Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 69 Help!

The sun had already set and the sky was gradually getting dark, but there were still many pedestrians walking on the street.

Yan Ciwan stopped a peddler and asked, pointing at the silk flowers in his basket.

"Can you show me this silk flower?"

"Of course." The peddler immediately placed the basket under the lantern on the roadside. With the light of the lantern, he could see the silk flowers more clearly.

Yan Ciwan bent down and picked up two silk flowers, pretending to choose them carefully, but her eyes glanced in the direction she came from without leaving a trace.

It was dim at night and I could only vaguely see a sneaky figure in the distance, but I couldn't see clearly what the person looked like.

"How much does this silk cost?"

"Ten cents a flower. Buy three and you can get one free."

Yan Ciwan still remembered how empty her purse was. She smiled apologetically at the peddler and said, "I don't have that much money on me. Sorry to bother you."

Seeing that she was polite and pretty, the peddler smiled and said, "No problem."

After Yan Ciwan put down the silk flower, he turned around and left with the medicine bag.

She walked and stopped along the way, and ended up going further and further away, with fewer and fewer people around.

There were no houses ahead, and there was nothing else on both sides of the road except trees. The night breeze blew gently, and a feeling of loneliness and desolation enveloped her.

Yan Ciwan rubbed his arms and muttered softly: "I seem to have taken the wrong road."

She was about to turn around and go back the way she came, but unexpectedly someone was approaching quietly from behind.

The man raised the stick and smashed it hard on her head!
However, the next moment, the stick was firmly caught by a hand.

The attacker looked in the direction of the hand and met Yan Ciwan's beautiful eyes with distinct black and white.

It was a dark and windy night, and the two men looked at each other.

Yan Ciwan saw the other person's face clearly, and it turned out to be the enthusiastic and honest clerk in Xuanji Pharmacy, Chen Wu!

It seems that Chen Wu has been following her secretly since she left the pharmacy. It was not until now when there was no one around that he felt the time, place and people were right, so he launched a sneak attack on her.

Chen Wu tried to take the stick back, but Yan Ciwan was too strong.

Even though he tried his best to hold back his anger until his face turned red, he still couldn't pull the stick out of her hand.

Her hand looked white and fragile, but it was extremely strong.

Chen Wu had no choice but to let go of the stick, reach into the bag on his shoulder, and pull out a shining dagger.

As soon as Yan Ciwan saw the dagger, he remembered the murder weapon that he had described based on Chaolu's description -

The blade is sharp and well-made, the handle is engraved with patterns and the surface is inlaid with gems.

Could he be the real murderer of the serial rape and murder case?

At this moment, Chen Wu no longer had any trace of his honesty. He looked ferocious, like a hungry wolf. He raised the dagger and stabbed it fiercely towards Yan Ci Wan's heart!

Yan Ciwan turned around and swung the stick hard, hitting Chen Wu's right arm.

Chen Wu screamed in pain, his right arm bent at an abnormal angle, obviously with broken bones.

The dagger slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Yan Ciwan threw another stick at Chen Wu, hitting him right on the side of the face.

He fell to the ground under this powerful force, his cheeks instantly became red and swollen, and he opened his mouth to spit out a mouthful of blood foam. Upon closer inspection, two teeth were mixed in the blood foam.

At this moment, Chen Wu was already dizzy and in so much pain that he no longer had the strength to hurt anyone. Yan Ciwan took out an embroidered handkerchief, wrapped the dagger, and picked it up from the ground.

She observed carefully in the moonlight and found that the dagger was indeed very similar to the murder weapon Chaolu mentioned. It seemed that she had to take it to the government office and compare it with the wound on Lan Ying's chest.

Yan Ciwan glanced at Chen Wu, who looked like a lost dog, and asked, "Why did you attack me?"

Chen Wu said nothing.

Yan Ciwan asked again: "Did He Chunzhuo send you here?"

Chen Wu remained silent, just struggling desperately, trying to get up from the ground.

Just at this moment, footsteps were heard in the distance.

Someone is coming this way!

Yan Ciwan hit Chen Wu on the forehead again, knocking him unconscious.

Then she threw the stick and dagger to the ground, and rubbed her eyes hard. When her eye sockets turned red, she sat down on the ground, holding onto a tree by the roadside, and screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Help! Help!!"

The footsteps approached rapidly.

The man was wearing a loose and flowing dark blue Taoist robe and holding a lantern in his right hand.

Yan Ciwan used the dim light to see the other person's face clearly. It was Xiao Wang!
Seeing that it was an acquaintance, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She no longer pretended and stood up directly by holding the tree trunk, and patted the dust off her skirt.

She looked at Xiao Wang who was approaching quickly and asked, "Didn't you go back to the imperial residence? Why are you here?"

Xiao Wang first looked her up and down, and after making sure that she was safe and sound, he began to answer her questions.

"You offended Qi Ming and Chao Yue badly during the day, and I was worried that they would retaliate. After finding Lu Hua, I immediately rushed to the government office to confirm your safety, but was told that you had already left. I then looked for you along the route back to the official post station, but found nothing. You didn't return to the official post station at all. I guessed that you might have been in danger, so I asked the people in Shangguan Post Station to help look for you."

Yan Ciwan asked, "Did you find Luhua?"

"Well, she was locked up in the woodshed in the backyard of the Chao Mansion. She was slightly injured, but she was still in good spirits. I asked Uncle Jiu to rescue her and hand her over to Jade Purity Master of Ci Xin Temple to help take care of her. Madam Chao is doing well now. I asked Uncle Jiu to stay near Taoran Residence and continue to protect her safety."

After Xiao Wang finished talking about the court, he looked at Chen Wu, whose head was covered in blood, and asked, "I heard you shouting just now. What happened? Who is this person?"

Yan Ciwan recounted what had happened to him just now.

Xiao Wang looked at Chen Wu who had fainted on the ground with a very solemn expression.

"Could this person be arranged by Qi Ming or Chao Yue?"

"I don't know. He's very stubborn and won't say anything."

Matters like interrogating prisoners have to be left to professionals. Yan Ciwan decided to hand Chen Wu over to Wei Lansheng for disposal. Coincidentally, the internal guards came over at this time, and Yan Ciwan asked them to send Chen Wu to the government office.

It was already night, and Wei Lansheng could have gone back to rest, but Yan Ciwan suddenly came to his house, forcing him to stay.

He called a doctor to treat Chen Wu.

The doctor said that Chen Wu was seriously injured. His right arm was completely broken. Even if the bones were reconnected, he would still be disabled. His forehead and cheeks were hit hard. Although he would not die, he would not be able to wake up in a short time.

"The man who did this must be extremely strong. He must be an expert in martial arts who has practiced martial arts for many years. He must be very tall and strong." This was the doctor's assessment.

When Wei Lansheng learned that Chen Wu would not wake up for the time being, he assigned two servants to take turns looking after him.

Wei Lansheng then returned to Rongxinyuan and found Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang who were resting there.

(End of this chapter)