Chapter 299

Chapter 299 Nangong Grandfather and Grandson!

 

Nan Gong Zhou did not know that Mai Tai Shan had already met with an accident. After hearing Li Xuan’s words, he immediately sensed something was wrong!

Combined with Nan Gong Shun’s evasive manner of speaking, a feeling of extreme danger suddenly surged in old man Nan Gong Zhou’s heart!

“What happened to Mai Tai Shan?” Nan Gong Zhou repeated! His voice was so loud that it made Nan Gong Shun’s body tremble!

“Grandfather, Shun dares not hide anything. Old Master Mai is dead!” Nan Gong Shun quickly knelt down: “For the sake of the Nan Gong family, he died!”

“He’s dead? How could Mai Tai Shan die? Who could possibly kill him?”

When Nan Gong Zhou heard this news, his vision darkened, and he nearly fainted! He barely managed to stand steady by supporting himself on the table!

Mai Tai Shan was his old brother of many years. Over the years, for the sake of the Nan Gong family, he had devoted countless efforts. With him and Nan Gong Zhou together, the Nan Gong family had become what it was today!

If Mai Tai Shan was truly dead, it would be an almost devastating blow to the Nan Gong family!

“Grandfather, it’s true.” Nan Gong Shun said: “Su Rui killed him, it was Su Rui!”

“Su Rui?”

Hearing this name that had existed in his memory for a long time, Nan Gong Zhou was visibly stunned, his face immediately filled with anger: “The events from five years ago are long past. How could Su Rui have come into conflict with Mai Tai Shan? Even if they did have a conflict, it should have been Mai Tai Shan who killed Su Rui!”

Nan Gong Shun was almost prostrate on the ground. He naturally couldn’t answer that all of this was his own arrangement. If he did, with the old man’s temperament, he might not even know how he died! He wouldn’t be able to recover for ten years! The position of heir would definitely be lost!

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but glare at Li Xuan. This pig of a teammate, showing loyalty at a critical moment, when everything could have been covered up, but his seemingly helpful words had plunged him deeper into trouble!

“Grandfather, this Su Rui actively sought out Old Master Mai to provoke him. He was really too formidable. We weren’t at the scene of the battle, but it’s said he has reached a level where no one can match him…” To cover up his own schemes, Nan Gong Shun could only make things up.

But before he could finish, he was interrupted by Li Xuan: “No, it was all Li Xuan’s own decision to set an ambush and ask Old Master Mai to come out of retirement to encircle and suppress Su Rui. But I didn’t expect the latter to be so formidable. None of the forty-nine people I brought or Old Master Mai managed to return alive…”

Listening to Li Xuan’s words, Nan Gong Shun was almost bursting with anger! Li Xuan had always been loyal, what was wrong with him today? His explanations were making things worse, reaching the ultimate level of being a pig teammate!

Sure enough, after hearing his words, Nan Gong Zhou became even more furious!

“You made your own decision? Without your young master’s approval, how could you make such a decision? How could you persuade Mai Tai Shan?” Nan Gong Zhou glared at Li Xuan and said coldly: “I know without you telling me that all of this was Nan Gong Shun’s idea!”

Usually, Nan Gong Zhou would call his second grandson “Shun,” and when he used his full name, it indicated that the old man was extremely angry!

Nan Gong Shun lay on the ground, his body trembling uncontrollably, his heart filled with hatred for Li Xuan!

This bastard had directly brought the fire to himself!

“Wait!” Nan Gong Zhou seemed to remember something. He grabbed Li Xuan’s collar and said: “What about those forty-nine people you just mentioned? What’s that about?”

Hearing this, Nan Gong Shun was immediately shocked and terrified, his body turning cold!

That was his secret team! He had organized and trained desperate men that Li Xuan had recruited from various places over the years, originally intended as his trump card, and no one in the family knew about it!

Mai Tai Shan might have known about this, but he definitely wouldn’t have cared! After all, he wasn’t a Nan Gong, and there were some matters he naturally wouldn’t inquire about!

In Nan Gong Shun’s plan, if he failed in the future power struggle, he would use his private army to forcibly seize the inheritance rights. At that time, who in the family could compete with him?

From the beginning until now, Old Master Nan Gong had explicitly forbidden family members from privately maintaining their own troops. After all, in his feudal mindset, such private armies would cause family instability. Many past feudal dynasties had been destroyed by private military forces!

Nan Gong Zhou understood that such succession struggles weren’t just seen on TV but occurred frequently in wealthy families across the country! Therefore, he had long ago strictly ordered that such things absolutely could not appear in the Nan Gong family! Minor offenses would be punished by family law, major ones by expulsion from the family!

Thus, when Li Xuan “accidentally” mentioned this, Nan Gong Shun was so alarmed!

“Answer me, what about those forty-nine people?” Nan Gong Zhou was furious! Clearly, this had completely touched his taboo!

“Grandfather… these forty-nine people… I temporarily hired them from outside…” Nan Gong Shun stammered, not knowing if this hastily thought-up excuse would work.

Nan Gong Zhou was no fool. Having developed the family to its current scale, his eyes were sharper than anyone’s, and he naturally saw through Nan Gong Shun’s lie at a glance!

“These are your private troops, aren’t they?” Nan Gong Zhou raged: “I wondered why the family accounts mysteriously lost several million each year. Did you use it all to burn money and maintain troops? Didn’t you?”

“Grandfather, I’m wronged, I really hired people from outside, then asked Old Master Mai to help capture Su Rui completely, to give you a surprise and also to avenge my brother!” Nan Gong Shun was a mess of snot and tears, though it wasn’t clear if he was scared or just a good actor!

“Then what about Mai Tai Shan? I don’t believe Su Rui could kill him!” Nan Gong Zhou still refused to believe the fact that his old comrade was dead!

Li Xuan, the pig teammate, interjected at this moment: “In response to Old Master, Old Master Mai wasn’t killed by Su Rui alone. The Bai family’s Nightingale also took action!”

Hearing these words, Nan Gong Zhou’s pupils suddenly contracted!

“The Bai family’s girl? Why did she take action?”

“Grandfather, Nightingale has always listened to Bai Qinchuan. Without Bai Qinchuan’s intention, she would never do such a thing!” Nan Gong Shun quickly shifted responsibility: “It must be the Bai family secretly plotting to harm the Nan Gong family. They think that by killing Old Master Mai, they can defeat us… what a delusion!”

“Bai family, Bai family, Bai family!” Nan Gong Zhou paced back and forth, turned around, and said to Nan Gong Shun: “Whether the Bai family is manipulating things behind the scenes is not the issue right now. I just want to know how Mai Tai Shan died! Su Rui and Nightingale together couldn’t kill him!”

On this point, Nan Gong Zhou was too confident in Mai Tai Shan’s abilities. In fact, with Su Rui and Nightingale’s combined forces, they really could have killed Mai Tai Shan!

“In response to Old Master, there was also a mysterious person at the scene. It was that mysterious person who used a rocket launcher to shatter Old Master Mai’s body!”

“Rocket launcher?” Hearing these three words, Nan Gong Zhou’s blood rushed to his head again! His vision became dizzy!

“Yes, a rocket launcher! I saw it with my own eyes!” Li Xuan became agitated as he spoke, crying and saying: “Poor Old Master Mai, he was already seriously injured, then hit at close range by a rocket launcher. His body was completely destroyed, blood raining down everywhere!”

The scene was so shocking that Li Xuan would probably never forget the bloody and horrifying moment when Zhou Xianwei’s cannon flashed and blasted Mai Tai Shan to pieces!

“Body completely destroyed, body completely destroyed…” Nan Gong Zhou kept muttering these words, his whole person seeming somewhat disoriented!

“Tai Shan, oh Tai Shan, you followed me for so many years, and in the end, you met such a fate because of this unworthy descendant. If I don’t kill this unworthy child, how can I face your spirit in heaven?”

Nan Gong Zhou’s words undoubtedly terrified Nan Gong Shun!

His own grandfather actually said he wanted to kill him!

“Grandfather, spare me, spare me!” Nan Gong Shun knelt on the ground, his forehead touching the floor, continuously shouting!

“If I spare you, how can Tai Shan rest in peace?” Nan Gong Zhou murmured: “No remains, no remains at all!”

The shock of his second grandson maintaining private troops, combined with the severe impact of Mai Tai Shan’s death on his nerves, caused Nan Gong Zhou to feel dizzy with anger and he directly fainted!

His body lost balance and fell straight backward!

This time, the back of his head hit the ground directly!

When Nan Gong Zhou’s body fell straight to the ground with a dull thud, Nan Gong Shun, who was kneeling on the ground, finally realized what had happened!

He quickly crawled to Nan Gong Zhou’s side, shook his body, and called out twice: “Grandfather, Grandfather!”

Nan Gong Zhou had no response and remained tightly closed-eyed.

For a man in his seventies or eighties to take such a fall was truly pitiful.

“Quickly, call someone to take Grandfather to the hospital!” Nan Gong Shun hurriedly shouted at Li Xuan. At this moment, he couldn’t be bothered to punish this pig teammate!

“Yes!”

Li Xuan got up and was about to rush outside when he heard Nan Gong Shun call out: “Wait!”

Li Xuan had to stop because he saw his young master’s eyes flashing with an unusual light!

“Grandfather, do you really want to kill me to comfort Old Master Mai’s spirit in heaven?” Nan Gong Shun looked at his unconscious grandfather, talking to himself, his gaze filled with hesitation, yet occasionally flashing with ruthlessness.

Seeing his expression, Li Xuan suddenly felt a chill run through his body!

“Grandfather, I am your own grandson. Are you really willing to kill me? I respect and honor you all the time, but because of an outsider, you want to kill me?” At this point, Nan Gong Shun’s eyes already revealed a trace of ruthlessness and determination!

Nan Gong Zhou’s unexpected fainting was undoubtedly a heaven-sent opportunity for him!

“Grandfather, not only can you not kill me, but you also cannot deprive me of my inheritance rights. I will be the only future master of this family, the only one!”

“Grandfather, I’m sorry!”

After saying this, Nan Gong Shun respectfully kowtowed to Nan Gong Zhou’s body!

Li Xuan had already begun to feel his breathing stop!

Nan Gong Shun took a deep breath, lifted Nan Gong Zhou’s head, and began to slam it violently against the ground!

One, two, three, four times!

The dull thuds of the back of his head hitting the ground made one’s heart tremble!

At this moment, Nan Gong Shun exuded a terrifying aura from inside out!

After about a dozen impacts, Nan Gong Shun’s eyes were bloodshot. He released Nan Gong Zhou’s head and knelt on the ground, all his strength seemingly drained!

Looking at the fresh blood flowing from under Nan Gong Zhou’s head, Nan Gong Shun finally stopped hesitating and shouted loudly: “Someone come quickly, Grandfather has fainted!”

At this moment, Li Xuan had already disappeared from the doorway!