Chapter 158 It’s better to block than to open up
All the outsiders had left, and the people from the five sects who were left looked at each other. They were all in the same group, and there was not a single outsider.
Shi Chun and Wu Jinliang also jumped to the top of the hill to watch them go. Chu Jingtang immediately approached them and asked in surprise, "Didn't they say that it would attract people from other sects? How come after all this, only our people are left? No one responded to us."
Shi Chun watched the figure disappear in the distance, "Why are you in such a hurry? The various sects have just found out and haven't had time to react yet. You are not allowed to go back and meet with your fellow disciples, and you are not allowed to discuss it privately."
After hearing that, people from several sects thought so too.
"Okay, the rest of you just wait here and take turns on duty." Shi Chun clapped his hands.
The duty shifts can be divided randomly, and those who are not on duty can dig a cave on the spot to live...
Mulan Qingqing returned to the central cave and just walked back and forth a few steps when she saw Wan Daoxuan and others flashing in. They all walked quickly to her, each of them wanting to say something but stopping themselves.
Mulan Qingqing spoke first, "Except for the Bilan Sect, other sects didn't react, right?"
Li Shanshan sighed, "Not only the Bilan Sect, but also several other sects stayed behind after you left."
Wan Daoxuan looked solemn, "I'm afraid it's not just about those few sects. Those few people only made the decision on the spot. When the others come back, they may have some ideas."
"Alas." Several people sighed to some extent.
Mulan Qingqing observed their reactions and asked, "Does Wang Sheng's behavior have a big impact on others?"
Li Shanshan smiled bitterly and said, "Mulan, forgive me for being blunt. If it were an ordinary person, it wouldn't have much of an impact. The biggest problem is that he is your fiancé. When people are engaged in fighting and killing, they are risking their lives. To be honest, Wang Sheng's actions will have a huge impact."
Mulan Qingqing: "Can you find a way to block the news?"
Everyone was speechless. This woman was usually very rational. Did she lose her composure when it came to her man?
Wan Daoxuan: "I'm afraid it can't be blocked. Have you forgotten? When Guan Wen and his team got into trouble, we couldn't get in touch for a long time. Later, you asked them to learn from the lesson and establish a certain scale of horizontal connections between the teams. Now I'm afraid someone has spread the news. Those lower-level sects are born with a rebellious heart. I'm afraid they wish as many people as possible would know about this."
Li Shanshan pondered and said, "It's not easy to block this matter. How can we block it? There are nearly a thousand people here. Should we force them to keep silent or force them not to spread it? If we force restrictions on such things, people will be more dissatisfied and it will be more disadvantageous to you."
Tang Zhen: "Mulan, we have to find a way to solve this problem."
Mulan Qingqing asked back: "Do you have any good ideas?"
They looked at each other in silence. There must be a better way, but looking at you, it seems that you can't do it, otherwise you wouldn't come back empty-handed.
Wan Daoxuan suddenly looked aside and asked, "Brother Guan, do you have any good ideas?"
Tang Zhen and Li Shanshan looked over and saw Guan Yingjie sitting silently in the corner. Their eyes suddenly lit up and they both secretly admired Wan Daoxuan.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the fact that his senior sister was already taken must have been quite a shock to this person. Perhaps the best way was to let this person say it out loud.
Unexpectedly, Guan Yingjie said in a muffled voice: "I can't do anything."
Several people were speechless.
Li Shanshan simply reminded her directly: "Mulan, there is only one best way, the person who tied the bell must untie it!"
Mulan Qingqing nodded slightly, "That's right. Wait a moment, I'll go back and talk to him privately."
After saying that, he flashed out of the cave and flew away on the wind scales.
The people in the cave looked at each other in silence. They thought that talking again was not the best solution. Where had this woman's previous decisiveness gone?
Li Shanshan turned around and walked quickly to Guan Yingjie's side, saying in a deep voice: "Brother Guan, can't you see that the biggest problem at this moment is to stabilize the morale of the army as soon as possible. How can we convince the people if someone's head doesn't fall? Do we have to wait until everything is in chaos before trying to end it? If we really mess up Xuanzhou's victory, how can we explain to the domain master?"
Wan Daoxuan also said: "We are not afraid, we don't care, we are just following orders. If the sky falls, there will be someone tall to hold it up. I'm afraid you, Su Yuanzong, will have to think about how to explain it."
Guan Yingjie sat on the stone pier, resting his elbows on his legs, leaning forward and lowering his head, and said in a muffled voice: "Let Senior Sister decide for herself."
These words made someone so angry that he threw his sleeves away and faced the wall without saying a word.
Several people waited in the cave, but Mulan Qingqing didn't come back. However, Wan Daoxuan and others received messages from their respective groups, asking about Mulan Qingqing and Wang Sheng.
Obviously, what they worried about had happened and the news had spread.
The noisy discussions outside the cave could also be heard faintly from inside the cave.
After Wan Daoxuan and the other two discussed it, they immediately informed Mulan Qingqing about the spread of the news on their respective sides, intending to put pressure on Mulan Qingqing on Wang Sheng's side.
Mulan Qingqing was indeed with Wang Sheng, and was discussing the next steps with Shi Chun. After reading the news from the three parties, Mulan Qingqing said goodbye to Shi Chun.
She did not go back to Wan Daoxuan and the others, but instead rode Feng Lin directly to the location of Wan Daoxuan's men.
As soon as she started her activities there, Wan Daoxuan quickly received news from her troops.
After carefully reading the contents of the message, Wan Daoxuan was very surprised and said, "Mulan ran to my garrison." "Ah?"
"What do you mean, what does she do?"
Wan Daoxuan frowned and said, "I am communicating with my people to ask their opinions on Wang Sheng's matter."
"..."
Tang and Li were speechless.
Afterwards, the three of them left at the same time, determined to rush to Mulan and Qingqing's place to see what was going on. When they reached the cave entrance, they discovered that one person was missing.
Tang Zhen turned around and shouted, "Brother Guan, aren't you going?"
Guan Yingjie, who already knew the result, was not interested in going on this pretentious trip. Worried that he would not be able to continue the performance, he shook his head and said, "It's not good to have no one watching here. I won't go. You guys go."
Well, the three of them didn't force it. They left the cave and quickly flew away on the same wind scale.
When they arrived at Wan Daoxuan's camp, they found that they were too late. Mulan Qingqing had already left. No one knew where she had gone, and there was no need for Mulan Qingqing to explain to anyone.
The three of them had no choice but to contact Mulan Qingqing directly, and after asking they found out that she had gone to Chao Zhilin's troops again.
The three of them rode the Wind Scale again, and when they arrived, they finally saw Mulan Qingqing, who was among the people from various factions communicating with everyone.
The three of them listened in and found that the topic of discussion was not just about Wang Sheng. Mulan and Qingqing mainly used Wang Sheng's complaints to ask about the attitudes of various factions.
She was willing to be frank and not pursue responsibility, and since she used her fiancé as an introduction, some of what everyone said was quite realistic.
By the time the communication was over, it was already dark, and the three of them were finally able to talk to Mulan Qingqing alone.
The few of them reached a hilltop where they could see the afterglow of the setting sun.
Without anyone around, Tang Zhen asked directly, "Mulan, did Wang Sheng agree to come back?"
To put it bluntly, they don't care about what other people say, they only care about Wang Sheng's attitude. As long as they are strict with Wang Sheng, they will naturally be able to control the people from other sects.
Mulan Qingqing shook her head slightly. "He refused to come back. He complained to me a lot about the reasons for not coming back. The general meaning was that he thought he could work hard for Xuanzhou to win the championship, but why should he work hard for us big sects? He said that no matter how hard he worked, the benefits would be squeezed out by us big sects. He asked us, if he worked hard to help us, what benefits we big sects could give them. If he can't solve this problem, he won't come back."
After several people looked at each other, Li Shanshan said in a deep voice: "Excuse me, Mulan, you are too pampering him. Not to mention now, if you continue like this, it will not be good for you in the future. Men like this should not be pampered!"
Mulan Qingqing asked back: "You mean, you want me to kill him directly?"
Li Shanshan pursed her lips and said nothing. Silence meant consent.
Mulan Qingqing didn't say anything either. She stared at Li Shanshan with a frown. Her eyes gradually became cold and unfriendly, as if she was waiting for a result to come out of his mouth.
As soon as she showed her power, the atmosphere immediately became a little awkward.
Li Shanshan was silent as a cicada, not daring to act rashly for a moment, but cursing in her heart. This bitch was so ruthless when she killed a chicken to scare the monkey on others, but when it came to her own man, she clearly protected him. It was too much.
At the same time, I was also scolding myself for being so rude. We all know that some things are hard to say, and everyone is holding back, so why should I be the first to say this?
Wan Daoxuan and Tang Zhen's hearts tensed instantly, and they didn't dare to continue Li Shanshan's topic. There was no other way, as they had all seen Mulan's demonstration methods, and even if the three of them were tied together, they probably would not be a match for this woman.
Thinking of how Wang Sheng had insulted Mulan Qingqing in public, Mulan Qingqing had to control her temper, while they were offended by just a wrong word behind her back. The difference in treatment was so great that the three of them felt jealous. They really didn't know what kind of luck that scumbag Wang Sheng had to marry this woman.
It was not a good idea to continue being so awkward, so Wan Daoxuan changed the subject and asked, "Mulan, what do you mean by running around to talk to those people?"
The topic was changed well. Mulan Qingqing finally stopped looking like she was about to draw her sword, but she answered the question irrelevantly. "Before Chao Zhilin disappeared, someone saw him and Hu Yandao and his men meet. Now both of them are gone. Regardless of what happened to them, what should we do with these two groups of more than 2,000 people? Should we appoint two new sects to lead them?"
The three of them became more cautious and did not answer.
Tang Zhen tried to ask back: "What do you mean?"
Mulan Qingqing: "I ran around to question them because of Wang Sheng. You said the news had spread, so I took the opportunity to ask them what they thought about Wang Sheng. I had a frank discussion with them and found that many sects did have the same idea as Wang Sheng. The difference was that Wang Sheng dared to resist because of his relationship with me.
They all think that their efforts are not worth the effort, and that we, the big sects, have squeezed out their benefits. Many people even think that some of the big sects are too cautious about their own lives, and do not consider the lives of lower-level sect personnel when assigning them. Some people even disregard human lives because of their personal likes and dislikes.
If it weren't for Wang Sheng's incident, I wouldn't have known that everyone's resentment was so great, and it can be said that there was so much complaints.
So I was thinking, can we really take advantage of the good ranking we have won? The incident started with Wang Sheng, and it also involved me, so I must face this question seriously, should I block or ease? After thinking about it, maybe, blocking is worse than easing! "
(End of this chapter)
