Chapter 10: Wei Bao Kills in Anger

In the carriage, Wei Hu crossed his arms and scowled. Wang Yinchuan, sitting beside him, also looked disgusted, both of them were fed up with each other.

“Are you still angry? What do you think your father meant? Why did he suddenly bring up my brother and reprimand him?” Wei Hu said resentfully.

Wang Yinchuan turned her head in disbelief. Since she married Wei Hu, she had always been thinking about the Wei family. Even though she disliked her sister, Wang Baochuan, she had been trying to help Wei Bao marry her.

Now, her father had just reprimanded him a couple of times, and Wei Hu was already giving her a cold shoulder.

“What do you mean? If your brother hadn’t been bullying people, would my father have brought this up out of the blue?”

Seeing that Wang Yinchuan’s voice had risen a few octaves, Wei Hu softened his expression. Even if he was angry, he shouldn’t yell at Wang Yinchuan. If Wang Yinchuan got angry and went back to the Prime Minister’s mansion, Prime Minister Wang would give him a hard time.

“That’s not what I meant, it’s just that, have you noticed, your father and mother have been favoring your elder sister and younger sister more and more lately.  That great achievement with the Xiliang princess, it should have been mine, but he gave it to Su Long.”

“And you’ve been in the Prime Minister’s mansion every day, you must have noticed, isn’t your elder sister deliberately distancing herself from you, she doesn’t let you know about many things.”

Wang Yinchuan was taken aback, she had felt something was off lately, but she couldn’t figure out what it was.  After Wei Hu reminded her, it seemed like that was the case.

Think about the guards and archers in the back garden, such a big commotion, and she hadn’t gotten any wind of it beforehand!

Back at the Wei mansion, Wei Hu was angry and immediately had someone call Wei Bao.

“Assaulting someone in the street! You’ve really gotten bold!”

“Brother! What are you…” Wei Bao was flustered.

Wei Hu wanted to whip him, how could he have such an incompetent brother.

“This matter has reached my father-in-law’s ears, think about it, if someone hadn’t impeached you and he had suppressed it, do you think you could still stand here and talk to me?”

The more this matter was brought to the Emperor, the more he would be reprimanded, and Wei Bao would surely cause a lot of trouble.

Wei Bao was used to being arrogant, and he couldn’t swallow his pride after being bumped into.  Seeing Wei Hu so angry, he could only bow his head and admit his mistake.

“Brother, don’t be angry, it was just a commoner.”

“You know he’s a commoner?  Why don’t you do things cleanly, why cause trouble for such a person?”

“Yes.”

Wei Bao was also holding back his anger, thinking about the Xiliang princess escaping from his grasp, he wanted to die.

He had just managed to appease Wei Hu, but he was still fuming inside.

He left the Wei mansion, took a few attendants, and went straight to Yingxiang Pavilion.

The girls in Yingxiang Pavilion were all fair-skinned and beautiful, with slender waists, and their chests were even more alluring.

Wei Bao sat in the main seat, with a soft red-clothed girl in his arms, and another more demure girl poured wine for him.

More than ten girls danced gracefully in front of him, like butterflies fluttering among the flowers in spring, light and elegant.

They sang and danced, surrounded by soft jade and fragrant warmth.

He drank heavily, with two girls on either side of him.  They were all the most popular girls in Yingxiang Pavilion, and they knew how to please people.

The next morning, Wei Bao rubbed his head, which was still dizzy from drinking, he felt lightheaded and his stomach churned.

After he felt a little better, he took his men and left Yingxiang Pavilion.

They were wearing armor and carrying long swords at their waists, and the people on the street avoided them.

“Sir, give us some money…” A few beggars at the corner of the street gathered together, trying to beg for some alms.

Wei Bao was angry, seeing that someone dared to block his way, he immediately frowned.

He kicked one of them, the thin beggar cried out in pain.

“You! You don’t want to give, fine, why hit someone?” Another young beggar stepped forward to argue.

“Hitting you? Do I need a reason?”

Wei Bao waved his hand, “Drag these people to the alley and give them a good lesson, do it cleanly.”

“Yes, General.”

The beggars wailed, their cries caught the attention of Xue Pinggui, who was looking for work in the city.

Since he and the Xiliang princess were captured, the court officials investigated his identity and learned that he was not a spy from Xiliang, so they released him.

He returned to Wo Yun Tower, but the manager of Wo Yun Tower didn’t dare to employ him anymore, so he gave him half a month’s wages and asked him to find another place to stay.

His adoptive father couldn’t live without ginseng to nourish his body, so he had no choice but to find another job.

Early that morning, he was trying his luck on the street when he happened to meet the group of beggars who had saved him before.

“Stop!”

“Oh, it’s you?  You’re asking for death.” Wei Bao recognized him immediately, his anger flared even more.

“Take him away!”

Wei Bao didn’t have time to discipline a bunch of smelly beggars, he just wanted to kill Xue Pinggui.

Unexpectedly, Xue Pinggui was skilled in martial arts, and with the help of the beggars, they knocked Wei Bao’s guards to the ground, and before leaving, they kicked Wei Bao a couple of times.

“If I see you bullying people again, watch out for your life!” Xue Pinggui threatened, then quickly left.

Wei Bao covered his sore arm and stood up with difficulty, “I’m going to kill you! You commoner! You commoner!”

“Gather your men, find out where this meddlesome fellow lives!”

“Yes.”

That night, Wei Bao led a group of men, dressed in black, and stormed into a civilian house in the city.

He had found out that the man who had offended him twice was called Xue Pinggui! He was just a commoner who worked in the city and had learned some martial arts.

He kicked open the door.

Xue Pinggui wasn’t home, he hadn’t returned yet, only his father and Xue Qi were at home.

Wei Bao gave the order, and they rushed in.  Xue Qi was knocked unconscious, Xue Ren resisted with a spear, but he was weak and no match for these bloodthirsty killers.

He managed to hold out for a hundred moves, but he was exhausted.  Wei Bao seized the opportunity and stabbed him in the chest, blood spurted out!

Then he raised his sword to kill Xue Qi, who was lying unconscious on the ground.  He glanced at the woman on the ground, she was beautiful and delicate, a rare beauty.

Since he hadn’t killed Xue Pinggui yet, he had an idea and carried her back to the Wei mansion.

He was about to set the house on fire, but his men stopped him, “Master, this civilian house is connected to other houses, if a fire starts, it will inevitably affect the entire An Dingfang.”

“Retreat.”

Wei Bao took his men and left quickly.