23 Lvzhuang (VII)
◎Disguise◎
After the palm strike just now ended in a draw, everyone saw that Lu Chengfeng's face was ashen, and it was obvious that he was running out of luck.
"Brother, be careful!"
Qiuyan was anxious and wanted to rush forward to block the attack. Li Jintang quickly raised his hand to grab her clothes, "If you go over now, you will get hurt too."
As they were talking, layers of dust suddenly rolled up in front of them. The two of them felt their hearts tighten. When the dust settled, they saw Qu Lingfei and the other two were still standing there intact. On the contrary, Lu Chengfeng was knocked several meters away and was spitting out blood while being supported by someone.
"Dad!" Lu Qingzhu cried out, quickly pushing aside the soldier beside him and patting him on the back. "Are you okay?"
"We agreed on a one-on-one fight, why are you still playing dirty?" Qiu Yan had already hurried over to the group. Seeing that Qu Lingfei was unharmed, she placed her hands on her hips and angrily said, "If you can't win, just admit defeat. What's the point of a sneak attack?"
"Thank you, brother." Even though Qu Lingfei had a strong mentality, he was still frightened by the palm wind that just hit him. Now that he had escaped danger, he turned to the person behind him and said, "Thank you for saving my life just now."
Xie Changyan turned his wrist, and without even raising his eyelids, he chuckled, "I didn't have time to attack in the first place. You blocked it yourself. How can you say you saved my life?"
"You guys..." Lu Chengfeng had straightened his back, his face looking much older, "You guys discovered it a long time ago?"
"Not that early." The young woman's figure flickered across several rows of closely packed stone pillars. She stopped in front of the crowd and turned to look at Sikong Yi, who stood stunned to the side. He still held the sword in his hand. "Master Lu, what you're thinking right now should be the same as mine, right?"
Li Jintang smiled, and under the other's horrified expression, he slowly said, "Miss Lu Er, are you used to using the disguise technique?"
When these words came out, everyone present was shocked. Lu Chengfeng had suffered internal injuries, but he still argued in a rough voice: "Nonsense! When did anyone in my village learn such evil magic?"
"Born and raised in the demon world, isn't that evil enough?" Qiu Yan retorted, and suddenly remembered that Nangong Xiu was still beside her. She turned her head and saw that he looked indifferent, so she didn't say anything else.
"I have a method to restore my disguise," Li Jintang raised her hand, and a small white bottle appeared from her sleeve under the shimmering golden light. "We'll know if it works or not once we try it."
"However, this thing has the effect of destroying a person's appearance. If it accidentally destroys the Second Young Lady's appearance..."
"Stop," before she could finish, Lu Qingzhu suddenly stopped in front of Sikong Yi, her face pale and tears streaming. "Don't... We'll just accept it. You guys are all right."
"Sister..." The voice behind me was crying.
Her arms were held down, and she turned back helplessly, her voice miserable, "I did it all by myself, please don't... don't make things difficult for Su Ye."
Li Jintang stood there in a daze, put away the bottle and didn't move forward.
"What kind of sin is this?" Lu Chengfeng sighed to the sky, his face even worse than when he learned that his daughter had died this morning. "You... you really killed her, killed her..."
"Daddy," Lu Suye, who had transformed into Sikong Yi, held her sister's hand, bent her knees, and immediately knelt on the ground. "It's all my fault. It has nothing to do with me. You can hit me or scold me, whatever you want. Just go after Ye'er."
Immediately afterwards, Lu Qingzhu also knelt beside her, his lower lip tightly pursed, his face pale.
"You two should get up first." Seeing that Lu Chengfeng had turned his back and ignored them, Li Jintang quickly lifted her skirt and squatted down, saying softly, "You killed that... Sikong Yi. You must have had your reasons, right?"
According to Lu Chengfeng, Sikong Yi is a famous figure. If it weren't for some grudges or disputes, no one would dare to provoke him.
Lu Suye raised his head in pain, tears welling in his eyes. He saw a dark figure flash beside him, and Qiu Yan leaned over and said, "Why did you kill him? Just tell me. If he really did something against the will of heaven and earth, at worst, we will seek justice for you."
"I……"
Lu Suye looked at the person next to her, pursed her lips, not knowing whether she should say anything.
"It's come to this," Lu Chengfeng sighed, then slowly turned around and said, "Let's talk."
The two sisters looked at each other timidly. Lu Qingzhu lowered her head first, and her neck turned a little red.
"I..." She hesitated and seemed to have something to hide.
Li Jintang was right next to her. Seeing this, he reached out and gently squeezed her hand. Then he saw tears in Lu Qingzhu's eyes, "Sikong Yi, he..."
Lu Qingzhu bit her lower lip and said, "He once molested me..." After she said this, her face turned even paler and her lips seemed to be bleeding.
However, this whisper was like a thunderclap that suddenly appeared in the sky, exploding in everyone's ears.
"I don't want Ye'er to follow in my footsteps," Lu Qingzhu covered her face, tears soaking her palms. "She must not marry a man like that."
She knelt on the ground, lowering her head to accept the gazes of everyone. "I was discussing a strategy with Lanxiang at night, but unexpectedly, Ye'er was waiting outside the door and heard everything I said..."
It started raining outside the window at some point. Amid the sound of the dripping rain, the door of the house was pushed open with a creaky sound. The girl stood at the door, with anger, sadness and confusion intertwined in her eyes.
"Sister, what you just said..." Lu Suye walked into the room, her eyes filled with disbelief, "Why do you want to separate me and Master Sikong?"
"Ye'er, I..."
Lu Qingzhu only said the word "I", but lowered his eyes and couldn't say anything else.
"You... could it be that you really have feelings for Master Sikong?"
"Second Miss," Lanxiang stood in front of the eldest Miss and cried out, "You and the eldest Miss grew up together. How can you doubt her about such a thing?"
Lu Suye's eyes passed over her and stared at the person behind him, "Then how do you explain what you just said?"
"That's because..."
"Lanxiang," Lu Qingzhu's face rarely showed a stern expression. She gritted her teeth and said, "Don't you even listen to me?"
"Just tell me now," Lu Suye frowned anxiously, the phoenix crown on her head swaying slightly, "If your young lady wants to punish me, I'll protect her. What's there to be afraid of?"
Lanxiang couldn't bear to see her young lady being misunderstood by her own sister, so she immediately knelt on the ground and bowed, "Miss, I dare not disobey you on ordinary days, but today, I must speak."
Lu Qingzhu turned around with a look of pain on her face. She closed her eyes, as if she didn't want to listen anymore.
But Lanxiang's words, along with the memories of the past, came to mind.
"Second Miss, our young lady loves you and doesn't want you to make the same mistake again."
Before he finished speaking, he felt a warm sensation on his back. Turning around, Lu Qingzhu saw that his sister's face was covered with tears.
"Sister, why didn't you tell me?" Lu Suye loosened her hand and choked up, "I just treated you like that..."
"It's all in the past," Lu Qingzhu suppressed her grief and said softly, "If you and Sikong Yi...are in love, I won't stand in your way."
"No, who is in love with him?" Lu Suye snorted, took off the phoenix crown on her head and threw it on the ground, wishing she could stomp on it a few more times. "Not only will I not marry him, I will also teach him a lesson."
The next day, just after the drizzle had stopped and the floor was not yet completely dry, a man in a red robe stepped down from a sedan chair and walked towards the house with a big smile on his face.
Lu Suye lifted her red veil, holding a glass of wine in each hand. She walked in front of him, stopped, and handed over the glass in her left hand. "My husband has been traveling all morning, and he must be thirsty. Why don't you have a drink and rest first?"
She had put drugs in the wine. If he drank it, he would lose all his spiritual power within half an hour.
After watching him drink the wine in the glass with her own eyes, she was satisfied and ordered the maid to put away the wine glass. She suppressed her nausea and took his arm to get into the sedan chair.
The horses carried the sedan chair along the way until they reached the forest. Suddenly, several masked men in black, armed with weapons, emerged from behind a tree. Lü Suye, delighted, lifted her veil for a token peek, then hid behind Sikong Yi, her voice deliberately tearful as she spoke, "My husband, I'm scared. Please drive them away quickly."
Sikong Yi glanced at her and immediately jumped off his horse. He heard the sound of weapons clashing and saw that the masked men had surrounded him.
These people were none other than the owner's soldiers.
Lu Suye leaned her body and looked out anxiously. She just wanted these people to teach that bitch Sikong Yi a lesson. It would be enough if they could just cut a wound on him. After all, she didn't dare to kill someone.
But when all the masked men fell down and Sikong Yi came back with a sullen face, he only saw that his clothes on the left shoulder were torn, but there was no injury at all on his body.
What's going on? He clearly drank this morning...
Lu Suye suppressed her disappointment and feigned joy, saying, "Husband, I'm glad you're not hurt."
Unexpectedly, Sikong Yi suddenly leaned over, put the blade to her neck, and smiled sinisterly, "Madam, are you worried about whether I'm injured, or are you afraid that those people can't kill me?"
After that, a silver tag was handed to her.
The word "Lu" is clearly engraved on the tag.
There was a buzzing in Lu Suye's ears and her mind went blank. She reached out her hand tremblingly to take the token, but heard a "click". Sikong Yi let go and dropped it to the ground.
"I...I don't know either..."
"I don't know what?" Sikong Yi sneered, pushing the blade closer to her neck. "I don't know why, I drank that glass of wine, but nothing happened?"
"Because it was you who drank that glass of drugged wine."
There was despair in Lu Suye's eyes - she knew that she would die here today. There seemed to be golden stars flashing in front of her eyes. She felt an unbearable headache and could not muster any strength.
"Bang!"
Suddenly there was a loud noise, and she opened her eyes in fear, only to see that the blade hanging on her neck had fallen to the ground. Sikong Yi's body shook, and she fell to the ground with a thud. Before she could react, Lu Qingzhu, who arrived in time, pulled her out of the sedan chair.
"I, I just wanted to knock him out and rescue Ye'er, but I didn't expect..." Lu Qingzhu hugged his head with both hands, then lowered them again, lamenting, "If you want to kill, just go after me. This matter has nothing to do with Ye'er, my father, or the entire manor."
Li Jintang knelt beside her and listened to her finish speaking, tears in her eyes - "Come at me alone", how many times had she heard this sentence today?
"Then what about this disguise technique?" Lu Chengfeng's expression had softened slightly, but his voice still held a questioning tone. "I have never taught you such evil techniques."
"Father, calm down. If you didn't teach us, we wouldn't have learned it either," Lu Suye interrupted. "My sister and I were terrified. We were worried that Mr. Sikong would come and seek revenge on us. Just when we were at our wit's end, a man in black suddenly approached. He was also masked, so I couldn't see his face clearly."
"Ye'er," Lu Qingzhu interrupted her, eyes widening slightly. "He can be considered a benefactor to you and me. How can you betray him so easily?"
"I didn't tell him his name, so how can that be considered a betrayal?" Faced with a crisis, Lu Suye couldn't care less. Moreover, she didn't know the man's origins. "He said he could help us, so, so..."
It goes without saying that this disguise was also performed by the man in black. But who is he, and why did he interfere in this matter?
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