134 The Dinner (2/2)
They were also from Little Flag Battalion, and one of them was a former Tattooed Arm Gang member and Slave Huan's loyal friend. Despite the fact that all of them wore masks, Gu Shenwei still easily recognized them.
”Why do they assassinate their targets in broad daylight? This is not Golden Roc Fort's style at all.” Gu Shenwei could not help but wonder. On second thought, he realized why they did this. Pleasure Alley was quiet during the daytime but crowded at night, so it was better to take action here during the day.
Soon, the assassins completed their task, but they did not retreat quietly. To Gu Shenwei's great surprise, they opened the door and sent out a frightened servant. ”Help, help, it's a murder,” the elderly woman screamed.
All the people on the banquet were dumbfounded.
Tie Hanfeng darted to the window to see what happened outside. ”Liu Yin'er was killed.”
Upon hearing that the prostitute living across the street was murdered, Xu Yanwei shrilled and threw herself into Meng Mingshi's arms. ”Liu Yin'er is one of Mr. Meng's favorite whores. Who dares to kill her? Did she deliberately send the elderly woman out to attract Mr. Meng's attention?” One of Meng Mingshi's servants said.
Liu Yin'er was not only one of Meng Mingshi's favorite prostitutes but also a prostitute working for the Meng family. Besides her, many other prostitutes in Pleasure Alley also had very powerful bosses. To avoid offending those prostitutes' bosses, Golden Roc Fort's killers and machetemen, who had turned all the brothels in South City upside down during the past several days, never dared to come to Pleasure Alley to search for members of New Moon Hall and the Barren Sect.
Meng Mingshi rubbed Xu Yanwei's shoulder with one hand to comfort her while holding a cup of liquor with the other hand. ”What an annoying bitch. Tell her to wait for a moment. I'll go over to kill her very soon,” Meng Mingshi grumbled.
In the next moment, the elderly woman got rid of Xu Xiaoyi and stumbled all the way up to find Meng Mingshi.
”Mr. Meng, my kind master, someone suddenly broke into our house. Oh, my goodness. They murdered the girl. They killed Miss...”
The woman's speech became increasingly incoherent, but her blood-smeared dress had already convinced everyone that Liu Yin'er was murdered.
”Master Yu will come here very soon,” Gu Shenwei realized something and reminded everyone.
Just as he expected, a moment later, Shangguan Yushi and 10 brown-belt assassins galloped to the brothel. An assassin came out to report to her.
The elderly woman's screams had already woken up all the people in the alley. They simultaneously stuck their heads out of their windows to see what was going on outside.
Meng Mingshi turned pale because of anger. He threw his cup aside and ran to the window. ”You... Shangguan Yushi... What're you doing here? Why did you kill my girl?”
Shangguan Yushi remained silent. She just raised up her head to give Meng Mingshi a glance and then walked into Xu Yanwei's brothel. When she came to the second floor, she still did not say a word to Meng Mingshi. ”Slave Huan, you seemed to forget that you're a member of Little Flag Battalion.
Gu Shenwei had had a lot of trouble to deal with yesterday and thus had completely forgot to report to his killer leader yesterday afternoon. ”We were too busy to come back to report.”
”Where's Maid Lotus?”
”She's watching the suspects.”
Meng Mingshi felt a little embarrassed, and his face became red now. ”Stop, stop. You have to give me an explanation first. Why did you kill my girl?”
”Your girl? She's New Moon Hall's disciple. Mr. Meng Mingshi, are you close to Golden Roc Fort's enemies?” Shangguan Yushi asked.
”What are you talking about? That's impossible. She's not a…”
”I've solid evidence.”
”No, you must have forged the evidence to frame me. I demand a reasonable explanation for this. Let's go to Golden Roc Fort together.”
The two young masters began to quarrel. No one in this room dared to stop them.
Evidently, Shangguan Yushi did not just come here for Liu Yin'er. While arguing with Meng Mingshi, she often turned to Slave Huan, condemning the brown-belt assassin for dining together with Master Ru's foe.
Gu Shenwei was not sure if Liu Yin'er was a member of New Moon Hall, but he was 100-percent sure what Shangguan Yushi was trying to do here. She intended to make a big deal out of this dinner and wanted everyone to know that Slave Huan had openly betrayed Master Ru and dined with her enemy Meng Mingshi. She was pretty confident that Shangguan Ru would hear about this incident very soon.
According to Tie Hafeng's theory about ”relations”, Shangguan Yushi, who wanted to kill Slave Huan without stirring up Shangguan Ru's temper, was now trying to sever the slave boy's relations with Master Ru,
Somehow, Mister Guo, the Commander of the action against New Moon Hall and the Barren Sect, also came here to question Shangguan Yushi on the assassination of Liu Yin'er. According to Commander Guo's order, Little Flag Battalion should stay within the southeastern area of South City and should never come to Pleasure Alley without permission.
Now that there were lots of people packed inside this room, Gu Shenwei was pinned up against the window by the crowd. When he heard someone chanting Amitabha, he could only turn his head a little to have a look. To his great surprise, he saw two monks in Pleasure Alley: one was pale as a ghost and the other was tall and strong like Vajra Dharma.