Inside the Weiyuan Dart Office, it is empty and the formerly lively martial arts training ground has cooled down. The people inside the dart office left one after another as early as the moment they heard that the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi had entered the city, leaving only the four members of the Qi family.
Qi Wu was persuading Madam Qi, “Madam, you and Ying’er should go first, Run’er and I will stay behind.”
Madam Qi shook her head slightly, her voice was hoarse and before she could say anything, tears were flowing down her face again, “I want to stay and collect Qian’er’s body, I can’t leave him here alone.”
Qi Wu opened his mouth, he had slipped silver to the soldiers guarding the city gate yesterday on the pretext of receiving a dart and secretly made a trip to the mass grave. There were all white bones there, and it was impossible to tell which ones were Qin Qian’s.
“That little girl Song Wan Yue is very clever, if she suddenly comes over in the past two days and finds out about the abnormalities in the dartboard, she will definitely get suspicious, Madam should go with Ying’er first.”
Madame Qi still shook her head.
Qi Wu was unable to do so and gestured for Qi Run and Qi Ying to help persuade her.
“Mother ……”
Qi Ying had just opened her mouth when she was interrupted by Madam Qi, “No one should persuade me, my mind is made up, as long as I can get Gu Yi executed, it is worth losing this life.”
“Madam ……”
Madam Qi got up and walked towards the inner room.
Qi Wu let out a long sigh.
……
“Third prince, Your Highness, the man is awake.”
Imperial Doctor Zheng came over to report.
“Carry the man …….”
Before the Third Prince could finish his orders, he was interrupted by the Duke of Qi, “I’ll go over and take a look.”
“Why should Grandfather do so.”
The descendant of Marquis Wu Bo was also a capital offence, and if it wasn’t for the fact that Qin Qian was still of some use, he would have had someone throw him to a mass grave to feed the wild dogs just now.
The Duke of Qi waved his hand and Zheng Imperial Doctor retreated.
“I know how you think, but we are in the open, there are so many things we can’t do, so we can just let Qin Qian and the others do it. When we confirm Gu Yi’s identity, wouldn’t it be better to capture him into the city and kill all these people at the same time?”
“Grandfather is more thoughtful, in that case, I’ll trouble Grandfather.”
The Duke of Qi got up and went to Qin Qian’s house.
Qin Qian’s wounds had already been treated, and his body was covered with a thin blanket. When he saw Duke Qi enter, he struggled to get up and bowed.
The Duke of Qi sat down in front of him and stopped his movements, “Your whole body is injured now, don’t move around.”
Qin Qian was grateful.
The moment he woke up just now, remembering what he had said before he fell unconscious, he was remorseful, if he could have gritted his teeth and said nothing, at most he would have died alone, but he had said everything himself and risked losing everyone’s lives.
“I had quite a few friendships with Marquis Wu Bo back in the day ……”
Qin Qian slightly froze.
“At that time when the late emperor was still alive, I had just joined the imperial court and went to the south with Marquis Wu to control the flooding, when I passed a mountain, a stone was washed down by the rain, fortunately Marquis Wu pushed me and saved me from the disaster, I was so grateful to Marquis Wu that after I returned to the capital, I often invited him out for a drink, only I didn’t expect… …”
After a pause, Qi Guogong said, “Don’t worry, since you are his descendants, I will naturally protect you, and when Gu Yi’s identity is confirmed, I will definitely let you go.”
Qin Qian was grateful, “Many thanks to Lord Qi.”
The Duke of Qi waved his hand, “Before you passed out, you said that your aunt’s family ran a dart board, is that in Qingping County?”
“Yes.”
“You tell me the address, I’ll ask the guards to send a message to them to come over.”
“Call the Wayfarer’s Dart Office, you’ll see it at a glance when you enter West Street.”
Qi Guofang patted the covers on him soothingly and got up to leave, leaving the door, his expression sinking as he instructed his guards to go and summon someone over.
The guards asked the magistrate where West Street was and rode over, the dart board’s doors were closed and the guards thumped the doors.
Qi Run and Qi Ying had just come out of Madame Qi’s house when they heard the sharp knock on the door and looked at each other, a bad feeling rising in their hearts at the same time.
Qi Wu also heard it and came out with big steps, “Run’er, go and get your weapons, Ying’er, go back inside and stay with your mother, if you hear a fight outside, take your mother and go first, if she refuses to go, knock her out.”
Qi Ying stepped back into the house, Qi Run brought two weapons over and followed Qi Wu to the front and back of the gate as he ducked to one side.
Qi Wu stood behind the door, “Who is it?”
The knocking stopped, “Qin Qian sent me.”
Qian’er?
Qi Wu was busy opening the door, sensing the guard’s scent, and took another wary step back, “Who are you?”
The guard’s face was expressionless as he swept past Qi Run, who was holding his weapon aside, “Qin Qian is not dead, he is in the government office and wants to see you.”
“How can that be? He’s not already ……”
Qi Wu stepped one foot over the threshold.
“That was Qingping County’s blindfold to draw you out, and he has now defected to his lord and the Duke of State.”
Qi Wu and Qi Run looked at each other in shock.
The guard impatiently urged, “The master wants to see you, hurry up.”
The master?
The Third Prince?
Qi Wu’s foot subconsciously retracted, if what the person in front of him was saying was true, Qian’er should have already told them everything, and now with their status as sinners, wouldn’t the Third Prince have them taken down immediately when he saw them?
“Don’t worry ……”
Seeming to see his doubts, the guard said in a cold voice, “Qin Qian has already defected to his master, and now you are all his people.”
Defected to the Third Prince?
Qi Wu’s mind buzzed, Qin Qian was conspiring with the tiger and would harm them all.
“You, you wait a moment, I, we’ll pack up.”
The guard seemed to see his intentions and gave him a facial expression.
A chill ran through Qi Wu’s limbs at the look.
The guard led the horse away into the shade.
Qi Wu shut the door with a bang and pulled Qi Run towards the backyard, while walking, he sharply instructed, “Don’t want anything, you take your mother and your sister and hurry through the back door.”
Qi Run also knew that the matter was important, so he answered and ran quickly to Madam Qi’s house, “Mother, little sister, hurry up and leave. ”
“What’s wrong?”
The package had been packed up long ago and placed to one side, Qi Run put the weapons in his hands on the table and only picked up one of the boxes, “Cousin is not dead, he has defected to the Third Prince, the people outside have come to summon us over.”
“Qian’er is not dead?”
Lady Qi was ecstatic.
“Yes, he is not dead, but he has defected to the Third Prince, which is tantamount to conspiring with a tiger, sooner or later we will not end up well, you mothers should go, I will go over and hold them back.”
Qi Wu followed closely.
“I’ll go along for you.”
“No way!”
Qi Wu quickly opened his wardrobe and took out his own clothes, “You mothers and sisters hurry up and take your eldest sister and brother-in-law and hide as far away as you can without us.”
After saying that, without avoiding Qi Ying, he quickly changed, took another dagger and put it in his sleeve, turned to go outside, and was yanked by Madam Qi.