My Silly, Sweet Wife-Chapter 944: Southwestern Frontier

Heaven and Sea Pavilion, the only entertainment club within a hundred miles at the southwest borderland.

Because this place is a no-man's land, if you walk a hundred more miles west, you will enter a thousand-mile desert, and beyond the desert lies the Great Cold Mountain.

This area is vast with sparse population and lacks any resources. Years ago, Su Mu was too lazy to care about it and simply abandoned it.

Over the years, this place became a melting pot of mixed characters, and incidents of murder and robbery were not uncommon. Many martial arts masters who offended enemies would hide here, as once they entered the desert, it became difficult to find them.

As Ye Guichen and the others were dining, a group of people were drinking merrily in the VIP room of the Heaven and Sea Pavilion.

Sitting in the center was a young man.

His cheeks were flushed red, clearly drunk, and a woman with exotic western features beside him was trying to please him with flirtatious gestures.

A burly man frequently raised his cup to the young man, trying to ingratiate himself.

"Young Master Su, we never expected you to grace the Heaven and Sea Pavilion, truly bringing us this honor!"

"Yes, indeed! We always wanted to meet the Sunan King before, but he never cared about us, leaving us like children without a mother. But now it's great, the new Sunan King has sent Young Master Su to unite this area. In the future, we will all look up to Young Master Su."

"Young Master Su, come, come, I toast to you."

The other seated people were extremely polite.

The young man in the center was Su Ze.

Since Su Mu's death, Su Cheng has assumed the position of Sunan King, dispatching Su Ze to this southwest borderland, ostensibly to have Su Ze organize the disregarded borderland and to exercise him a bit.

Su Ze also knew that because of his past dealings with Ye Guichen, his status within the Su Family was quite awkward.

Especially knowing that the Su Family's prosperity was only because Ye Guichen had a good relationship with Su Jiu'er, he felt more uncomfortable.

Originally, Su Ze had looked down on Ye Guichen, even believing that despite being confined for over half a year, he would eventually surpass Ye Guichen.

But the more he learned about Ye Guichen, the greater he realized their gap was.

Especially witnessing Ye Guichen's divine prowess at Medicine King Valley.

And the Su Family, owing to Ye Guichen's further accomplishments, slowly turned their hostility into reverence, even with a sense of worship.

Hearing everyone's flattery, Su Ze let out a bitter smile, clearly understanding their intentions.

In the past, when Su Mu was around, he did send some collateral members of the Su Family to this borderland to convey the expectation of their allegiance to the Su Family.

But these people didn't listen at all and even beat the Su Family members and chased them away.

But now, with his own arrival, these people were not only providing good food and drinks but also constantly fawning over him.

The reason behind this change was self-evident.

Previously, while the Su Family was strong, they were not all-powerful.

Especially with the Wu Family and the Zhou family covertly counterbalancing the Su Family, they formed a hidden standoff, leading these borderland ruffians to understand that the Su Family didn't have the effort or wouldn't spare much effort to manage them.

But now the situation was entirely different.

The Wu Family and the Zhou family had fully declared their support for the new Sunan King, showing complete submission, and the borderland ruffians all understood that the Su Family had latched onto a great figure named Master Ye, and hence dared not show any defiance.

They had all heard of the happenings within the Su Family at the time.

The young Master Ye killed the Sect Master of the Yin Ghost Sect, Gui Jianchou with ease, and resurrected the already dead Kui Long from the Kill list, making everyone regard him as a deity-like figure.

"Young Master Su, is Master Ye really that amazing?" asked the bearded man named Zhu Yan, the owner of the Heaven and Sea Pavilion, and also the boss of the Golden Snake Gang.

In this borderland area, the Golden Snake Gang was considered the largest force.

However, no matter how powerful, they dared not step a foot further west. It was said that in that vast desert, there was another formidable master, under whom a group of first-class fighters maintained order by robbing the rich to help the poor. Because his weapon was the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade and his surname was Guan, he was respectfully called Mr. Guan.

Most importantly, no matter how strong a master, if they wanted to hide in the desert to avoid disaster, they had to pay Mr. Guan a fee, commonly known as protection money.

Once this protection fee was paid, it meant allegiance to Mr. Guan, and no matter how strong an enemy was, no one dared provoke them.

This fact was enough to prove the power of Mr. Guan.

Zhu Yan, having been in the borderland for many years, was like a local tyrant, even self-proclaiming as the Golden Snake King, dominating the area.

Today's flattery towards Su Ze was extremely gratifying to Su Ze, yet he reflected on the fact that his current glory was merely borrowed from Ye Guichen's radiance, feeling a mix of emotions.

Su Ze glanced at Zhu Yan, feeling a slight pride due to his many interactions with Ye Guichen, and raised his chin, "Boss Zhu, to be frank, I've known Master Ye for a long time, almost watching him step by step to where he is now. Back then, when I met him, he was just a son-in-law in a little place called Yun City, haha, at that time, in others' eyes, he was just a useless loser."

"Really?" A group of people immediately showed curiosity.

Su Ze rolled his eyes, "Why would I lie to you? At that time, Zhou Wantong colluded with the Yin Ghost Sect and gathered three to four thousand people to try and pressure our Su Family. But what happened? Haha, Master Ye didn't even lift a finger; his subordinates directly killed the Sect Master of the Yin Ghost Sect, shocking everyone. Can you imagine the scene then? He didn't even move his hand, and Zhou Wantong and Wu Hualong all knelt on the ground like lapdogs. Wu Hualong even offered his daughter to Master Ye, hoping Master Ye would favor her, but guess what? Master Ye didn't even spare her a glance."

"Wow, that's terrifying!"

"What is Master Ye's background? Just with a subordinate, he killed Gui Jianchou?"

"Then he himself must be even more formidable, right? I just wonder who is tougher between him and Mr. Guan."

"Nonsense, how could they compare? Mr. Guan is a desert hero, renowned for years, while Master Ye, though powerful, has only recently gained fame. They cannot be compared."

"That might not be the case. Mr. Guan is suited for fighting in the desert; that Master Ye, in the desert, might face a disadvantage."

For a while, there was a heated debate among the people present over who was more powerful between Mr. Guan and Master Ye.

Just then, the door was slammed open.

Zhu Yan's face darkened as he looked toward the door, "Damn it, can't you see we're drinking here?"

The intruder was none other than Big Gold Teeth.

Big Gold Teeth fell to the ground, "Boss, I... I was beaten, you have to stand up for me!"

"Hmm?" Zhu Yan raised an eyebrow, "Big Gold Teeth, who is so bold as to not know that you are with the Golden Snake Gang?"

"I told them, but they simply weren't afraid of us. They said 'Golden Snake Gang, we hit just the Golden Snake Gang,'" Big Gold Teeth wailed, "Boss, I was doing it all for you. There were two beauties among them, the likes of which I've never seen before. I originally wanted to capture them for you, but, but unexpectedly..."