Pathological Trapping - Chap 106
”There! Catch her! Don’t let her get in!”
Li Dezhuang stood up.
”I’ll go out and take a look.”
As soon as he walked out, he saw a maid running towards him. She had faint wounds on her body and was bleeding. Her hair was loose and her clothes were messy. She looked like a madman.
”Mr. Li! Save me!”
While Li Dezhuang was stunned, a guard rushed in with a crossbow. He had raised the crossbow, but when he saw Li Dezhuang standing at the door, he was stunned for a moment and then put the arrows down.
They can’t afford to hurt this man.
Li Dezhuang’s eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: “What are you going to do?!”
Before anyone could answer him, Mu Jian suddenly appeared at the door. At this moment, his face was no longer the well-behaved appearance he had pretended to be, nor was his innermost paranoia or morbidity revealed, nor was his occasional childishness revealed. Only panic and nervousness occupied his entire face.
”Guard Li!”
Li Dezhuang raised his eyes and looked at him.
Mu Jian was so flustered that his pupils were trembling. A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly raised the crossbow in his hand and aimed it at the maid who was running towards Li Dezhuang.
Let the dead stop talking, so that the living will have the chance to speak!
With a whoosh sound.
The crossbow arrow was unsheathed.
With a domineering momentum, he shot straight towards the maid.
At the critical moment, Li Dezhuang rushed out, grabbed the maid’s hand and took her away.
The crossbow arrow grazed the back of Li Dezhuang’s hand and got stuck in the wooden door.
There was dead silence all around.
Only the maid, still in shock, curled up in Li Dezhuang’s arms and complained, “Mr. Li, His Highness wants to send me to the opera troupe. I won’t go. Please save me, save me, Guard Li…”
Li Dezhuang’s eyes turned cold and he looked up at Mu Jian, who was pale at the door.
His beautiful eyes were now filled with anger, like a huge wave of rage that seemed to be able to swallow him whole.
Li Dezhuang asked Mu Jian, “Why?”
The one who answered was the maid in her arms.
”Because I helped pass the message and called Master Li away from His Highness.”
Li Dezhuang still asked Mu Jian, “Is what she said true?”
Mu Jian pursed his lips and dropped the crossbow in his hand. “I sent her over because she is so good at talking and I value her talent. But she is just gossiping in front of you. How annoying!”
Li Dezhuang warned in a low voice, “Mu Jian!”
Mu Jian met his cold eyes, his heart trembled, he smiled helplessly, and stopped moving forward.
Li Dezhuang waved to other maids in the courtyard, handed the child in his arms to them, and asked them to take him away and take good care of him.
The guards behind Mu Jian looked at each other and then tactfully retreated.
Li Dezhuang was in no hurry to talk to Mu Jian. He turned back and pushed Liu Zhuangshi, who was lying on the windowsill watching the fun, back. Then he walked in front of Mu Jian and said, “She is just a messenger.”
Mu Jian grinned, “I know.”
Li Dezhuang: “The one you really want to kill is Shi’er, right?”
Mu Jian didn’t say anything.
The answer must be yes.
Mu Jian had planned everything, but he had never expected that he would send the old one away, and now the young one was still here. He monopolized Li Shiwei’s tenderness and his sight.
Guard Li treated him just like he used to treat himself…
He would never forget the man he watched from the top of the wall when he was young. He was wearing a simple long gown, standing in the snow, holding only a lantern, but he slowly lit up the light in his world.
His smile…
The picture he drew.
He covered himself with the quilt when he was half asleep.
Those are the treatments only he can enjoy.
How can others have it? !
Mu Jian slowly reached out and stroked Li Dezhuang’s face almost obsessively.
Li Dezhuang didn’t hide.
Just ask him, “Will you kill Shi’er one day?”
”I don’t know…” He paused, probably thinking it through, and smiled: “Probably not. If you kill him, you will be unhappy.”
Li Dezhuang looked at him silently. After a moment, he slowly said, “You send Shier away. He wants to go back to Yanmen Pass. I’ll stay.”
Mu Jian’s eyes suddenly became hot.
He looked at Li Dezhuang in disbelief, his hands shaking with excitement.
He suddenly grabbed Li Dezhuang’s hand and asked, “Are you serious?”
”real.”
Li Dezhuang is very serious.
Mu Jian is capable of uniting with the Yi people and staging a fake death of a great general.
Killing a teenager like Shi’er was easy.
Even if Mu Jian could save Shi’er’s life, who knows if what happened today would still happen.
The servants in the palace were not enough for him to kill like this.
Li Dezhuang: “The maid just now was also released.”
”Let go, let go!” Mu Jian hugged Li Dezhuang and kissed his cheek again and again, as happy as a child who received a gift. “Whatever you say, that’s what it is. I will listen to Guard Li in everything!”
Li Dezhuang wrote a letter to Liu Yong, briefly explaining the reason, and then sent Liu Zhuangshi on the carriage to Yanmen Pass.
According to Liu Yong’s instructions, Liu Zhuangshi was handed over to Shi’er’s uncle who stayed at Yanmen Pass.
Before leaving, Liu Zhuangshi squatted in the carriage and held Li Dezhuang’s hand.
”Brother Li, will you come to look for me? Actually, the border is not as bitter and cold as imagined, but the winter is a little longer.
But the snow there is beautiful. The red plum blossoms on the mountain are also beautiful. When spring comes, the mountains are covered with flowers. The streams are gurgling, and the sky is blue and the clouds are white. If the Thirteen Prefectures of Youyun can be recovered…”
Li Dezhuang smiled, as if he saw the scene described by the young man.
“It’s beautiful just thinking about it.”
Shi’er’s eyes lit up, “Yes! It’s so beautiful! Brother Li, will you come?!”
