"People from Prince Liu Mansion have arrived! They say the Second Princess has had an incident, so they’re here to express their concern!" Ah-Chang answered with a sneering smile.
Prince Liu Mansion is nothing but a lapdog of the Emperor, secretly monitoring every move made by Sword King Mansion.
Given how they constantly set traps, suppress Sword King Mansion, how could they possibly care about Chu Feng’s elder sister?
It’s definitely a weasel paying New Year’s greetings to the chickens – no good intentions!
Chu Feng glanced at the dog slave Ah-Chang, who still refused to leave, wary that the boy might sneak into his room. He immediately pulled back his hand into his sleeve and quietly sprinkled some itching powder on the doorknob.
Only then did he head towards the front house.
Ah-Chang watched Chu Feng leave and then reached out to push the door, utterly unaware that Chu Feng had tampered with the doorknob.
But he soon felt an unbearable itching in his hands that quickly spread to his entire body.
Scratching was the natural response to itching, but the more he scratched, the itchier it became.
"Damn it, why did it suddenly become so itchy?" Ah-Chang originally wanted to enter Chu Feng’s room to inspect carefully.
Now tormented by the itch, he could no longer care about anything else and immediately hurried out of the room.
Upon returning, he rushed to wash his hands, even taking a bath, but nothing helped.
"I’m itching to death, itching to death!"
Ah-Chang couldn’t stop crying out in torment; however, he was smart enough to quickly run to the Medicine Hall to grab some medicine.
"This sudden itching is so strange, it must mostly be that waste of a Third Prince, who learned a tad bit at the Alchemy Academy, and concocted some poison to deal with me!"
"The Pill Masters at the Medicine Guild’s Hall, with their extraordinary skills, will surely be able to cure me easily!"
Ah-Chang’s feet were burnt by Chu Feng’s Abnormal Fire a few days ago and were still not fully recovered. He could only limp along.
He couldn’t help but curse Chu Feng again.
He had not even left the mansion when two guards approached carrying a simple stretcher.
There was a person bound to it, wailing non-stop.
"Who is that?" Ah-Chang noticed the person tied to the stretcher, not only bruised and swollen but also with festering, pus-filled wounds on exposed areas like arms and face.
Pus continuously seeped out, giving off a foul smell.
"He’s Manager Luo Mao! Yesterday, he encountered terrible lice in a small alley, couldn’t stop itching, and ended up !" One of the guards carrying the stretcher explained.
Luo Mao is the cousin of Chief Luo, and naturally, he’s not an ordinary servant but a manager in the mansion.
He also had a small measure of power.
Yesterday, he suffered a miserable fate; after being affected by Chu Feng’s itching powder, he went to seek help from Chief Luo’s concubine. As a result, he was caught by Chief Luo who believed he attempted to violate his concubine and was severely beaten.
The itching Luo Mao felt never stopped, and he could only continue to scratch.
By the next morning, the scratched areas began to fester and ooze pus. Concerned about potentially causing death, Chief Luo had no choice but to have Luo Mao bound and carried to the Medicine Hall for treatment.
Unexpectedly, after being brought to the Medicine Hall, the Pill Masters tried everything but saw no results.
Having no other options, they had him carried back.
His current state meant waiting for death.
The process would be excruciatingly painful and agonizing. Slowly dying amidst unbearable itching and pain.
"Ah... how did Manager Luo end up ?" Ah-Chang stared closely and recognized that it truly was Manager Luo Mao; his heart pounding fiercely.
Because Luo Mao had the mysterious itching condition, and now he had contracted it as well.
I definitely do not want to turn into a ghastly figure like Luo Mao!
With a gloomy face, Ah-Chang hurried to the Medicine Hall at top speed, scratching himself while pleading with the Pill Masters there to treat his illness. In his heart, he prayed nonstop, hoping desperately it wouldn’t be the same condition as Luo Mao’s!
In the end, after the Pill Masters examined him thoroughly, they recoiled as if seeing a ghost, hastily distancing themselves far away.
"Guards, kick him out immediately!"
"This man’s strange illness is very similar to the one Luo Mao from the Sword King Mansion was brought in with not long ago! This disease is incurable and might even be contagious!"
The Pill Master cried out in alarm.
Ah-Chang knelt down with a thud, pleading, "Please, prescribe me some medicine!" After his condition was diagnosed, he felt utterly hopeless.
It’s over, I didn’t expect to contract the same mysterious illness as Luo Mao.
Thinking about soon becoming just like Luo Mao, Ah-Chang collapsed to the ground.
The whip lashed fiercely against his body, and the guard at the Medicine Hall, looking fierce and malevolent, yelled, "Get out, get out now!"
Ah-Mo was driven out of the Medicine Guild’s Hall, but he didn’t give up hope, rushing through all the medicine halls and elixir shops in the Royal Capital, only to find no exception. All were powerless to help.
The poison of the Eternal Life Pill Master, is it so easily cured?
Let alone the minor Jianyun Dynasty, even in more powerful duchies, I fear no one could cure it.
Chu Feng entered the living room of the front house and immediately heard someone arrogantly say, "Chu Jian Lan, you better think this through! With the current status of the Sword King Mansion, it’s impossible for you to borrow the treasure to suppress Sword Qi."
"Just agree to betroth the Second Princess, Chu Yun, to my Eldest Prince, Liu Cong, as his wife, and Prince Liu Mansion will immediately present you the treasure to suppress Sword Qi!"
Chu Feng looked up and saw five or six people from Prince Liu Mansion sitting casually in the living room.
The speaker was Chief Manager Mo Shang of Prince Liu Mansion, a man not only of great strength but also cunning wit, deeply favored by Prince Liu.
He has also accomplished many commendable deeds for Prince Liu Mansion.
It was his idea to buy off Chief Luo Qude of the Sword King Mansion and even have the Emperor praise Luo Qude.
Over the years, Chu Jian Lan has been no match for him and was utterly consumed by him.
"Hehe... getting a wife, how amusing..."
Sitting next to Mo Shang was a grossly overweight young man who looked to be about thirty years old, a silly smile on his face, drooling from the corner of his mouth, with eyes more white than black.
This was the Eldest Prince of Prince Liu Mansion, Liu Cong, infamously known as the idiot throughout the Royal Capital.
It is said that Liu Cong had married three wives, one from a wealthy family, who discovered something was amiss during the wedding and immediately annulled the marriage. The bride ran away in tears.
The other two weren’t as lucky; one was crushed to death by this idiot. The second was reportedly drowned in a basin while washing her face, held underwater by this idiot.
Chu Feng’s sister, not only beautiful but also highly talented, could never possibly marry such an idiot.
At this moment, Chief Luo also chimed in, "Our Sword King Mansion has reached a dead end. To save the Second Princess, this might be the last chance!"
"Only Prince Liu Mansion would value us enough to lend such a precious item. Don’t think too much, Eldest Prince; you should agree quickly!"
In such a situation, a servant making decisions for his master shows just how arrogant this Chief Luo has become.
"I disagree!" Chu Feng declared with a proud posture.
All eyes turned to Chu Feng as he entered the reception room, especially Mo Shang, who was particularly surprised.
Because in his memory, Chu Feng was nothing but a cowardly waste.
When did he become so bold and imposing?
"The Third Prince is young; he surely can’t make such a decision, can he?" Chief Luo looked at Chu Feng with a particularly cold gaze. He had received orders from Liu Ping to eliminate Chu Feng and was constantly looking for an opportunity.
"You still recognize me as a prince? If I, a prince of the Sword King Mansion, can’t make decisions, should I let a servant like you do it?" Chu Feng stared at Chief Luo with a cold smile. After hearing about the tragic history of the Sword King Mansion yesterday, Chu Feng was no longer timid.
He no longer had any reservations; today was the day he would start striking back forcefully.
He would take on both Prince Liu Mansion and the Imperial Family.
As for Chief Luo, Chu Feng didn’t even consider him; he was just the first nail that Chu Feng needed to remove from the Sword King Mansion.