Chapter 229 The Kidney Expert
Tiger Zhao felt dizzy and disoriented, but he forced himself to draw the saber from his waist, swaying as he tried to charge at Shen Yulou.
However, just at that moment!
A white figure, like a celestial maiden descending from the heavens, leaped down from the treetop.
Madam Li moved with ghostly speed, landing silently behind Tiger Zhao.
Her jade-like finger lightly tapped.
"Ugh!"
Tiger Zhao stiffened, instantly frozen in place, unable to even twitch an eyebrow.
He stared with terrified eyes, watching as Shen Yulou, holding that ladle, walked towards him with a smile.
"General,"
Shen Yulou patted his face, a gentle smile appearing on his lips.
"How's my medicine? Top-notch anesthetic effect, isn't it? Give it a five-star review, will you?"
"Review your mother..."
Tiger Zhao's lips trembled as he watched Madam Li deliver an elegant chop to the back of his neck.
His vision went black, and this General of Yan State, Tiger Zhao, failed to restart and fell unconscious.
"Work's done!"
Shen Yulou snapped his fingers.
Wang Zhi's personal guards, who had been lying in ambush, rushed out from both sides of the valley as if injected with stimulants.
"Strip them of all their gear! Armor, weapons, and their dry rations—don't leave a single coin!"
Shen Yulou commanded with composure, looking exactly like a bandit leader.
Yang Dali looked at the Yan State elites lying dead on the ground, his legs still trembling, his face pale.
He leaned closer to Shen Yulou, asking with a hint of fear.
"Lord Shen, we've stirred up quite a mess, haven't we? Can we handle it?
That's over a thousand men. If Yan State finds out, won't they send a large army to flatten our Anyuan County?!"
Yang Dali increasingly felt that Shen Yulou was a bit too ruthless.
He was just a surgeon.
After transmigrating, he had only managed to become an advisor, engaging in some shady dealings.
The county magistrate ate the meat, and he drank the soup.
But Shen Yulou? His guts were too big.
He was directly involved in cross-border armed robbery!
Was this really a comrade from the same unit?
The more Yang Dali thought about it, the more scared he became, and he pointed to Wolong Mountain in the distance, saying with a mournful face.
"And that iron mine! How can we possibly swallow it ourselves? Our manpower is limited!"
"Look at your lack of ambition."
Shen Yulou shot him a disdainful glance.
"What's there to panic about? If the sky falls, there's a tall man to hold it up."
He kicked the unconscious Tiger Zhao.
"Carry this grandson away for This Official. Don't worry about the others; let them sleep here.
With him in our hands, those thousand-plus men will have to obey us."
...Anyuan County, county yamen backyard.
When Tiger Zhao woke up again, he felt sore all over, as if his body had fallen apart.
Especially his stomach, which was in excruciating pain, like being pricked by needles and cut by knives, making him groan involuntarily.
He instinctively reached out and touched it.
What his fingertips felt was a sticky sensation, and a neat wound.
Blood?!
Tiger Zhao's mind buzzed, and he instantly became largely clear-headed.
He abruptly sat up, and the wound on his abdomen was immediately pulled.
The sharp pain made him gasp, and cold sweat seeped from his forehead.
Am I dead?
The wound on his stomach made him grimace. It hurt so much, so he shouldn't be dead, right?
And at this moment, in front of him, two men were smiling at him.
One was that cunning wine merchant.
The other was that advisor who rode on others' coattails.
Currently, both of them held a surgical knife stained with blood.
Their smiles were more chilling than a dead man's.
"You... who are you?!"
Tiger Zhao was completely panicked, roaring with a false show of strength.
"What do you want?!"
"What do I want?"
Shen Yulou snorted, pulled out his official seal from his 懷, and extended his hand, displaying it before Tiger Zhao.
"This Official, Shen Yulou, a director of the Great Hun Imperial Academy, holding a third-rank official position, an Imperial Envoy.
As a Yan State general, you dared to collude with a border county magistrate of my Great Hun, and illegally mine my country's iron ore. Your crime is unforgivable!"
"As a warning and punishment,"
Shen Yulou pointed to his stomach.
"This Official has already removed your kidney."
As he spoke, he pointed to a white porcelain plate on the table beside him.
On the plate, there was a bloody piece of meat.
Tiger Zhao had killed countless people, so he naturally knew what human internal organs looked like.
Tiger Zhao's pupils instantly experienced a magnitude twelve earthquake!
"You... what did you do to me?!"
He was instantly horrified, his face turning several shades paler with fright.
"It's nothing much."
Shen Yulou's smile sent shivers down Tiger Zhao's spine; the more he smiled, the more terrified Tiger Zhao became.
"I'm just temporarily keeping your kidney for you.
If you're obedient, this treasure will be returned to you. If you're not... hehe, we'll have an extra meal tonight and make an authentic dish of 'Husband and Wife Lung Slices.'"
Shen Yulou's face showed a look of recollection as he shook his head and began to explain.
"This is an exclusive secret recipe from our Imperial City. It's said that Vice Minister Guo relied on this dish back then..."
Tiger Zhao's scalp tingled, and the hairs on his body stood on end.
Is this even a human being?!
He instinctively wanted to make a move, but he couldn't exert any strength.
Not to mention, the female expert, who looked like an ice block brought to life, was standing beside him, staring at him coldly.
He knew that if he made any sudden movement, his fate would definitely be worse than having his kidney removed.
Tiger Zhao gritted his back teeth, squeezing a sentence out from between them.
"What... what exactly do you want?"
"Of course, to continue our cooperation."
Shen Yulou said as a matter of course, "You, with your men, will continue to mine for us."
Tiger Zhao was stunned, not quite reacting.
Mining?
This was originally their job!
If the demand was that simple, why go through such a big show, using drugs and removing kidneys?
"Of course, it's not just that."
Shen Yulou seemed to read his mind, shaking a finger.
"We need to renegotiate the split. Ninety-ten."
"Ninety-ten?"
Tiger Zhao did a quick calculation in his mind and nodded.
Although giving up one-tenth of the profit for nothing was a bit painful, when under someone else's roof, one had to bow one's head.
He said in a deep voice, "Alright! As long as you can provide convenience, it's not a problem for my Yan State to give you one-tenth!"
"Pfft."
Shen Yulou burst out laughing, walked over, and lightly patted his face with the blood-stained back of the knife.
"General, you're thinking a bit too optimistically, aren't you?"
He leaned into Tiger Zhao's ear, speaking in a very low voice, enunciating each word.
"Who the hell said you'd get ninety percent?"
The color instantly drained from Tiger Zhao's face, and he abruptly looked up.
"Our thousand-plus soldiers work hard digging ore, and you do nothing, yet you want ninety percent?!
That one-tenth isn't even enough to pay my brothers' wages!"
"I don't care about that."
Shen Yulou shrugged, looking indifferent.
"Those are your soldiers, not mine. You can exploit them, it has absolutely nothing to do with me."
"You...!"
Tiger Zhao trembled with rage, slamming his hand on the bed board.
"Are you even human? You're heartless! Your conscience was eaten by dogs!"
Shen Yulou grabbed Tiger Zhao's hair.
"If you keep babbling, I'll feed your kidney to the dogs