Rebellious Contract Beast

The atmosphere in the room fell into silence again.

Neither Zhu Yanzheng nor He Jian Yanqiu spoke any more. They both remained silent. The atmosphere was terribly depressing.

After about half an incense stick of time, Zhu Yanzheng looked around, then quickly turned to face He Jian Yanqiu opposite him and said nonchalantly, "Mother, father has a keen eye. It is not wise to continue to slander my child."

"Humph, you've done something wrong, aren't you afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night?"

"If there are ghosts, just come. I will kill them. Don't worry, mother."

"Really? Then don't capsize in the gutter."

"Don't worry, mother. I will be careful. But if there is nothing else, I will leave first."

"Please."

"Goodbye, mother."

Zhu Yanzheng smiled, stood up from the chair, bowed, turned around and waved to his people, then strode out without looking back.

After his figure disappeared, He Jianchuyun lowered his head slightly and looked at his aunt.

"aunt……"

He Jianyanqiu raised a hand, knowing what she was going to say, and said, "Yun'er, don't worry. I know what I am doing. I won't do anything to him during this period. I hope Yanzheng, that little bastard, will live a little longer."

"Ah."

He Jian Chuyun breathed a sigh of relief. During this period of time, her aunt had attacked Zhu Yanzheng three times in a row. The first time, she caught him off guard, but Zhu Yanzheng reacted too quickly and hid in the Zhu Mansion in time to escape the pursuit.

The next two times were underhanded tricks used inside Zhu's mansion, but they always ended in death with little effect.

Zhu Yanzheng has now recovered and guessed that it was He Jian Yanqiu who was responsible, which led to today's meeting.

And then, I'm afraid Zhu Yanzheng will remain extremely vigilant towards He Jian Yanqiu, and any disturbance will make him immediately shrink into his turtle shell and dare not show his head.

It would only become more difficult to get rid of him.

If Zhu Yanzheng was smart enough, he would take the initiative to collect evidence when He Jian Yanqiu made his next move, and then counterattack He Jian Yanqiu.

A son killing his mother is a serious crime, but a mother killing her son is not much better.

Fortunately, He Jianyanqiu was not stupid. He chose to stop in time and look for another opportunity in the future.

After Zhu Yanzheng left, the aunt and niece chatted about some random things. Not long after, He Jianchuyun also said goodbye and left, taking her four maids with her towards the direction of Mingyan Courtyard. At the same time, she signaled Shen Yi with her eyes, asking him to follow.

On the way, Tsurumi Hatsuun's voice rang in his mind.

"Xuan Li, do you think we should get rid of Zhu Yanzheng ourselves? After all, his real target is me. If we don't get rid of him soon, I'm afraid there will be trouble in the future."

Ever since this old witch successfully broke through the level of consciousness, she no longer needed me to enter her consciousness space to talk to me. She could talk to me through the air without worrying about others hearing her.

Upon hearing this, Shen Yi shook his head and said, "Why are you so anxious? In fact, we don't need to care about Zhu Yanzheng at all. But if his mother was still alive, I could kill him and destroy his heart. But unfortunately, he has no mother."

"How do you kill people and destroy their hearts?"

"Like selling his mother to a brothel."

He Jianchuyun was speechless for a while.

The current Zhonghu Gang is already the largest gang in Jiangzhou, with many gang members. However, there are all kinds of people in the world, which leads to many Zhonghu Gang disciples relying on their status to bully men and women everywhere, and even secretly opening gambling houses and doing dirty things worse than animals.

In order to put an end to this behavior, Shen Yi, Wu Gong and others discussed and decided to open the "small hall" that was previously opened in a secret place by the Black Tiger Hall to the public.

The customers who frequent this "small restaurant" are all mentally abnormal, and most of them have a preference for homosexuality.

Afterwards, Shen Yi customized a new set of gang rules. Anyone who violated the rules would be executed directly at the very least, or sent to a "small restaurant" to serve the guests and create value for the "small restaurant". If they did not receive any guests for a long time, their fate would be to be dragged out and executed!
He Jianchuyun didn't know what the people who were sent to the "Xiaoguanguan" experienced, nor did he want to know. Anyway, people who had been there would become numb in their eyes and lose all desire to live within a few days, like walking corpses.

Of course, not only will members of the Tiger Gang be sent to the "Xiaoguanguan" if they make mistakes, but employees of the Tianxiaren Group who commit serious violations will also receive the same treatment.

No matter whether you are a man or a woman, you will have no good life once you enter this "small restaurant".

Some time ago, a disciple of the Luo family was running around the street with his friends and finally hit someone. Coincidentally, the person he hit was a clerk in the Wanlong Chamber of Commerce. After Shen Yi learned about this, he wanted to find a few people to settle the score, but then he thought that after all, he was a child of the Luo family, and if he really settled the score, he could only give him a small punishment. So Shen Yi simply did not go to trouble the child of the Luo family, but asked Qu Xiangui to bring people into the Luo family mansion to capture his biological mother and sell her to the "Xiaoguanguan".

It was too late for the Luo family member who had hit someone on horseback to regret in the end. He could only blame himself for not being born of a legitimate wife, but a concubine's son, and his biological mother was a concubine, so his status was only slightly higher than that of a slave.

There are still no human rights.

The mother took responsibility for her son's mistakes. Afterwards, Shen Yi said it was very satisfying and did not feel that his behavior was excessive at all.

At the beginning, "Xiaoguanguan" was used as a punishment mechanism jointly established by the Tiger Gang and the Tianxiaren Group. In fact, Shen Yi was not optimistic about the business.

But after the "Xiaoguanguan" opened, Shen Yi still underestimated the number of psychopaths in the city, which led to the "Xiaoguanguan"'s business being surprisingly good, and it could earn at least several hundred taels of silver a day. If a few wealthy men came one day and spent a lot of money on a male courtesan, that would be thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver.

"Can you please stop talking about your disgusting business?"

"What's wrong with business? It can make money and alert the people under us at the same time, and you actually call it disgusting."

"I don't want to bother with you. Let's get back to Zhu Yanzheng."

"We don't need to worry about him. He will die on his own."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"The mother who gave birth to me and raised me is dead. I don't think Xu Zhenping will let it go easily. One day, will he avenge Nanmen Lu?"

"Are you seeking revenge on me?"

"you guess?"

"Then I'll take that as the truth. But if that's the case, Nanmen Lu's death has nothing to do with me at all. Really..."

"Whether it has anything to do with you is one thing, and whether Xu Zhenping believes it is another. I asked him to bring a message to his biological mother at her funeral."

"What?"

"It's nothing more than telling him who the murderer is."

"What's the result?"

"I don't know. If you don't tell him, he will only suspect you. If you tell him, he will suspect Zhu Yanzheng in addition to you."

"With the means of the Xu family, can they find out some truth?" "I don't know, but it is highly likely that nothing will be found, unless Wu Gong jumps out and admits it, but do you think it is possible?"

"Impossible." He Jian Chuyun shook his head decisively. When robbing the Ru Ruixuan branch, Wu Gong and others concealed their identities very strictly. In addition, the Tianxiaren Group deliberately covered them up. Even if the Xu family was powerful in Jiangzhou City, the Tianxiaren Group above had cut off all clues, and they could not find any more clues.

However, the cover-up provided by the Tianxiaren Group would inevitably leave some clues, and the final direction of these clues vaguely pointed to the second wave of robbers.

If He Jian Chu Yun was willing to tell the Xu family everything that happened without reservation, perhaps the misunderstanding could be resolved, but again, the price would be that Wu Gong would suffer.

After Wu Gong suffered, He Jian Chu Yun and Shen Yi suffered next.

Besides, it is not worthwhile to sacrifice Wu Gong's life just to clear up a misunderstanding of the Xu family.

There is no need to sacrifice at all.

The price of not resolving the misunderstanding is just to make the Xu family think too much.

"So, from Xu Zhenping's perspective, who is the murderer of Nanmen Lu? There are only two suspects: you and Zhu Yanzheng. Let's talk about Zhu Yanzheng first. All the people he brought in died. Xu Zhenping wanted to suspect him, but there was no way to find out. Then there's you. The clues are broken and the investigation can't go on. But the only thing that is certain is that the murderer is either you or Zhu Yanzheng. It depends on who Xu Zhenping wants to kill."

"What shall we do then?"

Shen Yi shook his head for a while, and said in his mind: "If I were Xu Zhenping, and I was unsure about who the murderer was, I would just kill both of them. The hatred for killing my mother is irreconcilable. Either you die or I die. I would rather kill someone by mistake than miss someone!"

"You...you are so cruel!"

"Eh~ It sounds like you will let Qingyuan Sect's leader Qing Yi go after you become a Xuanjie Venerable. Your mother died at his hands. You haven't forgotten that, have you?"

"..." The girl was silent for a moment. How could she forget?

Her mother died right in front of her, chopped into pieces by a sword from the leader of Qingyuan Sect.

That scene was still vivid in her mind, she could not forget it. If she had the chance in the future, she would definitely repay it tenfold or a hundredfold and vent all the hatred in her heart!
Shen Yi didn't know what she was thinking, so he shook his head and continued with a smile: "According to the situation, Xu Zhenping won't do anything to you for the time being, otherwise he wouldn't have lied that the Xu family caught the murderer who killed Nanmen Lu."

“So he will first…”

"Yes, that's right. We will kill Zhu Yanzheng first. As for how to kill you, that will be a long-term plan. But when the Xu family really decides to take action against you, who knows when that will be."

"How about you tell me how the Xu family will deal with Zhu Yanzheng?"

"How should I know this? Although the Xu family has captured Zhu Yanzheng in the Zhu Mansion, I'm afraid he will be doomed once he leaves the gate of the Zhu Mansion!"

"Okay, let him fend for himself."

"If my guess is correct, there must be quite a few spies from the Xu family watching outside the Zhu Mansion... Oh, by the way, it's been so long since you broke through the consciousness level, when will you make the next breakthrough?"

"It shouldn't take more than a few days." Tsurumi Hatsuun said uncertainly, "It will take only a few days anyway."

In fact, a year or two of settling down after a breakthrough is considered short. It has been less than three months since she broke through the consciousness stage, and she is thinking about breaking through from the platform-building stage to the Qi-condensing stage again. This was something she would not even dare to think about in the past.

After breaking through the Qi Condensation stage of the Consciousness Stage, it won’t take long to break through the Sinking and Hearing stage. Without the influence of the epidemic, she would not need to go through the Sinking and Hearing stage and could directly break through to the peak of the Consciousness Stage.

At this rate, five or six years? Oh no, it should be even shorter. I will try to break through to the Xuan level before I turn twenty.

How can one describe the cultivation speed of a 20-year-old Xuan-level Venerable?

The word "horrible" seems extremely pale to describe it.

A contracted beast that can treat plague as food is so terrifying!

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but lower her head and look at Shen Yi's three neat rows of dorsal fins, her eyes shining with excitement.

Soon, she and Shen Yiyi, followed by four maidservants, had returned to Mingyan Courtyard. While He Jianchuyun ordered the guards to open the door, Zhu Yanzheng was wandering in front of Qingshuisong Courtyard, and no one knew what he was thinking.

About four or five minutes later, a servant came running over from a distance, shouting, "Master! Master!"

Zhu Yanzheng raised his head and looked at the servant, with a hint of anxiety on his stern face, and asked, "What happened?"

"Master, I have found the second wife."

"where is she?"

"She is in Cuiqing Waterside Pavilion."

"Cuiqing Waterside Pavilion?" Upon hearing this courtyard, Zhu Yanzheng frowned slightly.

This Cuiqing Waterside Pavilion is the best courtyard in the Zhu Mansion. It is on the same level as He Jianchuyun's Mingyan Courtyard. It was originally prepared for the Zhu family's legitimate son, of course, the legitimate son who had not yet been born.

Anyway, no one lives in this yard. It would be strange for Wan Gaoyue to go there instead of staying in Qingshuisongyuan.

However, Zhu Yanzheng racked his brains to guess what Wan Gaoyue was doing in Cuiqing Waterside Pavilion. He just wanted to meet him and then discuss the terms.

"Come on, let's go there."

"It's the young master!"

The servant beside him nodded, and followed his young master out of the gate of Qingshuisongyuan, walking quickly towards the so-called Cuiqing Waterside Pavilion.

In just half an incense stick of time, Zhu Yanzheng and his group arrived at the gate of a large courtyard on foot.

"Master, we are here."

"You don't need to say anything. I know it naturally."

He glanced coldly at the servant beside him who had spoken to remind him. This guy had to report everything to him, making him seem like he had never grown up and needed someone to take care of him for everything.

Fortunately, he was not so petty as to argue with the servants over this matter. He straightened his sleeves and took a step forward to knock on the door. However, just as he raised his hand, a gust of wind blew, and a crisp sound of ding-ling-ling was heard, and his movement stopped immediately.

Looking in the direction where the sound came from, his attention was quickly drawn to a carriage.

"Whose carriage is this?"

This carriage was adorned with all kinds of jewels. When the wind blew, the ornaments on it swayed and made all kinds of noises. The decoration was extremely exaggerated. The two horses pulling the carriage were extremely strong. They lowered their heads and rubbed their hooves on the ground.

This was definitely not the Zhu family’s carriage, Zhu Yanzheng was very sure.

"Another outsider has come to the Zhu Mansion."

...(End of chapter)