Chapter 36: Kill Them All
Ye Lanzhou didn't intend to kill him, he just wanted to teach him a lesson and didn't want anyone to die.
Even though she was still young, she knew that killing someone meant paying with one's life!
Her knees went weak and she knelt down, frightened by the sight and unable to walk. However, she suppressed the nausea and fear in her heart, struggled to crawl to him, searched his pockets, and finally found twenty taels of silver. She reached out to close his eyes, turned around and ran back home in a panic.
Twenty taels is enough to feed the mother and daughter for a month.
On the way home, Ye Lanzhou's mind was in a mess. The joy of getting the silver and the fear of killing almost split her apart. After vomiting, her throat was burning and her heart was beating as if it was going to burst out of her chest.
In addition, there is another problem that bothers Ye Lanzhou.
What would happen if my mother found out? Would she accept the fact that I had killed someone? Would she accept the twenty taels of silver?
While she was lost in thought, she bumped into someone head-on and was knocked down. When she looked up, she saw that it was the old priest in the temple. No one knew who he was, where he came from, or his name.
Ye Lanzhou had been his neighbor for many years and had never heard anyone talk about his origins.
He just smiled meaningfully, especially when he saw Ye Lanzhou's frightened look. He slowly squatted down, staring at Ye Lanzhou with cloudy eyes. The bumpy scars on his face made her feel even more terrifying than the dead man just now.
Then he said something that made Ye Lanzhou feel cold on his back.
"Is that man dead?"
It goes without saying who that person is.
Ye Lanzhou nodded blankly, but the temple keeper smiled with relief and said, "Revenge requires utter annihilation."
That was the first principle the old temple priest in Nanyang taught her. Later, Ye Lanzhou secretly worshipped the old temple priest as her teacher without telling her mother.
She then realized that the old temple keeper was skilled in making poisons and concealed weapons, but Ye Lanzhou had no idea who he was. Who could make such things? It couldn't be someone of the right path.
The palace was deserted, and at night it became utterly silent. Ye Lanzhou lay on her bed, quietly reciting what the old temple keeper had told her: "Kill them all—"
But the Ye family is large, and killing them all is easier said than done.
Besides, the Ye family has many maids and servants, and revenge will be difficult to accomplish when there are too many people involved.
After the beginning of winter, the capital suddenly became much colder. The room Xie Chengyan gave her faced south and could get some sunlight during the day, so it wasn't too cold.
But Ye Lanzhou was used to staying in Nanyang and had never spent such a cold winter in Shangjing. A gust of wind blew, and the cold wind blew in through the window paper. The room was too empty, and Ye Lanzhou felt a little cold. He turned over, tucked the quilt tightly, and fell into a deep sleep.
The cold wind was howling, but it was a clear night, which made people dream a lot.
Although Ye Lanzhou was born and raised in Nanyang, she has no attachment to Nanyang. To be precise, she has no sense of belonging to any place.
She was not favored in the Ye family of Nanyang. On the day she was born, the old man of the Ye family passed away. Her birthday became her grandfather's death anniversary, so the whole family regarded her as an ominous person.
The abbot of Nanyang Yong'an Temple happened to be in Ye's house. He said that Ye Lanzhou was born with bad luck and would defeat both his enemies and his friends, so he was not an ordinary person.
The Ye family does not believe in Buddhism, except for the old lady of the Ye family.
After hearing the monk's words, the old lady of the Ye family was shocked and wanted to throw Ye Lanzhou into the mountains to feed the wolves. However, Qin, who had just given birth, protected her tightly, thus saving Ye Lanzhou's life.
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