Chapter 158 Xiao Xiuning commits suicide by jumping off a cliff.
The horse-drawn carriage hurried along the road.
Xiao Xuance's men secretly followed Xiao Xiuning.
They left a mark, and the mark was always along the main road.
We came to a fork in the road; the one on the right was the road back to the capital.
The path on the left leads to another place. Zhao Jiu didn't know which way to go, so he asked Xiao Xuance.
He lifted the curtain and looked, "To the left."
"drive!!"
As soon as they turned the corner, they saw a figure ahead. The figure was slender and clearly a woman. Zhao Jiu exclaimed excitedly, "I see her! She's right ahead!"
As he spoke, he cracked his whip on the horse's back and quickly rode forward.
Hearing the commotion behind her, Xiao Xiuning turned around and was shocked, her eyes widening in surprise. She hadn't expected them to catch up so quickly.
In a panic, he ran two more steps forward, the sound of horses' hooves growing ever closer.
She knew she couldn't outrun the carriage, so she slipped into a side path.
Zhao Jiu was in a hurry to catch up with the people in front, forgetting that there was a pregnant woman in the carriage. He drove faster and faster, causing the carriage to bump and jolt.
The wheel rolled over a pebble, the car tilted, and crashed!
Inside the carriage.
Yun Zhaoxue reacted quickly, grabbing the edge of the car window with one hand and supporting her stomach with the other.
At the same time, Xiao Xuance rushed over and pulled Yun Zhaoxue into his arms, one hand protecting the back of her head and pressing her against his chest, the other gently encircling her waist to prevent any collision. "Be careful!"
"I'm fine, don't worry."
Yun Zhaoxue felt that he treated her like a porcelain doll, as if the child would be hurt if she bumped or knocked.
Neither she nor her child were that fragile. In the original book, the original owner was tied up and humiliated by those beasts in the Qin family's villa, and she had to flee several times, but her child was still fine.
Zhao Jiu, focused only on chasing after the person outside, sped up in the taxi, the whip almost leaving afterimages as he swung it, yelling, "Giddy up, giddy up!!!"
The wheels slid along the mountain road, making a rumbling sound that broke the silence of the forest.
They completely forgot that there was a pregnant woman in the carriage.
Once the carriage was a little more stable, Xiao Xuance carefully released her and let her sit up, holding onto the edge of the window. "I'll go drive the carriage."
Xiao Xuance lifted the curtain, went out, grabbed the reins, pushed Zhao Jiu aside, tightened the reins, and slowed the carriage down to make it move smoothly.
His cold, stern tone carried a hint of anger: "If you can't drive, just say so! My wife is pregnant. If anything happens to her, I'll make you pay with your life!"
Zhao Jiu looked apologetically at Yun Zhaoxue, who had just emerged from behind the curtain.
"Princess Zhaoxue, I'm so sorry, I forgot you're pregnant. I saw the people ahead running faster and faster, and in my haste I..."
"It's nothing, where did they go?"
Zhao Jiu pointed to the figure moving through the woods ahead, "Over there! She's there."
"The road ahead is too narrow for the carriage to pass. Get out and give chase." Yun Zhaoxue jumped out of the carriage first, and Zhao Jiu followed.
Xiao Xuance, “…”
He had no choice but to abandon his car and give chase.
Zhao Jiu shouted, "Stop! Don't run!"
The more he shouted, the faster Xiao Xiuning ran.
Yun Zhaoxue patted his shoulder, "Stop shouting, split up and chase them! You two go left and right, I'll be in the middle."
The path they are walking on is in the middle, and there are forests on the sides.
They didn't expend any energy on the journey by carriage, but Xiao Xiuning, who had been running all the way, got tired and couldn't outrun them, so she was quickly caught up.
Startled, she ran to the left, but Zhao Jiu blocked her way on the left, while Xiao Xuance was right on the right.
She cried and begged Xiao Xuance to let her go, "Third Brother, please let me go, just this once!"
Xiao Xuance shook his head, "No!"
"Third brother, we are siblings, why are you forcing me like this?" Xiao Xiuning tried to break through from the side.
Xiao Xuance dodged and slapped her shoulder with his palm, "Bang!"
"Ah!" A sharp pain shot through his shoulder, followed by a powerful force that knocked him down, leaving him limp on the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.
"Bang!"
"Pfft, cough cough cough..." She suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, staring at Xiao Xuance in astonishment, "Third Brother, how could you hit me?"
She never imagined that one day, her older brother, with whom she had grown up, would do such a cruel thing to her.
"You were the one who wouldn't let us go first. Why did you mix arsenic into the grain? Who gave you permission to do that?"
Xiao Xiuning was taken aback. "Arsenic? I didn't put in arsenic. I put in a fake death drug. I did this to help you. By faking your death and escaping the exile group, you won't be exiled."
"Who gave you the medicine?"
She couldn't say, "I...I don't know, don't pressure me, I don't know..."
Yun Zhaoxue and Zhao Jiu also walked over. "Don't know, or don't you want to say?"
There are people on three sides.
Xiao Xiuning could only run to the other side, sprinting to the edge of the cliff, with pebbles flying at her feet.
She slammed on the brakes, nearly losing her balance and falling.
A pebble was kicked into the abyss, falling straight down without a sound.
In that instant, she felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her chest.
The three men approached her.
Yun Zhaoxue asked her, "You stole the token, who did you intend to give it to?"
"I didn't steal anything, I didn't steal anything."
"If you weren't feeling guilty, why would you leave the group in the middle of the night?"
Xiao Xiuning made up a reason: "Because I want to go back to the capital, back to the place where I grew up, back to the past. My adoptive mother, who watched me grow up, doesn't want me anymore, and my biological parents abandoned me in a time of crisis, leaving me to fend for myself. There is no place for me in this vast world."
So I want to go back to the capital, even if I have to die there. Third Brother, please have pity on me and let me go back to the capital. I really didn't mean to poison you; I wanted to help you.
Yun Zhaoxue said coldly, "You're lying! Hand over the token, go back and confess your crimes and accept punishment, don't drag us down with you."
Xiao Xiuning turned her gaze to her, her eyes instantly shifting from helplessness to hatred. She almost gritted her teeth as she said, "Confess and accept punishment? What crime have I committed? I'm just trying to drag you all down with me! I'd rather die today than go back and have you all whipped thirty times and beaten to death, hahaha!!!"
With that, she turned and leaped off the cliff, her figure quickly swallowed by the darkness.
Yun Zhaoxue looked at the vines on the cliff edge, her cold eyes narrowed slightly, and she turned around to draw Zhao Jiu's sword.
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