Chapter 296: Beneath the Plum Blossoms
Sawangryeon, Taeju, Jiangsu Province.
In the building known as the Small King’s Hall, used by Gwaejeonggi, the eldest son of the Four Kings, Gwaejeonggi was now listening to a subordinate’s report.
He asked in a cold voice.
“Dong Jungseo died fighting bandits while preparing for the winter winds?”
Gweojeonggi’s expression was slightly twisted as he asked.
His face, usually perpetually cold, had been expressing quite a lot of emotion lately.
And the reason for this was all because of one person.
The subordinate who had reported while kneeling answered Gwejeonggi’s question again.
“Yes, and it was Seolpung who dealt with those bandits. So word is that Dong Chae-won, the Iron-Hearted Cold-Blooded Papa who’s taken on the role of Dongga’s temporary head, is treating him with the utmost respect.”
At that, the White Bone Demon Hong Chu frowned and asked.
“Didn’t you say Dong Jung-seo raised those bandits?”
Gwajeonggi nodded.
“That’s right.”
Hong Choo then laughed incredulously.
“So he was betrayed and killed by his own men? He was even more useless than I thought.”
Gweojeonggi offered no reply to Hongchu’s words.
It was because it seemed there must be internal circumstances different from what was known on the surface.
But the White Bone Demon Hongchu was not one with the intellect to think that far ahead.
It wasn’t just that.
Gwajeonggi had never cultivated anyone to serve as his strategist.
