Chapter 321 Suspicion
It's a lilac!
How did she end up here?
Lu Qingqing's face turned red from holding her breath, and she couldn't spare any more energy to think; the knife was about to touch her neck.
Just a simple swipe—
"Bang!"
The approaching force suddenly loosened.
The man's eyes bulged out as he stared intently at Lu Qingqing.
Blood began to flow down his forehead.
Lu Qingqing tilted the knife handle and slashed his neck again.
The man is completely dead.
Lu Qingqing lifted his arm.
Aside from the excruciating pain from her almost broken hand, her stomach was also cramping from the pressure of this jerk's knee against it.
She sat on the ground for a while before looking up at Dingxiang.
Dingxiang had a pale face, prominent cheekbones, and was extremely thin, as if she had just recovered from a serious illness.
She was holding a hammer, and her hands were still trembling.
Another young man emerged from the door, waving frantically at her: "Come back, come back!"
"Him...the man you just found?" Lu Qingqing asked.
"No... I'm just staying temporarily."
Lu Qingqing didn't think the man was a bad person, and she seemed very worried about Dingxiang.
"Thank you for earlier. The city is chaotic, you should hide. After this period, go back to the village. You're raising the child alone, so don't wander around anymore."
Lu Qingqing patted her bottom and stood up.
The clothes were stained with blood again, and even black couldn't hide it; I had to change them again.
“The child is gone…” Dingxiang turned around.
Lu Qingqing was stunned for a moment.
"Once they're gone, they've gone back to heaven. They'll be reborn in your womb again next time. Once they decide who will be their mother, they'll go through a long and complicated relationship with that person."
If the connection isn't strong enough, it will come back.
Is there another way to say this?
Tears streamed down Dingxiang's face like a burst dam.
Although she kept telling herself that the child, with such a father, was destined to die young.
But in reality, that was just an excuse for her to comfort herself.
If she hadn't taken any pregnancy-changing pills, the baby would have been healthy and wouldn't have died!
If she could do it all over again, she definitely wouldn't eat it; she would cherish it whether it was a boy or a girl.
She always felt like she had a stone weighing on her heart, because she was carrying the weight of her own son's life.
Now, Lu Qingqing says he will come back...
It felt like a ray of light had shone into my heart.
"Really?"
"Really, go inside quickly. I'll get someone to dispose of the body. Don't forget to go home once things are settled."
After Lu Qingqing finished speaking, she was about to leave.
"Lu Qingqing, can my life start over?"
"You've started over."
Forget the past, let bygones be bygones.
Let's start over!
Look ahead and keep moving forward.
...
The deputy general led his men to escort Magistrate Xu to the place where he had hidden grain and the silver he had secretly hoarded.
We've been traveling for most of the day since leaving the city, and we still haven't arrived!
"Xu Hengzhi, how much further is it?"
"It's just ahead. See that temple? It's in a cave on the mountain behind it."
Two hundred men were lying in ambush on the back mountain, specifically to deal with them!
That mountain has a very dense pine forest.
The lieutenant was momentarily on guard.
But then I thought, they came to Ming'an County without warning, and immediately took control of the city gates and towns. Ming'an County is not a military area, there are no troops to defend it, and the yamen runners only numbered more than thirty. What danger could there be?
However, even as he looked at that place, he still didn't want to set foot there.
"You all follow me, I'll wait here!" he commanded his men.
Xu Hengzhi: "Waiting for what? Waiting to reap the rewards without sowing?"
"Xu Hengzhi! You're asking for death!"
Magistrate Xu muttered, "Go if you want, don't go if you don't!"
He called out to his men, "Come with me, all of you. There's plenty of grain; I'm afraid you won't be able to carry it all!"
Anyway, we'll kill as many as we can. After today, they'll probably realize something's wrong.
Magistrate Xu led about half of his sixty-odd men up the mountain.
After he left, the deputy general felt that something was wrong.
After thinking for a long time and looking at it for a long time, he was suddenly shocked!
The mountains and forests in Ming'an County are almost all connected. He seemed to have seen that temple when he entered the city, from the other side!
Xu Hengzhi led them on a huge loop!
"Oh no, we've been tricked!"
"Xu Hengzhi, you just wait!"
It seems like Xu Hengzhi has been leading me around for quite a while today. I wonder if all those guys have gone back yet!
The lieutenant led the remaining men and hurriedly ran back.
Another half hour passed before the city gate finally came into view.
However, something seemed off about the campsite set up here; it was incredibly noisy.
"Commander Meng, what's wrong? What happened!" the deputy general shouted sternly.
"General, a group of wealthy gentlemen just arrived, bringing a lot of food to the military camp with gongs and drums. They want us to be lenient with them and not make things difficult for them. They even said they are willing to give up half of their wealth."
The lieutenant's voice was cheerful, as if he could already see the food problem solved and a windfall coming his way.
"What food did you send? Did you check it?"
"General, rest assured, we've checked it with silver needles and fed the dog. Look, the dog is still lively and energetic!"
The lieutenant, who had been feeling uneasy and inexplicably panicked, was relieved to see this.
"Unfortunately, there were still too few to give out, so I only distributed them according to rank."
General, I've saved quite a bit for you. Would you like some? There's roast chicken and pig's head.
"No, no, are all the people back? Have they been counted?"
The adjutant lowered his head.
"General..."
"None of the people we sent out have returned."
"We currently have 21,000 troops..."
The deputy general was furious; that unease was starting to resurface.
"General, without a great general in charge, the morale of the army is unstable. They all think we are deserters and can't return to the capital."
The adjutant said this while keeping his eyes fixed on the deputy general; he was actually testing him.
The deputy general was not worried about that.
"Send more people out to find someone, send trusted confidants... no, wait, don't go, don't make any more moves."
"Let me go find the General and come back first!"
The lieutenant was unsettled and dared not think any further, nor could he bear that responsibility!
He would rather those people disregarded the law and didn't want to come back!
I had originally wanted the general and his wife to spend a few more days together, but now I have no choice but to go and disturb them.
The adjutant said with difficulty, "When those local gentry came earlier, I couldn't find the general, so I went to the Jiang residence to ask for instructions. The general... was concerned about his injured wife and scolded me severely, saying that I shouldn't bother him unless it was an important matter."
"The lady is injured? Injury is unacceptable; I must see the General!"
The deputy general went to the Jiang residence without stopping.
On his way here, he seemed to smell a strong stench of blood in the air.
It was as if countless eyes were watching him from the shadows.
However, he found no bloodstains or any suspicious persons.
At most, some timid vendors would be so frightened by him that they would hide under their stalls.
What exactly is the situation in this Ming'an City?
Or is he just paranoid?
Perhaps there was a traitor in the army who gathered people together and wanted to defect!
"General, I have important news to report!" the lieutenant shouted from outside the door.
"ah--"
A sharp cry of pain came from inside the house.
Then, the sound of a man cursing was heard.
An inkstone flew out and nearly hit the deputy general on the head.
Inside the room, the woman had a large cut on her finger, and blood was flowing out.
The man habitually took her finger into his mouth.
However, he vomited it up very quickly.
Even the blood tasted different...
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