Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Going to Beijing

Suzhen forgot how she got out of the crowd, she could only remember her conversation with Leng Xue at that time.

“My father only arranged for me to escape? Are the other four corpses fake?”

“I don’t know what method the old fox used to beg for two lives to be spared from the people in charge of the killing. But he said he must die.” This content belongs to anne’scorner, if you’re reading it somewhere else it was stolen.

“Why not my mother and brother? Father loves mother the most. And brother is the eldest son of the Feng family…”

“Madame said she wanted to accompany your father. Hong Xiao was willing to take your place, and your brother didn’t want me to replace him. He said that the people in charge of the punishment wouldn’t let go of the two children of the Feng family. If he ran away with you, it would only increase the danger. Zhen’er, they all love you the most, you were the first person they thought about. You have to live no matter what.”

Her parents and her elder brother died, Hong Xiao died on her behalf. Suzhen’s brain turned chaotic after hearing Leng Xue’s words, then she came back to herself. She was brought back to the inn by Leng Xue.

She pulled Leng Xue’s sword from his waist and pointed it at him coldly.

“Zhen’er…” As if he couldn’t see the bright tip of the sword, leng Xue stepped closer to her, his eyes firm.

“You are not allowed to call me by my name!” She growled, looking at him with hatred. “I could have gone back, it was you… It was you. Get out of here or I will kill you!” This content belongs to anne’scorner, if you’re reading it somewhere else it was stolen.

“Your Feng family still owes me many years of wages, I am not leaving.”

Leng Xue’s eyes were red but his voice was calm, he recited word by word coldly, but it sounded like an oath.

She withdrew the sword without saying a word, but saw Leng Xue taking something from her waist and slowly raising it.

That was her money pouch!

“You are penniless now, you either kill me or I will follow you forever,” he said laughing dumbly.

She was so angry that she gritted her teeth and thrust the sword at his neck.

However, he remained motionless, not even moving an inch. He looked at her deeply.

Suzhen smiled bitterly, angry again, but could she really get rid of him? To drive him away, how many people deliberately didn’t want him to die? She, the true young miss, had not been taken yet before the law. Once it was found out, a murder crime, could she be spared?

However, just now, she could still hold the sword with hatred. At the moment, she could no longer hold it, she fell into the darkness. This content belongs to anne’scorner, if you’re reading it somewhere else it was stolen.

Before the farewell, everyone’s voices and smiling faces were kept in her memory, Feng Meiren¹, how much effort would it take for him to act a farewell as if he was performing an onstage drama.

As if, as soon as the curtain fell, they would be able to talk, laugh and play again.

As if, they never left.

Leng Xue was right, none in her Feng family was normal, not even her yatou² Hong Xiang. She was an orphan, her Feng family raised her for more than ten years, she would play with her all that time, and she was willing to die for her.

Why were they killed?

Wang Jin’s ally?

For as long as she could remember, her father had been a good husband who ran a small academy.

When Wang Jin was in trouble, his wife, children and servants were all killed.

Even in the story she didn’t know of, her father might have been Wang Jin’s ally, but since then, he had been hiding and always satisfied people. All the things that happened in the past had long become a cloud of smoke. His words and deeds convinced everyone that he never thought of rebelling. Then, why bring up the past because of suspicion? Why didn’t they let her Feng family alive?

When Leng Xue hugged her, her face changed, Suzhen started trembling all over. She felt so much pain she couldn’t cry. She clenched her teeth and used her last strength to say, “Leng Xue, check out. If you insist on following me, you will protect me on the way to Beijing.”

Leng Xue was surprised, “what do you plan on doing?”

“I will win the Number One Scholar Examination!”

1. Meiren → beauty.
2. Yatou: maid.

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