Farces always come and go quickly.
Qin Mu brought such a group of people, all the generals were put under house arrest, and the soldiers were all sent to Giant Deer City to undergo re-education in ideological and physical training courses edited by Qin Xia.
Not many people in the military camp knew about this. Everyone's impression of Qin Shuai's father was that he seemed to have come a few days ago and then was never seen again.
When asked about the so-called commander of the rebel army, all the soldiers would seriously tell you, "Isn't the commander of the rebel army Qin Shuai? Aren't they the rebel army headquarters?"
In short, the period when Qin Mu led the rebel army was truly like Guilliman's Second Empire, directly sealed away. Or rather, how many people really cared about the period when Qin Mu led the rebel army?
Of course, this is not to say that Qin Mu's arrival had no impact. These past few days, the soldiers could all see their most beloved Fa... oh no, it was Qin Shuai, holding a stack of clothes at the top of the city wall.
The cold wind was bleak, and they quickly sewed clothes for Qin Shuai.
Xiao Lie and Pan Yue now stood on either side of Qin Xia. Both of them tried to speak several times, but just as they opened their mouths, they didn't know how to console Qin Shuai, because even they didn't know what exactly happened in the tent after Xiao Lie left that day!
They had originally planned a secret mutiny to make Qin Shuai the commander, but in a blink of an eye, they found that Qin Shuai had solved everything by himself. There was no way a celestial being like Qin Shuai would need the help of mortals, right?
"I say, why aren't you two training soldiers? What are you doing constantly staying by my side?" Seeing these two constantly whispering, Qin Xia was getting annoyed. He was already in a bad mood, and these two idiots standing there like wooden stakes only added to his troubles and served no purpose at all.
He turned to look at the concerned expressions on their faces, and even the soldiers guarding the city in the distance looked at him with concern.
Had his emotions been too obvious lately?
So, Qin Xia uttered a line from a tokusatsu villain he had seen before: "I feel good (kare kare da) now, go do your own things." After speaking, he even showed a classic toothy smile.
However, in Xiao Lie and Pan Yue's eyes, this smile was too forced, but Qin Xia's firm gaze left them no choice but to temporarily leave.
Watching the two figures depart, Qin Xia's smile faded, and he fell back into silence. The old man had finally told him what his mother had endured.
In Qin Town, Shaanxi, because of its proximity to the capital, the dog emperor quickly discovered a group of rebels under his very nose. But what Qin Xia found most unacceptable was that the reason for their discovery was actually because the old man got drunk and bragged in a tavern, and was eventually reported by someone.
At that time, their father and son acted separately to create a diversion. He was to go to Sichuan to cause a stir and attract the court's attention, while the old man recruited soldiers and horses in his hometown, building up strength.
Unexpectedly, that scoundrel still messed things up by drinking, needlessly costing his family their lives.
The county yamen quickly dispatched troops. Fortunately, the old man had friends in the county yamen who tipped him off, allowing him to barely escape with a group of people. But his mother and his uncle's family were not so lucky.
His father fled in the middle of the night. That scoundrel didn't call anyone and just ran. When the officials burst into the house, his mother realized her husband had fled. His younger siblings also woke up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and discovered their father's tracks, so they all climbed onto his father's carriage.
He gritted his teeth, tears constantly welling up, and choked out softly, "I feel good now..."
Xiao Lie and Pan Yue descended the city wall and went straight to Qin Shuai's tent. Pushing aside the curtain, they saw Qin Mu and a few of his old comrades eating. This group of people immediately stood up in fright upon seeing the two.
They didn't dare to breathe a word. Some people couldn't bear the pressure and their trousers became wet, but Qin Mu continued to eat the food in his bowl, completely ignoring the two.
Seeing this, Xiao Lie's veins bulged on his forehead. He stepped forward, knocked the old man's bowl away, grabbed his collar, and angrily cursed, "What exactly did you do to Qin Shuai!"
In an instant, everyone knelt on the ground. Pan Yue wanted to stop Xiao Lie, but the latter was now hot-blooded and held onto Qin Mu's collar tightly.
Qin Mu, however, still looked fearless at Xiao Lie. He raised his right hand, which was wrapped in bandages, to examine if his wound had reopened.
This action completely enraged Xiao Lie. He swung a punch, hitting the old man in the face. Qin Mu grunted and fell to the ground, then actually burst into laughter. The scoundrel raised his voice, pointed at the two, and shouted, "What? Is Qin Xia, that unfilial son, coming to kill me and seize power? Good, good, good, then kill me! Let the whole army see what kind of person their Qin Shuai is!"
After speaking, he abruptly grabbed a bowl from the table, smashed it, picked up a shard, and was about to stab himself in the neck. Fortunately, Pan Yue, who was nearby, was quick-witted and lunged forward to subdue him. Qin Mu, pinned down, continued to shout wildly.
And his old comrades, seeing this, immediately imitated their boss and started shouting, "Qin Xia murdered his father, to be remembered for eternity!"
After shouting, these old men directly picked up the table boards and attacked Xiao Lie and Pan Yue, but within a quarter of an hour, they were all subdued on the ground by the two.
"Xiao, you idiot, we're completely on the defensive now!" Pan Yue, holding down three people with both hands, angrily shouted at Xiao Lie, "I told you not to get excited when we came in. Look at this scene now!"
Xiao Lie's eyes were already bloodshot. He wished he could kill all these old rascals. "Then let's kill them all cleanly and see who the soldiers believe!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Mu immediately started shouting, and as the sound grew louder and the scene became more chaotic, a huge figure suddenly walked into the tent. When he appeared, the entire room fell silent.
Everyone spontaneously shut up and looked at the giant. Except for Qin Mu, who, upon seeing the newcomer, continued to shout, but he saw no expression on the man's face, and the soldiers around him continued to press in aggressively.
The newcomer was Qin Xia, who, with a grim face, first looked at Xiao Lie and Pan Yue: "You two dared to assault soldiers, each of you will write a three-hundred-word self-criticism!"
Upon hearing this punishment, the few people who had been beaten earlier were stunned. Isn't your favoritism a bit too obvious?
But when they looked up, they saw Qin Xia's bloodshot eyes. At this moment, even if their hearts were full of dissatisfaction, they dared not show a hint of displeasure.
Qin Mu, however, sneered, "Hmph, good son, then how should that fellow who hit me be dealt with?" He pointed at Xiao Lie and shouted fiercely, "I am the commander of the rebel army. Hitting me should be considered a crime of disrespect. At the very least, he should be beheaded, right!"
"Oh?" Qin Xia raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, looked at Xiao Lie, and said lightly, "Then you get three hundred and one words."
Upon hearing this, Qin Mu's forehead veins bulged with anger, but he couldn't say anything else at this moment. The soldiers Qin Xia brought had already respectfully helped the two away. He swallowed and looked at Qin Xia.
Qin Xia helped him up, wiped the dirt from his clothes, and then showed a smile: "Father, Mother is too lonely by herself down there. Would you like to go accompany Mother?"
At this moment, Qin Mu's mind felt like it exploded. He punched Qin Xia in the face, but it had no effect. He felt like a rat cornered, constantly crawling into a corner and wailing: "Madman, you are a madman! Why should I go accompany that old hag? In the future, I will be the Emperor!"
"Father, no one will be an Emperor in the future." Qin Xia stood up and walked towards Qin Mu. His voice was calm, but also carried a hint of silence: "This world doesn't need an Emperor. People only need to live their lives well. If you really want to be an Emperor, after I conquer the capital, I can posthumously confer an imperial title upon you."
Qin Mu frantically waved his hands and shook his head. Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he quickly shouted, "That's not it, good son, aren't you going to do business? Your mother used to say you wanted to do business. How about when I become Emperor, I'll make you the best merchant?"
However, upon hearing this, Qin Xia could no longer hold back his tears and roared, "Shut up, you scoundrel! So it wasn't that you understood my thoughts, but Mother did! I thought you actually cared about your family in silence all this time, but it turns out you only learned about my affairs from Mother's mouth."
"Only Mother cared about her children, and only Mother sacrificed everything for this family. And you, you scoundrel, actually pushed Mother to her death. All of this is because of your drunken boasts, you drunkard!"
Qin Xia's roar shook the tent. Soldiers at the firing range and training ground stopped their training in unison. They listened to the voice of their most beloved Qin Shuai, which was filled with sobs.
"You scoundrel, I must send you to hell. I misspoke just now. A person like you can't even see Mother, because a person like Mother, even in death, will ascend to heaven. And you, you scoundrel, are not worthy of being a husband, a father, or even a man!"
Each word was like a heavy hammer striking Qin Mu's chest. Just as Qin Xia was about to punch him, he could only close his eyes in despair, awaiting his fate. However, the outcome was not as he expected. Opening his eyes, he saw the fist suspended in front of him.
Qin Xia turned to look at his younger siblings. Their eyes were filled with fear as they looked at him. The last shred of rationality in his mind told him that he could not commit murder in front of the children.
He took a deep breath, withdrew his fist, and turned to pick up his younger siblings, about to leave, when Qin Mu suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahahaha, Mother? Do you, this freak, really think that's your mother?"
Qin Xia froze and looked back, only to see Qin Mu, with a twisted face, pointing at him and shouting, "Qin Xia, you're just a monster, a monster that fell from the sky and was picked up by me and that old hag. You don't even have..."
Before he could finish speaking, a soldier could no longer tolerate this person's continued insult to Qin Shuai. A gunshot rang out, and a bullet pierced the poor wretch's skull.
This sudden event even caught Qin Xia off guard. He quickly covered his younger siblings' eyes and looked at the soldier. He wondered if he was seeing things, but it seemed like a golden light flashed on that soldier's body just now?
On Terra, the Emperor, with a dark face, withdrew his psychic power. In fact, after his Primarchs were scattered, he would often use his psychic power to possess someone near them, observing the situation of each of them. This was not only to protect his sons but also to observe which child had been corrupted by Chaos.
Just now, he saw something happen with his second Primarch.
The humans on the planet where the second Primarch was located were not contaminated, much like the situation with the fifth Primarch. But what surprised him most was that every time he checked the situation there, the technological level seemed to have been improved by the Primarch.
However, this time when he observed, he saw an unfortunate scene. His son was about to kill his adoptive father. Originally, the Emperor wanted to stop him, but he didn't expect that his son would choose to stop because of the children present.
He also checked the adoptive father's past and, understanding the cause and effect of the entire incident, he comprehended the Primarch's motivation. Just as he was about to leave, the owner of that body involuntarily fired a gun.
The Emperor couldn't help but feel a sigh of regret. It seemed that this child of his also possessed a humanity different from that of a Primarch!
The soldier stared blankly at the flintlock in his hand. Although he didn't know how he had fired it, he also said, mimicking Qin Shuai, "I feel good (kare kare da) now!"