I can see what Guan Qingyan is thinking, but I don't want to explain anything.
That's what business is all about. If you ask me to risk my life, I won't frown. If you ask me to beg others to give me the business, and at the critical moment of life and death, I have to explain in detail why I do this and that? I can't do it. I am not a beggar, and my employer is not my real father. They want to die, and I have no obligation to rush to the gates of hell to pull them back.
Guan Qingyan saw that I refused to speak and didn't know what to do for a moment.
Guan Xingyu stamped his feet and said, "Sister! I am your brother. It is a matter of life and death now. Why are you still hesitating?"
Guan Qingyan gritted her teeth and said, "Mr. Wu, I think..."
I didn't wait for Guan Qingyan to finish and responded calmly: "You don't have to say anything, see you later, and I wish you good luck."
"Mr. Wu..." Guan Qingyan said anxiously, "I want to hire you to guard until the Taoist priest arrives, is that okay?"
"Your idea is wonderful! I'm not so poor that I have to humiliate myself." I threw down these words and turned to leave without any hesitation. Even if Guan Qingyan wanted to stop me, it was too late.
After I walked several hundred meters upstream along the river, Ye Jin said, "Brother, you go first. I'll go back and do something."
Although Ye Jin was smiling, I saw murderous intent in his eyes—he was planning to go back and cause trouble for Guan Qingyan.
I smiled faintly and said, "If we want to go back, let's go back together."
Ye Jin waved his hand and said, "I didn't see the right person this time and I lost face for the two brothers. I won't be able to sleep until I get back at them. You guys go on your way. I won't let them go on this matter."
I waved my hand and said, "I want to go back, not for the sake of face, but because I, Wu Zhao, cannot be fooled by a ghost."
Ye Jin was slightly stunned: "What do you mean?"
"Listen to me..." I whispered in Ye Jin and Shi Monk's ears. As they both frowned, I quickly said, "Do as I say. I'll explain it to you later."
The two men nodded slightly and went around the weeds to the back of the cemetery. However, I dived into the water and swam back to the edge of the cemetery.
The river outside the cemetery was not too deep, but it was enough to conceal my figure. When I gradually heard the conversation between the Guan siblings, I slowed down, moved to the river bank, and squatted in the river.
Just as I regained my balance, I heard Guan Qingyan complain, "Actually, Wu Zhao and the others are quite capable..."
Guan Xingyu argued before he could finish, "Sister, why don't you understand it now? What did Wu Zhao do from beginning to end? If he had done something outstanding, I would never chase him away."
Guan Qingyan said: "Then you shouldn't change people at this time. At least you have to wait until Taoist Lingxu comes."
Guan Xingyu argued again: "It's almost dawn now, why don't we just find a place to wait for the daybreak? I don't believe that ghosts can come out in broad daylight! Even if Taoist Lingxu doesn't come, we won't go back, right?"
"Okay then!" Guan Qingyan knew that there was no point in arguing any further at this point, so she simply gave up the debate.
After the Guan siblings were silent for only a few seconds, I heard Jiang Yan shout, "Liu Cheng, have you packed your things? If you have, leave quickly!"
"Pack up, pack up what?" The voice came into my ears from the direction behind the cemetery, which was exactly the place where Monk Shi and his companions had gone around the wasteland.
Jiang Yan paused for a moment, then suddenly yelled angrily, "Are you stupid? I asked you to pack up your equipment, what are you doing? What are you squatting on the ground scratching around for?"
"I dropped something..." When that person's voice came again, I could already tell it was Monk Shi. Monk Shi was deliberately speaking in a low voice.
"What dropped..." Jiang Yan just shouted, and his voice began to tremble, "Liu... Liu Cheng, please speak properly, what are you looking for in the grass?"
Monk Shi pretended to cry: "Looking for my head! My head has fallen off, who can help me find it?"
A moment later, I heard someone scream, "His head's gone!"
"Head, where is my head?" Monk Shi didn't know what he had done, and scared the crowd so much that they screamed. After a while, someone ran directly into the river.
I took advantage of the chaos to stick my head out of the water and look at the shore, just in time to see Guan Xingyu reaching the river. Guan Xingyu had one foot in the water, but his hand was grabbing a bodyguard's clothes, desperately pushing him forward: "Hold on, hold on to them..."
I quickly dived into the water and swam forward some distance. I reached out and grabbed Guan Xingyu's ankle and pulled him back suddenly, pulling him directly into the water.
"Help..." Guan Xingyu just shouted, and I dragged him into the deep river. Without waiting for him to struggle, I strangled Guan Xingyu's neck from behind and forcibly dragged him into the water.
No matter how Guan Xingyu kicked, I just squatted under the river without moving, not letting Guan Xingyu see my face, and not letting people outside see who I was.
"Xiaoyu..." Guan Qingyan cried, "Jiang Yan, please save Xiaoyu, save Xiaoyu!"
Jiang Yan was also panicking: "You guys hurry down to the river and pull Xiaoyu up!"
Soon, I heard someone stepping on the water and rushing towards me. Before they got close, I heard the sound of hidden weapons breaking through the wind in the bushes in the distance, followed by the sound of someone falling into the river.
I guess it was Monk Shi or Ye Jin who used a hidden weapon to knock down the bodyguard who came to rescue.
"Send a few more people!" As soon as Jiang Yan's roar started, a burst of cold laughter came from Monk Shi's side. At first it sounded like someone was squatting in the bushes, quietly pushing aside the weeds and peeking at the panicked crowd with a mournful laugh.
Jiang Yan was stunned: "Come back quickly, come back and protect me!"
"No, Xiaoyu is still down there..." When I heard Guan Qingyan's cries, I knew the time was about right, so I just swung out and pushed Guan Xingyu out of the water.
Guan Xingyu was dragged into the water by me without knowing what was happening, and he was almost suffocated to death. After he got out of the water, he knew to escape to the shore, but his speed was not even half of that of an ordinary person. I lay in the water and followed his footsteps, grabbing his ankles again and again, giving him the illusion that an underwater ghost wanted to drown him...
When I grabbed his trouser legs and pulled them back desperately, Guan Xingyu finally broke down: "You promised not to kill me! You promised not to kill me... Zhenzhen, let go! Didn't you promise me?"
I shook off the other person's trouser legs and stood up from the water: "Who is Zhenzhen?"
"Wu Zhao?" Guan Xingyu was immediately furious after seeing my appearance, "How dare you play tricks on me?"
"I still want to kill you!" I raised my hand and slapped him into the water. As soon as Guan Xingyu climbed out of the water, I grabbed his hair and dragged him to the shore.
Guan Qingyan, looking pale, stepped into the water: "Mr. Wu, please show some mercy, I... I apologize to you..."
I said coldly: "You don't have to apologize to me, apologize to those who died!"
I threw Guan Xingyu to the ground: "Ask Guan Xingyu yourself what he did!"
Guan Qingyan seemed to understand something: "Xiaoyu, what did you do? Speak!"
"Sister, he framed me! Brother Jiang, quickly let your bodyguard kill him!" Guan Xingyu not only denied it, but also wanted to kill me.
Although Jiang Yan was not presentable, he was not stupid. Moreover, given his status, he was more versed in the ways of the world. He saw something strange in just a short moment: "Guan Xingyu, what on earth did you do?"
"Brother Jiang, even you don't believe me?" Guan Xingyu said, "Don't forget, we agreed to deal with Wu Zhao together!"
Jiang Yan said sternly: "Do you really think I'm a fool? Explain to me what's going on."
"I don't even know what you are talking about. How can you ask me to explain it clearly?" Guan Xingyu's angry and aggrieved expression was enough to make people believe it.
Jiang Yan turned to look at me and said, "Wu Zhao, tell me, what exactly is going on?"
Guan Xingyu didn't wait for me to speak before he spoke: "Brother Jiang, what do you mean? Why are you asking him? Don't you know that he wants you dead? Can't you see that he is targeting my sister? Why don't you..."
"Shut up!" Jiang Yan looked at me with gloomy eyes, "Wu Zhao, I was wrong about what happened before. As far as I'm concerned, all the grudges between us are written off. Tell me, what exactly happened?"
I said calmly: "The matter is very simple, that is, Guan Xingyu is sending us to the ghosts to be killed."
"You're talking nonsense!" Guan Xingyu shouted, "What right do you have to frame me? What evidence do you have to say that I harmed you?"
Guan Qingyan's face also darkened: "Mr. Wu, some of your words better have real evidence..."
I looked at Guan Qingyan calmly: "Of course I have evidence. Think about it carefully. From the beginning, the red-clothed female ghost has made one thing clear, that is, he will not kill Guan Xingyu."
"That's right!" Jiang Yan suddenly came to his senses, "The female ghost has been telling Guan Xingyu to go find her, but she didn't say she wanted to kill him."
"That's right!" I nodded. "Guan Xingyu knows very well that even if everyone dies, he won't die. At least he will be the last one to die. So, there's no need for him to be so scared. Don't you think that every time Guan Xingyu screams and trembles, he's acting?"
"Who's acting?" Guan Xingyu roared, "Wu Zhao, not only do you have no ability, you also deliberately made up a story..."
I ignored Guan Xingyu and turned to look at Guan Qingyan: "Just like you said, it's still dark and you're still standing in the cemetery. According to normal thinking, who would drive away the only person who can protect him? But Guan Xingyu did it anyway."
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