After listening to the description, Qi Heng never imagined that these murders could be committed by a woman.
"In addition, Mrs. Xu, as a helper in the water house, can completely deceive others by going in and out of the front yard and back yard at night. When Liu Shangshu and others fainted, Mrs. Xu calculated the right time and came to Yiyuan, and
He drove the water tanker to the foot of the tree, lifted the person on top of the tanker, and pretended to hang himself."
She narrated the incident in detail, and at the end, Liu Ruyan looked at Mrs. Xu: "The reason why Xiaodao was suspicious of you in the first place was because of the lingering spring rain recently, and the wheels of the waterwheel were too clean without any traces of mud.
But I don’t think that things will be reversed only when things are extreme.”
When Liu Ruyan said this, everyone still didn't understand. The woman who was lying on the ground couldn't help but sneered. She raised her head, as ferocious as a life-threatening Shura.
"If you kill my son, you will all die!" She jumped up suddenly and drew a pair of scissors from her sleeves. The white juice smeared on it gave off a faint fragrance.
Bai Zhi was horrified and said hurriedly: "It's curare wood, the edge of the knife is highly poisonous!"
Curare tree, also known as blood-sealing throat, grows in the south. In addition to its medicinal value, its sap contains highly toxic substances.
Xu held the scissors tightly, flew forward, and stabbed Chu Kun with the edge of the knife. She missed the blow, and then swung her backhand at Jiang Wenzhuo who was nearby.
"You poisonous woman, don't come here." Chu Kun was frightened and saw the scissors stabbing him again. He pulled Qi Heng over and blocked Qi Heng in front of him. "What you did is killing the master. The following is a crime."
, what a treacherous act!”
Xu's hair was messy, and her eyes were full of hatred, so strong that she wanted to eat Chu Kun alive. Her hand holding the iron scissors tightened, and finally stabbed Qi Heng as if she had made up her mind.
Qi Heng couldn't help but close his eyes. When Chu Kun, who was hiding behind him, saw this, he immediately abandoned him and ran away.
Regardless, Mrs. Xu ran straight towards Chu Kun and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Dog Officer!"
Chu Kun was forced into a corner. He was blocked between the Xu family and the wall. His face turned pale, and he arched his body and began to beg for mercy. He still showed his usual majesty: "Don't kill me, don't kill me..."
Mrs. Xu raised her hand high, and the blade of the knife fell sharply.
At the critical moment, her waist suddenly tightened and she was hugged from behind. At the same time, she received a blow on her ankle. As she was spinning, she heard a voice.
"Quick, take the scissors away!"
Liu Ruyan used her skill to easily release her strength. Xu was forced to turn around and fall down. The iron scissors came out of her hand and flew away while grazing the ground.
As soon as Chu Kun escaped from danger, he found that Mrs. Xu had been successfully subdued by Liu Ruyan. His face was blue and white, and his eyes fell on the scissors not far away, and he was the first to grab them: "You vicious woman."
Mrs. Xu snarled at Chu Kun: "I, Xu Gui, will never let you go even if I turn into a ghost, you dog official!"
Chu Kun had a cold face, holding the scissors and walked towards the woman. Seeing that the situation was not good, Bai Zhi quickly stopped between the two of them: "Sir, please calm down and listen to what she has to say."
Liu Ruyan also took a breath and tried to persuade her: "If you have something to say, please speak it out."
She had not recovered from her old illness, and now her body was still weak. She tried her best to stabilize Xu.
"It's just a lowly slave. I don't allow others to comment on what I want to do with him." After Chu Kun said this, he raised his hand to stab him.
At this time, Mrs. Xu tried her best to break free, and she bumped into Chu Kun's chest.
Chu Kun staggered back a few steps, feeling that his internal organs were being knocked to the ground and surging.
Xu was so brave, she grabbed his throat with one hand, and then went to snatch the iron scissors from Chu Kun's hand. In front of the revengeful woman, Chu Kun was quickly defeated.
Liu Ruyan and Bai Zhi stood beside the two of them, trying to pull them apart. Unexpectedly, when Chu Kun struggled desperately, the knife edge suddenly struck Liu Ruyan's palm.
The knife edge struck so fast that Liu Ruyan didn't realize the danger was coming. The blood sealed her throat and was extremely toxic. Once it entered the wound, she would soon be poisoned and die.
At this moment, a piece of dark blue clothes flashed in front of Liu Ruyan. Before she could see it clearly, Shen Yanchu protected her in his arms and spun away.
She poked her head out of his arms and found out that she had been rescued, and immediately thanked him.
Shen Yanchu lowered his eyebrows and saw her lips turning pale in his arms. She was obviously weak and tight, but she was always in danger, making him worried and scared. He wanted to keep her in his arms all the time, but in his mind The daughter's figure covered by the Taoist robe appeared again, and the scene last night seemed to be vivid in his mind. His face suddenly stiffened, his fingers trembled slightly, and he let go of Liu Ruyan.
When Bai Zhi saw that she was fine, she hit several of Xu's key points at the right time. In an instant, Xu fell to the ground as if she had lost all strength.
Jiang Wenzhuo did not dare to be careless, so he quickly untied the rope from the water tanker and tied it up with the woman. After doing all this, he asked: "We are strangers to you, why do you want to kill someone who has no grievances? "
Xu snorted coldly and looked at Chu Kun, who was also in a mess: "Ten years ago at the foot of Yongshan Mountain, did you remember a nine-year-old boy?"
Chu Kun was suddenly stunned.
At that time, he and Liu Shangshu served together with Zhou Taizu. At that time, Dali State was sending protons to Beijing, hoping to use the power of Zhou Dynasty to contain the increasingly powerful Tubo.
When Chu Kun learned that the deposed prince was just a real fool, he came up with a plan.
Chu Kun planned to find another young boy to pretend to be a hostage in Dali and teach him carefully so that he could continue to obey orders after returning to Dali in the future.
In a village at the foot of the mountain, he finally found a boy who was about the same age as Proton and had similar facial features, waiting for an opportunity to take him away. However, he did not expect that the Cangming Sect would interfere at this juncture, and the real Proton was missing. He simply made the mistake. Let the boy get on the carriage and go directly to Bianjing.
Once I left, it lasted ten years.
Mrs. Xu looked at him coldly: "I believe you will not forget that a few months ago, the prince of Dali returned to the country in response to the imperial edict, but was killed on the way. And the so-called prince was clearly Song'er, who the old slave had been looking for for ten years."
She propped herself up, her eyes filled with grief: "Tell me, why did you take Song'er away and make him the scapegoat of the Prince of Dali?"
Chu Kun looked at the woman in disbelief. This was a confidential matter. There were only a handful of people who knew the inside story. How did she, a slave in a deep house, know about it?
Chu Kun lowered his voice: "The death of your son was not what Chu wanted, but as a citizen of the Zhou Dynasty, he should solve the country's problems and share the worries of the court."
"Share the worries? Song'er was only a young man, and he was only nine years old when he left." Mrs. Xu half-closed her eyes, and a drop of tear fell from the corner of her muddy eyes.
After all these years, she still remembers her son's appearance as a child.
"As court officials, you don't protect the people, but steal children. In doing so, you are no different from thieves. You keep calling me a poisonous woman, but how do you know how much I care about finding my son and how painful it is to lose him!"
Chu Kun looked at him dumbly, but heard her cry and said: "I was at the wrong time, and there were wars every year. That year, my husband went out with the army, and there was no news as soon as he left. Two years later, the old slave heard that the army would pass through Yongshan, so he sent Song'er was entrusted to the care of her neighbors and traveled all night alone. After arriving at the military camp, the old slave asked someone to inquire about her husband's whereabouts, but he didn't know that he had already died."
She burst into tears: "My husband is just a peasant soldier who was temporarily recruited. He did not return to the military. If he died in the battle, he would just be buried in the wilderness. The old slave had no choice but to give up and returned to the village to pick up Song'er, but he never thought that Song'er, he
Gone."
"I heard from the neighbors that Song'er disappeared while playing. Some said that she slipped and fell into the water, while others said that a thief came to the village to steal the child. The old slave searched day and night for ten years."
Xu's words became more and more difficult: "It wasn't until the cold winter last year that the people from the Wangfeng Tower suddenly came to the old slave and said that they had found out the whereabouts of Song'er. After many years, when the old slave saw him again, he was not still alive.