However, they did not expect that while resting by a forest in the mountains at noon, they would encounter a group of assassins.
Those people, wearing black masks and disguised as bandits, were robbing the carriage, but they only aimed to stab at the carriage side. Yan Yu knew that these people were probably after her eldest sister.
Having faced numerous assassination attempts while following his elder sister, he was adept at handling them. However, Zhou Quan was a man with little time to spare, and he was momentarily stunned when suddenly confronted with a robbery by bandits. But when he saw that the bandits were not only robbing him but also raising their swords to stab into the carriage, he knew that things might not be so simple.
However, before these people could even get close to the carriage, two figures suddenly flew out from behind the curtain. One attacked them, while the other rushed directly at a coachman, throwing him into the carriage. She herself also produced a short sword and flew towards them again.
A dozen assassins disguised as bandits, determined to kill, turned their attention to Lady Yu when they saw that Li Mai didn't seem to intend to kill them.
Li Mai followed after them, her back to Madam Yu. She asked, "Sister, are these people here to kill you? Are they going to spare your life?"
Seeing this, Li Mai felt that it was impossible for him not to start a killing spree; these people were going to kill the fisherwoman.
"Kill! I know whose people they are!" At this moment, Madam Yu no longer pretended to be weak. She held a scale whip in her hand, and with a flick of her wrist, the whip suddenly changed again. The scales suddenly turned into small knife tips. If this whip hit someone, they would be severely injured, if not killed.
Li Mai thought to herself, "So the whip in the fisherwoman's hand is a treasure. It seems that her identity is probably not simple."
Without further hesitation, as Li Mai flipped her wrist, a dagger blade popped out from the back of the hilt, and Li Mai instantly charged into the midst of the assassins.
With Yan Yu's martial arts skills being quite good, they quickly dealt with the entire group of assassins.
"Yan Yu, go and deal with the body!" Madam Yu said, then walked towards Li Mai. "I'm sorry, sister, I've made you get blood on your hands too."
Li Mai sighed, "It's alright, we can't just stand by and watch our sister in trouble without helping her."
Now, without anyone else visiting her, Li Mai knows that once she starts killing, her soul will no longer be a pure color.
Now she completely understood why the Fisherwoman's soul was the color and state she had seen.
It's likely that she has faced numerous assassination attempts over the years and has personally dealt with many such assassins.
"Go check on your husband in the carriage, don't frighten him," Madam Yu said softly.
Zhou Quan is an ordinary person, and she can sense how scared an ordinary person would be in such a situation.
Li Mai responded. She was actually a little uneasy, but when she encountered danger, she instinctively put Zhou Quan into the carriage. In fact, the moment he got into the carriage, she put him into her spatial storage.
She was worried that the assassins would try to stab the carriage with their swords, and she absolutely could not let Zhou Quan encounter any danger.
At that moment, as Li Mai entered the carriage, she released Zhou Quan with a thought.
"It's alright now!"
Are you alright?
The moment their eyes met, words of concern for each other slipped out.
Zhou Quan was in a daze when Li Mai took him into her space. He immediately panicked and paced around anxiously inside, but he couldn't get out and could only wait for Li Mai to let him out.
"I'm fine. The outside has been cleaned up. I'm sorry, were you frightened?" Li Mai quickly said.
"No, I'm not afraid, I'm just afraid of being a burden to you." Zhou Quan shook his head.
“Then let’s go down first. Yan Yu is dealing with the body,” Li Mai said.
“Okay!” When Zhou Quan got off the carriage with her, he saw Yan Yu dragging the corpses and throwing them into the woods in piles.
Zhou Quan: ......
When Madam Yu saw the two men come down, she smiled apologetically at Zhou Quan, "I'm sorry, they were assassins arranged by my enemies. Did they frighten you?"
Zhou Quan shook his head. "I know that Xiaomai knows kung fu. Apart from worrying about her safety, I'm not afraid of anything else."
Upon hearing this, Li Mai secretly pinched his arm. This guy really doesn't know how to talk. In front of Madam Yu, who has lost her husband and child, saying that he only worries about himself, isn't that making her even more heartbroken?
Zhou Quan glanced at Madam Yu and immediately understood why his wife had pinched him. He quickly coughed lightly to smooth things over, "Sister Yu, I'm sorry."
Seeing his submissive demeanor in front of his wife, Madam Yu chuckled. "What are you apologizing for? She's your wife, it's only natural that you're worried about her. This makes me even more convinced that my sister's choice of you as her husband was a good thing. I apologize for what happened today. After Yan Yu finishes dealing with this, we'll go to Xiabei Town to stay another day and get some rest."
Zhou Quan nodded in agreement.
"I'll go help!" he said, squeezing Li Mai's hand before picking up an assassin and throwing him into the woods.
After the corpses were piled up, Yan Yu took out a small porcelain bottle from her embroidered pocket and sprinkled it on the corpses.
The next moment, the corpses began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Zhou Quan had truly broadened his horizons. He looked at Yan Yu in disbelief, "What is this thing that's so powerful?"
"Corpse-dissolving powder," Yan Yu said confidently, pulling Zhou Quan to stand upwind.
Standing downwind, you can smell the stench of burning corpses.
Li Mai saw it from afar; it was the first time she had ever seen a powder that could dissolve a corpse.
She ran over to take a look, and happened to be standing downwind. Immediately, a strong stench of corpses filled her nose.
vomit!
Li Mai couldn't help but gag a few times.
Zhou Quan followed her and took her hand, leading her back to the carriage.
The fisherwoman stood quietly to the side, her thoughts already drifting far away.
Once upon a time, she was a kind-hearted person who would want to help injured cats and dogs. However, reality gradually taught her that the world is not kind. Even family members might turn against her for profit, and they might kill the person most important to her for some intangible thing.
When she saw her husband, children, and cold corpses, she killed for the first time. She killed many people that day, but after killing off her enemies several times, her husband and children would never come back.
Her closest loved ones are no longer with her.
But now that several years have passed, they still can't let go of me. Even though I'm far away now, are they still so worried about me?
It seems that sometimes, even if she doesn't compete or fight for certain things and stays away from that circle, she won't have peace, because their goal isn't for her to stay away, but for her to die so as to eliminate any future troubles.
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