Chapter 741: They’re back
– At the Ye Family Manor –
Elder Ye was playing Tai Chi, and Ye Xiu was blanking out under the pagoda tree; he still couldn’t accept the fact that Xu Cheng had died.
He had gone to see the tombstone and was very angry about it.
He shouted at his grandfather, “Why was Big Brother Cheng not buried in the martyr monument?”
“According to his request, he wanted to be reunited with his family, and you know that Xu Cheng had lived half of his life for his father, and surely he only wanted to be with his family when he died.”
“He died like this, and the five of you are this calm?” Ye Xiu was angry with his grandfather.
Elder Ye rolled his eyes at him and scolded, “Should I cry in tears? I’m already an old man, that’ll make me die faster.”
The fact was that Xu Cheng didn’t die, so how could he, an old man who had lived a glorified life, cry out loud like that.
Ye Xiu gritted his teeth and said, “I want to be discharged from the army!”
Elder Ye’s eyelids twitched. “And do what?”
Ye Xiu: “I’m going to get revenge for my Big Brother Cheng. He died abroad, and that’s the same as our citizen dying in a foreign land. If we don’t make it even, what kind of brother would I be?”
Elder Ye grunted, “If Xu Cheng with his strength was killed by them, what can you do? You’re not even strong enough for them to take more than a couple seconds to kill. Don’t cause me trouble, everything must go in accordance with the procedure.”
Ye Xiu slapped the table and stood up. “I can’t be at peace if I just do nothing. Did you see how Aunt Lan cried in front of his grave everyday? I feel that nobody is normal, other than Aunt Lan. If he died in the country and you tell me that law is above everything else, then I’ll accept it. But he died abroad, and if we tolerate this, then it would be a shame to the country and not just our own!”
Elder Ye: “Then you go and scold your father, why vent your anger out on me? Your father is in power, go talk to him!”
Ye Xiu turned around and walked away, intending to do so.
He just turned around when the courtyard door opened. Ye Pei got off from the car and walked into the courtyard, and he saw Ye Xiu’s angry look so he asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
Ye Xiu: “I want to leave the country.”
“Nonsense.” Ye Pei glared at him. “Xu Cheng’s death is a fact. You don’t even know what happened and you’re going out blind, what can you do? Travel? You are the only son of the Ye Family, what do you want the Ye Family to do if something happens to you?”
Ye Xiu said: “You and my mother can have another one.”
“I’ll slap you to death, go back.” Ye Pei raised his hand, looking like he was ready to slap him.
But he didn’t do it because he knew that Ye Xiu was just being impulsive. After he pretended to scare him, he brushed over Ye Xiu and walked inside.
Ye Xiu wanted to say something to him, but then saw that someone had stuck a piece of paper on his father’s back.
“Dad, what is this?” Ye Xiu casually took off a piece of paper from his back and said.
Ye Pei turned his head and was a little surprised that a piece of paper had been stuck to his back.
He looked at it and frowned as he read the words on it, “Azure Dragon Horn?”
Elder Ye who was playing Tai Chi suddenly raised his head as his pupils constricted. He turned around and immediately dashed over, snatching the paper from Ye Pei’s hands.
He looked at the pattern and his expression changed dramatically.
“Son, do you know when this piece of paper was put on your back? What kind of person put it on your back?”
Ye Pei shook his head. “I wouldn’t have noticed if Little Xiu did not tell me. I have been in the office all day today and didn’t go anywhere, and I came home directly after work.”
“Then did you notice anyone coming near you?” Elder Ye questioned.
Ye Pei laughed. “It’s not like you don’t know that I’m always surrounded by security guards, how could ordinary people approach me?”
“But this person is not an ordinary person!” Elder Ye took the paper and squinted his eyes.
“Dad, does this piece of paper represent anything?” Ye Pei asked.
“This piece of paper was for me.” Elder Ye looked serious as he turned and ran toward the hall to call the other four.
When he called Elder Zhou, he heard him say in a panic, “Old Brother Ye, I was just about to call you. They’re back!”
Elder Ye squinted his eyes for a moment. “I received it too, What did you receive?”
Elder Zhou: “Black Tortoise Shell!”
Elder Ye: “The boss of the Xuanwu group! The one I received was from the Qinglong Group, I didn’t think they were still alive. It seems that Little Joker was right when he went abroad to track them down sixteen years ago.”
Elder Zhou agreed. “Back then, eighteen of the twenty-eight-star guards of the Imperial Guards died and ten went missing. I never thought they would still be alive to this day.”
That was when a red flagged car parked outside of the Ye Family Estate. Elder Nie hurried inside and rushed into the living room to find Elder Ye. He passed a piece of paper to Elder Ye the moment he hung up the phone and said in a serious tone, “Look what I received today.”
Elder Ye looked at the pattern and words on top of his paper: Vermillion Bird Feather!
He handed his own paper to Elder Nie and said, “I also received it, Old Zhou received it as well. My son Xiao Pei had so many guards and they still managed to stick this on behind his back. Their strengths are indeed unimaginable.”
Elder Nie frowned. “Let’s call Old Guo and Old Xing over.”
– At night –
The five old men gathered at the Dragon Division headquarters and stayed up all night discussing.
Little Joker held up the three drawings, and his expression was very serious.
That was when Elder Ye said with relief, “Fortunately, there are only three of them left.”
However, Little Joker was still cautious as he said, “Chiefs, I’m afraid it’s not that simple. With your current strengths, it’s really not enough to win against any of them. Only the Dragon Ace and I know how powerful these guys are, and if they could train Rank R experts, then their strengths must be above R! The reason why Xu Cheng has become like this was because he was forced by one of them, and if the three of them were to forcibly break into this city, then it would be really hard to stop them.”
Elder Zhou said, “It means that they are confident enough to not be afraid of us making a move when they ‘greeted’ us in advance. Could it be that they want to make a deal with us?”
Little Joker: “Whether there is a deal or not, we can’t take any risks.”
Elder Ye sighed: “Some things cannot be avoided, it’s most likely that they came for the five of us this time.”
He paced around with his hands behind his back and said, “Since the H Family’s establishment, the purpose has always been to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and we are lifelong enemies with them. We won back then and eliminated all support for the Qing Empire. They knew that if the eunuchs accepted this new era of reform, they wouldn’t be accepted by the era. So in fact, they were not defending the Emperor, but instead defending their own interest. The feudal regime cannot fall, as otherwise, they will have no way out. But in order to overthrow them, we had to kill all of them! So the hatred accumulated between us.”
Little Joker sighed. “So, they would rather help the enemy and work for the capital, than return to their home country?”
Elder Ye nodded. “Sort of.”