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Chapter 7: The Dirty Place in the Rich Family's Mansion

"Little San!"

Seeing that not only his plan failed, but also his trusted general was captured, Scarface suddenly shouted with his eyes wide open, forced Zhao Biaotou back with a sword, and then rode his horse towards Zhang Wei's convoy.

Amid the Scarface's yelling, or rather the intimidation of the long sword in his hand and the tall horse under his crotch, the charge of a bandit made him feel like a general charging into battle.

He rushed past the two bodyguards who were blocking the way, but did not even look at his good brother who was restrained by Zhang Da and others, and went straight to Zhang Wei's carriage.

It was obvious that he, the boss, had the same plan as his younger brother.

However, Zhang Wei would not do as he wished.

Zhang Wei stretched out his hand like lightning, took out an exquisitely crafted sachet from his waist, and then threw it towards the scarred man's head.

Scarface glared, and when he saw that what was thrown over was just a sachet, he immediately curled his lips in his heart, thinking that these young masters from rich families were really useless, and now they were throwing out their sachets in a panic.

Do you think you can delay time by using this method?

joke!

The scarred man grinned grimly and swung the long knife in his hand forward fiercely. With a flash of silver light, the exquisitely crafted and valuable sachet was instantly split into two.

However, Scarface's expression suddenly changed.

As the sachet was cut, the white powder stored inside exploded along with it, and coupled with the galloping of the warhorse under his crotch, his entire face was covered tightly with white powder.

"what---"

When the white powder entered his eyes, Scarface let out a scream. The stinging pain in his eyes told him what this thing was.

lime!

Gan!
You bastard, you are not a human being. Instead of putting spices and rouge in the sachet like other young masters, you put lime in it!

Then, without waiting for Scarface to call for help, Zhang Wei rushed out of the carriage, stepped on the head of the warhorse under Scarface's crotch, jumped into the air, and kicked Scarface in the head!
"what!!!!"

Scarface was hit hard on the head and suddenly lost his balance, falling off the horse. Without waiting for him to get up, Zhang Da and several others nearby rushed over with ropes and tied Scarface up in no time.

"The boss's defeat——"

Seeing Scarface being captured, the gang of miscellaneous bandits who were blocking the road suddenly let out a strange cry, and then immediately scattered like birds and beasts, rushing towards the mountains and forests on both sides of the road. Zhang Wei was sharp-eyed and saw that the younger brother who had spoken nonsense earlier ran extremely fast. He ran away in a flash, so fast that Zhang Wei even suspected that the other party had specially practiced body movements.

At this time, Zhao Escort came riding over, then dismounted, knelt on the ground with his knife in his arms, and apologized to Zhang Wei with a look of annoyance: "Young Master, my Fuwei Escort Agency was incompetent and frightened you. Please punish me severely!"

Zhang Wei glanced at Zhao Biaotou who was kneeling on the ground and snorted coldly, "Go talk to my brother about this matter later."

After saying this, he didn't care about Zhao Biaotou's depressed expression and went straight back into the carriage.

Having hit a snag with Zhang Wei, Escort Leader Zhao had no choice but to vent his anger on the scarred man who caused his escort agency to lose face in front of the noble. He stood up and kicked the scarred man hard in the knee.

"It's all your damn stuff!"

Scarface groaned in pain and fell to one knee, but he still stubbornly taunted Zhao Biaotou, "A dragon in shallow water is bullied by shrimps, and a tiger in plains is bullied by dogs. This is all you have. If you have the guts, let me go and fight me for three hundred rounds!"

"Shut up!" Zhao Biaotou angrily slapped Scarface several times, then threw him to the two escorts who were accompanying him, and said viciously: "Tie them up and throw them into the back of the carriage. These horse bandits who have two hands and fled from other places may have committed several bloody crimes. Wait until we get to Luoxia County Court to exchange them for a bounty to make amends to you!"

"Yes!"

The two escorts immediately agreed, and then with gloomy faces, they roughly pushed the scarred man to the back of the convoy. After all, it was because of that person that they could not make any money on this trip. It would be considered a good thing if the escort agency did not have to pay a hundred taels of silver to the Zhang family to apologize!

One hundred taels of silver! Their escort company would have to take on two heavy convoys!
So the two bodyguards were very rude and wanted to break Scarface's shoulder blades.

However, even so, Scarface still shouted relentlessly when passing by Zhang Wei's carriage: "Humph! You little brat! If you hadn't used some dirty tricks, how could I, a mighty warrior, stand up to you! I don't accept it! I don't accept it! If you have the guts, fight me to the death in an upright battle!"

"Shut up!"

Seeing this, the escort kicked Dai Hu again and said, "You bastard, are you afraid that this gentleman won't be able to vent his anger? Are you?"

Just as he took out a piece of rag to cover Dai Hu's mouth, the curtain of Zhang Wei's carriage was lifted again.

Zhang Wei looked coldly at Dai Hu who was still looking unruly outside and snorted, "You're not convinced, right? There's something even more unconvincing for you."

"Zhang Da, cut the tendons of his hands and feet for me, so that he won't have a chance to escape. Anyway, just keep him open so that the government can interrogate him more conveniently."

After saying that, he lowered the curtain without caring about Dai Hu's reaction, leaving Dai Hu and the people around him with shocked expressions.

"Yes!"

Zhang Da responded, then with a grim smile on his face he pulled out the knife from his waist and walked slowly towards Dai Hu.

Seeing this, Dai Hu could no longer maintain his unruly expression and shouted in fear, "Stop... Stop, don't come over here, don't come over here! Ah!!!!"

With four "puffing" sounds, Dai Hu let out a painful scream, and the bodyguard beside him stuffed the rag in his hand into Dai Hu's mouth to block his voice.

Then, the two men dragged Dai Hu away, who was like a dead dog. Along the way, there were two red traces that were so glaring.

Escort Captain Zhao swallowed his saliva and looked at the carriage with fear. He thought that this time the Fuwei Escort Agency would have to bleed heavily, otherwise there would be no way to satisfy this gentleman.

Zhao Biaotou sighed, then waved his hand and shouted, "Let's go!"

After dealing with Dai Hu's gang of horse bandits, Zhang Wei and his group did not encounter any other troubles on the rest of the journey, and they arrived at Luoxia County City smoothly.

Lifting the car curtain, Zhang Wei sighed as he looked at the five-meter-high Luoxia City gate tower in front of him.

"Finally I'm here! My butt is about to fall apart!"

Looking at the Luoxia County City in front of him, information about Luoxia County gradually emerged in Zhang Wei's mind.

Luoxia County, one of the thirty-six counties of Yun State, got its name because there is a Luoxia Mountain covering hundreds of miles in the territory. At the end of every month, colorful clouds will fall in the forest. Because of this wonder, Luoxia County will organize Luoxia Poetry Meetings every once in a while, inviting a group of talented scholars to a temple in Luoxia Mountain to recite poems and compose essays, which has made the literary style here flourish day by day. Now it has become a local business card to attract foreign tourists.

However, according to what Zhang Wei learned from the Five Realms Miscellaneous Records, this Luoxia Mountain is actually the clan land of a family of immortal cultivators in the Yun Kingdom with a master of foundation building. The seven-colored falling clouds are just an unusual phenomenon produced by the activation of the Ten Thousand Meter Cloud Light Array, which their clan uses to lock the spiritual power of Luoxia Mountain from being contaminated by the outside world.

From this, it can be seen that the world of immortal cultivation is quite close to ordinary people. However, most people do not have the opportunity to see through the thin mist. Sometimes, it is only a distance of a mountain top, but it is an insurmountable chasm.

At this time, after Zhao Biaotou finished talking to the officer on duty at the city gate, he saluted to Zhang Wei and said, "Second Master, the procedures for entering the city have been arranged. And the origin of the tiger has also been found out. It is said that he is a wild ghost who just escaped from Moya County. Because he accidentally killed the legitimate son of a county master, he was wanted by all parties and fled to Luoxia County.

This incident has caused quite a stir in Moya. It is said that the county magistrate, in order to seek revenge, promised to pay two hundred taels of silver as a reward to anyone who could avenge his beloved son! I will exchange this sick cat for the reward and personally deliver it to your house!"

Hearing what Zhao Biaotou said, Zhang Wei couldn't help but look at him again.

Because the bounty mentioned by Zhao Biaotou was a bit too high. After all, in this world, gold and silver are also valuable to immortal cultivators, so money is still quite valuable.

A strong man working in the city would be lucky to earn one penny a month. Otherwise, why would the elders of the Zhang family call him a spendthrift when they saw him spend hundreds of taels of silver to buy a spiritual stone that was useless to ordinary people?

According to the exchange rate in the world of immortal cultivation, two hundred taels of silver can be exchanged for twenty taels of spirit stones. It is more than enough to mobilize some immortal cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining to capture him. How could they give Dai Hu a chance to escape from Moya County?

Therefore, a considerable portion of the two hundred taels of silver was probably the compensation given by the Fuwei Escort Agency to Mr. Zhang Er as a token of apology.

"Two hundred taels of silver. It seems that this sick cat has made the county magistrate very angry, and he is willing to pay such a huge sum of money. Okay, let's do as you say." Zhang Wei chuckled twice, looked at Zhao Biao meaningfully, and then lowered the curtain again.

"Zhang Da, let's go, we still have to go to my uncle's house to pay our respects."

"Yes, Second Master." Zhang Da nodded and drove into the city.

Watching the carriage going farther and farther away, Zhao Biaotou finally breathed a sigh of relief, but then he showed a look of pain again.

Two hundred taels of silver, the head of Dai Hu's sick cat is only worth thirty taels, and the remaining one hundred and seventy taels must be paid by the Fuwei Escort Agency. It can be expected that the food treatment of the brothers in the agency will drop a lot in the next period of time.

"Forget it, as long as it can make the Zhang family calm down, it will be worth it!" Zhao Escort Head sighed, and then led the people from Fuwei Escort Agency to their place of residence in Luoxia City.

On the other side, Zhang Wei also followed his memory and came to the gate of the Li family and handed his visiting card to the housekeeper at the door.

When the housekeeper saw the name on the invitation, he was immediately shocked and said, "It turns out that it is Master Zhang Er who has arrived! Please come in quickly! I will go and inform the master right away!"

After saying that, he welcomed Zhang Wei and others in, and while serving them carefully, he ordered the servants to help Zhang Da and others move in some of the things that Zhang Wei brought.

Zhang Wei walked into the mourning hall. His uncle Li Defu's coffin was placed in the center. White candles placed on all sides made the hall warm.

In front of the coffin, besides the offerings, there was also a lifelike black-and-white portrait of his uncle Li Defu.

This scene with a strong sense of déjà vu did not change Zhang Wei's expression at all, because this was also his fault.

Ever since his brother Zhang Xiong used the portraits that Zhang Wei had painted for his parents as a memorial to visiting guests at their funeral, the custom of painting a black-and-white portrait of the deceased and hanging it in the mourning hall has inexplicably spread in Luyang County and even the entire Yun Kingdom. Now this custom is said to have spread to several neighboring countries.

Those who have connections will even hire cultivators who are good at painting to paint for the deceased before he or she dies, as if not doing so would be unfilial and would result in being expelled from the circle of wealthy families.

Zhang Wei, the "originator", inexplicably gained the reputation of a filial son, and then, under Zhang Xiong's operation, the news spread to several surrounding counties. Everyone who heard about it was moved to tears, and many literati used him as material for their poems and essays.

Shaking his head and sighing, Zhang Wei then meticulously performed the formalities towards his uncle's remains according to the Yun Kingdom's etiquette, then knelt down and kowtowed four times.

Then his cousin, Li Shengze, who was wearing plain clothes, stepped forward to return the greeting. Zhang Wei quickly helped him up, patted his hands with a mature look and said, "Cousin, I am in deep sorrow."

Li Sheng nodded with a sad face and said, "Zijie, before my father passed away, he always missed you and Zhongxiu. He often urged me to learn more from you two. But I didn't expect that before I could do something to make my father proud, my father..."

At this point, Li Sheng started crying again. The housekeeper next to him saw that Li Sheng was still holding Zhang Wei's hand, so he quickly reminded him.

"master……"

After Li Sheng came to his senses, he said to Zhang Wei apologetically, "I'm sorry, Zijie, I made you laugh. You have come from a long way and must be tired from sleeping in the open air. I will arrange a welcome party for you right away."

However, Zhang Wei refused and said, "Cousin, you are still keeping vigil, and I am your uncle's nephew. How can I allow you to ignore etiquette and entertain me instead of being filial to your uncle?"

"Besides, we are here to pay our respects, so there is no need to make a big fuss. Just arrange two rooms for us to rest."

"This... okay..."

Li Sheng hesitated for a moment and sighed, then instructed the housekeeper beside him: "Old Li, take my cousin to the backyard and arrange a good wing room for him. Don't neglect him!"

"Yes, Master." Butler Li responded, and then asked Zhang Wei, "Second Master, please follow me."

Zhang Wei nodded, and walked towards the backyard of Li's mansion with peace of mind under the guidance of Manager Li.

It has to be said that both the Li family and the Zhang family, as powerful families in the area, enjoy the best configuration in the local area.

There were pavilions, towers, exotic flowers and trees along the way. Zhang Wei also saw many bright birds unique to Luoxia County kept in bird cages on both sides of the corridor. The crisp chirping of birds filled his ears along the way, which made him feel happy and diluted the solemn and depressing atmosphere in the front hall.

However, when passing a corner, Zhang Wei suddenly felt a chill, and looking towards the source, he saw a big stone at the corner, and a small well under the big stone.

It's neither too big nor too small, just enough for one person to fit in.

"What is that?" Zhang Wei pointed at the well and asked, "Why is there a big rock pressing down on a perfectly good well?"

"what?"

Butler Li was stunned, then looked in the direction of the voice. When he saw clearly what Zhang Wei was pointing at, his expression suddenly changed and became very gloomy.

Then he quickly smiled at Zhang Wei and said, "It's just a scenic stone to suppress Feng Shui. This place is quite yin, and many family members in the clan feel uneasy when passing by here. After asking an expert to take a look, he said that this place is the gathering place of yin in our Li Mansion, so let us put a piece of fire smoke stone to suppress the yin energy.

As a result, you know what, Second Master, this expert is an expert. Since placing this piece of fire smoke stone, everyone who passes by here has not felt anything unusual except that it is a little cold. "

"Oh……"

Zhang Wei nodded, but he glanced at the fire smoke stone out of the corner of his eye.

(End of this chapter)