Chapter 128 (1/2)

Chapter 128: Disheartened Translator: Transn Editor: Transn

To an assassin, it was a mistake to know too much about his victim’s life

All it took for the two machetemen, who had lived dubiously in South City for ood flask of wine and a saber of the Golden Roc Fort Although Gu Shenwei’s face was badly scarred froe and made him appear a lot older than he was

The two of the – Soldiers Cao, when the power of the Central Plain was at its peak, it set up ion for its troops, which totaled emony over nearly all countries at that tiion after thirty years in Hedong and another thirty in Hexi, its troops had been reduced to only a few thousand, and Soldiers Caarrisons, had been almost entirely abandoned

Soldiers Ca away their ar soldiers had become farmers, married and had children with the locals Over tience with the locals, their ly unsophisticated The only thing which did not falter was their military spirit Most families kept weapons, such that the first piece of iron that athe world was either a knife or a spear

Nie Qing was one such child born in a Soldiers Ca hier sister Adhering to the traditions of Soldiers Cae and becarew up He never showed a hint of jealousy, at least not publicly, when he saw his youth’s coe rich, or pass away in a foreign place

This continued until he was in his thirties, when one day, he put down his far can be dug out, then so can swords andsilently watched hi known that the day would coet the better of hile request “I won’t wait for you Either our son and I follow you, or you break up with e our son’s surna his wife and son along Treading along the saers, they soon arrived in Jade City Exactly sixty days would eventually pass before the whole fa seemed to have acquired a sum of money from somewhere, or perhaps received some donations In any case, his life was not as shabby as that of other wandering assassins Although he could not find a wealthy patron who appreciated him, he remained able to support his small family

His elder brother was a hue who did not like swords His elder sister hadnot been in touch

These, however, were not the things that Gu Shenanted to know, and hearing theht his attention – Nie Qing’s younger sister was taken away, at an early age, by an ie uproar even in distant villages

But not much was known The two machetemen could not tell where she was taken to or who she was taken by, and even expressed doubts that it was the act of an immortal “Maybe she just died and this was all a fabrication”

After spilling everything they knew about their fellow villager, the two of them downed a final cup of wine and hurriedly scampered

Gu Shenwei sis before someone came up to him

It was another macheteman Tall and burly, he had round eyes and raised eyebrows, and possessed a dignified air about hi his pal and his farasped the saber that was on the table

“You could have just killed the man Why the lady and child as well?” The machete the tavern to fall into silence

Gu Shenwei raised his head and looked at thesoed “Because he’d bonded their lives to his ohen he decided to bring them with him”

But Gu Shenwei did not draw his saber and attack, and even he hi in words, particularly to an unfaed his face and spat a viscid lum on to the saber’s scabbard, before he turned and departed

The noise in the tavern returned, albeit a little softer than usual

Tie Hanfeng watched in surprise as the macheteer and signaled to his apprentice to follow hi a word, he jabbed the apprentice on his lower abdoer you have when fighting with me? Go kill that fella and display his head back in the tavern”

“I don’t feel like killing right now,” Gu Shenwei replied stubbornly and turned to walk into a dark alley

Tie Hanwei followed behind his apprentice, with his eyebrows deeply trenched He had always felt that the latter orthy of being trained, but that confidence was now slightly swayed

The two of thee of the city, where they had killed a family of three a few hours earlier

The h the er, he utterly failed to notice that he was being followed

After hiding and waiting beneath a wall for a good amount of time, Gu Shenwei climbed over the wall and entered the house

Tie Hanfeng kept watching outside while expecting his apprentice to ee with a few human heads shortly Eventually, however, he would be not only disappointed but bewildered When Slave Huan cae iron nail in his hand

The nail was of seven or eight inches in length It could possibly be used as a weapon because of its square head, which allowed it to be firmly clutched, and pointed end

“What’s this?” Tie Hanfeng asked when they reached a secluded spot

“I don’t know, but there’re many of them inside the house”

The duo turned a corner and reached the door of Nie Qing’s house Tie Hanfeng was not amused “You know it’s the rule that a killer shouldn’t return to the scene of his deed”

But Gu Shenwei climbed over the wall and entered the house He discovered that the bodies had already been taken ahile the bloodstains remained Underneath the firewood in the hearth, he found iron nails identical to the one he had

When walking back through the dark alleyway, the teacher and apprentice began to discuss the iron nails whisperingly Although Tie Hanfeng found them a little odd, he came up with a suitable explanation “As oods that they have to safeguard”

“But, what use are they? They’re too thick for building houses, and aren’t handy enough to be weapons”

“Go ask the fella who spat at you I’ else out”

“Let’s not alert the snake for now”

“You seem a lot more cautious this time Wasn’t it your idea to find those women?”