Chapter 10 Death of the Sole Cousin of Gao Lishi(Duke of Qi)

Author: Jin Xifeng Translator: Fanglin Louis

Introduction of the novel "The Great Khan" from the author:

A modern Chinese soul-travels to the Tang Dynasty 1300 years ago and merges into the body of Xue Chongxun, the eldest son of Princess Taiping of the Tang Dynasty of China. He tragically discovers that he and his families will be killed by the then Crown Prince Li Longji in a coup within the forthcoming two year later according to the original historical development. Therefore, Li Longji becomes his destined mortal enemy since he soul-travelled back to the world. So, as the protagonist of this novel, how can he sort out to avoid that disaster? In order to survive, is he qualified to be the opponent of Li Longji, the original great man in Chinese history? How should he reinterpret the prosperous Tang poetry in this time and space he traveled to? ……

Message from the transaltor:

All contents posted here is my Enlgish transaltion of the Chinese novel ,which was oringinally posted in the website as https://www.xiguasuwu.com/bookread/3704055759/405836.html

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"How do you have the effrontery to come here?" Feng Yuanjun saw Yuwen Ji, and his face was full of expressions of anger, grievance, and a hint of pride.

Yuwen Ji said coldly: "I am not here to beg you, but to remind you to release the Xue family's maid as soon as possible, otherwise you will fall into Xue Chongxun's trap."

"Remind me? Why do you want to remind me?" Feng Yuanjun said with a sneer.

Yuwen Ji said: "This morning, my father and I happened to pass by the Market Western, Where he saw you asking people to snatch that girl.At that moment my father immediately blurted out that you fell into Xue Chongxun's trap-He was waiting for you to do this today. I kindly reminded you because I hate Xue Chongxun and you were kind to our family in the past."

Feng Yuanjun frowned, looking at Yuwen Ji's charming face with a tearful expression: "You still know that I treat you well? Your father Yuwen Xiao is just a small tea trader! Have I, the vice-director of the Taichang Department, ever despised you? My cousin reminded me many times that, I should marry with a girl from a big and noble family because our Feng family lacks supports from the noble families! But for you, I didn't even listen to my cousin. What did I get in return for my kindness? Your betrayal!"

He took a step forward and laughed, almost laughing to tears: "The stuff of prostitutes from the imperial music office was used on my wife who had not yet married..."

Yuwen Ji's face flushed, and she took a step back: "Now it is not the time to argue about who is right or wrong. Xue Chongxun must be sharpening his knife for you. You should let that girl go quickly. Don't give him a chance, otherwise you will be in trouble and danger."

Feng Yuanjun smiled and said, "I just captured one of his maids. It's not a big deal. What can he do to me?"

Yuwen Ji said anxiously, "Believe me, I hope you won't get angry for a moment, and take the long view. I was humiliated because I had no choice but to do so..."

"Bitch!" Feng Yuanjun slapped her. Although he was not tall, his palm was very powerful as a result ?Yuwen Ji was slapped to the ground, causing half of her face to swell up.

"Didn't your father say that you are both good at medicine and martial arts, and you are beautiful and intelligent? If you don't want to be humiliated by him, can Xue Chongxun, a drunkard and a womanizer, possess and humiliate you? Do you think I'm as stupid as a pig? I hate you so much in my heart that I wish I could tear you two adulterers into pieces!"

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Yuwen Ji covered her swollen face, tears welling up in her eyes. Suddenly, she walked to the big case and took down the sword hanging there for display. Feng Yuanjun was shocked: "What are you going to do? Want to kill me?"

"Dang!" Yuwen Ji gently pressed the mechanism on the hilt, and the sword tip popped out. She turned the sword upside down, facing Feng Yuanjun with the hilt, and handed it to him, saying: "Kill me."

Feng Yuanjun was stunned, but sneered: "Kill you? I will be sued if I kill you! Get out of here, I still have to taste what Xue Chongxun's woman is like." After saying that, he snatched the sword and threw it aside, grabbed her arm and pushed her out the door.

Yuwen Ji said: "You are so afraid of trouble, why do you want to provoke Xue Chongxun? The more afraid you are of trouble, the more trouble will come to you!"

"Want to provoke me? You underestimate me too much!"

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A group of people holding wooden sticks in their hands escorted a felt carriage and arrived at the gate of Feng's family. The servants at the gate saw that the visitors were not friendly, so they hurriedly gathered together and blocked the door.

At this time, Fang Yuzhong bent down and walked to the side of the felt carriage, respectfully lifting the curtain for the people inside. Then, Xue Chongxun, wearing a linen robe, walked out of the felt carriage calmly and calmly accepted the bows of the servants around him.

After Xue Chongxun walked out of the felt carriage leisurely, he looked up with interest at the plaque above the door, which read: Feng Mansion.

Obviously, the servants of the Feng family knew Xue Chongxun, so when they saw him, one of the servants hurriedly stepped forward and said, "It turns out that you, the Duke, have come here. Please wait a moment, I will go and report to my master..."

As soon as the word "master" was mentioned, Xue Chongxun suddenly kicked up, with his right leg drewing a beautiful arc in the air, and kicked the servant's chest with a "bang" - because the right foot was used to apply force with a perfect point of force ,it generated huge power, caused the servant to scream "ah" and hit the black lacquered door with a "bang!" ,and finally bounced out and fell on his face.

Seeing this, Fang Yuzhong immediately shouted: "Everyone, rush up to fight!"

The other servants of Feng Mansion at the gate immediately attempted to surround and block them. One of them pulled out the poker lamp, threw the lamp away, leaving only the long handle as a weapon, rushed towards Fang Yuzhong, and swept Fang Yuzhong's head with the handle.

While seeing the coming momentum, Fang Yuzhong planted his lower body firmly, and gently tilted his body, so that the wood stick hit nothing; at the same time, he gently held the stick with both hands, using the slow force to gradually dissipate the force of the stick during the falling process, and then pushed it forward, which caused the Feng Mansion servant holding the stick to take a step back, plant his horse stance, and reflexively push forward to balance Fang Yuzhong's push.

Unexpectedly, Fang Yuzhong's hand holding the other end of the stick suddenly pulled it into his arms,while the Feng mansion servant was pushing towards him with force. Along with the two forces being combined, it caused him to stagger and lose balance and fall over. At this time, because the front of the Feng Mansion servant was completely empty, he just met Fang Yuzhong's iron fist with a strong wind, so he was beaten with teeth and blood flying, and seeing the whole world spun for a while, and fell softly to the ground.

After Fang Yuzhong grabbed the stick, he suddenly flipped sideways and jumped into the air, with the stick in his hand drawing a large circle in the air, hiting the servant who was rushing from the left on the shoulder. Then, with a loud snap, the stick broke into two pieces while the servant of Feng Mansion was beaten to his knees, screaming in pain.

As a dozen or so servants of the Xue family rushed forward with sticks in their hands, they fought with the servants of the Feng family. As the servant of Feng mansion were completely defenseless, ????only the occasional screams from the Feng family servants were head amid the sound of the sticks. In a flash, many of the Feng family servants had fallen to the ground crying.

At this time, only two people did not join the fight:Xue Chongxun, who stood behind and watched, and Sanniang beside him, who also stood there coldly.

At this time, a servant dressed in Feng Mansion's clothes suddenly opened the door at the gate, turned around and ran inside to report his master. Xue Chongxun's people did not hesitate and hurriedly followed him in.

The servant ran on the corridor and went straight inside. On the way, he bumped into several maids carrying things, causing the cups and plates falling into a mess. The people chasing behind followed him closely.

After passing through the corridor, the servant went into a cave door, ran to the door of a house and immediately banged the door, shouting: "Master, the young master of the Xue family is knocking on the door!"

When Xue Chongxun and his group just caught up with him, the servant was so scared that his legs softened and he squatted down with his hands on his head. At this moment, the door opened and Feng Yuanjun appeared at the door. He did not avoid Xue Chongxun's angry eyes. With the four eyes met, the surroundings seemed to be filled with gunpowder immediately. Seeing that intense situation the servant who reported the news hurriedly crawl away.

"Feng Yuanjun, where is Pei Niang?" Xue Chongxun asked with a smile. Fang Yuzhong beside him was clenching his fists, his knuckles "snapping", shaking his head left and right, and twisting his neck to make a crackling sound.

At this time, Xue Chongxun looked around, but did not see Sanniang, wondering where she had hidden. However, Xue Chongxun believed that she was nearby, just waiting for a moment to suddenly attack and kill Feng Yuanjun.

Perhaps angered by Xue Chongxun's smile, Feng Yuanjun also showed an extremely ugly forced smile, raised his head and said: "I have already stripped her naked and fucked her." Of course, this was a deliberately provocative angry remark, because Feng Yuanjun had a quarrel with Yuwen Ji not long after returning, and had not had time to look at Pei Niang.

Xue Chongxun ,who was furious at the provocation words from Feng, immediately stepped forward, grabbed Feng Yuanjun's collar, and instantly hit Feng Yuanjun in the face with his right fist.

"Bang, bang, bang..." In less than ten seconds, Xue Chongxun threw at least twenty punches, raining down on Feng Yuanjun's head. This violent attack made Feng Yuanjun's teeth pop out, his nose bleed, his face was swollen and purple, and his eyes could only be squinted - even if his mother saw him now, she would not recognize him.

Next, Xue Chongxun grabbed his collar and pushed his hand forward, and Feng Yuanjun immediately backed up and broke the door, falling on his back. Then, Xue Chongxun jumped in, stepped on his hand, and crushed it hard, causing Feng Yuanjun to scream like a pig being slaughtered.

At this time, Xue Chongxun felt that he was still not satisfied, so he grabbed Feng Yuanjun's already messy hair and pulled it hard.But because he grabbed too little hair, he only heard Feng scream "Ah", and a strand of his hair was pulled off, as well as a piece of his scalp.

Throwing away the hair in his hand, Xue Chongxun opened his palm, grabbed a handful of Feng Yuanjun's hair again and lifted it up. At this time, Feng Yuanjun could only stand trembling in front of him, so weak that he could fall down with just a poke of one’s little finger.

Xue Chongxun leaned over, with his face almost touching Feng Yuanjun's, his teeth gnashing and making a sound that made people's teeth ache. He stared at Feng Yuanjun's eyes, which were only two slits left, and said coldly: "Is it fun?"

Just then, Sanniang suddenly appeared at the door. This ghostly woman walked without making any sound. She looked back, walked over gently and slowly, with her cold and pale fingers touching and holding the hilt of the dagger at her waist.

The temperature in the room seemed to drop suddenly in an instant.

Just then, a sudden shout: "Stop!" It was Yuwen Ji's voice.

Sanniang hesitated for a moment, then, with her figure moving as fast as a rabbit fleeing for survival sherushed towards Feng Yuanjun like lightning!

Was her hesitation at that moment an attachment to life?

Noticing her hesitation, Xue Chongxun suddenly had the melody of a song from his previous life in his mind: "You ask me how much I love me, how much I love you, my feelings for you are true, my love for you is true, my affections upon you are pure and true like the moon in the sky..." Human feelings are the most difficult thing to grasp in this world.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!" Three silver needles like flying stars suddenly appeared in the air, shooting at Sanniang respectively at the three directions of her head, body and feet.

"Ding!" A silver needle collided with the dagger and flew away, and the other two s also "popped" into the beam in front, penetrating three inches into the wood.

A moment later, Yuwen Ji rushed to Feng Yuanjun's front and protected him with her body. The strong wind she created by her quick movement made the bead curtain jingling.

"Sanniang, is it worth it for you to work for him? He is just a devil who does all kinds of evil, unscrupulous, without faith or morality. He just uses you, and will kick you away after using you to your last value! You are just a scapegoat. Is it really worth it to do this for him?" Yuwen Ji said.

Sanniang said expressionlessly: "I am used to a life being a scapegoat for others."

Yuwen Ji was stunned and said: "Very good, your martial arts were taught by my father, right? Let me play against you today."

Xue Chongxun heard this and asked gloomily: "Yuwen Ji, what does this have to do with you? Is the Feng family still your in-laws? Stop dreaming, get out of the way, or I can kill you Yuwen family at any time!"

Yuwen Ji smiled charmingly and said: "Don't you remember our lingering sex that day? Are you willing to let me be killed? Don't you want to have such tenderness and sex with me in the future?"

After that, she grabbed Feng Yuanjun's clothes and pushed him back hard to keep him away from the battlefield.

She just took a fighting stance, but saw Sanniang looking at her back with strange eyes, but didn't even look at her. Yuwen Ji thought: Humph! You are still playing tricks at this time, don't think of tempting me to turn back and distract myself!

But Yuwen Ji later found that Xue Chongxun was also looking behind her with the same expression, thinking that the two of them couldn't possibly cooperate so well, right? So, she took a step back and quickly looked back. It would have been fine if she hadn't looked, but when she did, her face suddenly changed dramatically: she saw that a sword had pierced through Feng Yuanjun's left chest, and the ground was covered with blood. Now he was hanging his head, without even screaming, and he was probably dead on the spot!

At this time, Yuwen Ji remembered that when she had quarreled with Feng Yuanjun before, he snatched the sword and threw it away, and it happened to be stuck upside down on the folding stool there, with the tip of the sword facing up. And Yuwen Ji‘s pushing him backward just now, did lead to that he fell back, causing his body to be unfortunately pierced by the sword.

"Did I kill him?" Yuwen Ji murmured.

While everyone at the scene was shocked, Sanniang's eyes showed a trace of relief, as if she was relieved. Xue Chongxun pondered for a moment, but said to Sanniang: "Feng Yuanjun is not dead yet, you go and stab him twice to kill him completely."

Sanniang glanced at Xue Chongxun, but walked over very obediently and stabbed Feng Yuanjun twice in the chest. Xue Chongxun said loudly to the people present: "Feng Yuanjun was killed by my subordinate Sanniang, did you all hear it clearly? The reason was that Feng Yuanjun first captured my maid, and I brought people to ask for it in anger. During the conflict, the two sides had a fight, and my subordinate Sanniang accidentally stabbed Feng Yuanjun to death. That's it. Sanniang, is that so..."

"That's right." Sanniang said expressionlessly.

But after a while, she actually said something that was irrelevant to the matter: "The master before has always said that he treats us as his own children. Of course, he just said it casually; in fact, no matter who is my master, Yuwen Ji has always been more precious than me."

Xue Chongxun said: "That's not the case. If Yuwen Ji is involved, the government may think that Yuwen Ji and I committed adultery and murder during the interrogation; besides, Yuwen Xiao is a valuable person for me because he knows a lot about the grain transport business by river "

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When Xue Chongxun swaggered out of the gate of Feng's house, he saw that the troops of guards had surrounded the Feng's house. An official in purple official uniform jumped off his horse and clasped his fists to Xue Chongxun, saying: "I am Li Shouyi, the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture. I heard that there was a fight and bloodshed in Feng's house. May I ask if this matter has anything to do with Your Excellency, the Duke of Wei? Now, please come to the office of the Jingzhao Prefecture and take a seat for further recording the whole story of this bloodshed so that the superiors can use it to solve the case."

Xue Chongxun laughed and said: "You want me, the Duke of Wei, to be humiliated by a petty official who draws up indictment? You have to ask the emperor if he agrees."

"If a prince breaks the law, he will be punished just like a commoner!" Li Shouyi's expression suddenly became stern. With his official robe fluttered , he raised his head with righteousness and said, "Officials are paid by the emperor and are loyal to him. From Weinan City in the east, Wugong in the west, Huxian in the south, and Tongchuan in the north, all public security matters in Guannei Dao (note 1) and Jingji Dao are under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Prefecture. The court issued the laws with a criterion/ degree of reward and punishment, based on one’s merits and demerits clearly. So, no one is allowed to challenge the national laws, and you, the Duke of Weiguo, are no exception! Duke of Wei, you should come with me by yourself, so that I don’t have to send out soldiers to enforce the law compulsorily!"

Xue Chongxun said calmly: "So, you two are determined to go against us?"

Perhaps the word "two" in "you two" in Xue Chongxun's words made another official next to him feel pressured. At this time, the old man in scarlet official uniform next to Li Shouyi whispered in Li Shouyi's ear: "Sir, this is about the eldest son of Princess Taiping. What does it have to do with us? We just need to investigate the case at the scene , record it and report it."

Li Shouyi said with a sullen face: "As long as it is within my jurisdiction, it is my business! Come on, catch him! I, Li Shouyi, am not someone who is afraid of threats? It's very simple for me to quit-Just one word from the emperor, and I will return the official hat on my head to the emperor."

"Who do you want to arrest? Who?" Xue Chongxun looked around and said calmly in the midst of weapons and swords colliding, "Who will and can come to arrest me?!"

The red-clothed official who just spoke said anxiously: "Don't act rashly!"

Li Shouyi was furious and pointed at the officers and soldiers around him and said: "The country has raised you in vain! Why don't you arrest him?"

"Hahaha..." Xue Chongxun laughed and walked towards his carriage with his head held high. The guards and servants around him respectfully lifted the curtain for him and said in an admiring tone: "Master, please get in the carriage slowly."

While watching of Xue Chongxun’s act like this, he was so angry with his beard being stood up.And at the same time he also sweared and cursed with spit flying: "You are the country's parasites, the scourge of the Tang Dynasty! The net of heaven is vast and nothing can escape it. I, Li Shouyi, must bring you to justice and accept the punishment of heaven and country laws!"

Xue Chongxun ignored him and drove away. On the road, a guard outside said: "This official (refer to Li Shouyi) is really a person who acts recklessly."

Xue Chongxun sighed and said: "He is really a rare good official. After the Empress Wu Zetian, the temple has been in chaos for many years. He is iron-willed and fearless of the powerful bigwigs. What is the goal he is pursuing?

(To be continued)

Note:

1.?????? Guannei Dao- a Dao in the Tang Dynasty, with its seat in the capital city of Chang'an. Dao was an administrative division one level higher than prefecture.(Data source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%B3%E5%86%85%E9%81%93)