Chapter 208
With the blade pressed against the ground, Wen Quan chuckled softly, "So what if you know? I've traveled all the way from Jinzhou to take your lives!"
Pei Lingjun bent his knee and thrust forward, changing the direction of his silver knife, instantly forcing Wen Quan to retreat three steps.
"You have quite the nerve! Did I even offer you my life?"
The young man's voice was unhurried, as if he didn't take the person in front of him seriously, which unsurprisingly angered Wen Quan again.
"You say you hate Wen Shu, but I think it should be Wen Shu who hates you all." The young man's voice was lazy, then he hissed as if he had a toothache. "Think about it, isn't everyone in the Wen family a hypocrite? You were the ones who did wrong and were arrested by His Majesty, yet you have the nerve to say that others are unwilling to help you?"
"Furthermore," the young man suddenly smiled, "I have already informed His Majesty of the situation of A-Shu and the other two. His Majesty has spoken on his word and will not implicate Wen Tao's mistakes in the case of the mother and her two daughters. In that case, what else do you have to say?"
Wen Quan's eyes turned red with jealousy, and his extremely malicious laughter echoed in the courtyard.
"Yes, you are all upright gentlemen, but what about my sister and me?! Do you know that on the way to exile, my sister was coveted by officials, and those people defiled her body. My sister could not bear the humiliation and hanged herself."
"Just open your eyes and take a good look. This scar on my face is from killing seventeen officials!"
"What crime has my elder sister committed?!"
Pei Lingjun burst out laughing, as if he had heard an extremely funny joke. He laughed so hard that he bent over, making Wen Quan want to strangle the person opposite him.
"You're saying Wenxi is innocent?"
The young man's smile vanished instantly, replaced by a mocking tone: "Guess how your older sister's fiancé died?"
"Over the years, she has committed countless evil deeds and deserves to die."
As soon as he finished speaking, a swift blade flashed past the young man. Wen Quan was filled with rage, and his moves became chaotic and full of mistakes.
Pei Lingjun lightly flicked the tip of his knife, stabbing at a tricky angle.
Wen Quan immediately retreated to dodge, but was unexpectedly covered in white dust-like powder.
He staggered backward, as if all his strength had been drained. The tip of the knife touched the ground, but it was still not as strong as the anesthetic. He slowly knelt down.
"You insidious...scoundrel..."
The young man glanced at him sideways, then looked up in the direction of Cui Pei and the others. The men in black had all been killed.
very good.
Pei Lingjun turned around with a smile, "Tell me, the Empress Dowager sent you here not just to kill us, right?"
When no reply came, the young man subconsciously looked at Wen Quan's face. There was only a lantern hanging under the eaves, emitting an extremely faint light.
He bent down and saw that Wen Quan's face was deathly pale, and a few drops of blood were gushing from his mouth. He hurriedly dislocated Wen Quan's jaw, but it was too late.
Wenquan had poison hidden in his mouth!
"If I die, you... won't survive either..."
Wen Quan murmured softly, kneeling on the ground, revealing an extremely eerie smile.
Pei Lingjun bent down to check, when suddenly a sharp pain shot through his arm. He looked down and realized that Wen Quan had ambushed him without his knowledge!
He immediately pulled out the silver needle and kicked it!
"you..."
An overwhelming sense of dizziness suddenly struck him, and Pei Lingjun could barely control his body. Wen Quan had actually used his own life to assassinate him!
In the moment before his consciousness faded, Pei Lingjun felt completely numb and lost, falling into a state of blankness and confusion.
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"That old Taoist priest, whose Taoist name is Xuanji, roams freely between heaven and earth. How difficult it is to find his trace!"
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