latelenovela Chapter 1102 Another Toad Keeper
Chapter 1102 Another Toad Keeper
The man trembled with fear at the sight of the red-eyed toad in the woman's hand, repeatedly kowtowing and begging for mercy. "Miss Ying, please forgive me. The Feng family refused to accept the escort mission, but another man claiming to be the eldest son of the Wan family's escort agency insisted on delivering the goods. The Feng family even gave the deposit directly to the Wan family. I thought he wouldn't live to see Yuzhou anyway, but I didn't expect that this little devil would not kill the eldest son of the Wan family even after arriving at the Wan family, and then kill someone in the end."
Upon hearing the report, Yue Anying asked in confusion, "What was the reaction of the people of Yuzhou? Were they very scared? Did they find it terrifying?"
The man was taken aback, then answered truthfully, "Several highly skilled martial artists subdued the injured members of the Wan family. The government quickly suppressed the matter, and later surrounded the Wan family compound. I don't know their current situation, but a group of people have been staying at the prefectural government office. It seems that..."
Before the man could finish speaking, Yue Anying interrupted him, "What did you say? Why didn't they react? Shouldn't they be acting scared? Why aren't they afraid of my Hongbao?"
The man answered truthfully, "I didn't seem scared..."
Yue Anying's eyes were filled with anger. "Useless."
"Qian Shun, I think you're just after that hundred taels of silver as a deposit! You're always up to stealing, and you managed to lose such a large sum of money so easily." Another man with a scar on his face said mockingly, "You can't even handle this small matter, where's the money?"
Qian Shun angrily said, "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I possibly covet... money? The money is still in the hands of the Wan family. The government has surrounded the Wan family, and I haven't had a chance to go in and get the silver back yet."
He hurriedly kowtowed to Yue Anying and apologized, "Miss Ying, please investigate thoroughly. I absolutely did not embezzle the money. The money was indeed given to the Feng family at the time, but they then gave it to the eldest son of the Wan family. Later, the young master caused trouble at the Wan family, and you all know what happened after that."
Yue Anying revealed her delicate face, her eyes filled with tenderness as she stared at the golden toad. The toad jumped directly from her arm to her shoulder, but she showed no fear. Instead, a chillingly malevolent glint flashed in her eyes.
The golden toad swayed its two antennae, its red eyes fixed on Qian Shun's eyes as if it wanted to devour them.
The next moment, with a single glance from Yue Anying, the golden toad jumped directly onto Qian Shun's head, scaring Qian Shun so much that he trembled and almost wet his pants. "Miss, spare me! I really didn't embezzle a hundred taels of silver."
He even boasted that he would pay a hundred taels of gold as a reward, luckily he didn't have that much money on him, otherwise...
Yue Anying couldn't stop laughing at his cowardly appearance. "I knew you wouldn't dare to lie to me. When Hongbao comes back, don't scare Manager Qian."
The golden toad seemed to understand her words and jumped onto her shoulder. Yue Anying said, "I thought the people of Yuzhou would be scared out of their wits by my red treasure, but I didn't expect them to be so calm. It seems they still haven't grasped the prestige of the red treasure."
The other man with a scar on his face was her bodyguard named Craftsman Sword. His eyes also revealed a cold, bloodthirsty glint. "Miss Ying, what do you plan to do? I'll take care of it!"
“Hongbao loves to eat eyeballs, it must be hungry again.” She stroked the golden toad’s head and said coldly, “I will personally take it to find food and have a good meal.”
Qian Shun said, "Miss, you must not go out now. The Yuzhou government has drawn up a portrait of the young master and posted it everywhere. They want to capture the young master, and I am worried that the young master may be in danger."
Yue Anying sneered with smugness in her eyes, "Who in this world can be Hongbao's match? What a joke."
“I’m not lying. There’s a group of people from Yuzhou Prefecture who came from Shengjing. Miss, have you forgotten why the eldest young lady sent you to Yuzhou? The Feng family is the maternal family of the Empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty. When I saw that person in the crowd… although he was dressed as a man, he looked exactly like the Empress Jiang in the portrait,” Qian Shun said.
Yue Anying paused for a moment, then said, "You said Empress Jiang is in Yuzhou City."
Qian Shun nodded. "That's right, she looks exactly like the portrait."
He pulled out a portrait of Jiang Fenghua dressed as a woman. "It's her. I can see it clearly."
Yue Anying stared at the woman in the portrait. Her eldest sister had someone deliver the portrait to her. At the time, she thought there was no way there could be such a beautiful woman in the world, and now she really wanted to see her with her own eyes.
Qian Shun added, "The people around her have been protecting her every step of the way. The young lady said that if we encounter Empress Jiang, we should not act rashly. I have Da Feng guarding outside the Yuzhou government office."
The guard's eyes also became more wary. "Did you see clearly? It really is Empress Jiang Fenghua of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Is she as stunningly beautiful as in the portrait?"
"It looks pretty good." For the first time, Qian Shun agreed with Jiang Jian.
Yue Anying glared coldly at the guards, "How dare you even dream of her? She is the Empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty."
Jiang Jian quickly replied, "No woman in the world is as beautiful as Miss Ying. I'm just curious why the young lady is so wary of her. She's just an ordinary woman."
"So you're saying you look down on women?" Yue Anying said coldly.
The guard thought she was being unreasonable, but he still smiled apologetically and said, "That's not what I meant."
Yue Anying saw his sarcasm and said coldly, "I heard that the scar on the Craftsman's face was scratched by a woman in bed."
A hint of embarrassment rose in Jiang Jian's eyes, which quickly turned into respect. However, a deeper shrewdness was hidden in his eyes. "Miss Ying misunderstood. It was just a joke spread by my brothers."
Yue Anying ignored him and said, "I'd like to know why this Empress of the Great Zhou makes my elder sister so wary."
She felt that her eldest sister had become timid after going to Shengjing. Back when the down-on-his-luck prince of the Great Zhou Kingdom married into the Yuezhi, he was still in the same pathetic state decades later. Her eldest sister had only been attracted to his pretty face. In reality, he was useless and couldn't even hold onto the throne he had in his hands.
King Kang was utterly useless; no wonder he was banished from the capital.
Yue Anying wasn't even born back then. Now she's nineteen years old. When she grew up and gradually became more sensible, the Xie Kang she saw was at his most pathetic.
The Yuezhi clan already had a deep-rooted foundation in the Northwest. She just didn't understand why her family would settle down in such a poor place as the Northwest, or even why they didn't take an opportunity to migrate to the Central Plains.
It wasn't until an elder in the family produced a family heirloom that the Yuezhi people were told they had to wait for the right opportunity to invade the Central Plains. The heirs also said that the Yuezhi's ancestors came from a place called Yinchuan Licheng, and their original surname was Muqi. They moved to a more barren and impoverished place to hide in order to avoid the ruler of Yinchuan. They had been hiding there for hundreds of years.
The time is ripe, and the deities worshipped in the family have shown their power...