Chapter 67: There is no way to justify
The two assassins died quietly, Weng Guimi was stunned and unable to move, their deaths were extremely terrifying, but what was even more terrifying was the people who did not work hard to get rid of them.
Getting rid of two masters in an instant, how can this kind of strength not be terrifying? Weng Guimi swept around vigilantly, until the suspicious figure took the initiative to appear.
"It's you......" Weng Guimi never thought that she was such a terrifying person, and after being shocked, he immediately remembered his current identity, and saluted respectfully on one knee, "Nan Shengnu ......"
The Southern Saintess was dressed in a Xuan robe, wearing a thin Xuan veil to cover her delicate face, revealing only the intoxicating jade eyes. She lowered her eyes slightly and looked at Weng Guimi, her cold gaze made her heart chill.
The appearance of the Southern Saintess was no accident, and Weng Guimi did not know when she arrived, let alone what connection she had with the Assassins. Even if the assassin was instructed by her, it was not surprising that the Xiling Sect had never played cards according to the rules, but the fact that Liu Ye might be targeted by the Xiling Sect made it difficult for him to accept it for a while.
"Do you know where they came from?" Nan Shengnu looked at the two corpses on the ground and said disapprerovingly.
Weng Guimi thought to herself that she might be testing herself, after all, the Southern Saintess was very close to King Qiuci, and it was hard to guarantee that she had promised the king to help him deal with Liu Ye. After hesitating for a moment, Weng Guimi shook his head: "My subordinates don't know." β
"I don't know?" Nan Shengnu sneered, and an elusive meaning flashed in her eyes, "Your task is to monitor Princess Dahan and report her every move to me, I didn't let you be her bodyguard." These days, the information you send is dispensable nonsense, something that everyone knows, do you still need to send you? However, you're pretty dutiful as a guard, and it's really beyond my expectations, Kuster, if my information is correct, you should have joined the sect three months ago, right? β
"Yes, Southern Saintess." Weng Guimi answered truthfully, the Southern Saintess had already suspected him, if she saw the flaws, the next person to die in horror would be him.
Weng Guimi searched his intestines and scraped his stomach and thought of a way to deal with her, he was not sure if he could get out of the way after a while, maybe Nan Shengnu did not have real evidence, if she had, why bother to try around the bush, I am afraid that I would have already started.
"Heh, in just three months, you can get the trust of the Bright Moon Holy Maiden, which shows that you are not a simple person. Since it's not a simple character, why can't you even get a decent piece of information? Still, you didn't even think about working for me......" The Southern Saintess paused, her unfathomable eyes staring at every subtle expression on Weng Guimi's face.
It turned out that what she suspected was not his relationship with Liu Ye, but what he had to do with her, thinking of this, Weng Guimi breathed a sigh of relief. The Xiling Sect is in charge of the Holy Maiden of Mingyue, and several holy women directly obey her, even if the sect leader makes a decision, he must consult her first, Weng Guimi only knows that the holy woman must absolutely obey the instructions of the holy altar, but he does not understand that the saints do not trust each other.
Weng Guimi concealed his surprise, made an aggrieved expression, and raised his eyes to look at the Southern Holy Maiden: "Why did you say this?" The instructions of the altar are to ask the subordinates to cooperate with the Southern Saintess to firmly control the Qiuzi Kingdom, and the instructions have not been completed, how can the subordinates dare to slack off. Ask the Holy Maiden of the South to forgive her subordinates, and say some good things for her subordinates in front of the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon, if the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon misunderstands that her subordinates snub the Holy Maiden of the South, she will not spare ......"
Weng Guimi tried his best to show his innocence, and when he said that the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon was even more frightened, the hostility in the eyes of the Holy Maiden of the South gradually dissipated, and she smiled mockingly: "The Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon is not a tiger, why are you scared like this." β
"Who in the sect is not afraid of the holy power of the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon? As the Holy Maiden of the South said, not long after her subordinates joined the Church, it was a great honor to receive instructions to assist the Holy Maiden of the South, and the subordinates were determined to complete the instructions wholeheartedly, and did not dare to expect others to become a member of the altar one day, nor did they dare to expect the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon to look at her differently, just to prove that she was a true Xiling Sect. β
Speaking of which, the Southern Holy Maiden already believed in him seven or eight points, and it was impossible for a disciple who had been in the Church for three months to gain the trust of the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon, and the reason why he was sent to assist her was that this person did not have a deep understanding of the Xiling Sect, and he sold his life without regrets, and secondly, he placed a stalker beside her, always reminding her not to have different intentions.
This is very similar to the style of the altar, on the surface, they are all their own people, but in fact, no one believes in anyone, and I think it is, with the leader of the Bright Moon Holy Maiden, how good can the people under him be.
Nan Shengnu was silent, and Weng Guimi continued: "Yes, it is not good for subordinates to do things during this time, mainly because the Han people are staring too closely, and important information will not be known to outsiders at all. The subordinates are also very distressed about this, but they are weak and can't fight with them. When the princess of Dahan set off, she originally planned to take the opportunity to get close to inquire about some useful news, but unexpectedly, Prince Anxi came out to stir up the situation again, he stuck to the princess's side from morning to night, and even the princess rested, and harassed from time to time, so her subordinates could only observe the princess at night to see if she would find her confidants to discuss important matters while she was asleep. But who knew that they didn't see their discussions, but they saw that there were assassins holding the princess hostage, and their subordinates were worried that it was a bandit who wanted to make money, so they chased them out without much thought. β
Weng Guimi's words were very in line with his identity, and the words describing Tu Qitang caused the Southern Holy Maiden to chuckle, in her opinion, Tu Qitang was indeed a dog skin plaster that could not be shaken off, and she really wanted to ask how the princess of Dahan sent him. The image of the deep sect leader in the past has been completely subverted, and now Tu Qitang is just a hairy boy who tries to make women happy, and when he finds such a cute side of Tu Qitang, Nan Shengnu can't help but want to help him.
Seeing Nan Shengnu smiling, Weng Guimi finally put his mind at ease, and for the sake of prudence, he still lowered his head and didn't dare to get up.
"Get up!" Nan Shengnu said happily, and then pointed to the two assassins she had killed, "I tell you, they are not bandits who are interested in getting rich, they are killers sent by the king to take the life of the princess of the Great Han. β
Although he thought of this possibility in advance, Weng Guimi was still frightened: "What? Take the princess's life? King Kuzi, why did heβwhy did he do this? β
"Selfish, greedy, mean, shameless......" Nan Shengnu unceremoniously used these words to describe King Qiuzi, "he is a villain who cannot afford to lose, and he is unwilling to show weakness to a woman when he sees that he has lost a bet." It's not terrible to lose, it's terrible to lose even your own conscience, and it's ridiculous that such people claim to be devout believers, enlightened kings. β
What Nan Shengnu said was right, Weng Guimi quite agreed, thought about it, pretended to be worried about her tone, and asked: "But, after all, they are people sent by the king, and now they have been killed by you, how can you go back and give him an account?" β
"There's no way around it, who told them to see you, you're a member of the altar, you want to protect the princess of Dahan, if they survive, I still can't go back."
Weng Guimi looked guilty and said apologetically: "The subordinates are incompetent, and the Southern Holy Maiden is involved in cleaning up the mess, it is better to do this, even if the two lives are on the heads of the subordinates, everything that happened tonight has nothing to do with you." β
"You?" Nan Shengnu waved her hand, "Forget it, they are all first-class masters in the country, I will hand you over, in case the stuffing is exposed, it will be more troublesome." β
"What then? You can't let you bear it because of the ignorance of your subordinates......" Weng Guimi rubbed his hands back and forth, sweating on his forehead in a hurry.
Nansheng patted him on the shoulder, leaving a meaningful sentence: "I didn't do this for you. β
Not to clean up the mess for him? So, why did she do it? Weng Guimi was puzzled, he asked tentatively, but the Southern Holy Maiden refused to say anything, and he could only give up.
"Go back, if someone asks, you just say you haven't caught up, and you don't need to say anything else, understand?" The Holy Maiden of the South instructed as she left.
"My subordinates understand." Weng Guimi nodded in response, and then asked, "Nan Shengnu, why did you leave the altar?" Is there another instruction from the Holy Church? β
The Southern Holy Maiden said without looking back: "Go back and continue to protect the princess!" β
Weng Guimi returned to the inn, Shi Zhong and Chang Hui stopped him, if Shi Zhong hadn't stopped him, Chang Hui's fist would have greeted him a long time ago.
"You dog bastard, you must not have caught up, say, did you find the assassin, you can't dig up our secrets, just find someone to kill the princess, right, bastard......" Chang Hui looked at him unpleasantly for a day or two, no matter who it was, as long as it was the appearance of "Weng Guimi", he hated it when he looked at it, "You still have the face to come back, don't you still think that you hurt people enough, I warn you, if you don't leave, I will kill you......"
"General Chang, calm down." Shizhong grabbed his wrist and pushed him into Liu Ye's room, "You go and see how the princess is now, do you need to ask for a doctor." β
Chang Hui snorted indignantly, glared at Weng Guimi viciously, turned around and walked away.
Shizhong faintly looked at Weng Guimi, who was in a trance, and secretly thought about what he was thinking, Weng Guimi was uncomfortable by him, and said perfunctorily: "I can't catch the assassin, I'm really sorry, if you doubt me, I can go, but I didn't hurt the princess, whether you believe it or not, this is the truth." β
"Believe, of course I believe, not only will you not hurt the princess, but you will also sacrifice your life to protect her." Shizhong walked towards Weng Guimi and whispered in his ear, "I'm not wrong, King Zuoxian." β
Weng Guimi looked at him in a daze, and couldn't deny it for a while, Shi Zhong smiled indifferently: "I can only say that your disguise skills are not very good, you think you can hide from everyone, but in fact, it is not." I think the princess already knows who you are, otherwise, she wouldn't have exposed her cards in front of you, and what she cares about most is not herself, but the two children in the palace. Since she didn't guard against you, it means that she believes that you won't leak secrets, because you are King Zuoxian, and you won't hurt the young husband. β
At this point, Weng Guimi was powerless to refute, Shizhong was not so easy to deceive, he knew it from the beginning, but he didn't expect him to find out so soon.
"Why did you come back if you chose to leave?" Shi Zhong looked into his eyes and said faintly, "For you, the princess is very injured, if you don't have the determination to love her for the rest of your life, and you don't have all the plans to pay for her, please put away your worthless love." β
Shizhong turned around to leave, Weng Guimi opened his mouth hesitantly: "I won't hurt her again, I promise you......"
Without waiting for Weng Guimi to explain, Shi Zhong suddenly grabbed his neck with his backhand, pushed him against the wall, gritted his teeth and said, "What qualifications do you have to hurt her?" You don't deserve it! Weng Guimi, listen up, I won't let you have a chance to hurt her again, I promise with my life! β