Chapter 428 The Sharpest Knife

Bai Qianqian still remembers the appearance of the young man in her dream: gloomy, cruel, and cold-blooded with a disregard for life.

But he was slightly different from the young man in front of him.

The moment those hooligans saw the young man, they stopped almost at the same time and hid aside in fear.

Liu Zi was being twisted by him and couldn't move. The moment he saw him clearly, he couldn't help but curse at him.

"Xiang Tian! It's you again, little bastard! How dare you...ah!"

Before he could finish cursing, Xiang Tian had already exerted a little force with a stern face. The gangster named Liuzi screamed in pain, but changed his words in an instant.

"Brother Tian! Brother Tian! Stop...if you move again, you'll break! I'm wrong, is it okay if I'm wrong?"

Xiang Tian glanced at him with contempt in his eyes. Before his hand almost broke, he finally let him go and pushed him aside.

"I told you not to cause trouble in this alley. Get lost."

He is obviously just a boy of seventeen or eighteen, but he has an aura that makes people dare not look down on him.

Those hooligans had suffered many losses at his hands, so they didn't dare to confront him head-on. They just looked at the jewelry scattered all over the floor, glared at him with some reluctance and hatred, and then... ran away in shame.

Bai Qianqian watched them run away, and finally her body went limp, she slid down to sit on the ground, raised her eyes, looked at Xiang Tian in front of her, hid the extremely complicated feelings in her heart, and said in a trembling voice,

"Thank you very much."

Xiang Tian just glanced coldly at the wolf-like Wang Shouxian next to him and said, "His eyes need to be washed with oil."

Then he looked at Bai Qianqian, his face expressionless, and added, "This is not a place for people like you. Get out of here."

He stopped talking and without giving her a chance to continue, he turned around, picked up a paper bag containing sugar-roasted chestnuts from the ground beside him, and turned into another alley.

They don't want to repay the favor, and they are unwilling to pay any attention to them.

Bai Qianqian looked at his back and frowned slightly.

Until Wang Shouxian reluctantly moved in front of her and knelt down, "I am incompetent and have frightened... Madam."

Bai Qianqian retracted her gaze and looked back at Wang Shouxian. She resisted the urge to scold him for being useless and personally stepped forward to help him up. Her voice was full of helplessness, "It's not your fault."

Wang Shouxian couldn't see her expression, but just heard her words and felt extremely guilty. If the prince knew that he had put the queen in such a situation, he would be afraid that his life would be in danger.

I swore to myself that when he got better, I would find those bastards and avenge my queen!

Bai Qianqian got off to a bad start and could only take everyone back to the inn.

However, she came here specifically for Xiang Tian, ​​so she couldn't just let it go like that. At noon the next day, she changed into coarse cloth clothes again and went to the location of Xiang's family that Wang Shouxian had previously investigated in a low-key manner.

Xiang Tian just got off work and went home for dinner. Bai Qianqian saw the boy from a distance. He originally had an indifferent expression. He stood in front of the old wooden door and adjusted his expression. Then he pushed the door open and walked in. He raised his voice and said, "Dad, Mom, I'm back. I brought roasted chicken legs today."

Bai Qianqian knew that Xiang Tian was always sensitive, so she didn't dare to get close to see what was happening. She just listened to what was happening over there through the courtyard wall.

I heard a lady's gentle voice from the other side of the courtyard wall, "Why are you wasting money again? I haven't finished eating the chestnuts from yesterday."

"That's different." The boy said, "This is a side dish. Mom likes roast chicken."

"Hey, it's only given to your mother, not to your father." An old man teased with a smile.

The boy seemed embarrassed, "My parents eat it."

The old lady couldn't help laughing, "Don't listen to your father, he just loves to tease you, give me the chicken leg, go wash your hands and eat."

Just by listening to the voices, you can tell that it is a happy family of three.

After hearing this, Bai Qianqian immediately lost interest and left the alley with Wang Shouxian.

In her dream, Xiang Tian was raised by a killer and had extraordinary martial arts skills. However, his adoptive father was killed when Xiang Tian was twelve years old. Xiang Tian was almost killed and escaped to Yonghe Town after many hardships. He was unexpectedly adopted by a couple in the town.

It is this couple today.

They originally had a daughter, and Xiang Tian treated this sister very well. However, she suddenly disappeared three years ago and her whereabouts are unknown. Now there are only three of them left to depend on each other.

According to his memory, Xiang Tian's family must have encountered a misfortune on New Year's Eve. When he returned home, he unexpectedly found two elderly people dead at home. This was because he accidentally offended the son of the county magistrate. That person brought people to his house to block him, but accidentally killed his parents.

Xiang Tian witnessed his parents being killed, so he rushed into the county government alone and killed 19 people including the son of the county magistrate. He was also seriously injured. He was then wanted and fled, wandering around until March, when he was accidentally rescued by her when she was ordered by the emperor to leave the palace to pray for the people. From then on, he devoted his loyalty to her.

In order to stay by her side and protect her at all times, he even castrated himself and served as a eunuch to guard her, becoming the sharpest knife in her hand.

And now, she is about to hold the knife in her hand again.

But Bai Qianqian also knew that with Helian Yue's current attitude towards her, even if she could return to the palace smoothly, she might not have the opportunity to leave the palace to pray on behalf of the concubines in March next year.

The only time for her is now.

Thinking of this, Bai Qianqian had made up her mind.

He turned around and told Wang Shouxian who was standing beside him,

"I want you to plot against Xiang Tian and the son of the county magistrate. Within seven days, kill Xiang Tian's adoptive parents and then pin the blame on the son of the county magistrate."

When Wang Shouxian heard Bai Qianqian's words, he thought he had heard it wrongly and asked her uncertainly,

"Madam, do you have a grudge against the county magistrate's son?"

If there is a grudge, just ask him to deal with that person secretly. Why go to so much trouble?

"No." Bai Qianqian glanced at Wang Shouxian and spoke calmly.

Wang Shouxian's throat was hoarse, as if he had something to say. After a long while, he could only utter one sentence, "Then why..."

Not to mention that the couple was innocent, Xiang Tian...had saved them yesterday.

Bai Qianqian ignored Wang Shouxian's confusion. Her tone was still calm and even a little tactful. She said, "Because I want Xiang Tian to be mine."

He was destined to fall to the bottom, and what she was doing now was just pushing him forward in advance.

As for saving her...

If she hadn't come to look for him yesterday, why would she have been humiliated by those hooligans? She didn't hate him, which was already a sign of her tolerance.

Since Xiang Tian was destined to be used by her, what she was saying now was nothing more than ending everything in advance.

Wang Shouxian looked at the faint smile on her lips and realized for the first time that this woman, who was always praised by everyone and even described by the prince as extremely kind and gentle, might not be what they thought...

But he couldn't object.

He was ordered by the prince to do her bidding, and there was no way out for him.

I could only nod and answer solemnly, "Yes."

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