Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 93
[Chapter 93: Eliminating Harm for the People]
the Qingli Division.
Lin Xiu was in the case library, flipping through the case files of recent years.
He actually had a doubt. Although only a small number of people have the talent for supernatural arts, multiplying it by the population base of Daxia, the number of supernatural masters is still quite a lot.
Ninety-nine percent of them will only awaken their abilities once in their lifetime, but there will still be some people with good talents occasionally, who will be recruited by the Supernatural Academy.
The number of supernatural masters is of course much greater than the types of supernatural arts, so there are many people in this world with the same abilities, such as Lin Xiu and Lingyin.
There are also many people in the Supernatural Academy who have the same abilities.
For example, Princess Minghe can control fire, and the prince can control water. There are more than one student in the Supernatural Academy who have this ability, but different people may have different cultivation talents.
If the scope is expanded to the royal capital, or the entire Daxia, there will be more people with the ability to control fire and water.
But in the entire royal capital, only Lin Xiu and Lingyin have the supernatural art of ice.
From a probability perspective, this is very unscientific.
The grade of a skill does not represent its rarity. Some yellow-grade abilities are rarer than heaven-grade abilities.
Abilities such as fire control, water control, strength, petrification, and golden body are the most common and most awakened abilities, while abilities such as freezing and thunder are rarer. Disguise and animal language, although only yellow-grade, are even rarer.
As far as Lin Xiu has seen, the rarest ability should be Miss Shuangshuang’s treatment, which sometimes only appears once a hundred years.
But although it is rare, it is not rare to have none, especially the freezing ability, which is not so rare that only two people in the entire royal capital have it…
Facts have proved that Lin Xiu’s guess is correct.
He found in the files of the Qingli Division that in the past five years alone, there were three people who awakened the ice skill in the royal capital.
However, these three people died for various reasons after their abilities awakened.
Some people had sudden illnesses, some disappeared inexplicably, and some people were sleeping at home at night, and the beam broke and hit their heads. In short, these three people died within half a year of awakening their abilities, which led to the fact that there has been no one with this ability in the capital.
If they hadn’t died, the price of ice in the capital wouldn’t be so outrageous this summer, and the palace wouldn’t have no one who could make ice after the stored ice ran out…
Lin Xiu put down the file and cursed in his heart: “This lunatic!”
Just because his ability is water, he killed all the people who awakened the ice art. This can no longer be described as crazy.
Lin Xiu knew that it was uncomfortable to have his abilities restrained by others. He felt this way every time he saw Princess Minghe. It was an extremely aggrieved feeling in his heart, and he wanted to fight with the other party…
This was still mutual restraint.
Ice and water are unilateral restraints. A person with the upper-grade water control ability will be defeated if he encounters a person with the lower-grade freezing ability. They will feel even more uncomfortable. It is a kind of powerlessness and submission like encountering a natural enemy…
He is the prince, how can he tolerate his submission to others?
Finally knowing the mastermind behind the two assassinations, Lin Xiu felt a little powerless.
The prince is not Yang Xuan. He is the crown prince of Daxia, the son of the emperor, and has the support of the largest family in Daxia. How can he avenge this hatred?
In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is useless.
Lin Xiu can use His Majesty to exile Yang Xuan, but that is the prince, and there are too many interests involved. Not to mention him, even the emperor of Daxia cannot easily touch him, and he will not touch his own son.
But how can the hatred of life and death not be avenged?
Even if Lin Xiu didn’t want to provoke the prince, he would not tolerate Lin Xiu living in this world, and would continue to plan assassinations against him. If Lin Xiu didn’t die, he wouldn’t give up, and if he didn’t die, Lin Xiu wouldn’t be at ease.
If this kind of antisocial personality disorder was allowed to become the emperor, what would happen?
By then, not only himself, but even Lingyin would probably be killed.
Fortunately, he is still only the prince now, and he can’t use the power on the surface, so he can only use the means of assassination in secret. Judging from the feedback from the parrot, the secret power he can use is also limited. He can’t do anything to Lingyin, let alone Lin Xiu who is protected by secret detectives.
In other words, he can’t stand Lin Xiu, but he can’t kill him.
This makes Lin Xiu feel a little relieved.
He admits that he can’t do anything to the prince now. He can’t even tell anyone about this matter, let alone let the imperial concubine or the emperor come to preside over justice, but he is full of confidence in his future. He dared
to rebel against Lin Xiu when he was forced into a corner, let alone him.
After learning the identity of the mastermind, Lin Xiu was not only not worried, but also relieved and put his mind at ease.
Unknown enemies are the most terrifying. He already knew who the enemy was, so he also knew the targets of defense and counterattack. In a way, this was a good thing.
Lin Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, walked out of the case library, and prepared to go home.
At this time, a young man in luxurious clothes walked out of the court with an arrogant face, turned back and smiled coldly, and strode out of the Qingli Division.
Two yamen runners carried a corpse wrapped in white cloth through the yard. When Lin Xiu was just checking the files, the doctor seemed to be trying the case, and it seemed to be a murder case.
A breeze blew, lifting a corner of the white cloth. Lin Xiu accidentally caught a glimpse of the face of the corpse and his footsteps stopped.
Lin Xiu knew the deceased.
When he first came to the Qingli Division, he encountered the case of Qin Cong. Qin Cong raped Wang and sent someone to kill her. On that day, Lin Xiu spoke up for Wang in court. After Wang’s injustice was redressed, his father knelt down outside the Qingli Division to thank Lin Xiu…
Lin Xiu didn’t know the old man’s name, he only knew that everyone called him Old Wang.
Old Wang died.
Liu Qingfeng walked out of the court with an expression of uncontrollable anger on his face. Lin Xiu stepped forward and asked, “What’s going on? Isn’t that old man the father of Wang, the deceased in the Qin Cong case? What happened to him?”
Liu Qingfeng gritted his teeth and said, “Qin Cong was assassinated because of that case. Earl Zhongyong has always held a grudge against Wang. In the past few months, he didn’t dare to act rashly. These days, the case has completely passed. Today, Wang’s father was hit and killed by an out-of-control carriage on the street, and the person sitting in the carriage was Earl Zhongyong’s second son…”
He clenched his fists and said, “The Qin family is powerful and it was an unintentional mistake. According to the law, they can only make him pay some silver, but the Wang family originally only has this pair of father and daughter who depend on each other. Who can the silver be compensated to?”
Liu Qingfeng said angrily, “Bullshit unintentional mistake, they did it on purpose. They want others to know the consequences of offending Earl Zhongyong!”
When Lin Xiu walked out of the Qingli Division, two yamen runners were about to carry Old Wang to the mass grave.
The Wang family only had the father and daughter. A few months ago, the daughter died, and Old Wang was now dead. The Wang family was extinct, and there was not even anyone to collect the bodies. In this case, they usually dug a pit in the mass grave and buried the body casually.
Some people gathered in front of the Qingli Division, looking at Old Wang’s body, and spoke out in anger.
“Old Wang is innocent!”
“Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he was murdered. Where is justice and law…”
“Alas, my daughter is dead, and Old Wang still couldn’t escape…”
“The Qin brothers have done so many evil things, they will be punished sooner or later!”
…
Lin Xiu walked up to the two yamen runners, took out a silver ingot and handed it to them, saying: “Take this money, make a thin coffin for the old man, don’t let him be exposed in the wilderness, and use the rest to buy wine…”
“Thank you, Lord Lin!”
The two yamen runners were naturally delighted to hear this. Lord Lin was really generous. This silver was at least five taels. After making a coffin, there would be more than half left, enough for them to live a carefree life for a few days. The two took the silver happily and planned to find a cheap coffin shop. This hard job instantly became a good job…
At the gate of the Qingli Division, the people were still complaining about the evil deeds of the Qin brothers.
It turned out that Qin Cong’s younger brother Qin Rui was a more famous playboy than Qin Cong.
The eldest sons of the powerful families in the capital will inherit the title in the future, so they need to restrain themselves when doing things. However, second sons like Qin Rui are different. No matter how hard they work and how good they are, they cannot inherit their father’s title. Coveting the title will only cause brothers to turn against each other. Therefore, these people simply degenerate completely to show that they have no intention of seizing power. They also constitute the most harmful group of dandies in the capital.
Qin Rui has no awakening ability, does not practice martial arts, and has no need to work hard. He has been arrogant and domineering over the years.
The crimes he has committed over the years are enough to kill him countless times, but because of the power of the loyal and brave man’s mansion, he has been free in the capital.
After Lin Xiu left the Qingli Division, he went directly to the Pear Blossom Garden.
The old beggar and the peddler also dutifully guarded near the Pear Blossom Garden, waiting for Lin Xiu to come out.
About two quarters of an hour later, on a street in front of the East Palace, a mediocre young man walked into a teahouse. It was noon at this time. There were many guests in the teahouse. The space in the hall was not enough, and sometimes several people had to share a table.
Although the people sharing the table didn’t know each other, after drinking a few cups of tea, they started to talk about everything from national affairs to gossips in the market, or gossip about the powerful people in the capital.
Someone mentioned that Qin Rui, the second son of the Zhongyong Earl’s family, had awakened the ice art a few days ago, which aroused everyone’s emotion.
“The ice art is a very good ability!”
“It’s a pity that he awakened too late, otherwise he would definitely be able to enter the Academy of Arts.”
“Didn’t the son of the Ping’an Earl also awaken the ice art? He also awakened late, so how did he get in?”
“Needless to say, it must be due to the relationship of the Zhao family, and the Zhongyong Earl doesn’t have such a big face.”
“God is blind, the second son of the Qin family is not a good thing, such a good ability, how could he awaken…”
…
Two days later, when Qin Rui heard the news, he was also stunned for a while.
What? He awakened the ability of the heavenly level, why didn’t he know it?
The rumor spread by some boring guy was really inexplicable, but this matter had no effect on him, Qin Rui was too lazy to care, and simply let them go.
But this news spread more and more in the capital.
After all, the ice art is a rare and powerful ability. It is rumored that the second son of the Zhongyong Earl’s family has awakened this ability, and no one knows whether it is true or not.
Even Qin Rui’s friends who usually drink and visit brothels have heard about this. They asked Qin Rui, but Qin Rui denied it.
Several people are not sure about this. The ability of the art will not be written on the face. As long as the ability user does not show it himself, no one knows what his ability is. Anyway,
it is very popular in the market, and some people say that they saw Qin Rui use his ability with their own eyes. As for whether he saw it or not, only he knows.
…
One morning, after Lin Xiu finished breakfast and went to the Qingli Division to punch in as usual, he heard a piece of news from Xu Wenshu.
Not long after the death of the eldest son Qin Cong, the second son of Zhongyong Earl Qin Rui also died last night.
When he was walking at night, he accidentally fell into his own well. When he was fished out the next day, his whole body was swollen.
Xu Wenshu couldn’t help but sighed: “It’s really not that there is no retribution, but the time has not come. Qin Rui has done so many evil things, and the government can’t do anything to him, but God can’t stand it anymore…”
Lin Xiu also nodded and agreed very much: “Yes, good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the way of heaven is reincarnation. If you don’t believe it, look up and see who will be spared by heaven…”
If Lin Xiu was just guessing before, after doing a small experiment on Qin Rui, he could be sure.
Two days ago, he used more than a dozen identities to spread the news that Qin Rui awakened the ice art, just to see how the prince would react.
There is no way to see or touch the art of art.
Unless someone’s ability is to see through other people’s abilities.
In addition, there are only two abilities that restrain each other. When the ability users are close to each other, there will be some subtle induction. For other abilities, as long as the ability users don’t use them, no one can see them.
There is a principle in logic called proving existence and not proving non-existence.
If Qin Rui possessed the power of ice, he could prove that he had this ability by creating ice out of thin air.
But if he didn’t, he had no way to prove that he really didn’t have it.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince’s mind was even narrower than Lin Xiu had predicted. He was so crazy that he would rather kill the wrong person than let him go. He assassinated the son of a first-class earl just because of a few rumors.
Although Lin Xiu had a grudge against him, he really had to thank him for this matter.
Thank him for getting rid of harm for the people.
I worked hard yesterday and stayed up all night to finish today’s update. I will post it together so that readers can see the continuity and I don’t have to rush for the day’s manuscript on the same day. If I can finish the next day’s manuscript the day before, I will post it at noon. If I can’t finish it, I will update it later.
(End of this chapter)
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