Chapter 32: All the benefits go to Waji
The cavalry on both sides responded in unison, and the noise, combined with the existing noise, concentrated and intertwined, and for a moment the sound boiled over.
Tu Xing swallowed hard. There was no point in looking anymore as the crowd had already become a mess.
He took a few steps back. "Has it always been like this?"
Zhai Ka replied, "In the first year of Your Majesty's reign, this kind of thing happened every two weeks, one wave after another, overlapping everywhere."
"However, every time, it was a complete victory without any suspense."
"His methods were ten times more brutal and cruel than those of the previous king. Rivers of blood flowed, and he was once known as the King of Slaughter."
"Now, such a wave only occurs once every six months. I can even sense that His Majesty will be very excited."
Tu Xing nodded, not intending to respond, his expression seemed rather cold.
Zhai Ka turned around and walked to the table, picked up the teapot and poured it into the cup, then gulped down two mouthfuls.
Perhaps the water was cold enough, as he breathed a refreshing sigh. "It's strange that I had no impression of you before. You only recently entered the palace, didn't you? Were you originally in the East District?"
Hearing this, Tu Xing leaned slightly to the side, his thoughts drifting through his mind, "I recently came in from outside the city gate. I was originally only staying here temporarily, but now I live here permanently."
"Oh—so that's how it is. I was wondering how come you didn't know…"
"It's happened so frequently over the past three years that everyone in the streets knows about it. You look to be in your early twenties, not a seven or eight-year-old child."
Tu Xing lowered her eyes, then glanced at him from a slightly sideways angle, "Then I'll have to trouble you to explain more in the future."
Zhai Ka was stunned and then smiled foolishly, "This is not a small matter."
"So when you were leaving the city gate before... were you planning to leave?"
Tu Xing: "Since we're going to stay here for a long time, I have to tell them. Later I found out that it's okay if I don't tell them, because they will come to me on their own initiative."
Zhai Ka poured another cup in his hand and said, "Come, drink some water. What do you want to eat? We haven't asked them to serve the food yet."
The young man glanced out the window at the scene below. The fighting was still going on, with screams continuing and it seemed that there were heads rolling on the ground.
Although he is an assassin, the number of people he has killed so far is zero. He is not that bloodthirsty and is just forced to carry out the mission.
The sound of this widespread killing made his feet go cold and his teeth chatter.
But at this glance, he seemed to see something out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help but take a few steps forward to observe.
He said casually, "Just go ahead, do you have money?"
Zhai Ka was like a rat whose tail had been stepped on: "As His Majesty's new favorite, where is your reward? You come out without any money?"
Without replying for the moment, Tu Xing squinted his eyes and looked down at the edge of the river of blood.
——Rolling black shadows swam over the remains and flowed towards one place.
It was particularly obvious to him, but at the same time he wondered, could others see this?
Tu Xing replied with something in mind, "I brought a little, a few copper coins."
Zhai Ka waved his hands repeatedly, "No, this place costs at least one silver coin, be careful or you will be kicked out!"
Hearing this, Tu Xing regained some of his attention. "Come here and take a look at something. If you can see it, I'll give you a silver coin."
"What is that?" The burly man walked to the side hesitantly and looked down carefully.
He looked disdainful. "Aren't they just the bodies of some untouchables? What a fuss! They'll be burned to ashes soon, and nothing will be left."
"The rain will wash it away, and it will remain the same for about a month."
Tu Xing pointed with his finger and asked seriously, "Here, can you see the moving colors?"
Zhai Ka looked again and frowned, "No, is there something wrong with your eyes?"
Thoughts flashed in the young man's eyes. Speaking of Sudan's purple-red eyes, no one mentioned them, and it seemed that no one else could see them.
A special vision when you are alone?
He reached into his bag and pulled out an old crossbow.
When the aging marks on my left hand were covered with purple-red lines, the crossbow was still in my bag. When I was looking for other things several times, I glanced at this thing and it was still the same.
In any case, it may have become old under the influence of black magic, but it is too weak to be ignored.
I looked at it carefully again for a moment, then put it back into my bag indifferently. There was no flow of light and shadow, and it was a waste of my emotions.
Zhai Ka: "Hey, you still have a crossbow?! But it's too old, and His Majesty won't let you replace it with a new one."
Tu Xing glanced at him. He didn't know when this person had changed his honorific. After a moment's thought, he didn't care. It didn't hinder communication anyway.
"I have to go somewhere after dinner... No, let's go now and buy some food to eat on the way."
Zhai Ka frowned and said firmly, "I knew you were going to refuse to pay this silver coin."
Just as I was waiting for the other party to respond, the young man turned around and left, looking so calm and relaxed.
He quickly picked up his bag and followed, "Where are you going? Aren't you looking for His Majesty?"
Tu Xing said casually: "An interesting thing."
The two of them turned in the middle of the stairs and ran into Ye Qide who had rushed back.
The other party saw the young man first and asked, "Why are you leaving? I got some information."
Tu Xing: "Find something and talk while walking."
The three of them walked downstairs, and Ye Qide stated to them:
"The poor are saying that Wajiha has, on behalf of His Majesty, forcibly abducted more than one beautiful married woman."
"As the number of people grew, the men and the women's families became resentful and instigated protests in various ways. Over the course of a year or two, there were almost a thousand people here."
"In fact, there have been such incidents in the past, but they never reached His Majesty. Waji sent people to deal with them. This time, we just couldn't suppress it."
At this point, Ye Qide squinted his eyes and said, "It's just a few women, isn't it? As long as it's like this..."
Tu Xing's eyes twitched, and he glared at her indescribably.
Although as a non-native, he has always been independent and neutral, and does not stand on the side of the civilians or the Sudan, but as soon as the word "robbery" appears, it is obvious who is right and who is wrong.
Not to mention, if we use the conservative estimate of one death every three days, most of those women would have died long ago.
Don’t you deserve it for causing public outrage?
Ye Qide felt the glare and suddenly fell silent. His eyes became strange, as if hinting at danger. "What? You don't agree with this?"
Tu Xing did not express his opinion, and everyone in the palace agreed, so he could not show a completely opposite point of view.
He calmly changed the subject: "Apart from the common people, do anyone else have any opinions?"
Ye Qide: "Oh, probably because the compensation distribution was not enough, Waji gave them a sum of money, I think it was a gold coin."
Hearing this, Tu Xing narrowed his eyes slightly, "That's indeed not enough. Even if we gave each of them a hundred gold coins, we wouldn't have ended up in this situation."
It took only a few minutes to reach the bottom floor, and the young man walked in the direction he remembered.
Ye Qide looked at the people for a while longer. "It's just killing a few more waves of people. It's not a waste of gold coins."
Tu Xing sighed secretly, feeling tired, and gave an unconventional interpretation:
"Giving them these gold coins will also flow into the entire market through consumption. This is not enough. It's the soldiers who put in the hard work, while all the benefits go to Waji."
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