Zhu Juyuan truly grabbed the girl’s arm.
Thin and soft, it seed like it could break with just a little force.
But he couldn’t exert any strength.
A thin arrow was lodged in his shoulder blade, piercing a wound from seven days ago.
The girl turned her head to look at him.
Her eyes were incredibly beautiful, round, distinctly black and white, clean and clear.
The regret in her eyes was also very clear.
As she turned her head, her body was already pulled back swiftly by the whip tied around her waist, quickly falling into the arms of the Xuan Yi youth.
The whip loosened from the girl’s waist, then sprang out again, directly striking Zhu Juyuan’s face.
The Xuan Yi youth also lifted his gaze towards him, his pitch-black eyes revealing a blood-red hue.
But this whip did not hit Zhu Juyuan.
Tang Ziqian used the sheath to block it, stopping Li Mu’s attack, then looked at Zhu Juyuan: "Whose man are you?"
He hadn’t shown much emotion when Zhu Juyuan was speaking earlier, but his expression turned complex at this mont.
In terms of seniority, Zhu Juyuan was a generation above him, and his experience was deeper.
Years ago, when Tang Ziqian first ca to Liangzhou, he initially trained under Zhu Juyuan.
Seven years of life and death experiences, yet it led to this outco.
Zhu Juyuan opened his mouth, but before any sound ca out, he fell down.
At the mont he caught Tang Xiaobai, he had suffered two attacks.
One was Tang Xiaobai’s sleeve arrow, hitting the old wound on his shoulder blade, while the other was the lethal strike.
A short knife pierced through his chest from the back.
After Zhu Juyuan fell, he revealed soone behind him.
The person still stood in the courtyard outside the house, with a tall, thin fra, wearing a bamboo hat, draped in a chill.
He walked forward a few steps, reached the steps, and was cautiously stopped by a guard.
He took off the bamboo hat.
With a slim face and slanted eyes, he smiled with a rogue’s air.
"I’m Yao He," he glanced sideways at Tang Xiaobai with a casual smile, "that sinister and cunning Yao He—"
...
Tang Xiaobai realized Zhu Juyuan was lying upon hearing Yao He’s na.
She was unsure about Xue Shaojian, but Yao He definitely wouldn’t harm her family.
Yao He was a die-hard fan of their Jiaojiao’er.
Last ti, when her brother was deeply implicated in a murder case, Yao He even specifically returned to help clear her brother’s na.
He didn’t ask for any reward, just secretly glanced at the eldest Miss twice before leaving.
Such a devoted person, she definitely didn’t believe Yao He would do wrong.
Though she didn’t know why Yao He happened to be in Shanzhou, it seed real that Yao He was helping Xue Shaojian investigate a spy, and Zhu Juyuan was the spy Yao He discovered!
Thus, Zhu Juyuan’s appearance here was probably a coincidence during his escape after being exposed.
His lies were rely to deceive them temporarily, to find an opportunity to escape.
By chance, Yao He was chasing him, so Zhu Juyuan must be very anxious.
Being anxious, he’d seize any opportunity.
Thus, Tang Xiaobai used herself as that opportunity for a test.
Given the circumstances, she couldn’t discuss this idea with anyone else, so being criticized by her brother afterward was normal.
But why was the little ancestor angry too?
"Didn’t I wink at you back then? Didn’t you nod in agreent?"
She thought they had reached an understanding in that exchange of glances, but perhaps not?
Li Mu was silent for a mont and said, "I thought you were asking if Zhu Juyuan was talking about Yao He."
"Of course, he was talking about Yao He, what’s there to ask?" Tang Xiaobai was heartbroken, "You didn’t understand my aning! I thought we had great rapport!"
Li Mu was initially angry at her recklessness, but hearing her words, he lowered his head in frustration and self-bla.
Tang Ziqian was not diverted by her: "Why didn’t you wink at ? See if I don’t tie you up!"
Tang Xiaobai snickered: "How could that be? We don’t have that kind of understanding..."
Though inappropriate, Li Mu found himself a bit pleased hearing this.
Tang Ziqian was not happy: "Don’t give irrelevant excuses. I ask you, who gave you the confidence to use yourself as bait? So close, what if Zhu Juyuan had a weapon, who would save you in ti?"
"Mo Ji!" Tang Xiaobai answered without thinking, "Mo Ji’s moves are swift, he can casually create afterimages!"
"As fast as he is, can he guarantee you won’t be hard?"
These words.
Of course, there’s no guarantee.
Tang Xiaobai could only say: "I’m not that fragile, a little scratch doesn’t matter, I lose a few hairs just combing every day!"
Seeing her brother about to flare up again, Tang Xiaobai quickly spoke seriously: "Zhu Juyuan is escaping for his life, even if he strikes, he won’t hurt , he just wants to detain to escape, I’ve calculated it already, once he acts, I’ll strike his old wound, he definitely can’t hold !"
She wasn’t recklessly making herself bait, she was prepared, wasn’t she carrying sleeve arrows?
Her arm was always hidden under the fox fur coat, Zhu Juyuan had no idea she had a secret weapon and wouldn’t guard against her.
Tang Ziqian laughed angrily: "You’re so confident you can hit his old wound?"
"Of course!" Tang Xiaobai’s eyes widened, "I’ve trained in horseback archery; otherwise, why would I dare co here?"
As soon as she said this, the two n in front of her revealed looks of astonishnt.
Tang Xiaobai felt a bit offended: "You didn’t think I begged and cried to get the family to agree to let co out, did you?"
"Of course not," Li Mu reacted first, decisively denying, "Second Miss once hit a wolf’s vital spot with an arrow!"
Tang Xiaobai snorted lightly: "So before you saw shoot the wolf, you thought I ran out foolishly?"
"Not exactly..." This line sounded uncertain.
Tang Xiaobai snorted again and suddenly raised her arm.
"Whew—"
The sleeve arrow shot out like lightning.
"Puff," went a noise, extinguishing a candle.
It pierced through the wick and embedded in the pillar.
The room fell silent.
Tang Xiaobai saw the shock on her brother and the little ancestor’s faces and felt proud: "My arm strength might be lacking, but my accuracy is fine!"
"With this accuracy and the sleeve arrow, no wonder the eldest Miss felt comfortable letting the Second Miss co out." Yao He leaned against the doorfra with a playful smile, "The eldest Miss always cares for the Second Miss, when I asked the Second Miss a few more questions back then, I was thrown out of the Duke Yan Mansion, couldn’t even enter Qinren Square."
Tang Xiaobai turned to him, bringing the topic back to the matter at hand: "Why are you here? Did Xue Tenth Son invite you? Was Zhu Juyuan the spy you discovered?"
"Zhu Juyuan was indeed discovered by ." Yao He first answered the latter question.
After answering, a trace of awkwardness flickered in his eyes, then he continued answering the previous question, "I was in the Shannan Road area traveling, heard about Duke Yan and his son’s disappearance, so I ca to Liangzhou to look, coincidentally eting Xue Tenth Son."
Tang Xiaobai nodded understandingly: "That’s considerate! Very considerate!"
She knew it!
Yao He seed very attentive to her family’s matters!
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