Chapter 1447: Lu Chong’s Poisonous Plot
Chapter 1447: Chapter 1447: Lu Chong’s Poisonous Plot
"Why is Sister Tang here? Isn’t Mrs. Cen looking after her? Could it be that Mrs. Cen has already been killed by the bandits?" Ji Zhenniang recently missed her daughter terribly, and after seeing Sister Tang a few times, she felt Sister Tang was quite good, so upon hearing Sister Tang’s voice, she became extremely anxious.
Nanny Tao was also in the carriage, and upon hearing this, she said, "What Sister Tang? There’s no one here, Lady Xie, please be quiet. It’s dangerous now, the bandits could attack at any moment."
Don’t blame Nanny Tao for being heartless. It’s just too chaotic now. Even if she heard Sister Tang’s cries, she had to pretend she didn’t hear it.
Life and death are destined. Nanny Tao could only take care of the people on her side; she couldn’t worry about others.
Xie Huaihua and Qing Hui also said, "Nanny Tao is right, there’s no sound at all, ma’am, you misheard."
The two of them were holding onto Ji Zhenniang to prevent her from running away.
"Boo hoo, mother, where are you? Sister Tang is scared!" Sister Tang’s cries came again, wandering nearby, crying out for her mother.
Ji Zhenniang burst into tears upon hearing it, shouting, "Did you hear that? It’s Sister Tang, it’s really that child."
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
In the distance, random arrows shot over, hitting the ground, seemingly hitting Sister Tang. The child let out a miserable scream: "Ah, boo hoo, it hurts, it hurts so much, blood!"
"Blood? Sister Tang is injured?!" Ji Zhenniang couldn’t hold back, biting Qing Hui’s hand and then drawing a knife to slash at Xie Huaihua.
Xie Huaihua, frightened, let go of her, and Ji Zhenniang immediately rushed out of the carriage, running towards the direction of Sister Tang’s cries.
"Madam, please come back!" Xie Huaihua was so frightened her face turned pale, she couldn’t care about anything else, and immediately rushed out of the carriage to chase after her.
"This troublesome person." Qing Hui, sent by Gu Jinli to protect Ji Zhenniang, said dissatisfiedly, then immediately grabbed a torch and chased after her.
Nanny Tao and Xiao Ji didn’t move; they didn’t want to cause trouble for Gu Jinli.
"Ji Zhenniang, you idiot, get back here!" Gu Jinli was furious and immediately shot a sleeve arrow, intending to hit Ji Zhenniang’s leg so she couldn’t run anymore. However, due to the strong wind, the arrow missed, and Ji Zhenniang rushed into the darkness in the blink of an eye.
"Bastard." Gu Jinli cursed and shouted, "Daqing, Daqing, come out quickly, go find Ji Zhenniang, she must not have an accident!"
Daqing, who was surrounding the carriage with people to protect Gu Jinli, shook his head at these words and said, "Madam, the master said, I need to stay with you and cannot leave easily."
As they spoke, a group of people suddenly approached from the right side, Daqing was startled, and ordered his subordinates, "Zhang Gong, release the arrows!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Sharp arrows shot out, immediately shooting down several people.
Amidst a chorus of screams, someone holding the Military Office’s flag shouted, "Don’t shoot, it’s me, I’m Company Commander Lu, my Sister Tang and Xiao Fu are missing, I brought soldiers to find them."
He added, "I just heard Sister Tang’s cries, are they with your madam? That’s great, let us in immediately, I want to take them away!"
Daqing, seeing it was Lu Chong, felt relieved, but he didn’t immediately let Lu Chong in. Instead, he shouted towards the direction of the carriage, "Madam, Company Commander Lu has come with the soldiers to look for his wife and daughter! Should we let them in?!"
"Stop them, don’t let a single one in!" Gu Jinli shouted, "Make them back off ten meters, stay still, if anyone dares step forward, they’ll be shot dead immediately!"
Lu Chong, a man who doesn’t react even after being cuckolded, clearly a very cunning and scheming person, suddenly coming to look for his wife and daughter at this time, who knows what he’s up to.
Maybe he’s trying to cut off Brother Qin’s escape route, to capture her and threaten Brother Qin.
She shouted again, "Tell him that his Sister Tang and Mrs. Cen aren’t here, tell him to look elsewhere!"
"Yes!" Daqing complied, repeated Gu Jinli’s words, and warned Lu Chong again, "It’s chaos now, we won’t trust anyone, back off immediately, if you dare come forward, arrows won’t recognize you!"
Lu Chong, upon hearing this, had a dark expression and a fierce look in his eyes, but he kept calling out, "Young lady, please tell your madam that I, Lu, have no ill intentions, it’s really because I heard Sister Tang’s voice that I came looking... Please, let us in for goodness’ sake, once we find them, we’ll leave... I, Lu Chong, am a timid man, there are bandits outside, I don’t want to fight with them, I just want to find my wife and daughter and take them to safety!"
Lu Chong, speaking in a begging tone, appeared extremely worried about his own wife and daughter.
But after he finished speaking, he whispered to Xia Zhang, "Prepare the poison, and when Qin family’s people aren’t paying attention, throw it over. You’ve heard the voices, they’re all young ladies protecting the Gu Family, and you’re all men, after getting in, do whatever you want, enjoy yourselves first."
These words were quite shameless, and among Lu Chong’s soldiers, aside from a dozen or so particularly vile ones, the rest were silent.
Xia Zhang felt so disgusted he almost vomited.
Initially, when Lu Chong bought their family, he was very grateful to Lu Chong, but later found that Lu Chong was very insidious and not a good person. Now, he felt Lu Chong wasn’t even human; he actually surrendered to the bandits, took the poison they gave, and wanted to help the bandits kidnap Mrs. Qin.
He also wanted to violate the young maids brought by the Gu Family.
Absolutely inhuman!
"Xia Zhang, did you hear me?" Lu Chong, seeing Xia Zhang didn’t respond, angrily poked his back with the tip of his shoe.
Xia Zhang felt extremely uneasy and replied, "Yes, I heard, please rest assured, I will get it done... Once it’s done, I hope you’ll grant me a clean maid as a wife."
"Hahaha, you kid, of course, you’re thinking of a wife. Don’t worry, as long as you get it done, not just one, I’ll give you two maids as wives, let you enjoy them all together." Lu Chong said happily.
Some soldiers were unwilling to fight with Qin family and bravely asked, "Sir, we’re soldiers, helping bandits kidnap Mrs. Qin, isn’t right."
"Yes sir, this isn’t what we should be doing, we should be killing bandits and eliminating threats."
Lu Chong, hearing this, was very angry and questioned, "With bandits everywhere, if we don’t help them deal with Qin family, our families will be killed by the bandits, and our wives will be ravaged. Do you want to see your families suffer?"
"Besides, we’re not doing this for free, we’ll get gold afterwards. And only we know about this, once it’s over, we’ll take the gold, bring our families, and continue westward. Once we reach the Northwest Army camp, we’ll still be Kangrong Soldiers."
This?
The soldiers, hearing this, were speechless.
Lu Chong had no time to waste with them and urged Xia Zhang, "Is the poison ready? Quickly distribute it to the soldiers, and once it’s ready, immediately throw it over and knock them out."
Xia Zhang, under the dim torchlight, fiddled with the poison in the bag and replied, "Sir, it’s almost ready."