Chapter 407: Fake (1)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Madam… All!”
Another woman’s scream sounded. This voice was so familiar and shrill that it pierced the heart like a knife.
“Granny Wang,” Wei Wan shouted with a pale face.
Before she could finish speaking, an old hand grabbed the window sill. Her palm was covered in blood, and the curtain floated up to show drops of blood splattered on the curtain.
Then the bloody hand slowly slid down. The four people in the carriage could clearly hear something heavy land outside the carriage.
Xu Yao cried out in fear. Her face was pale as she grabbed her mother’s clothes tightly.
In the next moment, the curtain of the carriage was suddenly lifted from the outside.
What she saw were corpses strewn on the ground. Blood gurgled out of their bodies and dyed the ground red, like hell on earth.
Outside the carriage, there were more than ten tall and mighty men holding weapons in their hands. They were wearing green and gray short combat clothes. All of them were holding torches and blood-stained long knives.
Wei Wan’s maidservant gritted her teeth and stood up. She bravely stood in front of her master, her body trembling.
“All Yan, carry Yao’er.” Wei Wan picked up her daughter and wanted to hand her to Xu Yan. Then, she said to Xu Luo, who was hugging Xu Yan’s waist tightly, “Luo’er, you’re a boy. You have to take care of your sister…”
However, Xu Yan didn’t take Xu Yao. Instead, he hugged Xu Luo even tighter.
“All Yan…” Wei Wan wanted to say that the girl was delicate, but she stopped abruptly and was shocked by Xu Yan.
In the dim yellow candlelight, the handsome man’s face was as dark as water, and a terrifying sharpness flashed in his dark and gloomy eyes.
The candlelight flickered and the light and shadow intertwined, making the man’s face look strange and sinister, as if he was a stranger.
“Ah Yan…”
Wei Wan called Xu Yan’s name uneasily, wanting to ask him what was wrong.
Before she could finish, Xu Yan, who was two steps away, suddenly raised his arm and pushed her.
All of this happened too quickly in a flash.
Wei Wan couldn’t react at all. She only felt a heavy palm on her shoulder.
A powerful force hit her. Wei Wan’s eyes widened in disbelief as she staggered and lost her balance with her daughter in her arms. She fell down the carriage…
“Madam!”
The maidservant’s sharp voice rang in Wei Wan’s ears, almost piercing her eardrums.
Wei Wan hugged her daughter tightly and tried her best to protect her in her arms. She fell to the ground with her back facing the ground.
The stones on the ground hurt her back and shoulders.
She rolled on the ground with her daughter in her arms before stopping. When she looked up again, she felt a chill on her neck…
One of the bearded bandits pointed the long knife in his hand at her neck. The sharp blade pressed against her skin, and a cold pain came.
“Yao’er.” Wei Wan hugged her sobbing daughter even harder and protected her with her thin arm.
Xu Yao sobbed and repeatedly called her mother. Her small body trembled like a flower in the wind and rain.
Wei Wan looked in the direction of the carriage, and her eyes widened even more. They were filled with cobweb-like blood vessels and surged with abnormally complicated emotions.
There was shock, heartache, anger, despair, and sadness.
Xu Yan carried Xu Luo down from the carriage with steady footsteps.
She lay on the ground in a sorry state. Her originally neatly combed hair was already in a mess, and her dress was stained with dust.
As for him, he stood upright and looked down at her from above. There was no longer the gentleness in his eyes, only coldness and disgust.
His eyes were ruthless and gloomy in the flickering light of the torch, like a demon from hell.
The killing intent and malice he exuded were obvious.
When the eight or nine bandits around him saw Xu Yan get out of the carriage, they automatically split into two rows and stood beside him protectively.
Her maidservant was also rudely dragged down from the carriage by the bandit and kicked to the ground. She collided with the bloody bodies of the surrounding guards, old women, and maidservant in a sorry state.
At this moment, Wei Wan came to a realization. Her pupils almost constricted into a point, and the corners of her mouth twitched.
This wasn’t a robbery.
It was her husband and the person who always slept beside her who wanted her to die.
This cruel reality hit her like a bolt of lightning, and a sharp pain that struck her soul swept through her entire body.
Her pale lips trembled as she muttered, “Why?”