"No!!!"

"Yu Feng, you come back here!!!"

Zhao Wu lowered his head and whispered in Zhao Cheng's ear, "It seems a bit too much."

Zhao Cheng asked with his eyes closed, "How do you know?"

Zhao Wu said, "Look at the way Wang Yufeng's mother and brother are looking at you, they wish they could devour you alive!"

Zhao Cheng immediately opened his eyes, instantly getting into character, and cried even louder: "We're brothers, as close as siblings!"

"We are collectively known as the Four Young Masters of Yanchuan, we..."

"Huh?" Zhao Cheng turned around and saw Xu An and Li Guanyu standing furtively behind the crowd. He immediately pointed at them and shouted, "Come here! Yu Feng is most afraid of being alone. We should keep him company!"

Xu An rubbed the corner of her eye with her index finger, and she and Li Guanyu followed Zhao Cheng's rhythm, lying on the coffin and crying.

Xu An cried as she whispered, "Zhao Cheng, how could you do something so despicable!"

"Me, immoral? Oh, my Yufeng! This guy tried to kill me, tried to sleep with my woman... Yufeng, you're so pitiful! I even mourned for him and kept vigil for him, I even admire myself! Ah, Yufeng!"

"Pah! The more you cry, the more Wang Yufeng's family will suffer... Ahhh, young general, Yufeng, we will all miss you!"

“What can you do? You still have to act with me, or we’ll all be finished.” Zhao Cheng pulled Li Guanyu forward: “You guys cry a little longer, I’m going to visit his relatives and rest for a while.”

Xu An exclaimed in surprise, "You call visiting the relatives of the deceased a rest?"

"What else? Offering condolences to relatives is easier than wailing at a funeral!"

Xu An: "..."

Zhao Cheng walked quickly to Wang Yufeng's family and said, "Please accept our condolences. Although we are all in great pain, we still have to live on."

Wang Yufeng's younger brother, Wang Yuluan, shouted angrily, "You're the one who killed my brother! You're just crocodile tears!"

Zhao Cheng asked doubtfully, "You're saying your brother is a rat?"

"I..." Wang Yuluan retorted angrily, "That's not what I meant!!!"

"If you can't speak properly, then shut up. Learn from your mother." Zhao Cheng glanced at Wang Yufeng's mother and said in a deep voice, "The whole of Yanchuan knows that your brother tried to kill me but was killed instead. I only decided to make things less ugly because your father and my father are both officials in Xidu. If you insist on making trouble, I'll play along to the end!"

Wang Yuluan gritted his teeth and said, "This is the General's Mansion, my home!"

"So what?!" Zhao Cheng's murderous intent was fully revealed as he looked up and said, "Look around, where in the General's Mansion are there no soldiers from my Prime Minister's Mansion?"

"you……"

Before Wang Yuluan could speak, his mother grabbed his wrist and said softly, "Those who come to offer condolences are all guests. Luan'er, you mustn't be rude..."

"mother……"

Xu An and Li Guanyu both turned to look at Zhao Cheng, and upon seeing Zhao Cheng turn back, they immediately resumed their mournful wailing.

"Yufeng, oh Yufeng, oh Yufeng..."

Xu An whispered, "If Wang Yufeng knew that his mother and brother would suffer this kind of treatment after his death, he probably would never have gone against Zhao Cheng."

Li Guanyu said, "Isn't what the young prime minister is doing unfairly?"

“It’s not just unethical, it’s downright beastly!!! But… I can understand.” Xu An said, “The victor is king, the loser is villain. If Wang Yufeng had survived this time, not to mention Cai’e, Zhao Cheng’s four maids would probably be pinned down in bed by Wang Yufeng by now.”

Li Guanyu nodded: "Given Wang Yufeng's personality, he's capable of doing this."

"I'm so glad! I only lost to Zhao Cheng a manor..."

Xu An sighed, "If I weren't kind-hearted and didn't want to bully him anymore, you'd probably be crying in front of me right now."

Zhao Cheng cried from dawn till dusk. He wouldn't leave, and neither did Xu An and Li Guanyu dare to leave first.

After all, Zhao Cheng is now seen as a person lacking in virtue. If they don't keep an eye on him, he might say something reckless and bring trouble to the Marquis's mansion and the Li family.

So today, the guests who came to pay their respects all saw Zhao Cheng and the others wailing, and deeply felt that the four young masters of Yanchuan were truly affectionate, especially the young prime minister, who cried so sadly after killing someone, it was truly a love-hate relationship.

Zhao Wu and He Zhi couldn't stand it any longer. Besides, it wasn't good for them to be leading their troops around someone else's house. It made it seem like the General's Mansion had been captured by the Right Prime Minister's Mansion. So they used brute force to drag Zhao Cheng out of the mourning hall.

"Since Feng was born, why was Cheng born?! Let's still be brothers in the next life!!"

With a look of reluctance, Zhao Cheng reached out to the coffin, but ultimately could not resist Zhao Wu and He Zhi. Overwhelmed with grief, he fainted from crying.

Zhao Wu breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to the Queen Mother, saying, "Madam General, we shall take our leave now!"

The Queen Mother nodded and said, "Go back and take good care of your young master. Tell him to take care of himself. My Feng'er will be waiting for him down there."

"I will definitely convey this message!" Zhao Wu waved to the outside, and immediately several guards carried in more than a dozen paper-mache beauties.

"My young master said he won't be coming tomorrow. He's burning these maids to keep the young general company. He even said they're all the type the young general likes, and they all have big mouths."

After saying this, Zhao Wu quickly helped Zhao Cheng away.

The Queen Mother sensed something was amiss with these words and gave Wang Yuluan a meaningful look, signaling him to go and see.

Wang Yuluan turned these paper beauties around, and sure enough, each of them had a mouth as big as a bucket!

"You bastard!! That's outrageous!!!" Wang Yuluan ripped open one of their mouths.

It's no secret that Wang Yufeng forcibly kissed Dong Hua before his death. Many people believe that this was the cause of Wang Yufeng's death. Zhao Cheng sending these paper figures with big mouths was an undisguised mockery!

The Queen Mother's face also turned ugly, but her excellent composure allowed her to remain calm.

Wang Yuluan, however, could not bear it any longer and turned around to kick over the brazier where paper money was being burned.

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