Chapter 757 You Are Already Surrounded by Me

After several days of rain, it finally stopped.

An ordinary horse-drawn carriage was traveling on a mountain path.

If you get closer, you can hear the laughter in the carriage.

The surrounding area is covered with vines, dotted with water droplets, and filled with the fresh scent after the rain.

Everything seems peaceful and happy.

——If it weren’t for the masked gangster with a knife who suddenly jumped out from the side of the road, everything would be fine.

Without saying a word, the bandits drew their swords and slashed at the carriage.

Yu Yonggui jumped out of the carriage door and kicked the gangster who was coming to chop him away.

The masked bandits were stunned, as they didn't expect that the person in the carriage knew kung fu.

But they were just stunned for a moment - no matter how good they were at kung fu, there was only one opponent.

There are more than a dozen of them!

Yu Yonggui, holding a soft sword, stood beside the carriage and sneered: "I advise you to surrender quickly, you are already surrounded by me!"

When the masked gangsters heard this, they burst into laughter: "How could you surround so many of us by yourself?"

They just thought Yu Yonggui was just showing off.

However, Yu Yonggui smiled softly: "Who said I am the only one?"

The masked gangsters sneered, "Still stalling for time! Just showing off!"

"Don't waste your time talking to him! Just kill them all, take their money and run away!"

Yu Yonggui sneered.

These people transferred by the prefect's wife, Mrs. Luo, are quite good at acting!

Yu Yonggui suddenly said: "Remember to leave a few alive."

The masked bandits thought Yu Yonggui was crazy and was just showing off. Just when they were about to ridicule him, another group of people really appeared and started hacking at them!

The masked bandits all changed color, and realized belatedly that—

They seem to be possessed!

…

After the dust settled, Yu Yonggui got into the carriage. He was still worried that Xingxing would feel bad after seeing so many people die outside, so he comforted her, "Don't be afraid, Xingxing. Since they did such a shady thing, they deserved to die."

"I know." Xing Xing looked at her fourth brother strangely. "Fourth brother, you don't think I can't bear to see those who want to kill us die, right? If you hadn't been prepared, we would have died by now. How could I not bear it?"

Yu Yonggui: “…”

Qing Shuang nodded and praised him greatly: "That's how it should be. Your fourth brother is really thoughtful."

Yu Yonggui couldn't help but glance at Qing Shuang.

Qing Shuang jumped out of the car: "You're done, right? I'll go down and take a look."

Xing Xing had not let Wei Shiyan go out to join the fight because of his leg. Now that it was over, Xing Xing wanted to get off the car to take a look.

Yu Yonggui was still hesitating, thinking that the scene outside was extremely bloody, but while he was hesitating, Xingxing had already gotten out of the car.

The dangerous banquet followed closely.

Yu Yonggui shrugged and said, "So be it."

Anyway, his sister is not a delicate little flower who is kept in a deep house and will break at the slightest touch.

In this clash, only a few people in Chaoyang Building were injured, but no one died.

The injured were having their wounds bandaged by someone nearby, while others were cleaning up the battlefield.

Yu Yonggui had previously instructed to leave a few people alive, and the people in Chaoyang Building actually left three people alive.

At this moment, the three survivors were tied up, their masks were torn off, and their mouths were stuffed with dirty cloth that was torn from nowhere. They fell to the ground in a daze.

Xingxing glanced at it for a few seconds.

"I remember this guy." Xing Xing pointed at one of the "bandits" who was tied up like a dumpling. "When we passed the second checkpoint, he was the one who led the team to check our pass."

The bandit who looked like a dumpling didn't realize that they had made a mistake and had been tricked by the other party. His face turned green and white, and he was making mumbling sounds, and it was unclear whether he was cursing or saying something else.

Yu Yonggui couldn't stand other people's attitude towards Xing Xing, so he stepped forward, squatted in front of the person who was tied up like a dumpling, and patted his face gently: "Be honest, and stop swearing. Otherwise, you will have to suffer more later... I can guarantee you that after walking out of our torture room, you will definitely experience what it means to be worse off than dead."

The man's face turned frighteningly pale and his whole body began to tremble. Naturally, he did not dare to curse at Xing Xing anymore.

Yu Yonggui was generally satisfied with the operation. Only a few of his men were slightly injured, and at least there were no casualties, and they completed the mission perfectly.

Very good.

The people under him were capable and did not let him embarrass himself in front of his sister and the second prince.

Qing Shuang felt somewhat envious as she watched the well-trained people from Chaoyang Tower cleaning up the battlefield.

With so many people around, it's definitely better than her fighting alone.

Fortunately, she has decided to end the grudges in the martial arts world and retire from the underworld. These things have little to do with her.

…

The bodies were dragged away towards the people in the balcony.

The three survivors were escorted by the people from Chaoyang Tower and followed them all the way to the nearest small town.

Yu Yonggui took the three survivors out for a walk and came back alone.

During this time, Xingxing had already prepared Qingshuang's antidote.

After Qing Shuang drank it, she recovered her strength, left a silver note of one thousand taels for Xing Xing, and left quietly.

When Yu Yonggui came back, he saw Qing Shuang had already left without stopping, and he laughed out loud.

"She seems to be eager to cut ties with us as soon as possible." Yu Yonggui muttered, "She even left the banknote. Tsk."

Xingxing glanced at Yu Yonggui and smiled secretly.

"Forget it, forget about her. I just got some information from the three survivors." Yu Yonggui calmed down and said to Xingxing in a serious tone, "They have signed their confessions. When we go back to deal with the Anjiang prefect, these will be the best evidence."

Wei Shiyan was obviously a little surprised and glanced at Yu Yonggui.

Yu Yonggui seemed to have guessed what Wei Shiyan was thinking and smiled: "You think that we, who live on the edge of a knife, are so concerned about the law that we need evidence to deceive people, right?"

Wei Shiyan did not hide it and nodded.

Yu Yonggui chuckled: "...Our business, to put it bluntly, is actually walking on the edge of Daxia's laws. My master suffered a lot from this in the past and was almost killed. Later, he learned from his mistakes and established some rules and regulations."

"I'll introduce my master to you when I get a chance. He's gone to travel and retire early." Yu Yonggui said, "Let's not talk about him for now. What are you going to do about the prefect of Anjiang?"

"If a governor of a state can mobilize troops and pretend to be a bandit to kill people for his own selfish interests, and let him stay in this position for one more day, I don't know how many people will suffer from it." Wei Shiyan's voice was a little cold, "I will go back and kill him."

Yu Yonggui’s eyes widened.

No, you are the second prince of the current dynasty!

Why is it that when talking about killing an imperial official, he makes it so lightly, looking even more like an outlaw than a killer like him?

Xing Xing groped around in her arms and took out a token.

The jade token that represented her identity as a princess had already been given to the people in Chaoyang Tower to mobilize troops to the border.

Moreover, those personnel are waiting in a small town less than fifty miles away.

This piece is another——

Xing Xing handed the small token to Wei Shiyan: "... His Majesty asked me to give this to you. He said that if you hold this token, it is as if I am here in person."

The four words "as if I were here in person" are really too grand.

But Emperor Jiazheng still gave her Xingxing.

As Xingxing’s last guarantee.

"We have passed the most dangerous section of the road, and the troops that my princess' jade token has called for are also nearby." Xing Xing said, "If these are not enough, there is still this token. It is enough to crush the prefect of Anjiang to death ten times."

Wei Shiyan looked at the token in Xingxing's hand for a long time, then nodded slightly and said hello.

Xingxing recalled the hesitation of Emperor Jiazheng when he handed the token to her.

He was not hesitating whether to give it to Xingxing. Emperor Jiazheng sighed for a long time before saying, "I am afraid that Ah Yan has a grudge against me and his mother. If he is unwilling to use this token, then you can take it. When Ah Yan encounters any danger, he can use it for emergency."

Xingxing thought that His Majesty still didn't quite understand her brother Yan.

Although his brother Yan was a bit cold and aloof, he never disliked anyone because of his circumstances.

His Majesty thinks that her brother Yan has resentment towards him in his heart and may not use the token he gave him - how could that be?

Her brother Yan had never resented the fact that he had dedicated his good fortune to heaven to save his parents.

…

The dim setting sun was still hanging in a corner of the sky, and the blood-red sunset glowed half the sky red.

The prefect's wife, Mrs. Luo, woke up from her nap.

She stood up from the couch, her voice a little hoarse, and asked the maidservant beside her: "What time is it?"

The maid brought warm water and said, "There is still a quarter of an hour until the evening, madam."

Luo frowned: "Did the master send someone to pass on the message?"

The head maid shook her head and said with a smile, "You have been sleeping for more than half an hour. During this time, only the young master came to see you. Seeing that you were sleeping soundly, he told us to take good care of you and not to slack off, and then left."

When Mrs. Luo heard that her son was very considerate, she felt a little relieved.

She took the teacup, moistened her throat a little, and was about to say something when she saw someone rushing over from outside: "Madam, this is terrible! Something terrible has happened!"

The maid knelt down hurriedly as she entered the room, and her face did not look very good.

Luo's heart skipped a beat, and her face turned cold. She scolded, "You unruly thing! If you have anything to say, report it to me! Do you want to scare me to death with this look?!"

The maid kowtowed repeatedly with a pale face: "...Yes, I know I was wrong."

Seeing that the maid had blood on her head, Luo Madam calmed down a little, but she did not ask the maid to get up. She just asked calmly, "What's the matter?"

The maid knelt on the ground, with a bleeding forehead, looking panicked: "...Yes, it was outside the mansion gate. No, I don't know when someone dumped a few corpses there! It's scary!"

Upon hearing that several corpses were thrown outside the mansion, Luo's face turned pale.

"Who are you! How dare you be so arrogant and bold!" Luo said angrily, suppressing her fear.

The maid shook her head in panic: "I don't know... but the master is not in the house today. The steward of the front yard has already hurriedly asked someone to go find the master."

Luo sat on the couch and took a few deep breaths, as if talking to himself: "It's just a few corpses... It's not like I haven't seen dead people before."

But this soliloquy did not calm her down.

Luo just felt more and more annoyed.

She blamed it all on the maid who came to report the news.

If she wasn't so panicked, why would she be so uneasy?

"Drag him out and give him twenty strokes of the cane." Mrs. Luo said gloomily, "Let the servants in the mansion learn a lesson!"

The maid's eyes widened in fear, and she was about to beg for mercy, but the quick-eyed and quick-handed nanny stepped forward and grabbed her, stuffed a hand towel into her mouth, and dragged her away.

——Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the lady is already very upset! She dares to beg for mercy! Does she want to be beaten with twenty more sticks?!

He might still be able to survive after twenty strokes of the cane, but if he is beaten twenty more times, he will definitely die!

The maid was being executed outside the main courtyard. She was tied to a bench with a handkerchief stuffed in her mouth. She couldn't even scream and could only make muffled groans from her throat.

The dull sound of the long board hitting the flesh came from the open window, and it relieved Luo's anxiety a little.

It seemed that through this kind of life and death control over his servants, Luo's sense of security quickly returned.

The house and the yard were equally quiet, with only the sound of beatings and the dull cries of pain bursting from the throat.

Luo's expression gradually softened.

She looked calm and ordered the maidservant beside her: "Go, call the young master."

The maid took the order and left.

Pang Jinkang arrived very quickly. When he arrived, the maid had just been beaten with a stick and was dragged out like a dead pig. A long trail of blood was left on the ground. Soon someone came with a bucket, poured water on the trail, and cleaned up the blood.

Pang Jinkang frowned slightly.

He entered his mother's room and asked casually, "Mom, what did the maid outside do wrong?"

Mrs. Luo said calmly, "She broke the rules of the family, so she will be punished. Don't worry, she won't lose her life."

Pang Jinkang had only asked casually, but when he heard that there was no risk of death, he put the matter out of his mind.

He has something more important to ask his mother——

Pang Jinkang sat down next to Luo and asked nervously, "By the way, my mother asked me to come here, but is there any news from Miss Feng?"

Pang Jinkang has been feeling restless the whole day today.

It wasn't because he was worried about someone doing something bad, but because he was afraid that something might happen to his sweetheart, Miss Feng, during this period.

Luo glanced at his son.

Her good son's eyes were filled with worry!

Luo only felt that the anger that had just subsided was slowly rising again.

My son's mind is really full of that merchant girl named Feng!

"What's the hurry?" Luo seemed to be answering Pang Jinkang's question, but also seemed to be comforting herself, "...We have to deal with it anyway. Then arrange for our other people to go 'suppress the bandits' and rescue Miss Feng. It's normal to get news tomorrow morning."

Pang Jinkang believed it to be true and felt relieved: "That's good, that's good."