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"Who's afraid of being beaten?"

Black Whirlwind glared with his bull-like eyes.

He explained in a muffled voice,

"I was afraid of being flogged and unable to fight for a while, so I begged the strategist for help!"

His words naturally made everyone laugh.

Xu Guanzhong was no exception.

After everyone finished laughing,

Xu Guanzhong then warned with a stern face,

"Fine, I'll make a note of this beating for you today!"

"But if you dare disobey orders again in the upcoming great battle, then you should return to the mountain immediately!"

"We'll settle the score with you when we're done fighting here!"

"Don't worry, strategist, I, Tie Niu, will never dare to do it again!"

Li Kui quickly assured him.

He is a demon descended to earth.

Since my trip to Tokyo,

This is a rare opportunity to take action and fight.

Naturally, they didn't want to return to Liangshan just like that.

........

the other side,

Meanwhile, Luan Tingyu galloped away on his horse.

Just as they reached the top of the hill,

Then they saw Zhu Long and Zhu Biao standing at the crossroads with a group of villagers.

Beside the two,

There were about ten farmhands.

He was reporting something to them in a low voice.

Seeing Luan Tingyu riding over,

The expressions of those farmhands changed drastically immediately.

They all quickly lowered their heads.

Zhu Longgang wanted to probe indirectly,

Let's find out what happened.

Unable to contain himself any longer, Zhu Biao spoke up first, asking...

"Master, these servants said that you were clearly trapped in the Liangshan encirclement, so how come you have returned unharmed and without a trace of blood?"

"Could what they said be true? Master, are you really in cahoots with those two bandits?"

This idiot!

How can you ask such a question so directly?

Zhu Long cursed inwardly.

Quickly pull yourself together,

He gripped the steel gun tightly in his hand.

We had to be on high alert and on guard.

　287 Luan Tingyu acquired skills,

Everyone in Zhu Family Village was naturally well aware of this.

Zhu Long was naturally afraid that this martial arts instructor from the village might suddenly attack and hurt someone!

"Young Master, Third Young Master!"

Before Luan Tingyu rode his horse to his post,

I had already guessed that this question would come up.

There was no rush at this point. After bowing slightly, he...

Then he began to explain,

"Young masters, that was all a trick by Liangshan. They wanted to sow discord among us, so they did it on purpose!"

"Heh, sowing discord?"

Zhu Long immediately let out a cold laugh.

“Master Luan is highly skilled in martial arts and has a hundred or so servants by his side. As the saying goes, it’s better to cut off one finger than to injure all ten.”

"Instead of going to all that trouble to sow discord, why don't Liangshan just take down the teacher and cut off the arm of my Zhu Family Village?"

"Wouldn't that make sense?"

"Young Master, regarding this matter..."

Luan Tingyu's face was tense, and he was about to explain when...

Zhu Biao, standing to the side, had a dark face and said in a deep voice,

"Master, I only have one question for you: is what you just said true?"

Chapter 403 Suspicion

"Everything I said is true!"

Luan Tingyu made a promise.

"Hmph, who knew you..."

Zhu Long snorted dismissively.

Before he could finish speaking,

He was interrupted by Zhu Biao, who was standing nearby.

"I trust my master's character; let's leave it at that!"

After saying this,

Zhu Biao then summoned the villagers and soldiers.

Luan Tingyu also returned to Zhujiazhuang.

The third son of the Zhu family seems reckless.

He's not a fool after all.

Otherwise, among the three Zhu brothers,

The one most favored by Old Master Zhu would not be Zhu Biao.

Although Luan Tingyu was the martial arts instructor of the Zhu Family Village,

But in the village, those closest to him,

There's also Zhu Biao.

If anything happens to Luan Tingyu,

Zhu Biao's influence in Zhu Family Village

At least half of them will collapse.

Even if it's just for his own sake, Zhu Biao will do his best to protect Luan Tingyu.

Zhu Biao, along with Luan Tingyu and a group of villagers who had escaped, hurriedly returned to Zhu Family Village.

Zhu Long followed at the very back with a gloomy expression.

As the eldest of the three Zhu brothers,

But she was always overshadowed by her domineering younger brother.

Zhu Long was naturally not happy.

In Zhujiazhuang

Grandpa Zhu had been eagerly awaiting his two sons' triumphant return.

But what they got was a group of defeated soldiers.

Seeing that a thousand men had gone out,

Only about a hundred people returned.

Old Master Zhu exclaimed in shock,

"What happened? Weren't you going to raid the camp? How did it turn out like this?"

"Father, we've fallen into Liangshan's ambush!"

Zhu Long glanced at Luan Tingyu sideways and said in an annoyed tone.

"Old Master, it's all my fault!"

Luan Tingyu clasped his hands in apology.

"Father, this is what happened..."

Zhu Biao briefly recounted what had happened.

"No one expected that the Liangshan bandits would be so shrewd as to lay an ambush in advance. This matter cannot be entirely blamed on Master."

"Third brother, there are some things you haven't explained clearly,"

Zhu Long said in a sarcastic tone,

"For example, how did Teacher Luan manage to break through the encirclement unscathed, without a single drop of blood on his body, when he was surrounded by thousands of bandits from Liangshan?"

"Teacher Luan is really that amazing?"

Zhu Hu, who had always been at odds with Zhu Biao, was standing to the side.

Upon hearing the hidden meaning in Zhu Long's words,

He immediately chimed in from the side,

"Could there be something fishy going on here?"

"What exactly happened? Explain yourself clearly!"

Old Master Zhu frowned and said angrily.

"Father, before..."

Zhu Long relayed the information that the farmhands had given him.

He then embellished the story again.

"Father, things aren't as my elder brother said,"

Zhu Biao quickly tried to explain for Luan Tingyu.