She pleaded in a pitiful voice, "Please, spare me! Even if you kill me, it won't do him any harm!"
"I am merely the wife of a prefect who exists in name only!"
"Think about it, what if I really am his beloved family member, or what if, as the rumors say, he is terrified of me!"
"Then your sister's tragedy wouldn't have happened!"
"I'm just a woman with a tragic fate!"
"When I met him, he was just an ordinary, poor scholar!"
"They don't even have the money for the trip to the exam!"
"Our family used all our assets to pave the way for him!"
"In the end, my parents died from overwork, and my younger brother continued to do those shady things for him and take the blame for him!"
"Look at me! I'm nothing more than a caged bird!"
"My brother and I are the villains; he will always be the good guy in everyone's eyes!"
"I hate it too!"
But I really have no other choice!
"I wanted to save those women too! But I just couldn't!"
She cried as she spoke!
It was as if she had truly said something extremely sad!
As Lin Ru listened to her sobbing, she silently calculated the time in her mind, and then she looked like she had been persuaded!
The pressure on her hands gradually eased!
However, we still need to confirm one last thing!
Is everything you're saying true?
"But these are completely different from what's being said outside!"
"I don't believe it!"
"The history of Mingming..."
She stopped abruptly, as if she had let something slip!
"I don't believe it!"
"Unless someone testifies for you!"
The prefect's wife clearly heard the word "Shi"!
And feeling the girl's grip loosen, he pressed on and said a few more words!
Lin Ru seemed to believe what she had said!
"Then I'll let you go today! But if I go back today, my master will say something different!"
"I will come back to take your head!"
After saying that, she broke through the window and jumped out!
After fighting with those few guards who had only a smattering of martial arts skills for a while, he ran towards the gate!
They were quickly left far behind, but once she could no longer see anyone behind her, she had to hurry back!
She was very careful throughout the journey!
The guards evaded many patrolling assassins!
When we got back to the courtyard, there seemed to be nothing unusual inside!
The man who was watching them was leaning against a tree with his eyes closed, seemingly asleep!
She held her breath and went back the way she came!
But by the time she climbed through the window and entered the house!
She could clearly sense that something was off about the atmosphere inside!
There seems to be an extra person inside! And there's a strong smell of blood!
She quickly gripped the dagger in her hand!
Once she adjusted to the light in the room, Wu Juan and Wu Yun slowly moved closer to her.
She then discovered that in the corner of the room, her mother was being held hostage by a masked man!
Lin Ru recognized the man at a glance—it was Bian Du, the one who escaped by breaking the window during the assassination attempt!
It turned out that Bian Du had discovered this small courtyard while he was escaping. Although there was a man watching from the tree, he was fast asleep, and the two guards at the door were also distracted!
Most importantly, only the back window of this room is open, so you can jump in without making a sound!
Unexpectedly, as soon as he went in, he saw a woman and sat up in surprise!
But when she finally saw the height and build of the person who came in!
They were quite surprised!
However, he seemed to be worried about something, so he didn't shout for help or make any noise!
Then two more people came in, and these two were also very coordinated, making no noise whatsoever!
He had a rough idea of what was going on. These people were definitely not as simple as they seemed on the surface. He wondered what they were doing behind the backs of the people in the prefect's mansion!
Bian Du pressed the knife against Bai's neck!
The two sides remained in a silent standoff.
Lin Ru put the dagger aside, raised her hands to show the other party that she meant no harm, and pointed outside!
Then slowly and tentatively move forward!
She moved forward little by little, while Bian Du gripped the hilt of his knife tightly with great tension!
Until I stood right in front of him!
Bian Du didn't make a move!
He knew that the woman in front of him was his only chance to survive. Even if he killed her, it would not benefit him. Moreover, he did not sense any malice from the girl.
More importantly, he didn't want to become like the governor, indiscriminately killing innocent people!
Lin Ru knew that the person in front of her was the one who killed Pang Da and assassinated the prefect, so she guessed his personality!
Now that I've seen her, I wasn't wrong!
She slowly squatted down!
He whispered six words very quietly!
"I know Ma Minghao!"
Bian Du's eyes suddenly widened. He really didn't expect that this little girl in front of him would actually know his silly brother!
He had no idea what his foolish brother was like now!
In order to gain immense trust and keep these people away from him so they wouldn't be implicated, he did many wrong things, pushing his brothers and relatives far away!
He felt himself getting weaker and weaker, and thought he was about to die. He had originally wanted to see them one last time before he died!
But I never expected that such an opportunity would not come!
So he slowly lowered the knife that was placed on Bai's neck!
He thought to himself, "That's it. If I leave sooner, I might be able to see the Commandant again on my way to the underworld!"
If this young girl in front of him really handed him over voluntarily, then it would be a matter of fate, after all, he couldn't let himself implicate others!
Lin Ru was a little surprised by his actions. She had originally intended to get closer to him, but she didn't expect that the man would give up resisting as soon as he heard Ma Minghao!
She didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble!
But let's save his life anyway!
She pulled her mother over!
Then he took out the porcelain bottle containing the sleeping potion from his pocket and waved it in front of his nose!
Bian Du simply let her do as she pleased, clearly having given up resisting! It's more likely that he lost too much blood and didn't have the strength to resist!
And that's how he got drugged!
Lin Ru quickly helped him up!
He pointed to the bloodstains on the ground at the three people inside the house, then hoisted him onto his shoulder and jumped out of the back window!
She had barely jumped out when she took the person into her spatial storage!
Then, a water pouch appeared from her spatial storage. It contained ordinary water, which she used to wash away the bloodstains on the back window and the grass.
As for why we don't use spiritual spring water?
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