Not only was Er Gouzi screaming like something no longer human, the accomplices who had been dragged in by Han Ding and the others were also trembling in fear and disbelief when they saw that Qi Yuan, such a delicate-looking young girl, could strike so ruthlessly in an instant.
The scalding boiling water combined with the bone-piercing pain of the shards made Er Gouzi roll back and forth on the ground. His mouth began spewing filthy curses in chaotic rage: “You stinking woman, you’d better watch yourself in the future! I’ll definitely sell you into a brothel and make your life worse than death! You stinking, ”
His words stopped abruptly, because Qi Yuan had already bent down to pick up a shard and fiercely stabbed it into his neck.
Warm blood instantly burst out along with a miserable scream, splashing onto the face of the person Han Ding was stepping on. That person was completely stunned.
Murder?!
Just like that, murder?!
Although they were hooligans, what they usually did was only bully the weak, collect protection fees, and harass the lonely and defenseless. Killing someone was something they had never even thought about.
But the frail-looking young girl they had assumed to be weak had struck with extraordinary speed and decisiveness.
Er Gouzi had not even said a few more sentences before he was dead!
Babao cast them a disdainful glance and sneered inwardly.
A bunch of frogs at the bottom of a well, did they really think Miss Qi was a soft persimmon? To bully Miss Qi was nothing short of brandishing a broadsword in front of Guan Gong.
Truly looking for death with a lantern, he had seen stupid people before, but never ones this stupid.
Several hooligans in the room were so frightened their legs went weak. Seeing Qi Yuan turn around to look at them, they shivered uncontrollably.
Qi Yuan, however, stopped moving. She casually pulled a chair and sat down, leaning forward coldly to look at the man whose face and head were now covered in blood. With a faint smile that wasn’t quite a smile, she asked, “You now have two choices, do you want to live, or do you want to die?”
The man swallowed nervously, only to see Qi Yuan calmly pick up the fruit knife from the table and lightly examine it.
…
He had no doubt that if he dared say anything unpleasant, the next moment that dagger would be driven into his neck.
Just like Er Gouzi earlier, dead without a sound.
This woman was too terrifying!
Too terrifying!
His lips trembled, when suddenly Wang Hu from the same village shouted loudly beside him: “Shitou, don’t be a coward!”
Then he turned to glare at Qi Yuan and roared angrily: “You d*mn b*tch, do you think I was scared growing up? If you’ve got guts, come at me!”
Babao immediately rolled his eyes.
He had seen people courting death, but never anyone this impatient.
Qi Yuan did not even blink. With a flick of her hand, the dagger in her hand accurately pierced straight into Wang Hu’s heart.
Afterward she slowly curled her lips: “It doesn’t matter. If all of you want to die, you can all die. I don’t mind asking someone else.”
No one truly wasn’t afraid of death. If killing Er Gouzi had still left everyone in shock, by now they were all thoroughly terrified.
Because they clearly realized that Qi Yuan really would kill.
She meant what she said.
There was no feeling in the world more unbearable than clearly knowing your own death was approaching.
The room fell silent as a grave.
With a thud, Shitou dropped to his knees, his voice trembling: “I’ll talk! I’ll talk, I’ll tell everything!”
They had taken this job in the end only for money, but if their lives were gone, what use was money?!
Shitou felt as though his soul had fled. In all his life, he had never seen anyone kill more easily than slaughtering a pig.
The courage he had earlier had completely vanished.
Qi Yuan lowered her eyes to look at him and asked casually, “Who told you to incite these tenant farmers to come here and kneel? And who told you to kill someone and create chaos?”
She was indeed a little curious.
The Song family, County Lady Luochuan, or Xiao Jingzhao?
Which of the three sides was so eager to act?
Shitou shook his head nervously: “We, we don’t know their identities. We only know they came to our village, found us on the street, gave us a one-thousand-tael banknote, and said if we helped with something, we’d be given another three thousand taels after it was done…”
His voice trembled as he spoke, his whole body shaking nonstop.
Qi Yuan gave a soft “mm,” leaned back in the chair, and continued asking: “Then if you really had killed a tenant farmer and the tenant farmers started making trouble…”
Shitou hurried to answer: “Th-then go to the big banyan tree outside the village and release a signal… After that, they would naturally take over.”
Take over?
The word was used rather interestingly.
If someone really had died, people like Er Gouzi who were fishing in troubled waters would naturally seize the chance to frame Liu Zhong and the others for the murder.
The two sides would inevitably clash.
Under such circumstances, the estate’s people would certainly report to the authorities, but the people behind the scenes still planned to “take over”…
Take over?
Qi Yuan pondered the word again. The teacup in her hand suddenly flipped onto the table with a loud bang.
Shitou and the others trembled in fright.
But Qi Yuan had already grabbed Shitou by the collar and yanked him up.
Shitou’s heart nearly stopped. He was terrified out of his wits: “Miss, Miss, spare me! I’ve already said everything I know, everything!”
Qi Yuan shouted sharply: “Shut up!”
Shitou immediately shrank his neck, his voice cutting off.
“I will have my people pretend to be your companions and go with you to the place where the signal is to be released. Remember this, if you make even the slightest mistake or say even one wrong word, I will chop you into pieces and throw you to the wolves. Do you hear me?!”
Killing intent surged in Qi Yuan’s eyes.
Shitou had never seen such a terrifying gaze. Under her stare, he felt as if even his bones had gone soft.
He did not doubt her words at all. If Qi Yuan said she would chop him into pieces, then not one piece more or less would remain.
He immediately burst into tears: “Yes! Yes! I remember, I remember!”
Qi Yuan flung him aside and looked at him with a dark expression: “You’d better remember. Otherwise I’ll make your life worse than death!”
Then she looked at Han Ding and Lin Yu: “You two take him to the agreed place!”
Han Ding hesitated thoughtfully: “Miss…”
“The people behind this want to use these thugs to escalate the situation and then label it as a civilian uprising!” Qi Yuan took a deep breath, her expression completely cold. “If a civilian uprising truly breaks out, the dead won’t be only those in this estate, nearby households will also be implicated! Take him there and find a way to stall them for a while.”
Han Ding sucked in a sharp breath.
Of course he knew what a civilian uprising meant.
After going through such a big detour, these people were actually trying to wipe out the entire estate in one sweep!
He hurriedly acknowledged the order.
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