"Old Cai!" Wu Qing shouted loudly towards the door.
Upon hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo thought, "Is she so angry that she wants to fight to the death?" She reached out and picked up the sword on the table, hanging it back at her waist.
Although she wasn't sure if the other party's helpers were martial arts masters, or if she could handle them with her soft whip, she wasn't one to be careless, and it was always better to be safe than sorry.
The next moment, a person entered from outside. His face was covered with burn scars, making it impossible to recognize his original appearance. He was dressed as a servant.
Upon seeing this person, Jiang An instinctively looked towards Hong Xiaoduo.
This person was a gardener in charge of tending the flower garden in the mansion, and he was recruited into the mansion by Wu Qing.
"Master, what are your orders for summoning me?" After entering, the old man saw Madam Pang lying on the ground and asked Jiang An respectfully, puzzled.
After hearing Lao Cai's words and seeing his actions, Jiang An was somewhat puzzled.
In that situation, when Wu Qing called out to this person, it was clearly a call for help, right? Knowing that Hong Xiaoniangzi was skilled, Wu Qing thought that the person he called in must be even more powerful than Hong Xiaoniangzi.
Hong Xiaoduo's thoughts were similar to Jiang An's.
But Wu Qing, who had called people in, became even angrier than before.
"It wasn't your master who called you, it was Steward Wu. So you should ask him why he called you in," Hong Xiaoduo reminded him with a smile before Wu Qing could speak.
Even so, Hong Xiaoduo had already silently taken off the whip and held it in her hand, wary that the old man was pretending to be stupid and waiting for an opportunity to make a move.
"Manager, the trees in the courtyard have all been pruned, and the willow tree in the backyard has been dug up as you instructed. Fertilizer has been added inside. There will be pomegranate trees for sale at the market in the spring. You can buy them and plant them directly."
"And the osmanthus tree next to the kitchen, I also pruned it to the height you instructed before..." Old Cai reported very seriously.
"Shut up, I didn't call you here to ask you these questions," Wu Qing interrupted him angrily.
"Huh? What does the manager want to ask?" Old Cai shrank back, his neck trembling from the stern look, and asked cautiously.
"Don't play dumb with me. Now it's your time to repay my debt. Kill these two for me. If you're willing to stay and work here after it's done, I'll make you the manager. If you want to leave, I'll give you a large sum of money," Wu Qing said in a low, vicious voice.
Upon hearing this, the old man glanced at Madam Pang lying on the ground, then at the master sitting upright with a gloomy face, and at the young lady who seemed to be watching a play, before slowly turning to Wu Qing: "Manager, don't joke around with me. Murder is a crime and will result in beheading."
You recruited me to work for you, which is indeed a great favor to me. There are many ways for me to repay this favor, so why do you insist on making me kill someone? And the person I'm killing is my master.
"Murder is punishable by death. Manager, you're trying to harm me! If you're going to harm me, then you can't be considered my benefactor; you're more like my enemy."
Hong Xiaoduo couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Looking at Wu Qing's expression now, he was anxious, angry, and annoyed. He pointed at Lao Cai and cursed, "You unethical wretch! Have you forgotten what happened to you in the first place? If I hadn't recruited you into my household, you would probably have been arrested and beheaded by the authorities long ago."
Have you forgotten the oath you swore to heaven that your worthless life would belong to me from now on? You said you'd go through fire and water for me if I ever needed your help?
Don't worry about what I'm asking you to do today. I won't harm you, kill you, or put you in jail.
Once you've dealt with those two, no one but me will know the truth. From now on, everyone will only know that our master made a poor choice of friends and misjudged people, letting wolves into the house.
"This scoundrel from the streets tried to extort money from our master, but when she failed, she killed him in a fit of rage. Then she was surrounded and killed by the servants of the manor." Wu Qing paused here, looking at Lao Cai, who remained unmoved.
"Old Cai, are you content to be a gardener in this mansion for the rest of your life?"
Old Cai nodded and said, "That's right, what's wrong with being a gardener? There's a wage, the manor provides meals, and the food isn't bad either."
"Enough! You just want to negotiate with me, right? Fine, I agree. After it's done, I'll give you a share of his assets, fifty percent of them." Wu Qing became even more agitated.
Upon hearing this, the old man smiled. His face was covered in burn scars. He looked alright when he wasn't smiling, but his smile was quite distressing to see.
"Manager, silver is a good thing, no one dislikes it. I won't talk to you about having the life to take the silver but not the life to spend it. Even if you give it all to me, it won't do any good, because I don't have the ability to kill them." As Lao Cai said this, he deliberately glanced at the sword at Hong Xiaoduo's waist.
"You, aren't you a ruthless person in the underworld, a master of martial arts who killed countless people and offended too many enemies, so you had no choice but to burn your face and retire from the martial world?"
"What, has this gardener really become so cowardly that he doesn't dare kill either of them?" Wu Qing said sarcastically, disappointed in him.
"Manager, don't try to provoke me. To tell you the truth, I don't know any martial arts at all. I've killed chickens, ducks, and fish, but I've never killed a person."
"My face is like this because of a fire in the thatched hut I lived in when I was a refugee. I just didn't want to be bullied, so I deliberately bragged and said those things. Who would have thought you would hear it and believe it? Come to think of it, it's not my fault for lying to you; you were the one who believed it." Old Cai said, but couldn't help glancing at Pang Shi lying on the ground again, wondering to himself if the master had discovered their affair.
Upon hearing Lao Cai's words, Wu Qing's face turned pale with anger. You see, all these years he had regarded Lao Cai as his trump card, which he had placed in his mansion.
People who should only be used in critical moments, as a last resort!
Before bringing Lao Cai into the mansion, he repeatedly told him not to drink alcohol to avoid accidentally saying something while drunk. He also told him to practice martial arts in private and deliberately arranged for him to live alone in the most secluded corner of the mansion.
And the result? Now that it's time to use him, they actually said that what he said before was just bragging? That he doesn't know kung fu? That he's never even killed anyone!
"Hahaha, hahaha, oh my god, I can't laugh anymore! Mr. Jiang, do you think your steward is smart or not? If you say he's not smart, how come he managed to scheme against you and keep you in the dark for over twenty years?"
"But if you say he's smart, is that all?" Hong Xiaoduo laughed so hard she almost choked.
Jiang An was speechless when he heard this. He had been fooled by such stupid things for so many years without knowing it. Wasn't he even more stupid?
Wu Qing was already devastated by Lao Cai's words. After hearing Hong Xiaoduo's hearty laughter and sarcastic remarks, he felt a tightness in his chest, difficulty breathing, and a buzzing in his head...
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