Heartless Phoenix Queen - C241

“Really?” A complicated look flashed through Helian Lie’s eyes. He couldn’t help but sink into deep thought, and before long, he understood what Violet Garden was up to. It must have been Murong Xiu who told her about him falling off the cliff, but the Violet Garden didn’t hold a funeral for him. Instead, it was the Crown Prince. What did this mean? It meant that she believed she was still alive in this world!

“Master, I want to leave the valley!” Helian Lie excitedly grabbed Xue Mingrui’s shoulder.

“No, if you go out like this, your enemy will instantly kill you. I don’t want to save you again!” Xue Mingrui immediately refused.

“Then, how far do I need to train before you let me out, Master?” asked Helian eagerly.

“Simple. You will learn medicine from me and practice the Pure Yuan Palm at the same time. Wait until I feel that you’re almost done, then you can leave!” Xue Mingrui laughed until his eyebrows rose again.

“Huh?” Helian Yu fell into despair. “How long is this going to take!”

“Don’t worry, time will soon pass.” Xue Mingrui smiled, patted Helian’s shoulder, and continued to look at his beloved wild boar.

That night, Helian crept out of bed and was stopped by Helian Fen at the entrance of the cave.

“Little Yi, where are you going?” “The old man told me to pay attention to you at night and not let you run away, I thought he was making a fuss, looks like it’s true.” Then, her expression changed to one of sadness, “Does Little Yi think that we’re too old to stay by our old lady’s side anymore?” Then, she started to shed tears. “It was so easy to have a short reunion with our family. Child, are you willing to leave us?”

Helian was not afraid of anything in his life. He was afraid of women crying the most. Right now, there was an elegant old woman crying in front of him. This night, Helian naturally couldn’t leave.

Xue Mingrui, who had succeeded in his scheme, hid under the blanket and laughed sinisterly.

The next morning, Xue Mingrui began to teach Helian more herbs. Actually, Xue Mingrui had already taught him how to identify the herbs when he brought Helian along. Now, when he taught Helian, it was even more systematic and professional. He even told him how to use the herbs one by one.

Xue Mingrui thought that Helian’s memory was really good. Although he didn’t really want to learn it, he quickly memorized the names and basic effects of the herbs he had taught him. Xue Mingrui felt that he really had found a good disciple!

In order to allow Helian to stay in the mountain and learn from him, he decided to leave the mountain and find the woman Helian desired to communicate with her. He felt that a woman who Helian had taken a fancy to and never forgotten was definitely not an ordinary person.

He was going to tell the woman that Helian was now his successor. Oh, right, he also wanted to meet with Nickelodeon again. Although this man had no ambition, he was once his disciple.

Feng Lingxue understood that Murong Xiu had been busy with internal affairs and had no time to pay attention to anything else. At this moment, a side concubine in East Peak found out that he was pregnant. He was incomparably happy. During this period of time, he had been living in the Northern Yue almost all the time. Occasionally, he would return to the East Mountain. He had indeed favoured this secondary concubine. To Feng Lingxue, who now loved her daughter as if her life depended on it, hearing the news of her concubine’s pregnancy was as joyful as seeing her daughter.

Thus, Feng Lingxue bid farewell to Zi Yuan and returned to her hometown to take care of her own family matters. Although Xixi was young, she was still reluctant to part with the Ying Qi and Ying Lin siblings. It was only when Zi Yuan coaxed her to say that she would bring her older brother and sister to see her after a period of time, did Feng Yuxi finally stop crying. She also asked Zi Yuan to hug her for a while before obediently returning to Feng Lingxue’s embrace.

After Feng Lingxue left, Zi Yuan also let out a sigh of relief. To be honest, although Feng Lingxue had indeed helped her a lot, she did not dare to do anything to her assassination organization’s plan when he was here. She really did not want Feng Lingxue’s power to seep into her organization, but she did not dare to show this intention too clearly.

In the internal affairs of the Northern Yue, most people were still wary of Violet Garden’s iron-blooded and high-pressure policies, so they gradually leveled off. With his own guarantee, he recommended to the Violet Garden a capable person who was unafraid of power. After having interviewed this person, Zi Yuan felt that he possessed the knowledge and magnanimity of the famous Di Renjie of her time in the Tang Dynasty. This young man called Qiao Yu was promoted to the position of an official of the imperial court and had participated in the discussion.

This Qiao Yu not only had extraordinary experience and bearing, but he was also good at handling relationships. Even though he was upright and did not fear nobles, he could still coax the old official in the imperial court to praise him.

The Violet Garden discovered that those who didn’t like this person were mostly people who had a very small heart or a strong will. As long as one had talent, they would have a good impression of Qiao Yu. Even if they didn’t really like Qiao Yu, they wouldn’t be particularly disgusted with him. As for this Qiao Yu, he was not afraid of offending those despicable people. Zi Yuan was extremely appreciative of such a method of handling affairs. Thus, he placed more and more importance on him in the internal affairs. Gradually, he tried his best to stop doing everything by himself and leave it to this person and those old officials to handle. This action made the old officials very pleased, and their aversion to women’s domination gradually lessened.

The internal affairs environment of the Northern Yue had finally entered a scene brimming with the liveliness of spring.

The time she had left was spent on the cultivation of Qu Shuangshuang and the establishment of the hitman organization. After winter, and then spring, Shuang Shuangshuang would be twelve years old, and her body would slowly change. Thus, Zi Yuan first gave her a very complete lesson in physical hygiene.

The child felt awkward talking about this at first, but he soon listened attentively. She felt that a thorough and systematic understanding of a woman’s body and physiology would also be beneficial for killing. Viola appreciates this realization so much that after finishing her course on female physiology, she starts to give her a male lesson. Qu Shuangshuang listened very attentively, and she, who had a good memory, kept this theoretical knowledge in mind.

Violet Garden had named this future organization “Gemini”. First, it was to commemorate her twin children; second, it was to represent Shuangshuang. After all, the executor of this organization was Shuangshuang. She also drew a constellation symbol for the Gemini star, a code for the organization that she liked very much, and quickly embroidered all her own clothes with the symbol, as well as the symbol for the corner of the dress that Viola, who could not embroider, wanted to embroider.

Following that, the Violet Garden didn’t directly recruit members but instead decided to take back the other assassination organisations.

In this world, according to Feng Lingxue’s intelligence, there were a total of nine great assassination organisations. The organization with the widest range of personnel and the largest business scope was naturally Feng Lingxue’s Meiji organization. The organization with the highest success rate was not Mei Ji, but an organization called “Ghost Demon”. The organization is based in a small country on the border between the West and North Vietnam, a small country that was a subsidiary of the North Vietnamese in political relations. “The population of this small country is not great, but its domestic resources, especially its precious stones, are very rich.” According to Feng Lingxue’s intelligence, the organizer of Gui Sha was the king of this country. However, since the king of this country wasn’t proficient in politics and military affairs, it meant that he was limited to running his assassination organization. Zi Yuan felt that if she suppressed and took over such an organization, it might cause the king of the subordinate kingdoms to rebel. From a political perspective, it wouldn’t be worthwhile, so she gave up on ‘Ghost Fiend’.

Behind Gui Sha was Murong Xiu, who was also the boss of the first floor. The main purpose of the first floor was to serve Mu Rong Xiu. Zi Yuan didn’t want to argue with him, so she gave up on the idea.

The organization that had the third highest success rate was “Mei Ji”, so it naturally wasn’t considered by Zi Yuan. Thus, Zi Yuan could only consider the six organizations that were ranked fourth to ninth. As a result, after some investigation, he found out that the fourth person had actually died from illness this year. His internal organs had been partially destroyed, but he had actually died in name only.

The fifth ‘Jade Lotus Hall’, the sixth ‘Slaughterer’, and the seventh ‘Heavenly Falls Pavilion’ were all backed by the king’s relatives from a small country. From a political point of view, they were not suitable to make a move. Finally, only the eighth ‘Bai’ and the ninth ‘Longmen’ could be considered. Part of the business of the ninth ‘Longmen’ was to transfer to the escort office, which made Ziyuan very interested. As for ‘Bai’, it had a private school business. This made Zi Yuan very interested.

“In the end, the Violet Garden decided to annex both these clans. Only then would it be in the highest position.” With the school business, she had the foundation to build the killer school she wanted. As for a place like the escort company, it was the same as the restaurant and brothel. It was a place where news came quickly and was very suitable for gathering intelligence.

A few days after Zi Yuan made up her mind. “The” Bai “, the largest city in the southern part of North Vietnam, had its headquarters located in the northern region of the State of Yue.” The highest leader and higher ups of Bai were all killed by the two mysterious men. The two mysterious men then claimed to have taken over the position of ‘Bai’. Their movements were extremely fast. Very soon, ‘Bai’ changed his name to ‘Gemini’.

As for Bai’s middle management team, some people were promoted to the upper echelons while some ordinary members were promoted to the middle management team. The monthly salary of all the members of the Bai Clan had been increased by ten percent. Immediately after, word spread that “Longmen” had been bought by “Gemini”. Longmen’s boss had become the Twin Stars’ executive officer, but he was still happy because the Twin Stars’ boss’ annual salary was even higher than when he was running ‘Longmen’.

The Violet Garden’s swift and decisive actions were quickly heard by Feng Lingxue at the east level and Murong Xiu at the west. Feng Lingxue was naturally very happy for her, but when she thought about how she only started such grand movements after she left, she felt a bit disappointed. As for Murong Xiu, he began to worry. Although he didn’t know that this Gemini Star was caused by Zi Yuan, he still had a guess as to who the person behind this Gemini Star was.

He quickly followed the example and used the funds in his hands to buy a smithy that did not run well. He found that this would save him a lot of money when compared to directly building a new smithy, so he bought several smithy and continued to develop and expand his Refined Iron mechanism.