A lowly soldier becomes king, I slaughter my way through the late Tang Dynasty!

"Treasure? What is it?"

"The man didn't say, he only said it was extremely precious."

Li Rui frowned slightly.

The Guo family's property has already been confiscated; what treasures could they possibly have?

Li Rui initially wanted to refuse and ask Chen Xiaoniu to go and take a look.

But then a thought flashed through his mind.

A fleeting glint appeared on Zhou's gentle face.

Li Rui raised an eyebrow!

No way...

"Walk."

Returning to the Guo residence.

Zhang Wu was already waiting at the door.

Upon seeing Li Rui arrive, Zhang Wu immediately bowed and scraped, his face full of flattery.

"General Li, you've finally arrived! So many of us have been waiting for you!"

Li Rui glanced over.

They discovered that many of Guo's servants were standing on both sides, all bowing and scraping.

Li Rui increasingly felt that he had probably guessed correctly.

"What treasure? They didn't even take it when they raided the house."

Zhang Wu quickly replied.

"General, you will have to retrieve this treasure yourself."

Li Rui sneered.

"lead the way."

Zhang Wu was overjoyed and immediately crouched down to lead the way.

After passing through a garden, we arrived at the innermost bedroom of the mansion.

"General, the treasure is in the room, hehe... I shouldn't get too close."

Chen Xiaoniu was about to step forward to check if there was an ambush.

Zhang Wu hurriedly stopped him.

"Hey, this treasure can only be seen by General Li. You can't see it."

Chen Xiaoniu frowned and looked at Li Rui.

Li Rui continued to sneer.

"Why are so many of you offering treasures? What do you seek?"

Zhang Wu scratched his head obsequiously and chuckled.

"We only ask that the general not kill us. Ideally, we should be allowed to leave the Guo residence and return to our own homes."

Upon hearing this...

Li Rui laughed heartily.

"I never intended to kill you."

Zhang Wu was overjoyed!

Li Rui pointed to the servants following behind him and asked.

"You were all involved in this treasure?"

Everyone was eager to seize the opportunity and nodded in agreement, indicating their participation.

Li Rui smiled and gestured for everyone to be quiet.

"Since it's a presentation of treasures, there must be a leader. Who came up with the idea? I'll reward them accordingly."

Zhang Wu and Xiu Hua, the man and woman, instantly perked up!

"General, it was my idea!"

"And me too. With so many of us, without my persuasion, we might not be able to prepare the treasure properly."

Zhang Wu and Xiu Hua knelt together in front of Li Rui.

A fawning smile graced his face, but his heart was filled with excitement!

They thought that this treasure must have hit the mark for Li Rui.

Not only did they agree to their demands, they even gave them a reward!

Li Rui looked at the others.

"Is there anyone else who wants a reward?"

The crowd looked at each other, most of them only hoping to survive.

There were indeed one or two greedy individuals who stepped forward to ask for a reward.

Li Rui scoffed and said coldly.

"Take him down and behead him!"

Zhang Wu and the others shook their heads, almost thinking they had misheard!

"Beheading...beheading!?"

The group of people exclaimed in astonishment.

"Isn't this a reward?"

"Why did the general...?"

He hadn't finished speaking.

Once he realized what was happening, Chen Xiaoniu immediately drew his knife!

puff!

In a clean and decisive move, Xiuhua's head was chopped off!

Blood splattered everywhere, causing the servants to scream in terror!

Zhang Wu stared dumbfounded at Xiuhua's head, utterly horrified!

"General...General! We're here to present treasure, why are you killing us?"

Li Rui said coldly.

"Selling out their masters for personal gain, rebelling against their superiors, kidnapping their mistress... beheading them is too lenient."

Zhang Wu was shocked!

He tried to argue, but Chen Xiaoniu didn't give him a chance to speak.

A few slashes later!

His head rolled all over the ground.

Li Rui looked at the other servants, whose faces were ashen, and waved his hand.

"They will all be forced into corvée labor, without pardon."

If these people obediently wait, they will be taken to Dingzhou.

Li Rui will distribute land and houses to them, and let them live as ordinary people.

As a result, they did something like this, so they have no one to blame but themselves.

Labor service was extremely arduous, and it was common for people to work themselves to death.

Upon hearing this, the servants were terrified and ran away in a panic!

They all knelt down, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

But before they could cause any trouble, they were beaten into submission by the soldiers and dragged out.

Li Rui told Chen Xiaoniu to stand guard at the door, then pushed the door open and entered the bedroom.

as predicted.

Zhou was lying in bed.

She had been drugged; her hair was still damp, indicating it had been washed.

She was beautiful even without makeup.

A pair of delicate, jade-like feet were exposed, fair and soft, with a touch of pink between the toes.

Li Rui stepped forward and lifted a corner of the blanket.

A flash of snow-white light streaked past my eyes.

The maids didn't even dress Zhou in a single garment.

Li Rui put down the blanket and took a deep breath silently.

It would be a lie to say I wasn't tempted!

He has been living and eating with the soldiers since he started training them, and it has been almost three months.

Forget about women, I've never even seen a woman!

not to mention.

Zhou's beauty was indeed remarkable.

Even when she's just lying down, her gentle and refined demeanor is incredibly attractive.

She has a kind of wifely charm.

Li Rui gazed at the beauties at his mercy, a struggle churning within him.

……

Later in the day.

Zhou slowly woke up.

After seeing the scene before her, her pretty face suddenly changed!

She grabbed the blanket covering her and instantly realized that she was completely naked!

Zhou's pretty face turned deathly pale, as if she could already imagine what was happening.

How Li Rui humiliated her during the time she was unconscious!

Zhou's hands trembled, and two lines of clear tears silently flowed down her cheeks.

She cried for a while, then suddenly sat up.

He tried to find a pair of scissors to end his own life.

But she had just turned her head.

He was instantly terrified and screamed.

"ah!!"

All I saw was...

On the round table outside the bed.

Two heads were neatly arranged!

The faces of the severed heads were filled with expressions of terror; they had died horribly.

Zhou recognized him in her panic.

Isn't that Zhang Wu and Xiuhua?!

Yesterday, those two ingrates drugged her and then handed her over to Li Rui.

How come now...

Zhou was stunned.

With a slight look of bewilderment, she pulled back the covers and stroked her body with her delicate hands.

Gradually.

A look of disbelief crossed Zhou's face.

At this time.

There was a knock on the door.

"Madam Zhou, the general ordered me to wait for you to wake up, as he has a message for you."

Zhou glanced at the dress by the bed and hurriedly said.

"Hold on."

They hurriedly dressed, avoiding the bloody human head.

Zhou opened the door in a panic, only to find a burly man standing there.

Chen Xiaoniu bowed with his hands clasped in greeting.

"Madam Zhou, my general has already executed the wicked servant for you, and his head is laid out on the table."

"You are innocent, but the general says you cannot stay in Wei County. If you are willing to follow the general to Boling in Dingzhou, you shall depart tomorrow."

Chen Xiaoniu took out a package and said again.

"If Madam Zhou is unwilling to go to Boling County, here is some travel money. You may take it and find your own way."

Zhou accepted it blankly.

After finishing his business, Chen Xiaoniu was about to leave.

Zhou quickly called out to stop them.

"That's all? Your general has no other requests?"

Chen Xiaoniu shook his head.

"no."

As he spoke, Chen Xiaoniu coughed lightly again.

"The general didn't say anything else, but I have some things on my mind that I'd like to discuss with you privately."

Zhou was holding onto the door.

"Speaking."

Chen Xiaoniu clicked his tongue.

"In this day and age, the wives, daughters and property of a defeated general should rightfully belong to the victor."

When I served as a soldier in Mancheng, I was in the army for seven years, and I had five or six different commanders.

At the moment of each murder, his wives, concubines, and daughters were looted!

Upon hearing this, Zhou silently bit her lip.

Chen Xiaoniu continued.

"But I followed the general from Mancheng to Boling County, and I have never seen the general do such a thing."

Your husband, Guo Feng, was defeated and killed in battle, but the general never took Guo Feng's wives, concubines, and daughters for himself!

We, as his subordinates, are all deeply impressed by the general's character.

Yesterday, when you were drugged by the wicked servant, the general merely glanced at you before withdrawing, without taking advantage of you.

Zhou's eyes trembled slightly, and her fingers involuntarily tightened their grip on her dress.

Chen Xiaoniu shook his head.

"I can't fathom the general's thoughts, but I know that in such chaotic times, you'd be hard-pressed to find another man like him."

Absolutely impossible!

After saying that, Chen Xiaoniu turned and left.

Zhou leaned against the door, her mind in turmoil!

at last.

As Chen Xiaoniu walked to the gate of the mansion, preparing to step out...

Zhou came running over and called out softly.

"Could General Li... please try again?"