Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 234 Murder in the Mansion

Seeing this prompt, Gong Tianwu was also greatly surprised. He was born in a marquis's mansion, and his destiny was only increased by 0.3. But now that he had just recruited Cai Yuanchang, his destiny had increased by another 0.5.

Doesn't this mean that having the assistance of a talent like Cai Yuanchang is actually far superior to being born in this marquis's mansion!
But think about it, Liu Bang was the emperor's uncle, and even though he had capable generals like Guan, Zhang, and Zhao under his command, they still wandered around for half their lives. It was only when they met a top strategist like Zhuge Liang that the Three Kingdoms were established. It's not surprising if you think about it this way.

Not to mention that Cai Yuanchang’s template was Cai Jing. You can say he is bad, but you can’t say he is bad.

However, most people who are extremely evil and treacherous also have great talents and abilities.

If Cai Jing's superior was not the king who lost his country, Song Huizong, but a wise ruler like the leader of the Xuanwu Gate Incident, it is hard to say how Cai Jing would be finally evaluated in history books.

As for Cai Yuanchang's loyalty, Gong Tianwu was not worried. After all, he was already in his hands, so he would definitely use him like an ox or a horse, and he would just reward him little by little in the future.

***
After dealing with Cai Yuanchang's matter, Gong Tianwu felt relieved and thought about going back home to take a look.

Last time, because he did not help the person in need, his mother was very angry, so Gong Tianwu has not been home for the past few days.

As a result, Gong Tianwu had just stepped into the mansion and walked a dozen steps when he saw a woman in gorgeous clothes coming towards him, surrounded by a number of followers.

The woman was about 25 or 26 years old, with very thin eyebrows that were raised high, making her slightly upturned eyes look even more mean. She had thin lips painted with bright rouge, and her mouth corners were habitually turned down, as if she looked down on everything.

Her face looked very ugly and her eyes were red, obviously she had just cried.

This girl's name is Chen Feiyao. In terms of seniority, she is Gong Tianwu's second sister and is also born to Madam Wang.

She had already married at this time, and her husband's family was also very powerful. They were generals who built a mansion and opened a government. She was shocked to hear about the great changes in her mother's family in Sansheng City, so she hurried back to see what was going on. As a result, she met Lady Wang and her daughter and burst into tears.

Chen Feiyao walked quickly with a dark face, and suddenly saw Gong Tianwu next to him, and immediately his eyes became stern:
"Come here!!"

Gong Tianwu paused and looked up at Chen Feiyao.

This second sister has always been arrogant. She was already very unruly before she got married. She is so aggressive today. She must be here with bad intentions. He snorted coldly, not wanting to get entangled with her, and turned away.

When Chen Feiyao saw him turn around and leave, she became even more furious, so she rushed to Gong Tianwu in two steps and raised her hand to slap him:

"You are such a heartless person!"

Gong Tianwu took half a step backwards to avoid her slap, then raised his head and said angrily:

"Why are you crazy!"

Chen Feiyao's palm missed and she almost fell down. After she finally stood up, she was shaking with anger:
"Crazy? Let me ask you, did my fifth brother die tragically outside your front door?"

Gong Tianwu sneered:

"So what? A lot of people died in the mansion that night. What does it have to do with me?"

Chen Feiyao said in a sharp voice:

"You had someone guarding your place that night!! Dozens of assassins were killed, and your people took them away to ask for rewards. You had the ability to save Lao Wu at that time, but you just watched him die!"

Gong Tianwu said with a wry smile:

"You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. My people also suffered heavy casualties that night, and I was powerless to save him."

Chen Feiyao's eyebrows were raised, and her sharp nails almost poked Gong Tianwu's face:

"Stop pretending here! Don't I know what kind of people you and your son are? When your mother was a singer, she was ridden by thousands of people and oppressed by tens of thousands of people. That's why you were born!"

Gong Tianwu's eyes suddenly turned cold, and the air around him seemed to freeze.

"What? Did I get it right?"

Seeing that he remained silent, Chen Feiyao became more and more proud, and a vicious smile twisted her harsh mouth.

"Just wait, you bastard! After I got married, the whole house was controlled by you bastards, that's why such a big thing happened. I will tell my father to get all of you bastards out of here."

Gong Tianwu suddenly took action:
"Snapped!"

A loud slap hit Chen Feiyao's face hard, with such force that she staggered back and her carefully combed hair was messed up.

"You... you dare to hit me?!" Chen Feiyao covered her burning cheeks and widened her eyes in disbelief.

"You bastard!" Chen Feiyao screamed hysterically, "Someone come! Take off his clothes and beat this bastard to death!"

As soon as she spoke, the three maids around her and the five guards brought from her husband's family stepped forward at the same time and chased after Gong Tianwu.

Chen Feiyao's husband's surname is Hu, and the guards around her are all elite soldiers. They have all fought in the battlefield. There is a murderous aura emanating from their every move, and they put on a ferocious look and move forward.

As a result, Gong Tianwu turned around and ran away when he saw this. The guards laughed and chased after him, thinking that this little bastard was really easily frightened. They should be gentler when they slap him in the face later so as to pull out fewer of his teeth.

While chasing, these strong men in indigo suits deliberately slapped their scabbards and stomped their boots heavily on the bluestone slabs. There were not many opportunities to besiege the children of the marquis' mansion, so they were not in a hurry and stayed ten steps away like hunting.

"Don't run, we won't really beat you to death!"

The pockmarked guard in the lead laughed:

"Should I slap him on the left or right cheek? Forget it, I'll just pry open his mouth and pull out a few teeth first."

The scarred man next to him strode forward with a grim smile:

"Didn't you see the boy slap the lady? We must let the lady vent her anger, otherwise if she goes back and complains, we will all be in trouble."

The three maids also caught up, panting.

When it comes to torturing and beating people up, they are the best. They usually follow Chen Feiyao's instructions to beat people up. Now, they know from her expression that this grandma is furious. In order to avoid getting into trouble, they dare not be perfunctory.

Suddenly, Gong Tianwu stopped in front of the vermilion lacquered gate of the Marquis' Mansion.

"Run? Why don't you run?"

The pockmarked guard stretched out his hand to grab Gong Tianwu's collar with a fake smile.

"We will teach you the rules now."

Gong Tianwu took a half step back to avoid the attack, and suddenly shouted at the guards at the door:

"Are you all dead? Are you watching outsiders run wild here?!" The faces of the silver-armored guards suddenly changed. They were about to stop them, but were stopped by Chen Feiyao's sharp voice:

"Let's see who dares to move! If there are any consequences, I will go to my parents to discuss it. So what if I kill this bastard today?"

Gong Tianwu took five or six steps back again and came to the dam next to the gate of the Marquis' Mansion. This was the place for visitors to the Marquis' Mansion to park their cars and tie their horses. Five or six horses were tied here, and there were four carriages of different shapes.

After arriving here, Gong Tianwu said coldly:
"Kill the man, and chop off one hand and one leg of the three women."

In an instant, eight figures jumped down from the two carriages nearby. They were the Wulou Guards beside Gong Tianwu. They looked at the guards chasing them with cold eyes and raised the wild wolf crossbows in their right hands at the same time!

A series of "buzzing" sounds were heard, and eight three-edged armor-piercing arrows shot out and instantly nailed the two guards to the screen wall next to them. All of them hit their vital points. The two guards were like being shot, and they died without even a scream.

Blood flowed down along the inscription "Loyalty and bravery passed down from generation to generation", dyeing the word "loyalty" a glaring scarlet.

The pockmarked-faced guard of the Hu family was considered quite powerful and barely avoided the crossbow arrow shot at him, but the two Wulou guards had already pounced on him, with the scimitars at their waists already unsheathed and slashing!

The pockmarked guard roared and swung his sword to chop back, but just as he cut with his sword, another Wulou guard quietly attacked from the side.

The guy's right hand holding the knife flew into the air along with half of his forearm, and then the knife flashed again. The pockmarked face guard staggered back, covering his throat, and the blood foam gushing out from between his fingers drew a scarlet arc on the blue brick.

The Wulou Guards serving Gong Tianwu were all carefully selected. More importantly, due to Gong Tianwu's deliberate selection, their loyalty was as high as over 90 points, and they carried out Gong Tianwu's orders meticulously.

Therefore, after killing three Hu family guards, Wulouwei pounced on the three stunned maids without hesitation, just like a group of ferocious hungry wolves.

The knife flashed, and the right arm of Liu Ma, who was standing in the front, was cut off at the shoulder. In her hand, she was still holding a silver hairpin that she could use to stab people.

Nanny Li had just screamed when her left leg rolled down the stairs from below the knee.

The youngest, Aunt Zhang, was the most miserable - a dagger pierced her palm and nailed it to the door frame, and a scimitar cut off her entire scalp close to her ear. Her gray hair mixed with blood stuck to the white wall behind her, like a hideous ink painting.

After severely injuring the three, Wulouwei showed no mercy. Gong Tianwu said he would chop off one of their hands and one of their feet. There would be no compromise, not even a single hair would be cut off!
At this time, not only were the guards at the gate stunned, but Chen Feiyao was also shaking violently all over. The bloody scene before her completely shocked her, and made the stubborn girl face the true cruelty.

At this moment, Chen Feiyao couldn't even stand steadily, and slumped on the ground. Her carefully drawn distant mountain eyebrows were blurred by cold sweat, her lips trembled but she couldn't speak, and her gold-plated nails dug deeply into her palms.

On the contrary, Gong Tianwu was able to remain calm, and said calmly to the guards at the door:
"This is the main gate of the Marquis' Mansion, not a place for people to laugh at you."

"Go find someone to carry the body away, and get a doctor to bandage and treat the wounds."

After hearing what Gong Tianwu said, this group of people woke up from their dream.

“Yes, yes!”

The leading guard swallowed his saliva and thought to himself that the future of the Marquis' Mansion might be about to change.

"I'll go get a stretcher right away!"

The young guard on the outermost side suddenly jumped up, and ran so fast that he stumbled on the steps.

"The medicine box is in the warm room in the west wing!"

The older guard shouted into the door with a trembling voice:
"What are you all standing there for? Bring the bucket and flush the ground!"

Suddenly, a groan from Nanny Zhang was heard in a pool of blood. The old woman with a broken palm was using her only remaining left hand to pick at the cracks in the blue bricks, shaking with pain. The captain of the guards hurriedly untied his belt to stop the bleeding, but the blood-soaked belt turned dark red as soon as it was wrapped around the broken limb.

At this time, the chief guard saw Gong Tianwu boarding the carriage next to him, and rushed over in a hurry to block the way and said:

"Report to the Fifth Young Master."

The chief guard knelt down and said with a wry smile:

"We dare not let you go for such a big matter. We must report it to the Marquis and let him make the decision."

Gong Tianwu snorted coldly:

"I'm not going anywhere. I'm just resting in the carriage."

***
The response of the entire Marquis' Mansion was quite timely. After only about ten minutes, the new chief steward of the Marquis' Mansion, Du Guan, hurried out.

As for why he is the new one?
Of course it was because the original Old Xie had died. Yes, he was very unlucky to be killed in the Che Ming State Rebellion.

After Du Guan exchanged a few words with the guards at the gate, he came to the carriage and whispered to Gong Tianwu:

"Seventh Young Master, the Marquis asked you to come in."

Gong Tianwu said:

"understood."

Soon, Gong Tianwu arrived at the familiar study and saw Chen Yunsheng, Marquis of Zhenbei, sitting on a chair in a white brocade robe, carefully looking at a painting in front of him.

Mrs. Wang was standing by with a very ugly look on her face. Chen Feiyao's eyes were swollen like two peaches, and it was obvious that she had just cried.

When he saw Gong Tianwu coming over, Chen Feiyao immediately raised his head, his eyes almost spitting fire, pointing at Gong Tianwu and choking with sobs:

"Father! Father, he was the one who beat me and killed the guards and nanny I brought with me."

Gong Tianwu pretended not to hear her accusation. He greeted Chen Yunsheng and Madam Wang one by one, following all the etiquette, and then said to Chen Yunsheng:

"I don't know what my father wants me to do."

Chen Yunsheng looked him up and down carefully as if he had just met him for the first time, then he sighed:
"I never thought that, after all my life of fighting many battles and seeing a lot, I would have made a mistake in judging you, Old Seven."

"In just one year, you have created such a scene by beating and kicking me. Don't you have anything to tell me?"

Gong Tianwu was silent for a while and said:
"Father, I did meet a master by accident. Let me tell you a thing: Don't reveal the secret before the time is right, otherwise there may be disaster."

After hearing this, Chen Yunsheng seemed to have predicted it. He nodded slightly and said to Gong Tianwu:
"Tell me the truth, how many people do you have now, and how strong are they?"

Gong Tianwu said:

"Two to three hundred elite soldiers. If we can involve the grassland tribes, a thousand people should be enough."

"As for combat effectiveness, the previous battle that defeated the Tianyong Army cannot be counted. It was a night battle plus a surprise attack, and there was a lot of luck involved. Even so, our people suffered heavy casualties."

(End of this chapter)