Chapter 229 - The spider starts to weave 2 (1/2)

Chapter 229 - The spider starts to weave (2)

”Shopkeeper, why are you just standing there? Go to the authorities and get help!” Ji Man shouted. She pushed Ning Yuxuan away and left the area underneath the falling shelves. Dust immediately rose in the room as several daggers flew through the air and almost struck her body. Frightened, she immediately went back to hiding in Ning Yuxuan's arms.

”You're such a troublemaker,” Ning Yuxuan angrily said.

Ji Man pouted. She was totally innocent.

He picked up her and jumped towards the antique store's doors. They landed outside on the street. There was a considerable amount of people outside. Hearing such a large commotion, one after another, they stopped to watch.

Several of the dagger-wielding men followed them outside and hurled themselves at Ning Yuxuan without regard to their lives.

While protectively guarding the woman behind him, Ning Yuxuan pulled out a piece of wood from a market stall. As he used the makeshift weapon to block the daggers, he shouted, ”Guibai!”

The carriage hadn't been parked from here. Hearing his name, Guibai swiftly ran over and caught the woman that was flung over. He protectively moved her to the center of the crowd.

It would be difficult enough for one person to fight three people at once, much less four armed people. These people seemed to not recognize him and only thought of him as a hindrance. Two people stayed behind to deal with him and the other two people tried to move towards the crowd to to grab Nie Sangyu.

This was critical juncture between life and death, but Ji Man had crouched down at the edge of the crowd to calculate.

Qian Lianxue had sent people to kill her, but there wasn't an absolute guarantee that they would be able to succeed. And so, she guessed that Feiwan Courtyard would definitely be set on fire in order to destroy the letter. Perhaps, the prepared item she had left behind would be put to good use.

After today, even if she didn't have undeniable evidence that Qian Lianxue was guilty, Marquis Moyu and Old Madame's formerly unshakable belief in Qian Lainxue would waver. At minimum, Qian Lianxue's position as an honored concubine could be taken away, and the number of spies in the household would be cut in half.

Calculating it this way, as long as her view of Qian Lianxue as a person with evil plans was accurate, then this had been a worthwhile transaction.

The antique store had other employees. Before the shopkeeper left to get the city's guards, he ordered them to surround the group of people that had shattered so many antiques and seize them. This helped Ning Yuxuan out a lot. Although the store's employees weren't actually able to stop them, they would be able to delay them until the capital's guards arrived to arrest them.

The guards that were responsible for this area were quite quick. The shopkeeper hadn't been gone for long before these guards arrived on the scene and seized the remaining men that were fighting with Ning Yuxuan. Because Ning Yuxuan had also been vigorously fighting and was dressed in a commoner's clothing, he was also taken along to be judged by the local magistrate.

Looking at Ning Yuxuan's livid face, Ji Man was laughing so hard that she almost cried. She had Guibai drive the carriage and follow after them so that she could bail Ning Yuxuan out.

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The arrested assassins had ordinary-looking faces. Although they had been arrested, there weren't any hints of fear on their faces.

One of them nonchalantly mumbled, ”We failed, might get punished.”

The leader of the group glared at Ning Yuxuan and said, ”If he hadn't suddenly interfered, how could we have failed?”

A person behind him murmured, ”He's one of the marquis's household guards, right? His martial arts is pretty good.”

Ning Yuxuan coldly harrumphed and sarcastically said, ”Thanks for the praise. You're guilty of attempted murder, and yet you're in the mood to idly chat. You'll be facing Magistrate Yin soon. Do you still want to live?”

The group of assassins remained unperturbed. It seemed as if they were unafraid of death, or perhaps, they thought it was impossible for them to be sentenced to death.