newbobooks Chapter 156
Chapter 156
"You led men to besiege the Embroidered Uniform Guard! You are utterly lawless!"
Zhou Chu's previously playful expression instantly turned extremely gloomy. He looked at Zhang Ziyi and the group of vicious servants behind him and angrily rebuked them.
As soon as Zhou Chu finished speaking, hundreds of soldiers behind him drew their swords and tightened the reins of their horses, seemingly ready to charge at any moment.
Where had Zhang Ziyi ever seen such a scene of clashing swords and galloping horses? Not to mention Zhang Ziyi, even the wicked servants behind him were terrified. Many of them had their legs trembling and wished they could turn around and run away.
When Zhang Ziyi saw that Zhou Chu was wearing the uniform of a Jinyiwei (Imperial Guard) commander, he immediately regretted his decision. He never expected that the Jinyiwei in Suzhou Prefecture would be hiding such a force.
"I am Zhang Ziyi, the vice president of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce. May I ask who you are, sir?"
Zhang Ziyi was unusually humble at this moment. When they besieged the Embroidered Uniform Guard, several centurions and even a thousand-man commander came out of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but Zhang Ziyi did not take them seriously.
To put it bluntly, the pressure exerted on him by several hundred Imperial Guards was completely incomparable to the pressure exerted by several hundred cavalrymen poised to attack.
Zhang Ziyi was confident that the Imperial Guards of Suzhou Prefecture wouldn't dare to actually make a move, which was why he acted so recklessly. But he felt that if he hesitated to speak for even a moment, these people would rush at him.
Therefore, Zhang Ziyi appeared extremely humble in front of Zhou Chu, even though Zhou Chu was only a centurion of the Embroidered Uniform Guard at the time.
"The Embroidered Uniform Guard, Zhou Chu."
Zhou Chu looked down at Zhang Ziyi with an indifferent expression.
Upon hearing this name, Zhang Ziyi's heart skipped a beat, and his face turned extremely ugly.
He never expected that this King Yama would actually arrive in Suzhou alive. His people had sent out countless teams to intercept and kill Zhou Chu.
Zhang Ziyi remembered clearly that the largest group of bandits numbered five or six hundred people. Five or six hundred was the limit; any more would attract a lot of attention, since he had never heard of any bandits having such a large force.
Zhang Ziyi panicked, very panicked. He knew Zhou Chu's name like the back of his hand. In the past month or two, the most discussed topic was not Chu Li, but Zhou Chu. They discussed how to intercept and kill Zhou Chu every day. Some said bandits, some said arson, and some even suggested using a honey trap.
Therefore, Zhang Ziyi knew a lot about Zhou Chu, such as what Zhou Chu did in the capital. Zhang Ziyi was very clear about it.
It was precisely because he understood this that Zhang Ziyi was trembling with fear, almost kneeling down to kowtow to Zhou Chu.
A man like him might be good at dealing with Zhou Chu by hiding in the shadows and using schemes, but once he faces a ruthless person like Zhang Ziyi who dared to kill the Vice Minister of Rites in front of the Grand Secretary and the Minister of Rites, Zhang Ziyi would be lucky if he didn't pee his pants.
He wasn't arrogant enough to think he could compare to the Vice Minister of Rites, who was a high-ranking official of the third rank!
As the saying goes, ignorance is bliss. The higher one's status and the more one knows, the more terrified one becomes of this former commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Even though Zhou Chu was only a centurion at this time, Zhang Ziyi had no doubt that Zhou Chu was determined to kill him.
"Please spare me, sir! I was confused for a moment, I was drunk and couldn't control my mouth."
Zhang Ziyi knelt down completely, with both knees bent, and even slapped himself twice across the face.
He fought hard to survive.
Seeing this, Chu Li was dumbfounded, as were the Imperial Guards behind her, and even more dumbfounded were the wicked servants behind Zhang Ziyi. They had no idea who this colleague was, that just a name could frighten the arrogant Zhang Ziyi into such a state.
Neither Chu Li nor most of the Imperial Guards in Suzhou knew what Zhou Chu had done in the capital, nor did they know that he had previously been the commander of the Imperial Guards.