When Linghu Yunlong arrived at Aunt Wang's house, it was already late and the door was wide open.
As soon as he entered the room, a bloody smell hit him. Linghu Yunlong felt a chill in his heart. If Qin Shufen and her son had been murdered, there would be no evidence.
As a chivalrous warrior, he was accustomed to seeing revenge killings and family exterminations. He followed the smell of blood and saw a woman's feet lying behind the door.
Linghu Yunlong walked over and saw a bloody mark on Aunt Wang's neck. Her eyes were wide open, and she must have died with her eyes open.
Aunt Wang was dead, apparently killed by the housekeeper of the Prince Consort's residence. Aunt Wang's house was not large, and Linghu Yunlong searched around. He didn't find the bodies of Qin Shufen and her son, and his tense heart relaxed a little.
Suddenly Linghu Yunlong discovered a wooden ladder on the east side of the house, which was leaning against the wall.
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Qin Shufen woke up and found that Aunt Wang was gone. She remembered what Qi Bin said last night and the look Aunt Wang had given her. She thought to herself that something was wrong and hurried out of the yard and ran towards the gate.
Qin Shufen exerted force with both hands, but the door didn't move at all. She knew it was locked from the outside.
"Bin'er, Cui'er! Come quickly!" Qin Shufen shouted anxiously.
"mother!"
"mother!"
Qi Bin and Qi Cuihua rushed to Qin Shufen, who was terrified. She knew that Aunt Wang had gone to the authorities. If the officials arrived, they would surely investigate her and possibly send her to the capital. Young Master Zhao was sending someone looking for her. If they encountered him, the emperor would know that Qi Zhiyan had defrauded the emperor and would sentence him to death.
When a woman is stupid, she is so abominable. Even though Qi Zhiyan treated her so badly, Qin Shufen still couldn't bear to watch her former husband die. She could only hide, hide from Zhao Huan's people.
Suddenly, she spotted a wooden ladder at the edge of the yard. Qin Shufen didn't care about anything else at the moment. She set up the ladder and pushed Qi Bin and Qi Cuihua onto it: "Hurry! Climb up!"
The two children climbed to the top of the wall, and Qin Shufen followed behind.
"Mom, I'm scared!" When he reached the top of the wall, Qi Bin was a little timid. After all, he was only a child of four or five years old.
Qin Shufen stepped onto the ladder and climbed up. She held Qi Bin and placed him on the top of the wall, then pulled Qi Cuihua up.
The mother and her two children rode on the top of the wall. Qin Shufen pulled the ladder hard and put it outside the wall. She picked up Qi Bin, climbed over the ladder and escaped from Aunt Wang's yard.
Qi Cuihua, now seven or eight years old, climbed down the ladder on her own. Qin Shufen, holding the hands of her two children, began her sprint again.
When Aunt Wang returned home, she saw the ladder on the wall and understood everything. She slapped her thigh and said, "Oh, how could I forget this?"
Just as he finished speaking, a hunchbacked old man flashed past behind him and came into the yard.
Aunt Wang was startled: "Who are you? What do you do?"
Yu Rentong did not notice the ladder outside the yard. He ran straight into the house. He thought Qin Shufen and her son should be in the house.
If someone breaks into anyone's home for no reason and treats you like air, you can't help but feel angry.
Aunt Wang rushed into the house angrily and pointed at Yu Rentong: "You short hunchback, how dare you break into my house..."
Before she could finish her words, Yu Rentong turned his head and gave her a sinister look.
Yu Rentong's eyes were too scary, vicious, cruel and ferocious. Aunt Wang was frightened and turned around to run out of the house.
With a flash of cold light, Yu Rentong sheathed the scimitar at his waist, and Aunt Wang's steps froze.
Yu Rentong didn't even look at her and walked out of the house. He had already found that there was no trace of Qin Shufen and her son in the house. After walking out of the house, Yu Rentong finally saw the ladder outside the courtyard wall.
Just as Yu Rentong walked out of the house, Aunt Wang fell straight behind the door, with blood oozing from the wound on her neck. It must have been caused by a sharp knife.
Qin Shufen held the two children's hands and ran, exhausted and out of breath, until they finally reached a bamboo forest outside the city.
The three of them finally stopped. It looked like no one would follow them here.
Qin Shufen felt relieved. Although the two children didn't understand what was going on, they knew that what had happened must have been very dangerous.
Bamboo leaves rustled behind her. "Mom, look!" Qi Cuihua pointed behind her.
Qin Shufen turned around and saw a hunchbacked dwarf running towards her at an incredible speed.
It was obvious that the short hunchback was running towards her. Qin Shufen was shocked: "Run!" She grabbed the hands of the two children and ran wildly.
But the short hunchback was too fast. Even though he was hunched over, he ran seven or eight steps in the blink of an eye.
The distance between the mother and her two children and Yu Rentong was getting smaller and smaller, and finally Yu Rentong caught up with them.
Qin Shufen looked back and was immediately frightened to death, but she still wanted to continue running.
Yu Rentong leaped up, passed lightly over the heads of the three people, drew out his dagger and pointed it at Qin Shufen and her son.
Only then did Qin Shufen see clearly that this person was the hunchback she had seen outside the Prince Consort's Mansion.
Qin Shufen had once gone to the Prince Consort's residence to look for Qi Zhiyan, but fortunately, Princess Dexin had gone to the palace at the time. When Qi Zhiyan saw Qin Shufen outside the residence, she was immediately frightened and turned pale. She quickly drove the three of them, along with her mother, away.
Because at that time Yu Rentong was walking towards the door from the Prince Consort's Mansion, when Qi Zhiyan drove Qin Shufen away, Yu Rentong did not see her, but she saw Yu Rentong, the hunchback. At that time, she was surprised why the Prince Consort's Mansion would keep a hunchback.
Although Qin Shufen was also afraid of encountering Linghu Yunlong, she knew even more clearly what the consequences would be if she ran into this hunchback. She pulled the two children behind her and backed away step by step.
Yu Rentong looked straight ahead, holding a dagger in his hand and moving forward step by step.
"You, what do you want to do?" Qin Shufen was frightened and her face turned pale.
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