After being forced to leave the marriage, I became the wife of a top scholar.

Chapter 138 These people were mistreated

Bai Wanqing was also exhausted at this moment; she had indeed oversimplified things this time.

I originally thought they were just a few servants from the Fang family. With the escort agency my father hired, these people would be easy to capture.

The arrival of Lin Yunche's men would likely only alert the enemy and deter them, but unexpectedly, the Fang family would send these people.
"It was my oversight!" Bai Wanqing said, sweating profusely.

Feng Niang was a little frightened, but Bai Wanqing was her master after all. "I'll go see those men in black."

Bai Wanqing stopped her, "Fengniang, they've been poisoned and probably won't wake up for a while. You should ride your horse to find Lin Yunche now and have him send someone to take them back."

Fengniang thought for a moment, then said with some worry, "Madam, I'm worried about you being here alone."

Bai Wanqing barely managed to support herself and pulled out a few more bottles of hallucinogenic powder from her lower back. "I have this, they can't hurt me."

Fengniang thought about how everyone had looked earlier, nodded, unloaded the horses from the carriage, and rode off to find someone.

Bai Wanqing glanced at the three bodyguards behind her.

She gently shook the three of them, "Head镖师 (镖师 is a term used in martial arts novels), head镖师 (镖师 is a term used in martial arts novels), wake up quickly."

The head镖师 (bodyguard/escort) squinted and grinned, not even glancing at Bai Wanqing.

Bai Wanqing sighed softly, jumped out of the car, and decided to go and check on the eight men in black.
The eight men in black weren't in much better shape either. They were clinging to each other, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing. Bai Wanqing pulled one of them over and took his pulse. Fortunately, the poisoning wasn't severe, and he would wake up naturally.

However, their pulses were beating strangely, and they both seemed to have old injuries.

Could it be an injury they sustained during a previous mission? The man in black, seeing Bai Wanqing clutching his wrist, assumed she was his mother.

His eyes suddenly reddened, he pouted, and said in a childish voice, "Mommy! Mommy! Tiger is in pain, Tiger is in pain all over."

Bai Wanqing: Speechless for a moment, but he soon noticed that the man in black had an injury on his wrist.

She rolled up the man in black's sleeve, exposing his entire arm.

The dense array of wounds made Bai Wanqing's heart clench. She examined the wounds carefully and realized they were not marks from a fight, but rather signs of abuse.

While waiting for others, she examined the arms and legs of all the assassins in the car. Without exception, they all had injuries, all of them fine, dense wounds.

It is likely that she had already suffered a lot of inhuman abuse before this.

"Wanqing! Wanqing!" Just as Bai Wanqing was still lost in thought, Lin Yunche and Fengniang had already ridden over.

Bai Wanqing jumped out of the car and looked at the two of them, "Why are there only two of you?"

“We have three carriages, and I don’t know how to drive them.”

Lin Yunche jumped off his horse anxiously. He carefully looked Bai Wanqing up and down, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that she was not injured. "Don't worry, I brought a team of men with me. They are behind us."

Bai Wanqing nodded and said to Lin Yunche, "Husband, I found that these assassins have injuries!"

Lin Yunche frowned and said, "Since they are assassins, isn't it normal for them to be injured?"

Bai Wanqing shook her head. "No, their injuries are not simple."

Bai Wanqing lifted the curtain, and the eight people in the carriage were all naked, their arms and legs exposed. Feng Niang couldn't help but exclaim and turned around.

Lin Yunche's vision went black again and again, but when he saw that the men in black were still wearing clothes, he immediately calmed himself down.

Only then did they focus their attention on the man in black's arms and legs.

He examined the wounds of these people carefully. It was clear that the wounds were quite old, but the extent of their horrific state was still unbearable to look at.

"I'm afraid it was the people who trained them who did it," Lin Yunche said, frowning as he stepped down from the carriage.

Bai Wanqing nodded in agreement, and just as she was about to help all the men in black put on their clothes, Lin Yunche stopped her.

"I'll do it."

Bai Wanqing did not refuse. She had just turned around and taken two steps when she suddenly remembered what the man in black had said to her. Then she hurriedly turned around and got back into the carriage.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yunche asked as he dressed the man in black.

Bai Wanqing ripped off the mask of the man in black who had just cried out for his mother. Then, Lin Yunche and Bai Wanqing exchanged a glance.
Is this man Pan Hu?
Lin Yunche frowned and said, "He's a suicide squad member. Even if he's the person we're looking for, I'm still going to capture him."

Bai Wanqing clenched her wrist, her eyes sharp. "No one knows their origins. Whether they are men in black or not is up to me."

"You want to protect Pan Hu?"

"Do you know that these people have murder on their hands, and we don't even know if Pan Hu is a good person or a bad person? Are you really going to protect him?"

Bai Wanqing broke out in a cold sweat when she thought of Feng Niang's desperate fight against the men in black. How could Pan Hu not recognize his mother? Yet, he showed no mercy.

"What if I want to protect him?" Bai Wanqing was already thinking about what reasons she could use to persuade Lin Yunche.

Lin Yunche sighed and said, "Then let him change into a coachman's clothes. We need to be quick, or I won't be able to explain it when the others arrive."

Bai Wanqing glanced gratefully at Lin Yunche, then turned and got out of the car, pulling Fengniang to find old clothes.

"Madam, we left in a hurry, where are we going to find these old clothes? No, let's wait until we get home, I'll go and look for them for you." Fengniang was still confused and didn't know what was going on.

Bai Wanqing ignored her and instead pulled her back to their carriage.

"Come on, strip each of the three bodyguards of a piece of clothing."

After Bai Wanqing finished speaking, she began to undress. Fengniang's eyes widened, and she dared not ask any more questions. She also gritted her teeth and helped Bai Wanqing undress.

The two quickly scraped together a coachman's uniform from the three men. At this moment, Lin Yunche had also taken Pan Hu out of the black-clad man's carriage and placed him in the back of another carriage loaded with medicinal herbs.

"Come on, over here," Lin Yunche called to the two of them.

Bai Wanqing, carrying the clothes, walked towards Lin Yunche. Feng Niang, not understanding what was going on, followed behind. When she saw the person in the carriage, she was stunned.

"Tiger Boy".

"It really is Tiger."

Fengniang hugged Pan Hu, who was still grinning foolishly, and tears streamed down her face.

“Fengniang, Pan Hu’s current identity is sensitive. Let’s change his clothes first,” Bai Wanqing said.

Fengniang wiped away her tears, looked at Bai Wanqing gratefully, took the clothes from her hands, and prepared to change Pan Hu into them.

"Do you need my help?" Bai Wanqing asked.

Feng Niang immediately shook her head, "Madam, no need, I can do it myself."

Bai Wanqing nodded, "Then keep an eye on him and don't let him come out."

Feng Niang naturally understood, "Madam, thank you!"

Bai Wanqing laid out the unpleasant truth upfront: "Fengniang, right now I can only protect Pan Hu from going to jail, but Lord Lin will still interrogate and question him as he should."

"do you understand?"

Feng Niang paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "I understand."

"Madam, may I...?" Feng Niang was quite capable; she naturally had the ability to escape with Pan Hu.

Bai Wanqing saw through her thoughts at a glance. "Fengniang, it's both Pan Hu's misfortune and his good fortune that he fell into the hands of me and Lord Lin."

"If you take him away without permission, he'll probably have to live a life of fear and trepidation for the rest of his life. Is that what you want to see?"

Feng Niang raised her eyes, "Madam, I can take him very far."

Bai Wanqing slowly closed her eyes, then opened them a moment later and said, "He doesn't recognize you anymore. Do you think he'll listen to you?"

“I just checked the pulses of these assassins. Besides their old wounds, their pulses are very strange. They are probably poisoned very deeply.”

"I am not knowledgeable enough to cure this poison, but someone else can."

Bai Wanqing had made her point so clearly that Fengniang understood everything. She lowered her head and gave up on the idea of ​​running away.

She turned to look at Pan Hu, who was chuckling, and began to change his clothes.

"Mother! Mother! Tiger is in pain, Tiger's whole body hurts."

Pan Hu looked at Feng Niang with great fear as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Fengniang couldn't hold back any longer, and her eyes reddened. "Tiger, don't be afraid. Mom is here. With Mom here, no one can bully you anymore!"

Fengniang's words gradually calmed Pan Hu down, but when she saw that Pan Hu was covered in wounds, Fengniang could no longer hold back.

She hugged Pan Hu tightly and burst into tears.

Pan Hu tried to dodge, but Feng Niang was very strong, and he couldn't break free. However, when he heard Feng Niang say that she was his mother, he murmured, "Mother! Mother!"

Outside, the people Lin Yunche brought had already arrived at the carriage.

"Lord Lin, Madam Lin." The person who came was Bi Yi. He dismounted and bowed to Bai Wanqing and Lin Yunche.

Bai Wanqing immediately invited the man to stand up, saying, "Lord Bi, you don't need to be so polite."

Bi Yi turned around and vaguely heard the sound of weeping from the carriage beside him.

"Madam Lin, what's inside this carriage?"

Hearing the commotion outside, Fengniang immediately stopped crying and covered Pan Hu's mouth to prevent him from making a sound.

Bai Wanqing looked at the carriage and said, "It's my maid. She came out with me to pick up medicinal herbs, but we didn't expect to be robbed. The fight was fierce and she was frightened. She's still crying in the carriage."

Bi Yi didn't doubt it when he heard this. After all, it's normal to be frightened by such a thing. On the contrary, it would be abnormal for the prefect's wife to be so calm and composed.

Of course, Bi Yi didn't dwell on this. He was ordered to go to the carriage and bring out the remaining seven men in black. "Sir, should these men be handed over to Magistrate Zhou, or should we interrogate them ourselves?"

Lin Yunche, recalling Magistrate Zhou's previous actions, said coldly, "Have Magistrate Zhou take the man back and tell him that I will participate in the trial. Tell him to be prepared."

Bi Yi bowed his head in agreement, then led a group of wailing men in black away, leaving an official behind to drive the carriage.

Because they were afraid that Pan Hu would be exposed, Feng Niang drove Pan Hu's carriage.

Lin Yunche drove Bai Wanqing's carriage, while the remaining officials drove the carriage of the bodyguards. By the time they returned home, it was already dark.

Bai Wanqing asked Fengniang to take the person to her place first, while she went to the side courtyard to find Master Luo.

"Grandmaster, do you know how to cure poison?"

I'm taking a day off today, and will continue updating tomorrow.

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