Chapter 531
"How does it feel?"
Suddenly, in Jiang Hao's ear, a voice came.
Jiang Hao raised his head to look, only to see that it was right across from him. Zhang Xiangyu was looking at himself with a sinister smile on his face.
The other man was cupping an empty goblet in his hand, and the wine from the goblet had just been poured over his own body a long time ago.
Zhang Xiangyu grabbed one of the whisky bottles to the side and poured another drink into the glass. Shaking it, he looked at Jiang Hao through the glass. Smiling, he added, "Does it make you feel surprised to see me?"
Jiang Hao recalled what had happened before, and when he thought of Qiao Dong losing his life for saving himself, an invisible wave of grief came out once again.
He glared viciously at the other party and questioned in a low voice, "You did it all, didn't you?"
Zhang Xiangyu did not deny it, but instead smiled smugly, "Actually, I originally wanted to blow you up and get rid of you, as a lesson to Shen Haoting, but I didn't expect you to have a hard life, and at critical moments. There is always someone willing to sacrifice their life to save you, huh ...... you want to live?"
Zhang Xiangyu looked at Jiang Hao, looking as if he had already pinpointed Jiang Hao's life and death.
Jiang Hao gritted his teeth and used all his strength to try to break free, but the ropes that finally bound him did not respond at all.
"You kill me!" Jiang Hao said coldly.
Although Jiang Hao still had a trace of fear in his heart, he was relieved when he thought of Qiao Dong, who had died because of himself, and when he thought that this Xiang Yu would inevitably use him to blackmail his father.
In the end, he would die anyway, and his own father was Shen Haoting. Even if he himself did not have his father's ability, he still had the backbone to inherit his father's spirit.
"Isn't it just a life? You didn't get your way just now, so now come and get it!" Jiang Hao continued again.
Zhang Xiangyu smiled and snorted a laugh, in his eyes. Those little stubbornness of Jiang Hao was really a bit ridiculous.
"Pfft ...... Since you're lucky enough not to die, then why should I send you to your death?" Zhang Xiangyu smiled, "And now you're alive. Far more useful than a corpse! With you, I won't have to worry about Shen Haoting not handing over Shangdian! But you do have a backbone, don't you?"
Sure enough, he kept himself. It was to blackmail his father, ah, Jiang Hao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he was a bit arrogant, why was he the one who dragged his feet every time.
He lifted his head. Glaring at the other party, he said indifferently, ''I have a backbone because my father is Shen Haoting! Don't worry, it won't take long. All of you, you'll all pay for what you've done!"
Once Jiang Hao said this, Zhang Xiangyu then let out an even louder snort of laughter.
"Hahahaha ...... laughs me to death, what, you think Shen Hao Ting has a lot of backbone? Haha, that's really the most ridiculous joke I've ever heard." Zhang Xiangyu said, "Kid, do you know that or not. Back then, Shen Haoting was on his knees like a dog begging us for mercy in order to stay alive, right? Oh. Saying he had backbone? You are simply sullying the word "backbone"!"
At Zhang Xiangyu's words, Jiang Hao froze for a moment. Then he lifted his head and glared at the other man, shouting, "Shut up. How can my father, who stands tall against the sky, beg for mercy from you scum? Do you think this mirth of yours is interesting?"
Zhang Xiangyu sipped a mouthful of red wine without hurrying and sneered, "Indeed, such a humiliating thing, I think Shen Haoting will not say anything to you, in that case, I will tell you."
"Hehe, kid, do you want to know what really happened back then in the Ping Yang Valley of Chu Jiang?" Zhang Xiangyu walked up to Jiang Hao and asked with great interest.
The other party's words immediately aroused Jiang Hao's curiosity, because once he had asked Shen Haoting about a series of secrets about his own family, and how he himself had survived when the entire Shen clan family had been wiped out back then.
But Shen Haoting's answers were evasive, even as if he was deliberately hiding some things from himself.
At that time, Jiang Hao knew that something unspeakable must have happened here.
"Hard to ...... hard to ...... father back then really ......" Jiang Hao slandered in his heart, he thought about it, but did not dare to think further, because he knew that if it really went to what Zhang Xiangyu said, then the tall image of his father in his own mind would instantly collapse.
Jiang Hao had always told himself that his father was perfect, that he was a hero who stood tall, and he dared not imagine what a blow it would have been to him if his father had really survived by begging for mercy on his knees ......
Jiang Hao was thinking about it, but Zhang Xiangyu, who was on the side, had already spoken up.
"The matter also starts with the Shen family. The Shen family is a martial arts family that has been passed down for a thousand or so years, and your father's lineage is the Shen clan family. And the clan family has the advantage of a clan family, that is, they can take the Shang Dian, which has been inherited by the Shen family for over a thousand years, and control it in their own hands."
As Zhang Xiangyu spoke, he suddenly raised his head to look at Jiang Hao and asked, "Do you know what Shangdian is?
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Jiang Hao couldn't help but shake his head and asked suspiciously, "What exactly is it then?"
Previously, Jiang Hao had asked his father and Ye Yunjie what the Shen family's inheritance was, but they were always half-covered and unwilling to reveal the truth to themselves.
And what made Jiang Hao feel ridiculous was that now that he wanted to know what exactly that thing was, he had to ask Zhang Xiangyu, his enemy, to tell him.
Zhang Xiangyu shook his head with a bitter smile. He sighed helplessly, "It seems that Shen Haoting really doesn't want to involve you in this strife, to the extent that he hasn't even told you about your Shen family's treasure? Oh, naive, you are the only bloodline of the Shen clan family, does he really naively think that you can be left alone?"
Zhang Xiangyu looked at Jiang Hao, and then added, "Fine. Seeing as you really don't know shit, I'll reluctantly tell you everything I know!"
"The so-called Shang Dian is a strange book that records the laws of the operation of heaven and earth. As long as one can comprehend the contents of the book, one can skillfully use the power of the operation of heaven and earth for one's own use, thus making oneself powerful beyond compare!"
"Do you know why the Shen Clan or the Shen Family has been able to exist for so long without being taken out by other martial clans? Oh, it is because you are clutching this treasure in your hands, and his existence has made everyone scornful. Of course, it also makes everyone covet it, and those who covet it are not only those from outside the clan, but also those from within the Shen Clan! Like the Overseas Shen Family, one of the thirty-six families of the Shen Clan!"
Zhang Xiangyu paused and continued, "The Overseas Shen Family has been obedient to the clan for the past few hundred years, and has acted in full compliance with the Shen Clan's clan rules. However, after the Shen family overseas became stronger and gradually gained a firm foothold overseas, their ambition became more and more inflated, and in the face of this huge family business, they felt more and more overwhelmed by their own power. It seems to be their choice!"
"About thirty years ago, the overseas Shen family communicated with the Zong family, wanting to borrow the Shang Dian, but they were refused, as well as the Zong family's vicious humiliation, the Zong master was your grandfather back then, that was a vicious character, not only did he waste one of the overseas Shen family, but also viciously humiliated the overseas Shen family in front of the 36 families. How could this not make the Overseas Shen Family hold a grudge? So hatred combined with desire forced the Overseas Shen Family to rely on their own strength to take over Shang Dian!"
Zhang Xiangyu found a chair, did sit down and continued to talk.
"In the following ten years or so, the overseas Shen family gradually gained a greater voice among all the Shen clans and gradually ignored the Shen clan rules, because they knew very well that it was not the Shen clan that was stopping them from taking the Shang Dian. It was not the Shen clan, but the damned clan rules!"
"Under such circumstances, they will meet each other in arms sooner or later." Zhang Xiangyu suddenly laughed, "That was the bloody battle in Ping Yang Valley seventeen years ago, when the overseas Shen Clan united with eight of the other thirty-six clans to take on the Zong Clan in Ping Yang Valley, as well as the one and only Shen Clan branch clan that supported the Zong Clan. It has to be admitted that if the Zong family were to fight alone, none of the thirty-six Shen clans would be a match, but there were nine of them, and there were also a large number of advanced weapons procured from overseas by the Overseas Shen family, and the final result speaks for itself. The entire family, not even the bones of the corpse were left behind!"
Zhang Xiangyu suddenly frowned, "Oh no, it is said that that family is also like you. There was a baby still in infancy who escaped this calamity, but it doesn't matter anymore, a shrimp, long ago, couldn't make a monstrous wave, just like you!"
When Zhang Xiangyu finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Hao with a sarcastic smile, his eyes full of contempt.
Jiang Hao gritted his teeth as he listened to the other party's account. He hesitantly asked, "Then ...... my father ......"
"Oh right!" Zhang Xiangyu slapped his forehead and smiled, "I almost forgot the most crucial one, your dog-like father."
Zhang Xiangyu seemed to recall for a moment and continued, "Back then, your father should have had something to do and didn't reach Pingyang Valley first, and when he arrived, the entire Pingyang Valley was already bleeding to death. The few remaining members of the entire Zong family were all gathered together at this time to prepare for the final execution, and it also happened to be at this time that Shen Haoting appeared. He tried to resist at first, but every time he did, the Overseas Shen Family would kill a member of the Zong Family, and in the end Shen Haoting seemed to really break down. In the end, the Overseas Shen Family offered a condition that as long as Shen Haoting knelt down and begged for forgiveness, the Overseas Shen Family would spare his clan members, huh ......"
"And the result?" Jiang Hao coldly glared at the other party and questioned.
"The result, of course, is that he really did kneel down!" Zhang Xiangyu said contemptuously, "He kowtowed repeatedly, thinking he could use it to save his kin, but it's all your grandfather's fault, the one from the overseas Shen family that he abolished back then. There was no intention of keeping his word, and after your father knelt and kowtowed, he still had all the clan families killed. Oh, only your father was left behind!"
"So you didn't kill him?" Jiang Hao gritted his teeth and continued to ask.
Zhang Xiangyu shook his head with a smile, "At that time, your father Shen Haoting was the only one who knew exactly where Shangdian was hiding. If we killed him, wouldn't Shang Dian really be impossible to find? Previously, the Shen family overseas chose to slaughter the entire Zong family in order to ask for Shangdian's whereabouts, but those cheap bones couldn't help. None of them said anything, so they deserved to die!"
"As for your father Shen Haoting ...... I don't know exactly what Shen Tianyang told your father back then, but in the end, your father still went soft, he kneeled down and kowtowed three times heavily to all the overseas Shen family before he managed to save his dog's life! Haha ...... you don't know how humiliated your father Shen Haoting was at that time, kneeling in front of more than two hundred people and begging for mercy ah, to this day those who had participated in the bloody battle in Ping Yang Valley, I'm afraid they still remember that scene! It was agreed between them that in seventeen years' time, that is, this year, he would offer Shangdian up in a vault!" Zhang Xiangyu's gaze suddenly sank as he snorted coldly and said, "But your father reneged on his promise!"
"You shut up!" Jiang Hao gritted his teeth and glared viciously at the other party, saying, "What kind of faith and righteousness do you want to talk about with people like you? When you broke the clan rules in the first place, faith and righteousness were already worthless in front of you!"
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"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what, are you feeling disappointed? Haha, that proud father of yours once did something so vile and nasty, what, you can't accept it in your heart?"
"You shut up, I don't want to hear it!" Jiang Hao's eyes were filled with anger. He scolded at the other party.
But how could Zhang Xiangyu stop because of Jiang Hao's antipathy.
He violently splashed the wine in his cup on Jiang Hao again as he stood up and said loudly, "Back then, the overseas Shen family brought him overseas in order to monitor and control Shen Haoting's moves, so he became a puppet of the overseas Shen family. It's just that he was still too cunning and was able to do quite a few small moves secretly under the noses of the Overseas Shen Family, like developing his own strength and that what's-his-name Thunder Group. Oh, by the time the overseas Shen family found out, it was too late for anything, from that moment on. Shen Tianyang already knew that there would be another showdown between him and this Shen Haoting after all, and what we have now is just an opening for this showdown!"
Zhang Xiangyu violently threw away the wine glass in his hand, and the tall glass fell to pieces.
Zhang Xiangyu took out his mobile phone and looked at Jiang Hao with a smile, "Watch, the good show is about to begin!"
After saying that, Zhang Xiangyu quickly dialed a number.
The phone rang a few times before the other party picked up, Zhang Xiangyu smiled and said, "Shen Haoting, do you feel surprised to hear my voice? Oh yes, I'm sure you already know that your son is now in my hands, but don't worry, he's not dead yet. But it's up to you whether he'll die or not!"
Shen Haoting on the other end of the phone looked agitated and shouted angrily, "If you dare to do anything to Jiang Hao, I guarantee that you will be thrown to the bone!"
Zhang Xiangyu laughed in disbelief, "Hahaha ...... don't scare me, it's useless, if I was afraid of this, would I still be involved in this matter? I only ask you, do you want your son to live, if so, then obediently hand over Shangdian, otherwise, don't blame me for being merciless!"
"You are dreaming!" Shen Haoting burst out in anger, "I will save my son, and as for you ...... I will kill you too!"
"Oh, don't talk so full of words!" Zhang Xiangyu sneered, "I hope you'll still be so tough when I slit your son's throat with a knife by then! I'll give you one day, after one day, deliver Shang Dian to No. 36 Qing Shui Street, and by that time. I will also hand your son back to you, but if you dare to play tricks, then don't blame me for being ruthless!"
After he finished speaking, Zhang Xiangyu did not wait for Shen Haoting to make a reply before he directly hung up the phone.
At this moment, Zhang Xiangyu seemed to be full of excitement, as he kicked over the chair in front of him and clenched his fists with both hands, seemingly in an ambitious stance.
At this moment, however, Zhang Xiangyu's hands were, surprisingly, still intact.
You know, before at the Mirror Lake, he had cut off one of his little thumbs in front of Shen Tianyang ......
Only Jiang Hao did not know all this, at this time he stared at Zhang Xiangyu with incomparable hatred, hating to use one look of his own. Just kill the other party.
But what made him feel frustrated was that at this point he couldn't even move his own body!
On the other hand, on the way back to the hotel from Hai Sheng Yi Pin, Shen Haoting's group had already given orders. No matter what, they had to find Jiang Hao's whereabouts.
"Mr. Shen, what should we do? Do we really watch Jiang Hao ......" Ye Yunjie wanted to say something but looked at Shen Haoting and asked in a soft voice.
Shen Haoting leaned back on the sofa and shook his head firmly, "Jiang Hao is my only son, I already owe him too much, I don't want to put him through unnecessary harm because of me anymore ......"
"Then what do we do?" Ye Yunjie asked with a frown." Is it hard to say that we're really going to hand Shangdian over?"
Ye Yunjie knew, of course, that Shen Haoting would not do that, for the sake of this thing, he had once given up his most precious dignity.
And after more than ten years, wasn't what he wanted was for the day when he could rely on the power of the Shang Dian to completely clear his humiliation and avenge his entire family?
However, Shen Haoting sat up violently. Looking at Ye Yunjie, he said, "Couldn't I use the Shang Dian to exchange for my son's life?"
Ye Yunjie was stunned by the question, she could not believe that these words were coming from Shen Haoting's mouth.
"But Mr. Shen ......"
Ye Yunjie seemed to be about to say something else, but was mercilessly interrupted by Shen Haoting.
"Alright, don't say anymore, my mind is made up, go and take out Shangdian, I will personally go to that 36th Qing Shui Street later!"
Three hours later, Zhang Xiangyu's mobile phone suddenly rang, he looked at the number and immediately smiled.
"What, have you thought it over?" Zhang Xiangyu asked with a smile.
On the other end of the phone, it was none other than Shen Haoting, who spoke in an extremely indifferent tone and said, "I've prepared the stuff. I will personally deliver it in an hour, but if you dare to play tricks, then don't blame me for not being polite!"
Zhang Xiangyu chuckled, "Remember, it's No. 36 Qing Shui Street. I will wait for you there with your son when the time comes. If you dare to play tricks, then I won't be polite either, don't forget, your son is in my hands now. As long as I use a little bit of force, he will be dead!"
Having said that, Zhang Xiangyu hung up the phone in a hurry.
Jiang Hao gazed at him and asked, "Shall we go now?"
Jiang Hao had already gone out on a limb in his mind. What he was thinking was that later, as soon as the other party said he would take himself to that 36th Qing Shui Street, the moment Zhang Xiangyu let go of the rope that bound him, he would fight with the other party.
Only to Jiang Hao's consternation, his own question invited Zhang Xiangyu's ridicule.
"Huh, go? Where to go?" The other party looked at Jiang Hao as if he was looking at a fool.
"To ...... go to that 36th Qing Shui Street, huh? Aren't you going to be there, trading with my dad?" Jiang Hao asked with a frown.
Suddenly, Jiang Hao felt as if he was too naive to believe the other party's words.
Sure enough, Zhang Xiangyu laughed again, "Hahahaha ...... where's your f*cking brain? You don't really think that I would take you to make a deal with Shen Haoting, do you? Oh, it's really naive and ridiculous, you people, huh, I sometimes really wonder how you've survived until now!"
Zhang Xiangyu sneered and continued, "To tell you the truth, that 36 Qing Shui Street is just a trap I set up, just waiting for Shen Haoting to take the bait, to be honest, it was originally a closed down cafe, but I bought it later. As soon as Shen Haoting enters, no matter how skilled he is, he will be blown to pieces!"