Wages and Funeral Expenses, Settled in Full

"Sikong Jing, he's back?"

Su Yuexi, who was currently blocking the servants from storming Su Zhenglong's room, felt as if she had been struck by lightning, freezing in place.

She heard Sikong Jing's voice echoing in the courtyard. Was this an illusion?

It must be an illusion; she just missed him too much.

"You are all courting death!"

Just as Su Yuexi was caught in a whirlwind of hope and despair, Sikong Jing's voice rang out once more.

This time it was vivid and real, like a thunderclap!

Boom!

A violent figure crashed into the main hall and flashed down before the door to Su Zhenglong's room. Bang, bang, bang, bang...

A flurry of kicks erupted, lashing out at the servants who were surrounding Mei Xiaofang and Su Yuexi. Screams rang out one after another as the servants were kicked away, and in the blink of an eye, the entire area was cleared.

Sikong Jing looked toward the disheveled mother and daughter at the doorway and asked, "Yuexi, Mother-in-law, are you both alright?"

The two women stared blankly at the tall, furious figure.

A look of disbelief appeared in Mei Xiaofang's eyes. He had actually returned; he hadn't run away.

As for Su Yuexi, she was unable to speak. Her body remained motionless, terrified that this might just be a dream.

At this moment, Sikong Jing heard the sounds of things being moved in other rooms of the courtyard and said, "Don't worry, I'm going to beat them all out right now. I will make them pay the price."

Turning around, Sikong Jing charged out, whipping up a storm of killing intent.

Bang, bang, bang...

Another series of roars and screams followed as Sikong Jing shuttled between the various rooms, blasting all the servants out.

Listening to these sounds, Su Yuexi finally snapped back to reality and stammered, "Mother, we aren't dreaming, are we? Sikong Jing really is back. He really didn't abandon me?"

Mei Xiaofang looked at her daughter, whose veil was soaked with tears, and replied uncertainly, "Perhaps he was caught and brought back."

Her heart trembling, Su Yuexi felt lost again.

The mother and daughter had seen too much evil; it was truly hard to imagine that anyone would treat them with genuine kindness, especially when that person was a criminal.

A criminal—could there really be a good person among them?

By this time, all the servants had been cleared out by Sikong Jing and dumped into the open space of the courtyard.

Mei Xiaofang gripped Su Yuexi's hand tightly, comforting her, "Perhaps he really couldn't bear to leave you, which is why he came back."

Looking at her daughter's pained expression, Mei Xiaofang simply couldn't bear to crush her hopes any further.

Mei Xiaofang then pulled Su Yuexi out of the main hall, silently praying in her heart that Sikong Jing hadn't been captured and forced to return to this home.

Otherwise, her fragile daughter would not be able to handle it.

"Criminal, didn't you escape the city? Why are you back?" Su Yun glared at him from the courtyard.

Sikong Jing stood before the main hall, coldly sweeping his gaze over the wailing, rolling servants before suddenly looking up. "Who told you I escaped the city? This is my, Sikong Jing's, home. Why would I run?"

As the words fell, the mother and daughter felt their hearts tremble.

Su Yun paused, then sneered, "That sounds high and mighty, but I bet you were just caught by the city guards and dragged back, weren't you?"

She didn't believe for a second that Sikong Jing truly considered this place home. Who would be blind enough to fancy Su Yuexi?

He must have been arrested after trying to leave the city.

Su Yuexi and her mother couldn't help but look at Sikong Jing, waiting for his explanation.

However, Sikong Jing let out a cold laugh. "I can't be bothered to waste breath on you. Once I'm done dealing with these servants, I'll come to teach you a lesson."

Having said that, Sikong Jing looked at Aunt Li and the others, shouting, "You lot, how do you want to die?"

He was truly enraged. If he had arrived even a step later, heaven knows what might have happened to Su Yuexi, or if his father-in-law, Su Zhenglong, might have been frightened to death in his bed.

At this moment, he was bloodthirsty; he wanted to kill.

Aunt Li finally suppressed her pain and retorted viciously, "Criminal, you owe us money and refuse to pay, and now you want to kill us?"

"That's right! You owe us money, so of course we're going to move your things."

The other servants sneered as well. They felt they were in the right, and with Miss Su Yun there to back them up, what did they have to fear?

Clink, clink, clink...

Just as the servants were making a ruckus, Gold Crystal Coins appeared in Sikong Jing's hand.

One after another, they scattered onto the ground, emitting a crisp sound.

In an instant, everyone, including Aunt Li, widened their eyes.

They had never seen so many Gold Crystal Coins before, and the entire courtyard fell silent.

"I said I would pay back ten times the amount, and I meant it. Who gave you the right to touch my things?" Along with the sound of the coins hitting the ground, Sikong Jing's tone was cold to the extreme.

Because of his terrifying killing intent, Aunt Li and the others suddenly panicked.

One servant replied with a trembling voice, "You had already escaped the city, how were we supposed to know you'd come back?"

"I said I'd pay you back today. If I really didn't come back today, it wouldn't be too late for you to rob me tomorrow."

"Who told you to start robbing me now?"

Sikong Jing's last sentence was filled with earth-shattering rage, like a divine general descending from the heavens, or a ferocious beast roaring.

Pfft...

Several household servants close to Sikong Jing directly spat out blood, having been injured by the shock.

Suddenly, Sikong Jing opened his hand and sucked, and Aunt Li directly fell into his grasp, her neck held tightly.

Aunt Li's body hung in mid-air, struggling desperately.

"Let me go, what do you want to do? Who told you not to come back sooner? You can only blame yourself."

"Let me go quickly now, and give me ten times the wages, and this matter will be settled."

Upon hearing this, the other household servants also gathered around, attacking with all sorts of words, all saying that Sikong Jing was too late, which was why they robbed him.

Some even said, "So what if we robbed you? You owe us wages anyway."

Ignoring all the voices, Sikong Jing coldly swept his gaze across the entire scene and said cruelly, "Ten times? No, this time it's twenty times the wages... to be precise, I will give each of you two Gold Crystal Coins."

As soon as these words were spoken, the commotion in the entire venue instantly disappeared, and everyone's eyes widened.

Aunt Li also stopped struggling, her eyes shining as she asked, "Really?"

This criminal really has no backbone. He looks so angry, yet he's still going to give everyone two Gold Crystal Coins. It's too funny and stimulating.

But that's right, what else can he do as a criminal?

"Of course, it's true."

Crack...

As Sikong Jing's voice fell, a crisp sound came from Aunt Li's neck, which was directly twisted and broken.

All the household servants who were still expecting something retreated in fear, their eyes wide with terror.

The scene was so quiet that a needle drop could be heard.

At this moment, Sikong Jing casually threw Aunt Li's corpse onto the ground.

Then, he sucked up two more Gold Crystal Coins and placed them on Aunt Li's corpse. After finishing, he looked up at the terrified household servants and said grimly, "Twenty times the wages, the rest is your funeral expenses."

Thump...

One by one, the household servants' legs trembled, and they collapsed onto the ground. Finally, someone shouted, "You, you killed Aunt Li."

The one speaking was the middle-aged male household servant who had robbed Mei Xiaofang of her silk three days ago.

"Not only that, I'm going to kill you too."

As the words fell, Sikong Jing suddenly attacked. The middle-aged male household servant died instantly, and he sucked up two more Gold Crystal Coins and threw them on his corpse.

Then he flashed again and killed again. In the blink of an eye, all seven household servants belonging to Su Yuexi's family were dead!