Looking at the head rolled to her feet, looking at the face full of disbelief, Li Xiuling covered her mouth to prevent screams from coming out of her mouth.
But the violent trembling of her arms still showed the fear in her heart.
No matter how smart and skillful she is, she is still a young lady in her early twenties who has always been well protected. Unlike her close friend Yan Hongxia, who is already accustomed to bloodshed and fighting.
The owner of the head at her feet was one of the maids she sent out to report the news.
A month ago, Li Xiuling had discovered that something was wrong with the person next to her. Not only did he not touch her again for a long time, but he also allowed Erlang Zhao Chen to put himself in danger and used him as bait to lure Aunt Mei and his wife. People from "Xinguang Temple".
On the surface, this seems like nothing. It is a very calm and "correct" method... But Zhao Chen is the biological son of her husband Zhao Song. Even Aunt Mei has served him for many years, and in the end, she just watched her end up like that. general situation.
This kind of indifference makes Li Xiuling shudder when she thinks about it now.
So she deliberately called her good friend Yan Hongxia to investigate the matter. First, she could control the situation within a certain range and avoid having a bad impact on the Zhao family;
Secondly, it is also a test for the husband.
Zhao Song did not object at the time, but happily accepted it. This made Li Xiuling put down her suspicions, and even put in a nice word for her husband in front of Yan Hongxia.
But a series of events that happened after Yan Hongxia left Bingquan caused the seeds of doubt in her heart to sprout again.
First, Zhao Song began to dote on a maid in his family, to the point where he played with her every night, and even did not see his son off when he left Bingquan.
In Li Xiuling's impression, her husband had never been so obsessed with that kind of thing. Instead, he was often unable to do what he wanted.
What frightened her even more was that when she was taking care of her father who was injured in an assassination in the garrison a few days ago, she discovered that all the cronies around her father had been replaced and that her father himself was mentally abnormal.
She originally wanted to tell her husband about this, but when she asked someone to call Zhao Song over, she suddenly realized that the people around her husband were also new faces who had only appeared in the past three months... and those "old people" were either Sent to Dalang and Erlang, or took leave for various reasons...
And they are more or less inextricably linked to the favored aunt.
After Li Xiuling came to her senses, she carefully recalled what had happened in the two towns and one township in recent months, and was shocked to discover something even more terrifying:
That is, the Chijin area has recently changed a number of people talking about it, both in official circles and in the world, so that she doesn't know who to turn to when she wants to find someone for help!
Why has no one noticed such an obvious anomaly? Are the people behind the scenes too secretive, or have all those who noticed the anomaly been eliminated?
Li Xiuling, who fell into an ice cave, had no choice but to activate the Taoist Department informant who Yan Hongxia had left with her, and asked her to go to Yumen for help with her letter.
In order to confuse the audience, she also sent seven or eight maids and servants as cover.
But now, the Taoist spy's head has rolled to his feet, and the secret message has obviously not been sent.
"Li Xiuling, do you think the person you arranged can really leave Bingquan?"
At this time, a charming voice came to her ears. Li Xiuling looked up and saw a woman about fifteen or sixteen years old walking into her room with elegant steps. Her appearance was beautiful and elegant. The skin is smooth and tender, making people feel inexplicably excited at the sight of it.
The person who came was none other than Xiangxue, the maid whom her husband had recently favored.
"You are not Xiangxue." Li Xiuling pretended to be calm and looked at her for a few times before shaking his head and saying.
Xiangxue was one of her dowry maids, and Li Xiuling was very familiar with her. Although she had the same appearance as the person in front of her, her temperament was completely different.
"Of course I'm not..." Xiangxue laughed strangely, then stretched out her hand to scratch her face, and immediately tore off a piece of human skin, revealing another beautiful face inside.
Seeing this, Li Xiuling felt a chill in her heart, because the human skin in the opponent's hand still had dried blood, and it was probably peeled off from the real Xiangxue's face.
As a member of the Li family, although Li Xiuling is not very talented in cultivation, his knowledge is definitely not low. He immediately thought of the "disguise" spell of an evil organization, which uses skinned skin alive as a casting material to replace the owner of the skin. appearance.
"'Demon Fox Apparition'... you are from the 'Four Evil Hall'!" Li Xiuling said with certainty.
At the same time, she also clasped the jade talisman given to her by Yan Hongxia in her hand.
"Xiangxue" did not answer, but took a few steps forward, looked at Li Xiuling, and said with a half-smile: "Li Xiuling, you may not know, I have always been jealous of you!
"As a concubine from a rich family, how come you are favored and married to a husband who loves you so much...but I am bullied and have to fight and grab everything by myself?
"So, the moment I came to Bingquan Town and sneaked into the Zhao family, I decided to destroy you!
"It's a pity that Mr. Tiger has never allowed me to act rashly. Otherwise, I would definitely let you try what it feels like to have a little red lips tasted by thousands of people."
At this point, she suddenly laughed sickly and continued,
"However, your husband has a very good taste. He has served me very well these days, and I will mercifully let him live until I can personally deliver you and his children to the altar."
Li Xiuling remained calm after hearing the previous words. Even if the woman opposite was criticizing her husband, she remained calm. After all, her husband was most likely seduced by magic. But after learning that her children would be sent to the altar, her His expression finally changed, and he asked sternly: "What did you do to my Xi'er and Mian'er?"
"Haha...I finally got anxious. I just like the way you look now!" "Xiangxue" laughed nervously again, and then said,
"You're going to die anyway, so it's okay to tell you that our 'Four Evil Hall' is about to perform a blood sacrifice in the Chijin area and open the seal that seals the separated soul of Lord 'Red Bearded Dragon'.
"And your son and daughter are the most important materials for making the 'key' to unblock it."
After saying that, she looked at Li Xiuling's face again, hoping to see an expression of pain and despair.
What she likes to do most is to degrade these happy little sluts and make them suffer the same pain that she has suffered.
But who would have thought that Li Xiuling did not do what she wanted. Instead, she directly raised her hand and threw the "jade talisman" she had prepared for a long time over her face.
The "jade talisman" instantly turned into a red sword energy and shot towards "Xiangxue".
But "Xiangxue" had long known that Yan Hongxia had left Li Xiuling something to save her life, so how could she be unprepared?
Moreover, the sword energy turned into by this jade talisman is just a "dead object" after all. Although it has the ability to track the aura, it is still too rigid without anyone's control, so "Xiangxue" just relies on her flexible skills to change directions several times in a row. , and hid away.
But when she looked at Li Xiuling's position again, she happened to see the other party pull the trigger and fall into the secret passage together with the chair.
When she arrived in front of the closed mechanism, she was a step too late.
"Li Xiuling, you can't run away!" "Xiangxue" said bitterly, thinking of the possible punishment that Mr. "Tiger" might inflict.
At the same time, she gathered all her energy, smashed the entrance of the mechanism on the ground with one palm, exposed the passage inside, and then jumped down.
"Ah! Ah! Ah...oh..."
However, the next moment, screams could not be heard.
…
In another room of the Zhao family, the head of the family, Zhao Song, dropped a chess piece and murmured:
"Xiu Ling's vitality lies in that stupid woman's abnormal spirit."
