Aunt Sun lowered her eyes and glanced at the dagger on her neck. She knew she had no choice but to agree.
Zhu Lan took out two pills, one large and one small. She had asked Qingdai to take the prescription and find a pharmacy to prepare them.
Among them, there are one or two extremely hard-to-find ingredients, which are often regarded as the most precious treasures in the drugstores. If Lu Zhiyi had not stepped in, I'm afraid the owner of the drugstore in this town would not have been willing to take them out.
"This medicine is harmless to the human body. After taking it, you will temporarily stop breathing and wake up after two hours."
Aunt Sun looked at the two pills warily, obviously distrustful.
"How do I know you won't hurt us?"
Zhu Lan didn't have time to explain to her, "You have no choice."
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After an incense stick of time, the man in black came to the carriage again.
"Sir, that Zhu Yu has come out."
Li Mao's voice came: "Where is the child?"
"I didn't see it. She was alone when she left."
Li Mao seemed very satisfied, and said leisurely:
"Well, take the token and go in and bring the child out.
The surname Zhu was rejected on that day, and when she came back the next day, it was too late, haha..."
The man in black, along with two of his companions, sneaked up to Aunt Sun's door under the cover of darkness and knocked on it, but there was no response for a long time.
The three of them looked at each other, felt something was wrong, and pushed the door hard.
The door was not locked and was pushed open immediately.
In the room, Aunt Sun and Yan Tiao fell to the ground, with blood flowing from their mouths and noses, as if they were poisoned.
When the three men in black saw this scene, they were dumbfounded.
A man walked up quickly, felt the pulse of the two people on the ground, and shook his head.
The three of them looked at each other in bewilderment. No one had expected that Zhu Lan, as the Chief Censor of the imperial court, would actually do such a thing as murder and silencing someone!
Li Mao got the news in the carriage and pulled the curtain open in shock:
“Dead!?”
The leading man in black was originally a subordinate of Li Zhengqing, and this time he was assigned to help Li Mao.
He had long been dissatisfied with this uneducated young man.
The group had already arrived at Qingxi Town yesterday. Wouldn't it have been better if they had acted earlier, or simply snatched Yan Tiao away from the neighbor in the afternoon?
Even if the matter is brought to the government, the owner will take action to settle it.
But this guy Li Mao, for some reason, had the confidence to say that people like Zhu Lan, who claimed to be righteous, would definitely find a way to appeal to Aunt Sun's emotions and reason to persuade her to hand over Yan Tiao, and would not resort to extreme measures.
Because of what he said, they waited until Zhu Lan left at night before taking action.
As a result, he was one step too late and ruined his master's plan!
Seeing Li Maoru's lightning-struck look, the man in black knew that he couldn't expect him to come up with any good ideas, so he said:
"Now that things have come to this, let's follow our rules. To be on the safe side, I will go back and make the matter official.
Then I will send a message to the master to see what he will do next."
Li Mao nodded woodenly. The man in black glanced at him sideways and returned to Aunt Sun's house.
The bodies of Aunt Sun and Yan Tiao were still lying quietly on the ground.
The man in black checked around the house and made sure there were no other clues left, so he drew his knife and pointed it at Aunt Sun's body.
Qingdai, hiding on the beam, watched the scene in front of her.
Zhu Lan had previously worried that these people were ruthless and would not give up even after seeing the corpse, so he might choose to kill him again.
So Qingdai was asked to stay. If this situation happened, Aunt Sun and Yan Tiao must be saved at all costs.
As long as we make a big noise and attract the government officials, those shady killers will naturally retreat.
Seeing that the sharp knife had been raised high, Qingdai was about to take action, but suddenly heard chaotic footsteps coming from outside.
Someone shouted, "The government is investigating a case, please get out of the way."
The man in black obviously didn't expect this. He paused and swiftly escaped through the window.
Qingdai also left quietly, in the opposite direction of the man in black.
Soon, the door of Aunt Sun's room was suddenly pushed open. A man who looked like a constable was standing at the door. He was obviously surprised when he saw the scene inside the room.
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