The God of War is killing like crazy

Chapter 164 I recognize my husband as my elder brother 24

Gu Chengyuan and Si Ying rushed back to the capital without stopping. When the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo saw her son coming back, she rushed over crying.

"Yuan'er, please save your sister, she's been kidnapped, wuwuwuwu"

Gu Chengyuan quickly asked the Duke of Zhenguo what was going on. Although he was angry at his own sister for being narrow-minded and having hurt people in her previous life, she was still his sister after all. So he turned around and took people out to look for Gu Xinting immediately.

The capital city has been searched thoroughly, house by house, but nothing is found.

Si Ying stopped him and asked the Duke of Zhenguo, "Father, have you searched the entire capital, including shops and places like gambling houses or brothels?"

The Duke of Zhenguo sighed, "We have searched everywhere. I personally led people to search all those places, but still couldn't find them. It's as if that group of people suddenly disappeared."

Si Ying frowned again and asked, "Since there is no such filthy place, why not change your thinking? Father, have you carefully looked for the largest restaurant in the capital, Huicui Restaurant?"

It really doesn't.

Si Ying's words made everyone present suddenly enlightened. At that time, they only paid attention to some seemingly dangerous places, focusing on various gambling houses, brothels, inns and other places, while they relaxed their vigilance as for teahouses and restaurants, and did not search them particularly carefully.

Especially in the Hui Cui Building, which has a huge flow of visitors every day and is bustling with people every day, they checked it once and found nothing unusual, so they did not continue the search.

So at that moment, the Duke of Zhenguo and Gu Chengyuan immediately gathered everyone to surround Huicui Building. They caught the enemy by surprise and packed the entire building. The owner of Huicui Building was horrified and hurried out to ask in panic what had happened.

Gu Chengyuan didn't waste any time talking to him and directly ordered his soldiers to go in and search, leaving no corner untouched.

Soon, the men came back to report that they found nothing suspicious and gained nothing.

Gu Chengyuan tightly grasped the reins in his hands. He intuitively felt that his sister Gu Xinting was here, but why couldn't he find her?

At this time, Si Ying also arrived at Huicui Building in a carriage. Looking at Gu Chengyuan with a cold and frowning face, Si Ying kindly whispered a few words in his ear.

Gu Chengyuan's eyes widened instantly, he couldn't believe it, and then he found a few trusted soldiers to arrange for them to go down.

Time passed little by little. Thinking back to what Si Ying had just said, Gu Chengyuan's nervous fingers turned white due to the force. He was not sure whether what Si Ying said was feasible, but he had already alerted the enemy today. If he couldn't find Gu Xinting, he knew that he would never have the chance to find her again in the future.

Gu Chengyuan didn't have to wait too long. Soon a soldier came back to report, "Report! General! We found the secret room!"

"Where is it!?" Gu Chengyuan asked anxiously.

"General, it's under the water tank in the back kitchen of the restaurant."

Gu Chengyuan hurriedly followed the soldiers and ran to the kitchen.

Then he arrived at the back kitchen and saw several soldiers standing where the water tank was originally placed. The baffle of the basement below had been moved away, but no one went down. The soldiers looked at each other.

"General, there is indeed a woman imprisoned down there, but if it is really a young lady, it would be inconvenient for us..."

Gu Chengyuan understood what they meant and went straight into the basement. He then saw a naked, bruised and dying man handcuffed to a bed. The dirty and torn bedding beneath him was covered with dried bloodstains.

Although he had prepared himself mentally before coming in, he was still shocked when he saw the woman in the basement who had been tortured beyond recognition.

He walked forward quickly with some trembling, hoping that this was his sister, yet also afraid that this was his sister.

Then he pulled aside the messy hair, revealing a familiar face, it was Gu Xinting.

When Gu Xinting saw Gu Chengyuan, she thought she was in a dream and said weakly, "Brother, is this a dream? I finally dreamed that you came to save me, but I'm dying."

"Ting'er, this is not a dream. Don't be afraid. Brother is here to save you. Brother will take you home right away."

Gu Chengyuan quickly took off his cloak, wrapped up Gu Xinting, who was covered in cruel scars, and quickly picked her up and walked out.

Gu Xinting closed her eyes weakly and passed out. When she was brought back to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, the Duke's wife saw that there was not a single intact part on her daughter's body and her lower body was in a horrible state. She was so heartbroken that she fainted as well.

The Duke of Zhenguo was busy taking care of his wife and daughter, while Gu Chengyuan angrily arrested everyone in the restaurant together with the Imperial Guards who arrived after hearing the news.

Si Ying naturally followed along. The reason why she helped Gu Chengyuan to save Gu Xinting was not to help her. She wanted those people who had harmed the original owner in the previous life to die, and to die in front of the world as people of the Yu country.

Gu Chengyuan led people to check one by one. Those few people were mixed in the crowd and refused to admit it.

In the end, all the guests who had dined that day were released, but everyone in Huicui Building, from the shopkeeper to the waiters, were severely tortured by Gu Chengyuan, but they still refused to admit it.

Si Ying thought she could help them, so she asked Tuantuan to capture the carrier eagle they used for communication.

The carrier eagle has been circling around the owner and waiters of Huicui Building since it came in. This is unique to Yu Country. Seeing the carrier eagle, the owner and the waiters became panicked. Gu Chengyuan noticed this scene and now he understood that all this must have been arranged by Hong Yanshan.

The purpose was naturally to take revenge on himself. Gu Chengyuan hated that vicious woman in his heart. She dared to harm his family in this life. He would make that woman suffer the same pain that Ting'er suffered.

Thinking of this, Gu Chengyuan, under Si Ying's suggestion, used all kinds of cruel methods that would be used against prisoners. In addition, Si Ying specially put pain-doubling talismans on those people, and Si Ying used her spiritual power to eliminate the poison hidden in their mouths. So they wanted to commit suicide but couldn't. In the end, they couldn't bear it and admitted everything.

No one expected that Huicuilou, an old store that had been open in the capital for more than ten years, was actually the spy arranged by the Yu Kingdom in the Great Zhou. In order not to be discovered, they had been lying in ambush carefully for more than ten years. If Hong Yanshan had not insisted that they capture Gu Xinting this time, they would not have been exposed.

But it was too late to say anything now. Gu Chengyuan submitted the interrogation results to the emperor. The emperor then realized that the first restaurant in the capital, Hui Cui Lou, under his nose, was actually full of people from Yu country, from the shopkeeper to the kitchen staff, and waiters.

In the past few years, they have been lurking here and have collected countless intelligence about the Great Zhou. In the court, many ministers and officials were sweating profusely. These ministers often went to the Huicui Building to find a private room to discuss state affairs. The private rooms in the Huicui Building were famous for their good soundproofing, because you couldn't hear the conversations in the private rooms next door, so they were relieved at that time.

However, this was soon discovered by Gu Chengyuan during a search. It turned out that there was a small secret room between the two private rooms, which was just big enough for a thin person to sit in, so that he could hear the conversations in the private rooms on both sides. It was precisely because of this small secret room that the two private rooms could not hear each other's conversations, which made people think that the private rooms were very soundproofed. What they said was recorded and transmitted back to the Yu Kingdom.

The Emperor of the Great Zhou was furious. The Yu Kingdom was really going too far. He slammed the table and ordered Gu Chengyuan to speed up. He wanted to declare war on the Yu Kingdom!