Chapter 149 The Woman in Red
Upon hearing this, the guard named Gu Yi instantly locked his gaze on Xie Sangning and his group, his eyes fierce, and he shouted in a deep voice, "Those who resist will be killed without mercy!"
A cold glint flashed in Chen Feng's eyes as Xie Sangning's bodyguard leader, and the bodyguards behind him instantly moved!
Their movements were swift and perfectly synchronized, as if they had rehearsed them hundreds of times!
They didn't draw their swords, but their movements were faster and more ruthless than their opponents'!
Instead of retreating, Chen Feng advanced when faced with the two men rushing towards him!
With his left hand, he reached out and precisely grabbed the wrist of the guard who was charging at him, twisting it sharply in the opposite direction! At the same time, his right leg swept hard against the guard's lower body!
"Snap!"
"Ah—!" The guard screamed in agony as his knife clattered to the ground, and he collapsed to the ground clutching his twisted arm and broken leg!
Without pausing, Chen Feng used the force of his twisting body to deliver an elbow strike like a heavy hammer, slamming it into the chest of another guard!
"Pfft!" The man didn't even utter a sound before flying backward, crashing into a fruit stall on the roadside!
The remaining guards who rushed towards the Lin family women and Xie Sangning were also swiftly and cleanly subdued by Xie Sangning's guards!
Gu Yi's guards, let alone kill them without mercy, didn't even manage to touch Xie Sangning and the Lin family's clothes before they were all lying on the ground, groaning in pain!
Silence! Deathly silence!
The onlookers' eyes nearly popped out of their sockets!
Lin Ziyuan and Lin Huan stared wide-eyed, their eyes practically gleaming as they looked at Chen Feng and his group! So cool! So amazing! How are my cousin's guards so strong?!
Gu Yi's fierce face froze instantly, and his hand on the hilt of the knife trembled slightly. Who...who are these people?!
He brought the best guards in the manor! And they were all taken down in a single move? The opponent was ruthless, every move was decisive, they were definitely elites who had seen blood!
The woman in red, Gu Zhenzhu, was completely dumbfounded. Her arrogant demeanor was as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over her head, leaving her only with disbelief, fear, and a trace of bewilderment.
Her prized guards were so utterly defeated?!
Xie Sangning didn't even blink, as if he had just brushed away a few annoying flies.
She stepped forward again, completely blocking her still trembling aunt Zhao behind her, and looked at Gu Zhenzhu.
"Arrest people? Kill them without mercy?" Xie Sangning's voice carried an air of authority. "What arrogance! What official power! Anyone who didn't know better would think you were a commander!"
Her gaze shifted to Gu Zhenzhu.
"It seems that your dog, like its master, is blind to the greatness of others, only knowing how to bark and bite, but not knowing the meaning of death."
"You...you're talking nonsense!" The woman in red screamed, pointing at Xie Sangning, filled with shame and indignation. "Who...who are you?! How dare you cause trouble in Jiangnan?! My father is Gu Dexing, the Assistant Salt Commissioner! I am his eldest daughter, Gu Zhenzhu! My father will not let you get away with this! I'll have him throw you all in jail! And behead you all!"
She invoked her father's name, her last resort and the trump card she believed could crush everything.
"Assistant Salt Transport Commissioner?"
Xie Sangning chuckled softly, as if she had heard something utterly ridiculous. The contempt and disdain in her laughter instantly turned Gu Zhenzhu's face a deep purplish-red.
"I thought she was some princess from a prince's family, with such an arrogant tone, such high-handed manners, and such strict rules!"
"So you're just the daughter of a mere fifth-rank salt official? Gu Dexing? It seems your father is the local tyrant of Jiangnan? I'll remember that."
The moment the words "county lord" were uttered, the onlookers erupted in uproar!
"A county princess?! Good heavens! She's a county princess from the capital!"
"I knew this young lady had an extraordinary air about her! Turns out she's someone of great importance!"
"The daughter of a fifth-rank official dares to offend a second-rank county princess?! And even threatens to chop off the county princess's head?! This Gu family is really going to madness!"
"Serves her right! Serves her right! She's always been so arrogant and domineering! She's finally met her match! Let's see how her father handles this!"
"County...County Princess?!"
Gu Yi's vision went black, and his body swayed!
He actually tried to arrest a county princess?! And even wanted to kill her without mercy?!
Gu Zhenzhu didn't take it to heart. She thought she was just a county princess without any real power. Even if she was a second-rank official, she still had no real power!
Jiangnan is her territory, and in Jiangnan, no one dares to oppose her!
Xie Sangning glanced at Gu Zhenzhu with amusement and continued, "Do you know who that old man you just deliberately bumped into, saying he deserved to die and was blind?"
Gu Zhenzhu glanced at Lin Zhu with disdain. She didn't think the old man was an official. How could an official be still in office at such an old age?
But Xie Sangning's next words made her face stiffen: "This man was the teacher of the former emperor and crown prince, a man even the current emperor dared not utter a word against. Now, in your mouth, he's become an old codger who should go home and wait to die..."
Gu Zhenzhu felt a chill run from the soles of her feet straight to her head, freezing her blood!
But soon she comforted herself, thinking that maybe it was just a hoax to fool people. How could someone dressed so simply be the Grand Tutor of the previous dynasty?
Gu Yi, standing to the side, realized with despair that his young lady seemed to have been so spoiled that she didn't know her place.
Xie Sangning coldly looked at her unrepentant appearance and said, "How dare you, the daughter of a mere fifth-rank official, ride around in Jiangnan Prefecture, treating the common people like dirt and human life as nothing? How dare you spew vulgarities and insult the family members of imperial officials? How dare you instruct your servants to commit violence in the street, threatening to arrest an imperial-appointed county princess and kill her without mercy?"
Every question she uttered was like a resounding slap across the faces of Gu Zhenzhu and Gu Yi!
"Today, I, the county magistrate, want to see how your father, the Salt Transport Commissioner, will get me thrown into prison and beheaded on behalf of his precious daughter!"
Lin Ziyuan and Lin Huan's faces flushed with excitement, their fists clenched, as if they wanted to jump up: "Cousin is so awesome! That was so satisfying!"
Lin Wantang also held her mother's hand tightly, her little face flushed with excitement, and her eyes were full of admiration as she looked at Xie Sangning!
The onlookers were even more delighted!
She stopped looking at this reckless, self-righteous fool and instead turned her gaze to Gu Yi, whose face was ashen.
"Why aren't you going to fetch that esteemed Lord Gu Dexing? I, the county magistrate, am waiting here! I want to ask him if the laws of this Jiangnan prefecture are governed by his Gu family! I want to ask him how he raised such a lawless daughter who treats human life like dirt!"
"Yes...yes...I'll go right away! I'll go report to you right away!"
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