Chapter 392 Li Rong, Drinking Blood on the Edge of a Blade
The room was unusually silent, save for the rhythmic sound of Li Rong kneading dough.
In the eerie silence, the young princess quietly rose, her fingers unconsciously twisting together: "Um, I think I'll take it home to eat."
Jiang Nuanzhi smiled and took her arm, saying, "Okay, then I'll take you there."
The young princess stared blankly at her wrist wrapped around her arm, suddenly recalling the sight of noble ladies strolling hand in hand in the garden. She had even said she was disliked and had no close friends.
Back then, she would just scoff dismissively. What's so special about that? It's like they're the only close friends in the world. She also had Yuchuan; when she was sick, Yuchuan would hold her and coax her to take her medicine. What's so great about that?
At this moment, she was completely surrounded and unconsciously looked at Jiang Nuanzhi, only to see that her cheeks were flushed and quite pleasing: "Ahem, stop pulling and tugging like that, there are many people watching."
As they were talking, she awkwardly tried to pull her hand away, but a fluffy glove was stuffed into her hand.
"Okay, it's cold, your little hands are all red from the cold. These cotton gloves I made are brand new, I haven't used them yet, so I'll give them to you. Come and play with me again next time."
Feeling guilty about the two hundred taels, Jiang Nuanzhi even helped her tidy her hair.
The young princess had bitten her rosy lips several times over. She dawdled as she left, then suddenly turned back: "Um, are you... are you going to the Zhao family's banquet? Shall we go together?"
"The Zhao family?" Jiang Nuanzhi asked in surprise, "Zhao Yuniang invited you as well?"
The young princess said, "She is really annoying, but oh dear, there are some things I can't tell you. Anyway, just don't make enemies. Just go through the motions and make it look good. We can still talk to each other."
After he finished speaking, a hint of anticipation flickered in his eyes.
"I'm not going." Jiang Nuanzhi shook her head directly: "I'm annoyed by her."
The young princess was taken aback: "Huh?"
Jiang Nuanzhi nodded: "Yeah, it's really annoying. If you want to talk, how about we have dinner together?"
The young princess fidgeted with her fingers, hesitated for a long time, and finally shook her head: "No, Yuchuan is still waiting for me."
"Princess!" The wooden door was suddenly flung open, and Yu Chuan rushed in. Seeing the princess and Jiang Nuanzhi, he immediately stood behind her and whispered, "Princess, have you seen the general? You've finished speaking with him, it's time to go to the banquet."
The young princess: "Hmm? What general?"
Yuchuan: "."
Didn't we agree that General Li was injured and we would come here to take a look?
Could it be that her mistress has forgotten about the general because she's enjoying such a delicious meal?
"No, this isn't right."
Chi Heng, who had been stunned for a long time, looked completely puzzled.
That damned woman Xiao Nianjun, isn't she in love with A Rong?
Rubbing his eyes, he looked at Jiang Nuanzhi and Xiao Nianjun and a big question mark appeared in his mind.
"You two."
He was only halfway through his sentence when a whooshing sound rang out, followed by a sharp "whoosh." The arrow, trailing a point of light, shattered the glass with a "bang," then embedded itself in the solid wood floor of the room.
The long arrow was on fire, and in the blink of an eye, a large area of the floor was scorched.
The next second, Jiang Nuanzhi grabbed a wooden basin and used it to cover the arrow, and the fire gradually subsided.
"I'm fed up! These bastards are after our house today!" Jiang Nuanzhi threw down the basin and immediately picked up a kitchen knife: "I'll fight them to the death!"
"Sister-in-law, be careful! This sword is coated with oil and poison; it's meant to kill us!" Chi Heng tried to stop them.
"You heartless bastard, what kind of dog dares to mess with my old man?" The old man narrowed his eyes, picked up the longbow from the ground, and the next second, he lightly touched the ground with his feet. However, he only jumped less than half a foot before landing on the ground.
He tried again, refusing to believe it, but still couldn't jump.
The next second, he gritted his teeth and pulled Xinbo up: "Old Xin, you go get them and break these bastards' teeth off so I can make dice for them!"
Xinbo: "Oh, okay."
He immediately dropped the bowl of beans, picked up the old man, and ran away.
Chi Heng tried to stop one arrow, but couldn't stop another, and at the critical moment, even more arrows shot into the house. Helpless, he anxiously ordered Chen Shu and the other man, "Protect the children first!"
Before the words were even finished, a blurry figure suddenly darted out from behind him.
"Arong!" Chi Heng was about to chase after her, but the little princess's screams were too piercing. She stepped forward to shield her from the arrows, not caring about chasing Li Rong. She was also anxious about his current condition.
"Master, the enemy has been lying in ambush for a long time. They came prepared this time and even released smoke bombs. We must take our men out first."
Chi Heng clenched her fists, disregarding everything else, grabbed Xiao Baozhu, pulled the little princess along, and left the house.
However, when he came out, he saw several people dressed in black lying on the ground, groaning in pain.
They were immediately dumbfounded.
"You bastards, how dare you damage my house! I'll make you set off smoke bombs! I'll make you shoot arrows!"
Chi Heng stared blankly and saw his sister-in-law, who looked as delicate as a willow in the wind, holding a slingshot in her hand. There was a pile of firecrackers on the ground in front of her. She lit an incense stick, threw it into a jade bottle, and launched the slingshot. It exploded right on the other side. The man in black was splashed with the liquid from the bottle. He then covered his wounds and fell to the ground crying.
The young princess's guards immediately sensed something was wrong, but upon seeing the state of those people after being poisoned, they merely looked at each other, too afraid to approach.
Outside the courtyard wall.
The leader of the men in black noticed something was wrong and narrowed his eyes: "Damn it, it's that damned woman's doing! Take her down first!"
The command had barely been given when, in the next second, he was struck heavily by a dark shadow. When everyone looked up, they saw a figure with black hair and red eyes, one foot planted on the leader's chest. The man who had just been giving orders was now coughing up blood, staring wide-eyed at Li Rong in disbelief.
"General, oh!"
The longsword severed his neck, and the Li Family Army totem imprinted on his neck was also completely cut in two.
Li Rong's almost sinister eyes fell on the totem he once trusted most, lingered for only a second, and then he quickly withdrew. His figure swayed around him like a ghost.
Suddenly, he stopped, drops of blood sliding down the tip of his knife. One after another, the blood lines on the necks of the dozen or so people around him burst open, blood splattering as they fell one after another, none of them uttering a single word before they died.
The last thing the assassin saw was Li Rong's calm face.
The air seemed to freeze.
Li Rong's bloodshot eyes fell on the last remaining black-clad man kneeling in terror. The blood-drinking tip of his blade slowly rose, pointing directly at the man's face.
After a long silence, a hoarse voice broke the stillness.
Where is Zhao Xiuyuan?
(End of this chapter)
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