Chapter 116: Execution of the Plan
In the capital city, on a certain evening, amist the fragrance of cheap perfumes, low quality wine and incense laced with mild aphrodisiacs and pleasant music, two young men in soft silk robes were glaring at each other as if they had three lifetimes worth of grievances to solve.
Seriously! How pathetic is this brothel! Xing was pissed. Heavenly Flowers Palace is the best of the best!
Xing and Seiren were drinking and wooing women in the brothel as they usually do. The people in the brothel were first worried to have these two in their place together. One is the popular Lord Táng who had solved a puzzle centuries old and the other one is the second young master of the Zhong family. But they didn’t think too much of it because their reputation of visiting brothels preceded them and they were served well as they are said to always pay double.
The sky began to darken and the busiest time of the brothel arrived. There were a bunch of women dancing wearing a little less for the autumn and a beautiful girl was playing the zither melodically.
Just then Xing and Seiren received their cue and they started to engage in verbal battle.
"Lord Táng, heard you became a sissy lately! Not spending time with women like you used to.... Is your count going to stop at 998?", Seiren sneered, opening the fan he usually has in his hand.
Xing just smiled mockingly and ignored him as she usually does with him. So Seiren acted provoked and brought out all the insults he could think of.
" I’m waiting for you... Seiren..! My next woman will be your wife! ", Xing said with a smirk. She could see his brown eyes turning dark immediately and he lunged towards her. Although they were planning to provoke each other, she could see he was actually provoked greatly.
Xing avoided his punch and both of them continued to brawl inside the main hall of the brothel and the security tried to stop both of them and failed. The brawl continued to the outside and both of them were spewing profanities at each other and the entire street was watching them fight. They even brought the Zhong and Huang families in their verbal war and that gathered more crowd.
This was a proper looking brawl were none of them got actually hurt with four people holding each of them back and they were only shouting at each other pretending to lunge forward to hit each other. Seiren was scared to accidentally hit her and refused the idea of an actual brawl with fist fights. Not because she was a girl and he was a man but because Seiren wanted to live! He knew what Shengli would do if he accidentally hurts her. Even though it is not that he’d have a chance to remotely hit her! She is a better fighter than him! But still... Better be safe than sorry!
While they were trashing each other distracting the entire street, an elite team of ten soldiers under the command of Zhong Huojin got out from a tunnel which they opened the entrance of, near this street. They placed the chest in the brothel and then they were generously distributing little shares of those ’treasury coins’ to each and every institution in that street. All these were done with surgical precision within minutes before anyone noticed them.
Every security in the street tried to stop the brawl but failed. There were many people who tried to watch the second master of the Zhong family fighting with the Godson of the Prime minister and passing comments of how the Zhong and Huang family had fallen out with each other.