An elder brother inheriting his younger brother's favor was only fitting; Jia Baoyu clutched his head and laughed uncontrollably
The urgent dispatch reached the capital like a boulder crashing into a deep lake, unleashing towering waves across the imperial court!
Dead?
A Thousand-Household Commander had died in the Western Regions?
The Embroidered Uniform Guard Office's most dazzling, foremost hound, the young man who had ridden highest in officialdom, had simply departed this world?
Sure enough, life could not go too smoothly. Once you fell, you would be smashed to pieces!
Too arrogant!!
He had investigated the border army's embezzlement of military pay, throwing the Liangzhou war into chaos, and gone to investigate cases in the Western Regions at the same time. Did he really think he had three heads and six arms, that there was nothing he could not do?
Good riddance!
With one vicious dog gone, the civil and military officials could sleep soundly.
At the Southern Commandant Office, the atmosphere was oppressively heavy.
Associate Commissioner Xie, Commissioner Ouyang, Officer Fu, and the others looked grief-stricken, remaining silent for a long time.
They could not accept this dreadful news!!
With Jia Huan's Jianghu skills and cautious nature, how could he have fallen into the hands of Western Regions thugs?
But numerous officials in Liangzhou had seen the corpse with their own eyes and confirmed that it was unquestionably Jia Huan.
"Impossible!" Commissioner Ouyang flatly refused to believe it.
"His Majesty summons you." A python-robed eunuch entered the government office.
A carriage drove into Rongguo Mansion.
Wang Ziteng stepped down from it, striding like a dragon or tiger.
He looked up at the azure sky, his spirits buoyant, his face radiant.
How beautiful this world was.
When he entered the courtyard, his younger sister was reciting Buddhist scriptures.
"Brother." Madam Wang rose from her prayer cushion, her face as haggard as ever.
Wang Ziteng stared at her for