Chapter 380: Crash…for your lordship (2/2)

Heavens! They’re going to crash! Are they really….

And then!

At the critical moment, the young driver of the charging carriage abruptly pulled on the reins, using massive strength to turn the horses to the side. The two stallions reared up on their hind legs before coming to a sudden stop, causing the carriage to tilt back 90 degrees before dropping to the ground! The skills of this young driver were indeed formidable, as he’d managed to stop the carriage under such circumstances without causing the ride to flip over! His horses whinnied a few times as they came to earth. Everyone else sucked in a cold breath, rejoicing for both parties. Quite a few of them had to admire the young driver’s skills.

But his young master had been seriously spooked! His complexion was ashen white, the hand gripping the whip still trembling from the aftereffects. After all, he’d been planning to make the other party stop or get out of the move with their charge! He assumed the other side would yield at the last second, but they hadn’t! He’d done this over and over again in the streets, and each time it was always the other side that let him pass. He’d never seen someone so reckless before!

Because of the carriage in front of him, Long Feiye’s driver had no choice but to halt his horses. Though the young gentleman was covered in cold sweat, he quickly assumed his usual arrogant air. He tugged on the reins until their horses were directly facing Long Feiye’s own. Waving the whip, he pointed at them and shouted, “Are you guys blind? You actually had the gall to block this gentleman’s carriage!”

He didn’t care how reckless the occupants of the other carriage were. In any case, anyone in South Ning Prefecture had to make way for him on the roads! Otherwise, they’d face severe consequences! The onlookers watched with the jitters as they started worrying for Long Feiye’s sake. After all, this young gentleman was none other than the treasured son of the South Ning Prefecture’s senior provincial official, Nanguo Jun.1 He relied on the fact that his father was the de facto leader of the prefecture to ride roughshod over the residents here. Privately, people referred to him as the ‘crown prince of South Ning Prefecture!’ There was even a local saying about the man: One who rather offend the senior provincial official than the senior provincial official’s son.

Faced with Nanguo Jun’s rampant aggression, Long Feiye’s driver remained unmoved. “Sir, this one doesn’t know who you are. I’d like to trouble you to make way.” As expected of one of Long Feiye’s subordinates, even a driver like him was calm and unhurried in a situation like this, displaying his good training and upbringing.

“Hahahah, there’s actually someone who doesn’t recognize this gentleman! This must be your first time in South Ning!” Nanguo Jun laughed out loud.

“Sir, who you are has nothing to do with me. My master has business to take care of, so please move out of the way,” the driver requested a second time.

Nanguo Jun’s face was full of disbelief. He looked at the surrounded crowd and guffawed. “Did you all hear that? He actually told me to make way!”

Members of the crowd only smiled sheepishly at him. After Nanguo Jun had his fill of laughter, he lifted his chin and looked over with a cold stare and warning, “The person inside the carriage, get off! Otherwise I won’t be polite!”

But the driver didn’t take his threat seriously at all. Instead, he glanced back and said, “Master, he won’t get out of the way.”

Nanguo Jun had been utterly disregarded in front of everyone else. He was about to explode when a low, chilly voice emanated from the depths of the carriage. “Crash them aside.”

Crash them aside? What did that mean?

Nanguo Jun and the crowd was still puzzling over the words when Long Feiye’s driver whipped his horse and urged it forward. The white horse pulling their carriage seemed to be aware of what was happening, because it stamped it hooves as it prepared to charge. The second time the driver whipped him, the white horse displayed startling strength as it rushed towards the obstacle in front of it! None of the humans reacted in time, but Nanguo Jun’s horses did. Both of them jerked in opposite directions as Long Feiye’s white horse rammed into their carriage shaft and broke it in two! At that, the two horses were startled enough to break free and run off. Nanguo Jun and the young driver went crashing to the ground, completely floored by what had happened.

Finally, they understood what ‘crash them aside’ meant…

Everyone was shocked by the sight. Nanguo Jun was such an aggressive, domineering type. His fierce and truculent ways still didn’t give him the gall to ram into the other carriage, but stop at the last second. Instead, the other carriage had ran into them on purpose anyways! Even if they didn’t care about their horse or carriage, they should value their own human lives! While everyone was stuck in the throes of amazement, the icy voice inside the carriage spoke up for the second time.

“Old Lin, you’re still not leaving?”

1. Nanguo Jun (南郭俊) – Nanguo is a two-character surname that individually means “south” and “outer wall of a city,” Jun is “handsome, pretty, of outstanding talent.”