Chapter 538 - 300: Qiushi Manor (Part 2)
Chapter 538: Chapter 300: Qiushi Manor (Part 2)
There was a person at the location she pointed out, and Chu Qing heard it too.
However, he didn’t pay much attention... This Qiushi Manor had people everywhere.
At this moment, since Gentle specifically pointed it out, Chu Qing took a look.
With one glance, he saw it was a girl dressed in white.
She was currently hiding in a concealed spot, cautiously peeking at the outside environment. After a patrol passed by, she suddenly dashed out, running in the opposite direction.
Her expression was very tense, but her actions were decisive.
She headed straight for her destination, showing no hesitation during the process.
But from her movements, Chu Qing knew this girl didn’t know martial arts. Running outside in the middle of the night and based on her attire, she didn’t seem like a servant from the manor, so he quietly followed her.
She ran all the way to the outer wall of the manor.
Her eyes scanned around, and finally, at a hidden spot at the foot of a rockery, she moved aside some weeds and stones to reveal a dog hole.
The girl was overjoyed at the sight, and without any hesitation, she got down to crawl through.
But just as she was about to crawl out of Qiushi Manor, a hand suddenly grabbed her ankle, pulling her straight out of the dog hole.
With a loud smack, a slap landed directly on her face, so fast that she didn’t even have time to cry out before she was stunned on the spot.
A large, burly fat man with a cold expression grabbed her leg and lifted her into the air:
"Trying to run?"
The girl’s pupils suddenly contracted, and terror was written all over her face.
She opened her mouth to say something, but no words came out, just trembling continuously.
The fat man sneered:
"You lousy lot, all bought by us, served with good food and drink, taught to read and write, even given skills, so that once you leave, you can survive in this world with a skill to make a living.
"We haven’t treated you poorly, have we? Tell me, why exactly do you want to run?"
"I... I..."
The girl opened her mouth and said two ’I’s before biting her lip hard.
The fat man sneered again:
"Did you see something you shouldn’t have seen?"
The girl’s face changed drastically, and though she didn’t speak, her expression revealed everything.
The fat man sighed at this:
"Then I can’t be blamed."
As soon as he finished speaking, he swung his arm violently, aiming to smash her down.
"Damn it!"
Wu Qianhuan cursed, and a flash of a sword, a flash of blood, and before the fat man realized anything was wrong, one of his arms had already been severed.
The girl he was about to smash to the ground was caught on the shoulder by a hand just before she landed.
The force was applied very cleverly, with a pull and a push, her whole body rose once more into the air.
Finally, she landed steadily on the ground.
The girl, once on the ground, was still bewildered. She thought she was certainly going to die this time but didn’t expect there would be a turn of events?
Turning her head to look at her savior, she found it was someone about her height...
Then she looked up and saw the fat man stagger back a few steps, with blood streaming down his arm. He opened his mouth to scream, but a sword was thrust right into his mouth.
The sword tip wasn’t big, but it blocked all his screams in his throat.
"If you dare to shout, I’ll use this sword to stab into your brain and stir it up."
Wu Qianhuan’s voice was filled with a chilling cold aura.
The fat man’s arm was severed, and he shivered in pain but didn’t dare make a sound at Wu Qianhuan’s words.
He just looked at the Wu Qianhuan in front of him, eyes full of terror.
Then a voice came from behind him:
"Tell me, what inappropriate thing did this girl find out that made her have to die?"
The fat man then realized there were actually three people who entered Qiushi Manor tonight.
He wanted to look back, but with a sword in his mouth, he didn’t dare open it to speak.
It wasn’t until Wu Qianhuan pulled the sword out of his mouth and wiped it on his body that he knelt with a thud on the ground:
"Spare me, hero, spare me, I’m just a cook here at Qiushi Manor, only a cook!"
"You’re a cook?"
Chu Qing came up and glanced at him. With one arm gone and too much blood lost, his face was growing paler, and the extreme pain made his facial fat tremble.
Suppressing the pain, his expression looked particularly menacing.
After silently looking for two seconds, Chu Qing nodded:
"Your method of killing is quite brisk...
"Do you often do this?"
"I..."
The cook hesitated speechlessly.
Then the girl’s trembling voice began to speak:
"He... He didn’t kill anyone... he just... smashed those people until they were half-dead."
Chu Qing looked at the girl unexpectedly, squinting slightly:
"What’s your name?"
"In response to the noble’s words..."
The girl tried to kneel, but Gentle dragged her to prevent her from doing so.
Seeing this, she didn’t struggle and said with a slight tremble in her voice:
"My name is... Yu Shiliu."
"Yu Shiliu, Niao Shisan... Niao Yu, could it be named after birds, fish, insects?"
Chu Qing murmured to himself.
Yu Shiliu’s eyes suddenly lit up, looking sharply at Chu Qing:
"Do you know Niao Shisan? Is he still alive?"
"You know each other?"
Chu Qing nodded:
"He’s still alive, living quite well. I’m here because of his affairs."
Yu Shiliu’s eyes filled with tears, as if someone from an abyss suddenly saw light.
She knelt down on the ground with a thud, so quickly that even Gentle failed to stop her.
The girl repeatedly kowtowed:
"Please, Hero, save us! I’m begging you! We, we don’t want to die...
"Nor do we want to be eaten alive one bite at a time by them!!"
The fat man’s face suddenly changed:
"You said..."
As soon as he uttered two words, Chu Qing grabbed his face with such force that his skull cracked noisily.
Chu Qing softly asked:
"You said... they will eat you alive?
"What’s going on here?"
Is it a metaphorical description, or... a statement of fact?
The girl said shakily:
"They... they keep us in cages, and the food and drink we get aren’t too bad...
"But if we make mistakes, they beat us.
"Only when we’re in the cages are we... safe.
"I thought my life might just pass this way.
"But unexpectedly, one day, one of our companions didn’t return for a long time.
"Niao Shisan and I stealthily went to look for..."
Her eyes reflected extreme horror.
As if she had seen something unbelievable!
This look was identical to Niao Shisan’s.
Yet, the girl did not break down, stubbornly biting her lip and said:
"We finally... accidentally triggered a mechanism and arrived at a secret room.
"Then we heard our companion’s screams...
"Looking through a hole secretly, we saw our companion’s limbs nailed to a rack, clothes wide open...
"Steward Wang was boiling a pot of water.
"He was slicing meat from our companion’s body piece by piece, cooking it in boiling water, and then eating it with seasoning in front of him."
Chu Qing slowly turned his eyes, glanced at the fat man, and continued to ask:
"Who else is involved in this incident?"
"...I don’t know."
Yu Shiliu shook her head.
Then the fat man seemed to suddenly come to himself, smiling and said:
"Although I don’t know where you three come from... you’re doomed, daring to stir trouble on Master Li’s turf.
"I’ll be honest with you, they’re all Master Li’s dogs, Master Li’s special meat.
"And you, since you’ve learned about this, if you don’t want to be silenced by Master Li, you’d better let me go now..."
"So, are all of you involved?"
Chu Qing turned back to look at him.
When their eyes met, the fat man felt an involuntary shudder in his heart.
But the next moment, he suddenly gathered courage:
"So what?"
As soon as he finished the four words, there was a cracking sound; his head spun three times on his neck, eyes bulging out, dying a gruesome death.