Chapter 61 (2/2)

The man looked at Su Xiao Pei and Sima Wan Ru, thinking about something. He looked around the room and started to think again, next, he began to arrange the room. He took two cups and poured the tea into them, then, he pulled out two chairs. Su Xiao Pei looked and knew that he was creating a murder scene where the two of them were chatting while drinking tea.

Then, he took Sima Wan Ru's sword, that was on the edge of the bed, and placed it on the table. He then took a step back and looked at the arrangement, wasn't happy with it, he took the sword back and walked towards the bed, wanted Su Xiao Pei to walked towards the table.

Su Xiao Pei was unable to move, so the man pressed her acupuncture point again and put the sword across her neck, threatening her, ”Get up.”

Su Xiao Pei still felt some discomfort in her body, but she still slowly stood up and her mind starting to think quickly, ”They won't believe in this setting.” She said, while being forced to walk by the man. The man also forced her to turn around and sit down on the chair.

”Why?” The man wanted to press her acupuncture point again, but was curious as to why she said that his plan wouldn't work, therefore, he asked his question first.

”You wanted to make a story where Miss Sima killed me then committed suicide. This story the officials would not believe it.”

”Eh?”. That man started laughing.

”It's true, I came here to talk to Miss Sima, how was it possible that I will make her so angry that she would she kill me? Then, how was it possible that she would commit suicide? Su Xiao Pei did not talk fast, she spoke calmly. Her face showed no expression while she looked at the man's eyes. ”If she really does kill me and kill herself next, there would be a big fight. I would've struggle and the table would not be so clean and tidy. This room is the same. No one would believe in a murder with this story.”

The man couldn't help but stare at Su Xiao Pei's eyes. Su Xiao Pei continued to speak slowly, ”Just think about it, was my reasoning wrong? If you want to angrily kill a person, there will be signs of a struggle, shouting. This teapot set is neat, you should turn it, the cup should be on the ground. Just think about it, did I say anything wrong?”

The man blinked and thought about what Su Xiao Pei had said.

”Just think carefully, you should be able to think of a better story. Think about what you've done, when was the last time you had talked to her? What was her expression? Did you remember what she said? The tea was very fragrant, warm and delicious, did you smell it? The tea smell was so fragrant, you felt relaxed, just try to remember it…”

Sima Wan Ru was staring at her, not knowing what Su Xiao Pei was trying to do, thinking that Su Xiao Pei was talking nonsense. But the man did not move at all, he hesitated. What Su Xiao Pei said was correct, in such a clean and tidy environment, how was it possible that she would kill someone and then commit suicide the next?

The masked man suddenly frowned, and Su Xiao Pei started to feel anxious again, knowing that she had failed. She was about to scream, why hasn't Ran Fei Ze come to save her? If she was killed by this person, she would come back and haunt him.

They had obviously said it before.

Before Su Xiao Pei could scream and before the masked man's sword attack Su Xiao Pei, someone suddenly came down from the roof, making a hole in the ceiling. When the hole was created, a piece of tile was aimed towards the neck of the masked man. The sound of the tile cutting through air was sharp, the masked man was surprised, but he managed to turn sideways, avoiding the tile. This causes the tile to slam and hit the back of Su Xiao Pei. Su Xiao Pei fell to the ground and the masked man attacked her. The man was heartless, with one move, the sword changed direction and went towards Sima Wan Ru, who was sitting on the bed.

At this time, Ran Fei Ze jumped down from the roof.

With a turn of his palm, a stretched of his arm, in a blink of an eye, Ran Fei Ze managed to take the sword from the masked man. With a turn of the sword, the sword flew towards the masked man like it had eyes of its own.

The masked man deflects the sword and tried to escape through the roof. However, he did not expect that Ran Fei Ze was faster than him, Ran Fei Ze had managed to take back the sword that the masked man had deflected and then attacked him again. The masked man could not avoid the attacked, therefore, he could only fall to the ground and roll to create some distance between the two.

Before he could stable himself, Ran Fei Ze attacked him with the sword again, the masked man was shocked that an official would be so skilled?

But he had no time to think about it, he rolled and jumped around, rus.h.i.+ng towards the door, but suddenly, he saw that the sword was in front of him. if he had move forward a little bit more, he would've seen his own blood. He quickly stepped back and pulled out a dagger and used that to protect himself. Suddenly, he saw and felt that Ran Fei Ze's sword was at his neck.

Su Xiao Pei was hiding under the table, she remembered that Ran Fei Ze had told her that he was not that skilled at martial arts, but seeing that he had lied to her, she breathes a sigh of relief. She rushed towards the bed and saw Sima Wan Ru did not move, ”What should I do? How can I solve this problem?”

Before she could speak, a cup flew over Su Xiao Pei's arm and hit Sima Wan Ru's chest.

Sima Wan Ru was shocked and coughed twice, then she was able to move again.

Su Xiao Pei looked at Ran Fei Ze, but he did not turn his head. He lifted his arm and pointed in front of him and the masked man was unable to move.

Su Xiao Pei walked and grumbled, ”We are not in a hurry, you could've hurt someone accidentally with that cup.”

”Who was hurt?”

”No one.” Su Xiao Pei pursed her lips, and was annoyed by his att.i.tude.

Ran Fei Ze smiled, ”You came over to make a scene with Miss Sima, isn't it good now, we have saved a lot of time.”

”I was scared to death, okay?”

”Is that so, Miss was quite clam when calling me Ah Ze.”. Ran Fei Ze laughed, the way he laughed makes Su Xiao Pei have the temptation to punch him, but after that he became serious again and wanted to find out who the masked man was.

Luo Kui

Su Xiao Pei blinked, although their suspicion was close, but she did not expect him to be the murderer.

Luo Kui gritted his teeth and said nothing.

What should they do next? Su Xiao Pei looked at Ran Fei Ze, but Ran Fei Ze turned around and looked at Sima Wan Ru, ”I would like to ask Miss Sima to call someone to make a report at the Yamen. I am too lazy to go back.” After that, he sat down.

Is this ok? Su Xiao Pei learnt from him and sat down as well.

Sima Wan Ru escaped from death, originally, she was furious and wanted to kill the masked man. But since the masked man was stopped by Ran Fei Ze, she had no way to release this anger. She went out and called someone to come over to take Luo Kui away, but was stopped by Ran Fei Ze. Su Xiao Pei and Miss Sima changed to another room, when they sat down, Su Xiao Pei asked Sima Wan Ru what had happened before she appeared.

It turns out that Sima Wan Ru was blaming herself, she felt that everything that had happened was caused by her. She thought that once she left the house, she would forget about Chang Jun but she always took the sword, that he gave her, with her. On the day that she had accidentally broke the sword, she ran around several places to repair the sword. Once it was done, she went back to the inn late at night. She felt that if she had not done this stupid thing, if she had not put this sword in her heart, her sister, Sima Wan Qing would not have die, because she would have return early and was able to protect her sister. Although she had never once forgotten about her love for Chang Jun, Chang Jun was accompanied by a beautiful woman when he was drunk at the restaurant, while her sister had died at the same time. She blamed herself, when she knew what had happened to her sister and to Chang Jun, she felt that there was knife constantly stabbing her heart.

Today, she received a letter, which was stuffed under the door. The letter stated that she was to ask everyone to leave, and for her to stay in her room, otherwise, he would not tell her the truth. Sima Wan Ru was in a bad mood these past few days, therefore, she quickly chased away her servants. She took her sword and wait for the person who sent the letter, she also realized that there was some missing information, but since it was regarding her sister, she was too close to the victim therefore she missed some of hints. She was too deep into her thoughts and did not realized that the masked man was in her room, when she realized it, she was paralyzed by the masked man. Before anything could happen, someone knocked on the door.

Su Xiao Pei knew everything that happened after that. Luo Kui thought that it was a servant, he was worried that if he had not let the servant in, she would've called more people. Luo Kui also could not release Sima Wan Ru, fearing that she would retaliate, therefore, he changed his voice to mimic a female voice saying, 'come in'. Su Xiao Pei did not care about it, and casually stepped into the room.

Head Constable Qin had quickly sent people down to the Sima Residence, they asked a few questions and examined the scene before taking Luo Kui back to the Yamen.

Ran Fei Ze also took Su Xiao Pei back, ”When you are in the house with that man, what do mean when you were speaking nonsense?”

What? Su Xiao Pei was daydreaming and was surprised when he started asking question.

”Why did you take so long before entering the room?”

”If I break down the door, he would've enough time to defend himself. I peek in from outside before deciding to go to the roof to enter, surprising him.”

”Wasn't it because of me dragging the time, letting you have the chance to jump in?”

”No, I can anytime jump in, I was only curious about what you were saying, that was why I did not jump in straight away.”

Su Xiao Pei frowned, ”You failed.”

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