vrcanaries Chapter 237: Feint to the East and Attack in the West, Catch the Turtle in the Jar
Chapter 237: Feint to the East and Attack in the West, Catch the Turtle in the Jar
In his entire life, he had never heard of anyone cultivating inner strength in their sleep!
Shang Ruoyi was not lying, she had indeed gained this internal strength in her sleep.
At this moment, Shang Ruoyi walked out of the room. Yun Tian hurried forward and whispered, "Princess, let me go with you!"
Shang Ruoyi shook her head: "No, I'll keep you here, you'll be of great use." She looked in the direction of Cong Fangzhi's yard: "You stay in the mansion, and make sure to pay attention to Cong's yard."
"Madam San Shao?"
Shang Ruoyi nodded. If what she guessed was correct, Cong Fangzhi must be hiding something from them. The previous affairs in the mansion that were investigated might be related to her.
Taking advantage of the night, Shang Ruoyi took Shaoyao and Acheng away.
As soon as she left, a man in black appeared in Cong's yard.
He Jingxi has been running the shops in the town these days. It snowed heavily and the roads were difficult to travel on, so he didn't come back tonight.
Just as Cong was about to rest, she heard the window creak. Her heart tightened and she quickly sat up, covering her wound and wanting to hold the child in her arms. A woman in black appeared at the head of her bed and snatched the child away.
"Please, don't hurt him!" Cong Fangzhi pleaded softly, "Please."
"Haha, if you want him to live, then have you done what I asked you to do?" The woman had a veil on her face, and one could tell from her eyes that she was dressed like a Westerner. She was the Westerner who appeared in Zhao Junyi's room that day.
"Didn't I tell you all? He Jingheng's legs have recovered." Cong Fangzhi's eyes were fixed on the child, fearing that the woman would throw the child on the ground.
"Recovered?" She said angrily, "How did he recover? He was clearly in a wheelchair. Even the miracle doctor examined him and found that he was completely disabled! Do you know that your lie almost cost me my life?" She put her hand on the baby's neck and slowly tightened it.
Seeing this, Cong Fangzhi hurriedly said, "Everything I said is true!"
"What nonsense! You Tianshun people are really cunning." A fierce smile flashed in her eyes, and she said angrily: "Today, you will know the price you will pay for lying to me."
A dagger appeared in her hand at some point, and she was about to slash the baby's arm.
"No! No!" Cong Fangzhi struggled to stand up and wanted to take the child back from her. But how could the woman let her succeed?
She took a step back and stabbed the baby's arm with the dagger in her hand.
At this moment, a silver needle suddenly shot onto the back of the Western Region woman's hand. In just a moment, that hand could no longer move forward at all, and her entire body was nailed to the spot.
"What's going on? My body!"
Cong Fangzhi hurriedly snatched the child away, ignoring the pain in her body, and ran towards the door.
Just then, the door of the room was opened and Shang Ruoyi's figure appeared at the door.
Cong Fangzhi hurriedly came behind her: "Sister-in-law, help! Save me and the child!"
Shang Ruoyi looked at her expressionlessly. After a while, she turned her head slightly, and Yingyue took a cloak and put it on her shoulders.
Cong Fangzhi's body was shaking constantly. Xunmei was afraid that she would drop the child, so she wanted to take the child away, but Cong Fangzhi held the child tightly in her arms and refused to let go. Seeing this, Xunmei had to give up.
"You didn't leave." The woman in black said through gritted teeth.
Shang Ruoyi walked slowly to the woman in black, took off her veil, and said in a cold voice, "Who are you?"
"Humph." She turned her head away and sneered, "You are a lowly concubine's daughter, you are not worthy of knowing who I am."
"Really?" Shang Ruoyi smiled: "Actually, I don't want to know who you are or who you work for. It doesn't matter whether you tell me or not. You are just a spy from the Western Regions. But I am very curious why you came to her." Shang Ruoyi looked at Cong Fangzhi who was trembling all over, and whispered: "I think, in addition to wanting to find out the news about the He family, you also want to get something from her!"
She remembered what Cong Fangzhi had inadvertently said when she was treating her before, about hiding something.
"You were the ones who sent her the threatening letter before, right?"
The woman from the Western Regions turned her head away and said nothing.
Shang Ruoyi was not in a hurry either. She knew that it would be extremely difficult to get any useful information from her.
She set her eyes on Cong Fangzhi.
At this moment, she suddenly saw a pattern faintly visible on the woman's wrist.
She reached out and lifted up the woman's sleeve, only to see a red wing pattern appear on her wrist.
Seeing this, Yuntian frowned and said, "Akabane Villa."
The woman looked at Yuntian and clenched her teeth: "You know a lot."
"Princess, this Chiyu Villa is famous for gathering information, but the people in the villa never get involved in worldly disputes, and they will not send assassins to kill innocent people."
As soon as he finished speaking, the woman seemed to be provoked: "Killing innocent people indiscriminately? We killed innocent people indiscriminately? Dingguo Palace, Cong family, you know best what bad things you have done!" The veins on her neck were exposed, and her eyes were red. She shouted loudly: "You killed so many people! So many innocent people! Overnight, the whole family was destroyed and blood flowed like a river. Have you ever done anything wrong?"
Yuntian was confused by what she said. What kind of nonsense was she talking about? When did their Dingguo Palace wipe out the entire clan?
"No matter what hatred you have, you shouldn't blame the child." Shang Ruoyi said coldly, "He's still in his cradle, how could you have the heart to do that to him?"
"So what if it's a baby?" She shouted, "My sister was born not long ago, only a dozen days old, and you didn't let her go, did you? When I found her, she was thrown on the cold ground. She was strangled to death. What did she do wrong?" She said to Shang Ruoyi at the top of her lungs, "What did she do wrong?"
Yuntian whispered, "Miss, did you remember it wrongly? When did our Dingguo Palace ever do such a thing?"
"Your master knows best whether I have done it or not." She looked at Shang Ruoyi: "Since I fell into your hands, I never thought about living. But even if I die, I will become a fierce ghost and seek revenge on you!" As she finished speaking, a trace of blood flowed from the corner of her lips, and her body slowly fell down, without a breath.
Yuntian walked forward and sniffed her breath: "Dead."
Shang Ruoyi had no expression on her face. She just said calmly, "Take him away and bury him."
"Yes."
As the body was carried out, Cong Fangzhi began to tremble even more violently.
Shang Ruoyi lowered her eyes: "What do you want to say?"
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, I know I was wrong, but I really didn't tell them much." Cong Fangzhi hugged the child tightly and cried, "She threatened me that if I didn't do what they told me, they would kill my child. I was really scared!"