mtl008 Chapter 725 Upright and Honest, Despicable and Shameless
Chapter 725 Upright and Honest, Despicable and Shameless
Lu Yangyang's initial goal was to kill Jiuying.
She has a clear understanding of herself. If it weren't for a surprise attack, she would never be able to compare to Tu Jiuying, who has practiced martial arts since childhood and has been able to lead the caravan to where it is today, in terms of both skill and experience.
If she wanted to stop Tu Jiuying here, she would have to resort to some tricks.
We must also guard against Tu Jiuying using underhanded tactics.
So she calculated the time it would take for Tu Jiuying to gradually lose her mobility, and without getting entangled with Tu Jiuying, she gave a signal to surround Tu Jiuying before the people around her realized something was wrong and came to help her.
Tu Jiuying was growing weaker and weaker, but she still gritted her teeth and shouted at the people who came to rescue her, "Don't worry about me, go quickly!"
But the brothers of the caravan had risked their lives for her, and they would never abandon her. In the blink of an eye, Tu Jiuying was captured.
Lu Yangyang deftly inserted a needle into her neck, rendering her completely immobile.
Then, holding the knife to her neck, he shouted at the caravan members, "Your leader has been captured. If you don't want to die, put down your weapons and surrender now!"
Tu Jiuying sneered: "Don't listen to her. Even if you surrender, she won't let you go. Get out of here!"
The brothers of the caravan looked unwillingly at the captured Tu Jiuying, then looked at their leader, Third Uncle, waiting for his order.
Tu Jiuying's gaze also pierced through the crowd and landed on her third uncle, giving him a silent nod.
Third Uncle stared at Tu Jiuying, remained silent for a moment, then suddenly gave an order, "Rescue the gang leader with all your might!"
Tu Jiuying stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
The caravan members immediately dispersed, surrounding Lu Yangyang and her group, along with the girls under her command.
"Release our gang leader, or you won't leave here alive today!" Uncle Three shouted.
Lu Yangyang looked at him quietly without moving.
The sound of horses' hooves came from behind.
Sheng Junyao rode in from outside, leading his men.
When Third Uncle saw Sheng Junyao, his expression changed drastically, yet he understood.
Tu Jiuying realized something from her third uncle's reaction. She paused slightly, ignoring the knife Lu Yangyang held to her neck, and slowly turned her head to look up at Sheng Junyao, who was riding a horse and looking down at her.
His eyes were very gentle.
It was a gentleness she had never seen before, radiating a warmth that seemed to envelop her very soul.
Sheng Junyao's gaze fell on Lu Yangyang, clearly not expecting that she could actually capture Tu Jiuying alive. "Yangyang!"
Lu Yangyang responded loudly, "Big Brother!"
The two exchanged a slight smile.
Tu Jiuying stared intently at Sheng Junyao's smile.
She loathed that smile.
Just like when they first met, she disguised herself as a beggar and entered the city, coercing those little beggars to steal from the streets in order to select manpower that she could train for her caravan.
It was early spring, and Yangguan City was unusually cold. She was squatting by the roadside with a few little beggars when she saw him ride his horse into the city from outside.
Feeling nauseous, she reached out and shoved the little girl, who looked only four or five years old, off his horse.
In a split second, he tightened the reins, forcefully turning the horse around. Then he bent down, lifted the little girl up, and after calming the frightened horse, he helped the dirty little girl off the horse. He handed the horse to the man behind him and asked him to take money to compensate for the roadside sign that the horse had kicked.
He put the little girl down with that gentle smile, squatted down and asked her if she was hurt. The little girl looked in his direction with fear.
She squatted down among the little beggars and got a good look at his face.
He was the most handsome young man she had ever seen in her life, and one she could never have imagined.
Her first thought was, "How can there be such a handsome young man in this world!"
God is so unfair, why does He favor him so much?
She had never known what beauty or ugliness was before. The brothers in the caravan were all rougher than the last. But after seeing him, she suddenly had a clear understanding of beauty and ugliness. So this is what handsome people in this world look like!
He turned his head and saw the group of little beggars. Instead of being disgusted, he frowned and said that they were dressed too thinly. He told someone to count how many homeless people were still in Yangguan City, to make room for them in houses first, and then to find them a way to make a living.
Then he asked someone to buy them food, and only after watching the person in charge come and take them away did he turn and leave.
She was taken to an old mansion by a group of beggars. She thought to herself that this was probably just a trick of the powerful and wealthy, who would just throw people they didn't want to see into a random place, throw some money over, and call it their kindness.
But to her surprise, she saw him again the very next day.
He personally led a group of people over, registered them one by one, and carefully inquired about their backgrounds, what they did, and what they wanted to do.
Those under ten years old were all sent to the orphanage; those between ten and fifteen years old were sent to be apprentices or do odd jobs according to their wishes; and those who were older were arranged according to the circumstances.
He patiently re-registered their household registrations one by one, found ways out for them, and even told them to keep an eye on each other. If they were bullied or encountered difficulties, they could go directly to the general's mansion to find him.
Only then did she realize that he was Sheng Junyao, the son of the Duke of Sheng's family from the capital, who was the subject of much discussion in Yangguan City, and the tutor of the Crown Prince.
That was a height she, a bandit, could never reach.
She seemed bewitched; not daring to wait for his questions, she ran away that very night and returned to the caravan.
After that, she practiced martial arts even more diligently and robbed passersby countless times on his travels. She harbored an almost eerie thought, wanting to attract his attention.
She was also afraid that he might actually set his sights on her.
She played this cat-and-mouse game with him countless times, until he finally caught her by the tail, almost driving the caravan into a dead end.
But the moment she faced him directly, she was incredibly excited.
She used every trick in the book, even luring him into a trap with the lives of innocent people, drugging him, trying to completely bring him down from his pedestal, but in the end she still underestimated him.
He was drugged and surrounded by dozens of people, but he stabbed himself and gritted his teeth to survive. He killed her brothers and injured her as well, and she almost died at his hands.
That was the most exhilarating confrontation of her life.
She failed.
But she was unwilling to do so.
How could she accept this?
Having met such a person, she could not help but feel a surge of emotion whenever someone else came near as powerful as him. She left the Northwest and came to Huangshadu. She tried her best to climb up the ladder, to be high above him, to pull him down and trample him into the mud.
But once again, just like the first time they met, he was on horseback, and she could only sit down in the mud and look up at him.
"Sheng Junyao, you pride yourself on being upright and honest, how come you have such a despicable and shameless sister?" Tu Jiuying stared at him with malice and malice.