Chapter 7 Jumping into the well
The story of the Huo Gang's rise to power is quite legendary.
In the third year of the Nan Kingdom, the Yu family, the richest family that had once been the only one in the world, suddenly discovered:
The Huo Gang, the gangster they despised the most, suddenly cleaned themselves up and turned into legitimate businessmen.
Not only did they successively swallow up industries such as house construction, livestock, firecrackers, and rice, but they also always competed with the Yu family in major businesses such as water transport and weapons forging.
In just ten years, the Huo Gang became the richest family in Nan Country, second only to the Yu family.
Twenty-five years have passed since the founding of Nan Kingdom. The Huo Gang has replaced the Yu Family as the richest family for many years and is now on par with the Yu Family.
Although the Huo Gang has become extremely powerful, in today's Nan Kingdom, where ethics and morals are strictly enforced, the Huo Gang's style of doing things still carries a gangster vibe, so people are accustomed to calling it the Huo Gang rather than the "Huo Family."
Unlike the Yu family who are all from the same lineage, the Huo family is a complex one, with many brothers and sisters headed by Old Master Huo.
The second generation of the Huo family alone has more than 20 clans and over a hundred members.
By the time of Huo Gannian's generation, there were no fewer than a hundred Huo family heads and clansmen who had committed crimes under the name Huo, with nearly ten thousand members.
However, in the past few years, Huo Gannian killed many of their people, and only more than 20 tribes are left.
So, although Huo Gannian is in charge of the Huo Gang today and is the only one in power, his enemies inside and outside the gang are more numerous than mushrooms after rain.
Huo Gannian's leg was injured by his enemy. He lost sensation below the thigh and could never stand or walk again.
At that time, Huo Gannian, who was at the peak of his career, had already been engaged to the eldest daughter of the Han family, a major salt merchant in Jiangnan.
But after Huo Gannian's leg became disabled, the Han family didn't even send anyone to say hello, and they hastily broke off the engagement with a letter.
That night, when Yun Chen met Huo Gannian coming back from the back door alone in the middle of the night, it was the day when the eldest daughter of the Han family got married.
Everyone speculated that Huo Gannian went to secretly watch the eldest daughter of the Han family get married.
No one dared to say it out loud, and everyone was both afraid of and sympathetic towards Huo Gannian.
A man with crippled legs and broken off engagement, no matter how powerful and ruthless he is, is really pitiful.
But Yun Chen felt it was so shallow.
She intuitively felt that Huo Gannian was not the kind of person who would be trapped by love.
More like someone who would wield a sword and kill off his loved ones.
Facts have proved that her guess was correct.
After another offense at the back door that night, she was transferred to the Guards, and the area of duty and patrol became Huo Gannian's Beining Hall.
As a close guard, Yun Chen mainly walked around the periphery of the main hall, and Huo Gannian was only allowed to have his trusted guards by his side.
According to the rules passed down from the ancestors of the Huo family, there can be countless guards, but there must be six personal guards.
However, due to the constant bloody fights around Huo Gannian in recent years, the personal guards had to sacrifice their lives and protect Huo Gannian from death too many times.
In addition, the requirements for joining the Royal Guard are extremely high. One must have unique killing skills, be grateful to the master, and be willing to sacrifice his life for the master.
Therefore, the seats of the royal guards have been vacant for many years and have never been complete.
At the moment, there are only three people including Huo Gannian’s personal guards and Ye Yan.
Since entering the Huo Mansion, Yun Chen has only seen Ye Yan.
The other two were said to have been assigned to overseas for confidential matters and would not be able to return for a while.
Huo Gannian didn't have enough people around him, and Yun Chen often saw him sitting alone in the study with a cold expression on his face.
Perhaps because he did not have enough confidants, Yun Chen was "fortunate" to be summoned personally by Huo Gannian late one night.
The place where the Huo family guards slept was a large room with an open view, and inside it were bunk beds spaced half a meter apart.
Yun Chen came late and slept near the door.
At night, Yun Chen was sleeping soundly.
She was dreaming of fishing in the river with Xiaoliu. They had just caught a big, fat black fish and were desperately trying to hold down its lively body. Before they could drag it ashore, she heard a cold voice calling her in her dream:
"Yun Chen!"
Yun Chen felt as if he was being called by the King of Hell. He shuddered and woke up instantly.
"Yun Chen, come out."
The voice called again.
It wasn't loud, just enough to reach the door.
But the tone was cold and unpleasant, and Yun Chen immediately recognized it as Huo Gannian's voice.
After thinking about it, Yun Chen didn't push the creaking door for fear of disturbing others, so he held the window with one hand and jumped out.
Under the bright moonlight, Huo Gannian was seen sitting alone in a wheelchair, his hands folded, his slender joints intertwined, placed on his legs, looking at her indifferently, his posture very calm.
If it weren't for the bulging "birthday boy's briefcase" on his forehead that reflected light and revealed some fine beads of sweat, she would have almost believed that he looked like an old man.
She didn't know why he came to the main room to look for her in the middle of the night, pushing his wheelchair alone. She saluted softly:
"Meet the young master."
Huo Gannian looked at her coldly, uttered the word "go", then turned his wheelchair and slowly walked towards the back garden.
Yun Chen followed quietly behind.
The two walked along the garden path, one in front of the other, and the moonlight cast her tall shadow on the road in front of him.
The night wind rustled the leaves and also blew her tall "boyish" hair.
The shadow's flying hair inexplicably attracted his attention. He kept looking at it all the way and almost pushed his wheelchair into the ditch.
"Young Master, besides your leg disease, do you also have an eye disease?" She casually straightened the wheelchair with her foot, not noticing how ugly his expression was.
About half an hour later, Huo Gannian stopped in front of a somewhat old courtyard.
Because he rarely pushed his wheelchair himself, his breathing was a little heavy. He glanced at Yun Chen unhappily, and the latter immediately stepped forward and pushed open the gate.
An imposing black seven-cornered stone building appeared before his eyes. Three large characters were scrawled wildly on an old plaque:
Killing Moon Tower.
Yun Chen had heard that this was the courtyard where Huo Gannian lived before he moved to Beilingtang.
Ever since Huo Gannian moved here, this place has been sealed and no one is allowed to enter.
The two walked through the silent stone building and came to the backyard.
Because it had not been taken care of for a long time, the weeds in the yard grew wildly, more than one meter tall and very dense.
For some reason, Yun Chen subconsciously felt that this was a good place to kill and bury the body. Could it be that Huo Gannian discovered that she was a "cat assassin" and was preparing to take action here?
After this thought came to his mind, Yun Chen's first reaction was to look at Huo Gannian's wheelchair.
She was 100% sure that she could beat him, and escaping from the Huo Mansion shouldn't be a problem.
There's some trouble with Xiaoliu and Xun Xun, and we have to find a way to avoid implicating them.
Yun Chen kept thinking about this and that, considering how to deal with this new master whom he had only known for a few days, but he saw Huo Gannian suddenly lean over and touch the storage box under the wheelchair.
Take a knife?
She became alert instantly, subconsciously jumped back, and stared at Huo Gannian nervously.
The latter glanced at her indifferently, ignoring her nervous reaction, and took out a pair of suede foot covers.
"Go down and fetch a piece of aquamarine jade to wear."
Yun Chen took the foot covers, which are the most commonly used items by guards when climbing vertical and slippery walls to prevent knee injuries.
Looking in the direction his eyes indicated, Yun Chen discovered a black stone well in the grass.
Feeling the rough and thick texture of the suede in his hand, Yun Chen's guard disappeared instantly. He then realized that he was overthinking. He couldn't help but smile and said, "As you command," and immediately jumped into the well without looking back.
Without any hesitation, or even asking a single question, he just jumped down so quickly.
Although he has a young "boy" face, he exudes an indescribable determination and ruthlessness.
Moreover, she was inexplicably furious just now, and her eyes were full of vigilance towards him, but when she received the slightest sign of goodwill, she immediately turned from a tiger into a cat, with a ridiculously beautiful silly smile!
Could it be that people are so simple and give up trust so easily?
Huo Gannian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, finding it quite interesting.
The moonlight is bright, making the well water sparkle.
Yun Chen jumped into the well, and the cold water made her breathing stop.
She dived into the well and began to search.
Thinking that the jade pendant should be round and bright in color, Yun Chen looked for the slightly glowing object.
But after searching for a long time, all I found were pebbles that were almost jade, and there was no trace of the jade pendant.
Feeling that she was running out of breath, she had to return to the surface, take a few deep breaths, and then dive again.
This was repeated more than ten times. About half an hour later, the moonlight gradually moved westward and away from the well mouth, and the well became dark again.
With his vision obstructed, Yun Chen could only use the most stupid method: lying on the bottom of the water in the dark, groping inch by inch along the wall of the well towards the center.
Outside the well, Huo Gannian looked at the dark wellhead, which showed no sign of a living person crawling out, and his brows began to furrow.
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