Flourishing of the Ming Dynasty Novel - Chapter 175
Chapter 175 Shocking
When Uncle Fu, the old butler of the Earl’s Mansion, saw that the servants of the Daxing County Yamen were taking advantage of the fire to dig wildly in the garden, he was so angry that his entire body trembled. After a while, he shouted, “Quickly stop! How dare you come to my Guang Ning Mansion!”
Then, he thought of something and rushed back to follow him. At this moment, the servants who were also stunned on the spot shouted, “Are you all blind? Why are you all still standing here? Hurry up and capture all these bold fanatics!”
After being reminded by the old butler, these servants finally woke up from their dreams and rushed over anxiously. Letting these people from the Daxing County Government in and letting them do such a thing in the manor, the culpability of these servants is really not light, they must take someone to atone for their sins.
A trace of fear flashed through the old butler’s eyes. Fortunately, he had time. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the matter to end. But then, he saw a familiar face looking at him not far away in horror. He smiled, but was filled with ridicule that could see through everything. “He is … the second young master of Duke Wei’s mansion …” He recognized the other party’s identity at a glance, causing Uncle Fu’s heart to twitch. “Could it be that he was in charge of this matter?”
The fear in his heart was even greater than before, but now that the order had been given, he could no longer change it. He could only stand there and wait for the answer to the riddle.
However, Xu Chengzong’s performance surprised him. Faced with these ferocious pouncers from the Earl’s Mansion, he and the guards beside him only stood by the side and watched with sleeves and hands, not intending to stop them. The noble aura emitted from this person also made the people of the Earl’s Mansion who had been dealing with the upper echelons for a long time not dare to be underestimated. They only rushed past them and headed straight for Lu Zhen and the others.
Xu Chengzong still smiled and looked at everything in front of him without any intention of helping. Previously, he had only promised Hu Ying to help Lu Zhen and the others enter Guang Ning’s mansion. At the same time, he came in out of curiosity to see exactly what would happen next. As for what would happen next, he had no interest in interfering. He just looked at Lu Zhen with interest and saw what the county magistrate would do next.
The servants quickly pounced in front of Lu Zhen, but he did not show the slightest bit of fear. Instead, he took a step forward and blocked it. Then, he said solemnly, “Daxing County Government is in charge of the job. The idle people quickly retreat!”
However, his words could not frighten these impatient Earl Manor servants at all. They immediately separated the two of them and grabbed onto his arms fiercely. In just a moment, they controlled them and quickly pressed them to the ground. The others continued to pounce on Lin Lie and the others who were still digging the ground, wanting to take them all down as well.
The moment Lin Lie saw this, the shovel in his hand suddenly spun and sent him away, causing one of the people rushing over to stagger. Then, he leapt out of the pit that was already five feet deep and headed towards them.
When these servants saw that the other party actually dared to resist, they immediately became even angrier. With a loud shout, several people formed a small formation and rushed towards Lin Lie. Before they entered the Earl’s Mansion as guards, they had also served as soldiers in the barracks. It was their nature to cooperate in battle.
Upon seeing this, Lin Lie’s heart tightened, but his body straightened up. He tightened his grip on the shovel and put on a posture that he was unable to break free.
“Go! But if you resist, kill on the spot!” The old butler saw that Xu Chengzong did not intend to interfere, so he became bolder and immediately ordered.
Upon hearing this, the guards moved even faster and mercilessly surrounded Lin Lie. Although they only had ordinary sticks in their hands, as long as they really knocked them down, they would be seriously injured if they dropped a few sticks.
Knowing this, Lin Lie hurriedly retreated a little in order to avoid its sharpness. Then, he swept the shovel in his hand and raised the two sticks at the front. He pressed down on his wrist and the shovel suddenly fell, stopping the three sticks that were attacking him.
This time, he raised his hand to block five sticks with one versus five, causing Xu Chengzong and the guards beside him to have eyes shining brightly, “Good ability!”
But just as their cheers fell, two more sticks swept over from left to right. Although Lin Lie subconsciously dodged one of the sticks, the last one still landed on his left arm, causing his body to suddenly stop.
At the same time, the other guards also quickly made up for it. The sticks flew like flying sticks, raining down on Lin Lie’s body, causing him to suffer a few more sticks, causing his body to tremble even more, and he almost fell down.
Actually, it was impossible for Lin Lie to be so useless. However, he was facing a group of military experts who were skilled in attacking together. Although there were only seven or eight of them, they were able to unleash an endless offensive of more than a dozen or twenty people. Moreover, not only did he want to compete with these people, he also wanted to protect the two people digging behind him. Thus, there was no room for retreat, so he could only fight them head-on. In this way, he would naturally fall into a disadvantage.
After eating a few sticks, Lin Lie’s body became unstable. At this time, his weakness was also discovered. One of them immediately squatted down and swept a stick at his feet. This time, he was completely unable to resist. Although he barely managed to jump up and dodge a stick, he was hit on the shoulder by the two sticks that followed closely. In a pause, he was ruthlessly smashed into his chest by another stick and his body collapsed.
These guards had also dismissed their sexuality. When they saw someone fall, they did not stop and continued to wave their clubs to add to their bodies. But at this moment, a shocked cry came from the pit in front of him, “This … What is this? A corpse!”
Especially the word’corpse ‘on his back. The effect was so remarkable that everyone was stunned-this was the mansion of Guang Ning Bo, which was personally conferred by the Emperor of Taizong. How could there be any corpses here?
However, when everyone followed the sound and looked into the pit, they were surprised to discover that this was actually true. Within the pit, the two servants who looked like mudmonkeys dug out a corpse-like object. That was why it looked like a corpse. It was because this thing had rotted away. Although it was dressed in clothes, it would be impossible to tell what it was unless it was dug out completely.
The old butler, Uncle Fu, was completely devoid of energy when he saw this item being dug out. After being stunned for a while, he simply snorted and fell down.
Seeing this, Xu Chengzong’s eyes lit up and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. “Interesting, this matter is becoming more and more interesting!”
“Let go of me! What, you still want to kill me and bury me here? Are you trying to kill me?” While everyone was stunned by the sudden exhumation of the corpse, Lu Zhen suddenly used his strength to break free from the hands of the two people who were holding him and shouted loudly.
At this moment, some people from the Earl’s Mansion didn’t dare to say anything else. In fact, when Uncle Fu fell, they had already lost their backbone and didn’t know what to do.
But Lu Zhen stood up and shouted at the two people in the pit, “Continue digging. There must be something strange here!”
Actually, he didn’t need to give any instructions. The two of them quickly dug up the pit after being shocked. They dug out the thing thoroughly. Then, everyone could recognize that it was indeed a corpse. Furthermore, it didn’t look tall. Judging from the body of the corpse that hadn’t yet decomposed, it could be judged that it was a woman’s corpse!
After a brief pause, the two of them continued to dig with their shovels. This time, no one dared to interrupt their movements. Everyone gathered outside the pit and stared blankly at them as they threw a shovel of soil out of the pit. Then, a shocking scene occurred–
The second, third … five corpses were dug out one by one. These corpses were half rotten, or even half rotten. It was evident that they had been buried here a few months ago.
After they completely dug through the dirt, a dumbfounded scene appeared. There was actually a thick white bone below. Although it was impossible to tell how many corpses there were at once, the bones filled with craters still frightened everyone.
Although it was still autumn and the sun was shining brightly in the middle of the day, after seeing this terrifying scene, everyone present could only feel a chill rising from their vertebrae and rushing straight towards the sky. It was as if even the sun in the sky had turned pale white, just like the color of that white bone.
Lu Zhen was also stunned on the spot. Although he had expected it, when the truth appeared in front of him, he was still stunned and didn’t know how to react.
The smile on Xu Chengzong’s face had also completely disappeared. Even though he was a playboy, when he saw so many corpses dug out, he still couldn’t bear to look at them and was shocked.
Even Lin Lie, who was accustomed to life and death, had killed more than a hundred people, and was the most patient of them all, had an expression of unbearability. He could only kill enemies, but it was impossible for him to kill innocent people.
As for the people from the Earl’s Mansion, they were even more confused. Some of them even loosened their grip and didn’t even care about dropping their sticks.
The impact of this piece of bones that had been dug out was simply too strong. For a moment, it was as if someone had cast a Body Setting Curse on them, stopping everyone.
“County Magistrate Lu, is this why you insisted on coming to Guang Ning Manor?” After a while, Xu Chengzong asked.
Lu Zhen gently nodded, “But I didn’t expect such a shocking discovery …”
Yeah, who would have thought? Such a shocking discovery, no matter how bold a person was, they wouldn’t dare to assume it.
At this moment, a loud noise came from behind him. When Lu Zhen turned around, he saw a brave man wearing a qilin robe and carrying a saber at his waist, surrounded by more than ten soldiers. When he saw the situation here, his rough face quickly twisted, “Someone, take them all down!”