Chapter 353: In Danger
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Fang Huairui, you want to kill me?!” Yu Si pointed at Fang Huairui and shouted angrily. His eyes were filled with fear and unease, and his heart was cold. “I’m Mingfeng’s uncle!”
‘You’re so heartless to your own in-laws. Aren’t you afraid… Oh.”
Before Yu Si could finish his sentence, Fang Huairui made a gesture. Yu Si’s mouth was then rudely covered with a sweat towel.
Yu Si was a scholar and had no strength to even truss a chicken. In front of the strong personal guards of the Heavenly Garrison Army, he couldn’t fight back at all. Soon, he was forcefully escorted into the prison cart.
Shangqing was escorted into another prison carriage. His hair was disheveled like a beggar’s, and his Daoist robe was tattered. One could vaguely see the burns on his skin. He looked like a demon that had been scooped up from a pot of oil.
“A death hexagram, it’s a death hexagram.” Shangqing muttered something. His description was muddle-headed and crazy.
Fang Huairui didn’t even look at Yu Si and Shangqing, nor did he care what they were whispering about.
To him, Yu Si and Shangqing were already dead.
His real opponent was a living person, and it was the aristocratic family led by
Xiao Shoufu.
This was also why the Eldest Prince wanted him to supervise the execution.
“Xiao Shoufu, are you going to teach me how to do things?” Fang Huairui’s sharp gaze swept past the shrimp soldiers and crab generals around him and shot straight at Xiao Shoufu, who was in the carriage. He said in a rough voice, “Civil officials and generals have nothing to do with each other. Xiao Shoufu is really meddling too much!’
He wasn ‘t afraid of offending anyone at all, so every word he said was th.o.r.n.y.
Since he was going to be the executioner, he was bound to offend these aristocratic families. He might as well offend them to the end so that these aristocratic families would hate him and prevent them from making a scene at the Emperor.
Fang Huairui snorted coldly and deliberately dug his ears. He said coldly, ‘What’s the saying?”
The two bodyguards beside him laughed and said, ‘The dog catches the rat!”
“Mind your own business!”
Fang Huairui had brought his trusted aides with him, and they were in sync with him.
Xiao Shoufu had been in the royal court for decades, and he usually faced those genteel civil officials. He had always been disdainful of and couldn’t be bothered to deal with n.o.bles like the British Duke, whose ancestors were still b.u.mpkins and butchers.
Hearing the laughter of these rough people, Xiao Shoufu’s expression didn’t look too good. He stared at Fang Huairui unhappily and said, “What if I insist on stopping you?”
“Xiao Shoufu, you can give it a try.” Fang Huairui nimbly got on the horse and looked down at Xiao Shoufu from the high horse’s back. “I’ve always been a man of my word. I’ll definitely execute them at noon.”
“Even if the Emperor agrees to probation, I won’t. Today, I’ll put righteousness before family.”
Yu Si, who was in the prisoner carriage, was scared out of his wits when he heard that he was going to be executed at noon. His face was so pale that there was no color in it at all, and he made m.u.f.fled sounds from his gagged mouth.
His body leaned against the bars of the prison cart, trembling like a leaf. He had long since lost the calmness he had in the prison cell.
At this moment, Yu Si was really afraid. He felt that the cold guillotine seemed to be hanging above his neck.
“You…” In the carriage, Xiao Shoufu was so angry that his voice trembled. His goatee trembled as he gritted his teeth and said, “Fang Huairui, do you have to be so stubborn?”
“It’s still early. Are you confident that the world won’t change?!”
Xiao Shoufu pointed at the rising sun outside the window with a double meaning.
In his heart, he felt that the British Duke was simply stupid. He had to go against Kang w.a.n.g at this time and stand on the Emperor’s side. Was his brain damaged?!
“It’s getting late.” Fang Huairui also had a meaningful look on his face. He said arrogantly and coldly, “If it’s any later, we’ll miss the auspicious time.”
“A good dog doesn’t block the way. Xiao Shoufu, do you believe that even if I kill you on the spot, I’ll be fine?”
“Back then, the Duke of Cheng killed Yang Shineng. Even the previous Emperor didn’t punish him.”
“I’ve had more blood on my hands than you’ve eaten salt!”
Fang Huairui pulled the reins, and the brown horse beneath him stomped its front hooves at Xiao Shoufu in a show of force, as if it wanted to stomp its iron hooves on his face.
The coa.r.s.e breath that the horse spewed out almost brushed Xiao Shoufu ‘s face, startling him so much that he instinctively retreated, looking a little fl.u.s.tered as he fled.
Fang Huairui, who was on horseback, naturally noticed this. He raised his head and laughed wantonly. He said, “Let’s go! ‘
The personal guards he brought behind him immediately followed with two prison carts. The group of carriages galloped away, and the sound of hooves faded into the distance.
After a while, only Xiao Shoufu and the others were left at the entrance of the Northern Town Bureau.
In the carriage, Xiao Shoufu looked at Fang Huairui’s departing back with a dark expression. The corners of his mouth and even his chin were tightly clenched.
The British Duke was a burly martial artist. If such a person went crazy without a care, he might really use a knife..
‘What a boor!” Xiao Shoufu gritted his teeth. His beard trembled again, and his eyes flickered.
As far as he knew, the British Duke had made a trip to Yangxin Hall before coming to the Northern Town. He didn’t know what method the Eldest Prince had used to subdue the British Duke.
The n.o.bles represented military power. In addition to the Heavenly Garrison Army, the British Duke could mobilize 400,000 soldiers with the tiger talisman in his hand. If he was determined to join the Emperor and the Eldest Prince…
It wasn’t good.
Xiao Shoufu’s heart sank as he muttered, “Forget it.”
The Yu Family would definitely not be able to survive.
Xiao Shoufu let out a long breath and looked at Fang Huairui’s back from afar until he disappeared at the end of the street.
Fang Huairui took the prison carriage to the market.
It was extremely lively at the entrance of the market, and there was a sea of people. Having seen the notice that the Eldest Prince had ordered people to put up and knowing that Yu Si and Shangqing were going to be executed today, the commoners had rushed over to watch the commotion.
When the two heads fell to the ground, cheers erupted from the surrounding commoners.
Golden sunlight poured down and sprinkled on the two heads that died with grievances. The ground was quickly dyed red by blood, and a strong smell of blood filled the air, spreading with the wind.
In the distance, there was an ordinary green-roofed carriage parked by the street.
The carriage’s green curtains were pulled open a few inches wide, and one could vaguely see a layer of dark red curtains embroidered with dark patterns of flames inside. The palm that lifted the curtains was half-covered in the red-rimmed cuffs, making one’s imagination run wild..