Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 17 He Killed Them All

In the backyard of Xiejiazhuang, Master Ma and Butler Xie were both stunned when they heard that Ren Yuan had returned.

They thought of all kinds of possibilities, but they didn't expect Ren Yuan to strike back so suddenly.

"What should I do now? Why did he come back?" Master Ma was extremely anxious.

"He probably calmed down and thought that since the owner's family was dead, he could take over the manor." Butler Xie analyzed calmly, "If things go wrong, he might succeed."

"How can that be possible? We were the first to come up with this solution!" Master Ma blushed. He already considered Xiejiazhuang his own private property. "You have to think of a solution quickly!"

"Don't rush me. I'm thinking." Butler Xie started to think, and quickly raised two fingers and said, "Two ways. One is to pretend to be nice to him and cooperate with his performance, and then use this as a handle to control him privately..."

"No, no, this is not good." Master Ma waved his hands vigorously. He had played a lot of tricks on Ren Yuan when he was guarding him a few days ago. Of course he was afraid of being retaliated against.

"Then we have to take the initiative." Butler Xie actually preferred the former, but at this time he had to rely on Master Ma's force, so he settled for the next best thing: "We should expose him when we meet him, arrest him or kill him, and then report to the authorities. This way, we still have one night to transport a batch of valuables."

"Let's do it this way. It's the safest way!" Master Ma nodded heavily.

"Can you handle him?" Butler Xie looked at the four bodies covered with white cloth outside the window and felt a little scared.

"Don't worry, I taught him all his martial arts." Master Ma clenched his fists as big as vinegar bowls and said confidently, "I know how to deal with him. Even if he takes the enlightenment pills, it will be useless."

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After the two men called their respective trusted subordinates and gave them instructions in person, they heard Ren Yuan's mourning cry in the inner courtyard.

"Oh, grandma, father, brother, and little brother, you all died tragically. Who did it? Come out now..."

Ren Yuanzheng led everyone in the village to cry and wail there. The door to the backyard was suddenly pushed open, and Master Ma and Steward Xie led a group of people armed with knives, guns, sticks and clubs, rushing out aggressively.

"Little bastard, stop pretending!" Master Ma pointed his sword at Ren Yuan and said viciously, "You are not our eldest young master at all!"

"Isn't that nonsense? My elder brother's body is lying here." Ren Yuan stood up with a cold face and said sharply, "Why, my elder's body is still warm, and you, a wicked slave, want to rebel?"

"I didn't, because you're not the Second Young Master!" Master Ma shouted, "You're that beast Ren Yuan!"

"Humph! Last night my father announced in public that I have been adopted into the Xie family and my name is on the family tree!" Ren Yuan turned around and shouted to everyone in the village: "Do you recognize me as the second young master?"

"Yes, of course I recognize it." The thoughts of the people in the village were much simpler. Xiejia Village would definitely fall on the shoulders of the second young master, the only heir. How could they offend the new owner of the village?
So they all responded: "We all heard it with our own ears, how could it be false?"

"Don't be fooled by him!" At this time, Steward Xie also spoke up against Ren Yuan and said, "The owner of the manor and his family were killed by this ungrateful beast. We have already reported it to the police, and soon Mr. Xie's county lieutenant brothers will come to take charge of the situation."

"Haha, today is really an eye-opener!" Ren Yuan said with a look of anger and laughter: "You evil slaves, in order to achieve your ulterior motives, you actually turned black into white and slandered your own masters in broad daylight!"

He pointed to the row of collapsed houses in front of him and said, "Look, is this something I could do? If I had the ability, I would have slapped you to death long ago!"

"Yeah, isn't this nonsense?" The people in Zhuangzi agreed with this deeply. Everyone could see that this was not something that could be done by human power.

"So it is obvious that it was you who colluded with the evil spirit and killed my entire family!" Ren Yuan's eyes were blazing with fire, and he accused the other party: "Now the villain is making the first complaint, trying to turn the tables and silence me so that he can occupy my Xiejiazhuang!" "Stop slandering us, we don't know any evil spirit!" Butler Xie naturally denied it.

"That's right, where did this monster come from? Don't make things up!" Master Ma also shouted.

"Look, they are lying with open eyes again." Ren Yuan lifted the white sheet on the far left, revealing the corpse of the locust demon.

Although the monster was dead, its hideous appearance still frightened the villagers and made them scream in fear.

"It was this locust monster that killed my whole family and ate my grandmother. It also attracted the locusts that covered the sky outside!" Ren Yuan pointed at the locust monster fiercely and questioned the two people, "Such a big monster is here, and you actually said there is a monster. How shameless!"

"This, this is the old lady!" Master Ma stuttered, "We saw her two years ago."

Then he looked at everyone and said, "Some of you have seen it too, right?"

"You're talking nonsense!" Ren Yuan's forehead was throbbing with veins, and he immediately roared, "How dare you slander my grandma as a demon? Then what are my father, brother, and younger brother? Are they demons?!"

"I, I didn't mean that." Master Ma waved his hands desperately. He didn't dare to accept this big hat.

"Why are you still talking nonsense to him?!" Butler Xie could see that this kid surnamed Ren was sharp-tongued and could talk a dead man into a living one. The most important thing was that he was still the master. The more he argued, the more passive he would become. So he shouted in a low voice, "Go ahead, take him down first!"

"Okay!" Master Ma responded, raised his ring-handled sword and slashed at Ren Yuan in the face.

Ren Yuan did not dare to be careless at all. He retreated at full speed to avoid the opponent's blade.

Master Ma used his signature skill, "Eight Steps and Thirteen Knives", one knife after another, each one faster than the last! The shadows of the knife light formed a silver wave, and the whistling sound of breaking wind was terrifying.

This was countless times more powerful than when he usually practiced with Ren Yuan!
Ren Yuan could only avoid the attack temporarily and kept retreating. He soon retreated to the corner of the wall and had nowhere to retreat.

"Come and die!" Master Ma grinned and slashed with his last blow, 'raising fire to the sky', chopping towards Ren Yuan's neck from above.

However, in a flash, a fiery red figure jumped down from the wall, opened its bloody mouth, and bit Master Ma's head!
Master Ma was caught off guard and had his head bitten off. He fell dead on the spot, and the ring-handled knife in his hand flew out weakly.

Ren Yuan caught the knife steadily, stood beside the red leopard with blood in his mouth, and looked coldly at Butler Xie and his men.

Butler Xie was so frightened that his legs trembled. It turned out that the other party ran out to find help. Now he was confused about the highest combat power of his own side. How could the remaining rotten fish and shrimp be enough for this fiery red leopard to chew?
He quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Second Young Master, spare my life. This was all forced upon me by that bastard Ma Qianjin!"

"So, you admit that he killed all my family members?" Ren Yuan put the knife on Butler Xie's neck and asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, yes, he killed them all." In order to save his life, Butler Xie had no choice but to follow what Ren Yuan said.

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