Chapter 32 Wouldn't it be over if you said so earlier?
"Gather everyone in the front yard and watch in person."
"No matter what the movement is, no one is allowed to enter the inner courtyard."
"Do you understand?"
As soon as he entered the gate of Xu Mansion, Xu Chong gave Lao Li some instructions.
"Understood."
Lao Li held back his words and bowed to accept the order.
Not long after, Xu Chong met Zhou Ze in the main hall of the inner courtyard.
He was dressed in coarse linen clothes, his hair was as messy as a chicken coop, and his face was dirty.
"Doesn't it look like a beggar?"
Zhou Ze chuckled.
"It is not necessary to beg for food, but it is true to beg for crime."
Xu Chong stood at the door with cold eyes: "You dare to come back, aren't you afraid of being caught?"
"嘁."
Zhou Ze smiled disdainfully, "Don't try to bluff me. I delayed coming back for so long just to confirm whether Fu Yuanlong was here."
"Now that he's gone, who can catch me?"
"Are those government officials able to catch me? Or are you... the real rebel?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Chong's eyes narrowed: "What do you mean?"
"Okay, stop pretending. After all this time, if I still can't figure it out, I'll have been serving as the chief clerk for so many years."
Zhou Ze couldn't stop laughing and tutted, "I have to say, you really surprised me. For the sake of martial arts, you actually turned to Taiping Dao."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
Xu Chong was secretly on guard, ready to burst out Zhengyang energy at any time.
"Don't know?"
Zhou Ze seemed very patient, "Then let me explain in more detail."
"You, Xu Chong, were once a decent gentleman, hating evil as much as hatred, and being upright."
"You changed until you learned the existence of martial arts and the secret of household registration from Wang Hezhi."
"You are eager to embark on martial arts and have power."
"At the same time, you don't want to wait another three years in vain, so when you hear that Youde Shusi is secretly hiding evil methods, you are more active than ever."
"Unfortunately, Zhang Youde died before you found him, and you were unable to obtain martial arts skills from him."
"Until the blood-clad guards chased the Taiping Dao rebels and arrived in Canglong, Wu Wenjing and I didn't want to risk our lives and wanted to pass the responsibility to you."
"But you are not stupid. You know there is danger, but you don't want to bear it alone."
"But why did you agree in the end?"
"Because I'm telling you, the rebels may have martial arts skills on them."
"In order to start practicing martial arts as soon as possible, you finally chose to take a risk."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's true that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. You must know that he is a strong person in the Tongmai realm that Wu Wenjing and I don't dare to show up."
"Oh no, you can't say that."
"You know too little about martial arts to judge that the rebels are in the Tongmai realm, and you don't know that ordinary people can't pose a threat to Tongmai warriors."
"You are just a poor guy blinded by greed."
Having said this, Zhou Ze smiled mockingly, "Sorry, it's too far."
"In short, you took advantage of the prestige of the blood-clad guards to conduct large-scale arrests in the city and pretended to do your best."
"In fact, I'm afraid you found the female rebel in the first few days."
"You don't know what method you used, either bribery or coercion, and combined with some government officials to hide it from Fu Yuanlong."
"Then, you cooperated with the female rebel and diverted Fu Yuanlong's attention, allowing her to find the right opportunity to sneak into the county government office, kill Wu Wenjing, kidnap me and pretend to be a water ghost, and finally escaped successfully."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, link after link, everyone is encouraged. It's perfect."
Snap, snap, snap!
Zhou Ze clapped his hands, his face full of admiration, "Xu Chong, Xu Chong, you impress me so much. If I guessed correctly, you have already joined Taiping Dao, right?"
"So, you came back to kill me to avenge yourself?"
Xu Chong neither admitted nor denied it.
"Kill you? No, no, no!"
Zhou Ze's expression suddenly turned cold, "There's something you may not know yet."
"Once the crime of being a rebel is reviewed by the Ministry of Punishment, the imperial court will reduce the person's household registration to that of a craftsman."
"When the time comes, all things like enlightenment, meridians, and martial arts will all disappear from my memory."
"Even if I have the eighth level of enlightenment, I can't use it at all."
"I don't even dare to think about what I will look like by then!"
"You have brought me to this point. If I kill you so simply, wouldn't it be too easy for you?"
Zhou Ze stood up and walked towards Xu Chong step by step. Endless resentment boiled in his eyes: "I will use the most cruel and vicious punishment on you to make you regret being born in this world!"
"Wait."
Xu Chong raised his hand, frowned and asked: "You said the rebels are all craftsmen? How can people from Taiping Dao practice martial arts?"
"Oh, how childish. This kind of secret can be known to everyone?"
Zhou Ze smiled ferociously and got closer and closer.
"Well, so Taiping Dao has a way for people to avoid fifth-class household registration, but you... failed to join Taiping Dao?"
Xu Chong suddenly relaxed and raised the corners of his mouth.
"Yes, Taipingdao said that people like me are not worthy of joining...Haha, you who are worthy of joining, haven't you fallen into my hands?"
Excitement and madness mixed with despair made Zhou Ze's face distorted to the extreme, looking extremely terrifying.
Xu Chong, on the other hand, became more relaxed and said lazily: "Wouldn't it be over if you said this earlier? It would be a waste of all your hard work."
Fu Yuanlong explained to him the great and precious medicines. Through this, he deduced that Zhou Ze could only reach the eighth level of enlightenment.
So he wasn't worried about Zhou Ze's strength from the beginning.
He was only worried that if Zhou Ze joined Taiping Dao, if he killed him, it would lead to revenge.
It's fine now.
Taiping Road does not accept.
Just kill him.
Xu Chong loosened his grip on Zhengyang Jin.
"Waste half a day's effort? What do you mean..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Ze's pupils suddenly shrank to the extreme.
This feeling!!!
Impossible!!!
In Zhou Ze’s perception.
Xu Chong suddenly transformed from an ordinary person with nothing special to a supreme being that cannot be looked directly at.
That kind of majesty and dignity was something he had never experienced in his life.
Even when I meet the Heavenly Official in the capital for the official examination, I don’t have such an exaggerated feeling!
Can Xu Chong, no matter how special he is, be compared with the official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs?
Impossible!
This must be an illusion!
Zhou Ze fell into huge doubts about himself and the world.
"It means that I am too lazy to talk nonsense to you anymore."
Zhengyang vigorously surged, and Xu Chong's figure disappeared instantly.
When he reappeared, he had already strangled Zhou Ze's neck with one hand.
Bang - click!
One punch.
With just one punch, Zhou Ze's collarbone was broken.
It was only then that Zhou Ze finally came to his senses, and then fell into an even greater shock.