Chapter 20 (1/2)

Chapter 20 – Mrs. Long San is strong in martial arts

Feng Ning’s overwhelming presence not only wowed the a.s.sa.s.sins, she also gave the Long family guards quite a scare, but inside the house, Grandma Yu was thinking something else entirely. She clenched her fists tightly in shock and suspicion, Feng Ning was actually secretly such a powerful martial artist? Even after three years in the Long Family, she managed to conceal that fact from everyone.

Just now, Feng Ning had shouted for everyone to arrange themselves into a four row formation, which gave Grandma Yu’s heart a shock as well, Grandma Yu doesn’t understand martial arts or combat formations too well, but she does know that every piece of vegetation in the Long Family and even the way the house and garden were constructed was all according to various strategic formations in order to protect everyone.

The martial family servants might not all be strong in martial arts, but everyone’s trained in combat formations before, in preparation against enemy attacks. These combat formations also have to do with the way that the house is strategically constructed. Grandma Yu’s been with the Long Family for all her life, without understanding the difference between formations, but Feng Ning understands.

If anyone ever says that Feng Ning is a simple, innocent, ignorant girl again, Grandma Yu thinks that she’ll be the first one to disagree with that statement from now on. Since n.o.body in charge is here right now, she can only hope that Feng Ning doesn’t suddenly return to her original ways, and make mischief during all this trouble.

Feng Ning had no idea that Grandma Yu was thinking a million things right now through the door behind her, but she was also having a flash of insight right now, feeling like something was off.

Why were these a.s.sa.s.sins attacking the servants’ quarters? There’s no treasure or important people here. Their leader’s martial arts don’t seem to be especially strong either, she feels like if she gives it her all, she could probably even defeat him. They dare to challenge the Tulong Manor with just this?

While Feng Ning was busy in thought, the enemies suddenly started yelling: “attack!” The masked a.s.sa.s.sins rushed over while shouting loudly, and Feng Ning could hear some of the guards behind her beginning to panic, at which she suddenly realized, the best martial artist family guards in the Long Family aren’t here right now either, with such a big commotion, why aren’t they here yet? There’s probably a fight going on somewhere else right now as well. The a.s.sa.s.sins’ real target isn’t this place!

Feng Ning raised her blade, and with a loud shout, joined the battle as she intercepted their leader, and sliced several times at him while shouting to the guards: “don’t panic, don’t take risks, protect the house.” Grandma Yu and those unarmed maids and servants are still hiding inside, they’re all family to her, and since Long San isn’t here right now, it’s all up to her to protect her family.

Feng Ning doesn’t actually know if her martial arts is any good or not, she can’t remember where she learned it, or who her master was, or who she’s fought in the past, she just knows that she does know martial arts, every one of her attacks are flowing naturally inside her head, her blade was even creating the sound of wind as it sliced through the air, and she ignored everything else that was going on and kept relentlessly attacking the a.s.sa.s.sins’ leader.

The a.s.sa.s.sins’ leader was gradually losing to Feng Ning, their battle started on the ground, moved to the roof, and changed back down to the ground again, that person gradually lost his patience, while he tried his best to block her attacks, he shouted at the other a.s.sa.s.sins: “hurry up and start using fire arrows, and force everyone out of the house.”

Feng Ning instantly understood their intentions, their target was Grandma Yu, none of the other servants were as important, but to the master of the Long Family, Grandma Yu is as close to him as an actual relative, and if the a.s.sa.s.sins weren’t able to succeed elsewhere, they could take Grandma Yu hostage in order to blackmail the Long Family.

After realizing this, Feng Ning abandoned her fight with the a.s.sa.s.sins’ leader, and immediately turned around to attack the a.s.sa.s.sins on the roof that were beginning to prepare fire arrows. When the a.s.sa.s.sins’ leader was free from his predicament, he didn’t bother with Feng Ning anymore either, and immediately sprinted towards Grandma Yu’s room. The original plan had been very simple, against a bunch of low level guards, they should have been more than enough to capture an old grandma, but they never expected that such a tough tomboy would have been here. He was completely focused on completing his task, to the point where his eyes were bloodshot, and he arrived in front of Grandma Yu’s room, as long as he entered and captured the old grandma successfully, victory would be his.

He kicked away a guard, and sliced another guard with his backhand, and he kicked in the door blocking his way, causing the maids and servants inside to scream in fear, and he instantly spied the old grandma that everyone was guarding in the middle, and he was overjoyed, just as he was about to get her, he felt a sharp gust of wind caused by a blade behind his back, and he hurriedly twisted his body, but he didn’t dodge it in a time, and a large cut was left on his arm.

Feng Ning didn’t pause in her attack either, and immediately continued her attack, leaving the a.s.sa.s.sins’ leader without any other method except to jump twice in order to avoid her attacks, backing out of the door and returning to the courtyard. Feng Ning pressured him closely in close-quarters combat, saying: “you let your guard down with victory in sight, that’s a big mistake, death beckons you.”

As Grandma Yu watched Feng Ning’s back as she furiously fought, she was thinking: Feng Ning’s even using Jianghu slang, there’s no way she’s some cla.s.sy lady from an upper-cla.s.s Huzhou family, she’s definitely a liar.

At this moment, quite a few of the a.s.sa.s.sins had already fallen in the courtyard, but the fire was engulfing the house, so Feng Ning commanded the remaining guards to encircle the rest of the a.s.sa.s.sins and force them into a corner, while also shouting to behind her: “hurry and escort Grandma Yu to safety.”

Everyone immediately started running towards the safe area cleared out for them by the guards with Grandma Yu in their midst, and when the a.s.sa.s.sins saw the grandma with them, they all desperately fought to reach her, but Feng Ning blocked them by herself, stealing a blade from someone, and fought while dual-wielding, as the rear guard for Grandma Yu’s group, she sliced two a.s.sa.s.sins, and under her leaders.h.i.+p, they were somehow successful in keeping the a.s.sa.s.sins contained in the courtyard.

Grandma Yu escaped under everyone’s protection, and saw two servants wielding clubs rus.h.i.+ng over here, she grabbed one person’s wrist and asked: “is the study alright?”

While panting, he replied: “Li Ke and the others are doing their best to defend against them, we’ve already sent for reinforcements, as long as we can hold up long enough for the reinforcements to get here, we should be fine.”

As expected, her worst fears came true. Their timing was so perfect, attacking while the master of the Long Family wasn’t home. Both the study and the servants’ quarters were attacked, with such specific targets, it’s unbelievable to think that there wasn’t someone inside a.s.sisting them.

The servant said: “the defense mechanisms in the main hall are off right now, hurry up and go there, Grandma.” Grandma Yu nodded, and hurried to the main hall with everyone, she knows that there’s no use to her staying, that she would only be a hindrance and slow everyone down, since everything about the main hall is constructed in a special manner, and there’s secret underground pa.s.sages within as well, to be used for the Long Family’s escape route during danger, it’s serving its purpose right now perfectly.

Grandma Yu rushed to the main hall and rested a bit, while ordering some more people to go and guard the study, Feng Ning arrived with a couple of guards, while still in the distance and panting, she shouted: “is everyone alright?”

When she got closer and took a good look, seeing Grandma Yu and everyone else resting without any problems, she smiled happily, wiped her face a bit without caring about the blood stains that she couldn’t get off, and asked: “has anyone reported this to the officials? There’s a fire and even a.s.sa.s.sins here, people outside must surely know about this already, don’t panic.”

Grandma Yu didn’t reply, but some servants were taking off with the guards that had just arrived to a.s.sist the study, and Feng Ning suddenly realized: “the study’s under attack as well? All the important things for the family are there, right? I’ll go!”