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At this time, the sky was already dark. Unlike the previous days where sunset clouds could still be seen in the evening, today's sky was completely gray, just like a huge black curtain covering the lands.
"It's going to rain!" Liu Quan said.
Gu Xiaoshun didn’t like sitting inside the carriage. He preferred sitting outside. When he heard Liu Quan's words, he lifted open the curtain and sat outside. He said to Liu Quan, "Master said that while it’s raining, we don’t need to come over as the mountain road is difficult to traverse; he fears that accidents may happen."
Liu Quan recognized the disappointment in his voice, put on a smile and consoled, "It's only for a day or two. It doesn't matter, you can come here again soon."
"En." Gu Xiaoshun nodded.
The two of them talked for a while as the air was getting sultry. It seemed like it was going to be a heavy rain.
Gu Xiaoshun was contemplating how many days it would take before the mountain road was safe to traverse again, so he could continue going to his Master’s house. Just then, he suddenly heard Liu Quan beside him let out a gasp of surprise. Then, Liu Quan tightened the reins and made the carriage come to a halt.
"What's the matter?" Gu Xiaoshun asked while looking ahead to see a man lying on the mountain road in front of the carriage at some point, holding his knees and looking like he was in great pain.
The man screamed, "Ow, my leg... you people... broke my leg… it’s broken..."
"This..." Liu Quan intended to go down and checked on the man, but he was held back by Gu Xiaoshun.
This was definitely that scam of faking an accident to claim for compensation. Gu Xiaoshun didn't see this trick any less when he was still a bully in the countryside. The man could fool others, but not him.
Seeing that Gu Xiaoshun did not buy the act, the man’s eyes flashed with a cold glint and continued to wail, "Ow, my leg."
Liu Quan whispered, "We can’t just let him lie there either ah."
Gu Xiaoshun shouted, "Run over him!"
The man looked at Gu Xiaoshun, startled; then he found that Gu Xiaoshun had taken the whip from Liu Quan's hand and whipped it on the horse. The horse ate pain, neighed and ran forward.
Seeing that the situation wasn’t good, how could the man still care to continue his act? He nimbly got up from the ground and ran away.
Liu Quan was dumbfounded. This also work?
However, the matter was far from over. Having his scam failed, the man’s eyes cooled down another degree. Unexpectedly, with a tap of his foot on the ground, he flew towards the carriage with the use of qinggong.
He went straight over the roof and grabbed Gu Xiaoshun off the carriage.
“Xiaoshun!” Liu Quan turned pale with fright and hurriedly pulled the reins. However, the man seemed to have expected that Liu Quan would do so, hence before jumping off the carriage, he threw the horse a palm strike using his internal force, causing the horse to be in so much pain that no matter how much Liu Quan tightened the reins, the horse wouldn't stop.
After being abducted by the man, Gu Xiaoshun was absolutely livid, trying to pull away the other person's hand that grabbed his lapel, "What are you doing huh!? It’s too indecent for two big men to be tugging and pulling like this, don’t you think? Don’t you want your face anymore?"
The man's mouth twitched, "You call yourself a big man? Have you grown all your body hair?"
Gu Xiaoshun grumpily said, "Do you want to see?"
The man: "..."
The man said, "Behave and I will make you suffer less."
Gu Xiaoshun retorted hatefully, "Why don’t you behave instead and I will make you suffer less?"
The man: "..."
Did he even understand what was going on? How old was this kid anyway? Why was he talking like such a rogue?
Also, how could he just insinuate for him to check down there?
Cough! Forget it. This was an important hostage. Before the Empress Dowager returns to the Zhuang Family, the hostage must be intact.
The man decided to put up with Gu Xiaoshun, grabbed his shoulder, and was about to take Gu Xiaoshun away. But how could he anticipate Gu Xiaoshun to break free from his constraints?
Gu Xiaoshun fled without delay!
"Want to run? Not so easy!" The man coldly snorted and chased after him.
However, just as he displayed his qinggong and jumped up, a silver needle suddenly flew behind him and stabbed through his thigh!
He groaned and fell from mid-air.
He looked at his bloody thigh in disbelief, then at the silver needle now inserted on the ground, and his expression changed sharply, "Tanghua needle?"
People of Tang Sect?
How could there be people from the Tang Sect in the State of Zhao? And they were also secretly protecting that kid?
Wasn't that little idiot just a poor boy from the countryside? How was he related to the Tang Sect outside of the six countries?
The man dared not chase after Gu Xiaoshun again and left with gritted teeth.
After a while, Master Lu and Nan Xiang slowly came out from behind a big tree.
Master Lu walked over, wrapped his hand with a handkerchief and plucked up the Tanghua needle on the ground. He then said to Nan Xiang, "Does wife really like that kid so much? You even brought out the Tanghua needle that I hadn’t seen you use for ten years."
Nan Xiang stretched out her hand wearing a silver glove, took the Tanghua needle and put it away, "Sort of. He’s quite an interesting kid."
Gu Xiaoshun reincarnated into the wind and ran forward, finally catching up with the carriage parked at the foot of the mountain. He looked back and saw that the other party failed to catch up. He couldn't help but put his fists on his hips and laugh out loud, "Hahaha! This little grandpa runs fast, doesn’t he? If you have the skill, come chase me! Chase me if you can!"
His mouth incessantly spouted arrogant words, but his action told otherwise as he jumped into the carriage with a whoosh and said, "Uncle Liu! Go, go, go!"
"Oh, right away!" Liu Quan raised the speed of the carriage to the extreme and quickly returned to Bishui Alley.
The assassin who came to capture Gu Xiaoshun didn't make it back to Grand Preceptor Zhuang in the end. Even though he was only stabbed by a small silver needle, the hidden weapons of the Tang Sect could dispose of a life with just one shot.
This was a mistake in decision-making. They thought they had picked the softest persimmon, but beside this persimmon was actually a durian that could kill people.
Grand Preceptor Zhuang waited for a long time but never received a reply from his men. Guessing that things must not have gone well, he frowned deeply, "This is no good, that is no good, do we really have to directly capture the Empress Dowager?"
While Grand Preceptor Zhuang was racking his brains on how to approach Empress Dowager Zhuang, someone else met her without much effort.
Marquis Xuanping came to see Xiao Liulang again.
He thought about it. It wasn’t advisable to test him with something he was afraid of, instead he would find a way to stick by his side first. Today, instead of looking for Xiao Liulang, he came to find his daughter-in-law who he had never met before.
Right, how clever of him!
"Chang Jing, knock on the gate." He commanded.
Chang Jing went ‘oh’, stepped forward and raised his hand to knock on the gate, but before he could do so, the gate creaked open from the inside.
Old Chief and the elderly woman came out. They were going to play leaf cards next door. However, as soon as they got to the gate, Old Chief had no choice but to stop. Marquis Xuanping was outside!
Marquis Xuanping naturally saw him as well.
Seeing him come out of Xiao Liulang's home, Marquis Xuanping didn’t find it too unexpected. After all, he already knew he lived next door, and whether Xiao Liulang was Ah Heng or not, Old Chief was still a neighbor of his.
But the person beside him——
Marquis Xuanping looked at the elderly woman, and a trace of shock flitted across his eyes.
It was too late for Old Chief to close the gate. He could only move sideways and blocked the elderly woman behind him!
Unfortunately, Marquis Xuanping had already seen her.
Marquis Xuanping narrowed his eyes dangerously, and his aura cooled down in an instant.
Elderly woman: "Why are you blocking me?"
Old Chief: "Don't talk!"
Marquis Xuanping's big palm clenched into a fist bit by bit and made a crackling noise.
Old Chief thought it was all over. The thing he dreaded to come had now come. This guy finally discovered Zhuang Jinse. After sending away Grand Preceptor Zhuang, Marquis Xuanping came. He feared this wouldn’t end well!
Grand Preceptor Zhuang at least just wanted to use Zhuang Jinse, on the other hand, Marquis Xuanping and Zhuang Jinse had an irreconcilable grudge ah!
"Brother Huo! Sister Huo! Why haven't you come yet? We’re just waiting for you two!"
Next door, shouts of Aunt Zhang could be heard.
The unfathomable gaze of Marquis Xuanping swept over the faces of Old Chief and the elderly woman, and then he said with a faint smile, "Brother Huo, Sister Huo? It seems that this Marquis is mistaken. That’s right, the Empress Dowager is in the temporary imperial residence. Why would she be here?"
Old Chief breathed a sigh of relief, but just moments after, he felt something wasn’t right.
Wasn’t Marquis Xuanping always an obstinate one?
Marquis Xuanping smiled coldly and said in a cold voice, "Someone dares to change her appearance and pose as the Empress Dowager. Chang Jing, kill that person!"
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