Chapter 6 Ruthless Means
“Hahaha, that’s right!”
“As your second son would say, a wise man submits to circumstances!”
Sun Youcai smiled triumphantly. When he was young, Li Xuan always had the upper hand, and when Li Xuan left, he thought no one would suppress him, but then Li Ye appeared, which was truly hateful!
But what if you two brothers are powerful? One disappeared, and the other died!
Sun Youcai didn’t even put Li Ping, who had one foot in the grave, in his eyes, and walked over with the silver.
Clang!
The machete cut through the air and fiercely struck Sun Youcai’s shoulder!
“Ah!”
“Old dog, how dare you!”
Li Ping was old after all; this cut only went less than two inches deep, failing to kill Sun Youcai in one blow.
Sun Youcai was enraged and thrust his long spear forward.
Li Ping sneered, waiting for this very moment.
Li Ping twisted his body and pulled, causing the long spear to shift its trajectory and stab towards the foreign man standing next to him.
“You don’t want to fight Sun Youcai, but I will force you to fight. My silver is not so easy to take... You can only blame yourselves for being indecisive!”
Everything happened in a flash of lightning. Before the foreign man could react, the long spear was already before his eyes.
Just then!
Bang!
It was like the vibration of a bowstring, or a low roar.
A long arrow pierced through the air, directly tearing open Sun Youcai’s skull, and red and white matter burst out, splattering all over Li Ping.
Everyone was stunned by this scene.
“Xuan... Xuan’er!”
Li Ping was the first to look up, seeing Li Xuan on the rooftop.
Li Xuan didn’t speak, his expression unusually calm.
He silently bent his bow and drew an arrow.
This stone bow was no different from a toy in his eyes; he easily drew it to a full moon.
The bowstring creaked, as if it would snap at any second.
The people in the courtyard looked at the god-like, demon-like figure on the rooftop with fear.
“It’s Li Xuan!”
“Li Xuan is back!”
“He’s actually not dead!”
Li Xuan grinned, looking down at everyone and saying mockingly, “I still have eleven arrows in my quiver. Two of you can leave alive...”
Hitting from a high position or a low position is for idiots!
With another whoosh of an arrow, a man standing at the front instantly had his head pierced through, just like a skewer piercing hawthorn, hitting its mark every time!
Li Xuan drew his bow again!
The remaining people finally came to their senses and scrambled to run outside.
This madman!
Why isn’t he dead yet!
Everyone roared in their hearts, then fled faster than the last.
Li Xuan fired another arrow.
It hit a man’s calf.
When most of the people had run away, Li Xuan put away his long bow and leaped down.
He dragged the man, whose calf was shot through and was rolling on the ground howling, into the courtyard.
He closed the door and bolted it.
He kicked the man hard in the stomach!
“You’d better be quiet...”
Li Xuan’s voice was hoarse, filled with madness!
“Father...”
Li Xuan saw his father’s old figure holding a knife in the courtyard and could no longer control his emotions.
He knelt down before him with a thud, tears streaming down his face.
Li Ping also shed tears.
“Your son is unfilial.”
“And my elder brother...”
Li Xuan had heard everything from the rooftop.
Li Ye had treated Li Xuan extremely well, but he never expected that after five years apart, they would be separated by Yin and Yang!
A moment later, Li Xuan wiped away his tears.
He thanked the few men who had ‘helped’ his family.
“For this great kindness today, Li Xuan will surely repay it handsomely in the future.”
The men repeatedly said they wouldn’t dare, their legs trembling as they left.
After seeing them off, Li Xuan raised his knife and cut the man’s hamstrings.
“Father, quickly go find Mother and sister-in-law.”
“I’ll handle things here.”
Li Xuan said, handing the long knife, full of nicks, to Li Ping.
Li Ping didn’t hesitate either. He took the knife and chased after them through the back door. The man who dared to Transmigrate through the mountains alone, bringing his wife and carrying two children to settle here, as long as he had a knife in hand, he dared to brave even a Dragon’s Den!
“I ask, you answer!”
“Dare to lie to me even one word, and I’ll slaughter you, then go slaughter your whole family!”
“Brother Xuan, it’s me, I’m Er Niu. I was possessed, I’m sorry, please spare me... Ahhhhh!”
Er Niu’s plea for mercy was not yet finished when he suddenly let out a heart-wrenching howl.
Li Xuan fiercely twisted the arrow embedded in his thigh and then pulled it out.
The sharp barbs tore out large chunks of flesh and blood.
“There’s no need for nonsense!”
“How did my brother die? Who was behind it?”
From the moment Li Xuan could walk independently, he had pulled Li Ye to train daily.
Li Xuan had taught Li Ye almost all the combat techniques and basic skills he knew from his previous life.
When Li Xuan left, Li Ye’s strength was at least 70% of Li Xuan’s. Dealing with these useless people in the village, he could easily take on more than ten by himself!
“It was the Sun Family! The Village Head said Sun Youcai found a mountain spring on the big mountain! The flow is very large! He wants to divert this spring water to the fields at the foot of the mountain.”
“But only you two brothers in the entire village know the art of hydraulic surveying and diversion. Under pressure, Li Ye followed them up the mountain... And then he disappeared, until the day before yesterday, your father found his body on the mountain.”
Li Xuan’s tiger eyes were filled with tears, and his hands trembled uncontrollably.
“Then this time, taking our well, was also the Sun Family’s idea?”
“Yes...”
Er Niu glanced at Li Xuan’s bloodshot eyes and kept pleading for mercy: “Brother Xuan, it really wasn’t my business, I was forced too. There was no water at home, and my whole family was almost dying of thirst, I had no choice!”
“Please let me go! Please let me go, okay! I truly know I was wrong!”
Li Xuan bared his teeth, his pale teeth exposed, like a man-eating demon.
“Alright, I’ll let you go!”
Pfft!
Li Xuan suddenly plunged the arrow into his heart.
“See! Didn’t I just let you go?”
Li Xuan wiped the blood from his hands onto Er Niu’s clothes, then picked up the long bow and quiver from the ground.
He pulled out the arrows from the three corpses.
“Only three arrows, can’t waste them...”
There were no eleven arrows; his father was still present earlier, and he was afraid of injuring him if he really started chopping. He just lied to those fools!
Li Xuan came to the well and lowered the wooden bucket.
There was a clanging sound, as if it hit the large stone he had placed at the bottom of the well back then.
“The well is also almost dry?”
He lifted the wooden bucket, but only saw a very small amount of muddy water.
“No wonder elder brother risked going up the mountain. Besides being forced by circumstances, he must have also been worried about our family’s drinking water problem...”
“Sun Family! You took my elder brother’s life, I will surely slaughter your entire clan!”
Li Xuan, holding his bow, followed Li Ping’s footsteps.
He hadn’t gone far when he saw his family returning, surrounded and protected.
“Mother...”
Li Xuan considered himself a rational person, but facing his mother whom he hadn’t seen in many years, he couldn’t help but shed tears.
“My Xuan’er is safe, that’s all that matters, safe and sound...”
His mother was just an ordinary farmer’s wife, who had been working for this family ever since Li Xuan was born.
“When I left, my parents were clearly healthy, and elder brother was still alive, but now, how did it turn out like this?”
Zhang Cai Phoenix touched her second son’s face, and thinking of her eldest son lying in the coffin, couldn’t help but feel sorrow.
“Let’s go home, let’s go home!”
The family had been on edge for two or three days, fearing that the Sun Family would break in.
Now that Li Xuan was back, they immediately relaxed.