Chapter 279 Falling Butterfly
Chapter 279 Falling Butterfly
After hearing the words "It's okay" coming out of Liu Qingyu's mouth, Liu Qingquan, who was still struggling, completely stopped moving, lying on the ground like a wounded dog.
"Forget it if there is no relationship. If there is, maybe I will let him go for your sake." After saying that, the emperor held Liu Qingyu's head from behind and forced her to look at Wan Ning downstairs: "Then watch carefully!"
Then the emperor took three arrows at a time and put them on the bow, without even aiming with his eyes, and shot them in her direction based on his feeling. He didn't really want her to die, but just used her as a toy to amuse himself and to watch her panic when she avoided death, which gave him this morbid pleasure.
Fortunately, the arrow only scratched his clothes and skin, and he was safe thanks to Wan Ning's avoidance, except that his hair was messy and his clothes were in disarray.
The emperor stood upstairs to watch the show, and even had someone bring up a chair to sit on. He said, "I didn't expect you to be so skilled. Where did Prince Qi find you? Or has he been planning this since the day he left Nanye, specifically training someone like you to replace the crown prince with a cat? You seduced Heng'er and sow discord between us! You deserve to die!"
"Shut up, old man, you talk too much, you don't deserve to be mentioned by Ziheng!" Wan Ning stood downstairs, staring at the emperor upstairs with vicious eyes, wanting to eat him alive and tear him into pieces: "Listen, I know the person you want to arrest is me, it has nothing to do with them, and if they die like this, it will make people suspicious. How about this, I will go with you and let them go, okay?"
"it is good--"
"Then it's settled!" Wan Ning immediately agreed when the emperor emeritus prolonged the sentence. She threw the arrow in her hand on the ground, fearing that he would change his mind, so she raised her leg and was about to move forward.
"What a naive person!" The emperor finished his words and rolled his eyes at Wan Ning on the spot. Then Wan Ning squatted down and picked up the arrow.
"Then name a price, or tomorrow the news of your killing of innocent people will spread throughout Nanye. Old man, you don't really think I'm coming to your Hongmen Banquet alone, right? As long as no one goes back, everyone will know about this dirty thing." Wan Ning was still struggling: "How about making a deal, taking me in exchange for them? This deal is not a loss."
"Long-winded."
After hearing this, the emperor only said two words, then waved his hand to signal the guards who had been hiding in the dark to suddenly come out from all directions, each holding a bow and arrow in their hands and pointing it at Wan Ning.
"No way, is this old guy trying to shoot me into a hedgehog?" Wan Ning thought, "It's over, it's over."
While backing away repeatedly as if in fear, he took out some medicine powder from his body and threw it on the ground when the enemy was least prepared. Immediately, a huge cloud of smoke rose.
"Archery!"
At the command, countless arrows fell from the sky, and they stopped only when the smoke cleared. At this time, the emperor stood up and stuck his head out to look downstairs. Before he saw Wan Ning's body, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck. He was about to reach out to check but was stopped.
"Stop, or I'm going to cut your neck with this knife. Listen, let them go, and I'll go back with you!" Wan Ning had already climbed to the second floor at this time. She was very grateful for the secret passage that Ziheng had specially built when he was restoring the weapons workshop, which saved her life at the critical moment.
The emperor slowly extended a finger, his face calm, and began to bargain: "You only have one person, one person for four people, this deal is not worth it."
Wan Ning lifted his clothes, moved the dagger closer to his neck, and stared at his face teasingly. She knew from a young age that the weak are afraid of the strong, the strong are afraid of the fools, and the fools are afraid of the desperate. Today she has given up her life, so what is there to be afraid of? The ones she should be afraid of are them.
"Two? As the king of a country, your life is naturally more valuable. It's worth it to exchange you for a few more people!" Wan Ning narrowed his eyes as if he wanted to tear him apart alive.
Then she looked at the emperor's confident expression, with a mysterious smile on his face, which was exactly what Wan Ning hated the most. This expression of being scrutinized, looked down upon, and being manipulated made her feel like a monkey being played with, an ant being manipulated.
Then, Wan Ning thrust the knife into his thigh and twisted it back and forth. The emperor looked in pain, his face twisted in pain. This time, it was Wan Ning's turn to admire his hideousness from above, then pulled out the knife and rubbed it on his face twice, then pressed the blade against the emperor's neck.
"Listen, I'm not kidding you. Let them go and I will go back with you. I'm not kidding you, otherwise this knife will be stuck in your throat. We are going to die anyway, so it's not a loss for me to take you away!" Wan Ning said sternly.
Although the expression of the retired emperor was painful, he had no intention of letting it go. Instead, he grinned and laughed at Wan Ning. He held Wan Ning's dagger in his right hand and said, "This dagger was given to Heng'er by me all those years ago. I didn't expect that you would return it to me in this way now!"
Blood dripped slowly from his palm, dripping onto the ground.
Wan Ning opened her eyes wide in horror. She had never expected that this man was also someone who didn't care about his own life. She murmured, "Mad man!"
The emperor took the opportunity to grab her shoulders and her clothes tightly, and in a flash, they switched positions. Wan Ning was pressed against the railing of the village, with most of her body exposed, and she was about to lose her balance and fall down.
She thought to herself: "Even if I die, I will take the emperor with me."
So Wan Ning also pulled his sleeve hard, and the two of them formed a hinge position, and neither of them was willing to let go.
"You are always like this, never willing to listen to me. If you fight me, you will only die! You are like this, Heng'er is like this, and Prince Qi is like this too. Why do you all want to go against me!"
As he was speaking, the Emperor slapped Wan Ning's wrist. Her arm hit the railing and she lost her strength, so the dagger in her hand fell to the ground. Wan Ning turned her head subconsciously to look, and the Emperor slapped her neck again, and she suddenly felt dizzy and could not stand steadily.
Although he is old, he was a military commander when he was young, and his kung fu skills are still there. Even though he later became a Buddhist, he still had a heart for fighting and killing.
Before Wan Ning could react, he slapped her waist again. She screamed in pain and could not open her eyes. Then the emperor flipped her over the railing and threw her out from the second floor.
Falling, the breath of death was so close that Wan Ning felt that she couldn't hold on to anything. Until the moment she touched the ground, every part of her body was in pain. Fortunately, she protected her head and saved her life, but every movement was excruciatingly painful.
Out of the corner of his eye he happened to see the retired emperor admiring his "masterpiece" in a perverse way.
"It hurts... it hurts..."
Wan Ning struggled to turn over, blood flowing from the corner of her mouth, and she crawled on the ground with difficulty to leave.
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