HCB Chapter 217 It's all drama
Chapter 217 It's all drama
When Xiao Zhengdu got the news and returned with Yue Pengyu, the situation was already irreversible.
It was dusk, the sun was setting,
The people blocking the way outside Hengjian Villa panicked, and when they saw Yue Pengyu coming back, they hurriedly asked for help.
"Miss Ten...something big happened! You're back!"
Xiao Zhengdu had already lifted up his clothes and strode in. Without waiting for Yue Pengyu's protection, he had some guesses about what had happened in Hengjian Villa.
Ignoring the wounded lying on the road,
Some were wearing the uniform of Hengjian Villa, while others were sloppy people from the martial arts world. None of them did not have a trace of blood on them.
Anyone dares to provoke her.
Xiao Zhengdu urgently needed to see her. After all, there were too many people and he was still worried that she might be hurt.
When I pushed open the gate of Yanchang Courtyard, I saw her standing by the pond with her eyes downcast and sword in hand, like a statue.
Xiao Zhengdu called her softly, "Lou Xiao."
She didn't react.
He frowned and took a few quick steps. When he was less than five steps away from her, he felt a chill all over his body.
Although she didn't move, he felt as if he was being stared at by a wild beast from nowhere, thinking that it was about to bite him where he was most vulnerable.
"It's me, Lou Xiao, I'm Xiao Zhengdu." His Royal Highness Prince Youshan instinctively knew that he couldn't get any closer, so he stopped and said to her.
After a long time, perhaps because she was sure that he was not a threat, she softened.
Her eyelashes trembled, and the long sword in her hand dropped. Lou Xiao made a sword flower and put the sword into the scabbard.
She turned around, her face gentle, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Xiao Zhengdu put down his worries and slowly approached her, ignoring the corpse lying in the setting sun in Yanchang Courtyard and the koi pond dyed red with blood.
He said in a leisurely manner, "What's the big deal? They offended you, so it's not a pity to die. Just kill them, what's the big deal."
He didn't even ask what happened or why so many people dared to fight her.
He only defended her, looked at Lou Xiao without blinking and said, "Hengjian Villa is so bold and reckless that they attacked the current Duke of Zhenguo. It would not be too much to execute the entire family."
Lou Xiao looked a little surprised, "That's not necessary."
She took out the source of all this from her body, the account book from the secret room, and stuffed it directly into his hand.
"Should you go and arrest the person, or should you let Li Huaiqing do it?"
Xiao Zhengdu picked it up and flipped through it casually. Just as he was about to give an order, he heard the old owner Yue Kun's cry of injustice coming from afar.
"Your Highness! Your Highness! I am guilty of something at Hengjian Villa! I didn't know that this unfilial son had done something unforgivable behind my back!
Lord Zhenguogong! Are you all right? I have already tied up the culprit and will kill or chop him up as you wish! "
Yue Pengyu, who was walking into Yanchang Courtyard, had an expression of confusion on his face.
She just went to Yunsu City, why did Hengjian Villa become such a miserable state?
Why were her good friends, the chivalrous men who drank and talked about everything, lying on the ground?
Yue Kun and his men tied up Yue Zhanchi tightly, and pushed him to kneel in front of Lou Xiao.
"It's all because I doted on him and had high hopes for him. I was originally planning to hand over Hengjian Villa to him, but I gave up power early on, just wanting to spend my remaining years in peace.
I didn’t expect him to believe the lies of the Beimo man and sell the sword made by my Hengjian Villa to Beimo at a high price! Then he told us that it was a normal transaction... We were unaware of it!"
As he spoke, he kicked the speechless Yue Zhanchi, "You evil creature! You have pushed my Hengjian Villa into an irretrievable situation!"
Lou Xiao didn't even want to look at them, and walked into the house with his sleeves swung.
The blood on her body needed to be washed off urgently. She was in a bad state today and her body was restless the whole time. Even when Xiao Zhengdu approached her, she almost swung her sword at him.
She needs to calm down.
Just leave those trivial matters to Xiao Zhengdu.
Youshan King Xiao Zhengdu was looking at her back and vaguely felt that something was wrong with her.
Yue Zhanchi covered his mouth and fell at his feet, tied up and motionless. Xiao Zhengdu lowered his eyes and poked him with his toes, but there was no response.
Of course he wouldn't be fooled by Hengjian Villa.
"You mean, it's all his fault?"
Xiao Zhengdu still held the account book in his hand, and his tone was full of threats, "I never thought he could do this, he is more capable than the officials appointed by the imperial court.
Do you think I should give him a position? He might be a talent for governing the country."
He habitually spoke in a sarcastic tone, and asked someone to pull Yue Zhanchi up, "Untie him, I want to ask him myself."
The guard took off the cloth that was covering Yue Zhanchi's mouth and slapped him again to wake him up so that he could concentrate and listen to King Youshan's questions.
"Your father said that you were the only one who did it. Is that true or not?"
He bowed and asked knowingly.
Yue Zhanchi's eyes were blank for several times, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Yue Kun cursed behind him, "Evil creature! Why don't you confess your crime quickly? Do you want to implicate my entire Hengjian Villa?"
The grief and sorrow in his words almost crushed the old owner, and those who didn't know the inside story almost began to sympathize with the octogenarian.
Yue Pengyu's eyes moved from the lying corpse to Yue Zhanchi. She urgently needed someone to tell her what had happened.
"Oh... it's me." Yue Zhanchi looked back at his father, sisters and brothers, and admitted with a sad face.
"It was me who made the weapons in Hengjian Villa, it was me who sold them to Beimo, and it was also me who instigated the heroes of Hengjian Villa to besiege the Duke of Zhenguo - hahahaha"
He looked up at the high and mighty Youshan King Xiao Zhengdu and laughed out loud, mocking his father for being old and confused and thinking that he could clear himself of any responsibility by pushing him out.
I am also laughing at myself for having expectations of my father even though I know what kind of person he is.
No matter whether it was forced or intentional, the outcome was already determined when he colluded with Beimo in order to earn ill-gotten gains.
Yue Mingxuan couldn't persuade his father. They knew that the sword was about to fall over their heads at any time, but they still pretended that everything could still be saved.
"Do you know that what you said is a capital crime and will implicate everyone in the Yue family?"
Yue Zhanchi stopped laughing and said, "They are so stupid, what do they know?"
Although he said this, his eyes were looking at Yue Pengyu.
She is the only one in the Yue family who can prove her innocence.
At this time, the maid of Hengjian Villa looked up at Yue Pengyu anxiously. At this critical moment, Xiao Zhengdu naturally saw it clearly.
Xiao Zhengdu's guards dragged him out, "What's the matter?"
The servant trembled all over, knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Highness! I just... just came to tell Miss Ten that Master Tianci... he fainted after vomiting blood!"
"What!" No matter how chaotic the situation was, it was not as important as his own blood relatives. Yue Pengyu did not care about the presence of King Youshan and shouted, "Where is the doctor?!"
"Miss Ten... Hengjian Villa has been surrounded by soldiers and cannot leave."