Chapter 688 – To Die Without a Place (1/2)

Chapter 688 – To Die Without a Place

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

After coming to the Xue Estate, Zhou Tong spoke in a tone like that of an elder, especially when he was reprimanding Madam Wei.

As he stood within the estate, he seemed very relaxed, as if he was very familiar with the place. This was because he truly had come here many times. He seemed just like an elder that had returned after doing business abroad for many years.

In short, it was very easy to get the feeling that this place was Zhou Tong's home.

This made people very angry, because everyone knew that the master of the Xue Estate had been mercilessly and shamelessly poisoned to death by this man.

The butler of the Xue Estate furiously came forward with a broom, intending to wrest the young lady back from the hands of those officials, but he was forcefully pushed to the ground.

The servant woman cried out in panic and ran into the estate.

Madam Xue hurried over and saw the scene. Her voice slightly trembling, she asked, ”Zhou Tong, just what are you planning to do?”

Zhou Tong quietly stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking at the green plants growing before him. Many memories gradually began to flash across his mind and fill him with sorrow.

In truth, not even he knew why he had come here or what he wanted to do. It was only now that he understood that he truly did wish to see that man's face once more.

He turned to Madam Xue and slowly said, ”I will light incense and then leave.”

Madam Xue's voice was still somewhat shaky, but her expression was particularly firm. ”You know that this is an impossible matter.”

Zhou Tong indifferently replied, ”This is not something that you can decide.”

The scheme from several days ago, the poison in the medicine, and the exposed corpses on the side of the official road—these things all concerned the Xue Estate, and also had nothing to do with them.

The people of the Xue Estate were powerless to decide whether they would live or die, receive honor or disgrace. They could only hopelessly accept it or wait to be rescued.

But no one dared to come to the funeral arranged by the Xue Estate today, so who would come to rescue them from helplessness and despair?

”Please make way.”

A voice came from beyond the gate.

Zhou Tong's body went rigid.

The officials of the Department for Purging Officials turned their heads as one, thinking, someone dared to come?

”Just what's going on with you people? What are you doing by blocking up some other person's gate?”

A voice belonging to a young woman immediately followed.

Zhou Tong slowly turned and gazed at the gate, his eyes narrowing.

He wanted to conceal the true emotions in his heart, and he also found the scene outside the gate rather blinding.

Many youths had arrived on the street.

This group contained both male and female students. Some had quick-witted eyes, some were honest and simple, some looked around proudly, and there were some with nervous expressions, but they all shared one attribute: they were all very young, their faces brimming with vitality.

A vitality that even all the varied emotions and countless different temperaments could not conceal.

This vitality was somewhat blinding, even a bit painful, to Zhou Tong, perhaps because he was already old.

In the capital, the places with the most youths and vitality were the Six Ivies.

The situation as of late had been very tense, so the gates of the Six Ivies had all been tightly shut. There was only one exception: the Orthodox Academy.

These youths were the students of the Orthodox Academy.

Chen Changsheng and Su Moyu stood at the very front of the crowd.

At this sight, the officials of the Department for Purging Officials and those onlookers on the street representing the various powers of the capital were all stunned.

Chen Changsheng had truly come.

He had come to pay respects to Xue Xingchuan.

He had come to slap the faces of Zhou Tong and the Imperial Court.

Chen Changsheng walked towards the Xue Estate as if the officials of the Department for Purging Officials were not barring his path.

The youths of the Orthodox Academy followed.

The officials blocked the gate of the Xue Estate. If they did not give way, it was very likely that both sides would run into each other.

Running into each other was very likely to cause friction.

An increase in friction would result in a battle.

An escalating battle was a war.

Would the just-pacified capital once more fall into turmoil and unrest?

Zhou Tong said nothing, so the officials of the Department for Purging Officials had no intention of yielding.

The students of the Orthodox Academy also had no intention of halting their steps, because Chen Changsheng was still walking forward.

Zhou Tong had not expected Chen Changsheng to suddenly change his mind and come to the Xue Estate, but so what if he came?

At least half of the Great Zhou Imperial Court's secret forces were in his hand, an extremely frightening power.