Chapter 1656 The bodyguard really didn't die.

Meng Yunzheng narrowed his eyes. "Help me."

Shu Yu immediately raised her wrist and pressed the hidden arrow directly at a person.

With a "whoosh," this time the arrow was aimed at the man's neck, and he fell to the ground.

The remaining two were stunned for a moment, and turned around in surprise. However, one of them had just raised his head when Meng Yunzheng knocked him down.

The other one fought Meng Qi and managed to exchange a few blows, but upon seeing his companion killed, he immediately stopped fighting and tried to run out of the abandoned house without saying a word. However, Shu Yu was standing at the door and raised his wrist to fire another arrow.

Within a few breaths, the three who had been holding the upper hand with ease all collapsed.

Meng Yunzheng checked them over and found that all three of them were dead. He examined their bodies and found the same dagger as the one on the man from before.

Sure enough, that man was also a bandit.

After taking the weapons from the three men, Meng Yunzheng walked towards the man lying on the ground, gasping for breath. "How are you?"

Having survived the ordeal, the man finally breathed a sigh of relief and found himself unable to get up.

He finally managed to roll over, leaning half his body against the wall. When he looked up, his face was covered in sweat.

"Thank you so much, you saved my life."

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

The man wiped the blood from his eyes and looked at them. "I am..."

He was about to introduce himself, but when he saw Shu Yu, he froze, and asked uncertainly, "Lu Xiangjun?"

Shu Yu was taken aback. "You know me?"

"You really are Lord Lu Xiang? How did you end up here? Is it... is it that reinforcements from Dong'an Prefecture have arrived?" The man's eyes began to light up as he spoke, and he tried to stand up, but his legs were weak and he quickly slumped back down.

When Shu Yu heard him mention Dong'an Prefecture and reinforcements, she asked with some suspicion, "Are you... someone from the Dong'an Prefecture government?"

To everyone's surprise, the man shook his head immediately. "No, I'm not from the government, but I am indeed from Dong'an Prefecture. I used to work as a镖师 (bodyguard/escort) in Jiangyuan County and saw you once on the street. I never expected to see you here again."

Shu Yu and Meng Yunzheng exchanged a glance. Escorting goods?

"Are you a bodyguard from Dong'an Prefecture?"

The man nodded, probably because he had seen someone he knew. He was somewhat happy, and his chapped lips couldn't help but clench, causing blood to gush out and turn bright red.

He didn't seem to care, and simply said, "I am indeed a bodyguard from Dong'an Prefecture, and my name is Yuan Gui."

Shu Yu was taken aback. "What did you say your name was?"

Yuan Gui was stunned, puzzled by her expression, and became slightly wary, his voice lowering, "Yuan, Yuan... Gui".

Shu Yu suddenly wanted to laugh. It was him. He really hadn't died, and he had appeared in Chenggu County just like Jiang Kuanyu.

She took a deep breath and confirmed, "Your name is Yuan Gui, a bodyguard from the Jianghe Escort Agency in Dong'an Prefecture? The Yuan Gui who escorted the Jiang family from Dong'an Prefecture back to their hometown in the north last year, but fell off a cliff in Changjin Prefecture?"

Yuan Gui's eyes widened. "How did you know?" Then he suddenly realized and said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect that my story had already spread throughout the prefectural city, and even Lord Lu Xiang knew about it."

"No, your story didn't spread. Jianghe Escort Agency wanted to gain fame and attract more business by escorting the Jiang family, so they suppressed your story from the beginning. Later, your neighbors felt something was wrong, so they told others that you had an accident during another escort mission."

(End of this chapter)