Although Xie Chengrui knew some martial arts, the current situation left him completely dumbfounded. Black-clad men swarmed out from all around and completely surrounded his men.
Those black-clad men were agile and ruthless. The number of the men Xie Chengrui had brought gradually decreased. Seeing this, Xie Chengrui nervously swallowed hard, and even his feet began to tremble slightly.
Xie Jiuan had the upper hand in the fight, so Gu Jiangyue didn't go out. Instead, she hid aside and secretly observed.
Xie Chengrui trembled as he climbed out of the carriage. He looked around and was surprised to find that no one was paying attention to him. Immediately, a surge of delight welled up in his heart, and he turned around and ran.
Seeing that Xie Chengrui was about to run away, Gu Jiangyue anxiously glanced at the black-clad man. Finding that his expression was calm and composed, Gu Jiangyue then understood that he had deliberately let Xie Chengrui go.
It was all part of a plan to lead Xie Chengrui into another trap.
Xie Chengrui seemed to think that there would be no trouble during this transportation of the relief grain, so he had brought only a small number of men, and their martial arts skills were not that good. They were quickly subdued.
Gu Jiangyue looked down at the grain scattered all over the ground and let out a long sigh. Xie Chengrui had run away without a care, not giving a thought to the grain at all. He was still the selfish villain he had always been.
The weather was not good that day. Dark clouds covered most of the sky, and from time to time, strong winds blew, kicking up clouds of dust.
"Quickly transport the grain away, lest something else goes wrong," Gu Jiangyue said and then began to call on people to pick up the bags of grain on the ground and load them onto the carts they had prepared in advance.
Meanwhile, Xie Jiuan started to deal with the remaining men who were still alive.
Xie Jiuan took out a small white porcelain bottle from Ji Yunsheng's hand. Ji Yunsheng looked at Xie Jiuan resentfully as he took out several pills according to the number of people and distributed them to them.
"Do you know how difficult it is for this valley master to refine pills? You might as well just give them one and let them fight for it!" Ji Yunsheng stamped his feet angrily beside them. His good-looking face was full of displeasure, and the silver ornaments on his body jingled with his movements.
"I provided the materials. How did they become yours?" Xie Jiuan continued to distribute the pills and casually replied to Ji Yunsheng with a smile.
"Take this and you'll die painlessly. Those who don't want to can go over there." Xie Jiuan pointed to the other side after he finished speaking. There stood two black-clad men with swords in their hands. The thin blades glinted coldly, and just one look was enough to send a chill down one's spine.
Xie Jiuan was not without his own motives. Although he knew that the guards had no choice in serving their masters and were not willing to do bad things, so what? Being soft-hearted would only bring him trouble.
All he could do was to let them die quickly. This was Xie Jiuan's last concession. If there were really some who didn't know better, he wouldn't let them live.
After hearing Xie Jiuan's words, most of the people looked at the pills in their hands and swallowed them. After a while, they fell to the ground and there was no more sign of life.
After Gu Jiangyue finished dealing with the grain, she also walked over to the two of them.
She looked at the corpses on the ground, her face unusually calm. After all, the scene of the more than 120 members of the Gu family being killed by Xie Chengrui and Gu Zhengwan was far more terrifying than this.
However, what surprised her was that Xie Jiuan was not as ruthless as she had thought. Instead, he had principles.
Gu Jiangyue told the black-clad man about the grain.
"There are a total of five large carts, which should be about 5,000 catties. Once we transport them back to the capital, we can start the next step."
Gu Jiangyue was facing Xie Jiuan. As soon as she finished speaking, she looked up at him. But as soon as she looked up, she saw a very familiar figure behind Xie Jiuan.
Gu Jiangyue's eyes sharpened. Almost instantly, she recognized the person - Xie Chengrui.
When something seems abnormal, there must be something fishy going on. Besides, he had just run away without looking back. Gu Jiangyue was just about to tell Xie Jiuan when she saw Xie Chengrui take out a sleeve arrow. With one smooth motion, he shot an arrow at Xie Jiuan's back.
Xie Chengrui had indeed been about to run away just now, but he couldn't just let these people rob his relief grain without a fight. He had originally wanted to find out who had sent these people, but they were all wearing masks.
Since he couldn't see their faces, Xie Chengrui wouldn't let them off easily either.
"Watch out!" Gu Jiangyue let out a scream and then lunged towards Xie Jiuan.
But the sleeve arrow seemed to be specially made. It flew extremely fast, making a faint whistling sound as it cut through the air. In the dust, Gu Jiangyue couldn't see it clearly.
Xie Jiuan didn't know what was going on yet, but Gu Jiangyue's reaction told him that there was danger.
Xie Jiuan quickly grabbed Gu Jiangyue and pulled her towards him. Not knowing exactly what was happening, he could only try his best to avoid the original position.
Xie Jiuan only felt Gu Jiangyue in his arms let out a scream, and then her whole body began to tremble.
Seeing that he had hit someone, Xie Chengrui didn't dare to stay any longer and turned around to run. Xie Jiuan wanted to send someone to chase him, but was stopped by Gu Jiangyue.
"I'm fine. Don't go after him. The overall situation is more important."
Although the sleeve arrow didn't hit Gu Jiangyue directly, it had grazed her left shoulder. Her lips were a little pale.
Xie Jiuan glanced at Xie Chengrui's fleeing figure. The tenderness in his eyes disappeared in an instant, leaving only endless killing intent. But in the end, he listened to Gu Jiangyue and didn't send anyone to chase him.
Xie Jiuan looked at his hand that had just touched Gu Jiangyue's wound. The sleeve arrow was extremely sharp and had cut through Gu Jiangyue's flesh. Immediately, blood gushed out. The blood wasn't very obvious on her black dress, but Xie Jiuan's hand was already covered in bright red blood.
It seemed that the arrow was poisoned. Gu Jiangyue only felt her head getting heavier and heavier, and her vision gradually blurred. Finally, she was too weak to stand and could only lean against the black-clad man's arms, losing consciousness.
"Ji Yunsheng!"
Ji Yunsheng didn't know what had just happened. He was a bit dazed when Xie Jiuan shouted at him. When he looked at Gu Jiangyue, he understood what had happened.
Just when Ji Yunsheng thought that Xie Jiuan would be angry and beat him up, he looked up and met Xie Jiuan's bloodshot eyes. There was no longer the annoying and provocative look in his beautiful peach blossom eyes, only anxiety and concern.
"Save her quickly!"
Ji Yunsheng looked at Xie Jiuan and was stunned for a moment. Then he immediately stepped forward to examine Gu Jiangyue's injuries.
Although she hadn't been directly hit by the arrow, Gu Jiangyue was still seriously injured. The skin where the sleeve arrow had grazed was turned up, and black blood was gushing out. It was extremely terrifying on her originally fair and delicate shoulder.
Ji Yunsheng frowned. He stretched out his finger and dipped a little blood from Gu Jiangyue's shoulder. He sniffed it and a sneering smile flashed in his eyes. He had thought Xie Chengrui had some great skills, but it was just an ordinary poison.
Seeing that Ji Yunsheng wasn't concentrating on treating the patient and was instead smiling inexplicably, Xie Jiuan immediately reached out and slapped him on the head.
"Are you crazy?"