flstandardbreds Chapter 173 Establishing the Queen of the Underworld
Chapter 173 Establishing the Queen of the Underworld
"It is legitimate for the Hades Emperor to supervise the underworld. Since this involves the public officials of the underworld, it is normal for the Ten Kings of Hell to have objections. Since the Hades Emperor reported it in his real name, we, the Joint Committee of the Three Realms, as a third party, have always adhered to the principles of fairness, justice and openness. Naturally, we will conduct a thorough investigation and strive to make the truth public to the people of the underworld."
"And the application of the Ten Yama Kings to retire and replace them with new Yama Kings is also a big deal. Whether it is the recommendation of the Underworld Emperor or the nomination of Yama Kings, I believe the Tripartite Committee will also need some time for political review."
Hei Huomian slowly rubbed his left thumb and index finger and was about to open his lips when he suddenly felt what his clone in Sucong Manor was experiencing at the same time. He unconsciously tightened his toes and slowed down before responding:
"Then let Commissioner Lao Qi give us a deadline, which will deter those who shirk their responsibilities and appease those who report the incident."
"Then let's set the deadline at one month."
"It's a deal." Hei Huomian's real body stood up immediately without waiting for the Ten Kings of Hell to say anything. He didn't even have time to button his suit before he disappeared near his seat.
Meanwhile, in the lounge next door.
Hei Zhan Ze sat leisurely on the sofa, with a smile on his lips, he lowered his eyes to smell the fragrance of tea, took a sip and sighed:
"It's still the cold fragrance in my memory! As the saying goes, when people leave, the tea gets cold. I haven't had this unique frozen tea of the underworld for a long time."
"If you like, just drink a few more glasses." King Taishan, who was huddled on the three-seater sofa opposite, stretched out his hand slightly to make an "invitation" gesture and then quickly retracted it, maintaining his previous defensive posture of curling up like a hedgehog being attacked.
"I am not an ox or a horse, so I don't need to drink two more cups." Hei Zhanze's leisure and laziness changed in an instant when the teacup left his lips. "Be content with what you have, and don't be greedy. In the underworld, whether you are a floating god or a god, you should not be greedy."
King Taishan nodded his head vigorously, "Yes, yes, you are right!"
It is estimated that at this time Hei Zhan Ze would be right even if he said that the other party was a leaf and not a god.
Hei Zhan Ze elegantly made a gesture of silence and smiled slightly with his eyes lowered.
King Taishan quickly covered his mouth with both hands, and followed the direction of the other party's finger, focusing his attention on the muted TV:
The eye-catching blue and white title "foreshadows" the "future fate" of the person involved - "King Taishan was attacked by mobs and was seriously injured and rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment."
The shaky images from the on-site follow-up reports calmly recorded the cruel riot and ruthless destructive power at the scene.
Hei Zhan Ze poured himself another cup of tea, but did not drink it. He just closed his eyes and sniffed the fragrance of the tea. Every word that followed was like a revelation to the King of Mount Tai:
"Now you should know that the forces behind you not only don't want to protect you at all, but also want to take advantage of the chaos to silence you and push you out to be a quiet scapegoat, right?"
"Even if you manage to escape and save your life, they will allow the media to expose every scandalous and evil thing you have done in the past without leaving out anything, making you infamous and living a life worse than death, with no chance of recovery."
King Taishan broke out in a cold sweat, his blood rushed to his head, and he fainted on the ground.
The Nine Yama Kings filed out of the conference room, just in time to meet Hei Zhan Ze who was walking out leisurely.
King Qin Guang led the Yamas forward with a dark face and sneered, "Mr. Hei, what a rare guest."
Hei Zhan Ze smiled and said, "I'm picking up my son from get off work."
Upon hearing the name Hei Huo Mian, King Qin Guang's face instantly darkened twice more, "Mr. Hei is so lucky that his eldest son succeeded to become the Underworld Emperor, and the Hei family's tremendous power continues."
"Huo Mian was elected as the Underworld Emperor through fair and open elections and based on his political achievements. How can there be any talk of 'succession'?" Hei Zhan Ze adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and smiled modestly. "However, I, Hei Zhan Ze, am blessed to have a virtuous wife and filial children to enjoy my old age. To be honest, it is also because I am not greedy."
"Sorry, my family is waiting for me to go back for dinner. Excuse me." After saying that, he turned around gracefully and disappeared instantly.
King Taishan peeked through the crack in the lounge door and saw that the verbal battle outside had ended. He quickly closed the door and urgently summoned his followers to protect him.
As soon as Hei Zhanze returned to Sucong Manor, Jing Youxi and Hei Huowan stretched out their arms and walked quickly forward:
"Zhanzhan, you're finally back!"
"Daddy~!"
Hei Zhan Ze took his beloved wife into his arms, kissed her on the top of her head, and said lovingly:
"Didn't I leave a clone to accompany you? Why are you still so clingy?" Then he bent down and picked up the youngest child with one hand.
"No matter what, the clone is not the complete you~," Jing Youxi looked at the clone of her husband who was sitting at the dining table and smiling at her and her husband with some disdain, "I always feel that he is a little dull and has no romance at all."
Hei Zhan Ze walked into the restaurant with his wife and son, but his eldest son and future daughter-in-law were nowhere to be seen. "My son is back? He's going to be alone so soon, and he doesn't even want to have dinner with us?"
Jing Youxi looked up at the ceiling, in the direction of his eldest son's bedroom, and sighed:
"Don't mention it. The future daughter-in-law went upstairs angrily, and the son did not apologize and reconcile, but went back to his room in a daze." As she spoke, she stamped her feet on her husband's feet and scolded:
"I told you that you were split up and emotionally dull. You still didn't believe me!"
Hei Zhan Ze's clone stood up from the dining table and walked towards the original body. After the two merged into one, Hei Zhan Ze realized what had just happened at home.
"I'll go see my son first." Hei Zhan Ze kissed his beloved wife and youngest son, then went upstairs and knocked on his eldest son's door.
After 3 or 5 minutes, Hei Huomian slowly opened the door a crack. Not only was he not wearing sunglasses, which was rare, but he also looked frustrated. He glared at his father deeply, then turned around and walked back to the leisure area without saying a word.
"Didn't it go well just now?" Hei Zhan Ze saw the undisguised disappointment and disdain in his eldest son's eyes, so he closed the door and followed him in.
Hei Huo Mian sat on the sofa, holding an ice cream pillow on the left and a durian pillow on the right, and asked coldly:
"Is there something you should explain to me?"
Hei Zhan Ze was startled for a moment, then he seemed to understand something, and pushed his gold-rimmed glasses with a smile, "Your mother also knows about this matter."
Hei Huomian was furious and slammed the table, "So you kept it a secret from me?! I'm afraid even Wanwan knows about it!"
"Wanwan doesn't know." Hei Zhan Ze rang the little silver bell and asked Uncle Nan to invite Jing Youxi.
Unexpectedly, Jing Youxi arrived almost twenty minutes later, and even had a servant push a food cart behind him. His voice came before he even arrived:
"My nagging baby has finally learned how to throw tantrums and act like a spoiled brat in front of mom and dad! Come on, give mom ten kisses!"
When Hei Huomian heard this, his handsome face instantly darkened five shades and he raised his hand as if to stop him.
"Tsk, why are you shy so soon? It's really not fun~!" Jing Youxi pouted and greeted her husband and eldest son with a smile:
"Come on, come on, if you don't want to act like a spoiled child, then don't act like a spoiled child. Of course, the fireside chat will not be complete without melon seeds, watermelon, French fries, popcorn and soda!"
Hei Huomian immediately stood up with a gloomy face and walked towards the bathroom, but was immediately stopped by his mother, who hugged his neck and coaxed him:
"Don't be angry~! My dear son, you haven't chatted with us for a long time. Come on, sit down and chat~!"
Under Jing Youxi's coquettish, tantrum and airs, Hei Huomian reluctantly sat down again.
Jing Youxi sat cross-legged with his back against Hei Zhanze, put half a watermelon on his legs, and asked while digging the watermelon with a spoon:
"I'm more curious about how you figured it out."
Hei Huomian's emotions, which had finally calmed down, were immediately ignited again, and his words were full of sarcasm and self-mockery, "How can I, your son, understand this? I have to rely on the enemy's kindness to 'remind' me~!"
Hei Huomian put his right index and middle fingers together and pointed them at his temple. Immediately, a brown light ball the size of a glass marble floated out from his acupuncture point, and then a translucent 3D image was constructed in front of the three people:
More than half an hour ago, in the high-level meeting room of the underworld, King Qin Guang and Hei Huomian were clearly glaring at each other in their seats, but in fact, each of them had their own translucent clones communicating with each other through thoughts.
"Muxian, you are still too young. Why do you think your father let the Black and White Impermanence families go after the war?"
Hei Huomian calmly and confidently said:
"You made an agreement with my father."
King Qin Guang smiled complacently, "Although your father successfully suppressed the rebellion, not only did the backbone of the underworld government departments die in the bombing, but even more than half of the government troops were killed or injured. The underworld government at that time had already been shaken. After weighing the pros and cons, your father finally reached an agreement with us. Otherwise, why do you think we can still do something even if you come to power?"
"You must have heard that your father once proposed to establish the title of 'Queen of the Underworld', hoping to help your mother step to the front so that they could help each other. But it was because of our unanimous rejection that your father's plan was aborted."
“Even your father, the former Hades Emperor, was no match for us, the Ten Kings of Hell. What makes you think you can defeat us now? Hahahaha~!!”
The memory ended with the sound of the cloud teacup shattering when Hei Huomian threw it.
Hei Zhan Ze took the small cake handed to him by Jing You Xi and gently placed it in front of Hei Huo Mian. "Although I created a prosperous era for the underworld, I did bring war to the underworld. I believe in your character and ability, and I am willing to hope that my son can change the situation in the underworld that I failed to change, and give everyone in the underworld a brand new future."
"No matter what the circumstances, I would naturally like to help my son build the business he wants to achieve."
Hei Huomian's expression eased slightly, but he still insisted:
"Well, even if you can make sense, why did you hide it from me?"
"Political power and rule cannot escape conspiracy and overt schemes. I only hope that I will bear all the shady things, and all the achievements in public will belong to you - my child."
The smile that Hei Huo Mian pulled out with his lips slightly pursed seemed a little forced, as if he was remembering something, "Don't worry, Dad. As long as I, Hei Huo Mian, govern the underworld, I swear to serve the people of the underworld."
Hei Zhan Ze patted his eldest son's shoulder meaningfully, "Of course I believe in my son."
"Alright, alright, everything will be fine after the two of them talked it out! Thanks to Shuiru, a good kid, our Meng Meng finally opened up to his parents~!" Jing Youxi exaggeratedly raised his hand to wipe away his tears, then stood up and put his hands on the shoulders of the two fathers and sons, and happily suggested:
"Then, Mr. Black, can you please have supper with me?"
"Xixi, Huo Mian has been busy all day. Let him have a meal with you and let him rest." Hei Zhan Ze turned around, picked up the plate of pastries on the coffee table and handed it to Hei Huo Mian again. His eyes moved towards Bai Shuiru's bedroom to signal his beloved wife.
Jing Youxi understood immediately, and held up his cake to touch the tray in his eldest son's hand, "Yes, yes, yes. There are five of us in our family, how can we miss Shuiru and fried dough sticks~! Some other day, some other day, let's get together as a family to chat around the fire."
Hei Huomian chewed the cake silently, and vaguely heard his parents' concerns in a low voice after they closed the door:
"Zhanzhan, what should I do? Can your son coax my daughter-in-law back?"
"Give my son and his wife some space. I believe nothing can separate them."
At four o'clock in the morning, everyone in the villa tossed and turned and had fallen asleep for a long time.
Bai Shuiru and Hei Huomian, who were sleeping in their respective bedrooms, suddenly floated up from their beds like the south and north poles of a magnet; Hei Huomian even passed through the wall and door from his own bedroom and entered Bai Shuiru's bedroom without any hindrance.
Bai Shuiru and Hei Huomian came to "greet" them. They turned around and then landed lightly on Bai Shuiru's big bed.
It was a quiet night with a bright moon. A pair of people lying on a high bed with soft pillows turned over naturally one after another and fell asleep in each other's arms, facing each other. It seemed sweet and sticky, but in fact, their faces were distorted and their foreheads were covered with beads of sweat. They were both in a nightmare:
Hei Huomian solemnly put a ring inlaid with an egg-sized Hetian white jade on Bai Shuiru's left ring finger and sighed happily:
"Shui Ru, you are finally willing to marry me!"
Bai Shuiru looked down at the ring on her finger with shyness and joy:
There was a ray of white light trapped inside the jade, which kept hitting the stone as if escaping from shackles.
Who would have thought that the next second, Hei Huo Mian suddenly grasped Bai Shuiru's slender wrist and grinned:
“Bai Shuiru, just accept your fate! I will capture you and hand you over to the Hades Emperor Muxian. I will be promoted to the Tenth Palace Yama! Hahahahaha!”
"What?! You, you are actually Mu Xian's running dog?" The miserable sobbing inside the jade stone turned into wailing, and in an instant it became unruly and arrogant:
"Then I am the dog trainer who leads the running dogs."
Hei Huomian was shocked to find that the white and tender wrists that were shackled quickly turned into a shriveled blue-black color, and the withered flesh even began to fall off and turn into ashes, revealing the white bones. Finally, even the bones began to become brittle and shattered all over the ground.
"Shui Ru?!"
Suddenly, the world turned upside down, and Hei Huomian found himself in a translucent "sphere". He tried the sphere as a barrier and it would not harm himself, so he was about to break it with his palm as a blade, but he saw the sphere slowly split into five petals - he was already on a huge palm.
Bai Shuiru, who was using the magical power of controlling the heavens and the earth, had a semi-transparent figure and a sinister look on his face. He looked down at his left hand with a sneer on his face.
Hei Huomian trembled and backed away. "Little Brush?! How did you become floating?!"
"What little brush? Don't you know that I have always been floating? From the moment your parents put the pen-shaped me in your cradle after you were born, your body began to be slowly eaten away by me!"
"Haven't you noticed yet? Your body is completely under my control! Hahaha!" Bai Shuiru grinned and quickly clenched his left hand, instantly crushing Heihuomian in his palm into pieces.
"Ah~~!!"
Bai Shuiru and Hei Huomian sat up from the bed with screams at the same time, and when they realized that they were hugging the culprit from their dream, they screamed even louder, kicked and hit each other, then rolled off the bed, and each of them lay behind a pile of cartoon pillows, gasping for breath.
Ten minutes later, the lights in the study of Sucong Manor were brightly lit.
The Hei family, who were woken up by the young couple, gathered in the study room with sleepy eyes, waiting for the result of Jing Churan's pulse diagnosis of Bai Shuiru and Hei Huomian.
Seven or eight minutes later, Jing Churan crossed his legs, his face gloomy, and without saying a word, he opened a can of ice-cold beer and was about to drink it.
Everyone thought that he just wanted to moisten his throat, but who would have thought that Uncle Nan would knock on the door and come in with a food cart, and prepare a sumptuous midnight snack according to Jing Churan's request before he took his pulse.
As the covers of the dinner plates were opened one by one, the aroma of various foods danced wildly in the room, and even Hei Zhan Ze and his wife, who had already had a midnight snack, felt their appetites rise.
Just as Jing Churan picked up his chopsticks to pick up a fried dumpling, Jing Youxi grabbed his wrist and said, "Don't eat anymore. Tell me what's going on first."
"Don't worry, don't worry," Jing Churan waved his hand and changed his chopsticks to pick up the abalone, "Anyway, he won't die, and there's no way he can be saved for a while."
"Get out of my way!" Jing Youxi picked up a barnacle with chopsticks and stuffed it into her nephew's mouth. Then she pulled him away from the sofa. She sat down and rolled up her sleeves, "I'll do the diagnosis myself." She grabbed Bai Shuiru and Hei Huomian's wrists and took their pulses at the same time.