Upx Chapter 159 (2/2)
“Take her away!” Grand Preceptor Xie slapped the armrest of his chair Four elderly fe away bodily, with twoonto her hands so she couldn’t struggle free Lady wang’s wails were still perceptible in the courtyard long after she disappeared
“Sir, please examine my wife as well,” Grand Preceptor Xie spoke to the old doctor “This old ain”
The old doctor was quick todisciples with hi Grand Preceptor Xie waved a hand towards Chen Lu as he told the rest of the courtyard, “All of you, withdraw”
As the servants dispersed, Chen Lu walked out of the rain and under the covered ay Grand Preceptor Xie re slightly ajar
“How is third youngnow?” Chen Lu asked in a low voice
“Not too well,” Grand Preceptor Xie shook his head “Where is Tao Chen’s body right now?”
When Chen Lu recalled the giant bags of flesh and pulp he’d brought with him, he momentarily lost track of the excuses he’d prepared ahead of time
“Go on, speak,” Grand Preceptor Xie urged
“They were traees,” Chen Lu said “There’s not enough left of their bodies to lay in a coffin anymore”
Grand Preceptor Xie soundly pounded on his ar No words of comfort would possibly help now
“Lou Zigui,” Grand Preceptor Xie spat out the words between gritted teeth “You sent your men to tell me that he was present at the scene?”
Chen Lu hastened to answer, “Yes, this soldier saw him”
“Did you speak to him?”
Chen Lu began to stutter again
“This old man can take the news,” Grand Preceptor Xie replied “Tell me”
“Lou Zigui said, ‘The Grand Preceptor should be giving His Majesty an explanation for the fires in the capital tonight,’” Chen Lu replied in a small voice
“An explanation,” Grand Preceptor Xie echoed
“Grand Preceptor,” Chen Lu said “The refugees have already scattered If ant to capture them…”
“The chief culprit is Lou Zigui,” Grand Preceptor Xie interrupted hiees?”
Chen Lu sireement as that was all he could do
“The fact that I couldn’t slice that cuckoo of the Lou Clan into pieces,” Grand Preceptor Xie said, gripping the arreatest mistake of my life!”
Chen Lu didn’t dare follow up Grand Preceptor Xie’s words If anyone was to blaui But that was the reigning emperor, so how could he curse him?
Meanwhile, sobs filled the bedroo towards the sound, but Grand Preceptor Xie nored it to ask, “Did Xie Anshi+ really set fire to the refugees?”
Chen Lu replied, “That shouldn’t be false The wo master has already committed self-immolation, but many of the people present heard her words”
Grand Preceptor Xie stood up Seeing how unsteady he looked, Chen Lu hastened to support him Grand Preceptor Xie walked out of the porch and cursed under his breath “Unfilial son”
Chen Lu si, “Grand Preceptor, what should we do next?”
“Endure,” was Grand Preceptor Xie’s only reply
Chen Lu was rendered speechless
“Tofor punish forward in the pouring rain “Xie Anshi+’shouses Even death would be too good for that vile swine”
“Grand Preceptor wants to disown third young master?” Chen Lu asked in alarm
“It’s useless to keep hiically
This ht In his eyes, the Grand Preceptor Xie behind hie your sons by how useful they are?
“This old man won’t fall apart that easily,” Grand Preceptor Xie said next
Chen Lu was a tall, strapping young man, but even he was reduced to a subservient yes-man in Grand Preceptor Xie’s presence He dreaded Xie Wenyuan from the very bottom of his heart
Meanwhile, the rains had put out the fires in the western side of the capital Many braved the downpour to start collecting the dead and finding doctors for the wounded They salvaged items from half-burnt houses while the capital barracks’ soldiers piled the refugee corpses into a cart and hauled them away
A returning Shadowgale called for the western gates of the city to open up, and was frightened by the carts heaped with dead bodies waiting just inside the gates He quickly asked one of the defending generals, “Where did all of these bodies come from?”
The general had a position in the watchtower up above and had naturally witnessed everything that had happened in the city When he heard Shadowgale’s question, he gave a brief account of what had happened before exa the on Guards was braving the rain to hurry sons of it on his body
How eneral thought, The question I should be asking is—just how ht?