Chapter 60 : The Trick

Birds screamed and flew to the blue sky in panic, the dense bamboo forest was a mess of silhouettes, and the ear-piercing sound made by the impact of sharp weapons did not stop for a moment, a sound that shook the hearts of the people.

Pei Si Yan stood on the carriage, silently gazing at Li Qing Dye who was engaged in a battle with a group of masked assassins, the constantly shifting silhouettes reflected in her ripple-free eyes. The guard who had passed on the Emperor's decree had said halfway through that there was a path to return to the Imperial Capital more quickly, and she had agreed. She didn't want to, but just after entering this bamboo forest, she encountered an ambush.

The assassins appeared at the same time, that guard revealed his true colours, under the thin human skin mask was an unfamiliar face, under his command dozens of assassins swarmed up to kill the only guard who followed Pei Si Yan's side away from the light dye.

The assassin's eyes revealed a bloodthirsty cold light, his hand was extremely fast and vicious, away from the light dye stood in front of the carriage, trying his best to protect Pei Si Yan, not letting the assassin touch his master half a point.

Flesh and blood flying, pain screams endless, rushed in the forefront of the assassin was a sword cut off the neck, head with the blood flying up, no head of the body walked forward two steps, only to go limp on the ground, the dead head in the body of the bone rolling for a moment next to the body, a motionless.

Li Qingdian's dark blue robe was covered in blood, the originally white cloud pattern on his collar turned into a ghastly red colour, he wiped the blood from his face and raised his sword to slash at the assassins that came right after him.

One of the assassins jumped up, trying to leap over Li Qingdian, grabbing Pei Si Yan behind him, Li Qingdian forced away the assassin in front of him, his long sword was as fast as lightning and drew a circular arc on the ground, the slender bamboo leaves that fell down suddenly turned into a piece of sharp weapon and flew towards the assassin, at the same time, Li Qingdian flew up and hugged Pei Si Yan, jumped down from the carriage, dodging those bamboo leaves that were like sharp daggers.

The assassin who had already jumped up could not turn his body, his eyes opened wide in fear, watching those bamboo leaves flying, stabbing into his own body, and even a piece of leaf pierced into his eye socket, and immediately the blood flowed, and he "wow, wow" screamed, fell to the ground, rolling all over the ground. Those leaves are not fatal, but they can make a person's life worse than death.

Li Qingdian held Pei Si Yan and landed on the other side of the carriage, the assassins did not care about their seriously injured companions, and slashed at their targets.

Not far away, the disfigured assassin riding on a horse coldly watched the fierce fight, receiving a bow and arrows from the hands of one of the people beside him, three slender sharp arrows were strung on a thin string, aiming at Pei Si Yan in Li Qing Dye's arms.

With a slight release of his right finger, the long arrows suddenly pierced through the air, stabbing at the target at an extremely fast speed.

Li Qingdian raised his eyes just in time to see those three sharp arrows, and was so shocked that his feet turned in place.

Pei Si Yan only felt that the scenery in front of her eyes flew in one spin and a half circle, then she heard the dull sound of a sharp weapon piercing into flesh and blood.

Pei Si Yan heard a slight gasp from above her head, Li Qing Dye's body became a little stiff, the hand that gripped her arm loosened a little before violently gripping it tightly, the pain piercing through her bones.

The surrounding assassins surrounded the two in a semi-circle, not taking another step forward.

Pei Si Yan's heart suddenly went cold, she could feel an increasingly heavy force pressing down on her, she wanted to turn back to see what was wrong with Li Qing Dye, to the point where the hand was gripping her really too tightly, there was no way for her to move a bit.

"Light dye ..." Pei Si Yan suddenly felt fear, softly called out.

But the person close at hand didn't answer, but there was only the sound of increasingly heavy panting.

The force on the body reached its limit, Pei Si Yan could no longer support, fell to his knees on the ground, his knees hit on the hard stone, coming from the piercing pain. Li Qingye supported his body with his sword, kneeling on one knee beside her.

Only then did Pei Si Yan see Li Qing Dye, his face was as pale as a ghost, even his lips had lost their blood colour, bean-sized beads of sweat slid down from his forehead, his body couldn't stop trembling, and she saw that there were three long arrows sticking out of his back, blood staining his clothes, and he couldn't see his original colour anymore.

"Light Dye ..." Pei Si Yan called out, her voice trembling from shock, she reached out to cover the wound, not wanting the blood to gush out again, but the warm bright red ** still flowed out from between her fingers.

Seeing this guard who had always guarded by her side, never letting her suffer half a bit of harm dying, the fear in her heart spread throughout her body, Pei Siyan felt her breathing getting harder and harder as well, she futilely tightly covered Li Qingyan's wounds, her eyes aching unbearably, tears moistening her eyes.

"Little, young lady ..." Li Qingye shouted with difficulty, these few words as if they used up his whole body's strength in general, just after the words fell, he was condemned to the ground, his breathing gradually weakened, his face was like a dead grey.

The assassins came forward, sharp long swords aimed at Pei Si Yan, as long as the slightest movement of half a centimetre, they would be able to cut blood marks on her body.

Pei Si Yan raised her head, collected the fear in her eyes and calmly looked at the assassins in front of her, ''Who is your master? Always let me die in peace, right?"

There was a rustling sound of stepping on bamboo leaves, and the assassins respectfully retreated to the sides.

Pei Si Yan's pupils narrowed violently as she looked incredulously at the middle-aged woman who was walking towards her, and what flashed in her mind was the warm and happy image of that woman when they were together.

Lady Yuexi slowly walked closer to Pei Si Yan and smiled smugly, "Xiao Yan, I didn't think we would meet in such a way, right?"

Pei Si Yan laughed coldly, "Auntie, when did you also take an interest in Wu Pan's seat, biding your time until now?"

"When you weren't even born yet," Lady Yuexi said good-naturedly as she saw the big plan come to fruition, "The seat you're sitting in now originally belonged to me, and after all these years, it's time to return it to its rightful owner."

Lady Yuexi signalled her men with her eyes to grab Pei Si Yan up from the ground. Pei Si Yan's back collar was gripped tightly, breathing became more and more difficult and she coughed violently.

Lady Yuexi's beautiful eyes revealed deep hatred as she looked at her brother's daughter, wanting nothing more than to kill her by a thousand cuts to vent the resentment that had built up over the years, but she had promised Tantai Yuan - after she had finished talking to Xiaoyan - that she would be sent somewhere else and disposed of separately.

Pei Si Yan read the hatred in her aunt's gaze, she raised her head high and looked at her without flinching, ''Did Grandfather-sama say that the seat of Wufan was passed on to you? Before my father passed away, did you write your name in the memorial to the late emperor? The answer is neither, Auntie, the seat does not belong to you, it never did."

"Ha--" Lady Yuexi laughed up to the sky, then gave Pei Si Yan a resounding slap, "What do you know! Tantai Yu is nothing compared to me, he's a waste, a fool! It's what has caused the Tantai family to fall to this state, if it were me, the Tantai family would have long since become the most powerful gateway noble in the Blue Country!"

"Although you are Lord Father's own sister, you don't know him," Pei Si Yan's words contained a hidden anger, despite not being her own, she wouldn't allow any denigration of this father who had put his heart and soul into paving the way for his daughter in silence, "You're even less qualified to comment on him like this! "

"I'm not qualified?" Lady Yuexi scoffed contemptuously, "What kind of a thing are you! Let me tell you, Tantai Yan, from the time you were born, I've had to smile at you, but do you know how much I resent you inside? All of you things that rely on your status as the first-born son to have power and glory are actually worse than pigs and dogs!"

"Pah," she slapped Pei Si Yan fiercely again.

On the fair skin, two clear red marks, blood oozed out from the corner of Pei Si Yan's mouth, she spat the blood out of her mouth in one gulp and looked at Lady Yuexi without flinching in the slightest.

"You think too highly of yourself, Auntie!" She glanced at the voiceless Li Qingyan and smiled 施然的笑, "Judging by your qualifications, if you were to sit on the throne of Wufan, the high wall that successive generations of Wufan had built with so much effort would soon crumble."

Lady Yuexi raised her eyebrows, "What?"

Pei Si Yan pointed to her throat, indicating that her clothes were strangling her too hard to speak properly. Lady Yuexi nodded to the assassin, who immediately dropped Pei Si Yan.

Pei Si Yan staggered a few steps, covered her throat and coughed twice, a snowy light suddenly flashed in her eyes, and when the crowd was unprepared, she fished out a dagger from her show and set it on Lady Yuexi's neck, smiling elegantly, "Auntie, have you ever heard of the story of the praying mantis catching cicadas and the yellow sparrow at the back?"

Although the surrounding assassins reacted in time, hidden weapons flew from nowhere to send them on the road to the Yellow Springs.

A gust of wind blew through, bamboo leaves drifted down, and dozens of men dressed in the Tantai Family's dark purple guard uniforms surrounded Lady Yuexi and the assassins.

Lady Yuexi's face turned white with fear, her trembling finger pointing at Pei Si Yan, "You, you ..."

"I already knew there were assassins today, Auntie." Pei Si Yan pushed Lady Yuexi to one of the guards who approached.

Lady Yuexi was stunned, could someone have betrayed betrayed her?

Pei Si Yan added to the Tantai residence's deputy chief of guards, "Quickly, immediately take Li Light Dye to a doctor! No matter what, you must save him, if he has any shortcomings, you will all bring your heads to me!"

The deputy chief of guards saw Li Light Dye who fell in a pool of blood, he didn't dare to be slow, and hurriedly ordered his guards to carry Li Light Dye onto the carriage, and hurriedly drove off in a frenzy.

Pei Si Yan frowned tightly as she watched the carriage disappear at the end of the road before returning her attention to Lady Yuexi.

Lady Yuexi was almost on the verge of fainting, paralysed in the arms of the guards, and the cadre of assassins were all subdued by the guards, honestly kneeling on the ground without, their masks removed.

"You, you already knew that I would send someone to kill you today?" Lady Yuexi asked weakly, the sudden huge contrast was too much for her to accept and she was close to the edge of collapse.

"No, I didn't know it was you who wanted to kill me." Pei Si Yan replied, remembering the anonymous letter she received two days ago. That letter had inexplicably appeared at the door of Shide Xuan, telling her that on the day of incense, someone would pose as a guard from the Tantai Residence to pass on the Emperor's summons, and that she would then be met halfway with ambushed assassins who would decapitate her.

She didn't know who sent the letter, nor did she know how much credibility it could have, but just in case, she had asked Li Qingyan to deploy manpower to hide in the place where the assassins would appear as hinted in the letter, and then put on a show to lure out the real mastermind behind the scene.

Unfortunately ... she counted a thousand times, but didn't count that Li Light Dye would be so seriously injured, in case he had any accidents, she would spend her whole life in guilt, after all, as long as she didn't fall for the fake guards' pawns, she directly sent people to catch the assassins back, but she wanted to lure out the mastermind to make such an arrangement.

"If you know, and why ..." Lady Yuexi said, tears coming to her eyes.

"The most painful thing is not the direct failure of a plan," because of Li Qing Dye, Pei Si Yan's mood became more and more irritated and angry, "but when you think you are winning, you fall from the clouds into the mud. I will make the person who dares to threaten me taste the most pain! Auntie, tell me if you think too highly of yourself?"

Lady Yuexi couldn't utter a single word, and it dawned on her - from beginning to end, no one had betrayed and sold her out, but rather, they had foolishly been taken advantage of ... Tantai Yuan on the one hand had opened up men and horses for her, and on the other hand, she had long ago sent someone to tell Tantai Yan that there was an assassin ...

Tantai Yuan must have another purpose, and she became a stepping stone.

She wanted to laugh, laughed at herself too stupid too stupid, let the interests and desires blinded the heart, too bold to cooperate with the only girl left in the second house, and finally ended up with a "for others as a dowry" of the end.

Pei Si Yan silently watched the aunt who had been treating herself "well", her heart felt cold.

In front of interests, affection is like dirt.

She drew out the sword of the deputy chief of guards at her side, lowered her eyes, and said softly: ''Disturbing the peace of the Tantai family with the intention of usurping the position of matriarch can only end in death. Tantai Mingzhang, when you reach the nine springs, confess your sins to my lord father."

Saying that, Pei Si Yan swung her long sword, white light flashed, and a bloodstain appeared on Lady Yuexi's white neck.

"Uh-" Lady Yuexi opened her mouth wide to speak, but she couldn't utter a single complete word, only blood spurted out of her mouth, staining her gorgeous, brightly coloured brocade dress.

Watching her aunt struggle in pain, Pei Si Yan sighed silently, dropping the sword in her hand and turning to leave.

She didn't want to watch Lady Yuexi die.

Pei Si Yan returned to the house, immediately announced the death of Lady Yuexi, Tantai family are shocked, and Lady Yuexi grew up with several siblings have shaken their heads and sighed "people can not look alike".

Less than an hour later, an urgent edict came from the palace - declaring an immediate audience with Lord Wuban.