Chapter Ninety-Eight: Charlotte's Death
It was almost noon, Lin Ruochen saw Xia Luo get into a carriage and then walk in the direction of the suburbs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Lin Ruochen followed closely, wanting to see who Xia Luo wanted to see.
Charlotte seemed to sense that someone was following, so she went around and around the city gate for half a circle before finally stopping at the east gate of the palace.
As soon as the car stopped, a little boy eating sugar gourd ran to Charlotte's carriage and handed a paper ball to Charlotte's butler, Lao Cheng. Lao Cheng took the paper ball and glanced at it and handed it to Xia Luo, but turned his head to find that the little boy had run away.
Lin Ruochen saw Xia Luo restart the carriage, and then walked in the direction of the woods east of the city. Lin Ruochen followed closely behind, lest something happen that caught him off guard.
In fact, the housekeeper Lao Cheng had already found out that someone was following, but it didn't matter, what he wanted was Lin Ruochen to take the initiative to follow. If Lin Ruochen doesn't come, this scene won't be able to continue.
When they arrived at the woods in the east of the city, the housekeeper Lao Cheng stopped the car, and then helped Xia Luo get out of the carriage. Charlotte looked around and saw that there was no one.
"Why is there no one? Didn't you say waiting for me here?" Charlotte said with anger in her tone, and the note said that someone was waiting here, but she didn't expect to meet a man who didn't believe in her words.
The housekeeper Lao Cheng no longer bent down and bowed his head to Xia Luo, but slowly stood up straight, and said to Xia Luo unhurriedly: "Why is there no one?
Xia Luo just wanted to speak, but when she turned her head and saw the face of the housekeeper Lao Cheng, she immediately understood, "It's you?"
The housekeeper Lao Cheng nodded, but there was no trace of familiarity on his face, and now he had a kind of viciousness on his face that Charlotte had never seen before.
"My lord, why are you so stupid? Haven't you found out until now that I am an undercover agent arranged by the prince to be by your side?"
"What? It can't be? We've known each other for many years, how can you be the prince's man?
The housekeeper Lao Cheng didn't think so, he had followed Xia Luo for many years, but he had followed the prince for a longer time. To Charlotte he was a betrayal, but to the prince he was the most loyal man, because no matter how close Charlotte was to him, his loyalty to the prince never wavered.
The housekeeper Lao Cheng took out a knife from behind him, and then slowly played with it in his hand.
"Sir, who do you think the owner of this knife is?"
At this time, how could Xia Luo not understand the cause and effect of the matter, needless to say, this knife is also Lin Ruochen's, but I don't know how he stole it in his hand. It seems that Lin Ruochen is also in trouble, but I don't know if he is alert.
"If you want to frame the county king, you have to see how many catties and taels you have, the county king is not so easy to deal with, and the emperor is not as confused as you think. ”
The housekeeper Lao Cheng laughed when he heard this, as if he had heard a big joke. However, time waits for no one, the matter explained by the prince must not be delayed, and Lin Ruochen is estimated to be here soon, so it is better to solve it quickly.
Thinking of this, the housekeeper Lao Cheng picked up a knife and stabbed at Xia Luo. Charlotte didn't expect that this person who accompanied him all day was so good, Charlotte didn't even have time to dodge, he only felt a gust of wind coming, and then found that the position of his heart had been stabbed by a knife. Lao Cheng seemed to be afraid that Xia Luo would be rescued, so he grabbed the knife and pulled it out and stabbed it again in the same place where Xia Luo was injured.
Seeing Xia Luo fall, the housekeeper Lao Cheng shook his head again and again, "I wanted you to live a little longer, but a little longer can't change the fact that you will die today, and the county king will come over soon, so I can only say sorry, I hope you will rest in peace as soon as possible." ”
Xia Luo's eyes widened unwillingly, and she watched the housekeeper Lao Cheng gradually walk away. When he was dying, the face of his wife Ouyang Wanru appeared in his mind, as if she was right in front of him, and stretched out her hand to him......
Lin Ruochen grabbed Xia Luo's outstretched hand and heard him muttering something. Lin Ruochen put his ear to his mouth and heard him muttering a name indistinctly. Lin Ruochen listened three or four times before he heard clearly, what he said was "just like that!" However, the woman who was as gentle as water probably didn't know that the man who was most concerned about her was now lying alone on the ground, and his heart had stopped beating.
Lin Ruochen stretched out his hand to close Xia Luo's eyes, and suddenly remembered his previous life, after he and Xia Chuyan got married in the previous life, every time he called Xia Luo's father, Xia Luo had to raise his head slightly, as if he could marry his woman, which was a blessing that Lin Ruochen had cultivated in several lifetimes.
Now that I think about it, it is indeed Lin Ruochen's blessing to be able to marry Xia Chuyan. How many women in the world can live and die together?
Xia Chuyan is infatuated, perhaps because Xia Chuyan's father is also an infatuated person, and what he can't let go of when he is dying is not gold and silver or status, but the wife who is with him.
Lin Ruochen sighed, tears blurred his eyes at some point, although he and Xia Luo did not become a family in this life, but Xia Luo's care and concern for him in his previous life, which can be forgotten. He hated himself for being a step too late after all, if it weren't for seeing the background of the housekeeper Lao Cheng, Lin Ruochen would never have thought that the prince would arrange such a person to assassinate Xia Luo. Lin Ruochen guarded against the prince and the killers sent by the prince, but he didn't guard against the people around Xia Luo.
It was this negligence that caused Lin Ruochen's deep regret. But before Lin Ruochen could recover from the pain, there was a noisy footstep in the distance, the housekeeper Lao Cheng appeared, the prince appeared, and the ten princes appeared, with a large number of guards behind them, and the guards all carried swords in their hands, all of which were in a state of coming with a great enemy.
"Hehe......" Lin Ruochen smiled, it seems that the prince's real goal is himself, and Xia Luo just happened to get in his way. Poor Charlotte, I'm afraid she didn't understand the truth of the matter until she died. Perhaps, Charlotte is not concerned about the truth, but about the safety of her family after her accident.
"Don't worry!" Lin Ruochen assured Xia Luo's corpse, "Your family is my family, as long as I am here, no one will want to touch a finger of them." ”
After finishing speaking, Lin Ruochen raised his head, but this time he no longer had a concession in his eyes. Didn't the prince want to fight? Okay, just accompany him! The prince used the memories of his previous life to keep calculating, and Lin Ruochen could too! The previous mercy to his subordinates was for the sake of the face of the Ten Princes, and I hoped that the Ten Princes would slowly recognize the face of the Prince. But it won't be needed anymore, it's not needed anymore, it's time for him to be punished as he deserves. Old Qiao has been busy for a long time, and he can't let him be busy in vain! The prince has been free, and he can't let him be at ease all the time!
"The struggle is about to start, prince, you wait to take it!"