After bidding farewell to the Chen family, Chu Nan returned to Ping Yang Town alone. He counted the time. It had been at least half a month since he went out last time.
Ever since the failure of Chu Nan's life revelation ceremony, his reputation as a good-for-nothing had spread throughout Ping Yang Town. Within the clan, his father's clan head had been suppressed, and now, the clan head Chu Tianyang was busy collecting money to compensate the altar.
Currently, the citizens of Ping Yang Town knew that the power of the Chu clan was in the hands of the great elder, Chu Tianqi. The clan head, Chu Tianyang's power was practically empty, and the young master, Chu Nan, was a useless person who could not activate his lifeline. The position of clan head would change sooner or later.
Hence, from Ping Yang Town to the Chu Residence, everyone avoided him like the plague.
"The world is cold and fickle.”Chu Nan sighed at the changes in the world.
He remembered that seven years ago, when he was still a genius of the clan, many people saw Chu Nan's extraordinary talent and came up to him to seek kinship and matchmaking. They could almost step on his doorstep. At that time, he was so glorious, but now, these people were avoiding him like the plague.
Even though he was the son of the clan head, almost everyone in Ping Yang Town and the surrounding towns knew that the clan head of the Chu clan had lost his power and the First Elder's faction was powerful. Currently, the clan leader's line was deserted, and very few people came to visit. However, the Great Elder's mansion was bustling with activity every day. There was an endless stream of people coming and going to visit. Even those who had received great kindness from Chu Tianyang in the past were now helping the Great Elder suppress the family head against their conscience.
"But this is good. A friend in need is a friend indeed. After this ordeal, we will know which of these people is a human and which is a dog.”
He originally wanted to visit his father and go out for half a month to meet his father so that his father would not worry. But at this moment, his father's mansion was empty. There was no one there. The bed and table that his father had slept on were also covered in dust, as if no one had cleaned it for a long time. Not even a servant girl could be seen.
Helplessly, he could only return to his dormitory to rest for a while before continuing to cultivate.
The young master's manor and courtyard he lived in used to be very lively with people coming and going, but now it was very desolate and quiet. At this moment, a maid was cleaning the courtyard. When she saw Chu Nan enter, she could not help but feel pleasantly surprised. This was his personal maid Yu Cui. When Chu Nan was at his peak, he had more than twenty personal maids. Following the fall of the clan head's power, most of these maids had defected to the First Elder's residence. Now, only Yu Cui and another lady named Zhu Lan were left.
"Young Master, you're here. Where have you been during this period of time? The master has been very anxious recently.”
"I'm fine. I just went out to play. Where's my father?”Chu Nan asked.
"After Young Master left, Master rarely stayed at home and has been running around outside. A few days ago, Master came home once and I saw that he has become much thinner.”Yu Cui said dejectedly.
Chu Nan knew that this was his father's way of collecting the pills to recover his body. For this reason, his father had used up almost half of the family's savings, which was why he was often suppressed in the family. Even though Chu Tianyang was a Level Six Soul Master, a level above Chu Tianqi, who was a Level Five Soul Master, Chu Tianqi's wife was the niece of one of the elders of the Chen family. With the Chen family's support, Chu Tianqi had nothing to fear. After Chu Nan returned to the clan, he heard that his elder brother, Chu Tianqi's son, Chu Chen, had successfully broken through to the ninth stage of the Soul Warrior realm and advanced to the Soul Master realm. He was highly regarded by the academy and was now engaged to a daughter of the Chen clan. Chu Tianqi had never taken the head of the clan, Chu Tianyang, seriously.
After saying that, Yu Cui turned around and picked up the carrying pole, wanting to go outside to fetch water from the well. In the past, there were specialized water porters in Chu Nan's residence, and they were all burly men in charge of fetching water. Now that the Great Elder had gained power, he crazily suppressed the people of the family head's line, and even the servants around the family head were not spared. Even the lowest level of water porters were worried that the Great Elder's line would vent their anger on them, so they all sought refuge with the Great Elder.
As a last resort, there was no male servant responsible for fetching water. Now, he could only rely on the maidservants to fetch water. Yu Cui was only fifteen years old, and her arms were not as thick as a carrying pole. It was extremely laborious to carry water, and the shoulder of her simple dress had already faded from the carrying pole.
"Sigh, what a bunch of heartless things.”Looking at Yu Cui's weak back, he suddenly saw a bruise on her temple when she turned around.!
"Come back!" Chu Nan suddenly shouted from behind.
Yu Cui was startled by Chu Nan's sudden shout. She turned around and asked,"Does Young Master have any other instructions?"
"Come here, let me ask you first. How did you get the bruise under your sideburns? Also, where was Zhu Yu? Why are you alone? Where did Zhu Lan go?" Chu Nan's gaze was sharp as he called out to Yu Cui.
"Sister Zhu Lan, she…" Yu Cui's eyes welled up with tears as she put down the pole and rubbed her eyes.
Yu Cui and Zhu Lan were her closest companions. When Chu Nan was at his most critical moment, these two maidservants were the only ones who stayed by his side loyally. He did not want anything to happen to them.
Yu Cui sobbed as she spoke with tears in her eyes.
"A few days ago, Head Butler Chu Huan suddenly came to Young Master's residence with a few servants. He told me to go to the Great Elder's residence to cut the weeds and asked Sister Zhu Yu to stay behind to clean the courtyard. Thus, I believed him and went to the Great Elder's residence. Just as I stepped out of the door, the door of the Young Master's residence was suddenly closed. The Head Butler did not come out either. Then, he asked a few servants to guard the door. I didn't think too much about it at that time. I just felt that it was very strange. It was just a notice. Just ask someone to inform me. I didn't understand why they had to bring servants.”
Yu Cui twitched a few times and continued,""However, I was halfway there when I remembered that I had forgotten to bring my keys. I could only return to the residence to get the key, but at this time, a few men were guarding the door tightly, not letting me in at all. At this moment, I suddenly heard Sister Zhu Lan's cries for help. Only then did I understand that the Head Butler was plotting against Sister Zhu Yu.”
"This dog slave actually relied on the support of the Great Elder to be so arrogant. He's already over seventy years old, yet he's so disrespectful and actually did such a crazy thing. Continue!" Chu Nan's eyes were already filled with killing intent, but he forced himself to calm down and continue listening to her.
"Those men were tall and strong. I seemed to have lost my mind at that time and charged in like a madman. I couldn't watch my good sister Zhu Lan be ruined by this old fellow. However, those men saw that they couldn't stop me, so they punched and kicked me. They even threatened me that if I offended the Head Butler, I would be blamed by the Head Elder.”
"The bruise under your sideburns, was it from that time?”Chu Nan stroked Yu Cui's sideburns and asked with concern.
"Yeah," she said.
"And then? How is Zhu Yu?" Chu Nan asked impatiently.
"At this time, I was beaten up by those men and was already lying on the ground. At this time, a young girl in a white dress came from outside. She said that she wanted to come to the young master's residence to look for you. That young girl was very formidable, probably a formidable Spirit Master. She effortlessly knocked those men to the ground, then she barged into the Young Master's estate and ruthlessly taught the Head Butler a lesson. Later on, it was said that out of the five men that the Head Butler had brought, three were crippled, one was knocked unconscious, and the last one was said to have been crippled.”
Speaking up to this point, Yu Cui seemed to have vented her anger. She gritted her teeth and said,"As for the Head Butler Chu Huan, even though he had some strength, he couldn't even withstand a single move from the young girl before falling to the ground. He even had five ribs broken and three front teeth knocked out.”
"Fortunately, that lady in the white dress arrived in time to save Sister Zhu Lan. Otherwise, her youth would have been ruined by that old hooligan Chu Huan."
"That girl didn't leave her name? What does he look like?" Chu Nan asked.
"She didn't like to talk much. After teaching the Head Butler and the others a lesson, she left without even leaving her name. She only said that she would come to find you in the future. The girl was extremely beautiful, but she did not like to smile. She always held a pink handkerchief in her hand.”Yu Cui said.
"At that time, the Great Elder sent two experts from the clan to follow the white-dressed girl. They wanted to find out more about her. However, after a while, two wooden boxes appeared at the Great Elder's door. When they opened them, they were actually the bloody heads of the two experts! The Great Elder was old and shrewd. He personally brought the two boxes to the Chen Mansion and asked an expert to identify where the two wooden boxes containing the heads came from. When the Chen family expert touched the surface of the box, he was frightened and turned pale with fright. He even scolded the Great Elder and forced the Great Elder to stop investigating the matter in order to prevent himself from being burned and bringing disaster to the Chen family. The Great Elder could only return dejectedly.”
"Ah, who is that girl? He actually has such a background and strength." Chu Nan could not help but feel shocked.
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