Chapter 71 - Yuanzhi is back (2/2)
”I only found out today that the person who attacked the Xiang An city and brought troops to the Xin King's residence was Shangguan Yong.”
”Interesting,” Eunuch Xie said as he paced back and forth in the courtyard with his hands behind his back. ”So what did His Majesty say?” he asked the eunuch.
”His Majesty said he'd naturally order people to investigate, but who was ordered to investigate? His Majesty didn't say anything in the hall.”
Eunuch Xie let the eunuch go and stood in the yard for a while. ”It seems like it really wasn't An Jinyan who killed the Shangguan Family. Like he said, why would An Jinyan do such a thing?” ”It's getting more and more lively,” Eunuch Xie muttered to himself.
When it was dawn, Shangguan Yong just returned to the tavern and he saw his brother who was guarding the door to the Residence of An rush in front of him and he said, ”Big bro, you're back.”
”What's wrong?” Shangguan Yong hurriedly asked. His Shangguan family's funeral was being held in the Residence of An, and now even his family's funeral couldn't be done peacefully?
”Yuanzhi is back!” The brother followed up with Shangguan Yong and said, ”Bring two people with him and kick open the main door of the Residence of An Residence. I didn't even have the time to call out to him!”
Qing Nan also ran out at this time, and said, ”Big brother, why don't we go to the Residence of An together?”
”Didn't you say that we were going out of the city?” The brother that reported the news said.
”I thought about it all night yesterday.” Qing Nan didn't ask Shangguan Yong what he had done that night, she just said, ”We don't need to call the streets for you to come back to the capital. You can go to the funeral hall of the Residence of An. As long as elder brother appears in the funeral hall, who in the capital wouldn't know that you've returned?
”Then how are we going to kill those ȧssassins?” The ones following him asked Qing Nan, ”We'll fight in the Grand Preceptor's estate?”
”Then we'll have to see if this bunch of ȧssassins have the guts to kill people in the Grand Preceptor's estate,” Qing Nan said. ”Do they have the guts to massacre the Grand Preceptor's estate as well?”
Shangguan Yong said: ”They won't make a move in the Residence of An.”
”Then that's that. After we've been to the Residence of An, we'll leave the city and wait for them,” Qing Nan looked at the people beside him. ”Are you all prepared to have fun?”
Immediately, one of them spat at Qing Nan and said, ”Then what are we waiting for? ”Let's go.”
Before Shangguan Yong and his men arrived at the Residence of An, , An Yuanzhi had already turned the entire Residence of An into a state of chaos.
Having been patted on the back by Yuan Yi for a long time, An Yuanzhi didn't say a word. He hopped onto his horse and galloped towards the capital.
Yuan Yi and Yuan Wei were also sad to hear the news of An Jinxiu's death. They followed An Yuanzhi to the capital.
When An Yuanzhi arrived at the capital city and passed through the city gates, he heard the news of his mother's death. Suddenly, all the people he cared about had died. An Yuanzhi's vision turned black, and he fell to the ground, unconscious for a moment. Yuan Yi and Yuan Wei woke him up and rushed back to the Residence of An.
Inside the mourning hall were four coffins and five spirit tablets.
An Yuanzhi's eyes were blurry, and the words on the spirit tablet could not be seen clearly. When he rushed to the spirit table and looked at the tablets, he saw that his mother, An Jin, Ping An, Shangguan Rui, and Shangguan Ning were written on each of the five tablets.
”Impossible!” An Yuanzhi shouted, ”How is that possible!”
The coffin had already been nailed to the ground and couldn't be opened. An Yuanzhi only wanted to swing his fist up and smash open the coffin lid, but if he didn't see the corpses of these people with his own eyes, how could he believe that when he left the capital, he had no family left?
Grand Preceptor An was in his study. When he heard that the servant had come to report that the fifth young master had returned, he quickly rushed to the mourning hall with his men. Once inside, Grand Preceptor An saw that An Yuanzhi was about to smash the coffin and hastily shouted, ”An Yuanzhi, what are you doing?!”
When An Yuanzhi heard Grand Preceptor An's voice, he paused for a moment.
”Let me go!” An Yuanzhi didn't even look at his father as he shouted at Yuan Yi and Yuan Wei, ”I want to see them. They might not be my mother, or sister!”
”If they didn't die, would I set up a mourning hall for them?” Grand Preceptor An walked in front of An Yuanzhi and said, ”Open the coffin that's already been nailed to the ground. When the dead see the light of day again, do you want them to die without any safety?”
”My sister and Ping An were burned to death. What about my mother?” An Yuanzhi shouted at Grand Preceptor An, ”Then how did my mother die?!”
Due to his grief, An Yuanzhi's eyes were filled with blood. When his son stared at him with his crimson eyes, Grand Preceptor An was even a bit afraid. He couldn't tell An Yuanzhi about An Jin's' death ', nor could he tell An Yuanzhi about his birth mother death.