Chapter Fifty-Nine Entering the Mansion

  Seeing Ashina Wanlang's incredible strength, Ji Rufeng's kung fu was exceptionally high, and Song Kai also felt a bit more at ease.

  Everyone rode horses into the city.

  At the city gate, three corpses lay on the ground, apparently killed by the four black-clad men who were the city guards. These few people could also be considered good friends of Er Niu's, otherwise they wouldn't have let Er Niu send Song Kai out of the city gate so easily.

  "Let's hurry," Song Kai said, tightening the reins and riding his Western horse quickly towards Yang Rongguang's mansion.

  There were vague figures darting about on the road, some merchants going out to check the situation, and even more pawns gathering intelligence.

  The sound of horseshoes echoes in the dark night.

  A team of black-clad men came galloping towards us, with more than a dozen people, riding horses at high speed.

  Seeing Song Kai and others, the black-clothed man hesitated for a moment, but did not take action to block them, after all, there were many people on Song Kai's side.

  After a slight hesitation, Song Kai and others had already rushed past and turned into another alley.

  "Yin Huofa, those people just now didn't seem like our boatmen," someone asked the black-clad leader in a low voice.

  Yin Huofa thought for a moment and said, "Never mind all that, the order from above is to capture that man and woman, don't make things complicated."

  In an instant, the team of black-clad men had gone far away.

  Song Kai's hand had been tightly grasping the saddle bag, and seeing that the team of black-clad men did not block their way, he finally put his mind at ease.

  Before long, Song Kai and others stopped at a large mansion.

  "Is this the Yang's residence?" Ji Rufeng sized up the dark Yang Manor, then jumped off his horse and ran around the compound, taking a rough look, saying: "This compound is quite large, judging from the walls, the owner must be a meticulous person. The entire house is not a standard four-sided courtyard, but rather in the shape of the Eight Trigrams diagram. If we enter carelessly, we will definitely be blocked by the lake and bamboo forest, or even encounter poisonous snakes and the like."

  Song Kai was startled after hearing Ji Rufeng's words, it seems that the ancients were good at playing this set. Thinking about Yang Rongguang's watertight personality, it's not surprising that he would set up mechanisms in his own courtyard.

  "Seasonal grandfather, what to do now? Go in from the main gate?" Nie Ling asked.

  Ji shook his head, "Although the orientation of the main gate is shengmen, we can't enter from there. There must be heavily armed guards at the entrance. Let me take a look... hmm, I think we can enter from that direction. According to bagua fengshui, this place must have artificial hills and lakes, which would bring prosperity to the owner of the house. We'll go in from that side."

  The crowd followed Ji Rufeng to a courtyard wall, the wall was quite high, Ji Rufeng held his sword with one hand, suddenly jumped up, both feet stepped on the wall twice, then the long sword in his hand stabbed into the brick seam of the wall, and again exerted force, the whole person stood on the nearly two-zhang-high courtyard wall.

  Song Kai was somewhat astonished. Indeed, there are people outside of people and heavens beyond the heavens. This Ji Rufeng's lightness skill level is probably even better than that of Tang Yingxiong.

  Ji Ru Feng lowered his hand and quickly pulled the rope, Wan Lang jumped up and climbed onto the courtyard wall.

  Fortunately, the wall of this courtyard was very solid, made of double-layered giant bricks. Ashina Wanlang, a monster-like man, stood on top of the wall, quite stable and calm.

  Ashina Wanlang took over the long rope from Ji Rufeng's hand and soon lifted the rest of them to the top of the courtyard wall.

  Behind the courtyard wall was indeed a pond, and in front of it stood a lifelike artificial hill. The stones used to build the artificial hill were all transported from the shores of Taihu Lake. When the wind blew by, there was a faint sound of waves crashing against the shore.

  On the other side of the artificial hill is a huge artificial lake.

  "Be careful, everyone, these rocks are deliberately polished to be sharp in many places, just to prevent people from entering," Ji Rufeng said, lightly jumping and landing on the highest point of the fake mountain. After carefully examining it, he turned around and jumped back down, saying: "The person who built this fake mountain is very clever, inside there is a Nine Palaces Secret Passage Array. Now that it's too dark, we can't pass through the rocks, so we can only climb over from the top of the stones along a straight line. Wan Lang, follow me, there's a huge rock here, let's try to push it down."

  Ji Ru Feng simply said a few words and then led Ashina Wanlang to a huge stone about 70 or 80 feet away.

  "Push it down." Ji Rufeng pointed at the giant boulder.

  Song Kai and the others followed, seeing this giant stone, they couldn't help but secretly gasp in amazement. The stone was over three meters tall and weighed at least two tons. Although it was standing upright, it would be impossible for an ordinary person to budge it even a little bit.

  Ashina Wanlang nodded his thick neck and said: "Don't worry, Seasonal Manager, but what about the noise?"

  "Behind is the green moss, there won't be too much noise," Ji Rufeng said expressionlessly. "Even if there's a sound, I couldn't care less about it anymore. I think I already know which direction Yang Rongguang lives in."

  Ashina Wanlang firmly believed in Ji Rufeng's words, he placed his hands on the giant stone, grunted and exerted force, the huge stone slightly shook, he continued to exert force three more times along with the shaking of the stone.

  A loud crash was heard as the massive boulder fell and landed on the opposite side of the green moss, which was on the verge of collapse, emitting waves of sound.

  "Follow me," Ji Rufeng jumped onto the fallen giant stone and walked through in a few steps.

  Everyone followed the fish to move forward, and Song Kai finally understood Ji Rufeng's idea. This giant stone stood at a small pass, if it couldn't be pushed down, it could only be climbed. The distance of more than three meters was nothing for Ji Rufeng, but for Song Kai and others, it was much more difficult. Now pushing this stone down and smashing the sharp stones behind it would make it safer to walk.

  More than twenty minutes later, Ji Rufeng brought Song Kai and others to a wide place, and not far ahead, there were dense buildings.

  More than a dozen people rushed inside quickly, Ji Rufeng stood in front of Nie Lingtong all the time, apparently this old man was very confident, he believed that with his strength, rushing into a county magistrate's mansion would definitely be possible.

  The courtyard in front is brightly lit.

  Suddenly, more than 20 men in black clothes rushed out of the gate of the courtyard with a "brush brush" sound. They were holding Tang knives and didn't say much. After leaving the courtyard, they quickly ran towards the outside of the government office.

  "It's here," Ji Rufeng finally confirmed his speculation, "It seems that this person's power is indeed not small. Although the people under him have ordinary kung fu skills, they are indeed some ruthless and cunning bandits. It seems that they haven't done a few things like robbery and looting."

  At this time, in the living room of the courtyard house, a middle-aged man with a square face stood with his hands behind his back, looking solemn and thinking about something.

  He is Yang Rongguang.

  Things have now developed completely beyond Yang Rongguang's predictions.

  Before taking action, he naturally conducted a thorough investigation of Song Kai. From the results of the investigation, it can be seen that this person is indeed just a useless bookworm, but recently, he has shown extraordinary skills in business operations.

  But even if one is superior to others, he is merely a scholar or a merchant after all.

  Yang Rongguang sent twenty of his most capable subordinates, and even had his trusted aide lead the team. This trusted aide not only excelled in martial arts but also handled matters with finesse, bravery, and precision, just like Yang himself.

  Yang Rongguang didn't know why a sudden clap of thunder would occur on flat ground, but the sound and power really frightened Yang Rongguang. He didn't know what it was. Was it the power of heavenly thunder?

  It was this shocking news that made Yang Rongguang unable to fall asleep.

  Song Kai must be caught at all costs, no matter how high the price is, that guy must be eliminated as soon as possible.

  Yang Rongguang raised his head and said to the ten black-clad men under him: "You ten, go around and gather information. Whether it's the new gang, the Taihu gang, or the Qinggang, government officials, as long as they can provide news of Song Kai's whereabouts, we will reward them heavily. And send people to post official notices, wanted posters, and reward posters. We must catch that scholar as soon as possible!"

  "Yes! Your Majesty!"

  Ten men in black nodded and were about to leave, but then a chorus of shouts came from outside, followed by one of the men in black "thudding" into the hall from outside the door.

  Yang Rongguang narrowed his eyes and looked towards the door, where a giant of a man stood, resembling an iron tower. The man had a slightly large nose and naturally curly hair, and didn't seem to be a pure-blooded Tang Dynasty person, but rather a Hu merchant who frequently came to Suzhou City for business. However, his build was much larger than that of ordinary Hu merchants.

  "What kind of person are you?!"

  A man in black pointed at Ashina Wanlang.

  Ashina Wanlang sneered and said, "Anyone who angers my family's young lady must die!"

  As he spoke, Ashina Wanlang rushed towards Yang Rongguang who was at the very back.

  "Looking for death!"

  "What a barbarian!"

  "Kill him!"

  Several men in black drew their Tang knives and surrounded Ashina Wanlang.

  Ashina Wanlang suddenly pulled out a huge meteor hammer with a chain lock from his waist, and wherever the hammer went, two black-clothed men were smashed into meat paste in an instant.

  Yang Rongguang stood at the front of the living room, his face cold and gloomy. The deaths of two subordinates did not seem to terrify him excessively.

  Several black-clad men saw that Ashina Wanlang had such great strength and were somewhat intimidated, retreating in a flurry.

  Yang Rongguang, standing in the front, waved his hand and four middle-aged men who were standing in the dark flew out at the same time, surrounding Ashina Wanlang for an attack.

  Ashina Wanlang's flying meteor hammer flew out, but these four middle-aged men had much better kung fu. Two of them rolled on the ground and two jumped high into the air, dodging the flying hammer. The four men simultaneously drew their swords and stabbed at Ashina Wanlang.

  "Get out of here, Wan Lang! You're no match for me!"

  Ji Rufeng single-handedly held a sword and had already arrived, his long sword catching one of them.

  Ashina Wanlang hastily retreated, his footsteps were large, but three wounds still appeared on his body in an instant, and fresh blood gushed out.

  Several more people rushed in at the entrance, several Turkic warriors, they drew out strange weapons and fought with three middle-aged men.

  Soon afterwards, Song Kai and Nie Zhongtang also walked in.

  Seeing Song Kai's figure, Yang Rongguang, who was in a precarious situation, suddenly burst out laughing.

  "Song Kai, I've been searching for you everywhere and it's been a real hassle. Today, you're delivered right to my doorstep, and it just so happens that this settles the matter that's been weighing on my mind!"