Chapter 29: The Marquis is Here
After Ling Feng took his leave, Qi Wuhan said, "Go to Sangcheng and see a patient for me."
"You wrote to me before asking me to come back because of this patient?" Ye Rushui asked, "Is it your lover?"
"Not yet," Qi Wuhan said confidently, fanning himself, "I'll marry her someday."
"That means the girl hasn't taken a fancy to you yet." Ye Rushui praised, "You are a girl with good taste." After saying that, she left.
"Sangcheng is over there." Qi Wuhan raised his fan and pointed in the opposite direction.
Ye Rushui turned around and left.
Qi Wuhan returned to the boat first, leaning back in his chair and slowly fanning himself to admire the moon.
About half an hour later, Ling Feng returned and reported, "My Lord, the person has been confessed."
The other party is one of the twenty-four hall masters of the Black Lotus Sect. His status is not high, his martial arts skills are not high, and his backbone is not that strong.
The person with the highest status in the religion is naturally the leader. From top to bottom are the four elders, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise. Then there are the twelve guardians, who are responsible for carrying out assassination missions. Below them are the twenty-four hall masters, who are responsible for recruiting believers to expand the territory. At the bottom are the ordinary believers.
In the past, the assassination of Jinyi Hou Qi Wuhan was always carried out personally by the elders and their bodyguards, but this time they only sent a small hall master, which was obviously a smokescreen.
The other party also confessed that his mission was to delay time here.
"My Lord, if they don't kill you this time, who are they going to kill?"
“What is Zhangzhou most famous for?”
Those cold peach blossom eyes looked forward, in the direction of Sangcheng.
Ling Feng immediately understood that the target was Dongling Academy.
The top scholar came from Dongling, and Dongling Academy was a holy place in the eyes of scholars all over the world. If it was wiped out by the Black Lotus Sect, it would not only be a great loss to the literary world, but also a great loss to the court.
"Prepare the horses."
Qi Wuhan, along with Ling Feng and a team of black-armored guards, rushed to Sang City. The sound of horse hooves broke through the moonlight and quickly disappeared into the night ahead.
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At night, Jiang Lan was suddenly awakened by a chill, as if it was a sign of impending danger. She hurriedly put on her clothes and just opened the door when she saw a ball of fire and thick smoke appear in the sky.
The front yard is on fire!
She immediately went to wake up Mr. Bai. Mr. Bai opened the door and came out, and saw that it was fire. He went to wake up the two little boys in white clothes and asked Jiang Lan to stay there while he took people to see what was going on.
Jiang Lan and another little boy in white waited in the yard for about a quarter of an hour. Then Mr. Bai came back with his men. Mr. Bai was still calm, but the little boy in white looked frightened and said that bandits had broken in, which scared Jiang Lan and the other little boy in white.
"Nonsense!" Mr. Bai corrected him sternly, "He's wearing black clothes and a mask. He's clearly a killer."
“.…..”
When they heard that it was a killer, the two little boys in white became even more panicked.
Jiang Lan quickly calmed herself down and asked the two if the academy had hired bodyguards. When she asked this, the two remembered that the academy had also hired ten martial monks to guard the academy, so they were no longer so panicked.
Mr. Bai went back to the house and took out the medicine box, then walked to the long table under the ancient pine tree and sat down. He took out some medicinal herbs and a pestle and mortar from the medicine box and calmly made the drug on the spot.
Jiang Lan was also a little amused and helpless, and she really admired the calmness of this old doctor.
She went into the house and brought a stool and placed it against the wall. She stood on it and stuck her head out to check the situation outside. She didn't see any men in black coming, so she breathed a sigh of relief. She thought they must have been stopped by the ten monks.
The two little kids in white followed her example and moved two stools to the wall, then stuck their heads out to look out.
She asked the two to keep an eye on the outside and notify her immediately if anything happened.
She went looking for a place to hide someone and found a closet in the house that could fit a person.
The medicine Jiang Shen drank contained a sleeping aid, so he was still fast asleep and had no idea what was happening outside.
Jiang Lan and a little boy in white clothes worked together to carry him into the closet, and then stuffed the pillow into the quilt, making it look like someone was still sleeping in the bed.
Then the two of them went to the room opposite and prepared to carry Master Lin into the closet.
Just as Jiang Lan grabbed the man's arm and was about to lift him up, she felt his head move. She was startled to realize that the man was awake.
She thought the other person was sleeping soundly like her elder brother, but she didn't expect that he was still awake.
The other person's breathing sounded very labored, probably because he was suffering from illness and couldn't fall asleep.
"Mr. Lin, there is a thief breaking in outside. You hide in the closet first. We will carry you out when everything is safe." Jiang Lan explained.
"Mr. Lin, this is Mr. Jiang's younger brother." The little boy in white explained Jiang Lan's identity again.
Then the two of them worked together to carry him into the closet and stuffed a pillow into the quilt to make it look like someone was there.
After hiding the two people, Mr. Bai also prepared the sleeping pills and gave each person a packet for self-defense. Then the four of them went back to their rooms and hid.
Jiang Lan did not return to her room, but hid in Jiang Shen's room, behind the door. As long as someone pushed the door in, she would throw out the packet of drugs.
Time passed minute by minute, and there was still no movement outside.
She prayed in her heart that the killers were repelled. She was so nervous that her heart was about to jump out of her throat. Then she relaxed a little, comforting herself that nothing would happen. When she heard a slight noise, she became nervous again. Her palms were sweating. She quickly wiped them on her clothes, afraid that the paper wrapping the drugs would get wet and stick together and she couldn't open it.
At this moment, there was a slight sound coming from the roof tiles, as if someone was walking on them.
She stared at the ceiling, holding her breath. She was so nervous that she felt numb. She dared not move for fear of making any noise that the other person would hear.
A tile was moved away, and a pair of knife-like narrow eyes looked inside through the gap facing the bamboo bed. A hidden weapon was thrown at the bed and pierced into the pillow. The eyes observed for another two seconds, as if they had sensed something was wrong, and immediately flew down from the roof and kicked the door open. The next moment, a bag of medicine powder was thrown in the face, and a figure rushed out of the door and ran away.
After rushing out in one breath, Jiang Lan looked back and saw that the other party had not caught up with her. One hand was supporting the door frame and his body was shaking a little. It should be that the drug took effect.
She walked over and grabbed the medicine jar on the table, plucked up her courage and tiptoed over, ready to give the other person another blow on the back of the head to make sure there was no chance of failure.
A cold light flashed, and the other party pulled out a dagger and cut his palm to keep himself awake. When he turned around, he saw Jiang Lan holding a medicine jar and ready to hit him.
"I'm infected, don't come over here." Jiang Lan held the medicine jar in her arms as a shield and retreated.
At this time, a flare rushed into the night sky and exploded. The other party took a look at the flare and knew that support had arrived. He turned around and flew onto the roof using light skills and left.
The black-armored guards arrived.
Only after confirming that the person would not come back did Jiang Lan dare to relax. She slowly walked to the stool beside the table with the medicine jar and sat down to rest for a while. Suddenly, another figure jumped down from the wall and walked towards her.
It was not until she saw a pair of feet in front of her that Jiang Lan realized that another person had come. She immediately hugged the medicine jar tightly in her arms.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Jiang Lan suddenly raised her head and stared at the face in front of her, as if to confirm whether it was an illusion.
"Don't you recognize me?" Qi Wuhan squatted down, his peach blossom eyes looking at her with a slight smile, as gentle as water. He reached out and took the medicine jar from her arms and put it back on the table, then gently hugged her in his arms, his voice just as gentle as water, "Don't be afraid, everything is fine now."
Surrounded by his aura, Jiang Lan actually felt extremely safe at this moment. She even wanted to cry in his arms and cry out all the shock, panic, tension and fear she had just experienced.
"Okay, okay, it's okay." He patted her back gently, as patiently as if he was coaxing a child.
After her emotions gradually calmed down, she pushed him away again, turned around and asked, "Why are you here?"
"You're so ungrateful. It's a shame that the Marquis cares so much about you..." Qi Wuhan pretended to be sad. He took her hand again and said, "Why are your hands so cold? Let me warm them up for you." As he said that, he put her hand against his heart. Jiang Lan tried to pull her hand back, but his hands stuck to her like a plaster and she couldn't get rid of them.
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