Chapter 58: Crisis in Wu Mansion
"I can go to the Wu Mansion alone, but I don't worry about leaving Jin Bo alone here." Xi Xingchen looked at Jin Bo's back and said to Duan Zhenghua.
Duan Zhenghua hesitated for a moment, nodded, and said: "Before going to the Wu Mansion, you should go back to the inn and tell Sister Qiaoqian about our plan. Maybe there will be a surprise."
"Okay! Be careful." Xi Xingchen patted Duan Zhenghua on the shoulder and said, "Ahua, we still have many big things to do in our lives, so there is one thing I need to explain to you first."
"Brother Chen, please speak!" Duan Zhenghua had never seen Xi Xingchen speak to him so carefully before, with a bit of surprise and a bit of anticipation on his face.
Xi Xingchen looked into Duan Zhenghua's eyes and said with a very formal expression: "Although it is important to do things, safety comes first; if something cannot be done, you must get out immediately; if you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood."
"Don't worry!" Duan Zhenghua nodded, his voice choked with sobs.
After bidding farewell to Duan Zhenghua, Xi Xingchen returned to the inn as promised and told Zhou Qiaoqian the plan. Zhou Qiaoqian immediately changed into a set of men's clothes and was about to go out. Xi Xingchen thought she wanted to go to the Wu Mansion with him, so he quickly stopped her and said: " Sister Qiaoqian, what are you going to do?”
"Help you find a helper!" Zhou Qiaoqian said.
Xi Xingchen asked curiously: "If I remember correctly, this is your first time coming to Xunyang. Where can you find help?"
Zhou Qiaoqian raised her chin and said with some pride: "The mountain man has his own clever plan."
Xi Xingchen couldn't help being amused by Zhou Qiaoqian, and quickly acted like she was all ears: "I'd like to hear the wise talk!"
"Keep it secret!" Zhou Qiaoqian laughed and said, pretending to be mysterious, "Brother Chen, just go and do your business, and I'll do mine."
In Xi Xingchen's previous life, because he couldn't get along with girls, he failed to dedicate his first love to himself after four years in college. He was considered a failure as a person.
Unexpectedly, it was my first time to cooperate with a woman here, and I still couldn't do anything about the strange thoughts in the woman's head. Fortunately, this little ancestor was still self-aware and didn't make trouble to go with him, which was a great blessing.
"Okay! Let's each do our own thing. But you have to be careful, don't get kidnapped by the little cat." Xi Xingchen joked.
"It's still unclear who will abduct whom?" Zhou Qiaoqian stuck out her cute little tongue at Xi Xingchen, and then walked towards Xunyang Mansion.
"Don't have too much hope in me!" Zhou Qiaoqian didn't forget to add this before leaving.
"Don't give me hope!" Xi Xingchen nodded with a smile, but murmured in his heart.
Wu Mansion is located in the eastern suburbs of Xunyang Mansion, adjacent to the Tongtian River in the north, covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters.
The Wu family is a well-known rich man in Xunyang City. The head of the family, Mr. Wu, also knows that big trees attract wind. Not only did he build tall walls outside the house, but he also built turrets at the four corners and hired many capable people to guard the house.
In order to make it easier to inquire about the news, Xi Xingchen spent some scraps of silver on the way to the Wu Mansion to buy a pair of picks from a salesman and shouted at them all the way.
When passing the gate of Wu Mansion, Xi Xingchen deliberately pretended to be so tired that he put down his bag, wiping his sweat while looking towards the direction of the house, as if he was surprised by the grandeur of Wu Mansion.
"Go, go, is this the place where you sell things?" A servant guarding the gate became angry when he saw Xi Xingchen lingering around, and walked over and yelled loudly.
"I'll just take a break and leave right away!" Xi Xingchen said with a smile.
"If I tell you to get out, get out right away. If you tremble again, your pick will be smashed!" The servant was furious, rolled up his sleeves and came to grab Xi Xingchen's pick.
"I'm leaving, I'm leaving now!"
Xi Xingchen pretended to be frightened and quickly left with his load.
"Don't let me see him again, or I'll beat you every time I see you!" The servant looked at Xi Xingchen running quickly with his load in embarrassment, and laughed at his back.
"Sure enough, something really happened in Wu Mansion." Xi Xingchen thought to himself.
The Wu family was a large family in Xunyang, and all the people who came and went were well-known people on the ground. The servant guarding the front door was, to a certain extent, the other face of the family owner. Therefore, wealthy families usually place their servants who are good at dealing with the world and are well-rounded at the front door to show the taste and cultivation of the family owner.
Moreover, Xi Xingchen had also inquired before that Mr. Wu had a good reputation in Xunyang Mansion. Even in this disaster year when food was as valuable as gold, he still set up a long-term porridge shed outside the city to provide free food to the victims.
It can be seen from this that Mr. Wu is a person who cherishes feathers. How could such a person let such a fierce and evil person with the aura of the world at his door?
When the servant approached, Xi Xingchen smelled a strong smell of blood from him. This smell was different from the fishy smell of ordinary poultry. Xi Xingchen, who had seen blood, knew clearly that it smelled like human blood.
If nothing unexpected happened, these people must have killed the servants who were originally guarding the door of the Wu Mansion, and then dressed up as servants of the Wu Mansion to guard the door.
Moreover, Xi Xingchen also noticed that the servant's waist was bulging, and he obviously had a short knife or something hidden under his clothes.
Xi Xingchen came to the west side of the house and saw that there was someone guarding the west side door, which confirmed his suspicion.
In order not to alert the enemy, Xi Xingchen deliberately hid the pick in an alley far away from the Wu Mansion. He took a detour and came to the west of the house. When the person guarding the side door was not paying attention, he ducked into the dead corner of the turret in the northwest corner and used Gecko. He had the ability to climb the wall, and then climbed in from the turret.
As soon as they entered the blockhouse, a strong smell of blood hit their face, and two servant-looking people fell in a pool of blood.
Xi Xingchen checked their breathing, but there was no breath at all. He touched the left artery again and found that there was still some residual warmth on the body. It seemed that the two men had not been dead for a long time.
Xi Xingchen checked the wounds of the two men again. They were both stabbed flatly under the fourth rib of the left chest with a sharp knife. It was obvious that the murderer was a master who was very good at assassination.
Just as Xi Xingchen was inspecting the body, there was a sudden movement behind him, and then a strong wind hit him.
"No, there's an ambush!"
Xi Xingchen's heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
At this time, the one who was as depressed and in a dilemma as Xi Xingchen was Guan Peng, the young dart of the Golden Blade Escort Bureau.
Guan Peng is a young escort leader of the Golden Knife Escort Bureau. With the reputation gained by the old escort leader Guan Changsheng and his excellent skills, there is no one who doesn't give a little favor to the black and white in Xunyang.
Although the Golden Knife Escort Bureau is engaged in the business of licking blood with the knife tip, the old escort Touguan Changsheng is not only very skilled, but also very good at managing business. Over the past few decades, he has accumulated a lot of property.
Perhaps it is because the years have smoothed away the ambition and pride of the past. Although the Guan family is still engaged in escorting in recent years, it is no longer their main business like before. Most of the time, the Golden Blade Escort Bureau uses the name of escort agency to conduct business, and the business becomes more and more prosperous.
