SFS Chapter 184 The Maid Who Married in Place 18
Chapter 184 The Maid Who Married in Place 18
When Li Hao saw Liu Ruyi, he sent the little maid away.
The two of them were left alone to enjoy the flowers in the peach forest.
This is exactly what Sirong wants, so as to avoid implicating innocent people.
In fact, Sirong could contact the old marquis and arrange some deadbeats to disguise themselves as bandits and assassinate them both.
Why not do this? First, if this is the case, it will be easy to expose the truth.
Unless the people sent by the old marquis are all killed after the deed is accomplished.
Otherwise, how can you guarantee that someone will reveal the truth one day?
Not to mention that those Deadpools were trained since childhood and were previously fed with periodic poisons.
Since there is poison, there must be an antidote. The Marquis' Mansion is still weaker than the Prince's Mansion.
Who can guarantee that there is no antidote in the palace for the poison that the Marquis' Mansion gave to the Deadpools?
Li Hao is the only male of this generation in the Prince Duan's Mansion. If he was assassinated, Prince Duan would definitely investigate it thoroughly.
The second reason is that Sirong doesn't want to give the old marquis this handle.
If Li Hao was killed by a wild beast, the old marquis would at most say that Sirong was lucky and that she would not have to fight with the concubines in Li Hao's backyard and could just be a widow in peace.
At that time, Sirong only needs to continue to be the eldest daughter of the Marquis's Mansion and ensure that the relationship between the two families remains good, which will be considered as repaying the wealth given to her by the old Marquis.
But if the matter of getting rid of Li Hao was done by the old marquis, it would be different.
What if the old marquis asks Sirong to do something difficult and uses this matter to blackmail her?
Behind the Guanyin Temple is a continuous range of mountains.
The mountains where the peach forest is planted are not too high, and the scenery is still nice after being planted with peach trees.
When the fruits ripen in autumn, they also bring in income for the temple.
At the end of the peach forest, it gradually turns into a wood. The monks from the Guanyin Temple come here regularly to chop some firewood to burn, but they also stay on the edge of the woods.
You won't go any further inside.
Near the woods, you can often see small animals such as rabbits and pheasants.
Because the area nearby is the territory of the Guanyin Temple, neither the monks in the temple nor the pilgrims who come to burn incense eat meat.
The nearby villagers would not come here to hunt, which resulted in a large number of living creatures here.
As for the large animals in the deep mountains, they would occasionally come down the mountain, but every time they would bypass the Guanyin Temple and go straight to the farmland below.
There is really no food in this peach forest that can attract them.
But today was an exception. The animal-luring powder that Sirong had people apply was extremely effective. Even the tigers far away in the depths of the forest smelled the scent and rushed over.
Li Hao himself has some martial arts skills. Although he cannot be called a top master, he is more than capable of protecting himself.
Faced with so many jackals, tigers and leopards, you definitely can't win, but you can escape.
But he had Liu Ruyi by his side. In order to take her away from danger, Li Hao had to use his lightness skills several times to hold her tightly in his arms.
Every time he ran at full speed, he felt a rapid depletion of his physical strength. Not long after, he felt that he had very little strength left, as if he had been drained.
His only goal now was to take Liu Ruyi and escape to the edge of the forest so that he could call for reinforcements.
But Liu Ruyi had already collapsed in his arms out of fear.
At this time, Li Hao was holding Liu Ruyi as if he was holding a corpse.
You know, when one person hugs another person, if that person cooperates a little, then the person hugging her will feel relatively more relaxed.
However, if the person in your arms is a dead body or has fainted, then it will be quite difficult to hold them.
This is the situation now. Li Hao's physical strength has been almost exhausted, and Liu Ruyi's lack of cooperation has slowed down his escape speed even more.
Seeing the wolves chasing after him and about to bite Li Hao's trouser legs, Liu Ruyi seemed to come back to her senses and screamed.
After Li Hao sent away the little maid who took him to the peach forest.
The little maidservant, under the pretext of the prince's order, led the nearby guards to the meditation room in the side hall of the Guanyin Temple to rest.
So even though Liu Ruyi's screams were very loud, they were not very noticeable amidst the chanting of the monks in the Guanyin Temple.
It was not until Li Hao and Liu Ruyi ran out of the peach forest that anyone heard their cries for help.
Afterwards, a large number of guards rushed to the rescue.
After hearing the report from the servants, Sirong and Princess Duan also hurried towards the back mountain.
At this time, some of the wild beasts had been driven away by the crowd. Only a pair of huge tigers and a small group of hungry wolves remained here, confronting the people.
The male tiger in the pair faced the crowd, and from time to time he let out a low roar, like bursts of thunder, intimidating the wolves that wanted to move forward.
Behind it was a tigress who was obviously pregnant, gnawing on Li Hao's flesh.
Without looking closely, you can tell that Li Hao must have died. His abdomen had already been ripped open, his scarlet internal organs were scattered all over the ground, and his blood had dyed the surrounding land red.
Although Liu Ruyi had many scratches on her body, she was rescued by the guards.
Hiding behind the crowd, crying in shock.
When Princess Duan saw this scene, she couldn't breathe and immediately fainted in the arms of the old woman who followed her.
When Sirong saw Princess Duan faint, she also fell down.
Anyway, the servants around her have all been fed loyalty pills, so she is not afraid that anyone can hurt her.
Seeing that the tigress had almost finished eating, the male tiger did not continue to bite Li Hao's body, but took his wife and slowly retreated back into the depths of the forest.
After the pair of tigers left, the guards quickly snatched Li Hao's body from the wolves.
At this time, except for Li Hao's head, the rest of his body was incomplete.
Especially the abdomen, which was a big bloody hole, with almost no internal organs left.
At this time, Princess Duan had also woken up.
When she saw her son's body, she first rushed over, hugged him and cried bitterly, then turned around and started beating Liu Ruyi.
At this time, Liu Ruyi was only accompanied by Mrs. Zhou.
This time when she went out to burn incense, Liu Ruyi only brought Zhou Po and two maids. One of the two maids was the little girl who had just reported the news, and the other was Cui'er, whose sister died at her hands.