The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 90 Reason
At this moment, Feng Gui dared not move or speak, his whole body trembling like a leaf.

Wu Chengyu stopped paying attention to him, used his lightness skill to jump out of the back alley, and then appeared three times. Each time he appeared, he was holding two people in his hands. In just a few breaths, the seven sneaky people he had just discovered were all captured here.

Everyone was unable to move, lying sprawled out in the back alley.

Wu Chengyu turned to look at Feng Gui, who was covered in rat blood: "Come on, tell me what I want to hear."

Feng Gui could no longer hold on. He knelt down and kowtowed, pleading, "Young Master Wu, I will never dare to do it again. Please spare me."

Wu Chengyu was very impatient; begging for mercy at this moment was the most pointless thing to do.

“You have betrayed the family. I can either kill you now or hand you over to the family for punishment according to the family rules.”

However, if you explain yourself properly, I can guarantee that even if your wife and daughters leave Wujiapo, they will still have food to eat.

"But if you continue to test my patience, the Wu family's methods of punishing their servants might very well extend to them as well."

Wu Chengyu's tone grew colder and colder, and Feng Gui felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, finally regaining some of his rationality.

“They’re from the Wujiang Gang. I went to a gambling den run by the Wujiang Gang and fell into their trap. I owe them money, and they even threatened my wife and daughter.”

"Really? I don't believe it," Wu Chengyu's eyes grew even colder.

"The family has long had rules about such matters. Even if a member of the family is not of the same surname, if they are threatened and forced to do something wrong by someone outside the family, they should agree to it at the time. A wise man doesn't suffer a loss right in front of him."

As long as you promptly report the situation to your family, they will at most give you a minor punishment as a warning, and they will protect your family members immediately.

So I'm very dissatisfied with your answer. What do you suggest I do?

No sooner had he finished speaking than Wu Chengyu raised his right index finger, his eyes filled with murderous intent. Feng Gui was immediately terrified and was about to beg for mercy when Wu Chengyu pointed his right finger lightly. A faint white light flashed, and one of the captured people had his head blown off.

Although the others were unable to move, their bodies trembled involuntarily, and two of them immediately became wet in their groin area.

Little did they know that Feng Gui was not telling the truth, and that Wu Chengyu was actually killing someone else.

Wu Chengyu pulled his index finger back, blew on it, and said, "I'll kill someone if I'm not satisfied. Maybe it'll be you, maybe it'll be them, it depends on my mood. I don't even know who'll be next. You like to gamble, do you want to gamble that you might be next?"

When Feng Gui saw the dead man's body scattered like tofu, he finally dared not hide it any longer.

“I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you. I was in debt, so I stole my family’s hot pot recipe. But the recipe was incomplete, and the taste was terrible. They used that as leverage to blackmail me.”

Betrayal for personal gain and being framed and threatened are two completely different concepts. In this era, clan consciousness is extremely strong. Those who actively betray their family will be punished by the family with the harshest family rules. This is the foundation for the continuation of the family.

Most importantly, Feng Gui doesn't have the surname Wu, so his future fate is already predictable.

As for the hot pot base recipe, Wu Chengyu handed it over to Wu Zhengliang and then stopped caring about it. Wu Zhengliang divided the recipe into two parts. The core part was prepared within the family, a ten-day supply, which was then sent to the restaurant for further processing and sale.

People like Feng Gui, who are not from the same clan, have absolutely no opportunity to come into contact with others.

Wu Chengyu ignored Feng Gui and turned his attention to the first guy who brought the rat. He lightly tapped his finger and released his speech acupoint.

"Tell me, why did Wu Jiang suddenly provoke our Wu family?"

Wujiang Association is a chamber of commerce in Suzhou. Although it is said to be engaged in business, it is actually half-legal and half-criminal, more like a gang.

However, Wu Jianghui had never dared to provoke the Wu family before. The Wu family had been in Suzhou for over a hundred years, with intricate and intertwined relationships. Not only were the family members martial and willing to fight to the death, but they also had many connections in official circles. A small fry like Wu Jianghui was simply not worth the Wu family's attention.

As Wu Chengyu asked the question, he waved his right index finger in front of the man's eyes. With such a role model in front of him, the man immediately confessed the truth.

"It's not that we from Wujiang dare to provoke the Wu family, it's just that it's an order from above."

Last month, a very important person came from Hangzhou and immediately took over our Wujiang Club.

Yesterday, that important person gave the order to teach the Wu family a lesson. Since we didn't dare to fight the Wu family, we came up with this plan.

"Master Wu, spare our lives! We were truly forced into this situation."

“What do you know about this important person in Hangzhou? Tell me.”

"I really don't know. I only heard that he is a family member of a high-ranking official in Hangzhou. He has his eye on Suzhou and wants to control it. As for his name and background, I am too lowly to speak on such matters."

Wu Chengyu knew that he probably wouldn't get any new information out of this guy, so he didn't need to get involved in the rest for the time being.

Killing someone is easy, but who is behind it and what conspiracy is at play? Wu Chengyu doesn't have the energy to investigate these things. He needs to report today's events to Wu Zhengliang as soon as possible.

The so-called important person who suddenly caused trouble for the Wu family may have already contacted them but failed to get what he wanted, so Wu Zhengliang must have been aware of it.

Wu Chengyu called Wu Jinshui over, and then summoned several other family members. All the surviving members were tied up, and the dead were collected.

However, Wu Chengyu specifically instructed Feng Gui to clean the back alley, so that he could do something meaningful before he died.

After the evening market ended, Wu Chengyu did not go home immediately. Not long after, Wu Zhengliang arrived with several members of the Wu family. They first listened to Wu Chengyu's account of the events leading up to the incident, and then interrogated Feng Gui separately.

"Chengyu, it's all thanks to you tonight, otherwise our Wuweilou restaurant would have had to close down," Wu Zhengliang said with a wry smile.

"It seems that Fourth Uncle already knows the cause and effect, but I wonder who this so-called great benefactor is."
If Fourth Uncle finds it difficult, I, your nephew, can do it for you, as long as you help me find the whereabouts of that great benefactor.”

"Haha, I know your current martial arts skills, but family matters are not as simple as fighting and killing."

This important person is just a relative of the Shi family in Hangzhou. Now that the Shi family is in control of the country, those who attach themselves to Shi Miyuan are naturally rising in status. He just wants to set up a business in Suzhou.

He had his eye on the iron mine owned by the second branch of the family and wanted to exchange it, but his second uncle refused. That's why he wanted to teach us a lesson.

However, he couldn't distinguish which properties belonged to the second wife, which led him to mistakenly choose the second wife's car.

Wu Chengyu never expected that Shi Miyuan, who had just taken office and would not become prime minister until next year, would already be so impatient. In terms of bringing disaster to the country and the people, this future prime minister Shi was no less than any of the treacherous officials of the past.

"You don't need to worry about this anymore. What happened today was just because our third branch of the family was caught off guard."

Even a powerful dragon can't suppress a local snake. My Wu family has been operating in Suzhou for generations and has its own strength. He wouldn't dare to really break off relations. In the end, it's nothing more than an exchange of interests.

I've taken up your time today; you should go home early and spend time with your wife.

Wu Chengyu's lips twitched. "If you hadn't mentioned the words 'little wife,' I would still consider you my fourth uncle. I'm innocent!"

(End of this chapter)