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In the tavern, Du Shaofu sat cross legged with the white light around him slowly disappearing.
"Milord, there's the imperial guards waiting outside."
Outside of the room, a waiter of an inn was speaking with a trembling voice. It was as if he was quite frightened. Early in the morning, he was surrounded by a group of people from the imperial palace, so he was naturally quite frightened.
"Someone from the palace?"
Du Shaofu was suspicious, but Du Xiaoqing had also woken up, and the two of them followed the waiter out of the tavern.
At this moment, outside of the inn, there were many people who had surrounded the inn. They were all curiously looking at the inside of the inn and discussing with each other.
The onlookers were all guessing whether this inn had a certain grand character staying here, or a wanted criminal. To their surprise, it was here that the mighty imperial guards waited early in the morning.
"Greetings, mighty Marquis."
Following Du Shaofu's appearance, the hundreds of imperial guards, who had an extraordinary imposing and powerful aura, neatly dismounted their Yellow Marked Draconic Horses. Dressed in yellow armor, they carried long swords on their waists and bowed together, causing the air to tremble.
"No need for formalities."
Du Shaofu was startled at first, it was the first time he had encountered such a situation, and he was able to handle it immediately. Looking at the hundred people from the Imperial guards, he wondered, why did they come all the way here so early in the morning.
"Senior Du, good morning. Your Mansion of Duke Divine Brave has been prepared all night.
Second Princess Cheng Yan walked out from the imperial guards. Under her long and slender eyelashes, her eyes were sparkling and translucent like black gems, while a smile hung on her face.
A moment later, under the astonished gazes of many people, over a hundred elegant and agile Yellow Marked Flood Dragon horses covered with yellow scales and with two horns on their heads rushed over.
Dust flew everywhere the iron hooves passed, causing the ground to tremble and shake.
"So that purple-robed youth is actually Du Shaofu, the valiant marquis who sealed Emperor's Mandate and Dragon last night. His bearing is truly extraordinary."
"I heard that Du Shaofu caused a huge ruckus in the Du Mansion the previous day, and in the two exchanges yesterday, he defeated the genius Du Yi of the Du Mansion at that time."
"The title of the imperial family bestowed Du Shaofu with the title of Marquis of Fealty, are they deliberately targeting the Du Mansion?! This can't be a sign that the imperial family is suppressing the Du Mansion, right?"
"The Du Mansion has stood for so many years and has always abounded in troops. It can be said that they have done great deeds to protect their masters. The Imperial Family will naturally not be at ease."
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Following Second Princess Cheng Yan, Du Shaofu and Du Xiaoqing's Mansion of Duke Divine Brave had reached, shocking Du Shaofu quite a bit.
What a huge palace courtyard. The stone lion gate stood tall, and the fierce tiger on the stone pillar had its claws wide open. It was extremely shocking.
Within the Mansion of Duke Divine Brave, the courtyard alternated as they connected in all directions. It was magnificent, with exquisite pavilions and pavilions. The quiet and beautiful water gallery of the pool hall was reflected within the pine, pine, juniper trees, artificial mountains, oddly-shaped rocks, flower beds, pots, and rattan and emerald bamboo, adorning the area.
"What a beautiful place. Are we going to live here from now on?" Du Xiaoqing seemed to be extremely satisfied with his Mansion of Duke Divine Brave.
"This will be your home from now on. You can live here anytime." Second Princess Cheng Yan said to Du Xiaoqing.
Du Shaofu looked around, and did not say much, but Second Princess Cheng Yan kept on talking.
From the Second Princess Cheng Yan, Du Shaofu knew that although the Mansion of Duke Divine Brave was given to his own mansion, the Marquis of Shen Yong was after all just a title, so the Imperial Family did not have any guards or maids, only servants could be found by themselves, but they could be used to reimburse the Finance Department for expenses, but there was still a certain number of people that could be allocated, there were 100 guards, 50 maids, and about 50 male servants, which was more or less, and the treatment was more or less the same as the rest of the manors.
After finishing all the trivial matters, Second Princess did not disturb them and left with the imperial guards.
"Phew!"
Du Shaofu took a deep breath in and laid on the chair in the hall.
"Brother, this place isn't bad. It's much better than the inn." Du Xiaoqing said.
Du Shaofu smiled faintly and did not speak. This Mansion of Duke Divine Brave was indeed much better than the inn.
What Du Shaofu did not expect was that not long after he had arrived at the Mansion of Duke Divine Brave, a long line of people had lined up outside the door.
This caused Du Shaofu to have no choice but to close the door and pretend that he was not there.
However, the long queue grew longer and longer, and had no intention of leaving. In less than a few hours time, outside of the Mansion of Duke Divine Brave, there was a sea of people, all of them from the great powers within the capital. Without a doubt, they were all here to build relations.
"Brother, there are so many people outside, what should we do? Should we chase them away?" Du Xiaoqing looked at Du Shaofu with his innocent eyes, and asked weakly.
"That's not good." Du Shaofu laughed bitterly, since others were here to give him gifts, they shouldn't be able to just directly kick him out, right?
"Who told you to be so famous now. You're the mighty and valiant Marquis Huang, that's still considered a small number. I'm afraid that before long, more and more givers will come to try to establish a relationship with you."
A beautiful figure strode into the hall, her coiled hair and long hair framing her peerless face. Her eyebrows were slender and her eyes were bright and cold, as if she was a thousand miles away, but without a doubt, she was a peerless beauty.
Seeing him, Du Shaofu smiled, and said: "I have already closed the door, climbing over the walls is not your style."
"A dignified Mansion of Duke Divine Brave does not even have a single guard, and since you have closed the door, if I want to enter, I can only think of a way myself."
Ouyang Shuang stared at Du Shaofu, and said: "On the other hand, for the mighty Marquis of Bravery to hide himself like this, isn't that a bit inappropriate?"
"Stop teasing me, just think of a way. What should I do?" Du Shaofu laughed bitterly.
Ouyang Shuang glared at Du Shaofu again, and said: "When I heard about your Mansion of Duke Divine Brave, I knew that you would be in trouble, so I informed Dark Wolf on your behalf. His Wolf Toth Escort team is currently at the capital, and should be able to temporarily replace the work of guard there.
"Thank you very much."
Hearing this, Du Shaofu heaved a sigh of relief.
In less than an hour, a commotion occurred outside of Mansion of Duke Divine Brave. A group of over a hundred people arrived, and all of them had a strong aura, just that they had ferocious looks on their faces. The one leading them was the Great Leader of the Wolf Toth Escort, the Dark Wolf.
Following the arrival of the Dark Wolf, as if they had already heard what Ouyang Shuang had said, they immediately ordered their men to guard the Mansion of Duke Divine Brave residence, and then opened the door.
Seeing that the Wolf Toth Escort that had suddenly appeared was actually guarded, with the appearance of a housekeeper, who should have known about the Wolf Toth Escort in the past, a few of the powers did not want to accept it immediately.
Although the Dark Wolf failed to assassinate Du Shaofu and was captured alive by Du Xiaoqing, it definitely did not mean that he was a weakling. After he heavily injured several people on the spot, he still spoke in a cold and arrogant voice: "Who dares to be impudent in front of the Mansion of Duke Divine Brave, don't blame me for being impolite. If you want to pay a visit to the Divine Marquis is your business, then you must follow the rules.
As the Dark Wolf's voice faded, coupled with the fact that he had taken action to intimidate them, no one in the entire arena dared to make a ruckus anymore. All they could do was to obediently register the information they wanted to visit.
"This fellow is quite capable." Inside the hall, Du Shaofu was listening to the commotion outside with a smile on his face.
Yesterday, I went back to look up the information on the dark wolves with the people from the Ouyang manor. He was infamous, but his reputation was not bad, and he had a strong sense of justice, one year ago, his Wolf Toth Escort should have been one of the top tier bodyguards in the capital, but one year ago, after the previous boss of the Wolf Toth Escort was killed by his enemy, his Wolf Toth Escort was almost swallowed up, and the remaining people were all loyal old men. Ouyang Shuang said to Du Shaofu.
"Thank you. I really don't know how to repay you."
Du Shaofu had an embarrassed smile on his face. He naturally knew that Ouyang Shuang had used the power of the Duke Ouyang Palace to investigate the hidden wolf for his own sake. After all, he had decided to keep the dark wolf by his side.
"Stop blabbering, it was my mom who asked me to take care of you. Who asked you to be my younger brother."
On Ouyang Shuang's beautiful face, her pink lips were slightly pursed as she glanced at Du Shaofu.
"Greetings, milord."
After a while, the Dark Wolf finally had time to leave and meet Du Shaofu. Ever since he saw Du Shaofu defeat Du Yi in two moves with his own eyes, his face was filled with respect and reverence.
"I'll leave everything regarding the Mansion of Duke Divine Brave to you first. It's fine for you to decide on everything. The people under your command will temporarily be the guards for the house of the Marquis." Du Shaofu said to the Dark Wolf.
"Yes."
The Dark Wolf nodded, he was moved, as if he did not expect that the person in front of him whose capital was undoubtedly the most popular, would actually let him handle everything within it.
Although this was hard work, it also represented a kind of trust in him. After all, he had only assassinated this young, brave god Marquis with the youngest capital two nights ago.