Don’t Show the Son

Qing officials.

Lin Xiu was flipping through the case files in recent years in the archives.

In fact, he has always had a doubt. Although there are only a small number of people who are talented in different arts, multiplied by the population base of Great Xia, the number of different magicians is still quite a lot.

Ninety-nine percent of them have only awakened their abilities once in their entire lives, but they still occasionally have some talents who are recruited by the School of Different Arts.

The number of different magicians is of course much more than the types of different skills, so there are many people in this world with the same ability, such as Lin Xiu and Lingyin.

In the School of Different Arts, there are quite a few people with the same ability.

For example, Princess Minghe's fire control, the prince's water control, there is more than one student in the School of Abnormal Arts who has this ability, but different people may have different cultivation talents.

If the scope is extended to the capital, or the entire Great Xia, there will be more people with the ability to control fire and water.

But in the entire capital, only Lin Xiu and Lingyin possessed the magic of ice.

Probabilistically speaking, this is very unscientific.

The rank of the strange art does not mean the rarity of the strange art. Some yellow-rank abilities are even rarer than sky-rank abilities.

Abilities similar to fire control, water control, strength, petrification, and golden body are the most common and awakened abilities, while abilities like freezing and thunder are rarer, and disguise, animal language, etc. Such abilities, although they are only at the yellow rank, are even rarer.

As far as Lin Xiu has seen, the rarest ability should be the healing of Shuangshuang girl, sometimes one will not appear in a hundred years.

But rare is rare, and it is not impossible to have none, especially the freezing ability, which is not so rare that only two people have it in the entire capital of a million people...

Facts have proved that Lin Xiu's guess is correct.

He found out in the files of the Clean Officials Department that in the past five years alone, there were three people who had awakened the magic of ice within the capital.

However, after the awakening of their abilities, these three people all died due to various reasons.

Some had a sudden illness, some disappeared inexplicably, and some were sleeping at home at night, and the beam broke and fell on his head. In short, all three of these people died within half a year of awakening their abilities, which led to the death of the king's capital. There has never been anyone with this ability.

If they hadn't all died, this summer, the price of ice in the capital wouldn't be so ridiculously high, and the palace wouldn't even have anyone who could make ice after the stored ice ran out...

Lin Xiu put down the file and cursed in her heart, "This madman!"

Just because his ability is water, he killed all the people who awakened the magic of ice, which can no longer be described as madness.

Lin Xiu knew that it was hard to feel his ability being restrained. Every time he saw Princess Minghe, he felt this way. It was an extremely aggrieved heart, and the urge to fight the other party...

This is still mutual restraint.

As for ice and water, they are unilateral restraints. Those with the ability to control water at the top of the Mysterious Rank, and those with the ability to control freezing at the bottom of the Mysterious Rank, will be defeated if they are not careful. They will feel even more uncomfortable. Encountering the powerlessness and surrender like a natural enemy...

He is a prince, how can he tolerate his surrender to others?

After finally knowing who was behind the two assassinations, Lin Xiu felt a little helpless.

The crown prince is not Yang Xuan, he is the prince of Daxia, the emperor's son, and he is backed by the largest family in Daxia. How can he avenge this revenge?

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is useless.

Lin Xiu could rely on His Majesty to exile Yang Xuan, but that was the crown prince, with too many interests involved, not to mention him, even the Emperor Da Xia, would not be able to touch him easily, nor would he touch his own son.

But how can he not avenge the great enmity of life and death?

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 to assassinate him. If Lin Xiu didn't die, he wouldn't give up, and if he didn't die, Lin Xiu couldn't feel at ease.

If this kind of perverted anti-social personality makes him the emperor, what's the deal?

At that time, not only himself, but even Lingyin may be murdered.

Fortunately, he is still only the crown prince, unable to use the power on the surface, and can only use the means of assassination in the dark. Judging from the feedback from the parrot, the dark power he can use is limited, and he can't do anything about the spirit sound, especially for him. Lin Xiu, who was protected by secret agents, had no choice.

In other words, he didn't like Lin Xiu, but he couldn't get rid of him.

This made Lin Xiu feel a little relieved.

He admitted that the current him has nothing to do with the prince, he can't even tell anyone about it, let alone let the imperial concubine or His Majesty uphold justice, but he is full of confidence in his future.

If he is so anxious, Lao Tzu dares to make anti-Lin Xiu, let alone him.

After learning the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes, Lin Xiu was not only not worried, but also heaved a sigh of relief, letting go of one thing on her mind.

The unknown enemy is the most terrifying. He already knows who the enemy is, and he knows the target of defense and counterattack. To some extent, this is a good thing.

Lin Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, walked out of the document storehouse, and prepared to go home.

At this time, a luxuriously dressed young man walked out of the courtroom with a proud face, turned his head and smiled coldly, and strode out of the Cleaning Department.

Two yamen servants carried a dead body wrapped in white cloth across the yard. Just as Lin Xiu was looking through the file, Mr. Doctor seemed to be trying the case, which seemed to be a murder case.

A gust of wind blew up a corner of the white cloth, and Lin Xiu accidentally caught a glimpse of the face of the corpse, and couldn't help but stop.

Lin Xiu knew the deceased.

The first time he came to the Qing Dynasty, he met Qin Cong's case. After Qin Cong defiled Wang, he even sent someone to kill her. Lin Xiu spoke up in court that day. After Wang's grievances were cleared, his His father knelt down and thanked Lin Xiu outside the Ministry of Officials...

Lin Xiu didn't know the old man's name, but everyone called him Old Wangtou.

The old king is dead.

Liu Qingfeng came out of the courtroom with uncontrollable anger on his face. Lin Xiu stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter? Wasn't that old man the father of the deceased Wang's family in the Qin Cong case last time? What's the matter?"

Liu Qingfeng gritted his teeth and said, "Qin Cong was assassinated to death because of that case. Uncle Zhongyong has always held a grudge against Wang. A few months ago, he didn't dare to act rashly. These days, that case has been completely over. Today Wang Shi's father was hit and killed by a runaway carriage on the street, and the person sitting in the carriage was Uncle Zhongyong's second son..."

He clenched his fists tightly and said: "The Qin family is powerful, and it was an unintentional mistake. According to the law, he can only make him pay some silver taels, but the Wang family has only this father and daughter who depend on each other. Who can pay for the money?" ?”

Liu Qingfeng said angrily: "It's an unintentional mistake of shit, they did it on purpose, they want others to know what will happen to him if they offend Uncle Zhongyong!"

When Lin Xiu walked out of the Office of Officials, two government servants were planning to carry the old king's head to the mass grave.

There are only their father and daughter in the Wang family. A few months ago, the daughter died, and the old Wangtou is also dead now. Pit, buried casually.

Some common people gathered in front of the Qing officials' office, looked at the old Wangtou's body, and uttered angrily.

"The old king is wronged!"

"Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he was killed by someone, what is the law of heaven, what is the law of the king..."

"Hey, my daughter died, but the old Wangtou still didn't escape in the end..."

"The brothers of the Qin family have done all kinds of evil, and sooner or later they will be punished!"

...

Lin Xiu walked up to the two yamen servants, took out an ingot of silver and handed it to them, and said, "Take the money and make a thin coffin for the old man, so as not to expose his body to the wilderness, and use the rest to buy wine." drink……"

"Thank you, Master Lin!"

The two yamen servants were naturally overjoyed when they heard the words, Mr. Lin was really generous, the money was less than five taels, and more than half of it would be left in a coffin, enough for them to be cool for a few days, the two happily took the money, intending to find A cheap coffin shop, this hard job turned into a beautiful job in an instant...

At the gate of the Qing Lisi, the common people are still complaining about the evil deeds of the Qin family brothers.

It turns out that Qin Cong's younger brother, Qin Rui, is a more famous dude than Qin Cong.

The eldest sons of these powerful families in Wangdu will inherit the title in the future, so they often need to restrain themselves when doing things, but the second sons like Qin Rui are different. No matter how hard they work and how good they are, they will not be able to inherit their father's title. The title of title will turn brothers against each other, so these people simply degenerate completely to show that they have no intention of seizing power, and they also constitute the most harmful group of dudes in the capital.

Qin Rui doesn't have the ability to awaken, doesn't practice martial arts, and doesn't need to work hard. He has been acting arrogant and domineering all these years.

The crimes he committed over the years are enough to kill him countless times, but because of the power of Uncle Zhongyong's mansion, he has been at ease in the capital.

After Lin Xiu left the Cleaning Department, she went directly to Lihuayuan.

The old beggar and the salesman also dutifully guarded near the Lihuayuan, waiting for Lin Xiu to come out.

About two quarters of an hour later, on a street in front of the East Palace Gate, a mediocre young man walked into a teahouse. It was noon now, and there were quite a lot of guests in the teahouse. Several people are required to join a table.

Although the people who shared the table didn't know each other, after drinking a few cups of tea, the chatterbox opened up, and the people at the table began to talk about everything, from state affairs to market anecdotes, or gossip about the royal capital's dignitaries. nothing to talk about.

I don't know who mentioned it, Qin Rui, the second son of Uncle Zhongyong's family, awakened the magic of ice a few days ago, which aroused everyone's emotion.

"The magic of ice is a very good ability!"

"It's a pity that I woke up too late, otherwise I would definitely be able to enter the School of Different Arts."

"It's not that Uncle Ping'an's son has also awakened the magic of ice. He also awakened late, so why did he get in?"

"It goes without saying that it must depend on the Zhao family's relationship. Uncle Zhongyong doesn't have such a big face."

"God has no eyes, the second son of the Qin family is not a good thing, such a good ability, why did he wake up..."

...

Two days later, when Qin Rui heard the news, he was also stunned for a while.

What, he has awakened the ability of the heavenly level, why doesn't he know it?

The rumor spread by that boring guy is really inexplicable, but this matter has no effect on him, and Qin Rui didn't bother to care about it, so he simply let them go.

But this news spread more and more widely in the capital.

After all, the strange art of ice is a rare and powerful ability. It is rumored that the second son of Uncle Zhongyong's family has awakened this ability, but it is not known whether it is true or not.

Even Qin Rui's friends who drank and visited brothels together on weekdays heard about it. They asked Qin Rui, but Qin Rui denied it.

A few people are not sure about this. The ability of different arts will not be written on the face. As long as the ability user does not show it himself, no one will know what his ability is.

Anyway, the rumors in the market are very good, and some people say that they saw Qin Rui's ability with their own eyes. As for whether he saw it or not, only he himself knows.

...

One morning, after Lin Xiu finished her breakfast, she heard a message from Xu Wenshu when she came to the Cleaning Department to check in as usual.

Shortly after the death of the eldest son Qin Cong, Uncle Zhongyong's second son Qin Rui also died last night.

When he was walking at night, he accidentally fell into his own well, and when he was salvaged the next day, his whole body was swollen.

Xu Wenshu couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Is it true that we didn't report it? The time has not yet come. Qin Rui has done so many evil things. The yamen can't do anything about him, but God can't stand it anymore..."

Lin Xiu also nodded, agreeing very much: "Yes, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, the way of heaven is like reincarnation, if you don't believe me, look up, who will the sky spare..."

If Lin Xiu was just guessing before, after doing a small experiment on Qin Rui, he was already sure.

Two days ago, he used more than a dozen identities to spread the news of Qin Rui's awakening of the ice magic, just to see how the prince would react.

There is no way to see or touch something like a strange art.

Unless someone's ability is to see through the ability of others.

In addition, there are only two abilities that restrain each other. When the ability users approach each other, there will be some subtle reactions. Other abilities, as long as the ability users don't use them, no one can see it.

There is a principle in logic, which is to prove what is not to prove what is not.

If Qin Rui has the ability of ice, he can prove that he has this ability by creating ice out of thin air.

But if he didn't, he couldn't prove that he really didn't.

His Highness the Crown Prince's mind was narrower than Lin Xiu had predicted. He was so frenzied that he would rather kill the wrong man than let him go. Just because of a few rumors, he went to assassinate the first-class uncle's son.

Although Lin Xiu had a grudge against him, she really had to thank him for this matter.

Thank you for eliminating harm for the people.

Yesterday I was a little nervous, I stayed up late to finish writing today’s update, and I sent it together to readers to see that it is coherent, and I don’t have to catch up with the day’s manuscript on the same day. If I can finish writing the next day’s manuscript the day before, I will send it together at noon. More later.