Chapter 97 Fight 3 Now that we have our revenge, it’s time for us to go back…
Zhou Yuanze was fat and big-faced, and the moment he fell to the ground, the entire ship shook.
He didn't seem to expect that he would fall, as he was always very agile.
Zhou Yuanze moved with difficulty, trying to get up, but he was too weak to do so.
"You poisoned me again?" he asked angrily.
Su He remained expressionless at the table, her tone joking, "Master Zhou didn't touch the food on this table, how could I have poisoned it?"
Zhou Yuanze glanced into the cabin a few times: "Is this... is there poison on this ship?"
Su He looked at him meaningfully, a hint of pity in her eyes. "We're the only two of us on this boat right now. I could easily poison you, but given Lord Zhou's current condition, it would be a waste of poison. After all, preparing a poison is laborious."
Zhou Yuanze didn't understand the deeper meaning of her words: "Who are you and what do you want to do?"
"Isn't it obvious what I'm going to do?" Su He stood up from the table and walked slowly over to him, enunciating each word clearly: "I want to take your life, Zhou Yuanze. As for who I am, that's a long story."
Zhou Yuanze gritted his teeth and stared at her angrily.
She acted nonchalant, casually dragging a chair over and sitting down, glaring at him. "It was indeed me who disguised myself as Hua Niang and sneaked into Yichunlou to kill you. It's a pity you were lucky enough to escape. Later, your father kept you in the mansion to protect you, making it impossible for me to kill you. I had no choice but to find another way."
Zhou Yuanze cursed loudly: "Bitch, you damn bitch."
Su He didn't bother to pay attention to him and continued, "I learned that your father went to Changlong Restaurant to set up a trap to lure me out. But I'm not as stupid as he thought. I took advantage of his time to set up the trap and lured you here. Do you think your father's cleverness backfired?"
Zhou Yuanze was so angry that he felt dizzy and his eyes turned red: "I will kill you, I will kill you..." He tried his best to get up, but the harder he tried, the less strength he found, so that his whole body was wriggling on the ground like a python.
"Master Zhou, don't you want to know what new method I've devised?" Su He chuckled. "I've added donkey kidney powder to the pigeon blood soup you drink every day. For those with kidney deficiency, this donkey kidney powder will not only help stimulate your libido, but also, when your liver fire rises, it will completely sever your heart meridians and drain your strength until you bleed to death from all seven orifices. So, the more angry you get, the faster you'll die. So, there's no need to waste my poison."
So, she was deliberately provoking him and pushing him to his death.
Zhou Yuanze, who collapsed to the ground, had panic and fear in his eyes. He pointed at her and said, "You even bribed the owner of the pigeon shop... What hatred do I have against you that would make you... go to such great lengths..."
"Master Zhou was ordered to board the ship today, but he didn't get off. I will not let Master Zhou die in vain." She squatted down and moved closer to him. "My grudge against Master Zhou started eight years ago."
Without waiting for Zhou Yuanze's response, she continued, "By the way, I haven't told you who I am yet, Master Zhou." She leaned forward again, almost whispering in his ear, "Listen carefully, Master Zhou. I am the daughter of that 'drink-making servant' you've been thinking about so much, and his beautiful wife is my mother."
Zhou Yuanze was stunned when he heard this, and then suddenly realized.
Then he tilted his head back and looked at her face again, a deeper fear slowly overflowing from his brows: "So you are her daughter, no wonder... no wonder you look so similar."
Su He took out a thin silver needle that was half a foot long from his sleeve and slowly approached Zhou Yuanze inch by inch.
Zhou Yuanze supported himself on his elbows and slowly moved back inch by inch, mumbling, "What...what are you going to do?"
Su He replied: "You defiled my mother and beat my father to death, so naturally I will take your life."
Zhou Yuanze's breath trembled: "You... calm down a little, we can discuss everything."
He added, "I can make amends. No matter what you want, I...I will make sure you get what you want."
Su He sneered: "You nobles are really naive. You always claim to make amends when the price needs to be paid, but unfortunately, it's too late."
She said as she continued to advance towards him.
Every inch she moved forward was an inch closer to death.
He was in terror, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Help, help!"
He shouted again: "Come here, Wang'er, Wang'er, come quickly..."
Then he shouted: "Xie...Xie Wuhen will not let you go..."
Su He said nonchalantly, "This is the remote South Bank. Sir Zhou, please don't waste your energy seeking help. As for Xie Wuhen, that's not something Sir Zhou should worry about."
As she spoke, she suddenly stood up and then inserted the silver needle in her hand into Zhou Yuanze's skull with lightning speed.
But after a moment, Zhou Yuanze vomited blood and fell down with his body tilted.
After falling to the ground, he bounced a few times until he lost his voice.
He finally died!
The air suddenly became extremely quiet.
It was so quiet that she could hear the sound of water beneath the boat and her own steady breathing.
She lowered her eyes to look at Zhou Yuanze's body, then took off her boat girl's dress, turned around and walked out of the flower boat.
The night wind was chilly, making her clothes rustle.
The sky with bright moon and sparse stars is like a huge open mouth, ready to swallow the dark earth at any time.
She walked down from the bow of the boat, toward the river bank, raised her head and breathed a long sigh of relief towards the huge mouth.
She felt relieved that her revenge had been achieved.
But in that sense of relief, she also felt a sense of emptiness and lightness - an emptiness and lightness that life could not bear.
She seemed to have lost her support and direction, and her whole body seemed to be exhausted and about to be crushed by the vast darkness.
She stumbled on the riverbank and nearly fell.
Chunlan ran over from a distance and supported her: "Miss, are you okay?"
Su He relaxed: "I'm fine."
Chunlan asked, "Is Zhou Yuanze dead?"
Su He smiled tiredly: "Dead."
Chunlan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "The Zhou family's servant was also poisoned by me and fainted."
She had been waiting outside just now to deal with that servant.
She used a fire stick to light the spices given by Su He, and in just a moment, the servant was knocked down by the smoke released by the spices.
Therefore, when Zhou Yuanze shouted "Wang'er" loudly, Wang'er on the shore had already lost consciousness.
"Chunlan, I just said a lot to Zhou Yuanze." There was fatigue in her tone.
Chunlan replied: "Miss, why waste your time talking to that evil man?"
"Because I'm happy, Chunlan."
"If the young lady is happy, I will be happy too, and my aunt will be happy too."
She hummed, and breathed a sigh of relief again, "Now that we have our revenge, it's time for us to go back."
Chunlan replied, "Okay, let's go back."
The two of them walked hand in hand across the soft riverbank under the night sky and came to the straight road.
I had only walked about ten feet on the road when a row of torches suddenly appeared in front of me. From a distance, it looked like a thin orange line.
Chunlan was shocked: "Miss, is that the Zhou family?"
Su He comforted her: "Don't panic, take a closer look."
The two men stretched their necks to take a closer look, and saw that the row of torches was slowly approaching.
From the flickering firelight, one could vaguely see that the group of people were wearing the same clothes and had the same long swords hanging from their waists.
Su He's heart sank. "They are actually officers and soldiers from the Dali Temple."
She remembered that Xie Wuhen had hinted that he would set an ambush at Changlong Restaurant, but she didn't expect that he would actually come to the south bank of Qingshui River - she didn't expect that he would chase her so closely.
Chunlan was so frightened that her legs went weak when she heard this: "Is my son-in-law here too? What if...what if he sees us? What...what should we do?"
As she spoke, she glanced around at the bare riverbank: "There's no place to hide here. What should we do, young lady?"
Su He was also caught off guard for a moment: "This Xie Wuhen is really hard to deal with."
She thought for a moment, then looked up at the vast wilderness under the night sky. There was no cover, no shelter, and there was indeed nowhere to hide.
Although there were some houses scattered on the edge of the wilderness, they were too far away from them to escape.
There was only a wooden house by the roadside to provide shelter.
She knew it was a teahouse where porters passing by could rest.
The tea shop had already closed, but candlelight was still visible from inside.
She replied in a deep voice: "Let's go to that wooden house."
When Su He and Chun Lan stepped into the wooden house, Xie Wuhen was leading a large group of people across the road outside the wooden house and heading straight for the flower boat on the river bank.
Countless torches lit up a large area of the river bank as bright as day.
The officers moved in a hurry, like ghosts. Some of them stayed on the shore to guard, while the others quickly jumped onto the boat.
Thanks to the Zhou family's servant named Changping, Xie Wuhen was able to know about the flower boat moored on the south bank.
When he arrived at Zhou's house, Zhou Yuanze had disappeared, so he immediately interrogated the maids and servants around Zhou Yuanze, and finally got the news from the servant Changping.
Changping trembled with fear: "I was ordered by the master to keep an eye on the young master at all times, so I overheard the conversation between the young master and Wang'er outside the house. The young master said... he wanted to go to the south bank of the Qingshui River... a flower boat called 'Yuefang'."
Upon hearing this, Xie Wuhen immediately left the house and rushed to the south bank of Qingshui River with his men.
At this time, he had already boarded the flower boat and saw Zhou Yuanze who was already dead in the boat. He felt an inexplicable sense of relief in his heart.
After all, it was Zhou Yuanze who died.
After all, Empress Duofu's child is safe and sound.
He had no intention of investigating the cause of Zhou Yuanze's death, but simply bent down and touched Zhou Yuanze's neck, which was still warm.
He glanced around the hold, which was completely exposed and had no place for anyone to hide.
Xie Wuhen immediately ordered Wu Sheng: "The person has just died, the princess should not have gone far, quickly send people to search the area."
Wu Sheng replied "yes" and turned away.
But after a while, torches were lit on the road again. Some officers went to search the houses in the distance, while others searched along the riverbank. What if the princess was hiding in the water?
But after a thorough search, they found nothing except the fainted servant of the Zhou family.
Wu Sheng was a little confused: "Boss, do you think the princess grew wings and flew away directly? Or grew fins and swam away directly under the water?"
Xie Wuhen looked at the vast wilderness and was speechless for a long time.
After a moment, he raised his eyes and turned to look at the wooden house not far away.
The wooden house stands alone on the side of the road and under the cover of night, appearing particularly abrupt and eye-catching. The flickering candlelight leaks out from the cracks in the door, becoming a glimmer of light in the dark night.
Wu Sheng was a little confused: "Isn't that the house we just passed by? What is the boss looking at there?"
At the end, he seemed to understand: "Do you think the princess will hide in that house? Impossible, impossible. Unless the princess is stupid, she would not hide in such a conspicuous place." He waved his hands as he spoke.
Xie Wuhen had already turned around and walked towards the wooden house that was emitting a faint light. As he walked, he said, "Who says it's impossible? The most dangerous place is also the safest place."
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