Chapter 34 Level-Three Adept (1/2)
As the curly-whiskered man spoke, someone said leisurely from inside the cabin, “They better get out of the way. If they don’t… kill them!”
“Yes, Second Young Master,” the curly whiskered-man replied respectfully and returned his gaze to Zhou Donghuang and Fu. He said with murderous intent in his eyes, “Did you hear the second young master of my family? If you don’t get out of the way, I’ll kill you both!”
“Kill us both?” Zhou Donghuang’s piercing gaze fell on the cabin of the carriage facing him, and he smiled indifferently. “Big talk… but who is that anyway?”
“The second young master of my family is the son of the patriarch of the preeminent Li family of the prefecture capital, Li Pingyun. He is in the cabin behind me now with the ninth elder of the Li family, Li Yan.”
The curly-whiskered man smiled coldly.
“Little fellow, you had better get out of the way as fast as you can… if you anger Second Young Master and Ninth Elder, you’re dead meat!”
Fu squinted at him.
The Li family of the prefecture capital?
The image of a middle-aged man surfaced in Fu’s memory.
He had identified himself as a level-two adept from the Li family of the prefecture capital. Zhou Donghuang had maimed his arms and legs and hired people to send him back to the Li family in the prefecture capital.
“The second young master of the Li family?”
Zhou Donghuang’s eyes gleamed coldly as he looked at the cabin, and he replied nonchalantly, “If that’s the case… you should be the one who sent someone to Yunxuan Restaurant the other day, offering to buy it for a thousand liang of silver?”
That day, the level-two adept from the Li family of the prefecture capital had claimed that he had been sent by the second young master of the Li family.
“You are Zhou Donghuang?”
Almost as soon as Zhou Donghuang had spoken, the curtains of the opposite carriage were drawn aside, and a young man dressed in a brocaded gown and a splendidly dressed middle-aged man dismounted from the carriage.
It was the young man who had spoken, and he was the second young master of the preeminent Li family of the prefecture capital.
“It really is you.”
Zhou Donghuang dismounted as well and stood facing Li Pingyun.
“I didn’t expect that I, Li Pingyun, would meet you even before I reached Qingshan town… but that’s just as well, this saves me a lot of time.”
Li Pingyun looked Zhou Donghuang over indifferently and said, “Zhou Donghuang, hand over the title deed to Yunxuan Restaurant, then maim one of your own arms… and I will not pursue the matter of you maiming Li Dong.”
Before beating a dog, you must first consider its master.
Li Dong whom he had sent to Qingshan town to buy Yunxuan Restaurant from Zhou Donghuang had instead been maimed by him, and this was a slap to the face of Li Pingyun.
“Maim one of my own arms?”
Zhou Donghuang was stunned at first, then he smiled a brilliant smile.
“Due credit to the second young master of the Li family for being to the point in admitting that he was scheming to seize Yunxuan Restaurant, and even asking to break my own arm. If this is the case, today you, the second young master of the Li family, must leave one arm behind!”
As he spoke, a cold gleam flashed across the depths of Zhou Donghuang’s eyes.
“You’d make me leave an arm behind? You must still be asleep!”
Li Pingyun was stunned at first, but then he smiled coldly as a cold murderous look came into his eyes.
“Now I’ve changed my mind… today, not only will I take the title deed to Yunxuan Restaurant, but also your life!”
As soon as Li Pingyun stated his intent to kill Zhou Donghuang, he addressed the splendidly-dressed middle-aged man beside him, “Ninth Elder, kill him.”
“Second Young Master, you’re too careful.”
The splendidly dressed middle-aged man smiled scornfully.
“You could kill this little fellow easily. Surely you don’t believe Li Dong’s words, that this young man’s ability is close to that of a level-three adept?”
“I don’t think it’s possible,” Li Pingyun said, “but there should be a level-two adept of considerable ability with him.”
“Ninth Elder, we stick to the plan we discussed earlier… after the deed is done, one-tenth of the profits from Yunxuan Restaurant will be yours.”
It was evident from Li Pingyun’s words that he already considered Yunxuan Restaurant to be his.
“Thank you, Second Young Master.”
The splendidly dressed middle-aged man’s smile grew even brighter, and he continued looking at Zhou Donghuang. He said with an indifferent tone, “Little fellow, call the person in the cabin out.”
He was looking at the cabin of the carriage behind Zhou Donghuang as he said this.
As for Fu who was driving the carriage, there was no way he could be mistaken for Zhou Donghuang’s champion, from the panicked expression on his face.
“The cabin?”
Zhou Donghuang was taken aback by the splendidly dressed middle-aged man’s words but then realized that he was assuming that there was another person in the cabin.
“Second Young Master of the Li family, it seems you have assumed… you think the person you sent earlier was maimed by someone working for me?”
Zhou Donghuang paced forward slowly towards Li Pingyun, who was six or seven meters away.
“Was he not?”
Li Pingyun smiled scornfully. “Could you please enlighten me on how a sixteen or seventeen-year-old youth could have the ability to kill Li Dong, a level-two adept?”
“Little fellow, since he is stalling and refusing to come out, then I, Li Yan, will start by killing you first before digging him out!”
The splendidly dressed middle-aged man was Li Yan, the ninth elder of the Li family. He looked away from the cabin and back at Zhou Donghuang, smiling cruelly. He immediately charged at Zhou Donghuang.