Chapter 253 Tonight's Food Will Teach Him a Lesson
The two returned about 15 minutes later.
Both men had some bruises on their bodies, but the heir of the Marquis of Wu'an looked much more disheveled, with two sword marks on his face.
Jiang Liuyun's clothes were only slightly torn by the sword; his face was unharmed.
Jiang Liuyun admitted that there was an element of retaliation involved.
Who told that old man to be so sarcastic and sarcastic towards my sister?
The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an glared fiercely at the room where Yu Zhiyi was.
This woman was completely inexplicable; without saying a word, she ordered him to mobilize the government officials.
If the officials find nothing tonight, not only will she lose face, but the reputation of the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion will also be ruined.
Yu Zhiyi acted as if she hadn't seen the ugly expression on the Marquis of Wu'an's face; anyway, she knew she would teach him a lesson tonight.
He glanced at Jiang Liuyun to make sure he wasn't injured before admonishing him, "Don't be so reckless next time. What if you get hurt?"
Jiang Liuyun grinned, showing off his big white teeth: "Don't worry, sister, that old guy is no match for me."
The Marquis of Wu'an's heir, who was only a few years older than Jiang Liuyun but was called "old boy": "..."
"It's getting late, let's go back and rest."
After a day's journey, even the strongest soldiers felt exhausted and, with Yu Zhiyi's permission, went to rest.
Although they were supposed to rest, they were Yu Zhiyi's guards, and they couldn't just abandon the person they were protecting. So the team had already arranged a shift system, with twenty people divided into three shifts to keep watch at night.
As the captain, the heir of the Marquis of Wu'an could choose to stay or not stay on duty this night.
However, he considers himself to be a kind and generous person who likes to stand with his subordinates and rarely enjoys special privileges. Tonight, for example, he is prepared to guard the middle half of the field.
It was still early, and his night watch period was around midnight, so he decided to wash up and rest first.
He asked the waiter to bring hot water, and after waving the waiter away, he took off his clothes and prepared to go into the water.
The further south you go, the warmer the weather becomes. Although it's not quite springtime yet, it's still much warmer than in Shengjing.
Soaking in the warm water, the heir of the Marquis of Wu'an closed his eyes, rested his arms on the tub, and began to relax.
He said he was resting with his eyes closed, but his brows were furrowed.
The thought of having to spend another month with that charlatan made him extremely irritable.
If that woman were just an ordinary young lady from a wealthy family, her ignorance wouldn't matter to him.
The problem lies in that woman's obvious ignorance coupled with arrogance; she likes to give orders haphazardly.
What he hates most are people who know nothing but like to pontificate.
And the other party just happened to be a woman.
If it's a man, he can solve the problem by coercing, bribing, or even dragging the person out and beating them up without them noticing.
This tactic won't work when dealing with women.
He began to regret it.
There are female guards in the Imperial Guard.
The commander originally planned to send two female guards down for this mission.
He found women troublesome and refused.
I should have brought those two along. That way, when that charlatan caused trouble, the female guards could have had a "good chat" with her.
Lost in thought, he somehow fell asleep.
In his sleep, a warm hand suddenly touched his chest.
At first, the hand cautiously probed and wandered, but seeing that the person seemed to be fast asleep, it became bolder and gradually reached into the water.
The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an noticed something was wrong with his body. He opened his eyes playfully and grabbed the hand that was causing the disturbance.
"My lord, you're hurting me." A sweet, delicate voice rang in my ears.
The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an turned his head and saw a fair-skinned and beautiful girl leaning against the wall of the bathtub behind him, her wet eyes filled with tenderness.
The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an looked into those eyes, his expression momentarily dazed, and he loosened most of his grip.
The woman smiled and her hands became even more unrestrained.
While teasing the heir of the Marquis of Wu'an, she unbuttoned her clothes and stepped into the bathtub.
The Marquis of Wu'an's heir had a dazed look in his eyes and was breathing rapidly.
Unlike her wild expression, his face gradually turned pale.
Just as the two were about to have a deeper conversation, the gold pendant hanging around his neck suddenly burst out with a golden light. The light was so hot that it made the Marquis of Wu'an's heir shudder and come back to his senses.
Just as his vision cleared, a "woman" covered in blood, with mottled scars on her face and her eyes popping out of their sockets appeared before him.
The "woman" seemed to have been injured and let out a scream.
The shrill cry was unlike that of an ordinary woman; instead, it was mixed with chaotic echoes and a hint of a man's hoarse voice.
hiss!
The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "What the hell!"
He patted the edge of the bathtub and jumped out, only to suddenly realize that something was wrong with him.
Looking down, I saw that his body was covered in bright red blood!
The blood was also stained with some yellowish-white substance that was impossible to identify, which was extremely disgusting.
At that moment, the woman raised her head.
Its two eyeballs swayed with its movements, their empty sockets gleaming with an eerie black light.
"My lord, come and play with me~!" A mixed female voice, not human, rang out. The "woman" let out a strange laugh and raised her arms to pounce on the heir of the Marquis of Wu'an.
Only then did the Marquis of Wu'an realize that the woman had long fingernails on both hands.
The fingernails were black, gleaming with an eerie, sharp edge.
He tried to grab the sword, but his legs seemed to be nailed to the ground, and he couldn't move.
Let alone taking out a sword, they were powerless to even dodge him at this moment.
The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an was both terrified and grieved.
It turns out that ghosts really do exist in this world.
Finally, those two jet-black claws reached out in front of him.
He closed his eyes in despair.
Suddenly, a burning pain shot through her neck again, accompanied by the "woman's" terrified scream.
The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an subconsciously opened his eyes, only to see a burst of golden light dissipate, and the "woman" turned into black smoke, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
"ah!"
The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an cried out, only to realize that he was still sitting in the bathtub.
There was no female ghost, and the bucket contained water, not some disgusting bloody mixture of yellow and white substances.
He was breathing heavily.
After calming down for a long time, he couldn't help but curse, "It's all the fault of that swindler!"
If that woman hadn't been so superstitious, saying that the inn was unclean, he wouldn't have had such a nightmare.
Suddenly, he sensed that something was wrong.
His neck hurts a little.
It looks like a burn.
He reached up and pulled off the gold pendant from his neck.
This pendant was a gift from his mother, who said it was a talisman she had specially obtained for him, and that he must wear it day and night, and not even take it off when taking a bath.
Although he was very disdainful of it, his mother always knew exactly when he tried to take it off and sent someone to return the gold pendant to him.
After doing it a few times, he got annoyed and simply stopped picking it.
Anyway, this thing looks like an ordinary gold pendant on the surface, and you can't tell what's inside. It won't damage his tall and heroic image as the heir of the Marquis of Wu'an.
At this moment, the gold pendant was still radiating heat, so hot that his fingertips ached.
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