Chapter 437

The only thing they did not expect was that Suyun would turn traitor.

Why would Suyun turn traitor so simply?

Su Qiao suddenly whipped his head around and fixed his gaze on her.

"Speak. You shouldn't be this weak and fragile, should you?"

A guess and an idea suddenly formed in Su Qiao's mind, and he asked it out directly.

The weak and charming demeanor on Suyun's face vanished instantly, and her entire temperament changed at once.

If before she was a gentle woman whose nature made people want to protect and pity her,

now Suyun gave Su Qiao a sharp, cold, and glamorous style of a mature sister.

Exactly!

Su Qiao thought for a long while in his mind, and still felt the term "cold and glamorous mature sister" seemed very suitable for Suyun.

Suyun's entire person suddenly became ice-cold, as if she were an ice mountain goddess.

Sun Youxu couldn't help but place his left hand on the sword hilt.

"At such close range, if I strike, you will have no chance."

Suyun glanced at Sun Youxu with a calm tone and said.

Sun Youxu's face stiffened, but he still blocked in front of Su Qiao. "If you intend harm against Mr. Su, you must pass over my corpse, whether I can block you or not!"

291, the mastermind big boss!

"Enough. I know you are loyal. We won't need you for now. She won't strike me; if she were going to strike, she would have done so already."

Su Qiao patted Sun Youxu's shoulder and said.

A look of shame appeared on Sun Youxu's face. "Your subordinate... your subordinate is ashamed!"

"Don't talk such useless nonsense. Even if she is powerful, this Young Master is no pushover."

"Hmm?"

Hearing Su Qiao's words, Suyun paused for a moment, somewhat puzzled.

She did not know what reliance a weak scholar like Su Qiao, who could not even tie a chicken, could have.

Su Qiao pointed to the beam overhead and the hand crossbow trap placed on a shelf in the corner.

Several positions had hand crossbow triggers.

As long as Su Qiao pulled them, the crossbow bolts would be fired.

In such a closed and relatively narrow space, even if Suyun's martial arts were powerful, she could not dodge them.

A Solemn expression also appeared on Suyun's beautiful face.

Clearly she had not noticed; instead, she was extremely surprised and shocked.

Sun Youxu also saw Su Qiao's setup, opened his mouth, and had a huge number of questions in his mind.

He very much wanted to know how Su Qiao had set it up.

He had not heard the Embroidered Uniform Guard report any assistance.

However, his face was much better now.

"Mr. Su..."

"You go aside first. If Lady Suyun does not mind, please explain in detail to me."

Su Qiao pointed to a seat and said to Suyun.

Suyun looked at Su Qiao, then nodded, and sat down by the table.

Su Qiao chose to sit opposite her.

Sun Youxu stood properly behind Su Qiao.

"My lord, the reason I agreed to the Lu family's matter is that I actually have a grudge against the Lu family. The Lu family is hard to deal with. Although I infiltrated them, I had no opportunity at all."

Suyun gently opened her cherry lips and explained to Su Qiao.

Su Qiao pressed further, "With your skills, you still cannot take revenge?"

"Yes. The Lu family has never been as simple as the wealthy merchants on the surface. There are people secretly protecting their main family head, Lu Hong. Furthermore, I do not have a grudge against the Lu family alone; I have a grudge against all four families!"

As if knowing Su Qiao had a belly full of questions, Suyun proceeded to explain her situation in detail.

It turned out that Suyun's own family was also a wealthy household.

They were also a rich family engaged in smuggling overseas.

But although they were wealthy, their power could not compare to the Lu family and the others.

However, for some unknown reason, Suyun's family suddenly cooperated with the Lu family and the other three families one day.

They said they would go overseas together to make a fortune. In the past, Suyun's family would return after reaching the Strait of Malacca at the farthest; they would not go to places farther away.

Yet unable to resist the Lu family and the others' enticement, they decided to explore farther places.

Although there was danger, that was understandable; life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and rank by heaven.

But who knew that the Lu family and the others were not good people at all; after going out, they lost all credibility and immediately became pirates.

They directly slaughtered and plundered Suyun's fleet; all treasures and goods were stolen, and the bodies were thrown into the sea.

Suyun's father and uncles all died.

Originally, on the boundless sea, no one would know about this matter.

Even if the Lu family returned and pretended to weep and complain, saying they encountered a sea storm and went missing, no one could determine the truth or falsehood.

But the Lu family and the others were truly disgusting.

After returning, they fabricated news that Suyun's father and the others had met with disaster, severing their own suspicious connections.

They even used the name of the original partners to forcibly seize Suyun family's business.

And the things the Lu family and the others did at sea had their tails not cleaned up properly.

Two members of the Suyun family hadn't died, and had happened to be rescued.

Then the truth was learned from their mouths and sent back to Fuzhou City.

At this point, the Lu family and the others truly tore off the sheepskin, no longer pretending to be sheep.

That very night, they disguised themselves as bandits and slaughtered the Suyun family.

The Suyun family had only been left with the old, the weak, and widows; their money and business had also been seized by the Lu family and the others, so they had basically no money at all, and couldn't even afford to hire a courtyard guard.

The result could well be imagined.

Only Suyun, who was just over six years old, escaped the catastrophe.

Afterwards, she fell into being a beggar, but fortunately was adopted by a household.

This family's purpose in adopting Suyun was also very simple: to take the place of their own daughter and marry her off to a gambling ghost — that is, Suyun's former husband.

Suyun could be considered to have taken over that family's daughter's identity.

As for the reason why, Suyun didn't say, and Su Qiao didn't continue to dig into it.

He could judge that what Suyun said was the truth, with no concealment whatsoever.

"So that's how it is. Since that's the case, then what's the story with your martial arts?"

"Family tradition, but I always practiced them in secret."

"Alright, so it turns out you're actually a martial arts prodigy!"

Su Qiao felt she had no need to lie — otherwise, wouldn't it have been simpler to just hide the matter of the martial arts on her body?

Exposing it like this, further arousing Su Qiao's vigilance — what good would that do?

But now what Su Qiao was even more curious about was how she wanted to cooperate.

"You came to find this official, you must want this official to help you get revenge. Besides that?"

"Nothing else. As long as my lord is willing to avenge this commoner woman, this commoner woman is willing to be your slave or your maid!"

Saying so, Suyun dropped to her knees with a thud right in front of Su Qiao.

"Then why didn't you go to other officials to file a complaint before?"

"My lord, the officials of Fuzhou Prefecture are actually in cahoots with the Lu family's four great clans. If this commoner woman went to file a complaint, not only would there be no result, she would also be silenced!"

Suyun said very certainly.

Su Qiao was a bit stunned at this. If one were to say that Liu Ming and the others had some entanglement with Lu Hong and their 707, he would believe it.

After all, if a merchant wanted to grow big, they definitely had to form good ties with officials; otherwise, dealing with some local bullies and the like would be extremely troublesome.

With the power of the government, it would be different — the deterrent effect would be extremely strong, and only then could business grow big and run smoothly.

However, from what Su Qiao heard Suyun's meaning to be, the relationship between Liu Ming and the others was not that ordinary kind at all — it seemed to be a binding of interests.

If that were the case, then the problem would be serious!