Chapter 67 I, always seek revenge
"Get started!"
At a command, the guards around him rushed forward, brandishing swords.
He is rich, so all the guards he keeps are top masters who can fight ten people at once.
"Be careful!" Gu Nian'an noticed the noise behind him and turned around to see the flashing of swords and sabers coming towards him. He was extremely anxious and wanted to break free from Lin Qingyue and fight with those people.
But the woman in the black dress holding the red umbrella and pulling at herself was really strange. Even though her life was in danger, she remained calm and didn't even turn her head back.
Just as more than a dozen swords were about to fall, she suddenly turned around and pushed Gu Nian'an to the side, throwing the crimson oil-paper umbrella into the air like a fleeting shadow.
Her fingertips lightly picked up a sword as thin as a cicada's wing along the secret compartment of the umbrella handle, and pulled out a sword that was as thin as a cicada's wing. The silver light flashed like the scattered light of fireflies.
"Shua shua!" Several clear sword lights flashed in the night -
The guards, still chopping with their swords raised, suddenly froze like clay or wooden sculptures, leaving only a thin scar on their necks.
Soon, "thump" sounds were heard one after another, and the stiff and motionless bodies fell one after another, and the blades fell to the ground, splashing fine dust.
At this time, the red oil-paper umbrella slowly spun down, just enough to block the cold light of the sword and fit perfectly with the umbrella handle.
Gu Nian'an was stunned, and so was Gu Huai.
After a few breaths, Gu Huai staggered back half a step, shouting angrily in a trembling voice: "You...you, as an official appointed by the court, actually dare to kill innocent people!"
"Innocent?" The woman with the red umbrella turned around quietly, her fingertips rubbing the umbrella ribs and laughing softly, "Why, they are only allowed to point their blades at me, but I am not allowed to repay blood with blood? Gu Huai——"
She suddenly raised her eyes, a cold light flashing in them, "I, the Lord, have always been vindictive. You just ordered your guards to take my life, and now—"
She walked gracefully, approaching step by step.
As Gu Huai stumbled back, he twisted his heel and fell to the ground, his clothes soaked with sweat, looking extremely embarrassed.
"Deputy Envoy Lin, you...don't mess around! I'm the Marquis of Wenshang, the royal merchant and the richest man in the Great Qi! Not some lowly pariah! If you kill me, you'll have to pay with your life!"
"But you just tried to assassinate an official appointed by the imperial court! Oh, if you think my position as a mere fifth-rank official isn't enough..." A sneer curled up her lips. "What about the daughter of the Marquis of Changning, the Princess of Jin? Are you capable of shouldering the heinous crime of murdering the current princess?"
Gu Huai was extremely surprised: "What? You, you are the Princess of Jin? How could the Princess of Jin... How could..."
Why would he come out in public and do such a dirty job as helping the souls of the dead?
In fact, it was all Dongfang Yan's fault that he felt that Lin Qingyue's position in Xuanjingsi was embarrassing, so he ordered the news to be blocked.
Therefore, even though she had just appeared in public at the Zheng family a few days ago because of the mother-son double murder case, very few people knew her true identity.
A nominal marquis like Gu Huai could not possibly know the inside story, and he had always treated Lin Qingyue as an ordinary minor official, which was why he dared to take action against her.
I never expected that I would hit the hardest wall.
After realizing what was happening, he quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Princess Jin, please forgive me. I didn't know who you were and almost hurt you by mistake. Princess, please don't bear grudges against me. Don't bother with a bastard like me! Gu Nian'an, you can take him away if you want. You can do whatever you want with him!"
In order to calm Lin Qingyue down, he even started slapping himself wildly.
No matter how arrogant he was before, he is now so humble just to survive.
"Bah! You're so shameless!" Gu Nian'an cursed and said to Lin Qingyue, "Let me go and kill this bastard to avenge my sister and my mother!"
Lin Qingyue waved her hand, and all the ropes on Gu Nian'an broke.
His face lit up with joy, he picked up the knife on the ground, and was about to kill Gu Huai, but was stopped by a phantom.
"Sister, why are you stopping me?"
Gu Nianxue shook her head slowly, "Don't kill him."
Upon seeing his sister's ghost, the impulsive boy's face was filled with sadness. "Sister, he hurt you so badly, why did you stop me from killing him?"
"Because..." Gu Nianxue spoke slowly and in a cold voice, "You can't get blood on your hands."
"But last night I already..."
"That's not you!" Gu Nianxue interrupted him, saying word by word, "I'm the one who took revenge, and I'm the one who killed people!"
"Sister..." Gu Nian'an was stunned for a moment, and when she came to her senses, she was already in tears.
His elder sister, even after becoming a ghost, was still trying hard to protect him and take the blame for him!
Gu Nianxue slowly turned her head to look at Lin Qingyue, a pleading look on her pale face: "I am willing to leave and no longer harbor resentment. My brother is a good boy, please don't arrest him."
Her thoughts were actually still in a mess at the moment, but she still vaguely remembered that killing someone meant paying with one's life, especially killing relatives, friends and elders, which would be an even more serious crime.
Protecting his younger brother and taking the blame for him were just things he wanted to do subconsciously.
Lin Qingyue smiled softly, "The Xuanjing Division is only responsible for rescuing ghosts and protecting the safety of the region. As for those murder cases, they are not under my jurisdiction."
Gu Nianxue floated in front of Gu Huai and called out softly, "Dad."
But Gu Huai was so frightened that he trembled all over, "Ah"
At this moment, Gu Nianxue's thoughts seemed to be clearer, and her tone of voice was the same as when she was alive: "Dad, Nian'an is your eldest son. I hope you will consider our blood relationship and not blame him for his previous recklessness."
Gu Huai, desperate to survive, dared not think of anything else and quickly said, "As long as he no longer hates Daddy, Daddy will certainly not harm him. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs!"
Gu Nianxue seemed to believe him easily, and turned to Gu Nian'an and instructed: "Go back to the Gu family with Dad."
"Sister, why do you want me to go back home? There is no mother or you there. It is not my home at all! Wuwu... Sister, I really want you and mother to come back. I really want our family to go back to the way it was before!"
"The past..." She sighed slowly, "You can't go back. But you still have to go back, because that's the home your mother left for you. You have to take back what belongs to us!"
She reached out and lightly stroked her brother's tearful face. "Nian'an has always been the best and most obedient. Finally, listen to your sister one last time. Okay?"
"Okay! Okay!" He agreed with a sob, stretched out his hands, and carefully embraced Gu Nianxue's thin little soul.
"Look, sister, Nian'an is taller than you now. He can be relied upon by you. He is no longer as weak and helpless as he was when he was little. Sister, please don't leave, okay? As long as you don't leave, I will agree to whatever you say."
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