Chapter 45 (1/2)
T/N: this chap is intense at first but gets uwu cuter later down
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Chang Geng was quick to react and caught it in time He discovered that it was actually a bamboo flute made with very simple and coarse crafts Xu, Gu Yun took one look at hirouped this major bandit leader with the others and thrown them to the side At this tio
It happened that Chang Geng had expressed very ti tothe reatly relieved inside On the surface, he had still given hi hih the net
Watching him leave, Gu Yun said to a Black Cavalry at the side: “Look for two people to keep watch, if His Highness returned too quickly, give hi to do, don’t let him come here”
The soldier took his order and left, Gu Yun finally retracted his gaze
He swept a glance through the squad of captured bandits fro to the end, his eyes contained a severity unlike usual days: “I have only one question, how round rats’ nest? Please be aware of your current situation Let’s do it this way, starting from the first person on the west side, behead on the spot if he does not talk When the first person is finished, the latter can addmore, then I am sorry The ones at the front of the line can still have so will result in being cut down, talking nonsense will also be cut down”
The bandits were stunned in fear by the Marquis of Order as e than the bandits themselves
The Black Cavalry as instructed to interrogate began to expressionlessly ask from the first person The first person instinctively looked back and forth, unable to decide
Gu Yun did not hesitate to esture, the Wind Slasher in the hands of the Cavalry started to move
The Cavalry usually only kne to kill people, has not raisedeither The Wind Slasher’s blades turned around the neck of the bandit, but unfortunately, it got stuck in the bone of the neck joint The head of the bandit was half-intact, half-splitted, his vocal pipe had not been cut through yet, and his bloodcurdling screahtened the flock of birds near and far in the mountains
The Cavalry squinted his eyes, added a force to his wrist, ending the life of the unfortunate man
The blood fro onto the person next to hiolden box, histowards at the back: “There, there is one there…”
Gu Yun sneered: “Nonsense, can I not see if for round
The third bandit was frightened by the horror of the half-cut head to the point of wetting hiround and held his head in both hands In fear of the executioner dressed in black directly cutting him down, he had revealed in one breath ten exits and entrances of the secret passages, the stares of people behind hih his back
With this , the rest was simple On the road of life or death, it was useless to keep secrets The people behind would inevitably reveal theo
Gu Yun was quiet, but in his heart, he was truly shocked by the large roots of the Southern Frontier bandits Some of the entrances and exits of these mountains have already been discovered by the Lin Yuan Pavilion Otherwise, even the Black Iron Cah, but there were more that even the Lin Yuan Pavilion have not known of
Behind him, the Black Iron Camp soldiers quietly left to verify whether these entrances and exits were true and to keep guard of every secret passage opening Less than the tiame of ‘pass the flower’, the bandits had confessed all the underground routes that extended in all directions, down to the littlest ones
ga a flower
around while a drum is beaten
In the blink of an eye, this deadly ‘flower’ had been passed to the one that started it all: leader Jing Xu
In this life, Jing Xu had violently cut through fro of the reat talents, but there was certainly no shortage of courage and ruthlessthe tip of the blade had arrived in front of hiround had flowed into a river, he took a deep breath and straightened his back, converting all the strength he accu at Gu Yun casually walking towards hi Xu said: “I used to hear people say that Marshal Gu’s elegance is unparalleled I did not expect that you ell-versed even in torture ation, truly is the more talents, the better”
“There is no need for flattery,” Gu Yun said with an amused smile “The main activity in wars is to slay people I did not lock you in a dark room, did not place you on a nail bed, neither did I ask you to sit on a tiger chair The words ‘torture to interrogate’ — I do not dare to accept If you have nothing to say, you can go acco Xu’s eyelids twitched violently: “There are a total of sixty-four entrances and exits here They have confessed it all at once The first worthless few had already started to blabber Pardon my imprudence, I do not understand Marshal Gu’s intention?”
“Only for safety, no other intention,” Gu Yun said with a smile “In case there was a someone who had not confessed yet, you want to persuade e number of you, rest assured, I can’t afford to slay you all”
Jing Xu: “…”
Gu Yun: “Since they had looked up to you as their leader, presus you know about, why don’t you talk aboutXu clenched his teeth, re, the chief culprit of all this, wishi+ng nothing h clenched jaws: “If I say that Fu Zhi Cheng was s Ziliujin to rebel, would Marshal be interested in hearing?”
The cold sradually disappeared: “If I did not know this, how could I have guessed that you will be as courageous as to run to the southwest storage to deliver food? I will give you another chance, talk of so I don’t know”
The Black Iron’s Wind Slasher stood directly next to Jing Xu’s ear Even with the slightest of movement, he could feel the cold htest bit of stea vegetables That Gu Yun was cold and ruthless, continuing to be stubborn would result in his head falling to the ground le difference
Jing Xu finally bowed: “What do you want to know?”
Gu Yun waved his hand, the Wind Slasher’s bladeXu: “I want to knoho had served as a connection for you after the Ziliujin was transported fro Who had told you to privately stock Ziliujin and to hoard weaponry? Who had come up with this scheme, let you use those kites to confuse e?”
Jing Xu tightly clenched his teeth
“If I were you, I would not give up my life to protect that person,” Gu Yun suddenly stepped forward and lowered his voice “Look at the secret passages with sixty-four exits behind you You bandits with nothing to do could drill in there anyti you out…
“Who had encouraged you to gather the ether, for us to eliminate you all at once, huh?”
Gu Yun was aup and down, black and white He had perfected three skills in this life: excelling in literary arts, outstanding in battles, and as could beco fro about it carefully, there was nothing illogical about what he had just said, causing Jing Xu to break out in cold sweat
Gu Yun’s side tookto find his co came back, but before he could come up to the hill, he was already stopped by the soldiers of the Black Iron Ca soldier earnestly repeated exactly what he had been instructed to say: “Your Royal Highness, Marshal had told you to rest here for a while first”
Chang Geng did not see further either, obediently waiting in the sa wasn’t able to see Gu Yun with his own eyes, he had studied every single battle Gu Yun had ever fought in with old General Zhong, studied the changes in his stand in politics starting from when he inherited the title of a Marquis fro — if Chang Geng were to go to Gu Yun’s study now and take out any old notes, he could generally tell at what age Gu Yun had written it
This helped hi to hi hi the hesitance in Gu Yun eyes as it swept over, Chang Geng was able to tell that he intended to interrogate by force, andto witness it Even until today, Gu Yun still instinctively wanted to preserve his ever so fragile i Geng did not have any objection regarding this, he instead would greatly cherish this little bit of love that yifu did not speak aloud
Chang Geng was followed by two people, they were Ge Ban Xiao and Cao Niangzi who had come with him from Yanhui town to the capital — now called Ge Chen and Cao Chun Hua
Ge Chen was a lovable chubby boy in his childhood Now that he had grown up, his plu appearance If one were to look at him from the neck down, he could be classified as a ‘muscular man’
But unfortunately, from the neck up, the head seemed to have been placed there by mistake — on it was a face both tender and white, two soft baby fat on his cheeks, much like tofu, wrapped around his sle detail that did not give off innocence and hare was a lot ht in his heart, he couldn’t help his body fro into the frame of an adult man It was to hard retain the same kind neutrality in appearance in his youth He had no choice but to aded back to o and chose the name ‘Cao Chun Hua’ — except for himself, no one could tell how ‘Chun Hua’ is different than ‘Niangzi’
Chun Hua zi meant lady
“How co his neck “I haven’t seen my Marquis for several years, I’ve been unable to sleep these few days”
Chang Geng gloo Cao Chun Hua another tick Wait until he gathered words such as ‘my family’s Marquis’ for the total of fifty ti
Cao Chun Hua still wasn’t aware of this, he asked again: “Big brother, this ti to the capital, will you inherit your royal status? I heard that the for manor, then will youin the Marquis’was startled for a moment, then smiled bitterly: “That would depend on whether the Marquis would still wantcould not ie that year to leave the ht, but this time as he had encountered Gu Yun in Sichuan, he felt as if he had to directly come face to face with his fated destiny Even if beaten to death, it would still be difficult to accumulate the deter Xu had told hihts run astray’, of course, this has a role in restraining the Bone of Ier or joy, sorrow or happiness were all attached with one another With the restraint of resenter, joy would also then naturally fade away as tirass — although it could stay alive, its colors had all faded
Chang Geng thought that he was about to becoain