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Chapter 1445: Disloyalty? Niulanshan Assassination
Zhou Chen didn't want to waste time talking to Zhou Xingniang, so he said directly: "Since we have just moved to Kyoto, you should go and settle down your family first. Kyoto is big and it is not easy to live in it. I will not stay. Tong Quan, go and get 500 taels of silver. This silver can be regarded as a gift for promotion."

Tong Quan was about to withdraw the money, but Zhou Xingniang said hurriedly: "Acheng, don't be impatient, I haven't finished talking yet."

Zhou Chen frowned impatiently: "Aunt, what else do you want?"

Zhou Xingniang said in a friendly manner: "Achen, we are a family. We have just moved to Kyoto and have no place to live. Your Zhenguo Mansion is so big, so I think our family will live in the Mansion for the time being, and move out when we are stable in the future. What do you think?"

"I don't think so."

Zhou Chen didn't give any face and refused directly.

"Achen, we are a family. I am your aunt. You can't just become rich and ignore your aunt. If your father knew about it, he would definitely..."

Zhou Chen glanced over and Zhou Xingniang stopped talking abruptly. She was completely shocked by Zhou Chen's aura.

"I'm sorry, my mansion is too small to accommodate more people, and it's not convenient. Aunt, you should find a place to stay in Kyoto by yourself."

"Achen, we can't find a place to stay right now. How about letting us stay here for a few days?"

Zhou Chen didn't say anything, just looked at Zhou Xingniang calmly. The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense.

A Yuan pulled at his mother's clothes and whispered, "Mom, my cousin said it's inconvenient, forget it, just tell me about my business."

When Zhou Xingniang was reminded by her son, she suddenly realized that if she had an unpleasant argument with Zhou Chen over this matter, her son's affairs would be difficult to handle. Compared with a temporary stay, her son's future was more important.

So she smiled kindly again: "Since it is inconvenient for Achen, I will not force you. But Achen, I have something I want you to help me with."

"Your brother, Yuan, is eighteen this year. He is not good at studying and does not have great abilities like you, Chen. But he cannot stay at home all the time, so I would like to ask you to help find a job for Yuan. You are now the Duke of Zhenguo and the fifth-highest Grandmaster in the world. You are deeply favored by the emperor and can definitely help. Please help your brother."

This request was not unexpected by Zhou Chen. In fact, when she introduced Gong Yuan just now, he guessed the reason.

His gaze turned to Gong Yuan. This boy looked good, but his eyes were wandering. In just a short while, he had turned around countless times. It was obvious at a glance that he was not a good person.

"Although I am the Duke of Zhenguo now, I have no official position in the court. I am afraid I can't help you with this."

"How can I not help? Achen, you are the Duke of Zhenguo and a Grand Master. Even His Majesty has to give you some face. Ayuan is a practical and capable kid. He just wants to join the Inspection Institute. I heard that you, Achen, know Dean Chen of the Inspection Institute. Can you help Ayuan and ask for his admission?"

"Want to go to the Inspection Office?"

Zhou Chen looked surprised. Wow, he has such a big ambition.

Now he was completely certain that this family must have been transferred back to Kyoto by Emperor Qing on purpose, and the purpose was for him. He had to admit that he was really disgusted by them.

Ah Yuan flattered him, "Yes, cousin, the Inspection Office is very strict in admitting people, but with your status and position, it would only take a word for me to get in. Cousin, once I get in, I will definitely work hard. If you tell me to go east, I will never go west."

This shamelessness is really inherited from Zhou Xingniang. Zhou Chen no longer wants to say anything to these two people.

"I'm not familiar with Chen Pingping, and it doesn't matter, so I can't help you with this. Tong Quan, show him out."

After saying that, he took Sang Wen's hand and prepared to leave, but halfway through, he turned back.

"Achen."

"cousin."

Seeing Zhou Chen coming back, Zhou Xingniang and Gong Yuan were both overjoyed, thinking that Zhou Chen had changed his mind.

But Zhou Chen pulled Sang Wen to his side, pointed at her, and said to Zhou Xingniang: "You seemed to have scolded her just now, she is my woman, you scolded me, considering that we are blood relatives, I won't do anything to you, just apologize to her and let this matter be over."

When Zhou Xingniang heard this, she immediately jumped up and said, "You want me to apologize to her? She is just a whorehouse maid..."

"Snapped!"

Zhou Chen slapped her directly. Zhou Xingniang turned around three times and fell to the ground. She covered her face and looked at Zhou Chen in shock and fear.

"You dare to hit me? I'm your aunt, you dare to hit me?"

"Because you are my aunt, I only slapped you. If it was someone else, I would break his legs."

"Apologize!"

Zhou Chen's cold gaze made Zhou Xingniang's body tremble. She was just an ordinary woman, how could she withstand Zhou Chen's power? Just a cold look made her so scared that she couldn't speak.

"Mother, mother."

Gong Yuan squatted down to support his mother, then glared at Zhou Chen with flaming eyes.

"You dare to hit my mother, I, I...I...what do you want to do? Don't hit me."

I hesitated for a long time but couldn't say the next words. I was so scared that I sat down on the ground and hid behind my mother.

Seeing how cowardly he was, Zhou Chen lost interest. With this level of ability, he still wanted to join the Inspection Institute. Unless Chen Pingping was blind.

"I say again, I apologize."

Under Zhou Chen's pressure, Zhou Xingniang apologized to Sang Wen in humiliation.

"Tong Quan, send them out. Remember, don't let them in without my permission in the future."

"It's the young master."

Tong Quan responded, then looked down at Zhou Xingniang and her son with an expressionless face.

"Madam, cousin, please come in."

Zhou Xingniang was furious. It was bad enough that she was beaten by Zhou Chen, her powerful nephew, but Tong Quan, a servant, actually dared to look at her with such eyes.

"presumptuous……"

"Madam, please don't make things difficult for me."

As soon as he finished speaking, several people guarding outside the door immediately surrounded them, staring at Zhou Xingniang and her son with murderous eyes.

Zhou Xingniang and Gong Yuan had gloomy faces. Looking at the powerful Tong Quan and several guards, their tempers suddenly subsided a lot.

"Madam, cousin, please come in."

Zhou Xingniang's face looked extremely ugly, but she could no longer be tough.

"Good, very good. You are still as cold-blooded as before. Now you even dare to hit your elders. How could my brother raise such a rebellious person who doesn't recognize his relatives..."

"Madam!"

Tong Quan's voice suddenly rose, and he stared at Zhou Xingniang with cold eyes: "It doesn't matter if you hit me or scold me, but if you dare to scold the young master, don't blame me for being rude."

Zhou Xingniang was so frightened that she took two steps back, and then she felt extremely humiliated. She was actually frightened by a servant. Just as she was about to get angry, she was stopped by Gong Yuan.

"mother."

Seeing the fear on her son's face and the guards around him, she immediately felt sympathetic.

"Okay, I'm leaving. Tong Quan, right? Your young master said to bring me five hundred taels of silver."

You lose face, but you still have to get the money.

Tong Quan looked disdainful. The master and the young master were both heroes, so how could they have such blood relations? It was a disgrace to the Zhou family.

Sang Wen went back to the courtyard with Zhou Chen and said worriedly, "Young Master, if you beat up the old lady, it will be bad for you if this gets out. People outside might accuse you of being unfilial by beating up your elders."

Zhou Chen laughed and said, "Then let them be at peace. My reputation in Kyoto is not that good anyway. It can't be any worse. The worse my reputation is, perhaps our Majesty will be more at ease."

"Son."

"It's okay. There are only you and me here. Don't worry. Just remember, stay with me. In this Kyoto, don't believe anyone else except me."

Zhou Chen didn't want Sang Wen to worry, but he still had to remind him of some things in advance.

Sang Wen didn't quite understand, but she believed in Zhou Chen's words and did whatever Zhou Chen told her to do.

The affairs of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion soon reached the ears of Emperor Qing.

"Your Majesty, the aunt of the Duke of Zhenguo was indeed a failure. She was driven out of the Zhou Mansion not long after and was beaten. In the end, it seems that she only received 500 taels of silver."

"Haha."

Emperor Qing laughed out loud, which really amused him.

"It's really a hopeless case, but Zhou Chen is really heartless. After all, she is my aunt, but he didn't give her any face and even beat her. I'm not afraid of those scholars scolding him. But if you want to say he is heartless, he treats a prostitute a hundred times better than his aunt. It's really interesting."

It was naturally his doing that Zhou Xingniang's family was transferred to Kyoto, otherwise, with Zhou Xingniang's man, it would be impossible for him to return to Kyoto in his lifetime.

He transferred Zhou Xingniang's family back to test Zhou Chen.

Among the five great masters in the world, he, Ku He and Si Gu Jian were able to become grand masters because they learned martial arts from Ye Qingmei. Only Ye Liuyun and Zhou Chen became grand masters on their own.

Ye Liuyun became a grandmaster with Liuyun Sanshou, while Zhou Chen became a grandmaster by creating his own Ruyi Jin.

He used the Ye family to subdue Ye Liuyun, which showed that Ye Liuyun was still too human, so he also wanted to test Zhou Chen. Zhou Xingniang was Zhou Chen's only blood-related aunt in this world.

But now it seems that Zhou Chen is really heartless to this aunt. At least he can't use Zhou Xingniang to control Zhou Chen.

"Do you think he was acting on purpose?"

Eunuch Hou was shocked: "No way?"

"I really don't want to act. It's just an idle move anyway. It's useless now, but it might be useful in the future. Let's keep it for now."

Zhou Chen is still obedient now. Although Emperor Qing is afraid of him, he has not decided to deal with him. Currently, Emperor Qing's greatest energy is still focused on the front-line confrontation with Northern Qi.

Now Qing and Northern Qi are in a border standoff. Both sides have deployed large numbers of troops and war is imminent.

This is a war that concerns the fate of the country, and it is what Emperor Qing is most concerned about at the moment.

One night, Si Lili suddenly sent Zhou Chen a letter. The content of the letter was simple, saying that her identity was exposed and she was threatened to hand over the command token of the Northern Qi spy.

When Zhou Chen received the news, he immediately understood what was going on.

Although the situation between Si Lili and Fan Xian was changed, her identity was still betrayed by the high-ranking officials of Northern Qi and she was used by the eldest princess as a pawn to kill Fan Xian.

Zhou Chen wrote her a letter back, telling her to be prepared to leave Kyoto at any time, and he would help send her back to Northern Qi.

Since he has promised Haitang Duoduo, he naturally will not let Si Lili suffer like in the plot. However, the war between Northern Qi and Qing is about to break out, and it is not an easy thing for Si Lili to return to Northern Qi from Qing. He also needs to make good arrangements.

When necessary, he may have to take action himself.

Zhou Chen walked to the bed and looked at the bright moon outside.

"A storm is coming."

Sang Wen put a piece of clothing on Zhou Chen from behind, and Zhou Chen hugged her in his arms.

"I will probably get married soon, and then I will take you in, but you can only be my concubine."

Sang Wen leaned in Zhou Chen's arms and said softly, "It's already a privilege for me to be your concubine. As long as I can be with you, I am willing to do so even if there is no official status."

"The young master is marrying the eldest princess of Northern Qi, right?"

"Of course, there is no one else besides her."

Although he has met many women in this world, such as Haitang Duoduo and Si Lili, who can be considered his confidantes, his feelings for Zhan Pianpian are deeper. If he were to marry, he would definitely marry Zhan Pianpian, as she is the most suitable one in terms of both feelings and status.

As for Haitang Duoduo and Si Lili, it depends on their fate in the future.

"This princess must be very good to be the one that the young master is thinking about so much."

Sang Wen did not feel the slightest bit of jealousy towards Zhan Pian Pian, he just wanted to meet the eldest princess.

After accepting the Second Prince's invitation to Zuixianju, Fan Xian calculated the time the next day and drove to Zuixianju with Teng Zijing.

But when they were passing Niulan Street, something unexpected happened and they were attacked by assassins. First there were two female assassins. Just as they dealt with them, they encountered an even more powerful master.

The eighth-rank horizontal training master of Northern Qi, Cheng Jushu!

Fan Xian and Teng Zijing are actually both quite powerful. If they join forces, they can easily fight against an eighth-rank master.

But Cheng Jushu was quite special. He was an eighth-grade horizontal training master with thick skin and flesh, immense strength, and was stronger and more durable than the average eighth-grade master. He completely overwhelmed Fan Xian and Teng Zijing. Even though the two of them tried their best, they were still no match for Cheng Jushu, who had amazing defense and strength.

Their attacks hitting Cheng Jushu and Cheng Jushu's attacks hitting them are completely different concepts.

In just a short time, both of them were seriously injured by Cheng Jushu. They both wanted the other to escape first, but neither of them wanted to leave, and finally they stayed to fight Cheng Jushu to the death.

In the end, Teng Zijing was beaten by Cheng Jushu and thrown aside like a rag, and there was no movement anymore.

When Fan Xian saw this scene, his domineering true energy burst out, severely injuring Cheng Jushu, and he himself was also seriously injured and exhausted, falling to the ground.

Fan Xian woke up from his coma and saw Wang Qinian squatting next to him. He hurriedly asked Wang Qinian to go check on Teng Zijing, but Wang Qinian said that Teng Zijing's breath was very weak and he might die at any time, so he didn't dare to move.

Upon hearing this, Fan Xian rushed to Teng Zijing regardless of his own injuries and took his pulse.

Teng Zijing's pulse was extremely weak. Just as Wang Qinian said, he might die at any moment, and Teng Zijing had already lost consciousness.

"Wang Qinian, you are very familiar with Kyoto. Tell me, where can we save Teng Zijing? Who can save Teng Zijing?"

Wang Qinian sighed, "Sir, most of Teng Zijing's meridians are severed, and his internal organs are also severely damaged. Although he still has a breath, he is already beyond saving."

"No, it's impossible, it's impossible. He's still alive. Teng Zijing is still alive. How could he not be saved? You lied to me, Wang Qinian. Tell me, how can I save him?"

Fan Xian shouted excitedly, and Wang Qinian sighed, "Sir, you are a disciple of Master Fei. Don't you know whether he can be saved?"

Fan Xian's body trembled, as if he had been hit hard. Medicine and poison are inseparable. He is good at poisoning, so his medical skills are naturally not bad. Just as Wang Qinian said, Teng Zijing's condition is almost punishable by death.

"No, that's not right. There must be another way."

Suddenly, his mind shook and he remembered his experience in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion a few days ago. His eyes instantly lit up.

"There is still hope, Wang Qinian. I will give you some money. You carry Teng Zijing on your back and go to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion. The Duke of Zhenguo has the ability to bring the dead back to life. He will definitely be able to save Teng Zijing."

"Duke Zhenguo Mansion, Duke Zhou?"

Wang Qinian was shocked. Zhou Chen was indeed a grandmaster, but did a grandmaster really have the ability to bring the dead back to life?

Fan Xian urged anxiously, "Don't ask anymore. Carry Teng Zijing on your back and go to the Zhenguogong Mansion first."

Wang Qinian asked no more questions and obediently carried Teng Zijing on his back. When they passed a giant tree, Fan Xian paused.

Wang Qinian immediately said, "Don't worry, sir. The people from the Inspection Institute will be here soon. Cheng Jushu won't be able to escape."

So, Fan Xian no longer cared about Cheng Jushu, and staggered towards the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion with Wang Qinian.