone today to discuss the plan to kill Wei Changtian was actually to cut off all retreat routes.
"Everyone, I have no other options."
Amidst the angry gazes, Su Qi shook his head: "If not, we will never be of one mind and will surely fail in the end."
"And now that we are all in the same boat, why not try it together?"
"If we win, we will all be heroes of Daqian and will go down in history forever."
"Even if we lose, we will have a clear conscience and will be worthy of His Majesty and the people of Daqian."
"I cannot guarantee that we will win."
"But I know that since ancient times, evil has always been able to prevail over good."
"Everyone, please consider this as a request from me."
With great determination and sincerity, in the extremely complicated eyes of everyone, Su Qi closed his eyes and whispered the last words.
"Don't let future generations no longer know about my Daqian."
(End of this chapter)
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