778 Hiring (2/2)

Shangguan Fei shook his head and replied, ”Not so good. Because of that incident, the Unique King still hasn't forgiven her, but he at least doesn't want to kill her anymore. My mother's now living with the Meng family in Northern Jade City, and she's has something big planned.”

Shangguan Fei purposefully paused to build suspense. Gu Shenwei irritatedly asked, ”Is Meng Yuzun still alive?”

”You know about it already, Dragon King?” Shangguan Fei was startled.

”Tell me what you know.”

Shangguan Fei was no longer as confident as he was previously. ”Then I'll put it simply. Meng Yuzun had been trying to learn kung fu in secret, and he also coveted the Daoless Divine Power of Golden Roc Castle. The Lord knew of this for a long time, but didn't do anything about it. And then about a year ago they found someone who greatly resembles Old Meng and fattened him up — after that, the Unique King killed Old Meng, so the present patriarch of the Meng family is actually a fake.”

”That was half a year ago.”

Shangguan Fei was now in great admiration for the Dragon King's foresight. ”Exactly. It took them several months to fatten that guy up and teach him all of Meng Yuzun's manners.”

”Keep talking.”

”The fake Meng Yuzun's job is to throw the Meng family into a mess. Then my mother will take over, and thus the Meng family would be under Golden Roc Castle's control.”

”Does the Unique King trust Madam Meng that much?”

The complicated relationship between his parents had given Shangguan Fei severe headaches, and he responded, ”Fa… The Unique King hates my mother. But he wants the Meng family's support and also wants to keep it a secret, so he needs my mother's identity.”

Gu Shenwei pondered the new information for a while before asking, ”Golden Roc Castle has been on good terms with the Meng family for generations. Why did they choose to rupture their relationship now?”

”One of the reasons is that Old Meng tried to stealthily learn their kung fu. And my mother said that there's also another reason: The Unique King was raising money to buy an army, but the Meng family refused to help.”

”To buy an army?”

Sensing the confusion and interest in Dragon King's tone, Shangguan Fei's confidence recovered. ”A massive army. Mother doesn't know the details, but according to her speculation, this army is from the Norland, and it belongs to either Duodun or Luoluo.”

The 70,000 troops of Duodun were stationed in Heaven's Pass and were seemingly allies of Golden Roc Castle. While teacher Zhang Ji was lobbying in Luoluo's army camp, both Duodun and Zhang Ji had gotten in close contact with the Unique King.

”Did Madam Meng know that you were asking about this information for me?”

”She did.” As he said this, Shangguan Fei became a little proud. ”My mother would do anything for me. She was happy when she learned about what I've been doing recently, and she even asked me to send her gratitude to you for the care and help you've offered me.”

Shangguan Fei was satisfied with his mother's unconditional love, but Gu Shenwei didn't believe it blindly. ”What else did Madam Meng say?”Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.

Shangguan Fei flushed slightly and giggled, ”My mother has a suggestion — and I'm just repeating her words here — she said that she could find out the whereabouts of the green-faced assassins for the Dragon King. Actually, she feels a little confused herself as the Unique King hasn't sent any green-faced assassins anywhere for a very long time, and even the killers are becoming idle.”

”What're her conditions?”

”Ur, my mother has a strange idea. She believes… believes…”

”Believes that you can inherit the title of the Unique King as well as Golden Roc Castle.”

”You're so wise, Dragon King. Actually I don't have any ambitions like that — you know what kind of person I am. It's just my mother's fond hope. She said that you actually have only one foe, and that's Shangguan… Fa, and that the others in Golden Roc Castle have nothing to do with the massacre happened many years ago. So if you would be willing to focus all your hatred onto the Unique King and spare the others, more than half of the people in Golden Roc Castle would take your side.”

The more than a hundred thousand strong cavalrymen of Norland were still a thousand miles away from the Jade City, and yet under the pressure caused by them, Golden Roc Castle's foundation had been already compromised. Gu Shenwei thought that it was happening too soon. ”Well, maybe what Madam Meng believes is not just a fond hope. I have no interest in the title of Unique King and I have no problem giving it to you. But Golden Roc Castle…”

Shangguan Fei immediately interjected, ”It's not the Stone Castle on the mountain that my mother is determined to own. She just wants me to have the properties at the foot of the mountain.”

”It seems that I need to meet with Madam Meng.”

”I'll arrange a meeting. Noone else will know about it. It'll be absolutely safe. My head will be the guarantee.” An ambitious expression, which had rarely appeared on Shangguan Fei's face, had shown up, and he was trying hard to subdue his excitement.

”All right.” Gu Shenwei gave his consent. He wanted to find out exactly how important Madam Meng's only son was to her.

Shangguan Fei left, and before long, Han Wuxian arrived. She didn't give any excuses nor apologies for her tardiness.

Old Man Mu arrived at almost the same exact time and he assumed a surprised look. ”What a coincidence! I thought that I would be the last one.”

Han Wuxian walked towards Old Man Mu with a smile, and yet before he could react, she gripped the collar behind his neck and said in a low voice, ”I want to talk to the Dragon King in private. Since you're so fond of peeking from the outside, you might as well stay outside this time too.”

”Ouch! Woman, stop it. I was secretly protecting you. Dragon King, say something. I was…”

Han Wuxian roughly tossed Old Man Mu out of the room, closed the door, and locked it. Then she turned and walked towards the Dragon King as she said, ”Lotus and the traitors are indeed in Jade City. Can you guess what that girl is up to?”

”She wants to make the first move and attack Golden Roc Castle.”

”It seems that Lotus is determined to make sure that her every one of her moves is ahead of yours, Dragon King. You're right. Lotus is rallying all of her minions and making war preparations. And the Unique King also has his own plans. You want to know what the green-faced assassins are doing? They're searching the whole city for clues, ready to start a bloodbath. And there's more — the Unique King has paid large sums of money to hire kung fu experts from lots of different countries, and they're on their way to Jade City right now.”

Her chest heaving by this point, Han Wuxian stretched out her tongue and sensuously licked her lips. An intoxicated look appeared on her face, and it seemed as if she could already smell the fragrance of fresh blood.

To hire both an army and kung fu experts, undoubtedly required a large sum of money from the Unique King. Gu Shenwei was suspicious and he believed that only one of these two messages could be true.