Chapter 100: Wen Qingsong was blown to the point where half his body was covered in blood
Xie Guanlan paused and questioned, "Isn't that some kind of popular makeup?"
Wen Xingluo: “…”
Not at all!
After entering the prison, Wen Xingluo saw long gauze curtains hanging on both sides of the corridor to cover the dirty and bloody cells on both sides. It must have been arranged by Xie Guanlan.
As he walked through the corridor, Wen Xingluo smelled the air filled with rust and blood. Painful howls could be heard from each cell, and many prisoners cursed Xie Guanlan with extremely vicious words. However, the young man beside him had a normal expression, and his thin lips even raised with joy, as if he was a ferocious beast that fed on these negative emotions.
Wen Qingsong was imprisoned in the innermost cell.
As the jailer opened the iron cell door, Xie Guanlan hid in the shadows beside him, leaving the space for Wen Xingluo.
Wen Qingsong huddled in the corner, his body covered with whip marks. The most respectable man in his previous life was now in a dishevel and pitiful state.
He heard the noise and opened his eyes despite the pain.
Seeing the person stepping into the prison, his eyes lit up, "Xingluo?!"
He didn't know yet that his imprisonment was caused by Wen Xingluo.
"I've been locked up for a whole day and night, and your brothers and sisters haven't come to see me. I thought they were going to break off relations with me as their father!" Wen Qingsong sighed with emotion. "Now that I see you, I'm relieved. They must have been too busy running around pleading for me to visit, so they sent you to represent them. I knew they were all filial."
He continued to talk to himself, then glanced at Wen Xingluo with disdain, "You too, why didn't you bring me some clean clothes and some good food and wine? I'm a person who values dignity. How can I get out of prison like this?! Go ahead, tell Yue Yin to pick me up!"
Wen Xingluo looked at him and said, "Sister won't come."
Wen Qingsong frowned, "What do you mean?"
"Literally. Neither Wen Rufeng nor Wen Yueyin, nor the other two, will come to visit you. They're afraid your father will tarnish their reputation, and have already severed their father-son relationship with you."
Afraid that Wen Qingsong wouldn't believe it, Wen Xingluo handed him the notice that Cuicui brought back.
Wen Qingsong read it word by word, his eyes gradually turned red, and his hands trembled like sieves.
Wen Xingluo still looked at him.
The melon-shaped hat he usually wore was lost somewhere, and a few strands of white hair seemed to have grown on his temples in an instant. He always liked to straighten his back to show his official authority, but after reading the notice of severing relations, his back hunched at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Whether in the past life or this life, Wen Xingluo felt that although his father was profit-driven, he truly loved those four people.
Otherwise, why would a stingy man like him be willing to spend most of his salary to cultivate the three Wen Rufeng brothers and buy rouge, powder, silk and satin for Wen Yueyin?
Look, even though Wen Ruyun and Wen Yueyin squandered their family fortune in order to store grain, in the end he just let them off lightly and never really punished them.
Wen Xingluo will always remember that in her previous life, her marriage was taken away from her and she was locked up alone in a high-rise building, lying in front of the window and watching Wen Yueyin get married for her.
The father's face was full of reluctance. He wiped his tears and sent her off again and again, from the backyard to the gate of the mansion, and then chased the sedan chair, from the gate of the mansion to the bustling streets. His attitude of cherishing her was so great, as if he was treating a rare treasure that was unparalleled in the world.
What about her?
Who is she?
She is the most redundant person in the Wen family.
Wen Qingsong held the notice tightly in his hand, two lines of turbid tears rolling down his face, as if he had aged ten years in an instant.
After an unknown amount of time, he finally raised his sleeve to wipe away his tears and glared at Wen Xingluo resentfully, "Do you want me to know that you are more filial and sensible than them? You want me to regret loving the wrong person for the first half of my life! But I tell you, even if you begged the King of Zhenbei to let me go, I wouldn't even look at you! You've been scheming since you were a child. You must have deceived them into writing this notice of severing ties!"
Wen Xingluo said calmly, "These past few days, I've been wondering why I work so hard for my father, yet I don't receive your love. Why am I the youngest child in the family, yet I don't receive your pity? Is it really because I stole nutrients from my sister in the womb? I'm afraid not. After all, even I knew the truth about my sister's frailty from the old nanny, so how could my father, as the head of the family, not know it?"
She carefully studied the man's face, then arched her brows like a child. "I guess it's because I look more like my mother than my sister, right?"
Catching sight of Wen Qingsong's pupils suddenly shrinking, she knew she was right.
Although she and Wen Yueyin are twin sisters, people who are familiar with them can see that her eyebrows and body shape are more like her mother than Wen Yueyin.
"You resent your mother, so you pour all your hatred on me. You ruined my future and deprived me of my destiny. You deliberately acted out a father-daughter drama with Wen Yueyin in front of me, as if seeing me in pain was like seeing your mother in pain..." Wen Xingluo's voice was cold, "You get the pleasure of revenge from a child, Wen Qingsong, you are such a loser."
Wen Qingsong's eyes suddenly widened.
When his shameful thoughts were exposed by the person involved, his lips trembled and his whole body trembled.
He suddenly roared in anger and tried to strangle Wen Xingluo's neck.
Wen Xingluo dodged his hand and kicked him out.
The cold light of the dagger illuminated the girl's cold eyes.
Just as she was about to put an end to all the filth, Xie Guanlan, who had been hiding in the shadows, suddenly called out, "Wen Ningning."
Wen Xingluo's eyes were slightly cold, and she instantly noticed the dangerous warning in his voice.
Without hesitation, she lifted her skirt and turned away, heading straight for Xie Guanlan like a bird returning to its nest.
The moment she stepped out of the cell, the floor tiles of the cell suddenly exploded!
Xie Guanlan hugged Wen Xingluo tightly.
In the overwhelming dust, countless centipede hooks made of cold iron whistled towards the two of them!
Xie Guanlan drew out his narrow knife.
The blades collided, sparking brilliant sparks.
Wen Xingluo looked towards the prison cell.
Wen Qingsong's body was half covered in blood and one of his arms was completely broken, with only a thin layer of flesh still connecting him. Two masked men in black dragged him into the exploded hole and disappeared in an instant.
The remaining men in black were very skilled in martial arts and were obviously not masters that could be trained in the border area of Shu County. However, they did not want to fight and retreated after a brief fight with Xie Guanlan, opening the golden crossbows tied to their arms.
Wen Xingluo's expression changed.
She had seen these golden crossbows.
In her previous life, she had been at the royal hunting grounds with the prince, and had seen this kind of golden crossbow on the bodies of the palace masters. It was said that it was designed by an aide of the Eastern Palace. The aide had a mysterious origin, and his surname was also Xie. Everyone called him Third Master Xie.
"Be careful of the pear blossom needles!"
She reminded Xie Guanlan.
The next moment, the modified crossbow shot out countless torrential rain of pear blossom needles!
Xie Guanlan's expression remained calm, and the narrow knife in his hand was moving at its peak.
When all the pear blossom needles were knocked to the ground, the masters of the imperial palace had disappeared, and the cell was in a mess with only residual bloodstains left.
Xie Guanlan sheathed his sword and said calmly, "Ningning, have you seen the Golden Crossbow?"
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