Chapter 1751 - 645: Blood Rain Jianghu (Part 3)

"Never thought that even sticking by his side like that, I still couldn’t make him give up his urge to do evil.

"So in the end he had to end up like this.

"Sigh... if I’d known earlier, I should’ve grabbed him, locked him in a cage, and given him three rounds of good old beatings every morning, noon, and night.

"Make him study properly and understand the teachings of the sages.

"If he didn’t study well, I’d give him an extra round of beatings at night.

"Figure if he lived like that three to five years, he’d eventually become educated and reasonable.

"Too bad... I still didn’t make it in time."

"..."

Lord Ban Shu sighed at that:

"If Zhang Meng knows down in the netherworld, he’d probably be grateful to that mysterious man for letting him die so cleanly."

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That night was anything but peaceful.

Around midnight, even with the torrential rain pouring down, you could still hear shouts of killing coming from the manor.

There was also Old Lady Ou’s hoarse, furious cursing.

Zhu Baiwan was scared out of his wits and took advantage of the chaos to grab his people and run straight out of the manor.

In that rainy night, no one knew if he got away smoothly or not.

As for the Shunfeng Escort Agency and the Xing Family, they turned a deaf ear to everything outside.

As if none of it had anything to do with them.

Leaving Lu Ren baffled.

On their side, aside from Hong Tai, he and Hua Shiyi really had slept on their weapons, tense and cautious.

Yet Chen Dinghai came to them and told them to wash up and go to sleep.

What the... wash my ass!

Who could sleep?

The sounds of slaughter went on and on for nearly two hours before finally dying down.

After that, Lu Ren still didn’t dare sleep.

So in that torment, he held out until dawn.

Su Mo pushed open the door, stretched lazily, let out a huge yawn, looked up at the sky, and nodded:

"Looks like it’s a fine day."

"Fine my ass."

Hua Yishi’s voice came from not far away.

Su Mo looked up and immediately grinned:

"Big Sister Hua, did you go out thieving last night? Why the face full of exhaustion?"

Hua Shiyi glared at Su Mo:

"You’re just playing dumb. Last night people were bashing each other’s brains out, how could you sleep?

"Your martial arts are so-so, you’re not scared they’d get carried away and beat you to death too?"

"Not scared, not scared."

Su Mo shook his head: "My martial arts may be ordinary, but the brothers around me are strong. They’ll definitely protect me."

"Naive."

Hua Shiyi sneered:

"What if the enemy’s too strong and they’re struggling to protect themselves? What then?"

"Isn’t there still Shiyiniang?"

Su Mo said with a cheerful smile:

"I figure Shiyiniang would never just stand by and watch me die, right?"

Hua Shiyi couldn’t help but smile at that:

"That’s true... but kid, you’re a bit too realistic, aren’t you? Before, I thought you had some chivalry in you...

"Now it seems you’re much better at trimming your sails to the wind.

"When you need something, you call me Shiyiniang; when you don’t, it’s Big Sister Hua.

"You brat... I don’t even know what your wife saw in you."

Su Mo gave a wry chuckle:

"Maybe she just likes how shameless I am."

Hua Shiyi was momentarily at a loss for words.

As they were talking, Yang Xiaoyun and the others also came out of their rooms.

Wei Ziyi rubbed her belly and asked:

"What’s for breakfast? Did the master of the house prepare anything to eat?"

"What master of the house..."

Hua Shiyi sighed:

"At dawn I went and took a look around.

"There’s no one left in the manor.

"The whole household ran off, clean as a whistle.

"Not even the corpses from the Ou Family Palace are to be seen.

"The people from Heavenly Fate Valley should all be dead too. Last night we didn’t even hear Zhang Meng.

"Everything they had on them has been swept clean.

"There’s definitely something huge going on here... but I don’t know why they didn’t lay a hand on us.

"Come to think of it, we really ought to thank Master Chen for anticipating the situation and not letting us get involved in that mess, otherwise we wouldn’t be this safe now."

Yang Xiaoyun and the others exchanged a look. After Su Mo got back last night, he’d already told them everything he’d seen, in detail.

Knowing the situation, none of them were surprised by how things looked now.

The stuff was naturally taken away by Guo Zhaochen and his people.

To use as a knocking brick to open the doors of Weiyang Palace.

Lord Ban Shu and that White clothed Swordsman were probably no longer anywhere nearby either.

Now only the Xing Family, their Shunfeng Escort Agency, and Lu Ren’s group were left.

Hua Shiyi knew Lu Ren was currently chewing on the problem of how to shake off the Xing Family and go back to the original arrangement.

But after breakfast, Chen Dinghai told them he planned to travel together with the Xing Family.

Lu Ren instinctively wanted to refuse.

After all, his lie was way too easy for those two from the Xing Family to poke holes in.

But when the words reached his lips, after hesitating again and again, he swallowed them back down.

He really couldn’t come up with a reason.

Say the Xing Family has ill intentions?

No evidence.

Besides, Xing Hao’s already down four fingers; even if he does harbor evil intentions, he might not be a match for them.

Thinking it over and over, he could only sigh in the end and tacitly agree.

After that, the three parties mounted up and set off, looking even more imposing.

They headed all the way toward Imperial Court Mountain, and even ordinary mountain bandits and brigands didn’t dare easily jump out to rob them.

Some, at the mere sight of them, turned tail and ran.

Mostly because Su Mo’s side had too many people.

With just a quick headcount, Su Mo’s men outnumbered the bandits in their mountain stronghold. What the hell were they supposed to fight?

So the journey was much more peaceful.

The only thing slowing them down was the rain in this long wet season.

Which kept delaying their originally estimated schedule again and again.

Fortunately, they still had some buffer time, and should be able to make it in time for the hall master’s coming-of-age ceremony.

And the closer they got to Imperial Court Mountain, the harsher the Jianghu storms got.

Zhuge Qianqiu’s promise had clearly already spread throughout the Jianghu.

So fights were constantly breaking out.

From time to time, they’d see two groups going at it for their lives by the roadside; the winners snatched the other side’s treasures to strengthen themselves, while the losers, if lucky, might have their bones buried.

If unlucky and running into people with no scruples, their bones would just be tossed on the ground, left for wild beasts to tear apart.

The end was miserably terrifying.

On the way, among the dead, Su Mo and the others even saw quite a few familiar faces.

Most were fellow travelers they’d met on the road, killed and left exposed in the wilderness.

Even Zhu Baiwan, whom they’d once crossed paths with at Lihetang, hadn’t escaped such a fate.

His head was chopped off and rolled to the roadside, while no one knew where his body had been dumped.

Some people, out of sheer malice, even hung the corpses of those they killed one by one along the trees on both sides, as if to show off to someone.

The further they went, the more of this they saw, and the more Su Mo felt the killing intent boil in his chest.

He was literally stepping across a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

Imperial Court Mountain was already right in front of them!

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ps: There’s a py tonight...

Book Title: "Girl, Don’t Be Hasty Just Yet"