Chapter 54: Female Tyrant VS Green Tea Bitch

  "Be careful!" The crowd exclaimed, Su Ya, who was closest to Tai Shi Lan, suddenly jumped up and made a fierce dive, hugging Tai Shi Lan and pulling him down. With a loud crash, the two of them rolled to the ground.

  Hua Xun's eyebrows shot up, her long whip cracked and was about to counterattack. But the arrow suddenly bent strangely, bypassing the tip of her whip and hitting her wrist heavily, with a loud "pa" sound, the long whip fell to the ground.

  Two arrows shot out like lightning, almost simultaneously. As the crowd came to their senses, they saw Tai Shi Lan and Su Ya fall to the ground together. Hua Xun covered his wrist with his hand, and blood seeped from the seam of his sleeve.

  Tai Shi Lan pushed away Su Ya, who was tightly hugging her, and sat up. Su Ya's momentum was too strong, and she bumped into the plum blossom stake beside her, scraping off a big piece of skin from her forehead. Seeing that Tai Shi Lan was fine, she smiled with relief.

  Tai Shi Lan nodded to her, pulling out the arrow nailed to the ground from beside her. However, at the moment it was pulled out, the arrow broke into several pieces. Tai Shi Lan took a closer look and found that there was a layer of black ice-like substance on the outside of the arrow, with a thin sharp steel wire inside. At this moment, the outer black ice shattered due to the force, leaving only the steel wire behind. It no longer looked like an arrow because in this area, the steel wires that had entangled the plum blossom stakes were everywhere.

  Su Ya also discovered the arrow's peculiarity and thought for a moment before flames of anger surged in her eyes.

  It's clear that the archer is trying to frame Tai Shi Lan. The arrows used don't leave any evidence behind.

  Just now, Tai Shi Lan was standing on the plum blossom pile with both hands open, extremely unstable figure. If he was hit by an arrow, he would inevitably lose control of his body and fall down, and no matter which plum blossom pile he bumped into, he would be hard to avoid injury. Moreover, it is likely that his face will be injured.

  Even if her face wasn't injured, just look at the strange color of this steel wire, it's likely that there's another mystery to it.

  Tai Shi Lan placed her hands on her knees, slowly stood up, and looked up at the horizon.

  Several figures flashed by, but they were not rushing towards her, but rather towards Hua Xian.

  People rushed to the scene and quickly surrounded Hua Xunhuan. The first one shouted in a shrill voice: "By order of Wang Gonggong, the eunuch in charge of the Western Bureau's detective work, we are arresting the five Vietnamese spies led by Hua Xunhuan! Everyone else, step back!"

  Some were astonished, while others were delighted. The astonished ones were poor scholars, and the delighted ones were young masters from noble families.

  Those who sympathize with the pleasure-seekers and know a little about the Western Bureau's inside story have changed their expressions. It is a den of murderers, a terrifying concentration camp, the most mysterious and frightening place in Southern Qi. Those who enter are lucky to die intact, while many more are unable to die, lingering in agony and suffering in the bloody hell of prisoners. In the gloomy headquarters of the Western Bureau beside the Imperial Palace of Li Jing, every midnight would echo with wails like ghosts crying out in misery. After the third watch, no one dares to approach.

  "Haha... good... kill her... kill her..." Qiu Tang lay on the ground, groaning, "You... help me kill her..."

  Someone came and kicked him far away with one foot.

  "Lowly commoner!" The man in front, with a pale face and a brown mole under his eye, which was now twitching with disdain, "Don't block the master's way!"

  The sons of noble families are as silent as cicadas in winter, and the Qiu Tang people do not know high or low. These aristocratic young masters still understand a little bit about Western etiquette, so they don't dare to speak casually.

  "What a freak!" Hua Xun shouted, covering his wrist, "What nonsense are you spouting!"

  "You are a spy." The eunuch with the pale face turned blue and said coldly, "You are suspected of colluding with Wu Yue spies last night to assassinate our officials. Now we have orders to take you in for questioning, come with us."

  "Fart! I haven't seen a fellow villager from Wuyue for years!" Hua Xunhuan's eyebrows rose, with a faint ring of blood around his pupils, "What evidence do you have?!"

  "Evidence?..." The pale-faced eunuch smiled slowly and deliberately, "When the time comes, it will naturally appear."

  "I have evidence!" Zheng Si Shao suddenly exclaimed, "This woman is a spy for Wu Yue, I saw her secretly meeting with someone from Wu Yue yesterday!"

  "Who are you?" The pale-faced eunuch asked proudly.

  "Fourth son of Zheng Zhi, Prefect of Dongchang, Zheng Jiao." Zheng Si's expression was a mix of flattery and reverence, his eyes full of sycophancy.

  The pale-faced eunuch nodded slightly, "Your testimony is very useful, we'll listen to it later."

  "Yes." Zheng Si Shao's face was filled with joy.

  The eunuch with a dark face was also very satisfied. Although there is no evidence that can be fabricated, if someone testifies, it would naturally be better.

  Tai Shi suddenly walked over.

  Zheng Jiao subconsciously took a step back and covered her waist when she saw her.

  The last stab seems to be aching again.

  The ash-gray-faced eunuch seemed nonchalant, but his eyes swept across Tai Shi Lan's movements, and with a sidelong glance, he saw her approaching, a cruel smile spreading from the corner of his mouth.

  Just wait for you to come over... then, there will be a crime.

  They deliberately chose to catch the flower at this moment, just because it was too late for Shi Lan to come out. As soon as she came out, the Western Bureau eunuchs could accuse her of disturbing official business, covering up serious crimes, and even colluding with Wu Yue to plot against the current high-ranking officials, and put her in prison; if she didn't come out, from then on, her prestige in the Second and Fifth Camps would be completely destroyed, and her reputation would be greatly damaged. According to the traditional rules of the Southern Qi officialdom and military, students with such a bad record were not allowed to enter, and Shi Lan's future would also be ruined.

  Kill two birds with one stone, whatever she does is wrong.

  The ash-gray-faced eunuch held his chin, thinking that the newly appointed Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Western Depot, Lord Qiao, was indeed a master of intrigue.

  "Take him away!" He waited until Tai Shi Lan was about to arrive in front of him before decisively nodding his chin.

  "Get out!" Hua Xun swung her long whip with the tip of her foot, scattering the two eunuchs who were about to step forward and lock her up. Unfortunately, she was still injured on her right wrist, and her left hand wasn't agile enough. After a few swings, the whip was snatched away by a western bureau eunuch, who laughed and kicked her to the ground. The other two eunuchs stepped on her back and twisted her arms behind her.

  "Get out! Get out!" Huaxian Huan struggled and crawled on the sandy ground, but was firmly pinned down and unable to move. The eunuch with a pale face took over the long whip, bent down to look at her face, and said with a sneer: "This barbarian woman is wild in nature, and looks wild too. In that case, we'll make you even wilder."

  He flicked his wrist, and with a swift motion of the whip, there was a loud crack. A clear streak of blood appeared on Hua Xun's cheek.

  Hua Xun's eyes widened in anger, the wound on her cheek twitching slightly, a faint red color seeping out, matching the same hue rising from her disheveled hair, her eyes blazing like fierce flames, exuding a wild and savage beauty that struck him head-on.

  Several eunuchs held their breath tightly, with a mixture of longing and despair flashing across the bottom of their eyes, which were soon filled with angry and brutal gazes.

  Those beautiful, noble or wild flowers in the world, they can only watch and cannot eat.

  So this group of oppressed yin people, more than normal people yearn to vent, they can't get the gentle moans of women under their bodies, so they want to hear another kind of painful moan born for them.

  The blue-gray-faced eunuch had originally been instructed to humiliate and torture the flower-picking girl in public, so as to provoke the anger of Tai Shi Lan. But at this moment, he suddenly lost interest and only wanted to take the little wild cat to the nearby large prison, to taste her blood and listen to the most heartbreaking cry in the world.

  "Take it away." He said, and then to Zheng Si Shao, "Go together."

  "Wait."

  The dark-faced eunuch turned around, his sinister eyes fixed on Tai Shi Lan who had spoken.

  "Who are you?" He asked with feigned ignorance.

  "I..." Tai Shi Lan walked towards the pale-faced eunuch, all four eunuchs began to be on guard, while Zheng Si Shao relaxed a bit.

  "I'll go ask him if he's healed." Tai Shi Lan took a step forward in front of the pale-faced eunuch, suddenly spun his heel and swung a fist at Zheng Si Shao beside him, "Does it still hurt!"

  No one had expected that Tai Shi Lan would dare to lay hands on Zheng Jiao in front of the eunuchs of the Western Depot. For a moment, everyone was too stunned to react. With a loud "thud", Tai Shi Lan's fist landed squarely on Zheng Jiao's waist, causing him to let out a loud cry.

  He shouted out of instinct, but after he was done, he thought, huh, it doesn't seem that painful...

  Although it didn't hurt, he felt a sharp stinging sensation when he was punched, but it wasn't severe. Immediately afterwards, he started to feel his head getting a bit dizzy.

  "Zheng brother." Tai Shi Lan withdrew his fist and said calmly, "Hmm, looks like the injury has healed."

  “……”

  Everyone was silent, unable to keep up with the reaction speed of this bizarre reality.

  The ash-gray-faced eunuch let out a sigh of surprise and disappointment, but instead of helping Hua Xian find pleasure, he came to "check" on Zheng Jiao's injury. This made it impossible for him to take advantage of the situation. He stared at Tai Shi Lan for a moment, then waved his hand impatiently, "Nothing? If nothing, then let go, Zheng Jiao, follow me home."

  "What's going on..." Zheng Xiao murmured dazedly.

  "Be witness for our family."

  "What certificate..."

  "Testify that Hua Xian is colluding with the treacherous Wu Yue!" Qinghui's face showed a hint of impatience.

  "What's there." Zheng Ya's one sentence made everyone stunned.

  Qinghui's face wrinkled with a frown, staring gloomily at Zheng Jiao, "You just said earlier that you saw Huaxun and Wuyue going back and forth last night!"

  "No way, last night I went to Huaxiu Building with Huang Shi'er and others. Ah, the Huaxiu girl from Huaxiu Building is really good at playing the mouth organ..." Zheng's eyebrows danced with excitement. Someone started giggling.

  His pale face was no longer pale, but the color of city walls. Zheng Jiao's complacent expression when talking about prostitutes was like a needle that suddenly pricked him with pain.

  "Stop spouting nonsense!" He bellowed, his eyes warning, "Zheng Jiao, think clearly!"

  Zheng Jia sneered at him, "Old eunuch, what's with the airs? Young master me isn't lazy about dealing with you just because you're from the Western Depot," he stretched out his hand and fanned the air beside his nose, "It's said that eunuchs can't control their lower bodies. Indeed, your whole body reeks of urine!"

  "How dare you!" The angry shout exploded like thunder.

  A dark shadow flashed, passing over the crowd, a loud crash, Zheng Jiao's body flew high over the crowd, heavily smashing to the ground, bouncing a few times on the ground, and then stopped moving.

  Four faces were as pale as a cicada in winter. A group of young masters, trembling like small chickens, looked at the furious eunuchs with fear, then looked at Zheng Jiao in confusion, no one understood why he had lost his mind and offended the evil spirit of the Western Camp, not only putting himself in danger but also implicating his family?

  Whoever the Western Bureau dislikes, a single charge can lead to your family being ruined and your home destroyed. Let alone these local officials' families, even the noble families of Li Jing have innocent souls who died under the terror of the Western Bureau's institutions, enough to fill a volume of bloody history books.

  "Nonsense! He's guilty of death!" The eunuchs' anger had not dissipated, "We don't need his evidence either. Hua Xunhuan colluded with the enemy, ironclad evidence, take him away!"

  "I have evidence." Tai Shi Lan said suddenly.

  Everyone is foolish again.

  Xiao Daqiang looked up at the sky - it seemed quite normal.

  "Just now there were five Yuemo spies lurking around." Tai Shi Lan's expressionless face was the most serious, "Because I have evidence that Hua Xunhuan and Wuyue are colluding with the enemy, they shot me with an arrow."

  "Go after them." She pointed towards the direction outside of Er Wu Camp. "If you're late, you won't be able to catch the spy."

  Su Ya covered her forehead and stared blankly at Tai Shi Lan.

  God-like thinking, ordinary people can't keep up.

  "Fart! Fart!" The ash-gray face suddenly felt being fooled again, furious and jumping up and down, "That arrow was clearly shot by our side, where did this 'Wu Yue traitor' come from... Ah!" He suddenly realized his slip of the tongue and froze.

  "Oh——" The students' voices of sudden realization trailed off into the distance.

  So that's how it is.

  Hua Xun suddenly started laughing, chattering away, and even ate a mouthful of mud, but endured.

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