Qi Wu gritted his teeth and flipped his hand, forcing back the man who had cut him, leaping up and disappearing into the darkness with a few leaps.
Several figures did not give chase, but merely carried away a few bodies to dispose of them, and then, retreated back into the darkness.
Silence returned to the surroundings, as if nothing had just happened.
Xiao Si returned to Gu Yi’s courtyard and stood at the door to report, “Young Master, it was Qi Wu, as you instructed, and left him alive.”
“Understood.”
Qi Wu hid in Gu’s village, hiding behind a straw bale, holding his breath and listening for movement outside. After a while he heard nothing, he dared to take out the gold sore medicine he had on him, sprinkling it on the wound, and pulled off a piece of his sleeve to wrap the wound. When he reached the gates of the city, he called for them to be opened.
When he saw that he was alone, the soldier who opened the gate was puzzled.
Qi Wu didn’t bother to talk to him and galloped all the way back to the dartboard.
When he heard the sound of hoof beats, he opened the gate and saw Qi Wu dismounting from his horse and stumbling towards the door, he was shocked and rushed out to help him, “Are you injured?”
“Go inside and talk.”
Qi Run helped him inside.
Once inside, seeing that his left arm was covered in blood, Madam Qi was shocked and in a shaky voice ordered someone to fetch hot water while she helped Qi Wu clean the wound.
The wound was deep to the bone and by the time she had finished cleaning it, Qi Wu’s clothes were soaked through with pain, Qi Run sprinkled him with gold sore medicine and used gauze to bind him up.
“The rest of the men are folded there.”
Qi Wu slowed down and spoke out heavily.
Madam Qi fell back into her chair, Qi Wu’s martial arts skills needless to say, in all the years of escorting darts, he had never been injured, and those few dart masters were also considered superior in martial arts, but surprisingly, all of them were dead.
Qi Run was also very shocked, he was supposed to go tonight, but was stopped by his own father, if not, it is possible that his life would have stayed there too.
“All of them were killed with a single slash, I noticed something was wrong and got hit when I stepped back, those people’s martial arts, they were so unfathomable!”
Qi Wu was also distraught.
Back then when his own wife married him she told him about the blood feud of the Marquis of Wu Bo’s house, that she herself must take revenge, and that if Qi Wu accepted and helped her to take revenge, she would marry him. Against the then King of Qin, he did not dare to respond, but he fell in love with his wife at first sight and could not forget it, and after three days of consideration, he agreed. He thought that there was a time when people doze off and horses lose their footing, and in case King Chin fell that day, his wife’s blood feud would not have to be avenged.
A few years later, King Qin’s house did fall, and he was relieved when he heard that King Qin’s son had been escaped with the house’s underlings. He thought it would be much easier to kill a child, after all, how many loyal underlings would risk the crime of treason to protect a child growing up?
But after all these years, he and the men of the dartboard had travelled all over the place on the occasion of escorting dartboards, but had not found even a single piece of information, thinking that perhaps the son of the King of Qin had died long ago and his bones might have turned to dust. He and his wife had given up the idea of looking for him, but they didn’t expect to see Gu Yi by chance. They didn’t dare to try anything, but now they think it’s lucky that they didn’t, otherwise, I’m afraid his dartboard would have been gone long ago.
Madam Qi snapped to her feet, “Let’s go to the county court and tell the Third Prince to send someone ……”
Qi Wu interrupted him, “Madam doesn’t need to make this extra effort, if they wanted to send someone, they wouldn’t have asked me to bring someone with me.”
Madam Qi fell back into a sitting position.
The Weiyuan Dart Bureau had gradually grown bigger over the years, with forty to fifty dart masters. She had once thought that if one day Gu Yi’s identity was established, these men would be enough to take down the Gu family, but now it seemed that she had thought too simply, these dart masters were no match for those of the Gu family.
“But no matter what, it’s time to give a word to the Third Prince, those in the open cannot be moved, those in the dark can always be.”
Qi Wu pondered slightly, “Rune has a point, you accompany me ……”
Before the words were finished, he changed his mind again, “Madam, accompany me on a trip.”
The third prince had not seen Run’er, and when the day came to unload and kill her, Run’er might have a way to escape.
Madame Qi understood what Qi Wu meant and immediately got up and went to the magistrate’s office with him.
It was past midnight and all the people in the magistrate’s office had gone to bed, so it was quiet inside and outside the magistrate’s office.
As soon as the two of them approached the magistrate’s office, a guard leapt out from the shadows and put his hand against Qi Wu’s neck, “Who is it?”
“Qi Wu of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau, he was ordered by the Third Prince to visit the Gu family, and is now coming over to repeat his orders.”
The guard withdrew his sword and flew in to report, but a moment later, the side door opened and led the two men in.
Seeing the gauze on Qi Wu’s arm, the Third Prince’s face sank first, “Didn’t I tell you not to do anything?”
Qi Wu dared not argue and told him what had just happened.
The Third Prince narrowed his eyes when he heard that several of the dart masters had been killed in one move. When Qin entered the palace to assassinate his father, this hidden guard did not follow, and later disappeared without a trace, which was why he asked Qi Wu to take his men to test it out first.
“Have you ever seen their moves?”
Qi Wu replied cautiously, “No.”
“Rubbish!”
The two Qi Wu fell to their knees in a poof.
Coldness flooded the Third Prince’s eyes, and if these two were not still of some use, he would have had his guards drag them out and dispose of them on the spot.
“I think it is 80% or 90% certain that Gu Yi is the son of King Qin, so you can send someone out immediately.”
Qi Wu suggested carefully.
“Strike out and do what? Destroy the Gu family? Calling you a waste is an exaggeration, you’re even worse than a waste! What’s the use of exterminating the Gu family, what this emperor wants is proof that Gu Yi is the son of King Qin, proof! Do you understand?”
The Qi Wu couple did not dare to speak.
The Third Prince took a few sips of tea to suppress the fire in his heart, only when he got the proof that Gu Yi was the son of King Qin, and took him to the capital to hand over to his father, would he be considered to have done a great service.
The Duke of Qi came in, glanced at the two kneeling men and sat down on one side, “The Third Prince and I thought that you had run the dart board for many years and had certain means, but now it seems that we overestimated you, you can’t even do such a simple thing.”
“The Third Prince forgives! Your Majesty, forgive me!”
“If you want our forgiveness you can, you can do one more thing for us, and if it is done, I promise you can take your family and go far away.”
Qi Wu was overjoyed, “Your Highness, please do as you wish.”
“I’ve heard that the Song family deals in hot pot bases and herbal teas, think about getting the recipe for us.”