Chapter 139: Let's Start With You

"Quick, clean this place up!"

After settling the Dongning Army, a group of men under Lu Shaozhi's arrangement cleared out the main military tent and threw out all the people who had been killed there, but no one noticed that the finger of one of the bodies moved slightly.

"Hurry and throw them all out! These people are truly detestable; they have plagued our Dongning Army for so many years! It is fortunate that we caught them all in one net this time, otherwise it would have been troublesome!"

Directing men to carry the people out, Lu Shaozhi's voice was filled with anger. He was not the only one who was angry; the surrounding soldiers were as well, and their movements were inevitably a bit rough.

At this moment, Shen Yu pushed the door open and walked in. Seeing him, Lu Shaozhi hurried to greet him.

"Lord Shen, did you get the item? Are you sure you don't want to keep it within my Dongning Army?"

"I have already obtained the item. The people from the Thousand Blood Sect went to such great lengths just to get it. I am afraid they will make a comeback. The current Dongning Army needs to rest and recover, so it is relatively better to keep it at the Prefecture Office."

Looking around, Shen Yu then whispered, "Besides, how would they ever guess that the item was brought back to the Prefecture Office by me! Tell everyone not to speak of this, understand?"

"Rest assured, Lord Shen, everyone in our Dongning Army will certainly keep their mouths shut and will never make things difficult for you, Lord Shen!"

"That is good. I trust General Lu's way of doing things!"

The two chatted back and forth, and soon they were talking heatedly about other matters, seemingly completely unconcerned with the situation around them. Little did they know that at this moment, when one of the bodies was being lifted, it moved quietly once again.

After everyone had been cleared out and everyone had exited the place, Lu Shaozhi finally breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly, "Lord Shen, how was my performance just now?"

"It was decent, just a little bit too forced!" Looking at the corpses being dragged away, Shen Yu smiled lightly, his smile holding a hint of cunning.

"Everyone was killed, but only this person still has a breath left. This person's hard-body Martial Arts is quite extraordinary; not only is his physical body tough, but his vitality far exceeds that of an ordinary person. It is precisely because of this that his life was saved, allowing him to endure it by sheer force of will!"

"However, he thinks he has hidden himself well, but he cannot deceive my eyes. After all, besides this set of Martial Arts, I also possess a decent level of medical skill!"

"Lord Shen, are you sure they will fall for it?" Regarding this, Lu Shaozhi expressed that he remained skeptical, as these people had been able to lurk in the Dongning Army for so many years and were not easy to deal with.

"Whether it works or not, let's just gamble on it; we have nothing to lose anyway! The Thousand Blood Sect went to such great lengths just to get that item, so they must value it highly. If they learn that the item is at the Prefecture Office, they will surely spare no cost!"

Speaking to this point, Shen Yu said indifferently, "Even if they don't make a move, I will find a way to make them move. I don't believe they won't fall for it!"

"Good, when the time comes, this General will definitely kill them to my heart's content!" Gripping the hilt of his sword, murderous intent erupted on Lu Shaozhi's face.

This was only because he hadn't caught the opportunity before, allowing this Lord Shen before him to take them all out in one go. Otherwise, he would have definitely let these people know his strength.

After staying in the military camp for a long time and arranging everything, Shen Yu chose to return to the Prefecture Office. However, at this time, he was not alone; he was followed by an elite guard of several hundred men.

He was now not only the Prefect of Songnan Prefecture but also held the 180,000-strong Dongning Army in his hands, no longer fearing any challenge. With an army to suppress everything, no one in Songnan Prefecture dared to resist!

Of course, he had to finish what he wanted to do before the new Commander dispatched by the imperial court arrived. But these matters had to be dealt with swiftly and decisively—act first and report later!

"Master Du, I beg you, our family only has this little bit of rations left. If you take all this grain away, how can our family live? Please, have pity on me!"

While leading his men on the road back to the prefecture city, Shen Yu suddenly seemed to hear a miserable cry for help as he passed a village. Accompanying the woman's voice were the cries of several small children.

"Get lost! You want me to have pity on you? Who is going to have pity on me!" In front of a low-thatched hut, a man dressed like a servant kicked a woman to the ground, not softening in the slightest because of her pleas.

The woman had two children beside her, and with that one kick, the two small children next to her were also knocked to the ground. For a time, the sound of crying and wailing echoed throughout the entire courtyard.

"Cry, cry your ass off! I hate nothing more than you mud-legged peasants crying. If you don't have rations, don't you still have a little daughter? She's quite pretty. Send her to the young master's room, and your family will have rations for the whole year!"

"Master Du, I have already sent my eldest daughter in; I cannot push Nini into the fire pit as well!"

"Fire pit? You can earn money just by lying down; isn't that much better than what you're doing now!" Sneering, the man looked at the woman with disdain, his high-and-mighty demeanor as if he were looking down on everything.

"If you ask me, you're just too stupid. A woman, who isn't she with? If your daughter goes to the young master, she's guaranteed to have food and drink without worry. If the young master happens to take a fancy to her, you'll be rich!"

"You know, the little girl is actually quite pretty!" Seeming to have discovered something interesting, the servant walked up and pinched the little girl's face, scaring the little girl into hiding desperately behind her mother.

"What are you afraid of? Maybe one day you'll be serving me, Master. I have to say, your eldest daughter's taste, tsk tsk, is very tender!"

"You, you!" Raising her head, the woman's eyes were filled with unwillingness and hatred, yet she dared to be angry but dared not speak. But this look happened to fall into the eyes of the other party.

"What's this? You still dare to resist? Slap!" He came up and kicked her again, knocking the woman to the ground once more. He stepped on the woman's face and ground his foot into it fiercely several times.

"You dog-like thing, you dare to look at this Master with such eyes? I think you don't want to live anymore!"

"Take him for me!" Shen Yu, who had quietly arrived at the scene, really couldn't watch anymore and immediately ordered the surrounding guards to take the man down. Damn it, he had never seen anyone so arrogant!

"Clang, clang!" Several sounds of swords being drawn rang out. The guards beside him rode their horses in and pinned the man who had been doing the beating right there. The man's head was pressed directly against the ground and rubbed back and forth.

"Military lords, it's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding, military lords!" The guards who had suddenly broken in terrified him; he didn't remember offending any big shots. He was just a small character and didn't have that much courage.

"Misunderstanding? You bully the common people and act recklessly, and you dare to call it a misunderstanding?"

"It's them who owe rent to our Zhen'an Earl's house. We are here to collect debts. Debts must be repaid, military lords!"

"Zhen'an Earl!" Hearing this shout, Shen Yu walked in from the outside, looking down at him from a high position. "The Zhen'an Earl who collects ninety percent rent regardless of whether they farm his land or not? So it's him!"

"Yes, we are from the Zhen'an Earl's house, we are all one family!!"

"Who the hell is family with you? Take him away and throw him into the dungeon for me! A fine Zhen'an Earl indeed. Since I've run into this, I'll start with you!"