Chapter 316

316. Chapter 316: Saving Duan Yu

The man stared at Old Man Li, a meaningful smile appearing on his face.

He didn't speak again but shifted his gaze to Old Woman Li, who was stunned on the side, and called out: "Mother."

Old Woman Li instantly returned to her senses. Looking at the man's terrifying face, a sense of fear arose in her heart for no reason.

She stiffened her expression and managed to squeeze out a smile on her face: "S-son..."

The awkward atmosphere between the three of them didn't look like a parental relationship at all.

At the same time.

In the Jiang family courtyard, Jiang Xuelian paced back and forth anxiously.

"Xiaoxiao, what should we do? Your mother still hasn't returned. Could something have really happened?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao's brows were furrowed tightly, and she didn't speak.

Ever since Wu Sanshen came to her house to steal the document of breaking off kinship, she had already anticipated such things.

Her family had also thought of a way to deal with it, so, facing the Li family old couple who came to cause trouble, she was not afraid.

But her mother was late to return, and she also began to worry.

That Qingping County government office wouldn't have really arrested her mother, right?

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked up at the sky that was approaching evening and stood up abruptly.

No!

She must go and see.

"Sister Xuelian, go to the stable and lead the horse, we are going to Qingping County."

"Okay."

Jiang Xuelian was also worried about Jiang Wei, so naturally, she nodded and went to the stable to lead the horse and set up the horse carriage.

The current Jiang family had two horse carriages; Jiang Wei drove one away, and there was one left at home.

The two locked the courtyard gate and sat on the horse carriage.

Jiang Xuelian was anxious, and the horse carriage was driven very fast.

When the sky was completely dark, they finally arrived at Qingping County.

Jiang Xiaoxiao lifted the curtain of the carriage to look. This Qingping County was much larger than Yong'an County, with dozens of small alleys extending in all directions, and she didn't recognize them at all.

She originally wanted to find a passerby to ask how to get to the Qingping County government office, but at this moment, the sky was completely dark, the visibility was very low, and there were no pedestrians on the road.

The horse carriage was spinning around in the alley.

Jiang Xuelian was a newcomer and didn't know the way either.

However, just at this moment, a burst of scolding sounds suddenly rang out from the alley opposite.

"I'll let you be proud! I'll let you rely on your status as an official student to go against me! Brothers, beat him to death! Break his hand tendons and foot tendons, let's see how he can still hold a pen to take the imperial examination!"

Jiang Xuelian was anxious to find Jiang Wei and originally didn't want to meddle in other people's business. Just as she was about to pull the reins to leave, the curtain behind her was lifted abruptly.

"W-what's wrong, Xiaoxiao?"

Jiang Xuelian turned to look, but saw Jiang Xiaoxiao's gloomy face.

"Get off the carriage, go over there and see." Jiang Xiaoxiao spat out a few words coldly, and then jumped off the horse carriage without waiting for Jiang Xuelian to react.

"Xiaoxiao..." Jiang Xuelian shouted, just wanting to stop her, but saw Jiang Xiaoxiao take out the anesthetic gun she had seen on the horse carriage before from the pouch at her waist.

She instantly closed her mouth.

She understood that only in the critical moment of saving a life would Xiaoxiao take out that pitch-black iron object.

Jiang Xiaoxiao followed the alley where the sound came from, walking step by step, lightly and quickly.

Jiang Xuelian followed her closely, also holding a stone in her hand; this was what she had picked up at the corner of the wall just now.

All the way to the entrance of the alley, the two finally saw clearly a group of men surrounding a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, beating him violently with punches and kicks.

The boy was pressed to the ground by them, his left palm pierced by a blade and nailed to the ground, blood flowing all over the ground. Another arm was being pulled tightly by someone, and a knife was about to be stabbed in.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was quick-eyed and fast-handed, shooting an anesthetic needle out, hitting the man's face directly.

Bang—

The man who was holding the knife and about to stab down fell to the ground with a thud.

The group of people was directly stunned.

"W-what's this?!"

They looked around, but didn't see anyone.

"What's wrong, you guys aren't continuing to take action?!" Zheng Yaocai cursed and walked up, glanced at the man who fainted on the ground, and gave a light sneer: "Useless guy, letting you pick a hand tendon and you fainted, hmph, you come."

He pointed to another servant.

The servant took the knife tremblingly, looking at the boy who was almost dying on the ground, couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

He raised the knife, just about to stab down, when he fell to the ground with a thud.

The sound of the sharp blade falling to the ground was crisp and loud in this quiet night.

This time, the few people around were finally a bit panicked. In the middle of the night, how could a good person faint for no reason?

Could it be that they bumped into something unclean?

A cold wind blew, and the few people couldn't help but shrink their necks.

"Young Master Zheng, why don't we just leave..."

Zheng Yaocai looked at the people who fainted one after another on the ground, his brows furrowed tightly.

The few servants beside him persuaded dog-leggedly: "Young Master, one of this guy's hands is already ruined, and the academy has also driven him out. He won't be able to make any big waves in the future. Let's leave quickly, Madam is still waiting for you to go back."

Zheng Yaocai swept a glance at the boy who was breathing more than he was taking in on the ground, and his tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed. He gave a light snort: "Then let's go. With his dead dog look, I'll see who else dares to save him."

After saying this, he led a group of servants and left.

The few servants who fell at the end even dragged the people who fainted away together.

Seeing that the people had walked out of the alley, Jiang Xuelian finally put down the stone and wanted to go out to save the person.

Jiang Xiaoxiao stopped her and shook her head silently at her.

Jiang Xuelian didn't understand, but still stopped her steps and continued to hide behind the alley entrance.

Sure enough, after a while, Zheng Yaocai brought that group of people back again.

Jiang Xuelian's heart trembled in fright. Fortunately, Xiaoxiao stopped her, otherwise, she would have fallen into the trap of this group of people.

That group of people looked around fiercely and said: "Young Master, there is no one hiding in this vicinity."

Zheng Yaocai looked gloomy, glanced at Duan Yu who was completely fainted in pain on the ground, and said: "Alright, let's go. With his dead dog look, if he stays for a night, by the time someone finds him, his corpse will be stiff."

The few people then left the alley.

Jiang Xiaoxiao still didn't move. She listened to the footsteps in the distance, and until the footsteps went far away and could no longer be heard, she put away the anesthetic gun and rushed to the boy's side.

"Hey, hey... are you okay?"

She called twice and reached out to push the fainted boy gently.

The boy didn't respond. It seemed he had fainted from pain.

Jiang Xiaoxiao could only look at his palm that was nailed to the ground.

It was dripping with blood, and it was chilling to look at.

She didn't dare to move it casually. The knife had pierced through the entire palm. If she pulled it out casually and hurt the tendons inside, his hand would be completely ruined.

She could only find a way to send Jiang Xuelian away before she could activate her ability.

Jiang Xiaoxiao then turned to Jiang Xuelian on the side and said: "Sister Xuelian, there is a box of spare silver needles on the carriage, go and get them, I want to help him stop the bleeding."

"But..." Jiang Xuelian didn't dare to leave casually; she was afraid that the group of people would come back again.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's tone instantly carried a hint of command: "Sister Xuelian, hurry up, this is a matter of life and death!" (End of chapter)