Evergreen Immortal..

Chapter 15: It’s over, just brush off your clothes and go away

"Master, Old Li beat up Second Master's men."

A middle-aged steward looked respectful.

Zhu Ping's expression remained unchanged: "The servants were just playing around. Give each of them ten lashes. Old Li is almost seventy, right?"

"Yes, sir."

Zhu Ping seemed to remember something and added:
"Old Li is too old to be tortured. Just remember it for now."

The middle-aged manager looked up in surprise.

It turns out that Zhao Mazi was the only one who got beaten in the end.
It's too obvious that the master is taking sides.

"it is good."

The middle-aged steward had worked in the Zhu family for more than ten years and was already a shrewd man. How could he not understand that the master wanted to take this opportunity to warn the second master?

Zhu Ping was the only one left in the room.

Zhu Ping raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Old Li, you gave me a surprise."

"Old Li, the master will spare you the flogging because you are too old, but will punish you by confining you to your home for three days."

The middle-aged manager smiled, without any sign of blame on his face.

Li Rui: "Thank you, sir, Manager Zhu, this is just a small gift. Please accept it."

He pulled a bulging purse from his sleeve.

Manager Zhu took the purse calmly, weighed it, and heard the clattering sound of the copper coins colliding, with a bigger smile on his face.

The elderly still know the rules better.

"Old Li, you are an elder in the mansion. Work hard. The master is watching."

The implication is: hit as much as you want, the master is protecting you.

Li Rui: "Master is really a kind man."

In the Zhu family's house, it doesn't matter what you do. The key is to follow the right people. As long as there is someone to protect you, everything you do is right.

He had just heard the news and asked Wang Zhao to go to the shop on the next street to exchange the bag of copper coins.

It's a gift.

A small piece of silver doesn't look as bright as a bag of copper coins.

The middle-aged steward was sent away.

Wang Zhao then said with a look of relief: "Master, is everything alright now?"

Li Rui glanced at his silly disciple and asked, "What could be the problem?"

The two brothers of the Zhu family have been at odds for a long time, but there is still a layer of paper between them.

Soldiers against soldiers, against generals.

As long as he didn't hit Zhu Lie, it wouldn't be a big problem. Zhao Mazi could only blame himself for being incompetent and the beating would be in vain.

"Go ahead. You can't neglect the fodder for these three days."

"Yes, master."

After Wang Zhao left, Li Rui was the only one left in the room. A cold light flashed in his eyes: "We must not keep Zhao Mazi!"

Zhao Mazi, under the banner of Zhu Lie, did a lot of bullying in the Zhu family, and did things that bullied men and women. Moreover, Zhao Mazi was sensible in doing things and never provoked people he shouldn't have.

The master of the Zhu family just turned a blind eye.

But he shouldn't have offended Li Rui.

"Zhao Mazi always eats in the canteen. Poisoning someone could easily hurt others by mistake, which could cause even bigger trouble."

If too many people are poisoned to death, not only the Zhu family but also the government officials will be alerted.

Although there are no sophisticated instruments in this world, experienced constables should not be underestimated.

"Then just be straightforward!"

Li Rui finally made the decision.

late at night.

There was a dark little house to the west of Zhu's house. The door was open and the sound of someone wailing in pain could be faintly heard.

"Old man, when I recover from my wounds, I will poison your horse first and see how you explain yourself!"

Zhao Mazi was lying on the bed.

With his upper body naked, under the moonlight, one could see the bloody whip marks on his back, no more, no less, exactly ten. "Ouch."

Zhao Mazi became even more furious when he thought that he had been whipped ten times while Li Rui was only confined to his house for three days.

"who is it?"

Zhao Mazi saw a shadow appear in the room out of the corner of his eye.

"Damn it, he's dead, he's walking without making any sound."

He just thought it was his men who changed his medicine.

Just as I turned my head——

"Well"

A quilt covered his head, and everything in front of him became dark. The feeling of suffocation made him wave his hands and feet around. Zhao Mazi struggled desperately, but to no avail.

Although he has considerable strength, how can he compare with a martial artist of the highest rank?
"Be careful in your next life, there are some people you can't mess with!"

Zhao Mazi, whose face was flushed red under the quilt, had his eyes wide open.

It’s Old Li!
He wanted to curse "damn it", but the words couldn't come out. He whimpered softly, then spread his hands and feet and became completely motionless.

Li Rui did not loosen his grip just because Zhao Mazi gave up resistance.

Counting silently in my heart:

"Two hundred and fifteen."

"Two hundred and sixteen."

He did not loosen his hands that were covering the quilt until he counted to five hundred. Zhao Mazi had already peed all over the kang. His face was blue and purple, and his tongue was hanging down. He looked as dead as could be.

There was no chance for Zhao Mazi to pretend to be dead.

Li Rui didn't have too many waves in his mind. He even wanted to clean up the scene carefully and take away all the valuable things in the house.

In the end, they pretended that Zhao Mazi had fallen off the bed and froze to death.

After doing all this, he turned around calmly.

It's over.

There is no surveillance in this era, and many murders end up being unsolved cases, not to mention that it was just a servant of the Zhu family who died, and the government had no intention of caring at all.

Of course, it is very likely that the government has control over supernatural forces beyond his imagination.

Just like the magic weapon talisman I heard from Zhu Yue before.

However, even if such means existed, the government would not use them just for a mere untouchable.

Zhao Mazi's body was found by several security guards the next day.

It was the coldest time of the year and the meat in the kitchen would not stink even if hung for half a month. By the time Zhao Mazi was found, his body had already frozen solid.

Li Rui heard that after the second master of the Zhu family heard about this, he was furious and threatened to find out who killed him.

All the property in Zhao Mazi's house disappeared, and he killed someone for money.

But Zhao Mazi had been involved in many of his secret activities and offended too many people, and Li Rui was just one of them.

Moreover, Li Rui is still locked in the room and has no chance to take any action.

Unless he is a warrior.

A seventy-year-old man became an entry-level warrior. What a joke!

In the end, this matter will come to nothing.

Now that Zhao Mazi is dead, the servants of the Zhu family are secretly rejoicing. Without Zhao Mazi's oppression, their lives might be much better.

Some things change when they are passed from person to person.

At the beginning, some people said that it was Old Li who did it, but they felt that it was not reasonable. After it was passed on seven or eight times, it became that Zhao Mazi had done too many evil things with the Second Master, and it was an evil ghost who was seeking revenge.

Otherwise, how can we explain that a strong and healthy man died silently, and even the guards sleeping in the next room didn't hear any noise at all.

None of this has anything to do with Li Rui, a 70-year-old man whose half body is almost buried in the ground.

Li Rui returned to the house.

A string of small words appeared before his eyes.

[Congratulations to the host for completing the primary plot of the achievement "Famous in the Jianghu" - First Time Entering the Jianghu 2. ]

(End of this chapter)