Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 520: Chapter 170 Plotting Against Nan Batian

Chen, Chen Jiusi!

Upon seeing the person who walked in, all eyes in the vicinity turned toward him, focusing entirely on Chen Jiusi.

Chen Jie, wearing a smile on his face, ascended the hall and greeted Tang Wannian with a bow, ”Mr. Tang, I have arrived. I heard someone accused me of being a murderer, so I’ve turned myself in; please, no need for you to trouble yourself by capturing me!”

Upon hearing this, Tang Wannian immediately plastered a smile on his face, ”Hehe... Master Chen must be joking. How could you possibly be a murderer?”

”It must be this adulterous couple slandering Master Chen; Master Chen, please don’t take offense!”

Tang Wannian definitely pointed at the wine shop’s young couple on the ground, confident that the only people he could offend here were this couple, hence the problem must lie with them.

You say this couple is innocent?

Is that important?

No, because no one cares about their feelings. In this survival of the fittest environment, only the strong can survive, and the weak? Should they just accept being bullied?

Unfortunately, the answer is yes.

Without the protection of the strong, the weak who do not know how to resist can only become fodder for the strong.

Chen Jie felt sympathy for them but couldn’t help them because he wasn’t supreme. If he were, he could use his compassion to save the world, but he wasn’t.

He was merely a participant in the game.

Chen Jie stood there and said to Tang Wannian, ”Lord County Magistrate, regarding yesterday’s incident, let me clarify that it had nothing to do with my brother.”

”You say it has nothing to do, and it doesn’t?”

At that moment, a Mulan woman sharply rebuked; hearing this, Chen Jie glanced sideways at her and asked, ”And you are?”

The woman replied, ”Tara’s legal wife!”

”Tara who?”

Chen Jie looked at Tang Wannian, who was at a loss, not even knowing who the deceased was. Well, he truly was a confused county magistrate judging a muddled case.

Tang Wannian pointed to the corpse on the ground, ”That Mulan noble is Tara.”

Chen Jie took a glance and said, ”Hmm, never seen him; he wasn’t killed by our White Tiger Hall.”

The woman became furious, ”You say he wasn’t, and so he wasn’t? Who do you think you are!”

The Mulan people, accustomed to arrogance, immediately lashed out at Chen Jie. He gave her a look and she instantly recoiled in fear, almost unable to stand, and plopped down on a chair.

Chen Jie glanced at her and said, ”If you spoke to me like this on any normal day, you would be dead by now!”

”Has no one ever told you not to provoke the Thirteen Grand Protectors?”

Chen Jie’s voice was ice cold.

The woman shivered, but a century-long sense of ethnic superiority prevented her from being intimidated by a Han person, and she angrily retorted, ”What are you so arrogant about? I am a noble Mulan person, and what of your Thirteen Grand Protectors? Do you dare kill me?”

Chen Jie squinted his eyes upon hearing this but said nothing, knowing that if this wasn’t a public court, she would have already been chopped up and thrown into the Mianshui River to feed the fish!

For a moment, the situation was tense, and Tang Wannian had no idea how to judge the case.

Just then, footsteps sounded from outside, and immediately after, Mu Ge clad in black armor entered and said, ”Jiusi, things aren’t settled yet, Nan Batian and Liu Laoguai have already set out.”

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie smiled bitterly and said, ”Commander, this noble Mulan lady insists on imprisoning me, and I was just contemplating how to beg Mr. Tang for mercy.”

At this moment, Tang Wannian suddenly saw Mu Ge, jumped to his feet, and scurried over, saying, ”Commander, what brings you here? Does Lord Yelu have any instructions?”

Mu Ge had a special status in Mianshui County as a substitute for Lord Yelu, often handling matters for Lord Yelu, so others could infer Lord Yelu’s intentions upon seeing him.

At that time, Mu Ge said, ”Mr. Tang, why dawdle over a case? Hurry and make a judgment. Lord Yelu says, White Tiger Hall is innocent.”

Upon hearing this, Tang Wannian immediately responded, ”Yes, I understand.”

Saying this, Tang Wannian hurried back to his county magistrate’s desk, while the noble lady looked at Mu Ge, frowning, and said, ”Mu Ge, what does Lord Yelu mean? We Mulan people have been wronged, and Lord just vaguely lets the man go? Is he our Mulan official, or an official for the Han people?”

”Hmm?”

Mu Ge then turned to look at the noble lady, his face filled with mockery as he said, ”Mu Yete, Tara’s wife, your Muye Family has barely produced a chiliarch in the past hundred years, yet with your lowly status, you dare to question the decisions of Lord Yelu who comes from the lineage of the Three Dynasties Chancellor?”

”How dare you!”

Mu Ge certainly didn’t pander to any so-called noble lady; your family being barely able to produce even a chiliarch in a hundred years, all the while living off your ancestors’ legacy, and yet you dare to be disrespectful to Lord Yelu? How utterly tired of living you must be.

Even if my Yelu family falls into decline, we still are nobility of the Great Capital, hardly something your rural-native selves could question.

Truly laughable.

Always flaunting the glory earned by your ancestors, yet daring to question Lord Yelu’s decision, don’t you realize you aren’t even as useful as a manager of the White Tiger Hall?

Lord Yelu is helping you only out of respect for your Mulan identity; otherwise, what right do you have to swagger before Chen Jiusi here?

Is it just because of the meager strengths your family can hardly present?

Ridiculous, if Chen Jiusi were truly to retaliate, eliminating your entire clan would be a mere word away!

Sometimes, Mu Ge found it amusing, these foolish clansmen, how could they think that an ordinary person, merely because of their noble identity, could afford to be haughty toward a Han Martial Arts Expert?