Chapter 301 Qiushi Villa

Chapter 301 Qiushi Villa

Chapter 301 Qiushi Villa
Chu Qing didn't beat around the bush. Anyway, no one in Lingbei knew him.

Even though there were a few people coming from Nanling who knew the name of the Third Young Master, few knew who the so-called Han San was.

Therefore, Chu Qing went to visit directly.

Anyway, it is natural for a wandering knight to visit some senior martial arts masters who have been famous in the martial arts world for a long time.

But he never expected that when he arrived at the residence of Little Knife King, he couldn't even see Wang Kuan. He was told by the guards at the door that Little Knife King Li Shengxing had gone to attend a meeting at the invitation of Han Yiren of Xiaohan Valley.

In this case it would be a wasted trip.

But since Li Shengxing is not here, it will be more convenient.

Anyway, his original purpose of coming here was not to find Li Shengxing.

He just didn't know this person's background, so he came here to check first. Now that he couldn't find him, he might as well come here at night and look for Wang Kuan.

But before that, he still had to meet this person to avoid finding the wrong person.

So he wanted to ask the guard at the door to help introduce him to Butler Wang.

As a result, the two of them looked at each other and told Chu Qing that Butler Wang was not in the mansion at the moment, but was in a villa outside the city for other important matters.

After hearing this, Chu Qing said goodbye and left, planning to visit the villa in the evening.

Since there was nothing to do during the day, he took Wu Qianhuan and Wenrou for a stroll in Tongyao City.

It feels like the customs and habits of the northern part of the Lingnan Mountains are indeed quite different from those of the southern part of the Lingnan Mountains. I don’t know if it’s the same in the entire northern part of the Lingnan Mountains, but in any case, the people in Tongyao City are really tough.

The residents of the city would resort to violence if they had a disagreement.

From time to time, you can see a group of people fighting in the street. Both sides are not ordinary people who don’t know any martial arts. Although they are not very skilled, they do have some tricks.

Chu Qing learned from the onlookers that this group of people were fighting for territory.

Once they got the goods, the vendors on that street would have to give them some money as a tribute every month.

If you don’t give it to me… I will smash their shop.

Chu Qing sighed in his heart, and finally understood that although there were three prefectures, three sects and three clans dividing up the entire Lingbei, there was no room for other small forces to survive.

However, there are still some gangs and factions, and there is still a group of people who, relying on a little martial arts skills, do evil and oppress the people.

And seeing that they act so openly, it is obvious that this is also with the tacit consent of the Ouyang family in Liaoyuan Prefecture.

Maybe these small gangs are secretly supported by the Ouyang family, so as to achieve the goal of plundering the people from another angle.

After all, as local rulers, they can collect taxes from the people.

Then through this small gang structure, they can plunder from another aspect to maximize their profits...

Of course, this is just Chu Qing’s guess, and it is still unknown whether it is true or not.

After strolling around for an entire afternoon, Wu Qianhuan and Wenrou both felt a little bored.

There are too many things in Tongyao City that they don't like. It is a mess and no one cares.

It’s better to be gentle, and have a calm expression no matter what you see.

Wu Qianhuan couldn't help but feel indignant.

As the leader of a region, if these things happened in Tianwu City, Wu Ganqi would have come out with an axe and chopped people down long ago.

How can we allow these people to be so arrogant?

But no matter how much you dislike them, they are outsiders after all. Even if you can control them for a while with your righteous indignation... can you control them for a lifetime?
After all, they are just passers-by here.

However, this incident ultimately affected the mood of Wu Qianhuan and the others, so much so that even though Manager Zhou was going to host a banquet at Tianwei Tower in the evening and invite them to taste the famous Edelweiss meat, they didn't want to go.

Seeing this, Chu Qing also declined. Although Manager Zhou felt regretful, he did not dare to force him, so he had to take Old Man Sun and the others to Tianwei Tower.

Time passed like this, and in the blink of an eye it was midnight.

Shopkeeper Zhou and his companions had just returned at this time, all of them were drunk, and they were full of praise for the Edelweiss Fragrant Meat and Zuidaoxian.

Chu Qing had already changed into black clothes and quietly left the inn.

Wu Qianhuan and Wenrou also followed him. The three of them had already found out during the day that the Little Knife King Li Shengxing did have a villa outside the city, named "Qiushi Villa".

The location had been clearly investigated, and the three of them used their Qinggong skills to leave the city and head straight for Qiushi Villa.

Originally, Chu Qing thought that Qiushi Villa should be a simple summer resort, but when he arrived, he found that the security of this place was much stricter than he expected.

But strictness is often relative. For Chu Qing... it is nothing.

The three of them entered the villa easily, but after searching for a while, they still couldn't find the butler Wang Kuan.

Chu Qing was a little stunned for a moment, and Wu Qianhuan couldn't help but ask:
"Did the guard deceive me intentionally?"

After all, when he was in Tongtian Town, Chu Qing had introduced himself and prevented those people from capturing Bird Thirteen.

Chu Qing shook his head upon hearing this:
"If that's true, then the guards would have set up an ambush when they led us here.

"Otherwise, he can escape, but he can't escape the temple... He can't just hide from people for the rest of his life, can he?"

Wu Qianhuan thought it made sense and was about to suggest a thorough search of the Qiushi Villa, when Wenrou suddenly pointed with her finger:
"There's a man over there."

There was a person at the location she pointed to, and Chu Qing also heard it.

But I didn't care...there were people everywhere in Qiushi Villa.

Wenrou specifically pointed it out at this time, and Chu Qing took a look.

At first glance, I saw that it was a girl in white.

She was now hiding in a secluded place, carefully peeking at the outside environment. After a patrol team passed by, she suddenly jumped out and ran in another direction.

She looked very nervous, but her actions were decisive.

He headed straight to his destination without any hesitation.

But Chu Qing knew from her movements that this girl had no martial arts skills. She was running outside in the middle of the night, and her dress did not look like that of a servant in the manor, so he could not help but follow her quietly.

She ran all the way and came to the outer wall of the villa.

After searching for a while, he finally found a dog hole under a rockery by moving away the weeds and stones.

The girl was overjoyed when she saw this, and without any hesitation, she lay on the ground and crawled over.

But just as she was about to climb out of Qiushi Villa, a hand suddenly grabbed her ankle and pulled her out of the dog hole.

With a loud slap, a slap landed directly on her face, leaving her stunned on the spot without even having time to scream.

Then a big fat man with a grim face picked up her legs and lifted her up in the air:

"Want to run?"

The girl's pupils suddenly contracted, and her fear was evident in her expression.

I opened my mouth to say something, but no words came out. I just kept shaking.

The fat man sneered:
"You dogs were all bought by us. We fed you delicious food and drinks, taught you to read and write, and taught you crafts so that when you leave, you can have the skills to make a living in this world.

"Isn't it bad for you? Tell me, why did you run away?"

"me……"

The girl opened her mouth, uttered the word "I" twice, and then bit her lips tightly.

The fat man sneered:
"Did you see something you shouldn't have seen?"

The girl's face suddenly changed. Although she didn't say anything, her expression was still revealed.

The fat man sighed when he saw this:
"Then you can't blame me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he swung his arm suddenly and smashed it down hard.

"Bastard thing!"

Wu Qianhuan cursed, and then a flash of sword light and blood flashed. Before the fat man could notice anything was wrong, one of his arms had been cut off. The girl he had smashed to the ground was about to fall to the ground when a hand stopped her shoulder.

The force was exerted very skillfully, and with a pull and a push, the whole person was already flying into the air again.

Finally it landed steadily on the ground.

After the girl landed, she was still confused. She thought she was going to die this time, but she didn't expect there would be a change?

I turned my head to look at the person who saved me, and found that it was a person who was about the same height as me...

When I looked up again, I saw the fat man staggering two steps back, blood flowing from his arm. He opened his mouth and was about to scream, but a sword was stuffed directly into his mouth.

The tip of the sword was not big, but it blocked all his screams in his throat.

"If you dare to shout, I will use this sword to pierce your brain and mess it up."

There was a chill in Wu Qianhuan's voice.

The fat man had his arm cut off and was shaking with pain, but after hearing Wu Qianhuan's words, he didn't dare to scream out loud.

Just looking at Wu Qianhuan in front of him, his eyes were full of fear.

But then I heard a voice coming from behind me:
"Tell me, what did this girl know that she shouldn't know, so that she had to die?"

The fat man then realized that there were actually three people who had entered Qiushi Villa tonight.

He wanted to look back, but there was a sword in his mouth. He wanted to speak, but he didn't dare to open his mouth.

It was not until Wu Qianhuan pulled the sword out of his mouth and wiped it on his body that he fell to his knees with a plop:

"Great hero, spare my life, great hero, spare my life, I know nothing, it was all done by Butler Wang...

"I am just a cook in Qiushi Villa, just a cook!"

"Are you a cook?"

Chu Qing came up to him and glanced at him. He had lost an arm and had lost too much blood, which made his face even paler. The severe pain made the fat on his face tremble.

Because he was enduring pain, his expression looked particularly ferocious.

After taking a few silent glances, Chu Qing nodded:

"The way he killed people was quite skillful...

"Do you do this often?"

"I……"

The cook hesitated for a moment.

Then the girl trembled and said:
"He...he didn't kill anyone...he just...beat those people half to death..."

Chu Qing looked at the girl with some surprise and narrowed his eyes slightly:

"What's your name?"

"In reply to your words..."

The girl was about to kneel down, but Wenrou grabbed her and stopped her.

Seeing this, she did not struggle, and said with a trembling voice:
"My name is...Yu Shiliu."

"Fish 16, Bird 13... Bird and Fish, are they named after flowers, birds, fish, and insects?"

Chu Qing talked to himself.

Yu Shiliu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Chu Qing:
"Do you know Bird Thirteen? Is he still alive?"

"Do you know?"

Chu Qing nodded:

"He is still alive and doing well. I came here because of him."

Yu Shiliu's eyes were suddenly filled with tears, as if he was a person who had once lived in the abyss and suddenly saw the light.

She fell to her knees with a thud, and her movements were so fast that even Wenrou couldn't stop her.

The girl kowtowed repeatedly:
"Please, hero, save us! Please! We, we don't want to die...

"I don't want to be eaten alive by them... bite by bite!!"

The fat man's expression suddenly changed:
"you say……"

He had just said two words when Chu Qing grabbed his face with such force that his skull crackled.

Then Chu Qing asked softly:

“You said…they’re going to eat you alive?
"How is this going?"

Is it a metaphor, or... a statement of fact?
Then I heard the girl tremblingly say:

"They...they keep us in cages, and the food, drinks, and other things we use on a daily basis are all pretty good...

“But any mistake will hit us.

“Only when we are in the cage, we are…we are safe.

“I thought my life might just be over.

“But we didn’t expect that one day, one of our companions was late to return.

"I will go secretly with Bird Thirteen to look for..."

There was an expression of extreme fear in her eyes.

It was as if I had seen something unbelievable!

This look is exactly the same as Niao Shisan's.

But the girl did not collapse because of this. She gritted her teeth and said stubbornly:
"Finally... we triggered a mechanism by accident and walked to the secret room.

"Then we heard it, we heard the screams of our companions...

"Looking through the hole, we saw that the companion's limbs were nailed to the rack with iron nails, and his clothes were open...

"Butler Wang, Butler Wang ordered a pot of boiling water.

"They were cutting slices of meat from his body one by one, boiling them in water, and then dipping them in condiments and eating them mouthful by mouthful in front of him."

Chu Qing slowly turned his eyes, glanced at the fat man, and continued to ask:

"Who is involved in this matter?"

“…I don’t know.”

Yu Shiliu shook his head.

The fat man seemed to come to his senses suddenly, and said with a smile:

“Although I don’t know where you three came from…but you are finished, you dare to cause trouble on Master Li’s territory.

“I’m telling you the truth, they are all Uncle Li’s dogs, Uncle Li’s delicious meat.

"And you, now that you know about this matter...if you don't want to be killed by Master Li, you'd better let me go now..."

"So, all of you are in on this?"

Chu Qing looked back at him.

When their eyes met, the fat man's heart trembled for no reason.

But the next moment, he suddenly felt brave:
"so what?"

Just as the four words fell, there was a snapping sound, and his head turned three times on his neck, his eyes protruding from his sockets, and he died in a horrible way.

(End of this chapter)