Chapter 552: Ruthless

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Soon, all the men in black who had besieged the manor were eliminated. Hu Cheng jumped off the roof with the secret guards and leaped down from the wall. He saw the torches that the men in black had dropped in the field.

Hu Cheng kicked the man in black on the ground and pulled out the arrows from his body. “Brothers, see if there’s anyone alive. Feel them carefully and search for anything suspicious.”

“Yes,” the secret guards agreed in unison and carefully checked.

Li Yu and Ji Xiang had also arrived. Hu Cheng pointed at the torches and said to Li Yu, “Madam, look at these torches. These people are here to burn the manor down.”

When Li Yu saw the torches Hu Cheng and the others had collected, she felt that these people were very ruthless.

“Yes! It seems that they already know that this place has been exposed. They’re unwilling to let those things fall into the hands of the Imperial Court. There’s no point in staying here anymore.” Li Yu looked at Hu Cheng and said, “Hu Cheng, send someone back to the city after dawn. Get the government office to send two physicians who are proficient in gynecology to treat those injured women. After settling them down, we’ll return to the city!”

“Yes,” Hu Cheng replied with a bow.

At this moment, Ah Lian, Yang Liu, and the others were also woken up. They all ran out of the house and looked at the secret guards in black in horror as they dragged the corpses of the men in black toward the thatched house behind the manor.

Seeing Li Yu’s worried and afraid expression, they were afraid that the peaceful days they had painstakingly obtained would be gone. They were afraid that they would become vengeful souls under the butcher’s knife of those evil thieves again.

Ah Lian looked at Li Yu uneasily. “Madam Li, those evil thieves are really here. They want to kill us!”

Li Yu comforted them gently. “You don’t have to be afraid. These evil thieves came for the food on the farm. They’re unwilling to leave that food for us. When the government office takes away the food, those people won’t come again.”

When Ah Lian, Yang Liu, and the others heard Li Yu’s words, they felt that she made sense. There was so much food that was enough for them to eat for the rest of their lives. How could those evil thieves bear to give it to others for nothing?

San Qiao begged Li Yu, “Madam Li, please tell the officials to catch those evil thieves as soon as possible. I’m afraid that they will come again after you leave.”

Li Yu nodded and said, “Alright, I’ll tell them to send more people to capture those evil thieves as soon as possible. It’s still early. You still have to work tomorrow morning. Go and sleep for a while.”

Ah Lian nodded. “Sisters, Madam Li will help us. We still have to work tomorrow. Let’s go back first so that we won’t delay Madam and the others.”

“That’s right! Let’s go back! We can’t help.”

Hu Cheng waited for the women to return to the courtyard and said to Li Yu, “Madam Li, those people are very cunning. We’ve caught a few after so many years. Our head shopkeeper has been running around all these years just for these dogs.”

Ji Xiang said indignantly, “These people are vicious and don’t care about morals at all. Just look at the people who died in vain in Liang Village.”

Hu Cheng smiled and nodded. “Manager Zhou is right. Manager Zhou, last time in Yunzhou, I realized that Brother Yi and Brother Cai’s martial arts are not bad. I didn’t expect you to be not inferior either, especially Madam’s martial arts. Even our head shopkeeper praised them.”

“Of course,” Ji Xiang replied proudly. Hu Cheng and Ji Xiang chatted animatedly.

Li Yu glanced at Hu Cheng and thought of the secret guard in Tongzhou, Yun Yi. She felt that the secret guards under Chu Sihai were either chatterboxes or reticent.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Yu and Ji Xiang returned to their courtyards to rest. Hu Cheng brought the secret guards and hid around the manor again.

Li Yu lay on the bed and thought that since the Second Prince had prepared a large number of weapons in the manor, they must be used to snatch back the imperial power. He had also transferred a large number of people away. They should have been sent somewhere to train.

Thinking of what Manor Head Chi had told her, she felt that he still had something to tell her. Li Yu thought of the Second Prince and the others and already knew that she was the one who had helped Chu Yuhao back then. She felt that they would not let the matter rest.

Feeling that there should still be a nest of these bandits in the nearby mountain beam, she decided to go back and see Chu Sihai. She would get him to interrogate Manor Head Chi again and send someone to Tongfu Inn and the nearby deep mountains and forests to investigate.

The secret guards sent by Hu Cheng entered the city after the city gate opened for a while. They returned to the backyard of the bank and saw Chu Sihai. They conveyed Li Yu’s words to him.

When Chu Sihao heard Li Yu’s words, he hurriedly entered the palace to report that Ji Xiang had been ambushed and that Old Lin had been killed. When Chu Yuhao heard this, he instructed Chu Sihao to send an order to transfer people from the capital’s government office to Liang Village to settle those women. He would bring enough people to haul those weapons back and capture the current county magistrate of Shanyang County to the capital for trial.

Chu Sihai received the order and left the palace to arrange for people.

At dawn, Ruyi hauled the cloth, bedding, and mosquito nets he had bought and some household items towards Liang Village. They left the city and drove into the mountain path.

Not long after they went up the mountain path, a group of carriages followed behind. Ruyi turned around and saw the first carriage. Shen Zhong was sitting in the carriage, and the driver was a loyal-looking man.

Shen Zhong smiled. “What a coincidence! Steward Yi.”

Ruyi smiled and stopped the car. Shen Zhong jumped out of the carriage and walked to the Ruyi cart with a smile. He jumped on and sat on the cart.

Seeing that Ruyi had hauled a full cart of things that were even wrapped in oilcloth, Shen Zhong smiled and said, “Manager Yi, what did you haul?”

Ruyi smiled. “My Madam instructed me to buy it for those women in Liang

Village. There are bedding, mosquito nets, cloth, and some household items.”

When Shen Zhong heard this, he nodded and said, “Madam Li is the one who really doesn’t care about fame and fortune.”

“Yes!” Ruyi smiled and nodded. She turned around and looked at the carriage behind. “General Shen, why did your team go to Liang Village?”

“The officials from the government office are going to deal with the matters in Liang Village. His Majesty even sent two imperial physicians to Liang Village to treat those women,” Shen Zhong said.

Thinking of the sallow-faced women in Liang Village, Ruyi praised, “Your Majesty is benevolent. It’s indeed not easy for those people in Liang Village to last until the day they rebuild.”

Shen Zhong also sighed in his heart. “That’s right! No one expected such a heinous evil to happen in this peaceful era.”

Ruyi cursed silently. The person who did such a thing was from the royal family. Otherwise, who would have the ability to hide it?

“General Shen, did you find anything?”

Shen Zhong said in a low voice, “We haven’t found anything unusual yet. We’ve already sent them out. The shopkeeper asked me to bring those people caDtured bv Madam Li back to the caDital for interrogation.”

“That’s right, especially that Lin. I don’t know when he killed Uncle Lin’s coachman, but no one noticed. These people are really extraordinary.”

Shen Zhong agreed with Ruyi’s words. It was as if the woman on Osmanthus Street had appeared out of thin air. Until now, he had not found anyone to meet that woman. The new princess consort of the Duke of Fu was still locked in prison. She had become crazy..

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