Chapter 80 Chapter 80 Will Ji Lian cry for her? ...
The severe pain spread from the wound like a spider web, tightly wrapping around Xie Tingyu's whole body.
She felt weak all over, her lips trembled slightly, and she was in so much pain that she couldn't speak.
In a trance, she recalled the strange encounter of her own soul being reborn. Such an opportunity would surely never come again.
Is she really going to die this time?
After more than ten years borrowed from God, is it finally time to return it now?
"...Lian Lian..."
Her lips only moved slightly, and two words slipped out unconsciously. When she learned of her death, would Ji Lian cry for her?
It's probably because people's minds become confused when they are about to die, and even they themselves can't explain why they think of this.
She raised her eyes and watched the only assassin left in the room struggle to get up from the ground, dagger in hand, and approach step by step.
"No--!"
Cen Xiu, who was also seriously injured and fell to the ground, let out a heart-wrenching cry and crawled towards this side desperately.
The dagger raised high was reflected in Xie Tingyu's dilated pupils.
As the cold light descended, a sharp sound pierced the air, and a feathered arrow pierced the assassin's forehead with pinpoint accuracy. The dagger clanged to the ground, and the assassin collapsed with a thud.
Seeing this, Cen Xiu's tense heartstrings suddenly relaxed, and all the strength in his body disappeared in an instant.
Before she was completely plunged into darkness, Xie Tingyu vaguely saw a group of people and horses galloping towards her. Unable to hold on any longer, she slowly closed her eyes and fell into a deep drowsiness.
"Thank you, Er!"
When Cui Yuanying saw Xie Tingyu lying in a pool of blood, she was horrified. Her lips trembled violently, and she couldn't form a single word. "This, this... this is..."
"Xie Er! Wake up!" She was about to reach out and shake him in a panic.
"stop!"
Yuan Wangshu shouted and slapped Cui Yuanying's hand away, "She is so badly injured, do you want to kill her?!"
"I think you are the one who wants the young master's life!"
A heart-wrenching roar suddenly rang out. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Cen Xiu lying on the ground covered in blood, his clothes torn and his flesh exposed, his eyes burning with hatred.
Cen Xiu suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the ground in front of him red. His bloody index finger trembled as he pointed at Yuan Wangshu, "It was you who pretended to send support, but in fact, you were deliberately plotting to kill me."
A single stone can cause a thousand ripples. When these words were spoken, everyone present had different expressions.
Cui Yuanying was the first to jump up. Without thinking, he grabbed Yuan Wangshu by the front of his collar and said, "Yuan Wangshu, I didn't expect you to be so despicable. You are truly a mean person!"
"If it weren't for Xie Er, you would have died on the way back to Jiankang! If I had known this would happen, I should have let you—"
"absurd!"
Yuan Wangshu suddenly broke free, looking at Xie Tingyu's injuries with anxiety and anger. "If I had intended to harm her, would I have sent these guards by name? Is this to announce my guilt?"
She looked at him coldly, vaguely recognizing him as Xie Tingyu's personal guard. "How dare a mere personal guard slander me?"
"You know what kind of person you are. From childhood to adulthood, haven't you always caused trouble for others?" Cui Yuanying swung his fist to hit him.
"Stop it!"
Wang Lanzhi sternly stopped them and quickly assigned tasks, "Go to the temple and borrow a carriage. Say it's from the Wang Clan of Langya. We'll repay you handsomely when the time comes."
He also ordered the officers of the Imperial Court to "turn the temple upside down and find the remaining kidnapped people. Anyone who dares to stop us will be punished for obstructing public service!"
Cen Xiuqiang held on for a breath and pleaded with Wang Lanzhi, "Commander Wang, please send the young master back to Xie Garden as soon as possible. She is seriously injured."
Cui Yuanying's eyes were already red with anger, and he threw himself at Yuan Wangshu without hesitation, and the two of them tangled on the ground. The accompanying guards looked at each other, not daring to step forward to intervene, nor to rashly add to the fight, so they could only stand there in a daze.
Wang Lanzhi glanced coldly at the two men fighting and walked straight towards Xie Tingyu. She put her finger to check his breathing, then pressed it against his neck. After feeling a faint pulse, her heart finally relaxed.
She carefully examined the wound again. Although the wound on his chest was deep, it fortunately did not reach his heart. The back of his thigh was bleeding profusely. She quickly untied the belt around her waist and tied it tightly around Xie Tingyu's chest to stop the bleeding. She then tore off the hem of her robe and bandaged the leg wound.
"You narrow-minded villain, I will beat you to death today for Xie Er! You are so cruel, ungrateful, and unworthy of being a human being!" Cui Yuanying was pinned to the ground by Yuan Wangshu and continued to curse.
Yuan Wangshu's eyes were red, "Shut up! Shut up right there!"
Her voice was hoarse. "In the beginning, I had a conflict with Xie Tingyu, but these days, I've come to regard her as a friend. How could I possibly harm her?"
Cui Yuanying opened his mouth and spat, spitting all the blood foam in his mouth onto Yuan Wangshu's face. "You just say some high-sounding words, who would believe you? What are you trying to say?!"
Yuan Wangshu pointed three fingers toward the sky and swore fiercely, "If I, Yuan Wangshu, harbor even the slightest intention of harming others, I will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death!"
"How could you possibly utter something as vague as an oath?"
As they were arguing, a carriage arrived at full speed. Everyone carefully lifted Xie Tingyu onto a stretcher and placed him in the carriage. Cen Xiu, struggling to get up, also climbed onto the carriage, staggering with each step.
Wang Lanzhi sat astride the front of the carriage and said to the two people on the ground, "You two clean up this mess, and I will take Xie Tingyu back." After that, he flicked the whip and the carriage drove quickly towards Jiankang City.
Cui Yuanying suddenly pushed Yuan Wangshu away, climbed up with a bruised face, grabbed her collar and dragged her to a pool of blood, "Today I must tear off this mask of yours!"
She roughly turned over the assassin with a knife stuck in his throat. When that face was revealed, Yuan Wangshu felt like he was falling into an icy cave, and his hands began to tremble uncontrollably.
She recognized this man. He was once a renowned assassin, secretly recruited by her mother to Yuan Garden to perform shady tasks. She had crossed paths with him several times in the mansion.
Yuan Wangshu swallowed hard, squatted down with a chill all over her body, and checked again and again. She was very familiar with this face.
This person has always obeyed only one person, her mother, Yuan Da Si Nong of the current dynasty.
Her mother actually wanted to take Xie Tingyu's life.
This realization struck Yuan Wangshu's mind like thunder, and his blood instantly froze.
Cui Yuanying angrily searched the other bodies and randomly called a few guards, "You, you, and you, come and check these bodies!"
However, except for a few elite soldiers wearing Xie's uniforms, the rest of the men in black had no markings on their bodies.
While the soldiers of noble families usually had their family crests engraved on the lining of their armor and weapons, these people's were eerily clean. It was impossible to tell if they were Yuan's personal guards or assassins who had suddenly appeared.
There is no way to check it at all.
Yuan Wangshu picked up a horizontal sword with a black tip from the pool of blood. The blade was sharp and stained with blood, which showed that it was coated with a deadly poison.
Yuan Wangshu closed his eyes, took a deep breath, clenched his sword, and turned to walk away. Suddenly, someone pressed his shoulders hard from behind.
Cui Yuanying glared at him, "Where are you going? Do you think you can just walk away without any evidence?"
Yuan Wangshu's expression was completely different from before. "Let go. I want to save Xie Tingyu."
She shook off Cui Yuanying's hand and strode away without looking back, completely ignoring Cui Yuanying's shouting and cursing behind her.
Cui Yuanying stamped his feet and gritted his teeth, "Let's go! Go back to Cui Garden and bring all the doctors from the mansion, and go and treat Xie Er!"
Outside the main garden of Yuan Mansion, a blood-stained figure staggered in.
"Where's Mother?"
Seeing Yuan Wangshu covered in blood and looking horrified, the housekeeper hurriedly smiled and said, "Second Madam has just returned from work. It's late today and the master of the house has already gone to bed. Why not come back tomorrow morning..."
The housekeeper's words stopped abruptly. She stared at the blade on her neck, sweat dripping from her face. "Second Madam, even if you chop off my head, I can't call the head of the family for you!"
"I don't mind using you as a scapegoat. Don't think I won't touch you just because you've served mother for so many years."
Yuan Wangshu pushed the blade forward a little further, and blood immediately oozed out. His eyes were cold, "Get out of the way."
"Little man..."
A voice suddenly came from the corridor.
"If you want to ask questions, just come in."
In the corridor, a figure in a lake-blue robe stood quietly. Her wide sleeves covered her hands, and the dim light of the morning made it difficult to see her expression.
Yuan Wangshu gripped the hilt of the knife tightly, his knuckles turning white, and strode into the inner room.
Yuan Zhaoyun was leaning casually on the armchair. Next to the open book on the desk, a bowl of hot tea was emitting wisps of white steam. It seemed that he had not fallen asleep yet.
Bang——
The sword swung to the ground, swirling several times beside the table before coming to rest. Yuan Zhaoyun's indifferent gaze swept across the still-dry blood on the blade, and he casually flipped the pages of the book. "Did you just get back from your business trip?"
"yes."
A long silence stretched across the room.
Yuan Wangshu looked at his mother's indifferent expression, anger boiling in his throat. In the end, he could only squeeze out a dry question, "Why did you kill Xie Tingyu, mother?"
"Why?"
Yuan Zhaoyun finally raised his head from the book, his eyes sharp as a knife. "As the heir of the Runan Yuan family, instead of expanding the family's territory and clearing away obstacles for the Yuan family, you come to question me?"
She closed the book and uttered a soft sound. "The Xie family's power is a disaster for the Yuan family. Do you still need me to teach you this?"
Yuan Wangshu clenched his fists, tears glistening in his red eyes. "Does the glory of our family have to be achieved by stepping on the corpses of our dearest friends?"
"Best friend? You're already so old, yet you still have such thoughts."
Yuan Zhaoyun sipped his tea and sneered, "The world is bustling with people, all for profit. The world is bustling with people, all for profit. You treat her as a friend, but she may not appreciate your kindness. Where in the world is there true friendship? It's just common interests that have brought you together temporarily."
"It was your wedding banquet, and you wanted to ask her to be your bridesmaid. I can't interfere, but if she hinders Yuan's future, she will die."
"But mother..."
Yuan Wangshu burst into tears. "Xie Tingyu saved my daughter's life, and also saved my third brother's life! If she hadn't saved me when we were fighting the bandits, how could my daughter be standing in front of you today!"
"So what?"
Yuan Zhaoyun stood up suddenly and picked up the sword on the ground. "If you feel you owe her something, just go to her grave and burn some incense in the future." He lowered his eyes to examine the blood-stained sword. "In any case, Xie Tingyu won't survive this night."
"You still don't understand anything..."
"Where is the antidote?" Yuan Wangshu suddenly interrupted.
"What?"
Yuan Zhaoyun frowned, "I've explained it to you so clearly, are you still stubborn?"
"yes."
Yuan Wangshu wiped the tears from his face fiercely and said in a resounding voice, "My daughter must never be a traitor. I must save her. What kind of poison is on this knife? Where is the antidote?"
Yuan Zhaoyun stared at her for a long time and said in a cold voice, "This poison is called the Yellow Springs Poison. The only antidote is buried in the tomb of the late emperor. If you are really capable, you might as well go and rob the tomb."
She spoke slowly, "So you're willing to risk the lives of the entire Runan Yuan clan by doing something so wicked that it would result in the extermination of nine generations of your clan?"
These words were like a mountain of pressure, weighing heavily on Yuan Wangshu's heart. She looked at Yuan Zhaoyun in disbelief and cried out, "Do you want your daughter to bear the infamy of betrayal and be despised by the world?"
"What are you talking about?!"
Yuan Zhaoyun scolded coldly, "Is there any trace of the Yuan family on the assassin? Is there any mark on his weapon? I'm just clearing the way for you!"
Yuan Wangshu lowered his eyes slightly, "Mother, what you are doing now is harming both me and my third brother."
Yuan Zhaoyun waved her sleeves disapprovingly, "Fuxue favors her, so what? Feelings will fade over time."
"so--"
A cold voice sounded from outside the door.
Yuan Fuxue slowly stepped into the inner room and parted the beaded curtain with her bare hands. "Mother, will you treat me like you treat my elder brother?"
There was frost in his eyes. "Do you really want me to be like my elder brother, marrying someone I don't like for the sake of a family's empty reputation, and then regretting it for the rest of my life?"
"My eldest brother clearly had someone in his heart back then, but it was Mother who forced him into the palace. That's why..." Yuan Fuxue's throat choked slightly, "That's why he feels so depressed."
"presumptuous!"
Yuan Zhaoyun waved his sleeves angrily, "I worked so hard to plan for you, and this is how you repay me? Are you trying to chill my heart by saying this?"
She pierced Yuan Fuxue with a cold gaze, "If you insisted on studying medicine, I would let you do it, but now you want to enter the palace as a medical officer? As a dignified young master of the Yuan family, why do you despise yourself so much!"
Yuan Fuxue raised her eyes and looked straight at him. "My son entered the palace to investigate the truth behind my eldest brother's sudden death. He had always been in good health. How could he have died so easily?"
He bowed with a respectful attitude. "I just overheard Mother and Second Sister talking. Since Mother refuses to give me the antidote, I will go with Second Sister to Xie Garden."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Wangshu turned around and walked out first, and Yuan Fuxue followed him. A cold voice came from behind them.
"It's futile to go."
"The antidote sent to Huangquan has long been buried with the late emperor in the underground palace."
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Chapter 6 and Chapter 69 both mentioned that the eldest son of the Runan Yuan family was the deceased Feng Jun.
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