“This should be it,” Nan Yi said, hiding behind the rock.
Xunxiangdie led them around half of the mountain, but stopped in front of a stone house in the mountains.
When they arrived, dusk had fallen. After the sky had completely darkened, Nan pointed to the stone house, telling Zheng Yong to continue hiding while she went to investigate the situation inside.
Zheng Yong pointed to the back of the house, thinking that they should act together.
Nan nodded, crouched down, and tiptoed to the window of the house to wait quietly. Inside the house, Lü Biao was trying on new silk clothes and cursing with his men, "...Damn it, that Tong family is really rich. Didn't they say that the emperor demoted them to commoners and confiscated their property? How come they are still so rich?"
Xiong Er, the former second-in-command of the Green Village, took a sip of wine, smacked his lips, and laughed, "Big brother forgot? His daughter became the concubine of the current fourth prince. Didn't that girl, Lü Yun, say that the Tong family's daughter is very favored? The Tong family's money might have come from that daughter who became the concubine."
“That’s true.” Greenbiao tugged at his new clothes and smiled smugly. “I’ll be an official someday. Once Green Cloud becomes the Crown Prince’s favorite concubine, and that old man Kangxi dies and the Crown Prince becomes emperor, I’ll be the Emperor’s brother-in-law.”
"Brother is right. Green Cloud is beautiful, gentle, and clever. From what she said, the Crown Prince likes her very much. He even abandoned his favorite concubine. Our good days are coming. Green Cloud Village should change its name from now on. We will no longer have to live such a miserable life of risking our lives and living on the edge." After saying that, Xiong Er took another big gulp of strong liquor.
"Hmm, not bad. Give the order to the brothers to get ready properly tomorrow. We absolutely cannot let our sister down," said Green Leopard.
Xiong Er put down his wine and got up to go to the back house to inform the seventh and eighth brothers below.
Hiding under the window, Nan Yi's eyes burned with rage. It was indeed them, Green Cloud. The source of all this trouble was Green Cloud.
Nan Yi wished she could rush up to Aisin-Gioro Yinzhen and question him immediately.
She had strongly opposed him bringing back that woman named Green Cloud, but well... things could never go back to the way they were.
Separated by the deaths of more than twenty people in the Tong family, Nan Yi could no longer face the Fourth Master.
Finally, she had a legitimate reason to leave him, but this reason was built on blood and hatred.
Filled with resentment and anger, Nan's face was contorted with rage. After the footsteps at the door faded away, a sinister smile appeared in her eyes. She darted to the front of the house, pushed open the door, and closed it in one swift motion.
Green Biao, facing the bed, was undressing and about to go to sleep. Thinking it was the second brother returning, he was completely unaware of the impending danger and laughed, "So fast, they're all asleep?"
“No, but it will be soon,” Nan said, raising his blade.
When Greenbiao realized something was wrong and turned around, she used the fastest speed she had ever used to close the distance to Greenbiao, thrusting out her sharp blade, which plunged completely into Greenbiao's abdomen.
"Who, who are you?" Green Leopard was shocked. Ignoring the knife wound in his abdomen, he retaliated with his backhand. How could Nan Yi give him a chance? He turned the hilt of his knife, and Green Leopard almost fainted from the pain.
Taking advantage of this, Nan Yi dislocated both of his arms, pulled out a short blade, and splattered warm blood onto her face. She blinked, then plunged the blade into Lü Biao's thigh.
Green Biao cried out in pain.
Nan Yi, as if he hadn't heard, tore off the curtains beside the bed, tied up Lü Biao, threw him to the ground, and kicked him unconscious. That way, he shouldn't be able to escape.
There were still people left to pack, and Nan Yi was worried that Zheng Yong wouldn't be able to handle it, so she quickly went out and met up with Zheng Yong.
Lü Yong and Xiong Er, along with seven or eight brothers, were originally bandits who ruled the mountains in the Jiangjian area, making a living by robbing and plundering.
If they hadn't met the Fourth Prince, they might have continued to make a living this way.
When Lüyun was young, her family was poor, and her father sold her to a wealthy family as a maid. Later, her brother became a brothel owner and wanted to redeem Lüyun. However, Lüyun witnessed the wealth and luxury of the wealthy family and did not want to leave.
She was quite beautiful, and then the Fourth Prince went south to investigate a case on imperial orders. During this time, the official family where she stayed wanted to curry favor with the Fourth Prince and offered their daughter to him, but the Fourth Prince did not accept her. Instead, the maidservant gained the prince's favor. That maidservant was Green Cloud.
Lu Yun was kept by Su Peisheng, which was originally a deliberate move by the Fourth Prince, because her eyebrows and eyes looked very much like someone else's.
When Lüyun learned that the person she was serving was the Fourth Prince, she was overjoyed and used all her charms, but she never expected that she would gradually enter the Crown Prince's residence.
In the eyes of the Lü siblings and the people of Lüyun Village, following the Crown Prince was far better than following a bald prince. The Crown Prince was the heir apparent and the future emperor, and they were the relatives of the future emperor.
After entering the Eastern Palace, Lüyun gained the Crown Prince's favor. She missed her brother outside the palace and, with the Crown Prince's permission, arranged to meet him outside the palace the next day to discuss his job.
Yes, Green Cloud's elder brother was born into a family of commoners and got a job from the Crown Prince.
Cao Kou of Green Cloud Village, a self-taught martial artist, is more skilled than the average person, but still falls short of Zheng Yong of Nan Yi, who has a formal martial arts background, even though they outnumber each other.
Zheng Yong quickly subdued seven or eight bandits in another stone house, with only the clever Xiong Er escaping.
He wanted to go back to the main house to inform the eldest brother, but he ran into Nan Yi, who was rushing there, and they met by chance.
Xiong Er was secretly pleased to see that it was a woman, and thought he would take her hostage to blackmail Zheng Yong.
Little did anyone know that Nan Yi was a ruthless woman, no more merciful than Zheng Yong in some ways.
After ten moves, Xiong Er was kicked to the ground by Nan Yi, who then broke his limbs and threw him on the ground like a lump of mud.
When Zheng Yong arrived, Nan Yi was searching everywhere for a rope.
"fine?"
Nan Yi, "utterly vulnerable."
It was this group of utterly pathetic bastards who slaughtered the Tong family. The Tong family died so unjustly. If they had even a few skilled guards, the entire family wouldn't have been wiped out.
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