The sudden noise made the people inside scream in fear when they saw Shi Tianci's terrifying face.
"Ah! Ghost!"
Shi Tianci was standing against the light, with his hair loose and a terrifying face, looking like an evil ghost coming to take his life.
The timid ones fainted directly.
Old Lady Lu kept twirling the Buddhist beads in her hand, pretending to be calm, and talking to the "evil ghost" with her neck stiff.
"Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its creditor. You've found the wrong person. The money down there isn't enough, is it? I'll burn it for you, lots of it."
Lu Fangfei grabbed Old Lady Lu's arm and nodded repeatedly, promising, "Every wrong has its perpetrator. If you're short of money down there, I...we'll burn it for you."
Shi Tianci showed an evil smile and approached step by step amid their screams. Old Lady Lu, Lao Zhe, Lu Xiao and other members of the Lu family came to Qingfeng County to seek refuge with him.
He arranged a courtyard for them and arranged for servants to serve them, so that they could be served just like they were in the capital, and he was not stingy with money.
Give them as much as they want.
They had only been there for a month or so, but they had already spent tens of thousands of taels of silver from him.
They asked for money for various reasons, and Lu Fangfei gave it to them without saying a word, and he didn't say anything.
The reason why he revealed such an obscure message to his men was to remind Old Lady Lu not to run into the Lu family's eldest son.
His original intention was to avoid trouble and he didn't want to get entangled in such trivial matters involving the Lu family.
He never expected that they would be so cruel as to burn thousands of people to death. But burning them to death was fine, but what he could not tolerate was that they did not intend to let him go even.
They also planned to wipe out the roots and get rid of him at the same time, so as to seize Shi Tianci's property.
The plan was very good, but unfortunately, he was not destined to die and he came back to take his life.
"Lu Fangfei, you are so vicious. You colluded with your family to get rid of me. After you married me, I have never treated you unfairly. They say that a husband and wife are bound by a hundred days of grace. How dare you want to kill me?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Fangfei stared at him with wide eyes, too frightened to speak.
Lu Fangfei glanced at Lu Xiao, who was hiding behind Chen Chunhua, with frightened eyes. Didn't they say victory was a sure thing? Didn't they say death was a foregone conclusion?
Not only did Shi Tianci not die, he came back in a half-human, half-ghost form to seek revenge on her.
"Lu Fangfei, you vicious woman, I must divorce you today. I will write a letter to tell my father about the evil deeds of you and your family." Shi Tianci glared at Lu Fangfei with poisonous eyes.
"Old woman, Lu Zhe, Lu Xiao, and the rest of the Lu family, you are a bunch of ungrateful wolves. You are exiles who faked your own death to escape exile. I will have my father report this to the Emperor."
"If you had been exiled to Lingnan, you might have saved your lives. But now... hmph, you are deceiving the emperor and will be punished along with him."
After Shi Tianci finished threatening them, he looked at their cowardly and frightened expressions, and he finally laughed heartily.
"Haha...you're all dead, or I won't file a petition with the court."
When Lu Fangfei heard this, she looked at Shi Tianci in disbelief. She didn't expect him to let her go.
Based on her understanding of Shi Tianci, they almost cost him his life, so how could he let her go so easily?
Shi Tianci's eyes suddenly flashed with a fierce look, and he smiled evilly, "You are all already dead. Even if I kill you all, I won't have to bear any consequences."
His smile was evil, perverted, and creepy, and it made Lu Fangfei and the Lu family shudder.
After being threatened by Shi Tianci, Lu Xiao no longer felt guilty. With his courage rising, he gritted his teeth and said, "Since you want our lives, then we have to take yours first."
Shi Tianci laughed sarcastically, "I brought a group of jackals back to me, and you want to kill me? Do you have the ability to do that?"
"Someone come!"
Shi Tianci didn't plan to waste time talking to them. Since it was a life-and-death situation, he would take the initiative and take control into his own hands.
Then dozens of yamen runners came in and stood beside Shi Tianci, drawing their swords and pointing them at Lu Xiao and the others.
Shi Tianci thought Lu Xiao and the others would be afraid, but the result was not what he expected.
Lu Xiao shook his head and sneered, "Brother-in-law, you think you can catch us all in one fell swoop with just such a small number of people? You really underestimate me."
Shi Tianci showed an indifferent expression. Lu Xiao had only been in Qingfeng County for over a month. He was simply courting death by daring to challenge him.
"Hmph, you're just showing off your eloquence. Let's see how long you can be so arrogant." A murderous look flashed across Shi Tianci's eyes.
The yamen runners immediately attacked Lu Xiao and others as soon as they raised their hands.
But with the sound of a teacup falling to the ground, a group of bandits rushed in and surrounded Shi Tianci and the yamen runners.
Shi Tianci was shocked. "Lu Xiao, you actually associated with bandits. How dare you...how dare you..."
Shi Tianci never expected that Lu Xiao would collude with the bandits and sneak into Qingfeng County without anyone noticing.
At this moment, he wanted to slap himself a few times, regretting that he had let Lu Xiao and others into Qingfeng County. He had raised a ferocious tiger.
The other party has three or four times more people than him. If he fights head-on, he will not get any advantage.
The only option now is to delay or... show weakness.
Shi Tianci no longer had the arrogance he had just now, and instead put on a cowardly smile.
Lu Xiao, with the air of a victor, spat at Shi Tianci's blood-soaked face, "You're just a small, seventh-rank official, and you're showing off in front of me, ordering me around. You're just a bastard, and not only are you being arrogant, but you're also looking down on me and looking down on me?"
"You were able to escape from the capital and continue your official duties in Qingfeng County thanks to our Lu family's mediation. You ungrateful bastard, you're so capable now, giving me charity? You want to kill us? That's a nice thought."
"You...you are talking nonsense." Shi Tianci stiffened his neck and denied it stubbornly.
Lu Xiao smiled maliciously, "Brothers, kill Shi Tianci and all the government officials. From now on, Qingfeng County belongs to me, Lu Xiao."
The bandits raised their swords and shouted loudly.
Shi Tianci knew what Lu Xiao said was true, and he didn't want to die yet, so he asked Lu Fangfei for help, "Madam, a day of marriage is like a hundred days of grace. Please save me, I don't want to die!"
Lu Fangfei laughed out loud, tears streaming down her face. She pointed at Shi Tianci with disdain, "You remembered I was your wife now? Why didn't you think of me when you favored your concubine over your wife?"
"You asked me, your wife, to serve tea and water to your beloved concubine and to behave properly. Why didn't you remember that I am your wife?"
Lu Fangfei touched her belly and gritted her teeth as she accused, "You beat the baby out of my belly to please Aunt Lin and to have her son inherit your legacy."
"It's been seven months! It was a white and chubby son, but he was beaten to death. I can no longer have children. Shi Tianci, you are a heartless bastard. I hate you."
The more Lu Fangfei spoke, the colder her face became. She looked at Shi Tianci with a ferocious look and hatred.
In order to survive, Shi Tianci agreed to everything, including kneeling, kowtowing, making empty promises, and doing everything he could to survive.
Lu Xiao was worried that Lu Fangfei would do something bad and disrupt his plan, so he ordered, "Leave no one alive, and end the battle quickly."
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