Death Sutra Chapter 107 - A New Mission

Chapter 107: A New Mission

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If Gu Shenwei had known that the young man was the Fifth Young Master ng, who wanted to avenge Pot-bellied Buddha's death, he would have never co out of the flowering shrub.

The scuffle between the tenth child of the Shangguan family and the fifth child of the ng family ruined the last day of the flower viewing party. Residents of Jade City kept talking about and laughing over this incident for days. Many years later, they still rembered it.

Slapping ng ngshi seed to not be enough to appease Shangguan Ru's anger over the guy's mischief. She chased him down the hill and continued to beat him. At this mont, Shangguan Yushi, who went to fetch so sweet liquor, happened to co back with a flagon in her hand. Seeing Shangguan Ru fighting ng Mingshi, she imdiately threw the flagon aside and joined the fight. She beat all the young attendants away and then joined Shangguan Ru.

ng Mingshi had learned a little kung fu, but all the moves he knew were impractical in a real fight. He felt dizzy after falling from the hill and was clearly no match for the girls, but he still talked big at the beginning of the fight. After a while, he could not hold on any longer and admitted defeat while crying like a baby.

His attendants, who had run away to avoid Shangguan Yushi, all returned now. They kowtowed to the girls and said, "Miss Ru and Miss Yushi, please kindly forgive us." Hearing the boys call them miss, the girls flared up and beat them even harder. They drove them to the middle of Bodhi Garden and made them stand beside a pond. After that, they kicked them into the pond one by one and kept throwing stones at them to prevent them from getting out of the water.

The ladies across the pond thought it was a show. They laughed at the scene and even applauded it. Suddenly, they saw ng Mingshi struggling in the water and panicked.

The girls beca excited and refused to let the boys off until Lady ng ca out to stop them. The servants of the ng family hurriedly fished out their young master. After getting out of the pond, ng Mingshi snuggled up in her grandmother's arms, bawling. After that, he rolled on the ground, crying that soone was going to kill him with a saber and Golden Roc Fort was plotting against him. His grandma thought that he was possessed by so evil spirit and also burst into tears.

The banquet ended in acrimony. Lady ng led all the mbers of the Shangguan family back to Golden Roc Fort that night and did not pay any visits to the ng family in the following years.

That night, no one found out what Slave Huan had done. The mont Shangguan Ru had woken up, he had swiftly retreated back into the flowering shrub. He did not know what happened after the teenagers left the artificial hill, and Shangguan Ru was unaware that a teenager had co out to protect her.

ng Mingshi kept yelling that a teenager had appeared behind Shangguan Ru and wanted to kill him with a saber, but nobody believed him that evening; everybody thought that he was just having a panic attack.

A few days later, when ng Mingshi recovered from the shock and looked sober, he finally convinced his family that a teenager wearing a brown belt had threatened him with a wooden saber.

Unfortunately, he had missed the best ti to seek revenge on that brown-belt assassin. The Supre King had sent an envoy to ng Yuzun to make peace with the ng family right after Lady ng had returned to the fort. Now neither of the two parties wanted to ntion this incident again.

Despite that, this thing still beca a hot topic in the fort. Gu Shenwei heard many ridiculous rumors about the incident. anwhile, he also heard quite a lot of valuable information, and much of it was about Lady ng.

Lady ng, the mother of the twins, was just a distant relative of ng Yuzun. In fact, she was ng Mingshi's cousin. Her parents died during her childhood and thus she had been brought up in ng Yuzun's family.

When she had grown up to beco a beautiful young lady, she had been picked out from all the unmarried young ladies of the ng family by Shangguan Fa, who had just lost his wife and planned to marry another one. It was said that she had not been favored by ng Yuzun's family when she had been little. That was why she seldom visited the ng family after she married.

As for the fight during the flower viewing party, Lady ng was firmly on her daughter's side and resolutely refused to apologize to ng Mingshi. The ng family could only suppress their anger and accept the Supre King's suggestion to downplay the whole incident.

Gradually, words about "the teenager with a saber" appeared around. Gu Shenwei believed that no one would discover that he was the teenager, until, one day, when Tie Hanfeng asked him about this incident. He admitted to his ntor that he was the one who had co out to threaten ng Mingshi.

Hearing that, Tie Hanfeng did not know whether to laugh or get mad. Because of that, his facial expression looked quite weird. "You dumb*ss. You're such a troublemaker. You'll die for this sooner or later," he scolded his apprentice.

The next day, he ca to his apprentice again. This ti, he looked solemn. "You have a new mission. You'll take a long journey ."

"Is there sothing wrong?" Gu Shenwei discovered that his ntor looked a little worried and asked.

"F*ck it, you dumb*ss. Don't you know that he's the Fifth Young Master ng?"

Gu Shenwei shook his head, wanting to explain that he had never t ng Mingshi before, but after a thought, he decided to remain silent to avoid further irritating Tie Hanfeng. He knew that his ntor would hurl countless insults at him when he was in a fit of anger.

"He wanted to kill you to avenge Pot-bellied Buddha's death. It took a great deal of effort to appease the young master. Why did you have to stick your head out to scare him? Is your stupid turtle shell too small for you? Keep your head inside the shell. Don't stick it out anymore. Just mind your own business and hold your saber tightly, understand?" Tie Hanfeng spluttered.

"Yes, Master Shifu," Gu Shenwei replied while tightly holding his saber shaft in his right hand.

Tie Hanfeng panted for a while and then said, "It's good for you to leave this city to avoid the young master. Wealthy kids are forgetful. He'll forget about you after enjoying a few days in South City. This isn't escaping; this mission was scheduled a long ti ago. If you guys do the job well, you'll receive imnse rewards when you return."

"Who else is going with ?"

"Maid Lotus, Wildhorse, Liuhua, and Snowcal."

Hearing the nas, Gu Shenwei was thrilled. Just like himself, these people were also widely recognized as the standouts of the Dragon Year apprentices. "This mission must be quite challenging," he thought.

However, when he knew what they were going to do, he was greatly disappointed.

This mission had nothing to do with assassination again. They were asked to escort so goods.

Bighead Kingpin missed his daughter and needed to maintain a good relationship with the Supre King. Given that, he would send a great number of gifts to Golden Roc Fort every winter. In return, the Supre King would send gifts to Bighead Kingpin every sumr. In the past, Golden Roc Fort had always sent red-belt killers to escort the gifts, but this year, it assigned the task to Little Flag Battalion.

It was an easy job. Seeing Golden Roc Flags and Iron Mountain Flags fluttering over the goods, even the boldest roving bandits would run away as soon as possible, let alone be covetous of the goods.

anwhile, it was also a very lucrative job. Golden Roc Fort would give the escort team mbers a large sum as a bonus, and Bighead Kingpin, who was famous for his generosity, would gift the team mbers with vast numbers of gifts too.

Seeing five brown-belt assassins receive this job, many red-belt killers felt jealous. Gu Shenwei guessed that the one who had helped to bring about such a sudden change of tradition must have been Luo Ningcha.

Just as he had expected, three days before the escort team's departure, Luo Ningcha summoned him and Maid Lotus to the Eighth Young Master's residence. She asked them to deliver a few ssages and a girl to her father.

The girl was Little Sui: one of Luo Ningcha maids.

Gu Shenwei believed that only soone from the Iron Mountain Gang would think that it was normal for a daughter to send a concubine to her own father.

Luo Ningcha had written a letter to her father. She required Slave Huan to hand it to her father in person. After a while, she sent all her servants away except Slave Huan.

In the room Shangguan Nu had specially reconstructed for his wife, Luo Ningcha said to her "conspiracy teacher" through the hollowed-out wooden wall. "I pleaded with my husband to let you guys escort the gifts this year. I think you know what I want."

Gu Shenwei had guessed what Luo Ningcha wanted, but he still shook his head, while saying, "Miss, please tell what you want. I dare not to read your mind."

"You told that a woman can only depend on her father and her husband. Did you forget it? My husband is unreliable, so I can only ask my father for help. You must try everything to persuade my father to attack the ng family's caravans and make them lose all their money." Luo Ningcha sounded peaceful. After learning so conspiracies from Slave Huan, she could control her emotions better now.

Gu Shenwei was excited to hear Luo Ningcha's plan since it would ruin the relations between Golden Roc Fort's two major allies. He thought it was worth a try and believed that Lady ng, who was on bad terms with the ng family, would never interfere in this issue. As Lady ng did not seem to rely on the ng family to win the lord's affection, Gu Shenwei guessed that the lord probably loved the lady for another reason.

"I see, but Miss, I'm just a humble slave boy. Bighead Kingpin probably won't believe my words."

"Take this with you as a token. My father will believe everything you say."

Luo Ningcha raised her hand to put sothing in the hollowed-out wooden wall. Gu Shenwei walked to the wall and saw a green jade ring there. He put it in his hand carefully and caught a glimpse of Luo Ningsha at that mont. She still wore a veil even when she was behind the wall.

After hearing Luo Ningcha's plan, Gu Shenwei began to look forward to the mission. He sincerely hoped that Bighead Kingpin would follow her daughter's advice to attack the ng family's caravans. He thought it would be a heavy blow to Golden Roc Fort.

This escort mission was more complicated than he had expected. The five chosen brown-belts assassins had a lot to prepare. The day before their departure, the killer ntors appointed Slave Huan as the chief of the brown-belt assassins. This appointnt nearly caused another gang war in Little Flag Battalion. However, being strictly monitored by the five killer ntors, the teenagers finally gave up their assassination attempts.

The killer ntors took turns to lecture the chosen brown-belt assassins, repeatedly emphasizing that now they were not apprentices anymore and should forget about their gang wars. All of the ntors required them to trust each other and work together as a team. In Tie Hanfeng's words: now was the ti for the puppies to obey rules. He said, "Stop biting each other inside the fort. You have to work together to fight against wolves outside the fort now."

Gu Shenwei did not expect much of his team and he thought that the ntors must have purposely chosen these five brown-belt assassins. Slave Huan and Maid Lotus were mbers of the forr Tattooed Arm Gang. Wildhorse and Snowcal were from the forr Snow Mountain Gang. Liuhua was a lone wolf and had never joined in any gang.

Slave Huan could never forget that it was Wildhorse who had left a deep wound in his chest, and Maid Lotus always wanted to take revenge on Liuhua who had shot two arrows at her. Liuhua also still held a grudge against Slave Huan since the slave boy had battered him unconscious during a mission last winter.

As the chief of the brown-belt assassins, Gu Shenwei only hoped that they would be able to work peacefully together during the trip. To achieve that goal, he needed to deal with these problems in advance.

The night before their departure, he went to et Wildhorse and made a deal with him. They promised each other that they would temporarily put aside all of their resentnt and work together to complete this mission.

Although Wildhorse had cut his own tongue, it was still quite easy to communicate with this leader of the forr Snow Mountain Gang, who was reasonable and understanding. The real headache for Gu Shenwei was Liuhua.

Liuhua was more secretive now. Teenagers of Little Flag Battalion seldom saw him even though he was also a mber of the battalion. He liked to hide in the darkness like a poisonous snake, preparing to launch an attack at any minute.

Nobody liked Liuhua. No one trusted him. He had absolutely no friends. Given that, Gu Shenwei could not find him or ask anyone to deliver a ssage to him before their departure.

He began to wonder , "It'll be a good thing if I can find a chance to kill this poisonous snake during the trip." This thought made him feel excited.