"Are you really the young master of the Pharmacist Valley?" Wu Feng asked in disbelief.
Mu Fengqie nodded, her tone slightly urgent. "So rest assured. I'll surely guarantee the safety of you and your family. As long as you tell me, I'll send people to protect your family!"
With just a single order from her, the secret guards of the Pharmacist Valley would follow her commands. She now had enough wealth, and both manpower and material resources were at her disposal. Protecting a few people should pose no problem.
Moreover, with the help of the Fifth Prince, they would never let anything happen to Wu Feng and his family.
"I..." Wu Feng fell into deep thought. After a while, he said, "No, I can't gamble my family's lives with you. Do whatever you want to me."
Mu Fengqie thought everything was settled. The heart that had been hanging in her throat finally dropped, and her attitude was no longer as friendly as before. "You've already been taken away by me. Do you think your family will be safe even if you don't trust me? You should know better than me the temper of the person behind this. Think it over carefully..."
After saying that, Mu Fengqie closed her eyes and stopped talking. She even didn't tie Wu Feng up anymore. Wu Feng thought for a long time. He had been impulsive once. Should he be impulsive a second time?
But just as the little girl said, the mastermind probably already knew that he had been captured. He was afraid that the man would never spare his family.
After a long time of thinking, he finally slowly said, "It's Lou Mingkou. He was the one who instigated me. My family has been locked up in the imperial city under his nose. As long as something goes wrong on my side, my family will be killed immediately."
The name Lou Mingkou was quite unfamiliar, but the surname shocked Mu Fengqie. In the imperial city, there was only one family with the surname Lou. Could he really be the father of Lou Yueying and Lou Xingzhou?
But wasn't Lou Xingzhou a friend of Jing Xunchao? And Lou Yueying had grown up with him since childhood. The relationship between the two families should be very good. How could this happen...
Mu Fengqie's heart couldn't calm down for a long time. She couldn't imagine how Jing Xunchao would react when he learned the truth. Lou Mingkou... She remembered this name!
"Don't worry. I'll surely protect you and your family. But words alone aren't enough. Do you have any evidence to prove that it was him?"
Mu Fengqie still found it hard to believe the truth. If it was really Lou Mingkou, who could Jing Xunchao still trust? He was good friends with his son and was a fellow disciple with his daughter, yet he wanted to harm Jing Xunchao.
Wu Feng narrowed his eyes into slits. He had been impulsive once and wouldn't be so again. "I do have the evidence, but I'll only tell you after my family is safe. If you can't guarantee their safety, those things will disappear from the world forever!"
Mu Fengqie clenched her fists tightly. Finally, there was some progress. Lou Mingkou. She would deal with him after returning to the imperial city!
The group rushed on their journey. They were less than two days away from the border. It was almost the beginning of winter, and it was getting colder outside. Mu Fengqie's heart was as cold as the weather.
"Be careful! There are people. Don't move!" Jiang Yanqin lifted the curtain of the carriage and said warily.
Mu Fengqie also became nervous upon hearing this. "They must be the people sent by Lou Mingkou to kill you. If you want to survive, don't show your face at any cost."
Mu Fengqie, being as smart as a whip, immediately thought of Lou Mingkou. Such an important witness had been taken away by her. He must be extremely angry and eager to kill them.
Soon, the sound of fighting came from outside the carriage. Mu Fengqie quietly opened a crack in the window and secretly observed the situation outside.
The secret guards had already grappled with some black - clothed men. Fortunately, there weren't many of the black - clothed men. Just five secret guards were enough to handle them easily.
Seeing the black - clothed men lying on the ground, Mu Fengqie let out a sigh of relief. At the same time, Wu Feng also relaxed. He had been nervously observing the situation outside. He didn't expect that this little girl had so many secret guards, so he trusted her identity a bit more.
...
"What? The assassination failed?" Lou Mingkou said with a cold face. There was an obvious trace of anger on his face.
He originally thought that it would be a piece of cake to kill a mere inexperienced girl, but he didn't expect that the girl had such great strength. None of the people he sent had returned. It seemed that he couldn't take Mu Fengqie lightly.
He became more and more interested in Mu Fengqie. In one day, he learned about Mu Fengqie's background. She was just a wild girl from the countryside who had earned the title of a princess because of her medical skills that pleased the Empress Dowager.
Precisely because she seemed to have nothing extraordinary, he had underestimated her. Now it seemed that he had been wrong.
"It's my fault for failing to do the job well, Father. None of the people I sent came back alive. That woman is not ordinary," the black - clothed man said calmly.
He was different from others. He had been by Lou Mingkou's side for twenty years. Nominally, he was Lou Mingkou's adopted son and had always worked for him.
"She is indeed not ordinary. You go there in person. No matter what, you must bring the person back to me. I want to see his dead body. I believe you won't disappoint me, right?"
A terrifying smile spread across Lou Mingkou's wrinkled face. The fake smile made Lou Fan stunned for a moment, and then he immediately understood.
"Yes, Father. I'll surely bring the person back to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lou Fan withdrew from the room. There was a Gu poison in his body that Lou Mingkou had planted. For others, failure might just mean death, but since childhood, whenever he made a mistake, Lou Mingkou would make his life a living hell.
Lou Fan had been a stray child, abandoned by his parents and living on begging. Everything changed the day he met Lou Mingkou.
He originally thought he had met a savior, but instead, he had met the King of Hell. Lou Mingkou claimed to be cultivating him and adopted him as a son, but in fact, he had been treated inhumanely. He wanted to kill Lou Mingkou more than anyone else, but he couldn't.
He had always been controlled by Lou Mingkou. If he didn't do as Lou Mingkou said, he would be doomed to endless suffering. When he was young, he would resist, but as he grew up, he understood a truth.
Only by staying alive could he have a chance to be a normal person again. He mounted his blood - sweating BMW and led his men to chase after Mu Fengqie at full speed.
Mu Fengqie knew that things wouldn't be that simple. Lou Mingkou was now enraged, and since his plan had failed, he would surely not give up. He might come back very soon.