Chapter 615: Taste the Feeling of Having Your Life and Death Controlled by Others

Chen Guanlou laughed.

He pointed at Xu Wei Laosan. "Do you think you are being righteous by avenging your father? Don't rush to deny it."

Xu Lin didn't make a sound, but his expression explained everything.

Chen Guanlou sneered, looking down on him, and said in a deep voice: "This matter is very simple and can be explained clearly in two or three sentences. The Shen family promoted your father Xu Jinsong in his early years, helping Xu Jinsong rise to the top—is this a fact, did this happen? Yes! After the Shen family fell, Xu Jinsong gathered the connections left behind by the Shen family—did this happen? Yes, that's right. When the Shen family fell, the late Master Shen implicated your father and set a trap; your father escaped by luck—let's assume this happened. The three points above, I didn't say anything wrong, right?

Then, when the Shen family was beheaded and exiled, from the day the Shen family left the capital, the grudge between the Shen and Xu families was settled; from then on, bridges returned to bridges and roads returned to roads. This is also the reason why your father Xu Jinsong ignores the Shen father and son even though he knows they entered the capital for medical treatment, treating the Shen family entirely as strangers.

Since they are strangers, and since the grudge was settled twenty or thirty years ago, Xu Sanye, on what grounds do you send people to the yamen to report them and insist on driving them to their deaths? The Shen family hasn't hindered your Xu family!"

Xu Lin's expression froze, and then he argued: "The Shen father and son are exiled criminals who forged their identity documents to sneak into the capital. I would have let it go if I didn't know, but since I know, what is wrong with sending people to report them?"

"Oh my, you are quite righteous. Don't tell me you, Xu Wei Laosan, are an innocent citizen whose hands haven't been stained with the blood of others. What kind of goods you, Xu Wei Laosan, are—others might not know, but can I not know? Your own backside isn't clean, yet you have such a sense of justice; why don't you go report yourself? Why don't you turn over a new leaf and spit out all the bad things you have done at the yamen, letting the yamen exile or behead you?"

Chen Guanlou's sarcasm made Xu Wei Laosan very embarrassed.

"To you, the Shen father and son are like ants. The reason you refuse to let them go is nothing more than the pleasure of controlling the fate of others. Controlling the life and death of others, others going to heaven or hell because of a word from you—how awesome you, Xu Sanye, are! The arrogance of an official's son, the disregard for the lives of others, the ultimate pleasure of controlling the lives of others—it is all vividly reflected in you, Xu Sanye."

Chen Guanlou tore off Xu Wei Laosan's fig leaf without any politeness.

"You just want to make the Shen father and son have no way to heaven and no door to earth, playing with the fate of others to please yourself. Xu Sanye, right now, your life is also being controlled by me, and your future and fate will also be played with by me. Are you nervous? Are you afraid? Do you hate me?"

In the small teahouse, the pressure suddenly increased significantly.

Xu Lin suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, his whole body as if soaked in a pool, drenched, sweat dripping and accumulating into a puddle on the ground.

He was like a drowning fish, desperately opening his mouth to breathe.

So uncomfortable!

Can't breathe!

It felt like he was about to die!

He desperately tore at his clothes, grabbing his chest, seemingly wanting to tear a hole in his chest so that his lungs and heart could get some respite. He also grabbed his neck, trying hard to stretch his neck, as if the longer his neck was, the more filled with air it would be.

At the moment he was about to die, fresh air suddenly rushed toward his face; he opened his mouth to breathe and finally lived again.

"Did you feel it?"

Chen Guanlou's voice seemed to drift from very far away, yet also very close, clear yet flickering.

"The taste of having your life and death controlled by others—does it feel good? Do you hate it? Are you afraid?"

"You, Xu Wei Laosan, rely on power to wantonly trample on others, play with the fate of others, and control the life and death of others. Today, I'll let you have a small taste of it. How is it? My little trick, Xu Sanye, is it worthy of your eyes?"

Chen Guanlou had a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he were asking about the weather today, chatting about daily life.

Xu Lin desperately gulped down water; he drank half a pot of tea in one breath, barely solving his thirst.

He was in a mess, his face looking like a dying person, his body too weak to stand straight.

"I have one thing I don't understand, and I ask Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen to enlighten me."

"Speak."

"Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen has no kinship or friendship with the Shen father and son; why help them stand up?"

"You have no bottom line, so you can't allow me to have no bottom line, right? Such a small child, suffering from such a serious illness—even if they are strangers, since I encountered them, it is very normal to help them out."

"I just wanted to let that father and son leave the capital."

"The capital is so big, a metropolis of over a million people, and that father and son didn't get in your way. You can tolerate a million people, yet you can't tolerate the Shen father and son seeking medical treatment. Heh!"

"I asked someone; the boy's illness is already seven or eight parts better. Even if he leaves the capital now, there is no danger to his life."

"The root of the illness hasn't been cut; if he leaves the capital now, and the illness recurs in the future, will you be responsible?"

"Just because of this?" Xu Lin seemed unable to accept that the reason was so simple and straightforward. He had thought that the Shen father and son had attached themselves to Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen and promised some benefits.

Chen Guanlou smiled lightly. "I have the ability to do evil, but I control my own hands not to do evil; this is called having a kind heart, having a conscience, and having a bottom line in doing things. Similarly, you, Xu Wei Laosan, have the ability to do evil and put it into action; this is called doing evil, bullying others with power, and bullying the weak. Today, I'll let you taste the feeling of being bullied by the strong, taste the feeling of being a weak person—does it feel good?"

Of course, it didn't feel good!

He almost died!

Xu Wei Laosan didn't make a sound.

Chen Guanlou patted his cheek. "For the rest of your life, you must remember today, remember the taste of having your life and death controlled by others. If you fall into my hands again, even if your father is Xu Jinsong, if I want you to die, your father won't dare to let out a fart!"

"Our Xu family has money!"

"This official is not short of the Xu family's silver! You behave yourself. Learn more from your father; if the well water doesn't interfere with the river water, and both sides don't disturb each other, that is the way a smart person acts."

Chen Guanlou came suddenly and left suddenly; as soon as the words fell, he was no longer in the teahouse private room.

Seeing that no one was there, Xu Lin finally came back to life. Once his spirit relaxed, he fell to the ground, crawling against the wall and laughing. When the servants came in and saw him in this state, they thought he was possessed by an evil spirit. They hurriedly carried him home, called a doctor to check him, and were terrified that something might go wrong.

The doctor diagnosed him, saying he had been frightened and his spirit was unstable. He prescribed calming medicine and said he would recover after resting for a few days.

The entire Xu family was very puzzled.

Who?

Who had the ability to make the third son so frightened? Could it be the Wei family of the Marquis of Xuanwei's mansion?

After some inquiries, the third Wei son of the Marquis of Xuanwei's mansion wasn't in the capital at all; it was said he had gone to a villa outside the city to avoid the heat, had been gone for more than half a month, and hadn't returned yet.

If it wasn't the Wei family, then who could it be?

When Xu Wei Laosan woke up and everyone asked, Xu Wei Laosan refused to reveal the truth. It wasn't until his father Xu Jinsong threatened him that he finally revealed the truth.

"It was Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen of the Heavenly Prison!"

"That Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen of the Marquis of Pingjiang's mansion?"

"Exactly!"

"Why did you offend him? That person is rebellious and does things that are hard to reason with. But it is said that he never takes the initiative to provoke trouble. How did you provoke him?" ===== CHAPTER 616 =====