Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“What happened?”
After breakfast, Jiang Pengji sat still in meditation for a while. After she finished, she started streaming and said hello to the audience as she usually did.
On the way to the study, she saw two middle-aged, female servants whispering by a rockery. One of them had tears on her cheeks and was seemingly frustrated.
Jiang Pengji’s five senses were really outstanding, which would sometimes bring her troubles. To cope with the drawback, Jiang Pengji always chose to suppress her five senses to a level that was still higher than that of an ordinary person’s.
From a long distance, she could only hear some fragmented words like “county gate,” “death,” and “wounded.”
When the servants saw someone was coming, they looked panicked. They were supposed to be working, so shouldn’t they be panicked if they were caught shirking? There were specific rules in the the Liu Mansion. After County Chief Liu had come back, he was even more strict with the servants. Shirking was one that had severe consequences.
“Don’t be so flustered! Tell me––what happened at the county gate?” Jiang Pengji looked at the middle-aged woman who was so red-eyed from crying. “I am not the kind of person who doesn’t care about people’s feelings. If you have a reason for shirking, I will not blame any of you.”
The middle-aged woman hurriedly grabbed her sleeves and said painfully, “This morning, my parents came here together. They didn’t expect that a group of burly men on horses who called themselves the people of the Meng’s from Cang Prefecture would kill ordinary people at the county gate. To protect my mother, my father got one leg broken by being trampled under a horse’s hoof…”
Jiang Pengji suddenly turned serious. The audience in the live streaming room expressed their shock one after another.
Mingyue Tianya: “Gosh, did I hear that wrong?”
Armstrong: “All things happened around the streamer recently seem to be relevant to the Mengs.”
Yiye Chengzhou: “The Meng’s have gone too far. Breaking through the county gate… Have they gone crazy?”
“Since your father has been injured, I assume you are worrying over him a lot and can’t focus on your work. Go get an extra wage for this month and buy some food or medicine of highly nutritious value. Your father’s aged; he can’t recover as quickly as younger people.”
The servant suddenly burst into tears, then expressed her very thanks to Jiang Pengji.
After the servant had gone away, Jiang Pengji looked at the other news spreader with much coldness in her eyes.
“Come here. Tell me what happened at the county gate this morning, and make it more detailed.” Jiang Pengji had already expected that Meng Liang’s servants in charge of his safety would come, but she had never expected that they would come so fast––and in such an arrogant way. They even hurt––and killed––ordinary people.
The woman who came to tell the news was a servant of the Liu Mansion, but she didn’t live there. Normally, she worked in a relatively remote place in the outer court. With not much work to do, she had some time to spread the gossip when everything was done. She was considered the gossip spreader of the Liu Mansion.
Although she was usually not in the spot that the incident occurred, she made the story so vivid at the advantage of her excellent storytelling skills.
“Are you sure that some people were killed?” Jiang Pengji asked. A touch of death flashed in her eyes. Then, her impression on the Meng’s turned worse.
The servant got to the exciting part––she even made gestures with her two hands to illustrate the scene. “Yes, there are more than a few people that died under the hoofs of their horses. A beautiful, young woman who was at the age for marriage intended to buy some red ribbons in the county with her mother. Who would have expected that to happen… People say that the “emperor” of the Cang Prefecture, whose surname is Meng, doesn’t even give a sh*t about the government officials. According to what happened this morning, it is true indeed.”
Jiang Pengji glared at her coldly, saying, “How could you dare to say that? Are you not afraid of being killed?”
When the servant figured out what Jiang Pengji meant, she bowed for mercy and was covered in a cold sweat.
“Remember that trouble comes from people’s mouth. Your death alone may not matter, but don’t get the whole Liu Mansion into trouble.” Jiang Pengji waved her hand, signing her away. “Since there is a reason, I will not blame you this time. Never leave your post without permission hereafter.”
In the live streaming room, the bullet messages flashed one after another. Some just said, “Hahaha,” while others were laughing faces.
One Chestnut: “The behavior of the streamer is a typical demonstration for the saying, “While the magistrates are free to burn down houses, common people are not allowed to light lamps.” She has even abused the royals of the Dongqi many times. When the servant said something bad of it, she gave her a lesson instead. Who knows how distressed the servant feels?”
One More Chestnut: “That’s why she’s called bossy!”
Two More Chestnuts: “The only one streamer that is not annoying while being bossy.”
Sugar-fried Chestnuts: “Nah… Isn’t the Meng’s arrogance the focus for the time being? They broke through the county gate and even killed ordinary people.”
Apparently, only a few audience members loved to get the storyline directly. Most of the audience came to see the streamer.
“The Meng’s…”
Jiang Pengji could imagine the bloody chaos at the county gate this morning. In the future, the first thing to destroy is you!
She suddenly opened her eyes and walked out of the Liu Mansion. Then, she got into a carriage and asked the driver to drive her to the Fulai Gambling House.
Before she got any closer, a bloody smell had already drilled into her nose.
Human blood varied slightly in smell from other blood. People of an extremely sensitive sense of smell could get a good deal of information by smell, such as the number of dead people, the length of time after death… That was how excellent she had been in her previous life. In her current life, she would never be that excellent, for she did not receive much ability from the former her.
However, judging by her rich experience, there were at least fifty people dead inside the house!
Jiang Pengji’s face turned much more serious. She said to the driver, “Go ahead and see what’s happening…”
The driver drove the carriage forward. The door of the gambling house was surrounded by a group of people. Many soldiers in military uniform carried out bodies covered in white cloth one after another. The blood had not yet solidified, so it dripped down on the way out. The beholders were all scared silly at the sight of the horrible scene.
“Geez… They are all dead…”
Jiang Pengji clenched her fists. At that moment, she turned unprecedentedly cold. The System with her was even more eager to reduce her sense of existence to zero for fear of being remembered by Jiang Pengji… Yep, I really can’t bear the anger of this host.
The almost frozen atmosphere didn’t last very long. Jiang Pengji loosened her fists, then opened her crystal-like eyes.
“Go ask what happened.”
The driver got out of the carriage for inquiry. Jiang Pengji opened the curtain and saw the police officers carrying the bodies out constantly. One of the police officers held a large bag of bloody things. The blood stained the coarse cloth red, and it dripped down like a stream. What was inside might have been the broken parts of other corpses.
In fact, the driver didn’t have to ask the others because Jiang Pengji could piece together a complete picture according to what the onlookers were talking about.
A group of burly men in heavy armor with knives on their waists and long whips in hands rushed into the gambling house. Then, after not a long while, the people inside were all dead.
“Hey… Do you think… the riot at the county gate and slaughter in the gambling house were done by the same group of people?” someone asked in a very low voice, fearful of being targeted by the group of death gods.
“Yeah, definitely. Someone saw them rushing into the gambling house after they broke through the county gate…”
“Those evil killers should all be executed by justice…”
“Humph, too naive. They are the people of the Meng’s from Cang Prefecture. Who could deal with them, even if they kill more people?”
