Ch 299: Security Check
Regarding these gifts, Li Hanzhou accepted them without question.
After having his subordinates put away the things, Li Hanzhou didn’t bother to keep them company. He had the mansion’s new steward accompany them for tea, then went back to his sword practice.
Seeing that Li Hanzhou had already left, they naturally didn’t stay long, and all rose to their feet to take their leave.
As they left, they wore smug smiles on their faces, feeling that Li Hanzhou was truly too easy to deal with.
“The price Xiao Han made us pay today, we will make him repay a hundredfold in the future!”
“Exactly, my son’s revenge, I must find a chance to take!”
“Huang Mansion didn’t even send anyone today. As expected of Huang Mansion, they truly didn’t take Xiao Han seriously.”
Everyone said this as they walked out.
Little did they know that their words had already been heard completely by Li Hanzhou.
After listening to the report from his subordinates, Li Hanzhou waved his hand and dismissed them.
These people were secret personnel arranged by Xiao Tiansheng beside Li Hanzhou; they were shadow guards trained by Xiao Tiansheng.
Each of them had decent cultivation levels, used to protect Xiao Han’s safety, but Xiao Han had never noticed them until Li Hanzhou arrived; since there were such useful people, of course, they couldn’t be wasted.
However, when Li Hanzhou found them and wanted them to follow his orders, he received their refusal.
They stated that they only pledged allegiance to the Prince, and besides protecting Xiao Han, they would not obey Xiao Han’s commands.
As if he had expected them to say this, Li Hanzhou brought out the bowl of soup he had been poisoned with earlier, showing that he had nearly been poisoned to death, and they had not even discovered it.
This startled the shadow guards. If Xiao Tiansheng found out about this, they would undoubtedly die.
So they could only obey Li Hanzhou.
Some of them investigated who had poisoned Li Hanzhou, while the others became Li Hanzhou’s intelligence personnel.
“Young Master, these people are too hateful! They don’t treat you like a human being!” Zhao Qing’er voiced her dissatisfaction for Li Hanzhou.
“It’s a trivial matter.” Li Hanzhou didn’t care at all.
“And that Huang Mansion, they didn’t even send anyone, they simply don’t take you seriously.”
“Let the bullets fly for a while.” Li Hanzhou said calmly.
“What bullets?” Zhao Qing’er didn’t understand Li Hanzhou’s meaning.
Huang Mansion.
The current head of Huang Mansion is named Huang Ming, Huang Tao’s father. Huang Ming watched the doctor walk out of the room and quickly asked, “How is my son’s condition?”
The doctor respectfully said, “Master Huang, your son’s injury is too severe; he may never be able to get out of bed in his life, unless some miraculous medicine is found, such as the Spring of Immortality. Otherwise, this old man is powerless.”
Hearing this, Huang Ming’s face darkened.
The Spring of Immortality?
Was he qualified to obtain such a thing?
After sending the doctor away, Huang Ming returned to his room and angrily smashed a vase and a teacup to pieces.
“Master.”
Huang Ming’s Madam walked over and said angrily, “Xiao Han caused Tao’er to become like this, we cannot just let it go!”
“Let it go?”
A fierce glint flashed in Huang Ming’s eyes: “Rest assured, I will make sure Huang Tao dies mysteriously, even if King of Northern Qi investigates, they won’t be able to find it on our Huang Family!”
“Ah?”
Madam Huang was startled: “Are you going to kill Xiao Han? Won’t that bring trouble to us? After all, Xiao Han is the King of Northern Qi’s son, and he has great supernatural powers. I’m afraid it won’t be easy to cover it up?”
“Someone will help us eliminate future troubles.” Huang Ming sneered, “Not only our Huang Family, but there are others who also want Xiao Han dead. We’re just helping out.”
Madam Huang looked bewildered.
“Rest assured, it’s just a little Xiao Han. A mere waste. When he dies, he won’t even know how he died.”
Huang Ming reassured his wife.
It passed noon.
Luoshui City was as lively as ever.
Sun Mingzu’s wine shop should be doing the best business at this time. In Luoshui City, Sun Mingzu owns six wine shops, and his business is booming, which makes him quite influential in Luoshui City.
“Shopkeeper Sun, two jin of wine.”
“Coming right up!”
“Shopkeeper Sun, please send thirty jars of wine to my mansion tomorrow. My old mother is having a birthday banquet, and you must come for a drink.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll definitely be there!”
Sun Mingzu was greeting the customers who were coming and going.
At that moment, the ground trembled slightly. The commoners on the street looked towards the distance and found that many soldiers were running from afar.
There were dozens of them.
The leader was from the City Guard Army.
Everyone was curious as to why the City Guard Army suddenly came here.
Usually, the City Guard Army only takes charge of the city’s defense and some safety hazards. It is rare to see them strolling around the city. What happened?
Dozens of City Guard Army members came to the front of Sun Mingzu’s Sun Family Wine Shop.
“Gentlemen, what is this?”
Sun Mingzu was stunned. Did so many people come to buy wine?
Was there some major event in the city?
The captain of the City Guard Army glanced at him and said, “Recently, there have been continuous disasters in the city, so we need to check the safety hazards of some shops. Please cooperate!”
“Come on, go in and check!”
As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of City Guard Army members swarmed into the wine shop.
Sun Mingzu was dumbfounded.
When did they ever have such an inspection?
Watching the City Guard Army swarm into the wine shop, the leading soldier shouted, “Everyone get out, don’t obstruct the inspection, or you’ll be arrested!”
Hearing this, all the customers were scared and quickly left the wine shop.
This made Sun Mingzu very confused. Don’t do this, you’ve ruined his business.
Other City Guard Army members were rummaging everywhere, making Sun Mingzu tremble with fear. He quickly went to the captain of the City Guard Army, secretly slipped him a one hundred taels of silver banknote, and whispered, “Sir, please be lenient. My small shop still needs to do business.”
But the captain of the City Guard Army didn’t even look at the banknote and said calmly, “Shopkeeper Sun, this is an order from above. To protect the safety of the commoners of Luoshui City, this inspection must be carried out. Don’t worry, as long as everything is fine, we will leave soon.”
“Okay?”
Sun Mingzu was apprehensive, feeling that something was wrong.
“Report.”
At this time, a soldier came over and said, “There’s a pile of firewood behind the door; it’s very easy to cause a fire.”
“Sir, that firewood is for burning wine.” Sun Mingzu quickly said.
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