Chapter 67: Waiting for the Rabbit

The night was cool and the moonlight was like water.

Master Lu was lying on the sickbed, looking like a corpse, his face pale in the moonlight.

After dusk, he woke up once. Because his injuries were too severe and his internal organs were bleeding, blood oozed from the corners of his mouth as he lay there. The old lady of the family came to cry several times and cursed the Governor's Office loudly, hoping that he would not die a good death.

Someone was snoring on the beam, sleeping soundly, snore, snore, she didn't care who was dying or who deserved to die.

In the middle of the night, she touched a string above her head. A teapot was tied to the string. In the teapot, there was a pot of fine jasmine tea. Jiaoran was thirsty from her sleep, so she took a few big gulps from the teapot. "Ah—it quenches my thirst!"

After drinking, he continued to sleep as if nothing had happened to her, but the places where he was tied with ropes were still burning with pain.

"After drinking your Lu family's tea, I'll do something for you." Jiao Ran said to the seriously injured and unconscious "corpse" below, sighed again, and burped with the scent of jasmine. "I don't know if he will come. If he doesn't come tonight, I'll leave."

In the second half of the night, there was a light rain, dark clouds covered the sky, it became much darker, and the moon also disappeared.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiaoran sat on the beam and slowly lowered his head, looking at the ghostly figure standing in front of the bed.

She covered her mouth and nose, leaving only her eyes exposed. Her eyes were as sharp as knives, trying to use her gaze to cut open the chest of the man on the bed and take out his beating heart.

This person suddenly arrived, Jiaoran did not seem to be very panicked, but showed an expression of interest, the prey finally fell into the trap.

Sure enough, I waited for her.

The young master of the Lu family was not dead yet. He woke up in the middle of the night and looked at Jiaoran to identify the murderer.

In order to prevent him from revealing any details about the murderer, the real murderer will definitely come to silence him.

If Master Lu was really dead, this matter would be difficult to handle. Fortunately, he is still alive and can be used as bait to lure her into the trap.

Jiao Ran stared at her and asked, "Are you here to kill him?"

The man looked up and met Jiaoran's gaze.

"If you don't answer, does that mean you agree? I know you assassinated him, but why did you do it?"

She didn't explain.

"You kill her, so you kill her. Why do you put the blame on such an innocent, naive, kind, beautiful and lovely girl like me? What are you thinking?" Jiaoran moved his shoulders, and this time he must tear off the veil on her face to see clearly who the bastard is.

The man said coldly, "It's not too late to leave now, otherwise, you will die too."

Jiaoran burst into laughter, so much so that the dust on the beams fell down in a rush. "What a boast!"

Then he said, "It depends on your ability."

The man said, "I'll give you another chance, will you leave?"

Jiaoran listened to the woman's unfamiliar voice and couldn't figure out whether she was someone she knew.

"It's easy for me to leave, but I'm going to hand you, the murderer, over to the Lu family."

She looked at Jiaoran quietly.

Jiao Ran said, "I know you're wrongly accusing me. The Lu family also knows I'm not the murderer. The Lu family's son woke up once, looked at me for a moment, and said it wasn't me. He said I was much taller than the man who assassinated him, and the murderer's shoulders were much narrower than mine. Now, I'm cleared of suspicion, but you, you came here looking for death."

The woman sneered, "So you're teaming up with the Lu family to capture me? Once you catch me, they'll definitely reward you handsomely. Congratulations."

Jiaoran had already grasped the knife in his hand.

The woman also shut her mouth and stopped talking, slowly waiting for her opponent to make a move.

Jiaoran rolled over and fell from the beam, looking carefully at the man in the dark night.

He has a tall and thin body, slender wrists, and is holding a sharp sword. He is a little shorter than Jiaoran. The young master of the Lu family has a good memory.

The sword in her hand flashed with cold light.

This person was wearing a nightgown that was well-tailored. When she got closer, she could smell a faint fragrance. Something was wrong. She was not the woman who had been through thick and thin in the martial arts world. Since she could use the same face as Xiaoyu to disguise herself, she must be someone from the Governor's Mansion.

Jiaoran's knife and this man's sword were about to collide.

She felt her blood boiling faintly. It was rare to find an opponent. Jiaoran could sense that the other party was equally excited and was also eager to fight with her.

"I hope you don't die here today." Jiaoran said.

She pointed her sword at Jiaoran, "I am the same. Today, I will not show mercy."

Suddenly, Jiaoran took a step forward, and the big knife fell like a crescent moon.

Her knife was extremely fast, and the heavy knife looked like a light sword in her hand. Soon she was caught by the bright knife light.

In the blink of an eye, her sword was unsheathed.

Jiaoran was proud of her flexible moves, but as she continued to attack, this woman was actually more flexible than her, and her moves were no less impressive than Jiaoran's.

Meeting a worthy opponent, Jiaoran became more and more excited in the game.

She was so fast that in the darkness, she was like Chache's short arrow, flying out against the wind. The sword in her hand was a thin and sharp soft sword.

The sound of swords clashing and clanging continued in the bedroom.

The sound of fighting soon attracted many guards from the Lu family. Unfortunately, the Lu family had many scholars but few decent masters.

While the guards were attacking her, Jiaoran slashed at her head with a knife.

She couldn't dodge it, and this would be a fatal blow that would send her to hell.

However, in the crisis, she avoided the knife, but Jiaoran took the opportunity to take off the veil on her face.

A familiar face pierced Jiaoran's eyes like a flash of lightning in the dark sky.

Laughing Ju!

"Why is it you, Sister Xiaoju?"

More and more people gathered, and she did not stop. She flipped in the air, jumped over the crowd, and came to Lu Xu to prepare to finish him off.

If Jiaoran was even slightly careless, the man would bleed to death immediately.

Jiaoran pushed away her sword, but she accidentally hit the bedpost, causing the bed curtain to collapse. The guards immediately stood by Lu Xu and shouted for support, "Someone come!"

Jiaoran still wants to pursue.

Xiaoju ran away in a flash.

Seeing that the bad guys had been driven away, the people from the Lu family grabbed Jiaoran and said, "Thank you for your help, young lady..."

Jiaoran was so anxious that he pointed his knife at them and said, "I will chop anyone who tries to stop me to death!"

Everyone present looked at each other, and no one dared to delay her from chasing the murderer.

Seeing her jump lightly onto the roof, Jiaoran hurriedly followed her direction.

Xiaoju had just fought with her. Although her swordsmanship was not bad and her body movements were agile, her lightness skills were not as good as Jiaoran's. Not long after, Jiaoran caught up with Xiaoju. She started to run forward side by side with her. Jiaoran turned around and blocked her way.

"Sister Xiaoju, why is it you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of a knife appeared behind Jiaoran.

Lightning struck behind her.

One knife was about to cut off Jiaoran's neck.

This knife is more brutal than Xiaoju's swordsmanship.

The move was clean and neat, and it was obviously a killer move that was always effective.

Unfortunately, I was a step too late.

During the years in the Wonderland of Fish and Dragons, Jiaoran was able to sense subtle changes in the environment in the dark cave countless times due to changes in wind speed and the approach of the giant python.

As soon as her knife swung out, Jiaoran didn't even turn around and collided with her knife to block the move.

"Your swordsmanship is very fast." said the visitor.

She came to save Xiaoju.

Now it’s one against two. Jiaoran scratched his head, thinking how unlucky he was.

Xiaoju said, "Master, please spare her life..."

Just as she said this, her master swung his knife again, this time even faster than before. Before Jiaoran could fight back or dodge, the corner of his clothes was cut off, and he fell lightly from the roof to the ground.

She said, "Let me see what she can do!"

Suddenly someone shouted, "Stop!"

As Chai Che roared, Jiaoran stepped forward and tore off the disguise on Xiaoju's face.

As expected, she was not Xiaoju. Originally, she was a little far away and could not judge. But after several fights just now, when she was close to her, Jiaoran looked into her eyes and felt that she did not look like Xiaoju, so she took a risk.

It was her.

She struggled and pushed Jiaoran away.

In the panic, people from the Lu family had already followed and surrounded the entire area, making it impossible to escape.

Tchaikovsky also went up to the roof.

Later, Jiaoran found out the reason for the uproar today -

As daughters of the Governor's Mansion, Miss Chai Wu and Miss Chai Si were brought up to be gentle and polite. However, in order to win over the aristocratic families in the Central Plains, Chai Yu married both of his daughters into aristocratic families.

Common people often respect aristocratic families, but they don't know much about the people from aristocratic families. As for Chai Yu, he was able to exchange his daughters for soldiers and food to expand his private army, but he didn't care about the letters sent by his two daughters.

This also led to Miss Chai Wu jumping into the water and dying after getting married, and Miss Chai Si never contacted her parents again.

As Chai Liu grew up, the governor used the same trick again, claiming that he had found a satisfactory son-in-law for his daughter.

Three years ago, there was a chaos in the Governor's Mansion, and Xiaoju from Siyuyuan was sent to Shuangyuyuan by Chai Che. Since then, she has trusted Xiaoju very much. Thinking that she might have the same fate as her two sisters in the future, she made plans for herself early and begged Xiaoju to secretly teach her martial arts.

The lady in Pisces Garden had many spies, so they could only practice secretly in a small open space in the room in the middle of the night with the lights off.

Over time, while the maidservants were asleep, Chai Liu and Xiao Ju would slip out as gently as the wind and secretly practice martial arts in the mountains behind Shuangyu Garden.

After practicing for two years, Xiaoju told Chai Xiao that she had nothing more to teach her. Chai Xiao was a martial arts genius and it took her two years to learn all the skills that Xiaoju had learned over the years.

Chai Xiao felt that it was far from enough, not enough. She wanted to reach her second brother's level and be able to compete with him.

During a practice session, the leaves in the forest rustled and a figure slowly fell from the sky.

Chai Xiao drew his sword and attacked, but after a few moves, he realized that he was no match for her and wanted to attack again.

Xiaoju said, "Don't you know her?"

Chai Xiao shook her head. She had never seen this woman with disheveled hair before.

"This is my master, and also the Second Young Master's first master. She is also your aunt."

"Aunt?" Chai Xiao was stunned. "I only have one aunt who died young. Who are you?"

She said, "Of course not your dead aunt, I am your living aunt. My name is Rou, you can call me Aunt Rou, but I will teach you martial arts, so you have to call me Master."

Chai Xiao was not afraid that Xiaoju and Chai Rou would reveal her secret of martial arts training. She could feel that Xiaoju really wanted to help her.

Girls in the Chai family were not allowed to practice martial arts. If they were discovered, they would be severely punished by their father. When the fourth sister was a child, she wanted to learn how to use sleeve arrows, but was slapped hard by her father.

Later, it finally came to her. They all said that he was her perfect match. The young master of the Lu family was well-read and an intelligent person.

For more than a thousand days and nights, she practiced martial arts and polished her moves. One day, she suddenly wondered what the world outside was like.

Even as a wife of the Lu family, she was still a noble woman, never having to worry about food and drink, and no need to be afraid of having no roof over her head to shelter her from the wind.

She was a young lady, a lady, with endless silks and satins to wear, and more jewels and pearls to use than she could use to shoot birds. She could see flowers of all seasons in her mansion without having to travel far.

The master told her that the flowers blooming in the deep house were not real flowers, the real flowers were in the mountains and fields.

She told her master that the Governor's Mansion was built on the mountain and that one could see the flowers in the mountains. The master smiled and said nothing.

She liked her master very much when he was not crazy, but when he was crazy, no one could stop her.

Chai Xiao is getting married, and everyone says that she will be a virtuous wife and live in harmony with the young master of the Lu family.

She didn't respond.

She no longer cares what others say.

Because she had already thought of a plan. She wanted to kill Lu Xu. No matter how cruel her father was, her mother would not be so cruel as to let her become a widow of the Lu family. If this marriage was ruined, no one would dare to propose again. A woman who killed her fiancé would have more time to find a way to escape from the Governor's Mansion.

But Lu Xu was really lucky, and she didn't succeed in her first strike.

Before taking action, she had already decided who to drag into the water.

Second brother.

He was the one who brought Jiaoran back to the mansion, and she used the face she gave to Jiaoran to divert the blame.

Even if the conspiracy is exposed, the only one who will be arrested will be Jiaoran.

Don’t brothers want their sisters to pave the way for their bright future?

Then she would see if her good second brother would take care of this Miss Jiaoran.

Even my second brother was indifferent.

That person won't just stand by and watch the show.

Jiaoran is his cousin Yuyuan, and he is different from the people of the Chai family.

Chai Xiao sighed, "I'm sorry, Master. You guys should go first. I failed again this time."

Chai Rou said calmly, "Your second brother is still here, what are you afraid of?"

Without saying anything else, Cha Che grabbed his sister's wrist with one hand.

"Why, do you want to arrest me and give an explanation to the Lu family?"

Jiaoran stood aside and watched the brother and sister arguing. As he was watching, countless arrows flew towards him from the ground.

Chache yelled, "Watch out!"

Jiaoran wanted to take advantage of the situation and break out, but the rain of arrows was too fast, so she could only keep swinging her knife to knock down the arrows shot at her. The same was true for the others.

It turns out that this was the Lu family's plan, to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Jiaoran was really amused by these people. Chai Xiao, Chai Xiao, she trusted her so much, but she didn't expect that she was the real murderer of Lu Xu. She also framed her and put the blame on her.

The Lu family was even more ruthless. She had just protected their young master, and the next moment they came after her, ready to shoot her into a hedgehog.

I admire you so much! These noble people are so ungrateful and ruthless. They are indeed worse than pigs and dogs.

An arrow shot out and pierced the purse on Jiaoran's waist, causing it to fall down. A jade pendant in the purse fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

"Oh, Second Young Master, the jade pendant on the tassel you gave me is broken."

Chai Che took a look, his hands moving non-stop while protecting his sister, "Let it break, then so be it. The person I want to give it to doesn't want it anyway." His tone was a little depressed when he said this.

Jiaoran immediately guessed that it was his senior sister.

Another wave of arrows rained down, and suddenly there were a few sounds of clapping.

The guards who were shooting arrows stopped immediately.

A man stepped forward and asked, "Are those Mr. Chai and Miss Chai Liu on the roof?"

He is the second son of the fourth branch of the Lu family, Lu Hong.

"Your daughter from the Chai family dared to murder her own husband. This is truly eye-opening. But unfortunately, the net of heaven is vast and nothing can escape it. Today, I will make your Chai family pay the price!"

Chai Che said, "The reason I haven't left yet is precisely because I want to negotiate this matter. If I really want to leave, do you think this rain of arrows can stop me, Chai Che?"