"Don't touch him!"
Lin Miner stretched out her hand, but she couldn't reach Zhao Zheng no matter how hard she tried.
Seeing Yang Hun looking at her with great interest, as if her panic and helplessness were quite charming to him.
Zhao Zheng's breathing became more and more rapid.
Lin Miner was extremely anxious on the ground and didn't know what to do.
Then she felt the cold object at her waist.
She steeled her heart, grabbed the dagger in her bosom, and rushed towards Yang Hun.
But who was Yang Hun? He was a spiritual pharmacist of the Seven Realms and the governor of Jiangning. Lin Miner was just a weak woman. Did she think she could get close to him? That was simply a dream.
Sure enough, when Lin Miner was only two steps away from Yang Hun, she couldn't move forward any further.
No matter how she knelt down and kept pounding, it was all in vain.
Lin Miner panicked. She knelt down, begged Yang Hun, and kept kowtowing to him.
"Please spare Brother Zheng. Please spare him. I'm begging you. Please spare him."
A beauty's tears always tend to move people, especially an old lecher like Yang Hun.
Lin Miner kept kowtowing. Her forehead hit the ground and blood oozed out. He felt extremely heart - broken and immediately loosened the strength in his hand.
Because of this, Zhao Zheng, who was on the verge of suffocating, fell from mid - air at the last moment.
"Crunch!"
It might be the sound of bones breaking. Zhao Zheng fell heavily to the ground and completely fainted.
Lin Miner looked at Zhao Zheng in the mud, her face full of tears. She struggled to crawl towards him. She wanted to check Zhao Zheng's injuries carefully and see if he was still alive.
But how could Yang Hun just watch the beauty he fancied feel so heart - broken for someone else? Naturally, he grabbed Lin Miner by the arm and pulled her up.
Lin Miner felt a sharp pain. She shouted and kicked and beat Yang Hun.
"Let me go. Brother Zheng, how are you?"
The rain mixed with her tears and flowed down Lin Miner's cheeks.
Zhao Zheng lying on the ground showed no sign of regaining consciousness. And beside his body, a pool of blood was spreading.
Lin Miner screamed. She tried her best but couldn't break free from Yang Hun's restraint.
"Come here. Take the beauty back to the mansion first to change her clothes. Such a delicate body mustn't catch a cold."
If she got sick, it wouldn't be good for serving him. Yang Hun didn't want her to look like a dead body when they were together.
Seeing Zhao Zheng's serious injuries, Lin Miner was extremely grief - stricken. She knew that if Yang Hun didn't care about Zhao Zheng, in this unfamiliar place of Jiangning, with such serious injuries, Brother Zheng would surely not live long.
She showed weakness, begged for mercy, and pleaded with Yang Hun to save Zhao Zheng. She begged him to give Zhao Zheng a chance to live.
But Yang Hun was not a kind - hearted man. Now that he had the beauty in his hands, how could he do such a useless thing?
Seeing that her pleas were in vain, Lin Miner made up her mind. She put the dagger that she had previously used to assassinate Yang Hun against her own neck.
Yang Hun was shocked. Lin Miner was furious but could only look directly at Yang Hun helplessly.
"If you save him, I'll let you do whatever you want to me."
Yang Hun sneered.
"Do you really think I'm easy to talk to?"
"If you don't save Brother Zheng, I'll die with him even if I have to."
"Do you think that's possible?"
As soon as Yang Hun finished speaking, Lin Miner felt a sharp pain in her arm. When she looked again, the dagger was already in Yang Hun's hand.
Yes. Yang Hun was a highly - ranked cultivator. How could she, a weak woman, fight against him?
But she was so unwilling!
As if seeing through Lin Miner's thoughts, Yang Hun stepped forward and quickly pressed a acupoint on her right shoulder. Before she could make the next move, her whole body suddenly went limp and she completely lost consciousness.
"Really. When did it become so troublesome for this governor to get a woman?"
Yang Hun waved his hand behind him, and an experienced servant walked over. Yang Hun handed Lin Miner to him and ordered, "Take her back to the mansion. And ask the maids in the mansion to change her clothes. This beauty is in poor health. Make sure she doesn't catch a cold."
"Understood, sir."
Just like this, in broad daylight, Lin Miner was taken away by the people from the Yang family.
Although there were many witnesses on the road, just as Yang Hun had said, they didn't dare to say a word, let alone stand up for the Zhao couple.
Seeing that things had developed to this point, they had no choice but to lower their heads, pretend that nothing had happened, and walk away on their own.
After the people left, Yang Hun looked back at Zhao Zheng on the ground.
"Is this all you've got? You still wanted to protect your woman?"
It was really laughable.
Looking at the pool of blood behind Zhao Zheng, it seemed that the blood was flowing from the back of his head. In this situation, it would be a miracle if this man could survive.
Yang Hun kicked Zhao Zheng twice.
"Crunch! Crunch!"
There were two more clear sounds of bones breaking.
Yang Hun squatted down. Looking at this man, he felt a bit surprised.
"These legs were already broken before. Now that they've recovered to this extent, you must have met some expert. But now, both your legs are useless. This governor really wants to see. Even if you manage to survive, without your legs, how are you going to get back to the Eastern Swamp Wilderness? How are you going to find your clansmen to avenge you?"
Yang Hun was an arrogant man. He liked to torture people and liked to see others in pain. Compared to letting those people die quickly, he preferred to see them half - dead, struggling in life, and in rags.
Yang Hun stood up, and immediately someone behind him held an oil - paper umbrella over him.
"Governor, shall we go back now?"
Yang Hun shook his head.
"Let Lao Yu take the beauty back to the mansion first. I still have to go to the west of the city to meet Master Lu."
"Understood, sir."
Yang Hun got into the carriage. From his large motorcade, several people separated. After putting a woman in a sedan chair, they headed back in the direction of Jiangning where they had originally come from.
The sky in Jiangning was overcast. The atmosphere was extremely oppressive. Occasionally, there were streaks of lightning across the sky, followed by deafening thunder.
Seeing this, the pedestrians on the road didn't dare to stay any longer and rushed home in a hurry.
Zhao Zheng on the ground was getting weaker and weaker. Although there were many passers - by, no one dared to offer a helping hand.
What was even more chilling was that seeing him lying motionless on the ground, some greedy people even led away Zhao Zheng's horse. The coachman had long since disappeared. Along with them, Zhao Zheng and Lin Miner's personal belongings also disappeared.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier.
It had been a long time since Jiangning had seen such a heavy rain. The rain washed everything away, but those memories, grievances, and debts became more profound in this heavy rain.