Because Hu Meihang is not an ordinary official, but the governor of the entire Guiyuan Star, one of the true Four Great Regional Commanders.
His fate is not comparable to that of a small figure like Fan Chengcai, even if Fan Chengcai is a noble and Hu Meihang is just a common citizen.
As an imperial regional commander, anyone who wants to move him must go through simultaneous review by the Cabinet and the Emperor.
An entire morning passed, and so many people in the vast Guiyuan Star Governor's Office scattered like birds and beasts.
On the other end of the call, Fan Jiao Yan was essentially listening to a grand drama unfold.
She was so angry that her whole body was ice-cold, and she couldn't stop trembling.
At over fifty years old, if she hadn't taken good care of herself, she wouldn't have been able to withstand this blow.
But now, she knew she couldn't fall.
She must save them, save her younger siblings, and their families...
Fan Jiao Yan gritted her teeth and finally made a video call to the Quan Family on Cangge Star.
The youngest daughter of the previous generation of the Rong Family, her sister-in-law Rong Ruowu, had married into the Quan Family more than a decade ago and was the wife of the Quan Family's Third Master.
Over the years, she had been respectful and maintained a particularly close relationship with this sister-in-law. This relationship should come in handy now, right?
But Rong Ruowu was currently on a call with Quan Caiwei.
Quan Caiwei was her eldest daughter, the apple of her eye, raised with the utmost care.
At this moment, Quan Caiwei was crying like a flood of tears, recounting her treacherous experiences in the Fan Family.
Rong Ruowu was furious when she heard this, wishing she could personally go to Guiyuan Star and tear the entire Fan Family into pieces! Seeing Quan Caiwei crying so hard, Rong Ruowu suppressed her anger and comforted her softly, saying that she would let her come home immediately.
While Rong Ruowu was on the phone with Quan Caiwei, Fan Jiao Yan's video request came in.
She didn't have time to answer it, nor did she want to talk to anyone with the surname Fan.
After she finished talking with her daughter Quan Caiwei, she directly blacklisted Fan Jiao Yan's number.
Whether Fan Jiao Yan was coming to plead or apologize, she didn't want to hear it.
Not only did she not answer Fan Jiao Yan's call request, but she also made a video call directly back to her parents' home, telling the Rong Family's patriarch, the current head of the Rong Family, Rong Chunyu: "Dad, in the future, I don't want to see my second sister-in-law in any place I appear. Anyway, wherever it is, it's either her or me!"
Her only connection with the Fan Family was this second sister-in-law.
It was because of this little connection that the Fan Family actually had such dirty thoughts! Rong Ruowu couldn't help but think that if that bitch Fan Chengcai succeeded, her daughter, with her strong personality, would definitely not be able to live on...
Therefore, the more she thought about it, the more she hated it, and she made a harsh statement to her parents' family.
She was the Rong Family's daughter who had married the best. Previously, her aunt had married into the Li Family, which was not bad, but the Li Family was the weakest of the Four Great Noble Families and could not be compared with the top three.
Therefore, Rong Ruowu's words were still very effective in her parents' family.
Moreover, because she was the youngest daughter of the Rong Family's old master, he doted on her very much. Therefore, as soon as he received her video call, he agreed without even asking the reason.
In short, if my daughter is unhappy, those who make her unhappy should all disappear!
This was the Rong Family's old master's logic.
He immediately called his eldest son Rong Ruoxian and second son Rong Ruoye over and directly ordered: "The second son's wife has angered your sister Ruowu. In the future, wherever Ruowu appears, don't let the second son's wife appear, understand?"
Rong Ruoxian and Rong Ruoye looked at each other, wondering why the old master suddenly made such a harsh statement.
Rong Ruoye cautiously asked: "Dad, what happened? How did Jiao Yan offend Little Sister? I'll have Jiao Yan personally apologize to Little Sister, carrying thorns on her back, will that work?"
Fan Jiao Yan was his wife.
Rong Chunyu drooped his eyelids, leaned back on the comfortable soft chair, hugged the cat in his arms, and said casually: "Your little sister has had a good temper since she was a child. This time, she's so angry, it must be that your wife has done something that touched her reverse scale... I don't care what you think, in short, if my daughter is unhappy, I can't let someone else's daughter be happy!"
This was almost standing with Rong Ruowu without asking the reason...
The Rong Family's eldest son was okay, because Rong Chunyu was not targeting his wife, but the Rong Family's second son's wife, so it was easier for him to accept, and he also advised the second son: "Alright, let your sister-in-law be more accommodating to your younger sister in the future. Anyway, your younger sister doesn't come back often, so there aren't many opportunities for your sister-in-law to step back."
The Rong Family's second son was speechless with anger.
His father and eldest brother were both on his younger sister's side. He had a good relationship with his younger sister, and his relationship with his wife was actually not bad. The two had been husband and wife for more than twenty years, always in harmony, and he was a little caught in the middle for a while.
During the family's New Year's Eve feast in the evening, Rong Chunyu completely acted as if Fan Jiao Yan didn't exist.
When his direct descendants gave him New Year's greetings, he gave out red envelopes one by one, even bypassing Fan Jiao Yan directly.
Fan Jiao Yan lost so much face in front of her whole family, but she didn't dare to make a fuss at all, and still carefully served them from the side.
Rong Chunyu was over eighty years old, and as people aged, they became more refined. What hadn't he seen? After the banquet ended, he returned to his room, called his eldest son over, and whispered, "Go and investigate what happened to the Fan Family of Guiyuan Star."
Rong Ruoxian frowned and asked, "Father, why do you say that? Did you hear something?"
Rong Chunyu shook his head: "No, but from the abnormal behavior of your younger sister and your second sister-in-law, I guessed that something must have happened to the Fan Family of Guiyuan Star."
"Abnormal behavior?" Rong Ruoxian was even more puzzled. "Just because they had a conflict today?"
Rong Chunyu patiently pointed out to him: "Your younger sister has always had a gentle temper, but this time, she is irreconcilable with her second sister-in-law for the first time."
"And your second sister-in-law is actually quite concerned about face, and usually pays attention to these things. Moreover, she is the eldest daughter of the Fan Family, with a tough personality and quite capable. She could have recruited a son-in-law to inherit the title back then. But today, I publicly embarrassed her, and not only did she not have any resentment, but she was also apprehensive and served from the side. What does this mean?"
Rong Ruoxian suddenly realized: "...The reason why the second sister-in-law did this must be because something happened to her family, and a big problem!"
He also thought, "Then what about little sister? Is she doing this because the Fan Family offended her?"
Rong Chunyu nodded heavily: "It's very likely, go and investigate."
...
The news that the Fan Family had an accident and had their title stripped spread like wildfire in the noble circles of the Beichen Empire.
It's no wonder everyone was paying so much attention.
Because since the Dark Night Hunter Association made a fuss more than ten years ago, causing twenty-four noble families to become extinct, no noble family in the Beichen Empire had been stripped of their title.
This meant that no new noble had been born in the last decade.
Until this year, until today, also the last day of this year, there was finally a vacancy.
So within half an hour, the upper echelons of the entire Beichen Empire were mobilized.
Generals with military merits, or those upper-class citizens who had been elected as senators but were not nobles, at this moment, all set their sights on the Baron position vacated by the Fan Family and began to fight openly and secretly.
Because according to the rules of bestowing titles in the Beichen Empire, one was that there was a vacancy in the title, and the other was that one of two conditions had to be met: either one had enough military merits to be granted a title, or one had been elected as a senator.
Rong Ruoxian inquired about this news and hurriedly told the old man Rong Chunyu.
Rong Chunyu listened to these details, especially the news that Fan Chengcai was killed by the Quan Family Hidden Guard, and suddenly understood.
His face turned ashen, and he threw out a heavy ironwood bodhi ball he was playing with, and said, "Tell the second son to move his family out of the old house. I don't want to see them again!"
Rong Ruoxian also guessed at this time why his usually gentle little sister was so furious with Fan Jiao Yan.
He couldn't stand it either, and nodded, "I'll go find the second brother."
He found Rong Ruoye and said directly: "Dad said, after the New Year, your family should move out of Rong Estate and live on your own estate."
As the second son of the Rong Family's patriarch, Rong Ruoye also had quite a few properties.
He was baffled and hurriedly said, "Big brother, why? I didn't do anything wrong, did I?"
But he immediately remembered the punishment he had given to Fan Jiao Yan today, and his face sank: "Is it because of my wife? How can Dad do this? Little sister may be close, but she can't be indiscriminate!"
Rong Ruoxian sighed, pondered for a while, and told him about the Fan Family being stripped of their title, emphasizing that Fan Chengcai was killed by the Quan Family Hidden Guard.
The Fan Family Head and the eldest son of the Fan Family were taken away by the Special Security Bureau, but the second son of the Fan Family was killed by the Quan Family Hidden Guard.
This point was quite intriguing.
In connection with the fact that his little sister Rong Ruowu, who married into the Quan Family, was furious with Fan Jiao Yan and wanted to be "irreconcilable" with her, the matter was very clear.
Rong Ruoye also understood the key.
He was silent for a while, and still shook his head and said, "The Fan Family's fault has nothing to do with Jiao Yan, and I can't divorce her because of this. After the New Year, I'll move out. Big brother, I'll be too embarrassed to see little sister in the future."
Rong Ruoxian said: "Don't be angry with little sister. After a while, when she's not angry, you can ask her to say a few good words for you in front of Dad, and you can move back."
The two brothers were also over fifty years old, and had lived in the same mansion for almost their entire lives. Now that one family was moving out, they were quite reluctant.
But the Fan Family's matter had too much of an impact, and Rong Ruoye had to avoid the limelight for the time being.
...
At the same moment, Da Fu Prefecture, Guiyuan Star.
As Xia Chujian left the Quan Family's large Flying Vehicle and walked towards her team's Flying Vehicle, she saw Zong Ruoan from afar.
He had probably just come down from Huo Yushen's Bat-style Fighter Jet and hadn't returned to his own fighter jet. Instead, he was standing under a large tree on the lawn in front of the villa.
He wasn't wearing the Special Security Bureau uniform, just a khaki military-style trench coat, which made him look even taller and more elegant.
He looked up at the sky, where a large Flying Vehicle was revealing its shape in the clouds, flying towards the atmosphere.
Xia Chujian thought for a moment, relying on the fact that Zong Ruoan wouldn't recognize her face with the headgear, and walked directly past him.
Zong Ruoan was looking up at the sky and didn't even see her coming. Besides, he wasn't in the mood to pay attention to anything else at the moment.
Fan Chengcai had been killed just like that, and Fan Bowei and Fan Chengqi had also been taken away by the Special Security Bureau. The Fan Family would definitely have their noble title stripped.
However, without a court trial, without careful verification, an Imperial Edict had decided the fate of a noble family that had lasted for hundreds of years...
He felt that this shouldn't be done.
Zong Ruoan pursed his lips and decided to go to Jiang Yuanshu.
Jiang Yuanshu had an Owl-Class Fighter just like his, which was standard equipment for the directors of the Special Security Bureau.
"Director Zong, do you need something from me?" Jiang Yuanshu asked calmly, sitting behind her desk.
Zong Ruoan asked directly, "Why did the Emperor interfere in this matter? Inspector Huo clearly put me in charge of the Fan Family case. But I didn't report it to the Emperor."
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