Chapter 342
341, Ruthless and Merciless (3 more updates)
Especially the way the girl looked at the boy, just like a big sister looking at her little brother, indulgent, acquiescing to everything.
And the boy too, accepting the girl’s gifts without a hint of embarrassment, instead brimming with joy.
Xie Zhinuan even bought candied hawthorns for Xie Rong, who ate them while holding other things in her hands.
One moment she complained they were sour, the next praised their sweetness, reluctantly criticizing them but unwilling to part, she forced herself to eat.
Upon returning home, they had dinner, and then everyone retreated to their rooms.
Xie Zhinuan practiced his fists for an hour and his swordplay for another hour, bathed, read for a while, and then went to bed.
In his mind, he thought about going to the shop the next day…
Xie Zhinuan usually slept well and could fall asleep as soon as he decided to.
But tonight, someone couldn’t sleep.
All around were corpses and blood from the fierce battle.
Li Hengyi hadn’t expected that they would encounter bandits, and that these bandits would be so vicious. There were more of them than he had anticipated, and not only that, there were traps. If it weren’t for their superior martial arts skills, they would have fallen injured just by the first volley of deadly arrows.
Especially since the arrows were smeared with strong poison.
The bandits’ tactics had enraged Yuanbao. He drew his sword and charged, his every move deadly and fierce, slaying one man with each step.
Li Hengyi’s clothes were stained with blood.
By the time the last bandit fell, Li Hengyi stood on the mountaintop, looking behind at the bodies. He slowly turned around, while blood dripped from his sword.
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Yuanbao sat on a rock, wiping his hands with a handkerchief, and said softly, “My lord, it seems someone wants you dead!”“It’s not ‘seems’!” Li Hengyi whispered.
He was immensely grateful for the medicine pill Xie Zhinuan had given him before he left; they had all taken it, which was fortunate, for otherwise, if not for that and round after round of assassination attempts, of their sixteen men, hardly any might have survived.
Yuanbao let out a soft laugh.
The murderous intent in his eyes had not yet dissipated.
About a dozen guards either stood or sat, some drinking water.
Yet, not a single one spoke.
Li Hengyi glanced over the men, “Clean up, burn them all!”
Burned in this place, they would become wandering ghosts.
“Yes!”
They quickly went down, gathered the bodies into a pile, threw dry wood on top of the corpses, and slowly started the fire.
The smell wasn’t pleasant.
Some who were burned still had breath and let out pained cries.
Li Hengyi sat in the carriage, holding a pomelo and gently smelling it, his eyes deep and dark.
When it came to ruthlessness, brutality, and ferocity, he, Li Hengyi, was second to none.
It was only when the sky lightened, leaving behind a pile of bones, that no one would recognize, did Li Hengyi say, “Move on!”
His methods sent shivers down the spine of the person behind the scenes.
His Highness, when merciless and heartless, didn’t allow even the retrieval of bodies, a cruelty beyond even whipping a corpse at Mass Grave Mound.
“…”
But they still couldn’t swallow the defeat. If His Highness reached the Frontier, for the soldiers there, it would mean their backbone had arrived, and they would no longer be panicked and helpless.
The person behind the curtain hadn’t expected that His Highness had brought men of such high martial arts skill, who were practically in a league of their own, turning their bandit disguises into a complete rout, with none surviving but five.
Frontier
The Great General was comatose and critically poisoned, his life hanging by a thread.
And those who were delivering the medicine pills, including Duobao, were ambushed. Most crucially, the medicine pill was stolen.
When Duobao went in pursuit of the medicine pill, he disappeared without a trace, and his fate remains unknown.
When Li Hengyi received the news, he turned to Yuanbao.
Yuanbao exhaled softly, “I always advised him, but he never listens to me!”
They were brothers, naturally thinking of each other when they came across good things, but some matters couldn’t be spoken of; they had to be understood without words, not through direct communication.
After all, where there were many mouths, secrets might inadvertently slip out.
Chapter 343