Chapter 28: These medicinal powders are too strong!
During the journey, nothing out of the ordinary happened.
At least, that’s what Gu Yu thought.
However, for the guards sent by Gu Qing to protect Gu Mengyao and the other two, this journey had been thrilling and dangerous.
There were several waves of ambushes and poisonings…
They had only been on the road for two days and had already encountered so many things, what were they going to do next!!!
“Brother-in-law, how much longer until we reach the Tang Sect? I feel like time is passing so slowly!”
“It’s no use being anxious, unless you can fly there like Dahai.”
“…”
While the guards were in fear, Gu Qingheng, during a break in their journey, directly asked Gu Yu how much longer it would take to reach the Tang Sect.
He was extremely anxious with the slow pace of their journey, wishing he could reach the Tang Sect the very next day and rescue Xia Tian from within.
Upon hearing his younger brother-in-law’s words, Gu Yu couldn’t help but twitch his mouth, thinking that Gu Qingheng was overthinking things. It had only been two days, and they hadn’t even reached a third of the way!
Also, they had been traveling at full speed these past two days. Apart from being harassed by people sent by the Tang Sect’s traitors, their speed had already been very fast.
Speaking of the Tang Sect’s traitors, Gu Yu felt extremely annoyed.
Since the sect leader of the Tang Sect had sent people to abduct Xia Tian, why not take the opportunity to clean up the sect’s traitors as well!
Their constant harassment was delaying their journey and was very bothersome.
However, the Tang Sect’s traitors were quite numerous. They killed batch after batch, yet more people kept coming.
Gu Yu had no good solution for the current situation and could only deal with it calmly, killing one whenever they appeared and two whenever a pair appeared.
“Careful, someone is attacking!”
Just as Gu Yu was thinking about these things, a guard suddenly shouted, and everyone immediately grabbed their weapons, guarding against the approaching enemies.
When a group of men in black holding weapons appeared, Gu Yu sighed helplessly, then told everyone to step back. He then reached out and sprinkled medicinal powder, directly incapacitating the attacking men in black.
The remaining few men in black who were not affected were stunned by the people around them falling to the ground. At this moment, Gu Yu’s guards swiftly struck with their sabers, directly cutting them down.
They also finished off those who were incapacitated with another blow, sending them directly to see Yama.
After all the men in black were dealt with, the guards looked at Gu Yu with reverence, clearly impressed by his medical skills, being able to incapacitate people with a simple sprinkle of medicinal powder.
If they could directly kill the opponent, it would be poison powder!
Originally, these guards from the Gu Residence looked down on Gu Yu. After all, Gu Yu was just a son-in-law who lived with his wife, and a rustic villager. He married a beautiful and powerful young lady, completely like a swan paired with a toad.
Although Gu Yu was good-looking, men without ability were also looked down upon.
Even though rumors circulated about how formidable Gu Yu was, in the eyes of these Gu Residence guards, this son-in-law who married into the wife’s family spent his days sunbathing in the courtyard or hiding indoors doing who knows what.
He was extremely idle.
Although Gu Qingheng had told the servants of the Gu Residence that Gu Yu was researching medical skills in his room, the servants speculated… was Gu Yu hiding in his room sleeping?
After all, from Master Gu Qing to the sweeping young servant, no one in the Gu Residence woke up later than Gu Yu.
Every time the young servant delivered breakfast, it was almost noon…
Because of all this, the guards of the Gu Residence not only looked down on Gu Yu but also felt a bit of envy and jealousy.
After all, Gu Yu had a beautiful wife, and his father-in-law was a famous general. Even if he was a son-in-law who married into the wife’s family, he wouldn’t have to worry about food and drink for a lifetime!
Truly a winner in life!
However, when the guards were sent by Gu Qing to protect Gu Mengyao and the other two, they encountered an ambush for the first time, and Gu Yu calmly acted, directly sprinkling medicinal powder to incapacitate them one by one.
The series of actions left these guards staring with wide eyes, not understanding why Gu Yu was so strong!
It turned out that Gu Yu’s medical skills were indeed very remarkable!
This time, after overturning the guards’ previous speculations, they began to have a little admiration for Gu Yu.
After two more days of traveling forward, and after resolving waves of assassins, the guards became even more terrified of Gu Yu’s miraculous medicinal powder.
These medicinal powders were too strong!
“Yu, this is the how manyth batch of assassins? The Tang Sect’s traitors are truly relentless!”
“It’s normal. If we reach the Tang Sect safely, it will be the Tang Sect’s traitors’ turn to face misfortune.”
“Why? We only saved Tang Wenshi, and we don’t even know who the Tang Sect’s traitors are.”
Watching the guards deal with these men in black, Gu Mengyao couldn’t help but frown. Then, when she spoke to Gu Yu, her words carried confusion, wondering why the Tang Sect’s traitors were so persistent???
In two days, they had sent countless people to their deaths.
However, death did not stop them.
Instead, it seemed to have ignited their ferocity, and their frequency of sending people to attack became even more frequent.
“Mengyao, you were on the battlefield at the time, so you don’t know about the subsequent developments… When we were in Yang Family Village, someone else came looking for trouble, so I happened to interrogate them and obtained the name of the Tang Sect traitor – Jiang Wenguang.”
“I see. It seems the Tang Sect’s traitor thinks we already know his name, which is why he keeps sending people to hunt us down.”
“Actually, there’s no need for that. I think the Tang Sect leader already has a suspect in mind and will be able to find out who killed his son soon, but it won’t bring back his only son’s death.”
As Gu Yu spoke, he couldn’t help but shake his head, thinking that even if the Tang Sect leader killed the traitor, it couldn’t revive Tang Wenshi. It would still be an old man sending off his son.
However, exposing and killing the Tang Sect’s traitor could avenge Tang Wenshi.
It could also stop the harassment of their journey, so the Tang Sect leader should hurry up and kill all the traitors!
Muttering these thoughts, after the guards had dealt with all the men in black, Gu Yu and the others didn’t linger in the place full of corpses. Instead, they mounted their horses and continued on their way.
These ambushes were just appetizers. Once they reached the vicinity of the Tang Sect, Gu Yu could guess… the Tang Sect’s traitors would become even more ferocious. To prevent them from telling the truth to the Tang Sect leader, they would resort to any means necessary.
However, Gu Yu was not worried about this.
When soldiers come, we block them; when water comes, we build dams.
Even if there were more attacks later, they would remain steadfast, and the Tang Sect’s traitors would definitely not get away with it.
However, killing these attackers was indirectly helping the Tang Sect leader to purge his sect.
When he met the sect leader later, he would have to… cough, speak to him properly about getting some compensation for his troubles or something.
Thinking about this, Gu Yu’s lips turned up slightly, causing the sect leader, who was far away in the Tang Sect, to tremble. He felt as if he was being targeted by some venomous creature, sending chills down his spine.
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“Master, who do you think caused our son’s death!”
“Alas, the situation is unclear at the moment. We can only wait for those people from the Gu family to arrive.”
“Sob, my poor Wenshi! He left me just like that. Heaven is truly unfair, letting the person who killed Wenshi live on happily. I can’t accept it just thinking about it!”
In the Tang Sect, Tang Haocang and his wife Ruan Zhizhi sat in their house. When the death of their only son was mentioned, both of them were filled with sadness.
Ruan Zhizhi, at this moment, was wiping her eyes with a handkerchief, filled with extreme hatred for the murderer of Tang Wenshi.
Tang Haocang also sighed uncontrollably, thinking that if he had paid more attention to his son, he wouldn’t have received the news of Tang Wenshi’s death only after he had been harmed.
Tang Wenshi was talented in both literary and martial arts from childhood, and he had a very good personality. Coupled with his intelligence, Tang Haocang and his wife were very confident in him, but they never expected Tang Wenshi to be harmed by wicked people.
Thinking of this, Ruan Zhizhi’s hatred for the Gu family grew even stronger.
“If it was indeed someone from the Gu family who harmed Wenshi, I will make them pay with their blood!”
“It’s too early to say these things now. There are many suspicious aspects to Wenshi’s death… Putting aside other things, why would the Gu family, who are far away in Yang Family Village, Lian Town, want to harm Wenshi? Moreover, I heard that the other party was just ordinary villagers, and only became famous later when a Vice General from the court came to recognize them.”
“Sob, I don’t know, Haocang! You must find the murderer and avenge my poor Wenshi.”
“Of course. Don’t be sad anymore. Wenshi is already dead. No matter what we do, we can’t bring him back to life.”
When Ruan Zhizhi mentioned the Gu family with fierce words, Tang Haocang shook his head at her, indicating that the Gu family was not the murderer of Tang Wenshi.
Unlike Ruan Zhizhi, whose eyes were blinded by hatred, Tang Haocang, after his initial grief, began to deduce the cause of Tang Wenshi’s death step by step and realized that the Gu family could not be the murderers.
However, even so, they had to abduct people from the Gu family as hostages.
The reason for having them come to the Tang Sect later was because Tang Haocang thought that his son might have left him some clues.
He must find the murderer who killed Wenshi and not let his son die in vain!
“Sob, first Lian’er was kidnapped, and now Wenshi has been murdered. Why is my life so bitter!”
“Lian’er was kidnapped many years ago. Don’t bring it up again.”
“My poor daughter has been missing for so long, and there’s not even a single piece of news. Your Tang Sect’s intelligence is also not that great.”
Upon hearing Tang Haocang’s words, Ruan Zhizhi couldn’t stop her tears from flowing again.
When she remembered her young daughter being kidnapped, she almost choked, causing Tang Haocang to quickly reach out and pat her back to calm her down.
Upon hearing his wife mention their kidnapped daughter, Tang Haocang also sighed, thinking that his life had been smooth sailing, but he had suffered setbacks one after another with his children.
Truly, extreme fortune leads to misfortune!
