That's when I suddenly realized—

Oops!

Because, just as he said that, I suddenly felt a disorder from the bottom of my heart, and my fists, which had been clenched tightly, suddenly felt a burst of weakness at this time, and even my fingers were a little disobedient.

However, just before I noticed something unusual, Li'er, who had been standing beside Pei Yuanfeng, had already fallen down with a thud.

"Li'er!"

I immediately tried to run over to protect her, but as soon as I moved, the leg I stepped out of it seemed to be not my own, and it suddenly softened, and I immediately fell to my knees with a thud.

I raised my head in a panic, and saw that Pei Yuanxiu's brows were also furrowed, and he seemed to feel something, and just wanted to reach out to pull Li'er, but his feet staggered, and his hand hurriedly supported the ground, supporting his de-empowered body.

He was still able to hold on, but the people around him had fallen down one by one.

"What's going on?"

"I—"

"Hmm!"

Everyone was stunned, but everyone barely had time to finish a sentence before they all lost the strength to resist, and even the strength to speak.

When I finally couldn't support it and fell to the ground, I was still in a trance, because my forehead touched the hard ground, and my eyes turned black for a while, and I only saw Pei Yuanxiu's pale face and wanted to move to me, but he was still unable to move anymore, and only one hand stretched out to me: "Qingying ......"

His voice seemed to come from far away, and it seemed to be in his ears, as if there was something invisible through a layer.

I lay on the ground, I couldn't come back to my senses for a while, I just watched the people on the Xitang fall to the ground one after another, only Wen Fengxi and a few of them who practiced martial arts could barely hold on, when Liu Qinghan fell, he even reached out and grabbed his arm, but was dragged like this, and his own fell.

Wu Yanqiu...... Du Yan...... Guards on the Joy Hall......

Finally, the one who is still standing is Pei Yuanfeng.

But his condition was not good, his face was already pale without a trace of blood, his backhand sword was on the ground, barely supporting his crumbling body, the eyes that were already bloodshot and red were raised, staring at Yan Qinghan viciously.

Yan Qinghan always looked at the Qiē that happened on the Xitang with a faint smile, and it was not until he looked at Pei Yuanfeng's fierce eyes that he laughed.

Then, bowing his head, he blew out the candle he was holding in his palm.

As soon as the flame was extinguished, a column of green smoke rose up, as if it was steaming from his palm, curling in the air, and then being blown by the wind and dissipating into the air.

After a moment of confusion, I immediately understood.

It's the pair of candles!

Those two candles that have been burning!

I looked at him with wide eyes, and looked at the handkerchief that he had not left his hand, gently covering his lips, and suddenly understood everything.

However, now it is too late to understand that almost all the people in the lobby have been drugged, a few people who are slightly weak have completely fainted, and those who are still awake are not optimistic, all of them are paralyzed and weak, and their limbs are constantly twitching and trembling because of the drug.

I can't even move a finger myself.

With a chuckling in his throat, but unable to say a word, Yan Qinghan turned around with a smile, looked at the scene in the happy hall with a look of satisfaction, and then walked out slowly. As he walked past me, a gust of wind blew across my face from the corners of his plain white clothes, and I coughed violently, and was finally able to speak.

"Light-you-"

He didn't even look back, he just walked up to Pei Yuanfeng, who had already stumbled and couldn't support it, and shook his head with a smile: "Why do you still insist so much?" ”

Pei Yuanfeng raised his head and looked at him, his eyes were almost poisonous: "You-"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Yan Qinghan raise his arm and slash at the back of his neck.

My eyes widened in astonishment.

I never thought that the weak Yan Qinghan would move so fast, it was like a white lightning, and even left only a shadow, when I heard Pei Yuanfeng let out a painful snort, and suddenly the whole person fell to the ground.

"Yuanfeng!"

I let out a low snort, but I saw that although Pei Yuanfeng was slapped by him and fell, he did not faint immediately, but his face was terrifyingly pale, but his eyes were still open, and he looked at Yan Qinghan with a flush.

Yan Qinghan also looked at his hand wrapped in a thick bandage, shook his head, as if he was a little sorry and a little helpless, and sighed softly.

Then, he lowered his head to look at Pei Yuanfeng, who was still twitching and struggling on the ground, slowly squatted down, and picked up the sword that was still dripping blood that fell on his hand.

My heart went to my throat at once!

"Yan Qinghan—"

"Senior brother,"

At the same time as I spoke, another weak and cold voice sounded next to me, and when I turned my head, it was Liu Qinghan, who was lying on the ground weakly, his limbs were constantly twitching because of the drug, gritting his teeth and raising his head, and said, "Don't mess around." ”

"......" Yan Qinghan looked back at him.

"The man of this hall of joy...... You, even if you kill one, don't think about gaining a foothold in the world anymore. ”

Yan Qinghan smiled.

"What, you're still thinking about me when you're saying this now?"

"We ...... After all, it's the same door. ”

"Hahahaha, what a fellow door," Yan Qinghan laughed, but after laughing, a cold light suddenly oozed from his eyes: "It's a pity that it's different." ”

Liu Qinghan seemed to be choked and looked at him silently.

"When you and the teacher entered Beijing, I already knew that our Tao was different."

“……”

"The Tao is different, and you don't have to show any mercy to me."

“……”

"I'm not right to you, of course not."

Liu Qinghan looked at him, with a pale expression on his pale face.

Yan Qinghan stood up slowly with his sword, but he just glanced at Pei Yuanfeng, then turned around and ignored him.

But, as he walked forward with his sword, each of us stopped breathing.

His clothes brushed the ground again, and a bloody wind whipped up, and I watched with wide eyes as his footsteps finally stopped in front of a man.

Yan Qingchen.

All the hosts and guests in the Xitang fell, but he, sitting in a wheelchair, was still as pale as usual, and even his eyes were equally indifferent, as if the Qiē in the Xitang had nothing to do with him. However, if you look closely, you will find that his hands on the armrests on both sides of the wheelchair seem so limp that he doesn't even have the strength to hold the armrests.

When Yan Qinghan walked in front of him, he slowly raised his eyelids and glanced at the person in front of him.

Yan Qinghan smiled and said, "You really calm down." ”

“……”

"You should be the first to notice the person in this happy hall, but you haven't spoken."

“……”

"What are you waiting for?"

Several of us were shocked, and looked at Yan Qingchen in amazement, only to see that he lowered his eyelids again, and his expression even looked a little sad, as if he was going to sleep at any time.

Old Madam Yan, who had already fallen at the foot of his wheelchair, didn't even have the strength to be angry at the moment, and only panted and said, "Qingchen, why are you—"

"yes, why?"

Yan Qinghan picked up the sword in his hand, and the tip of the sword that was still dripping blood was gently placed on his shoulder, almost a fraction away from his white and slender neck, and I was even worried that if his hand moved slightly, Yan Qingchen would immediately be splashed with blood on the spot.

Suddenly, my breath was suffocated, and I said in a dumb voice: "Yan Qinghan!" ”

Yan Qinghan didn't look back, but Yan Qingchen, her long black eyelashes raised and glanced at me.

However, after only one glance at me, those eyes slowly lifted up and moved behind me, as if a shadow was slowly coming from behind.

Then, he said lightly: "I haven't spoken, I'm just waiting for him." ”

At this moment, everyone turned their heads.

I saw a figure standing there at the gate of the open hall, I don't know if it was because of the red satin that kept flying in the wind behind him, or the clothes on his body that were blown by the wind, all of which made people feel a trace of coldness, and as the long shadow he cast covered it, the coldness pierced his heart.

And when they saw that person's face clearly, everyone in the happy hall was stunned.

Old Madam Yan almost couldn't believe her eyes, she looked at it in a daze for a while, her lips kept trembling, I don't know if it was because of the medicine, or the panic in her heart, after a while, she finally called out the name-

"Li Guo?"

Standing in front of us is the Yan family's big butler, Li Guo!

Old Madam Yan had obviously called out his name, but she still didn't seem to believe it, and looked at him stunned for a long time: "You?!" ”

Although he didn't take Chinese medicine with the people in Xitang, Li Guo's face was still very pale, and even, more overwhelmed than some of us, he didn't even seem to have the courage to look at the old lady Shangyan, he only lowered his head and said respectfully: "Old lady." ”

"You-"

Old Madam Yan seemed to be so angry that she couldn't speak, lying on the ground and panting, and Li Guo slowly walked into the happy hall, but she didn't even look at the shocked expressions of the people around her, she just walked straight to Yan Qingchen's wheelchair, stretched out her hand, and gently pushed away the blood-stained sword that was not more than a fraction away from Yan Qingchen's neck.

He said: "I promised you, and you promised me, that you would not harm the head of the family." ”

My brow furrowed.

If just now, when I saw him appear for the first time, I already understood in my heart that he brought the wedding candle on the happy hall, at that time I was still wondering why this kind of trivial matter would be done by his dignified Yan family housekeeper, just because everyone was happy, and they didn't particularly care, and the medicine was in the happy candle, and after the light of the tongguò, everyone lost the ability to resist, although Yan Qinghan stood in the happy hall like us, the handkerchief he used when coughing was undoubtedly soaked in the antidote, so he was able to be safe and sound- And Li Guo will stand in the same camp with Yan Qinghan, and there are not many reasons to think of.

He is in a high position in the Yan family, and Mrs. Yan was so surprised when she saw him, it can be seen that she still trusts him quite a lot, but he betrayed them, and together with Yan Qinghan, he calculated today's scene.

I have been at the center of all kinds of power vortex over the years, and it is not that I have never seen such a scene, a man doing this kind of thing, if not for a woman, then only power and money are left.

However, looking at his posture just now, he was protecting Yan Qingchen, it seemed that there was an agreement between him and Yan Qinghan, he promised to help Yan Qinghan, and Yan Qinghan couldn't hurt these people in Xitang.

I gasped slightly and said, "Li Guo, what are you doing this for?" ”

When I spoke, I was still able to control myself, but obviously Mrs. Yan had already collapsed a little, and she roared: "You ungrateful villain, you actually came with him to calculate us, calculate our Yan family?!" ”

As soon as the words "ungrateful" came out, it was like a thorn in Li Guo's heart.

I could clearly see a crack on his face, which had been deliberately calm.

But Old Madam Yan obviously didn't see it, and even if she did, she couldn't extinguish the anger in her heart at this moment, and continued to scold angrily: "I really didn't think it was you!" Don't you want to think about it, if it weren't for the Yan family, if it wasn't for us, would you be where you are today? ”

“……”

"I asked you to be the steward of the Yan family and give you so much power, but you-you actually did this, you actually united with that outsider to calculate us!"

“……”

"You brute! You don't have to die well! ”

Every time she scolded, the expression on Li Guo's face darkened, but no matter how angry she scolded, Li Guo always just lowered his head, did not open his mouth to argue, and did not even seem to have the courage to meet her gaze.

It's just that I saw his hands hanging at his sides, slowly clenching into fists.

"Mother's ......"

In the interval when Old Madam Yan was already a little out of breath and finally paused, Yan Qingchen opened her mouth lightly, stopping her from continuing to scold, and then raised her eyelids and looked at Li Guo with some indifference.

He said, "I've been waiting for you to show up, and I want to hear your explanation. ”

“……”

"Why did you betray me?"

His words were very calm, not even a little excited or angry, but obviously, compared to Old Madam Yan's anger, Li Guo was more afraid of his calmness, as if he had been punched hard, the whole person shook and took two steps back.

Yan Qingchen continued: "Let's talk about it." ”

Li Guo took a few steps back.

He is very old, he can almost be Yan Qingchen's father, and with his identity and experience, he should not be suppressed by Yan Qingchen's words so that he has no power to resist, but the current situation is like this, in the face of us, and even in the face of Mrs. Yan's angry scolding, he may feel guilty and embarrassed, but he can still be calm, but in the face of Yan Qingchen, that kind of fear seems to seep out of his heart, a poison without an antidote.

He didn't even have the strength to look up.

At this time, Yan Qinghan sneered.

"I told you a long time ago that if you want to do it, you have to do it to the end."

“……”

"Do you think he'll be grateful to you like this?"

“……”

"It's not like you haven't seen his methods."

The more he spoke, the lower Li Guo's head hung down, and his neck was almost broken, Yan Qinghan looked at him, sneered again, then looked at Yan Qingchen, and said coldly: "You don't have to ask again, he doesn't even plan to betray you at all." ”

“……”

"He just wanted to help me."

Yan Qingchen raised his eyebrows lightly.

Yan Qinghan's smile deepened a little, but for some reason, it seemed that his heart was on fire, and he covered his mouth and coughed twice. While coughing, he slowly leaned down to be level with Yan Qingchen, looked at the other party's indifferent eyes, and said, "Of course, you won't understand." ”

“……”

"This feeling of being an outcast."

“……”

My heart sank.

Outcast?!

When he looked up at Li Guo again, the calm mask on his face seemed to have been completely pierced by these two words, leaving only a thick anger and sadness.

Outcast......

By the way, I only thought that he might be for power and money, but I didn't expect that there was such a little similarity between him and Yan Qinghan.

People are inherently complex, and people's feelings are also sensitive and fragile, and perhaps having suffered the same injury is enough to make two people feel dependent on each other. And he and Yan Qinghan are the two people who have suffered the same injury.

I already knew Li Guo's life experience, but before this, I had never paid serious attention to him, even if I went up and down the Yan family every day, and he arranged the food, clothing, housing and transportation of all of us, but I didn't pay more attention to him.

But I think this feeling is probably what he has felt for most of his life.

After his parents eloped, he gave birth to him, his father never appeared, his mother died in the river, and he never gave him any warmth, although Uncle Ai raised him, but people like Uncle Ai, because he disliked the birth of his illegitimate child, let him come out to meet people from childhood to adulthood, that kind of cold, the feeling of being abandoned by the whole world, can be imagined.

Even after becoming the chief butler of the Yan family, I think the gap in his heart has never been filled.

And Yan Qinghan-

From the nickname he asked me to call him, I should have understood that he has never been out of the identity of an "outcast".

is such two people, planning today's Yiqiē, Li Guo is not for power, not for money, just to help him, to help this person who is also an abandoned son, perhaps, he is helping another self in this world.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

But I don't know whether I should be angry or sour.

The things in this world, one drink and one peck, are predetermined.

At this time, Yan Qingchen also sneered.

Compared with Yan Qinghan's constant sneer, his sneer at this moment is even more chilling, and even his eyes are dyed with the chill of ice and snow.

However, his sneer, like a bucket of ice water, poured down head-on, sobered me up.

Things have come to this point.

No matter how much hardship Li Guo has, and no matter how tragic Yan Qinghan's past is, these are already irretrievable, but now they control the Xitang of the Yan family, and also control the most important group of people in Xichuan, and even include the members of the imperial court and the masters of Jiangnan.

Thinking of this, I subconsciously glanced back, Li'er was already lying on the ground, unconscious, Pei Yuanxiu still insisted on being awake, but the folds in the center of his eyebrows were deep.

I gritted my teeth and turned to look at Yan Qinghan: "So, what do you want to do now?" ”

Yan Qinghan looked back at me.

"You have already controlled us, and our life and death are under your control. Now, what do you want to do? ”

“……”

Somewhat surprisingly, he had always been full of confidence, but he did not answer my words immediately, and even - although he still had a smile on his face, after hearing my words, the smile in his eyes disappeared in an instant.

Then, I saw him walking towards me, step by step.

When he walked in front of me, he still felt a breeze blowing in his plain white clothes, and I blinked slightly, and he was already crouching down and looking at me calmly.

My brow furrowed slightly, and I looked at him as well.

The next moment, he did something I couldn't have imagined.

The palpitating white hand, wrapped in bandages, slowly lifted up and reached into my arms.