MM Racing Chapter 503: The Falling Palace Gate
Chapter 503: The Falling Palace Gate
After failing to find anyone in Shang Palace and Jiao Palace, Jin Fan came to the Council of Elders. The three elders who had already gone to bed heard the guards report that something big had happened with Zhiren, and it seemed that something was wrong.
The three elders, Xueyuehua, hadn't even put on their clothes yet. They hurriedly followed Jin Fan to Yu Palace in their pajamas.
Along the way, all they could do was ask Jin Fan to tell them where Gong Ziyu went and what he did before returning to Yu Palace, and whether he went to the clinic to ask a doctor to come and see him.
"The doctors in the clinic are all in the palace."
The three elders knew what Jin Fan hadn't finished saying, but they never thought about why. They just thought that those people in the clinic were being presumptuous.
"Outrageous! Outrageous! Outrageous!"
Elder Xue said three outrageous words in a row, "Do the people in the clinic want to stop working in the palace? They even dared to disobey the orders of the blade bearers! And they even dared to cause a closure of the palace! They are so rebellious!"
Elder Yue advised, "Old Xue, look at what you said! Have you forgotten that the hospital is not under the jurisdiction of the palace? That is their business. Didn't you hear their account book at the annual meeting this year?"
Who is Elder Xue? He is a stubborn person. How could he listen to Elder Yue's advice?
"What's going on over there? Is Zhenggong part of the palace gate? If it is, then you must obey the orders of the blade holder! If not, get out of the palace gate!"
Elder Yue looked at Elder Xue who was getting more and more excited, and quickly looked at Elder Hua who was standing beside him.
"Elder Xue! You've gone too far!"
Although Elder Hua also loved Gong Ziyu, he was not yet as crazy as Elder Xue and spoke nonsense.
"When they came here, we had already negotiated the terms, and all the expenses of the Zheng Palace were paid by them. We didn't pay a penny. The clinic is under the jurisdiction of the Zheng Palace, and their monthly salary and the consumption of herbs are also paid for by them! It is up to them to decide whether to obey the orders of the blade!"
"Elder Hua! Which side are you on? Why are you always speaking for them?"
Elder Hua looked at Elder Xue who was going crazy for Gong Ziyu, frowned and stopped, "I am not on either side, I just hope that the palace can be safe and stable without internal strife!"
Elder Hua took a deep breath and continued, "Gong Ziyu is like this now because of you guys! Look at what he has become? He can't accept any setbacks! He's like a child who never grows up. When something happens, he just hides in the corner and waits for adults to comfort him."
After this incident, Elder Hua suddenly came to his senses, "After Gong Hongyu died, it was because of your two selfish desires that you allowed a cowardly and incompetent person like Gong Ziyu to take the position of the Blade Master, and brought the hidden conflicts among the four palaces of the Palace Sect to the surface!"
Elder Hua looked into Elder Xue's eyes and said, "Elder Xue! Tell me! Is it true that Gong Ziyu is the only one who can take over the tattoo? Gong Shangjiao should have just left the palace not long ago! Why did you find Gong Ziyu first instead of the more capable Gong Shangjiao?"
Elder Hua looked at Elder Xue, who was too guilty to look him in the eye. He suddenly shouted, "Elder Xue! Tell me!"
Elder Xue moved his lips a few times and said in a stern voice, "There are some things I don't want to talk about! Knowing too much won't do you any good! I'm doing this for your own good!"
Elder Hua sneered, "Bullshit! Do you think I'm kidding you like my stupid son?"
Elder Hua suddenly turned around and looked at Elder Yue. "What about you? Why did you agree to Elder Xue's proposal?"
Elder Yue, like Elder Xue, turned his head away and did not dare to look Elder Hua in the eye. What else did Elder Hua not understand at this time?
Elder Hua raised his head and closed his eyes. When he looked at Elder Yue and Elder Xue, a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes. "Being in a high position for too long has made you develop some thoughts that you shouldn't have!"
"Don't think that I don't know anything just because I'm a blacksmith! How did Gong Huanyu become the young master? And how did he pass the Three Realms Trial? How did Gong Hongyu become a blade wielder? How did the massacre happen ten years ago? How did Gong Ziyu get to the back mountain through the secret passage to meet Xue Zhongzi? You don't really think that I don't know anything!"
"I'm telling you! I know everything about the deal between you two and Yu Gong. I didn't tell you before because Gong Hongyu and Gong Huanyu didn't make any mistakes in major matters, so I turned a blind eye. But what about now?"
Elder Hua scolded the two people harshly, but what Elder Xue and Elder Yue did not expect was that Elder Hua actually knew about the deal between them and Gong Huanyu and Gong Hongyu.
Jin Fan stood there not daring to move. He didn't understand why the three elders were only asked to persuade Gong Ziyu, but why they suddenly started quarreling halfway and revealed some things that he shouldn't know!
There was a knock on the window behind him. Gong Shangjiao did not turn around nor put down the work he was reviewing. "Come in!"
The window was opened and a black figure flipped in from outside without making any sound.
"whats the matter?"
"Elders Xue, Yue, and Hua had an argument on the way to Yu Palace when they were invited by Jin Fan. It seemed that the argument was about Yu Palace."
Gong Shangjiao didn't expect that these things were actually revealed by the people in the Council of Elders. This saved him a lot of trouble, otherwise he would have to go to the trouble of asking people to spread the rumors.
"Don't worry about it. If they want to embarrass themselves, let them do it! It won't be ours anyway!"
"But, the three of them are elders after all. They quarreled right at the palace gate, and it also involved the matter of Old Zhiren's promotion. If Wufeng's people knew about it, would it be a disaster?"
Shadow was worried that the bladeless assassins hiding in the palace gate would spread the news, and then he would be embarrassed in front of the enemy!
"Are there not enough assassins in the palace gates now? If they knew, they would have known it long ago. Why would they have to wait until now?"
Gong Shangjiao sneered at this. He didn't know how many pairs of eyes in the entire palace belonged to Wufeng, how many pairs of eyes belonged to Yugong, and how many pairs of eyes belonged to the Council of Elders. There were very few that truly belonged to them.
"Elder Xue and Elder Yue have been in high positions for too long and have long forgotten that their existence is just a liaison between the front mountain and the back mountain. In fact, they have no real power at all! They are just relying on their age to bully others!"
"Do they think that they can show off their power to us just because we respect them? If there were no such people in the front mountain, how could the back mountain be pampered?"
What Gong Shangjiao was holding in his hand were the account books of the Council of Elders, the Snow Palace in the back mountain, the Moon Palace and the Flower Palace.
"When the front mountain encountered a crisis, they never came out to help, but they wanted to take the benefits for themselves!"
Gong Shangjiao shook the account book with the word "Moon Palace" written on it in his hand, "Take a look! How much did the Moon Palace spend this month! It's almost catching up with the Zheng Palace! Cartloads of herbs have to be sent in, and batches of medicine men are also sent in, but what's the result? Nothing at all!"
The shadow was completely wrapped in darkness, with no other part of his body being able to be compared except for a pair of ordinary eyes.
Shadow leaned over to take a look. "Didn't the female assassin we captured at the Zheng Palace Clinic be taken away by Master Yue of the Moon Palace? Did they find anything out?"
Gong Shangjiao recalled what his brother Yuanzheng had said about the person he had captured, but who was taken away by people from the back mountain. He could still remember the indignant look on his brother Yuanzheng's face at that time.
"He died before he figured out anything! His body was stolen on the first day it was hung at the palace gate!"
"Master Jiao! Are the guards at the palace gate so unguarded? They actually allowed someone to steal an enemy corpse right under their noses!"
Shadow asked Gong Shangjiao in disbelief, his eyes full of confusion.
After all, Gong Shangjiao had never experienced it personally. He was still doing business and handling affairs in the south at that time. He also heard about this matter from his younger brother Yuanzheng after he returned to the palace.
"I'm afraid he was rescued by a traitor! After all, the Moon Palace also studies herbs, so making one or two fake death drugs shouldn't be a problem!"
Gong Shangjiao suddenly sneered, "It seems that we should just change our palace's name to Wufeng!"
Shadow didn't know what to say, "Master Jiao, the gate of this palace has been rotten from the roots since the last generation. Even if it looks lush and flourishing, it can't resist the erosion of termites!"
"Give these to Xue Zhongzi, he will know what to do after reading them!"
Gong Shangjiao turned an inconspicuous little ornament on the table, and something suddenly fell from under the table. Gong Shangjiao handed the thing to Yingzi and let him leave.
Not only Jiao Gong knew about the quarrel among the three elders at the palace gate, but also Gong Zishang, who had been researching new weapons in the laboratory.
After hearing this, Gong Zishang put down what she was holding, opened the door and grabbed a maid who was facing away from her.
"Say what you just said again? Who is arguing with whom?"
The little maid who was caught by Gong Zishang was so frightened by his gloomy face that she couldn't say a word. It was Gong Zishang's personal maid Bitao who rescued her.
"Palace Master, you scared this little girl!"
Bi Tao asked Gong Zishang to loosen the hand that was grabbing the maid's collar, then comforted the maid, and used both kindness and force on the others, "You all go down first! We don't need you to serve here anymore!"
After the maids left, Bitao took Gong Zishang back to the laboratory and talked in private behind closed doors.
"Bi Tao, what's going on with the three elders arguing that the maids just mentioned?"
Bi Tao first poured a cup of tea for Gong Zishang, and then slowly said: "I don't know where Zhi Ren got stimulated to return to Yu Palace, and Guard Jin went to find the eldest lady immediately. But at that time, the eldest lady was the key to the research. After being interrupted by Guard Jin, she had someone drive Guard Jin out."
Gong Zishang seemed to remember that there was such a thing, "What happened next? Where did Jin Fan go?"
"I don't know what Guard Jin was thinking. He actually went to Jiao Palace and planned to ask Master Jiao for help?"
Bi Tao peeled another orange for Gong Zishang and continued, "Miss, you also know how unhappy Master Jiao is about Zhi Ren's promotion. How could he listen to a guard and help Zhi Ren? Master Jiao is a man of principle and bottom line. If it were someone else, they would have been considered conscientious if they didn't step on him."
Gong Zishang knew a little about Gong Shangjiao. It was wishful thinking to ask him to deal with Gong Ziyu, but he could ignore Gong Ziyu. "What happened next? Jin Fan went to the Elders' Council and invited Elder Sanwei to Yu Palace? Why did they quarrel halfway?"
"Don't mention it! Jin Fan didn't even enter the Jiao Palace. He was beaten up by the Jiao Palace guards at the gate, and then he was threatened! In the end, he left the Jiao Palace in disgrace."
Bitao vividly described the scene of Jin Fan being pressed to the ground and rubbed by the guards at the gate of Jiao Palace. Gong Zishang felt so itchy and secretly regretted not following to see what was going on.
"After Jin Fan left dejectedly, he went to the Elders' Hall. The elders had already gone to bed. When they heard that Zhi Ren was in trouble, they went straight to Yu Gong in their pajamas and cloak without changing their clothes."
"So what was the quarrel about?"
The more Bitao talked, the more Gong Zishang's gossipy heart became itchy.
"I also heard from them. Some time ago, Master Zheng was injured by Jin Fan when Master Jiao was out, so the clinic went on strike and ran to Zheng Palace. Elder Xue and the others didn't care about Master Zheng being injured at the time. After Zheng Palace closed, they just said a few words about holding a blade, and there was nothing else. Later, Master Jiao came back and found trouble for Master Zheng."
Gong Zishang was also quite familiar with this matter. At that time, Yuan Zheng was passing by Yu Gong and was beaten by Jin Fan. Later, he was rescued by the tree demon beside Yuan Zheng. After that, he heard the news that Zheng Gong was closing the palace.
"I know about this. Didn't the Elders' Council and Yu Palace also stop producing Herb Extract and Obstacle Avoidance Tea during that period?"
"Yes! But after Master Jiao came back, although Master Zheng met Master Jiao, he still did not open the door of Zheng Palace, so the clinic is still empty, with only some apprentices inside."
Gong Zishang put the matter together and said, "It can't be that the quarrel started because there is no doctor in the clinic!"
Bitao nodded and then shook her head.
"Bitao, what do you mean by nodding and shaking your head?"
"It means that half of it is correct, and the other half is wrong!"
"Then tell me, why is that?"
"Miss, the quarrel was indeed caused by the absence of the doctors from the clinic, but it is also reasonable for the doctors to follow their palace master when the palace is closed. However, Elder Xue does not think so. He thinks that since they are inside the palace gate, they should obey the orders of the sword bearer."
Bi Tao leaned close to Gong Zishang's ear and said, "I also heard that Elder Xue also said this: 'If Zheng Palace is still part of the palace gate, you must obey the orders of the blade holder. If not, get out of the palace gate!'"
Gong Zishang stared at Bitao with his eyes wide open, trying to find some traces of lies on her face.
"Is Elder Xue crazy?"