She looked at Xu Yan with resentment.
His daughter was also his flesh and blood, but this man was so cruel that he would not even let his daughter go in order to kill her.
Xu Yan took another deep look at Wei Wan and Xu Yao, mother and daughter, then took a step back while holding his son, and ordered calmly, "It's time for them to get going."
These words sounded like a death warrant.
Xu Yan couldn't help but look back in the direction the carriage came from, his dark eyes were gloomy and deep.
The torches around them only illuminated an area of a dozen feet in radius, and the distance was as dark as ink. The deserted wilderness was completely silent, and there was no one else except them.
On the way out of the city, Wei Wan said that Miss Gu had predicted that she and Xu Yao would die today.
At that time, he almost lost his composure, fearing that Wei Wan would become suspicious. Fortunately, Wei Wan was so stupid that she didn't believe it at all.
Thinking of this, Xu Yan pursed his thin lips into a straight line. He had to admit that the second Miss Gu was really capable.
"Yes, my lord." The bearded man answered loudly with a fierce look in his eyes. A hideous smile appeared at the corners of his lips. There were a few spots of bright red blood on his cheeks, which were very dazzling.
He raised his hand and swung the butcher knife high in the air. The sharp blade shone with a dazzling light in the firelight...
Taking advantage of the moment when the bearded man raised the knife, Wei Wan decisively hugged her daughter and rolled twice on the ground to avoid the powerful knife.
“Zheng!”
The bearded man's sword missed and hit the ground next to him hard, causing gravel to fly everywhere.
Wei Wan whispered in her daughter's ear: "Run, go find your uncle and aunt."
She grabbed a sword beside the body of the guard and quickly pushed her daughter towards the woods on the side of the road with her other hand, shouting hoarsely, "Go!"
She herself grabbed the blood-stained sword and rushed towards the bearded man, determined to fight to the death.
For the sake of her daughter, she would at least delay them for a moment.
“Zheng!”
The two swords collided violently, sparks flying.
Although Wei Wan was the daughter of a general, she was spoiled since childhood. She did not learn martial arts well and was not as strong as men. She felt numbness in her hands, but she still held the sword tightly, like a drowning person holding on to the last piece of driftwood.
Xu Yao, who was pushed out, staggered, her face full of tear marks, and she was choked with sobs.
The young girl also didn't understand why her father and brother wanted to kill her and her mother.
She shouted "Mom" again, gritted her teeth, turned around and ran in another direction.
Looking for uncle!
Ask my uncle to save my mother!
Xu Yan, who was not far away, frowned, thinking that these men were useless. He pulled off the jade pendant on his waist and threw it towards Xu Yao who was fleeing in a panic.
The jade pendant flew out rapidly and hit the girl's right shin bone steadily and accurately.
"Ah!" Xu Yao screamed in pain and fell to the ground, prostrating herself on the ground.
She was just a young child, and after falling, she couldn't get up for a while.
“De de de…”
Suddenly, faint sounds of horse hooves were heard from the southeast. They became clearer and clearer in the quiet night. The sounds were coming towards this side.
Xu Yan's face changed, and his first reaction was that someone from the Duke's Mansion might have noticed something was wrong, so they sent people to chase him.
After thinking about it again, he rejected this guess.
Judging from the sound of horse hooves, the person coming is only riding one horse. He definitely cannot be someone from the Duke's Mansion. Someone from the Duke's Mansion cannot come alone.
That must be a passerby who happened to pass by here... It can only be considered bad luck for this person who happened to pass by here.
Xu Yan had murderous intent in his heart, frowned tightly, and ordered sternly: "Hurry up!"
The other robber with a triangular face responded loudly and quickly chased in the direction of Xu Yao.
"Sister Yao!"
Wei Wan turned around in panic and looked in the direction of her daughter, shouting at the top of her lungs.
The long sword in her hand clashed with the bearded man's knife again, making a "clang" sound, and this time, the long sword flew out of her hand.
Wei Wan could no longer care about anything else. She watched helplessly as the robber with the triangular face approached the crawling girl in front of her, her heart breaking.
In an instant, the blood in her body turned cold and almost froze.
She regretted it.
She shouldn't be so conceited.
She shouldn't have ignored what Gu Yanfei had to say.
Gu Yanfei had clearly warned her.
Her daughter could have escaped death, but because of her...
She should have borne all this karma alone.
Behind her, the bearded man sneered and stabbed her from behind with a long knife. The knife was sharp and mercilessly stabbed into her thin back...
Wei Wan didn't blink, and clearly saw the relieved expression on Xu Yan's face. His gaze didn't shift at all, just staring straight at her, at Xu Yao.
She saw her favorite son looking at her impatiently, patting Xu Yan's shoulder and urging him to do something.
Anyway, Wei Wan was also dead, so Xu Yan withdrew his gaze, touched the top of Xu Luo's head with one hand, and comforted him softly: "Let's go."
The clattering sound of horse hooves from behind was getting closer and closer. Xu Yan turned around and returned to the carriage with his son in his arms, saying calmly, "Don't leave anybody alive."
“Whoosh!”
A feather arrow pierced the air in the dark night, shooting towards us from the direction where the sound of horse hooves came from, like lightning, carrying with it a sharp and fierce aura.
The arrow came from the southeast. Wei Wan saw it clearly. She watched without blinking as the arrow quickly passed by her arm and pierced through the right hand of the bearded man holding the knife.
"Ah!" The bearded man let out a shrill scream and let go of the knife in his hand.
The hand that was pierced by the sharp arrow was trembling and blood was oozing from the wound.
“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!”
Several arrows were shot out from the darkness. The second arrow entered the triangle-faced man's forehead and pierced his head. The third arrow pierced through the chest of a robber. The fourth arrow shot him in the throat...
These consecutive arrows were shot and each one hit the target.
As the robbers who were shot by arrows fell to the ground, the torches in their hands fell to the ground one by one, and the surroundings suddenly became much darker.
"Sister Yao." Wei Wan struggled and rushed over, hugging her disheveled daughter. The long knife stuck in her back fell to the ground as she moved.
Blood rapidly overflowed from the wound, staining the clothes on the back red, and blood dripped onto the ground "drip, drip".
What a tragic scene this is.
The little girl, who had been holding back her tears just now, burst into tears the moment her mother hugged her: "Mom, mom, mom..."
She called out "mother" over and over again, as if she could get infinite strength and comfort from this word.
Xu Yan, who was about to get on the carriage not far away, was shocked and his face changed drastically.
He quickly looked in the direction where the arrow came from, and saw a girl in a snow-blue dress riding a red horse walking towards him not far ahead, holding a longbow in her hand.
In this desolate wilderness, the beautiful and elegant girl seemed particularly out of place.
The night wind blew, lifting the girl's skirt and sleeves, making rustling sounds, which made her look refreshing and energetic.
Who is this? ! Xu Yan quickly put Xu Luo in his arms into the carriage, drew out the sword at his side, and looked at Gu Yanfei with a wary look.
He didn't recognize Gu Yanfei, but Wei Wan did. Her eyes lit up as she looked at Gu Yanfei, and an expression of incredible surprise appeared on her face.
It was her, it was actually her! Wei Wan's eyes were filled with tears.
Those were tears of survival. At this moment, she couldn't even feel the pain in her body.
Xu Yao touched her mother's back until her hands were covered in blood. She was still in shock and said in a trembling voice, "Mom, you are bleeding..."
"I'm fine." Wei Wan comforted her daughter softly.
She could feel her body getting colder and colder due to blood loss, but she tried hard to hold on.
Gu Yanfei rode his horse to the side of Wei Wan and Xu Yao, mother and daughter, looking calm and relaxed, but in his heart he felt relieved: he almost caught up with them.
The afternoon was full of twists and turns in the search for the mother and daughter.
First, Wei Wan left too hastily in anger, and the wife of Duke Weiguo failed to stop her at the ceremonial gate. Then she immediately sent someone to the Marquis of Ji'an's Mansion, but she was still a step too late.
The doorman of the Marquis's Mansion said that Wei Wan and his wife and the twins had just left, saying that they were going to Wushan Villa to stay for two days.
Therefore, the guards of the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion rode at full speed to Wushan Villa. However, they did not catch up with anyone along the way, and there was no one in Wushan Villa.
The guards had no choice but to return to the Duke's Mansion to report. Now, the Duke's wife was really anxious. She and the Duke of Wei went to the Gu Mansion together to ask Gu Yanfei for help.
"Sister, are you here to save us?" Xu Yao also remembered Gu Yanfei, and shouted with shining eyes.
"You are too hard to find." Gu Yanfei sighed casually.
It was impossible for her to know where they would go in advance, so she could only keep calculating along the way. After 78,000 detours, she finally found this desolate place where few people usually came.
The Arabian horse under her crotch barked twice proudly, as if saying, thanks to it.
It was indeed thanks to it. Gu Yanfei touched its slender neck.
Although……
Gu Yanfei's eyes quickly swept over Wei Wan, who was covered in blood.
Although the deathly aura on Wei Wan has not yet disappeared...
But finally, I caught up.
(End of this chapter)
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