Chapter 196 Accidental Injury
At this moment, a hint of excitement flashed in Pei Jingyuan's eyes as he watched the sword about to successfully pierce Pei Jingchuan's heart.
Suddenly, Pei Jingchuan's back seemed to have eyes and he squatted down. Due to inertia, the long sword pierced straight into the back of a bandit in front of Pei Jingchuan.
"Puff!" The bandit who was stabbed suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood from his mouth and fell down suddenly.
Pei Jingyuan and the bandit with the sword were hugging each other, and both of them were stunned.
"Ah! It's not me! It's not me!" Before Pei Jingyuan could say anything, the bandit who was controlled by Pei Jingyuan to kill people with a sword started shouting.
He was completely dumbfounded. He had clearly done nothing just now, but suddenly someone pushed him from behind, grabbed his hand with the sword, and stabbed forward.
"Second brother, what do you want to do?" At this time, Pei Jingchuan asked before Pei Jingyuan could speak.
His words completely confirmed that Pei Jingyuan controlled the bandit to stab him with the sword.
Pei Jingyuan finally came back to his senses. He was a little flustered and stammered, "I...I saw that the bandit wanted to...take action, so...that's why I thought of stopping him."
"Does this count as stopping him? I see you are holding his hand and want to kill someone! Second brother, who do you want to kill? Are you trying to kill your eldest brother?" Xu Qingyan interrupted Pei Jingyuan's explanation and ran to Pei Jingchuan nervously.
In fact, she had just been observing Pei Jingyuan, waiting for him to take action to destroy him, but she didn't expect that her husband was so lucky that he actually squatted down at the critical moment. Now, with such a good opportunity, she naturally didn't want to let Pei Jingyuan go!
Suddenly, everyone looked towards Pei Jingyuan, and even Chen Xing showed a hint of doubt in his eyes. Did Pei Jingyuan really want to assassinate his eldest brother? Why would he do this?
"No, I didn't...Brother, it was really this bandit who wanted to take the opportunity to kill you from behind. I saw it and then tried to stop him. You are my brother, how could I want to kill you? Only this bandit thought that as long as he killed you, he could save them." After Pei Jingyuan's thoughts were exposed by Xu Qingyan, he panicked and his head was shocked. He quickly lied to make amends.
Pei Jingchuan sneered in his heart and deliberately asked in confusion: "Oh? So, this can be stopped like this, you hold the bandit's hand and stop him?"
Pei Jingyuan's face flushed. He knew he could never admit it. Pei Jingchuan was fine now anyway, and he had no evidence to prove it.
So, Pei Jingyuan said shamelessly: "Just now I slipped, and I was afraid that the bandits would hurt you, so I panicked and fell on the bandit and held his hand. Brother, I really wanted to stop him, but this mountain road is too steep, and I slipped."
"Your feet are slippery? Is this how it is?" Xu Qingyan sneered as Pei Jingyuan finished his explanation.
Before Pei Jingyuan could continue to explain, he saw her suddenly pounce towards him with a sword in her hand.
Seeing this, Pei Jingchuan hurried forward and hugged Xu Qingyan, while Xu Qingyan stabbed the sword into Pei Jingyuan's arm with force.
"Ah! Sister-in-law, you...why did you hurt me?" Pei Jingyuan cried out in pain and looked at Xu Qingyan with anger and shock in his eyes.
Xu Qingyan hid a smile in her eyes, and with a surprised cry, she immediately apologized hypocritically: "I'm sorry! Second brother, I just wanted to try whether the slipping foot you just mentioned could really hurt someone by mistake, and whether you were lying. I didn't mean it, so please don't blame me. Now I know that slipping foot can really hurt people, and you must have really slipped just now, so you almost stabbed the young master with the sword!"
"You..." Pei Jingyuan looked at Xu Qingyan with red eyes after hearing this.
It was obviously Xu Qingyan who stabbed him on purpose! She did it on purpose! But what Xu Qingyan said made it impossible for him to blame Xu Qingyan. Otherwise, wouldn't he have admitted that he had just deliberately wanted to kill Pei Jingchuan, which would have undoubtedly confirmed his guilt.
Xu Qingyan looked at Pei Jingyuan's frustrated look, and she was immediately delighted. [Humph! I let you want to kill my husband, and this is your punishment! Now, we haven't found any evidence to convict you, so we can't kill you directly. But this is the punishment you deserve, and you deserve this sword! Let's see if you dare to have any more evil thoughts and come to harm my husband! ]
Pei Jingchuan felt warm in his heart when he heard Xu Qingyan's voice. He knew that Xu Qingyan was venting his anger. It was true that Pei Jingyuan's behavior could not kill him. At most, it just embarrassed Pei Jingyuan. But Xu Qingyan's behavior was undoubtedly a relief. Pei Jingyuan stabbed him, and he was unharmed. However, Pei Jingyuan's arm was stabbed by Xu Qingyan, but he could not blame Xu Qingyan.
"Okay! Qingyan didn't mean it. She proved that you did slip. If not, I would really suspect that you wanted to murder me, your big brother." Pei Jingchuan said coldly to Pei Jingyuan.
Pei Jingyuan immediately felt guilty and dared not blame Xu Qingyan. He could only cover his injured arm in pain, expressing his understanding for Xu Qingyan, and lowered his head and stopped talking.
But Pei Jingyuan didn't expect that Xu Qingyan still refused to let him go. He just heard Xu Qingyan stop him and said, "Hey... Second brother, I proved your innocence, shouldn't you thank me? If I hadn't proved that slipping can really cause accidental injuries, then you would definitely be suspected of having ulterior motives."
Pei Jingyuan was furious when he heard this, and clenched his other uninjured hand tightly. He wanted to scold Xu Qingyan, but he knew he couldn't. He was stabbed by her today, and he had to thank her in return. It really made him feel so frustrated!
"What? Is my proof wrong? Second brother, did you really want to kill your eldest brother just now?" Xu Qingyan asked deliberately when she saw Pei Jingyuan didn't speak for a long time.
"Sister-in-law, you misunderstood! Of course not. Thank you for proving my innocence today." Pei Jingyuan thanked Xu Qingyan reluctantly.
Xu Qingyan smiled and said, "You're welcome! This is what I should do."
Pei Jingchuan listened to Xu Qingyan's words and looked at her lovingly. He felt extremely happy in his heart. How lucky was he to be able to marry such a good wife like Xu Qingyan!
Ever since Pei Jingchuan and his men went up the mountain to suppress the bandits, he no longer pretended and brought up all the good wine and food in the mansion.
At this moment, Governor Fang was sitting leisurely in his mansion, drinking wine with his father in the yard and enjoying the singing and dancing of beautiful women.
Suddenly, a servant ran in hurriedly and said, "Sir, the King of Qin and the young master are back from suppressing the bandits! They captured many bandits alive, and even the bandit leader was captured by them!"
"What did you say? They are back? Aren't they all dead?" Governor Fang stood up from the rocking chair, sobered up instantly, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
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