Chapter 195: Kill

Chapter 195 Kill

Lu Zhuangyuan, as the troupe master, seeing the chaos on the stage, could still hold the ground steady.

He first rushed onto the stage, stood before Lu Juren, smiling apologetically and bowing repeatedly to the audience.

After bowing, he winked at his youngest son, hurriedly pulling the distraught Lu Juren toward the backstage.

Lu Xiucai, who always dropped the ball, didn't drop it this time; he quickly somersaulted several times, flipping onto the stage.

He picked up the copper gong from the ground, turned the concave side up, bowing and scraping while picking up items from the floor into the gong.

"This matter of the Lu family... is a bit difficult to handle..." Li Huowang walked toward the carriage.

He naturally knew what Luo Juanhua had encountered in the bandit lair, but this was something he could not help with.

Just as he reached the carriage, he saw Lu Zhuangyuan raising a smoke pipe, knocking fiercely against his eldest son's head.

"She is your wife! You speak of your wife like this on stage! Whose face is lost! It is your own face lost! It is the Lu family's face lost!"

Suddenly Lu Juren reached out, directly snatching the smoke pipe from the other's hand.

Lu Zhuangyuan was dragged into a stumble, looking at his eldest son before him with somewhat unfamiliar eyes.

"Lose face! Lose what face! We are all bottom-tier opera singers! Is that not enough shame!! Our family is already the lowest of the low! Meeting a whore from the brothel we must call Auntie! Is there anything more shameful than our family?"

"Did you not see her expression in the bandit lair? Her cheap manner laughing with those bandits!"

"She... even with a bandit before me, did that kind of thing! Father, I feel wronged, I feel so wronged! I am dying of wrongness!!"

Lu Juren, full of grief and indignation, knelt on the ground, constantly hammering the earth with his hands.

"Why do I smile apologetically to others? Do you not know? Is it not for the Lu family! If not for my smiling, Xiu'er would have been thrown to death by them long ago! You feel wronged, do I not feel wronged!"

"Do you truly think I have no shame? Truly think I, Luo Juanhua, am a whore available to every man? But what method do I have!"

"My heart hurts too! But I know, I am not a young lady, I am only a cowardly actor's wife! When wronged I can only hold it in! I can only pretend not to care!!"

Luo Juanhua, already showing some belly, finished speaking and cried loudly beside them.

Watching the chaotic scene before him, Li Huowang slowly exhaled a breath.

The source of all this came from those bandits; as long as those bandits remain, there will be thousands upon thousands of Luo Juanhuas.

Suppressing bandits should originally be the soldiers' matter, but somehow they actually got mixed up in it together.

Perhaps what Wang Deqiu said before was not wrong, soldiers and bandits are actually quite similar. "This broken place is truly damn fucked."

There was not much Li Huowang could do; he turned sideways and whispered instructions in a low voice to the other senior and junior disciples.

Soon, Sun Baolu and Gou Wa pulled Lu Juren to one side, while Bai Lingmiao and Chun Xiaoman supported Luo Juanhua to the other side.

"Master Lu, do not stand stunned, cheer up, the play is not finished yet." Li Huowang walked before Lu Zhuangyuan, patting his shoulder with his hand.

Lu Zhuangyuan, who seemed to have aged several years in an instant, scratched his empty hand, hunching his back as he walked toward the front of the stage. "That boy Juren has never been like today..."

But just as he came out from the backstage, he discovered the audience outside had all gone.

The other people on the road also looked panic-stricken, all gathering toward the edge of the town.

At this moment he could not attend to his family trifles anymore, hurriedly shouting loudly: "Little Daoist Master! Little Daoist Master come out quickly! Trouble has come!"

Li Huowang, coming upon hearing the sound, saw the situation outside clearly, and immediately let everyone prepare to retreat. The situation was obviously not right.

"Wait here for me first! I will go see what exactly has happened."

After Li Huowang finished speaking, he rushed back to the carriage, picked up his sword hugged within the opera robe, and rushed toward the town entrance.

Passing through the dense crowd, and the showy camels, soon Li Huowang saw the scene outside.

Those were soldiers, rows of fierce-looking big-headed soldiers surrounding the entire town.

These soldiers were not wearing soldier uniforms, wearing all sorts of messy things, even the weapons in their hands were equally varied.

The only thing that could prove their identity to Li Huowang was the green character (Prisoner) atop everyone's head.

When Li Huowang saw Hou Laoer carrying a heavy iron spear, mixed among them, he immediately understood their intention. They were here to find him!

Hou Laoer followed other soldiers similarly shouldering black iron heavy spears, riding horses, standing inseparably beside a tall general.

This person was very tall, his body also a circle larger than those around him, wearing an iron face mask and black gold battle armor, holding a twelve-foot heavy halberd shining with cold light.

But just standing there, the killing qi on his body surged wave after wave stronger, Li Huowang could feel it standing far over here.

He gave Li Huowang a very bad feeling, if one must compare that thing to something, it was a thunderbolt ready to explode at any moment.

Seeing these people, the crowd around buzzed loudly, as locals of Later Shu, they seemed even more uneasy than Li Huowang.

"Heavens above, it is thief-soldiers, it is thief-soldiers!"

"What do we do now? Hurry and leave!"

"Leave what! The rear path is also blocked by them!"

Li Huowang shrank his body somewhat into the crowd, his brain began to turn.

"They are eighty percent here to find trouble with me, but they, should not know our identity yet, otherwise they would have brought soldiers to kill directly long ago."

"Getting through their inspection later will be difficult, but looking at these people their military discipline is not great, perhaps we can attempt bribery..."

Just as Li Huowang was calculating in his heart, a fat man wearing silk clothes, facing humbly, ran toward the army in the distance.

Just arriving before that general's big red horse, he took off his hat, and began saying something in a low voice.

Looking at his appearance, his identity should be someone like the town's headman or gentry in charge of matters.

"This is a traffic hub, passing outsiders are not just me, fish and dragons mix, even if they look for locals it is useless."

But the scene that happened next made thinking Li Huowang's heart suddenly shrink.

The huge long halberd was suddenly raised, and heavily chopped down.

Only seen, that fat man's head along with his entire body was directly cut in two by one blade.

A sweetly scented breeze blew onto everyone's faces.

Clip clop, iron hooves stepped forward several steps, the general in the distance used his hand wrapped by armor plates, slowly lifting his face guard.

Inside was a delicate face like a woman's, no, that is a woman!

Her face also, like the other thief-soldiers, was tattooed with characters.

"Serve the Country with Supreme Loyalty" these four flying dragon and dancing phoenix large characters were directly covered on her face, making the whole originally delicate face become exceptionally hideous.

"Everyone! There are Four Qi spies infiltrated among them, please bear with us!"

The female general's voice was very pleasant, but the words she said next made everyone's whole body chill with fear.

"Clang" the heavy armor on her face covered her face.

"Come, boys, if the blade is not sealed for one day, slaughter them all, lest the Four Qi spies leak out,"

"Ho!" The blade tip shining with cold light aimed at everyone inside the town.

(End of Chapter)