Finally... the Huang Mansion, which had been in chaos for a day, ended with Huang Yueying and Huang Chengyan hugging each other and crying, and the servants in the mansion crying aside.
The crisis in the Huang Mansion was resolved, and Yi Xiaotian also smiled and watched this scene in front of the door frame——
"Sir! Sir!"
Suddenly, a gentle call like an oriole emerging from the valley came from nowhere and broke into Yi Xiaotian's mind.
Before Yi Xiaotian could react, he saw a light person bump into his arms.
"Ha ha…"
"It turns out to be Luo'er...it scared me sir."
Yi Xiaotian smiled softly, and when he saw this familiar little head, he patted it gently with his hand.
"Oh...why are you crying? Sir, am I okay?"
"Look, everyone is fine, how great it is!"
"Okay, okay, next time, I will bring you with me next time so that you won't worry Luo'er, okay?"
Helpless voices like coaxing children echoed in the house, but in short, the Huang Mansion returned to its former peace.
——
At night, Xiangyang City fell into deathly silence again.
There were no lights or shadows on the street, and there was no sound of people.
The door of Ma Mansion is tightly closed. Just walking in front of this cold and cold door will make you tremble involuntarily.
But... there was still a person who braved the night, knocked on the door, and slowly walked into Ma Mansion...
"Hey! Isn't this Du Gong!"
"Duke Du, how was the harvest today? Did Huang Chengyan learn a lesson?"
"Hey! What are you talking about? Do you still doubt Du Gong's people? They must have taught Huang Chengyan a lesson. I'm afraid Huang Chengyan is already lying down at home at this moment, and he is probably about to die!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The only hall with lights on was filled with people chatting and drinking.
Sweeping away the serious atmosphere of the past, at night, people headed by Zhang Jian of the Zhang family proposed to hold a celebration banquet for Du Wen's so-called victory.
Ma Liang watched this incident from the sidelines but did not intervene.
Because anyone with a little bit of information would know what happened in the Huang Mansion during the day.
More than 30 powerful dead soldiers, without exception, have all become "dead soldiers".
There is indeed no problem with this. Dead soldiers must always be prepared to sacrifice themselves for the mission at any time. After all, this is the meaning of their existence.
They can die...but their death must have a certain impact.
Assassins are like this, killers are like this...
Only Du Wen’s dead soldiers are not like this——
Because they died cowardly, more than thirty people, not even a single servant of the Huang Mansion were killed.
I heard that the skilled doctors in the medical clinic treated a concierge of the Huang Mansion today, and that the concierge had regained consciousness later in the evening.
In other words... Du Wen's dead man did what even a dog can do——
No one can be killed.
This incident naturally became an opportunity for those family heads who were at odds with Du Wen to ridicule Du Wen.
Hence the banquet today.
"Come on, come on! Du Gong! Let's have a drink! If we had known that Du Gong's men were reliable, we would have planned this celebration banquet..."
"Yes, we have long been unhappy with Huang Chengyan. Mr. Du is indeed a role model for us!"
"you…"
Da da--
"Have you said enough?"
Ta-ta-Du Wen stood on the steps with a cold face, standing so quietly at the door of the main hall.
He looked at the family heads who smiled the most happily, especially Zhang Jian, with cold eyes...as if he were looking at a dead person.
"Zhang Jian, remember to ask the servants at home to keep an eye on you. Don't realize it later when you lose your head."
"Du Wen! Are you threatening me?"
Zhang Jian's family has been making bows for generations, and the Zhang family's strong bows are used in all armies. Apart from the Cai family, they are the family most closely connected with Xiangyang's former army.
Naturally, there are many captains and generals in the family...
He had never dealt with Du Wen, but he had never thought that a merchant family like Du Wen would dare to threaten him.
Zhang Jian, who stood up from striking the table, pulled out the long sword from his waist and cut off the edge of the table with one strike. The sound made the singers and dancers at the table scream in surprise.
"Have you had enough trouble?"
Ma Liang roared hoarsely.
It's just that this sound only stopped the two people from getting closer. Ma Liang's words did not have the same effect of controlling the situation as before.
This... is actually the real crisis for their family alliance.
"Du Gong... sit down... we already know what happened today."
"hehe…"
Du Wen passed several people and walked to his own seat. He sat down and stopped making any sound.
Ma Liang rubbed his sore eyebrows and continued:
"Du Gong doesn't have to feel ashamed... In fact, what we should know is the true strength of the Huang family..."
"Li Yue..."
Ma Liang clapped his hands and shouted to Li Yue behind him. Li Yue hurriedly presented the things he had prepared.
When Ma Liang took the item among the crowd, everyone's eyes were inevitably attracted to this weird thing.
"Stretching the crossbow?"
"No, the crossbow is bigger than this thing. Look at the machine tongue and the machine..."
Being an expert after all, Zhang Jian saw the strangeness of this short crossbow at a glance.
"I'm afraid no one is needed to operate this thing..."
Zhang Jian gave his answer, although he felt very strange.
"As expected of Mr. Zhang..."
Ma Liang smiled.
But he smiled very melancholy.
"Just as Zhang Gong said, this short crossbow was removed from the door frame of the Huang family. According to the people I sent, the dead soldiers under Du Gong died under one mechanism after another..."
"And this mechanism is definitely not something that Huang Chengyan, an old Confucian scholar, can create."
"And not only that..."
Ma Liang directly informed everyone of all the information he had collected today.
Everyone's expressions changed from disdain at first, to doubt, and finally to shock, in less than a stick of incense.
"Wooden flying bird? Flying out from Huang Mansion?"
Everyone was dumbfounded by Du Wen. Because he was angry that the dead soldiers under his command were not doing things well, he actually left very early, but he did not see these things afterward.
When he heard what Ma Liang said, he had no idea in his mind and only felt that the other party was making it up.
But he believed in his dead soldiers so much. If these strange things hadn't happened, how could his dead soldiers have been wiped out so easily?
"Not only did it fly out of the Huang Mansion... the servants in my mansion followed the bird's whereabouts, and the bird flew directly out of the city, and finally flew towards the barracks where Yi Xiaotian lives."
After Ma Liang finished speaking, no one spoke.
Because whether they talk about it or not, it will appear that they are very ignorant.
"Fourth Master, you are joking again. I think we should discuss whether we should jointly deal with the Huang Mansion later. Later, the Huang Mansion will stab us in the back..."
"Do you think I'm joking?"
Ma Liang looked at the family heads aside with cold eyes.
An indescribable chill spread throughout the entire banquet... Ma Mansion was particularly deserted today.
