When they saw Gu Xinglang covered in blood appear in front of them, this morning was destined to be an unforgettable one for the guards at the Prince Consort's Mansion.
"Prince Consort, Prince Consort?" A guard of the imperial guards who was close to Gu Xinglang called out to him carefully and stutteringly.
Gu Xinglang didn't even look at the guards, he just stared at the tightly closed door of the mansion.
Wang Fengqing stood on the steps and met Gu Xinglang's gaze. He found that the prince consort's eyes were bloodshot. General Wang immediately ordered his men, "Everyone retreat!"
The guards stepped back and made way for Gu Xinglang.
Wang Fengqing did not walk down the steps. He clasped his fists and bowed to Gu Xinglang, saying, "Sir, please forgive me for not being able to pay you a respectful visit while wearing armor."
Gu Xinglang walked up the stairs step by step and walked straight past Wang Fengqing. The strong smell of blood made Wang Fengqing's breathing stagnate. How many people did this man kill to be covered in blood?
Gu Xinglang walked to the front door of the mansion and reached out to push the tightly closed door.
The door of the Prince Consort's Mansion was locked by the Imperial Guards. The bolt, which was as thick as an adult man's thigh, broke into two pieces after being pushed by Gu Xinglang and fell to the ground. One of the pieces rolled directly to Wang Fengqing's feet.
General Wang lifted his foot to move past the bolt, and when he looked up again, Gu Xinglang had already walked into the Prince Consort's Mansion.
The guards stood there in a daze, and no one thought of running up to close the half-open door.
"General?" A confidant called Wang Fengqing in a low voice.
Wang Fengqing then pointed at the door and said, "What are you still standing there for? Close the door quickly!"
Several guards ran forward and were about to close the door when someone looked into the mansion and screamed in surprise.
The guards standing in front of the door were called by their colleague and looked into the mansion. Then they cried out in unison, their faces pale.
Wang Fengqing ran to the door and looked inside the mansion. He saw a human hand lying on the ground inside the door. It was not rotten and there was no odor. It looked like it had just been torn off a person. Looking further inside, General Wang saw that in front of the big screen wall, there seemed to be a pit covered with quicklime. Looking at the ridges and depressions under the lime, Wang Fengqing could not think of anything other than the remains of a corpse.
"Here he comes again!"
The guards in front of the door screamed.
Wang Fengqing saw Gu Xinglang standing in front of the lime pit, looked at his feet, then turned his head and looked at him with a pair of red eyes. The bright red patterns on his face looked eerie and strange, like a demon that could devour people.
The guards retreated one after another, as everyone knew that anything abnormal must be a demon.
Wang Fengqing looked into Gu Xinglang's eyes, which were emotionless, and he looked at him as if he were a dead object. General Wang took a step back, slammed the door shut, and ordered his guards, "Bring the halberds!"
The guards holding halberds handed over their weapons, and Wang Fengqing put several halberds together to act as a door bolt. Even so, General Wang and the guards did not feel safe. Who knew if these halberds could stop the prince consort?
"Prince, what's wrong with you, Lord Prince?" a guard asked Wang Fengqing.
Wang Fengqing didn't say anything and looked a little nervous.
"What is this?" A guard exclaimed again at the bottom of the stairs.
Everyone looked over there.
A whitish ball stained with blood fell into a not-so-big pool of blood.
A guard squatted down to take a closer look, then looked up and said to Wang Fengqing in a panic, "Yes, it's a human eyeball."
In front of the Prince Consort's residence, it was so quiet for a moment that it made people uneasy.
The prince consort was covered in blood and could still walk with people's eyeballs falling out. Even a dumb person could guess that Gu Xinglang had just killed someone.
"That's hard. Could it be that the rumors are true?" The guard standing next to Wang Fengqing whispered to his general.
"Is he really a madman, the kind who kills without blinking an eye?" Another guard stuttered, "He looks like he just came back from killing someone!"
As a general, Wang Fengqing was naturally more calm than his soldiers. He glanced at his trusted followers and said, "Did you see him kill anyone? Who did he kill? Your Majesty, the princess didn't say anything, why are you arguing?"
The guards were silent, but they all understood what their general said. On the surface, General Wang was speaking for Gu Xinglang, but if you think about it carefully, General Wang meant that as long as the emperor and the princess didn't say anything, then it didn't matter how many people Gu Xinglang killed.
“This grandson!” The eldest boss stood behind the door, listening to the voices outside with his ears perked up, and whispered to Gu Xinglang, “They said that the emperor and our princess were protecting you. If I had known that this grandson was from the Eternal Life Temple, I would have killed him long ago!”
The second in command squatted on the ground and whispered: "If you kill him, how can we continue this play? This grandson is very important."
The big boss kicked the second in command and said, "Can you go take a shower? You smell so bad that it's killing people, do you know that?!"
The second in command said unhappily, "Who can smell good after digging a grave? We should all be content. The female corpse was buried not long ago, so it's not disgusting."
The boss' eyelids were twitching. The body was broken into pieces. Isn't that disgusting?
"Do you smell anything?" a guard outside the door asked his colleagues.
The first and second in command held their breath at the same time.
The guards outside the door sniffed hard, and someone whispered, "It stinks, like a corpse!"
The eldest boss rolled his eyes, squatted down and whispered to the second boss: "No need to take a shower, just squat here."
"General," a guard outside the door called out to the general.
The eldest boss hurriedly used his hands to fan the stench off the second in command toward the door.
The Second In Command really doesn't know if this will work.
Wang Fengqing stood in front of the door and also smelled a faint stench of corpse. Could it be that Gu Xinglang dug up a lime pit in the mansion?
"General?" A confidant called Wang Fengqing.
The guards didn't dare to imagine what the situation was like in the Prince Consort's mansion. It was hard to imagine what it was like there was a mountain of corpses!
"Stand back," Wang Fengqing ordered his attendants, "As long as the Prince Consort doesn't come out, we shouldn't ask anything and shouldn't interfere."
The thin mist that shrouded the city of Fengjing now turned into a light rain, which dripped down. It didn't seem heavy, but in a short while, the city was soaked.
Gu Xingnuo rode his horse to the Prince Consort's Mansion in the drizzle.
The imperial guards looked at Prime Minister Gu and were all stunned again.
Wang Fengqing looked at Gu Xingnuo in surprise. He had never seen the eldest son of the Gu family in such a state of distress. Even when the entire Gu family was imprisoned, this man wore prison clothes and had unkempt hair and a dirty face. He did not lose the demeanor of the eldest son of the noble family. He was frighteningly calm. But at this moment, although Gu Xingnuo was wearing brocade clothes, his hair was neat and his face was clean, he looked flustered and hunched over. It was no exaggeration to say that he was in a state of mental disorder, like a dog that had lost its home.
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