PFC Chapter 177 She didn't do anything. If they wanted to threaten him with her, it would be fine.
Chapter 177 She didn't do anything. If they wanted to threaten him with her, it would be fine.
A guard knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, knocking his head heavily on the ground until it was bleeding.
"Third Prince, I know I was wrong and I will never do it again. Please let my wife go. She knows nothing and is innocent. Please..."
"innocent?"
Xiao Yan walked up to him and stepped hard on his shoulder.
The force of his foot was so strong that it seemed to crush his shoulder blade, and the guard fell heavily to the ground.
Mingming, after he set the fire, he immediately took advantage of the chaos to leave the Bamboo Garden and prepared to leave the capital with his wife. However, those people wanted to kill him on the way to silence him. During his escape, he was caught by the Third Prince's men.
"You said your wife was innocent, but the people you burned to death were all innocent, too?"
She didn't do anything. If they wanted to use her to threaten him, it would be fine, but why did they kill her?
The man's silver hair was disheveled and he exuded murderous intent. His bloodless thin lips were stained red by blood, making him look like an evil ghost that was taking people's lives.
"I am only following orders. You can kill me or shave me if you want, but my wife is innocent. She knows nothing. Please spare my wife's life, considering that I have followed you for many years and have worked hard even if I have not made any contributions."
"You follow me, but you say you follow my orders? Whose orders are you following?"
The guard exerted force on his foot and heard the sound of broken bones. The entire shoulder blade was crushed by Xiao Yan. He felt severe pain and broke out in cold sweats.
"Aren't you going to tell me yet?"
The guard had followed Xiao Yan for many years and knew that Xiao Yan would not kill innocent people. If he told the truth, not only his wife, but also his nine clans would not be saved.
He fell to the ground, gritting his teeth and saying nothing.
Xiao Wei looked at him and sneered.
"Did not say?"
"Since you have been with me for many years, how about I give you a fireworks display before you die?"
Xiao Yan said this and glanced at Feng Xin.
Feng Xin received Xiao Yan's gaze, picked up a barrel of kerosene, walked towards a woman who was knocked unconscious, and poured it on her without hesitation.
The strong smell of kerosene woke the woman up immediately. She opened her confused eyes and looked around blankly.
When he saw Feng Xin, who was full of murderous intent, beside him, his heart skipped a beat and he remembered the scene before he fainted.
They were stopped and brought here by a group of men in black, and those men in black were all the Third Prince's men.
Although her husband was always with the Third Prince, she knew that he was working for other people. Once, she accidentally overheard a conversation between her husband and a man in black, and asked her husband to pay attention to the whereabouts of the Third Prince.
As a woman, she did not understand these things. She thought it was just reporting the whereabouts of the prince, not a big deal, so she did not ask about it.
But it seems...she was wrong...
She looked at her husband lying on the ground with horror in her eyes.
"Husband."
The guard saw Xiao Yan's intention, panic and fear flashed in his eyes. He endured the severe pain in his body, climbed up, knelt at Xiao Yan's feet, and kept begging for mercy:
"Third Prince, my wife is innocent. Please let her go and spare her life. She is innocent..."
A cold look flashed across Xiao Yan's eyes.
"Do you think that I will let her go just because she is innocent?"
His notoriety could intimidate his enemies but not the people around him.
Oh! It seems he is still too kind.
Xiao Yan looked at Feng Xin and said:
"ignition."
Feng Xin blew the fire stick in his hand and threw it down.
The kerosene encountered the spark and quickly ignited.
The entire bamboo garden was filled with the sound of a woman's shrill screams. Upon hearing the screams, the guards and maids kneeling nearby could not help but tremble all over.
Seeing this, the guard shouted heartbreakingly:
"Embroiderer."
"Husband, save me, it hurts so much..."
The flames devoured her clothes, burning more and more fiercely, and the flames singed her skin, causing unbearable pain.
The embroiderer couldn't help rolling on the ground, trying to put out the fire on her body, but the ground was covered with oil that Feng Xin had just spilled. As soon as she rolled, the kerosene around her was immediately ignited.
The guard was really scared this time. He grabbed Xiao Yan's trouser legs and begged:
"Third Prince, please let the embroiderer go! I will tell you everything. I will confess everything."
Xiao Yan looked at him coldly, as if waiting for his explanation.
"It's the Queen, Third Prince. It's the Queen. Since you came to the capital from the Huguo Temple, the Queen has placed me by your side to monitor your every move."
When Feng Xin heard the word "Queen" coming from the guard's mouth, he thought there was something wrong with his ears.
After all, the queen is the master's mother and biological mother, and she loves the master very much. Why would she send someone to supervise the master?
"If you keep talking nonsense, be careful or the master will take your head right now."
Beads of sweat kept rolling down the guard's forehead, soaking his hair and clothes. His voice was trembling so badly that even he himself could not hear what he was saying.
"Third Prince, I did not lie. Everything I said is true. The Queen indeed sent me to monitor your every move. The fire was also set by the Queen's people..."
Feng Xin saw that he was full of lies, so he drew out his sword and put it against his neck, then turned to look at Xiao Yan:
"Master, this man not only refuses to tell the truth, but also wants to frame the queen. Do you want me to kill him with a single blow?"
Xiao Yan was not as furious as Feng Xin had imagined. He just looked at the guard calmly, as if he believed what the guard said, and said in a cold voice:
"Besides you, who else is there beside me?"
The flames gradually engulfed the embroiderer, and her screams became weaker and weaker.
The guard was anxious and told everything he knew.
"You don't know, but every time we pass on a message, we are afraid that something might happen to the other party and we will be implicated, so we disguise ourselves so that the other party won't recognize us.
Third Prince, I have told you everything I know. Please let the embroiderer go. I beg you, the embroiderer is innocent..."
As he spoke, he kowtowed and begged for mercy.
Xiao Yan kicked the guard away, tightened his grip on the jade ring, looked at him coldly with his dark eyes, glanced at the people kneeling around him, and said calmly:
"Kill them all!"
Everyone looked as pale as death because of Xiao Yun's words.
Looking at Xiao Yun's receding back, everyone begged desperately, but soon, those pleas turned into screams.
Feng Xin swung the long sword in his hand, the sword rose and fell, blood splattered everywhere...
The elegant courtyard was suddenly filled with the smell of blood.
A falcon landed on Xiao Yan's hand, and he used his scarred hands to remove the paper tied to its feet.
He unfolded it and looked at the sharp pen strokes on it, his eyes relaxed slightly.
He picked up the pen and wrote a few lines in a flamboyant style. After finishing writing, he put down the pen, rolled up the paper, and tied it to the falcon's foot.
A clear and loud sound pierced the sky, and the black falcon blended into the night and flew out of the capital.
Feng Xin wiped the blood off the sword, bowed and said:
"Master, everything has been taken care of."
Xiao Yan hummed lightly and said:
"Go to the palace."