Nangong Yin looked at Nangong Zheng with approval, thinking, his grandson had finally grown to be an independent force.
He finally nodded, "All right, Grandfather believes in you, believes in your capabilities. Be careful, the king’s secret guards are very powerful."
Nangong Zheng nodded, "Don’t worry, Grandfather, wait for my good news."
So, that day, Nangong Zheng took the leadership token of the Nangong family, brought his secret guards, and left the royal capital.
After he left the royal capital, his first command was to eradicate Daliang’s secret agents in Nanchu.
He thought that his grandfather must have overlooked something. The fact that the king’s whereabouts have been untraceable for so long was not because the king was exceptionally good at hiding, but because there must be Daliang’s secret agents planted both inside and outside the capital city of Nanchu Country. Since it was confirmed that the king did not leave with the people from Ye Xiang Residence, his departure from the royal capital must have been aided by people from Daliang. Whether it’s Princess Su Rong or her people, otherwise the king could not have left the royal capital by himself.
The grandson that Nangong Yin had most proudly cultivated was naturally unique. His talents and intelligence, his capabilities and resourcefulness, all helped him lead the way among everyone else in the Nangong family.
Therefore, as he stepped out of the royal capital of Nanchu, the secret agents hidden by Yan Huisheng, the crown prince of Daliang, in Nanchu were successively eradicated.
Following the clues, he would eventually find the connections, pointing thousands of miles away.
Zhou Gu and Zhang Yun also instantly realized that something was wrong. When they didn’t receive any news from Yan Huisheng’s secret agents hidden in Nanchu for three days, they simultaneously realized that something was wrong. The secret agents had been exposed, or they had been eradicated by someone, which is why the communication was cut off.
Yan Huisheng’s secret agents had been hidden in Nanchu for many years, but they were, after all, no match for the deep-rooted influence of the Nangong family in Nanchu, and Nangong Zheng was an extremely tactful person.
No one expected that after the Nangong family had sent out countless people, they still couldn’t find the Nanchu King, as if he had vanished into thin air. Even more unexpectedly, all the people of the Nangong family combined were, in fact, no match for a single Nangong Zheng. Daliang’s secret agents were wiped out by a fourteen-year-old boy. His forceful approach and swift actions left the cautious agents of Daliang with no escape or hiding places, and they were successively eradicated and killed. By following the leads, they naturally discovered that the person who took the Nanchu King away was Zhou Gu.
The young master of Duke Residence, Zhou Gu.
Just last month, the name of the Double-Handed Sword-wielding Zhou Gu had become renowned throughout Nanchu.
A corner of Nangong Zheng’s mouth lifted into a smirk, a determined look appeared on his boyish face, "So it was Zhou Gu."
His spirits seemed to lift, "The person who took the king away was Zhou Gu, I’ve been wanting to meet him, and I’m curious to test his Double-Handed Sword, to see if it is as exceptional as it is rumored, or just an illusion."
He spurred his horse in the direction of Dawei, "Chase them in the direction of Dawei."
Hearing his order, his secret guards responded in unison, raising the hooves of their horses and chasing in the direction of Dawei.
Meanwhile, all the forces of the Nangong family were mobilized by him, conveying a message, to seal all the border entrances of Dawei, forbidding all persons, vehicles, goods, caravans, and couriers from passing. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
This was an order that only the Nanchu King was allowed to issue, but the eldest grandson of the Nangong family had the right to do so as well. Overnight, the people truly saw the vast influence of the Nangong family throughout Nanchu.
As soon as Zhou Gu and Zhang Yun noticed something was amiss, they immediately took the Nanchu King and hid in a cave deep in the mountains. Then, the three of them sat down to discuss a plan.
Zhou Gu asked the Nanchu King, "Which member of the Nangong family is so powerful that they managed to react so quickly and eradicated the prince’s secret agents hidden in Nanchu?"
Yan Huisheng had implanted secret agents in Nanchu from thousands of miles away; it was something done ten years ago. Ten years for a secret agent, while not exactly old, is definitely not new either. Moreover, Yan Huisheng was a cautious person. The people he had planted in Nanchu were all in inconspicuous positions, even farmers, leaving no stone unturned. Even so, in the past three days, every line of communication had been cut. This suggested that all the secret agents had likely been tracked and eradicated, even if any escaped the net, they would no longer dare to send any messages, fearing that it might put him in danger.
"It’s not Nangong Yin. As for the widely known four masters of the Nangong family, Nangong Yu is dead, leaving Nangong Le, Nangong Zhuo, and Nangong Xi. These three are formidable, but they probably don’t have the same audacity." The Nanchu King said, "There is one person in the Nangong family, who is unassuming but highly capable due to his very young age and Nangong Yin’s protection. But I have met him several times, he’s remarkably intelligent and unusually shrewd for a young boy. He’s Nangong Yin’s eldest legitimate grandson, Nangong Zheng, who is probably behind this."
"Ah? Nangong Zheng, I know him," Zhou Gu said, "With numerous great scholars granting him tutelage, I had thought he was a mere bookworm. I didn’t expect him to be so capable. If it’s him, how old is he this year?"
"Fourteen."
"Fourteen, that’s not that young." Zhou Gu muttered to himself and turned to ask Zhang Yun, "What do you think we should do? Can we tackle him? He must be close behind us with his men."
Zhang Yun said, "I’m afraid not."
"Why, aren’t you confident?" Zhou Gu asked.
Zhang Yun rolled his eyes, "All our men are dealing with those three masters of Nanchu. Ziye and Lang Ying are not with us, it’s just the two of us, and some of the guards given by the Second Young Master Ye. Do you think with Nangong Zheng mobilizing the entire Nangong family’s forces in Nanchu, plus all their secret agents, we, with our limited men, are his match? Confidence also needs to be backed by substantial forces."
He lacked confidence because his confidence was based on having a mound of guards and countless soldiers around him.
Oh, he greatly missed the soldiers he had offered to Daliang. He wondered how Princess Su Rong was handling them, after all, Daliang couldn’t afford those extra soldiers. If she disbanded them, that would be a huge waste.
He thought, Princess Su Rong was smart, she shouldn’t be that foolish, right? She definitely should be aware of what she lacked the most. He had given all those soldiers to her. Whether she gives them to Dawei wouldn’t matter, would it?
Zhou Gu thought about it and felt that Zhang Yun made a lot of sense, although he didn’t admit that he was loveless. After all, he was a man with a fiancée. So, he pondered, "We can’t go to Dawei now. Now that the crown prince’s secret agents have been discovered, the border checkpoints of Dawei are probably all sealed. Even if they’re not sealed, we can’t walk into a trap. Dawei’s crown prince, Yuan Zhao, if he gets the news, might be waiting for a chance to trap us."
"Right, we can’t go there." Zhang Yun nodded, feeling desolate, and thought that from now on, they would really be refugees, and feared that they might live in fear and anxiety every day.
Zhou Gu took out a map from his jacket, "Come, we need to study this quickly. We can’t stay here long."
Zhang Yun leaned in and hurriedly began to study it with him.
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