No matter how arrogant and domineering the original owner was, she might have let everyone down, but she had never let Zhao Youliang down.

In fact, thanks to the original owner, the Zhao family has a huge advantage over others, both in terms of job assignments and daily benefits.

But what she got in return was the Zhao family's ungratefulness, which directly caused her to lose her life.

"Zhao Youliang, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself. You are greedy and you are hurting others and yourself!"

After saying this, An Hongdou was about to put down the knife when she heard someone suddenly call her from behind, "An Hongdou!"

An Hongdou's hand trembled, and when she turned around, someone had already grabbed her wrist.

"What are you doing?" Shen Xiangzhi asked her in horror.

"I just want to beat him up and scare him. Do you believe it?" An Hongdou blinked, and the indifference just now disappeared in an instant, replaced by an innocent expression.

However, my heart suddenly tensed up.

It's over.

No wonder people often say that villains die because they talk too much.

She's not a villain though.

But she did say a lot today, mainly because she felt it was not worth it for the original owner.

If she had known that Shen Xiangzhi would come, she would have cut his neck and thrown him into space without saying a word, and then quickly cleaned up the battlefield. How much easier it would have been!

An Hongdou really wanted to slap herself to wake her mind.

Sure enough, in times of ease, even people become easeful.

If this were the end of the world, we would have already started our journey and wouldn't have had so much time to waste on nonsense.

Shen Xiangzhi turned his wrist and snatched the dagger from her hand, saying: "I believe it, of course I believe it, then are you done scaring me?"

"The scare is over."

What can An Hongdou do?

No matter how powerful she is, she wouldn't dare to kill someone in front of others!

"Now that you're done scaring me, let's go." After all, Shen Xiangzhi was born and raised in this era, and he had received an orthodox education. He would not do anything that would treat human lives as ants.

Since Zhao Youliang dared to plot against him, he would definitely take revenge on him.

But he had never thought about killing someone, nor could he think about it.

"How about you go first?" An Hongdou looked at Zhao Youliang and said maliciously, "I have to warn him, otherwise he might go back and tell lies."

How could Shen Xiangzhi dare to leave? He was afraid that An Hongdou would kill him as soon as he left.

Zhao Youliang deserved to die, but it was not worth it to sacrifice his life for such a thing.

"You should go first. I just happen to have a few questions for him. Don't worry, I will make sure he doesn't dare to say a single word to anyone after he goes back." Chen Xiangzhi said.

"That's fine." An Hongdou stood up helplessly, thought for a moment and said, "I'll wait for you outside the grove."

Looking at An Hongdou's leaving back, Shen Xiangzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is... is it Shen Zhiqing? Please save me quickly. That woman An Hongdou is not a human being. She... she actually wants to kill me..." Zhao Youliang became very excited when he recognized the person from the voice.

However, what he got in return was a slap in the face.

Zhao Youliang was still hanging upside down, and his head was buzzing from the slap.

He suddenly realized that Shen Xiangzhi and An Hongdou were actually in the same group.

"Chen...Chen Zhiqing, you are an educated youth from the city, you must know that killing is against the law. It's not worth it to break the law for me!" Zhao Youliang cried.

Chen Xiangzhi was not as flustered as he was when facing An Hongdou. Instead, he was unusually calm. He stretched out his hand to straighten up the swaying Zhao Youliang, and said coldly: "I have something to ask you now. If you tell the truth, I will let you go. If you dare to lie..." Chen Xiangzhi paused for a moment, and then said: "I won't kill you. After all, it's not worth it to sacrifice myself for you. But there are not many people here. If you are hung here all the time, how long will it take for someone to find you and rescue you?"

Zhao Youliang shuddered instantly and asked, "What do you want to ask?"

"That day you tricked me into going up the mountain to find An Hongdou. Was it a premeditated plan?" Shen Xiangzhi had many guesses in his mind, but he still wanted to hear it from Zhao Youliang himself.

"If I tell you, will you let me go?" Zhao Youliang asked.

Shen Xiangzhi didn’t indulge him, and slapped him in the face again, saying, “Will you tell me or not?”

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you." Zhao Youliang was afraid of being beaten, so he said in a painful voice, "I knew that you had changed your job to cut grass for pigs because of illness that day, and I also knew where you were, so I deliberately brought An Hongdou up the mountain from the other side, and then came down to trick you up there."

"Why?" Shen Xiangzhi had only been here for a short time, and he thought to himself that he had never offended anyone, but he was being plotted against for no reason.

"It was An Hongdou. She asked me to do this. She has secretly liked you for a long time. She also said that as long as I help her get you, she will agree to break off the engagement with me and not let me return the food." Zhao Youliang said.

After Zhao Youliang finished speaking, Shen Xiangzhi stood up from the ground silently without saying a word, stretched out his fist and punched Zhao Youliang on the knee.

There was a loud "click" and Zhao Youliang's scream, which scared the sparrows in the grove so much that they flapped their wings, making a rustling sound.

"Why don't you tell the truth?" Shen Xiangzhi asked.

Do you really think he is stupid?

Not to mention An Hongdou, just the nervousness when Zhao Youliang spoke was enough to tell that he was lying.

"I was wrong. I'm telling the truth. I'm telling the truth." The pain in his knees made Zhao Youliang curl up, but he staggered even more. "I thought An Hongdou was ugly, and I wanted to break off the engagement with her, but I didn't want to return the food to her family. So I took advantage of the day when we were discussing the marriage to drug her, and then I deliberately brought her to the mountain. I also lied to her that she might be sick, and told her to stay there while I went down the mountain to find someone to save her, and then I tricked you up the mountain."

"Then why me?" According to what Zhao Youliang said, he was sure that he was at the foot of the mountain that day, so he deliberately planned this.

"Because... because you are good-looking, many girls in the village like you. If An Hongdou has a chance to be with you, she will definitely stop bothering me." Zhao Youliang didn't want to admit that he was no match for the other party, but what he had to do was, this was the fact.

"Hmph! Filthy! You are worthy of being called a man?" Shen Xiangzhi's bottom line was refreshed again. How could there be such a shameless person in this world?

"Yes, yes, I am a filthy person. I am not worthy of being a man." Zhao Youliang did not dare to refute at all. "Chen Zhiqing, can you... can you let me go?"

Shen Xiangzhi closed his eyes. He really regretted that he had not come a step later.

If I had known this earlier, I would have let An Hongdou kill him with a knife.

But reason told him that this was not possible.

He raised his hand and cut the vines above with a knife, and Zhao Youliang fell headfirst to the ground.

Fortunately, the dead leaves below were thick enough to prevent him from breaking his neck.