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Outside the main gate of Dongchengsi.

Dozens of people stood on the street, blocking the entire street.

Su Mu was the first to step out of the gate of the Dongchengsi Yamen.

Behind him followed Yu Xiujiang and Chen Song, and behind them were Zheng Wang and the other two, who were holding the knife handles tightly.

As for the other detectives from the East City Division, they fell behind.

Zheng Wang and the other two were a little nervous. They had heard of the Qingcha Sect when they were in Nancheng.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived in Dongcheng, I met a sect whose strength was no less than that of Dongcheng Sect.

Although they were afraid, the three of them had no intention of backing down.

No matter what, they must not lose face for Sima Su!
“It’s not Shi Ziran.”

Yu Xiujiang whispered.

Shi Ziran is the leader of the Qingcha Sect.

What Yu Xiujiang meant was that there was no voice like Shi Ziran among the group of Qingcha sect followers outside the door.

Su Mu nodded imperceptibly, then stopped on the steps and looked down at those people.

His current status is different from before. He does not need to treat everyone with courtesy as before. Instead, he needs to establish Sima’s authority.

“Who wants to see me? Please tell me your name.”

Su Mu said lightly.

“Qingcha Sect, Deputy Sect Leader Zhou Yin, on the orders of the Sect Leader, has sent a gift to congratulate Sima Su on his appointment.”

The leading man stepped forward and bowed.

After saying this, he straightened up and clapped his hands.

Several gang members immediately came out from the back of the crowd, carrying a man who was tightly tied up with ropes and throwing him down the stairs.

The man was beaten black and blue, with a walnut stuffed in his mouth, making a humming sound.

He struggled to get up, but the ropes were too tight and soaked in oil, so he couldn’t get free.

“Zhou Yin, what do you mean?”

Chen Song, the chief constable of Dongcheng Division, frowned and shouted.

The Qingcha Sect is very powerful and the Dongcheng Division is really unable to do anything to them.

But now that a new Sima has taken office, if the Qingcha Sect comes to bully them, wouldn’t the new Sima think that Chen Song is incompetent?

He grasped the hilt of the sword and took a step forward.

If Zhou Yin can’t give an explanation, he will have to take Zhou Yin down today.

If Shi Ziran came in person, he would really be no match for him.

But Zhou Yin is not as strong as him, and this is his home court. If he goes all out, he will definitely be able to defeat Zhou Yin within fifty moves.

“Captain Chen, please be patient and listen to me.”

Seeing Chen Song’s aggressive look, Zhou Yin was not nervous at all. Instead, he smiled and said, “This person is the gift from my Qingcha Sect to Sima Su.”

“Let Sima Su know that before Sima Su took office, this person found our Qingcha Sect and wanted to persuade our Qingcha Sect to assassinate Sima Su.”

Zhou Yin spoke eloquently and righteously, “My Qingcha Sect is called a sect, but in fact it is just selling tea to provide food for the poor brothers in the sect. How can we do such a treasonous thing?

So the leader ordered us to capture the man and send him to Sima Su for punishment.”

“Who is he?”

Chen Song stopped drawing his sword and asked with a frown.

“Then Captain Chen will ask him.”

Zhou Yin pointed at the man who was tied up at the bottom of the stairs and laughed, “The gift has been delivered. I will not disturb Sima Su any more. I’ll take my leave.”

After saying that, Zhou Yin left with the followers of Qingcha Sect.

From beginning to end, he seemed to be very polite to Su Mu, but in fact he was arrogant everywhere.

The deputy leader of a sect entrenched in Dongcheng is so arrogant to the head of Dongcheng Division. This Qingcha sect is really full of lunatics as Yu Xiujiang said.

but–

Su Mu put the matter of Qingcha Sect aside and looked at the man who was tied up at the bottom of the stairs.

“grown ups.”

Chen Song turned around and asked.

“Take the walnut out of his mouth and ask him who he is.”

Su Mu said calmly.

Chen Song responded with a “yes”, reached out and pinched the man’s cheek, then roughly took the walnut out of his mouth.

“Pooh!”

The man spat, “You can kill me or chop me up, it’s all up to you. If I beg for mercy, I’ll be a son of a bitch!

What do you want to ask from me? Dream on! “

“Sir, I have learned some interrogation techniques. Would you like to let me try?”

Chen Song said, he was a little impatient to perform.

Although he is also close to the Luo family, Su Mu would not replace him.

But the county magistrate is not as good as the current manager. If Su Mu thinks that he is incompetent, he will inevitably embarrass him.

Naturally, he had to demonstrate his abilities quickly.

This shows the difference between a warrior and a scholar.

Chen Song just remembered now that Yu Xiujiang had already gone to South City to look for Su Mu a few days ago.

So Yu Xiujiang is now Si Cheng…

“No need.”

Su Mu said calmly, “Captain Chen, go to the He family in the inner city and tell them that someone is pretending to be a member of the He family and wants to hire someone to assassinate the Sima of the city. Ask the He family how to deal with it.”

The man who was tied up suddenly widened his eyes.

Yu Xiujiang thought about it for a moment and couldn’t help but exclaimed in his heart, Great!
Hiring someone to assassinate a city’s Sima is a serious crime. It can be done, but it must never be brought up in public.

Even the He family would never dare to admit that they hired someone to assassinate the Sima of a city.

So Su Mu asked someone to ask the He family. No matter whether the person in front of them was sent by the He family or not, they would definitely deny it.

If this person has nothing to do with the He family, then this action has no other effect except to disgust the He family.

But if this person is really related to the He family, and if the He family denies it and says that this person deserves to die, what will this person think?
I risked my life to help the He family, but when the time came, the He family just stood by and watched me die?

By then, this person will definitely have some ideas in his mind, and this may become the breakthrough point to pry open his mouth.

It’s a simple operation, but it’s absolutely amazing.

Yu Xiujiang knew that Su Mu had a feud with the He family and had just injured He Guangshao, the eldest son of the He family, not long ago. If it were him, he would definitely suspect that this person was sent by the He family.

Such a move would make the He family feel as uncomfortable as if they had eaten a dead fly.

Our new Sima really refuses to suffer any loss.

While Yu Xiujiang secretly praised in his heart, a hint of doubt also arose.

That is the Qingcha Sect, why would they do this?

Is it really as they said, to celebrate Sima’s appointment?
But considering their behavior, how could they offend the He family in the inner city over such a small matter?
Even if they were unwilling to assassinate Sima, they could have just rejected the He family directly. Wouldn’t it be a grave offense to the He family by sending the man to the Dongcheng Division?
Yu Xiujiang was completely puzzled.

While he was thinking, Chen Song had already responded and personally led people to the inner city to deliver the letter.

“Tie this man up at the gate of the yamen and display him to the public for three days. Post a notice saying that this man pretended to be a member of the He family in the inner city and intended to assassinate Sima and frame the He family. Before executing him, display him to the public for three days to serve as a warning to others.”

Su Mu said calmly.

“Yes!”

Zheng Wang and the other two responded loudly, pounced on the man on the ground and twisted him to pieces.

This kind of work, they are good at.

The man who was tied up looked stunned. No, you just convicted me without even trying me?

“You dog official, you shall not die a horrible death!” The man was tied to the pillar at the gate of the yamen and was pointed at by passers-by. He felt ashamed and angry and could not help cursing.

Su Mu never thought that there would come a day when he would be called a dog official.

I am also an official.

He shook his head and turned to go into the yamen.

…………

“Yu Sicheng, what do you think?”

In the main hall of the government office, Su Mu spoke slowly.

“Return to my lord.”

Yu Xiujiang said with some admiration, “In my opinion, the Qingcha Sect has bad intentions.”

“how you said that?”

Su Mu looked at him and asked.

“This person was sent by the He family. If the Qingcha Sect does not want to be hostile to you, they can just refuse and stay out of it. Although the He family is powerful, they cannot force the Qingcha Sect to do anything.”

Yu Xiujiang pondered for a moment and analyzed, “But they sent people to the East City Division. This is to force the conflict between the adults and the He family to escalate. Once the adults and the He family start fighting, they may not have time to take care of their actions in the East City…”

“Then do you think that the Qingcha Sect still has a need to exist?”

Su Mu said slowly.

“It’s all up to you, my Lord.”

Yu Xiujiang’s heart trembled. Could it be that this new Sima wanted to use drastic measures?
But the Qingcha Sect is not a small sect. Unless a large number of troops are dispatched from the inner city, the power of the East City Division alone may not be able to wipe out the Qingcha Sect.

But generally speaking, the inner city will not go to war over a small sect in the outer city.

Yu Xiujiang was shocked and confused.

Su Mu did not continue talking. Instead, he called in several former squad leaders of the East City Division and asked them about the situation in East City one by one.

No matter what the seven squad leaders thought in their hearts, they all showed respect to Su Mu on the surface.

Never mind what relationship Su Mu had with the big families in the inner city. A man who could seriously injure even Sima of the South City Commandery was not someone that small fry like them could offend.

After all the squad leaders finished their reports, Su Mu did not ask them to do anything, but waved his hand and asked everyone to disperse.

Soon, only Su Mu and the few people he brought from South City were left in the hall.

“Zheng Wang, please bear with it for a while and serve as constables for a few days. I will find an opportunity to promote you to squad leaders later.”

Su Mu said slowly.

“Thank you, sir.”

Zheng Wang and the other two quickly said, “It’s not a grievance. We are already satisfied to be able to work as constables and follow the adults.”

“Help me to check the Qingcha Sect. You should know how to check it. I don’t need to explain it to you.”

Su Mu pondered and said, “It would be best if we could determine where the Qingcha Sect’s headquarters is.

Be careful when checking…”

Confucius once said, I know the way to your house in the morning…

Yu Xiujiang thought that Su Mu would slowly fight against the major forces in East City.

But they didn’t know that Su Mu didn’t have the patience to play any tricks with them.

When you are weak, you naturally need to find ways and use all means.

But now, in terms of status, he is already a Sima of a city.

In terms of strength, even He Guangshao, who was carefully trained by the He family, one of the four major families in the inner city, is no match for him.

With both strength and power, he has no need to be timid.

“Yes.”

Zheng Wang and the other two responded seriously and quickly left the Dongcheng government office.

When they were in South City, they were all senior squad leaders and naturally had their own ways of gathering information.

The Dongchengsi Yamen has a main building, which is the tallest building in Dongcheng. Standing on the top of the building, you can overlook the entire Dongcheng.

In front of the main building is a small two-story building, which is where the Dongcheng Division’s office is located.

Behind it is the backyard, which is the residence of successive Sima of Dongcheng.

Now it is naturally Su Mu’s residence.

Although he is not short of money now, he is destined not to live in Dongcheng for a long time, so naturally there is no need for him to buy a property in Dongcheng.

The East City Office is much more spacious than the South City Office, and has more land and better conditions, so it is not too much to live here.

Su Mu climbed to the top floor of the main building, with his hands behind his back, overlooking the entire East City, feeling a little excited in his heart.

I started out as a refugee and finally made it to this point. Only I know all the hardships I’ve gone through along the way.

“But this is definitely not my destination. I want to climb up step by step to see the scenery at the highest point.”

Su Mu said to himself, and with a thought, he called out the system panel.

[Name: Su Mu]

[Identity: Ghostwriter/Taiping Division White-clothed/Dongcheng Division Sima (Seventh Rank)]

[Points: 2080 points]

[Realm: The third realm of body tempering (skin tempering extreme realm, flesh tempering extreme realm)]

[Kung Fu: Tianlong Eight Sounds Tendon Tempering Method (Great Mastery)…]

[Martial arts: Kaishan sword technique (entry level/+), Kanshui artistic conception (minor success), Xunfeng artistic conception (minor success), archery (entry level/+)]

Looking at the contents on the system panel, Su Mu fell into deep thought.

He has not used the points on the panel these days. He just wants to collect 4,000 points as soon as possible and improve the Tianlong Eight Sounds Tendon Tempering Method to the perfect level.

After just a few days of hard training, he was able to master the sword technique.

This was the first time he had ever used a sword.

It turned out that no matter how hard he tried, whether practicing sword skills or tempering his body, he could see almost no effect, and even the points required for improvement did not decrease.

At that time he knew that his qualifications and talents were very ordinary.

But now it seems that, perhaps because he has mastered the two artistic conceptions, or perhaps because of his success in body tempering, he can now practice the basics of the Mountain-Splitting Sword Technique without consuming any points.

“Although it may be because the Kaishan sword technique is relatively simple, I am definitely changing as well. It is impossible that my martial arts training has improved and there will be no changes when I practice this ordinary sword technique.”

Su Mu said to himself.

With a high level of martial arts attainment, it will be much easier to learn ordinary martial arts by analogy.

“This way, we can save some points.”

Su Mu thought with great satisfaction.

After being promoted to Sima of Dongcheng Division, the upper limit of the points he could obtain every day was as high as 400 points.

The prerequisite is that the performance of the three identities are maxed out, which is naturally not an easy task, after all, the ghostwriter has no basic points.

But even so, the lower limit of points for his three identities is as high as 180 points.

Even if he just takes advantage of the situation every day, he can still get 180 points.

Compared with the past, there has been a qualitative change.

With a little effort, it’s easy to get two or three hundred points a day.

In another ten days or half a month, I will be able to accumulate almost 4,000 points, and then I will be able to complete the tempering of my muscles.

By then, he will be able to step into the last stage of body tempering, the fourth stage of body tempering, bone tempering.

Night had fallen at this moment, and except for a few places in the entire Dongcheng District, the lights were still on and there was singing and dancing.

The rest of the place was plunged into darkness.

Suddenly, Su Mu saw a figure out of the corner of his eye, climbing over the wall and stealthily approaching the Dongchengsi Yamen.

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