Chapter 265: Dangers Abound
When Wen Wan screamed, Banyue, who was sleeping inside, also sat up with a somersault.
The little girl had never seen such a scene before and couldn't help feeling a little flustered.
Wen Wan didn't waste any time and directly ordered: "Ring the gong immediately."
Banyue came to his senses, suppressed his panic, got out of bed swiftly, grabbed the gong beside the bed and started to beat it.
The sound of the gong exploded in the night, not only waking up Wu Xiang and Xiaoshu in the next house, but also causing the surrounding neighbors to light their oil lamps.
Wu Xiang and Xiao Shu came over from the corridor, taking out the sticks they had prepared long ago.
Wen Wan opened the door and stood behind them.
The four men in black had no idea that they would be discovered the moment they broke into the yard.
The man in the lead was a martial artist. He took a few steps forward and rushed directly in front of Wu Xiang.
Wu Xiang roared and raised his stick to resist.
But the stick was no match for the long sword. The stick was cut off at the first encounter, and the long sword was easily placed on Wu Xiang's neck.
"No more gongs!"
The strong-dressed man looked at Banyue fiercely. Banyue was so scared that his face turned pale and he could hardly hold the gong in his hand.
Wen Wan cried timidly, "Don't kill my husband, brave man. You are just looking for money. You can take all our money."
"Husband?"
The strong-suited man's eyes narrowed as he looked at Wen Wan coldly, "He is your husband?"
Wen Wan nodded repeatedly and cried with her big belly.
"Of course he is my husband. I am eight months pregnant with his child. Hero, we have money. We will give you all our possessions, and you will spare our lives."
The pupils of the man in tight clothes shrank, and no one knew what he was thinking about. He lowered his head and looked at Wu Xiang again.
"She is your wife?"
Wu Xiang was confused and had no idea what was going on. He just instinctively nodded according to what Wen Wan had agreed upon before.
Upon hearing this, the strong-suited man said coldly, "What a pity! If you had told me earlier that you had a wife, if you had been willing to be content and not covet what you couldn't have, I wouldn't have dragged your whole family to their deaths in vain."
"What do you mean by that?" Wu Xiang's face was filled with shock. "Aren't you thieves looking for money?"
"Seeking wealth?" The man in tight clothes sneered, "How much are the belongings of a poor scholar like you worth?"
Wu Xiang was even more shocked and murmured, "If you don't want money, then what are you going to do?"
The strong-dressed man was too lazy to waste time talking to him and said, "Hand over my lady's jade pendant."
"Jade pendant?"
Wu Xiang was stunned at first, then he understood something. He now only had a valuable jade pendant on him.
His lady?
Wu Xiang's face turned pale instantly, and he asked in disbelief: "Are you from Tilan?"
When the strong-suited man heard the name, he slapped Wu Xiang in the face and said, "Tilan is my young lady's nickname, are you qualified to call her that?"
After a pause, the strong-dressed man continued, "Your Excellency is right. Keeping you here will always bring trouble. Not many people know my young lady's nickname. If you, a man from outside, tell it out, it will also cause trouble for the young lady."
After hearing this, Prime Minister Wu finally understood everything.
"Were you sent by Lord Zhao to kill me?"
In the eyes of the men in black, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled in this family were already doomed to die, so the strong-suited man didn't bother to hide it and admitted it directly.
"That's right. Hand over the young lady's jade pendant and we will leave your body intact." said the man in tight clothes.
Wu Xiang stared at the pale face. Even at this point, he still didn't give up and asked foolishly:
"You came to kill me, Tilan... No, does Zhao Qian know?"
He was so deeply in love that he wanted to get to the bottom of it even when he was dying.
The man in the tight-fitting suit's eyes flashed, and he sneered, "What do you think? If the young lady hadn't told us, how would we have known about the jade pendant?"
These words finally destroyed the last hope in Wu Xiang's heart.
He suddenly collapsed to the ground with a deathly pale face, staring blankly ahead with his eyes, like a walking corpse without a soul.
He muttered to himself, "Impossible, Tilan is not that kind of person, Tilan, Tilan..."
The strong-dressed man lost his patience when he saw that Wu Xiang was a little bit stupid, and he winked at his men.
The other two men in black stepped forward and searched Wu Xiang's body directly. After searching for a while, they could not find the jade pendant from Wu Xiang.
"I know where the jade pendant is."
Wenwan stroked her belly and spoke timidly.
The man in tight clothes looked over coldly, "Where is it?"
Wen Wan cried in fear, "Brave men, I'll give you the jade pendant. Can you please let us live?"
The mocking expression on the tight-fitting man's face flashed away, and he lied without blushing or breathing heavily, "Okay, as long as you hand over the jade pendant, we promise not to harm your lives."
Wen Wan pretended to be confused, "Really?"
The man in the suit: "Of course."
Wen Wan showed a delighted expression, "Then come in with me, I've hidden the jade pendant, I'll take you to get it."
The strong-dressed man asked suspiciously, "Should I go get it? Can't you just take it out?"
Wen Wan touched her belly and said, "I'm too pregnant and can't bend down. How about you let my maid go and let her get it?"
The man in the tight suit hesitated for a moment and said, "No, I'll go with you."
She's just a pregnant woman, what is he afraid of her doing?
Thinking of this, the strong-suited man followed Wen Wan into the room.
Wen Wan stood beside the bed and pointed under it, "I hid the jade pendant in the brocade box under the bed."
The man in tight clothes had a cold face. He asked Wen Wan to retreat to the door. After keeping some distance between them, he bent down to look under the bed.
There was indeed a black brocade box under the bed.
He knelt on the ground and reached out to take out the black brocade box.
He couldn't wait to open the brocade box, and a burst of fragrance hit his face. The fragrance was not very strong. He was focused on the jade pendant and didn't take it too seriously.
The jade pendant was indeed in the brocade box. He picked it up and put it in his arms.
The man in tight clothes showed a satisfied smile, holding a sword in one hand and a brocade box in the other, and walked slowly towards Wen Wan.
Wen Wan was so frightened when she saw the murderous intent in his eyes that she stepped back and retreated back out the door.
"Didn't you promise to spare our lives?"
The man in tight clothes walked to the door, laughing wildly, "You believe what I say? What an idiot."
After getting the jade pendant, the strong man immediately became murderous. He raised his sword and stabbed Wen Wan, completely ignoring the fact that she was pregnant. This one strike of the sword resulted in two deaths.
It is extremely cruel.
In that case...
Wen Wan no longer has any psychological burden.
As the strong-suited man approached, Wen Wan yelled, "Half Moon!"
Banyue gritted his teeth, shouted loudly, and raised the gong in his hand to hit the man in strong clothes.
"court death!"
The strong-suited man didn't take the tickling attack of a woman seriously at all. He turned the tip of his sword and stabbed towards the crescent moon.
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