"Get out of here!"
Taohua arrived in time and kicked Lu Qingzhou in the abdomen, sending him flying.
"Miss, are you okay?" Taohua supported Gu Yunran and patted her back to help her calm down.
Freed from the grip, Gu Yunran took a deep breath. It took a while for her to recover. She shook her head and said, "It's nothing serious."
Suddenly there was a noise outside and a group of guards rushed in with knives.
"What's going on?" Lu Qingzhou's face turned pale.
Could it be that the court has discovered what he has done? Are they going to come and arrest him?
Gu Yunran frowned, looking towards the door in confusion. She asked the leading guard, "I wonder what mistake the Lu family made that you brought so many people to surround the Lu family?"
She was not worried about the Lu family, but worried about herself.
The guards didn't say anything. When they heard the footsteps behind them, they immediately retreated to both sides in an orderly manner, leaving a path in the middle.
Gu Yunran looked up and saw Mu Qianchen, wearing a long robe with dark patterns, walking slowly towards him. He was playing with a plum blossom hidden weapon in his hand, with a nonchalant look on his face.
Qianli followed behind carrying a throne chair. Mu Qianchen walked to a position about ten feet away from Gu Yunran and stopped.
Qianli placed the armchair behind him and said, "Master, please sit down."
Mu Qianchen sat on the armchair, leaning back and playing with the plum blossom hidden weapon in his hand.
"Has any guard discovered that a Northern Barbarian spy is hiding in the Lu Mansion?"
"Have you discovered anything?"
Madam Lu's face turned pale with fear and she shook her head: "No, I didn't see any spies."
"How could our Lu Mansion possibly be hiding spies?"
"Master Mu must have seen it wrong."
With a click, the plum blossom hidden weapon in Mu Qianchen's hand suddenly became longer, revealing three claws. The sharp blade shone with a cold light under the refraction of the sunlight, which made people's hearts skip a beat.
"Qianli, search!"
"yes."
At Mu Qianchen's command, Qianli led two teams to search every corner of the Lu Mansion.
However, he did not go to Fangxingyuan.
That's not where he should be.
After a while, Qianli found a middle-aged man coming out. The man was wearing black clothes and a hat on his head. He was wrapped up tightly, but there was a strange smell of herbs on his body.
Qianli restrained him, tied him up with a rope, and threw him in front of Mu Qianchen.
"Sir, it's him. We've caught him."
Mu Qianchen watched as the man slashed out with a palm wind, knocking off the black hat on his head and revealing a face full of scars.
shocking!
Mu Qianchen placed one hand on the armrest of the armchair, supporting his forehead. His deep phoenix eyes moved gently, and a wicked smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Do you want to quibble?"
"How...is this possible?" The Second Madam was so frightened that her face turned pale and she couldn't speak clearly. "When did this thief hide in my Lu Mansion? How come no one found him?"
She knelt down and said, "The Lu Mansion has nothing to do with this thief. Please understand!"
"Heh..." Mu Qianchen withdrew his hand from supporting his forehead, straightened his clothes, and sat up straight. "Why didn't he go to another mansion, but chose to hide in the Lu Mansion?"
"You said the Lu Mansion had nothing to do with him. How can you prove your innocence?"
Mu Qianchen sat leisurely on the master's chair, speaking the most gentle words in a soft voice, but every word was like a knife scraping at people, making people terrified.
"I..." Madam Lu opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to refute. She looked at Lu Qingzhou and Gu Yunran for help: "Qingzhou Yunran, please say something."
Hearing the name, Mu Qianchen's eyes darkened and he glanced at Lu Qingzhou who was standing next to Gu Yunran. He lowered his head and hid behind the woman like a mouse.
"Coward!" Mu Qianchen sneered softly, his voice was low, but everyone present could hear it clearly.
Lu Qingzhou knew that he was scolding him, and a feeling of humiliation surged in his heart. His fists clenched so hard that they creaked, and he gritted his teeth and wanted to rush forward.
But as soon as he looked up, he met Mu Qianchen's bloodthirsty eyes. He was so scared that he retracted the foot he had just taken.
He reached out and tugged at Gu Yunran's sleeve. "We don't have any spies in the Lu Mansion. Lord Mu is just here to cause trouble. Since he looks at you differently, Yunran, go and plead for mercy on behalf of the Lu Mansion. Just one word from you, and he'll let us go."
Gu Yunran shook off Lu Qingzhou's sleeves, "How could I be so bold?"
"You think too highly of me."
Lu Qingzhou: "I saw you two together, and you're still trying to make excuses. Unless you don't want to help me or the Lu family."
Lu Qingzhou took a deep breath and looked at the children kneeling on the ground. "They are so young, and you can bear to watch them lose their heads?"
"Can I make him change his mind with just one word?"
Lu Qingzhou's face darkened and he sneered, "You've served him well, how could he disobey you?"
"You!" Gu Yunran was so angry that he laughed, "Shameless!"
In front of so many servants in the Lu Mansion, he actually said such shameless words.
Raising his hand, Gu Yunran slapped Lu Qingzhou. Lu Qingzhou seemed to be used to being beaten and had no reaction to the slap.
The servants all lowered their heads, pretending not to see, and the Dali Temple guards suppressed their laughter.
If it weren't for the presence of Lord Mu, they would have burst into laughter.
I have never seen a wimp like Lu Qingzhou in all my years.
Mu Qianchen held a hidden weapon in his hand, and looked at Gu Yunran with amusement in his beautiful phoenix eyes. His face quickly turned gloomy at one glance, and his expression was terribly gloomy because he saw the red finger marks on Gu Yunran's neck.
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