Yang Ning came out of the hole and his lower body was outside. Then he turned his upper body back to the room and grabbed Gu Qinghan’s shoulders to pull her out. He knew that these people set this trap not just to catch them having sex. It was not so simple and there must be a bigger conspiracy hidden behind. But the most important thing at the moment was to escape from here first.
He was afraid that he would hurt Gu Qinghan if he pulled her with strength, so he was careful. Then he heard Zhao Yuan’s voice from outside. “Your Excellency, just rest assured. As long as you do as we say, the news that you have sex tonight wouldn’t spread, and you would enjoy the glory and wealth like before.” Zhao Yuan sneered. “But if you are bumptious, and the news spreads that the heir of the Marquis of Honor has sex with his aunt Gu Qinghan, I don’t know what the consequence would be.”
Yang Ning ignored him and pulled Gu Qinghan out of the room cautiously. It was dark at n
The snake hunter raised the steel fork, and the burly man was still alive with his body struggling in the air. The hunter looked ferocious and laughed in a low voice, as if it was a great pleasure to see others die.Yang Ning had cold sweat on his back. He had thought this was merely an ordinary snake hunter, but now it appeared that this man was not a good person. He just rushed out of the brushwood, and he was fat and strong, but he was nimble and took actions quickly. He penetrated the burly man’s throat at one blow, which was not what an ordinary snake hunter could do.Yang Ning looked at the hunter’s clothes and found that he wore a headcloth. He suddenly thought of King Shu’s heir he had met in the capital. This man’s headcloth was similar to that of his attendants’.He knew that it was a common outfit in Ba Shu, but it was Jingnan here, not Ba Shu, so he didn’t know why this man showed up on the Xia Mountain.After the burly
Yang Ning was clear that the pills in the bottle must be poison, so he smiled faintly and asked, “It seems that I have no choice, but I don’t understand something. Can you tell me?”“What do you want to ask, Your Excellency?” Zhao Yuan knew that everything was under control, so he wasn’t anxious.Yang Ning asked, “Forty percent of the grain was collected as the tax in the fiefdom, and it is not false, so the account books the third lady has checked must be fabricated.”Zhao Yuan replied, “Right. In fact, it won’t take much time to make false accounts.” He smiled. “Those account books have been made to welcome you. I know that Gu Qinghan would surely check the accounts, so I was prepared in advance.”“To welcome us?” Yang Ning’s heart sank. “Did you know earlier that we would come?”Zhao Yuan chuckled. “Your Excellency, why don’t you think it over? We sent the tax silver to you in the past few years successively and hav
Yang Ning didn’t know who the losers were as the teenage girl mentioned, but he also found another man not far away wearing the same clothes as the snake hunter’s. And both of them were tall and big with a three-tined fork. They were like twins.One burly man was nailed to the tree and lowered his head without breathing. Nobody knew if he had died or fainted. The other burly man rolling on the ground screamed miserably. A snake hunter stepped forward and took a rope off himself. He didn’t fear the poisonous snakes on the burly man and tied him up.The crossbow and arrows in Zhao Yuan’s hand had been thrown away earlier, and he was exhausted after the poisonous snakes harassed him. He leaned against a big tree and the snakes coiled around his arms and neck. Then he softened and sat down next to the big tree slowly.Yang Ning looked at the person in the tree. Although the fair-skinned legs and the melodious voice showed that it was a girl, he cou
Yang Ning thought that this teenage girl was vicious, so he was more careful. At this time, Zhao Yuan roared, rolled to get up and then ran quickly. But after he ran only a few steps away, a fork with three prongs flew out and hit his leg. Zhao Yuan shrieked and fell on the ground.Yang Ning saw that the fork was thrown away by the snake hunter behind him. He knew that if he fell into the girl’s hands, it would be a disaster, so he wouldn’t miss this good chance. He turned around all of a sudden and shouted loudly, “Go away!” The Cold Blade in his hand was shot to the snake hunter.The snake hunter was tall and strong, but he was a human after all. It was impossible for him to avoid the Cold Blade which could cut clean through iron as though it were mud.Seeing that Yang Ning rushed over, the snake hunter grunted like a beast and didn’t retreat but moved ahead. He waved a fist and tried to punch Yang Ning.Suddenly the girl shouted
Yang Ning was trapped in the box and didn’t know if it was in the daytime or at night. He just felt that the road was smooth in the beginning, but later, it bumped more and more seriously and he was dizzy. Then he went into a coma again. When he woke up once more, the carriage was still moving, but it didn’t bump seriously as before. He felt that the carriage was moving from a higher place to a lower place.He didn’t know how long he had been in the coma for twice. He guessed that he was conscious for one or two days. Although he didn’t need to walk, he was in the box which bumped, so he was exhausted. Moreover, he was hungry and thirsty.The demon girl had merely said that they would go to a valley, but Yang Ning didn’t know which valley they headed to or where it was. He wondered if they would go to Ba Shu.The demon girl didn’t give him food or drinking water. If it went on like this, he would starve to death in only a few days before the po
When Zhao Yuan was screaming, the burly man next to him knelt down as his legs softened.The demon girl chuckled and asked the burly man, “I won’t tell Black Lightning to blind you. What are you afraid of?”The burly man had cold sweat all over and begged in a trembling voice, “Girl… Girl, please spare me. I… I…” He stuttered and didn’t know what to say.“He always plays dumb and doesn’t tell me the truth.” The demon girl stood in front of the burly man and asked, “Tell me. Who on earth is he?”“He… He is the judge…” the burly man answered while trembling as he realized that the demon girl was ruthless. “I… I just follow his orders. Girl, please let me go.”The demon girl asked, “What does ‘judge’ mean? As long as you listen to me, you won’t necessarily die.”The burly man replied, “Judge… It’s the judge in the underworld in charge of the accounts of life and death…”“The accounts of life and
The monkey with white hair heard the lady’s voice and immediately ran to her at lightning speed. Black Lightning seemed to be reluctant and still wanted to chase it, but the demon girl whistled, so Black Lightning flapped its wings and flew up.The monkey ran to the lady and sat down on the ground. It raised its hand and pointed to Big Devil, making sharp sounds. Seeing that, Yang Ning thought this monkey was lovely and smart. If he guessed right, that lady must be its owner.The lady squatted and reached out her hand to caress Bai Ling’s head. It looked docile. Then the lady made a gesture, so Bai Ling jumped away.The lady stood up and walked over briskly with a small bamboo basket in her hand. When she got close to him, Yang Ning found that she was about seventeen or eighteen years old. Although her skin was healthy and dark, she looked beautiful. However, she was expressionless. She walked past Yang Ning and the others, turning to a path in
Tang Nuo took out the silver needles and inserted more than ten of them into Zhao Yuan’s head and neck. She did it nimbly, and it could be seen that she was good at it.The demon girl sat in the bamboo chair and looked at them. She suddenly got up and approached them slowly. Tang Nuo took out a long needle in the end, which was longer than those inserted, with the needle tip on Zhao Yuan’s throat. She said in a low voice, “Don’t move. I will help you lead the poisonous liquid out.”In the beginning, Zhao Yuan doubted Tang Nuo, but now he trusted her more obviously and nodded slightly. Tang Nuo moved the long needle forward and stabbed his throat gently. He trembled, and Yang Ning saw everything clearly, finding that after the silver needle was inserted, blood flew out from behind.Under the light, the blood was dark purple with a stink.Yang Ning just thought that smell was terrible and raised his hand to cover his nose. The demon