"How'd he die?"
"He was murdered, of course."
"I heard it wasn't just him. His Guards, Staff Officers, everyone who came with him... every last one of them was..."
Seeing the Armored Warrior make a chopping motion across his neck, Ge the Third began to wonder.
'This couldn't have been the work of the Punishment Hall, could it?'
'If this was ordered by the Second Master, there's going to be chaos within the Xiao Family.'
Ge the Third was well aware of Xiao Wang's and Xiao Dongchen's ambitions.
They were ruthless enough to come up with a vicious plot like burning the granaries of the Three Towns; secretly slaughtering a direct descendant of the Jing State Liu Family wouldn't be beyond them.
Just as he was pondering this, he heard someone else say, "And the place where that Young Master Liu died isn't far from here. It's just to the west."
'West?'
Something stirred in Ge the Third's mind, and he couldn't help but ask a few more questions. "West of South Street?"
