Chapter 967 - 967: Admit Defeat

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Thank you. Fortunately, you came in time.” Empress Dowager Yunzi sighed.

“My age must be catching up to me…”

Ever since her son died, she had become more aware of this fact; be it physically or mentally.

It was finally time to admit that she was growing old.

When she was young, she would never have made such a mistake.

It was also because she had been the Empress Dowager for so long that she had become a little arrogant.

“Empress Dowager, this arrow is poisoned!” Suddenly, someone noticed that the blood flowing out of the masked man’s right eye was black and immediately shouted.

Normally, poisonous arrows would cause a person to seep out black gunk from their body.

Empress Dowager Yunzi’s kindly face immediately turned cold. “Interrogate him while he’s still alive!”

“Yes, sir!” Immediately, someone brought the masked man who had been shot in the right eye to interrogate him.

The other six people were also pulled down and interrogated.

“How come the arrows that shot them weren’t poisoned?” Empress Dowager Yunzi asked.

Shao Zhongxi’s subordinate hurriedly said, “Reporting to the Empress Dowager, the situation was uncertain at that time, so Jiang Yue used the arrow on one of the assassins. When the Empress Dowager was fine and the other assassin could no longer shoot at the Empress Dowager, Jiang Yue asked us if we had any arrows, and we gave her our own.”

As soon as he said this, everyone realized that Jiang Yue must have guessed that the arrow was poisoned. In order to keep the masked men alive, she changed the arrows.

They were impressed with this child.

Empress Dowager Yunzi could not help but smile. Her gaze fell on Jiang Yue’s fair and clean face features. Empress Dowager Yunzi nodded in satisfaction.

Everyone in the Shao family said that this kid was not simple, and she had finally vitnessed it with her ovm two eyes today.

This kid was quite knowledgeable.

She couldn’t be more satisfied with this kid.

Jiang Yue did not care whether Empress Dowager Yunzi was nodding at her or not. She only glanced at the men in black who were being taken away for interrogation.

Moreover, Empress Dowager Yunzi wasn’t a fool. Her timely appearance was bound to make her question why she was here, so she might as well just tell her directly.

With this thought in mind, Jiang Yue calmly said in a volume that only Empress Dowager Yunzi could hear, “When I found out that Emperor Yi was in the region, Xue Yan had already sent people to look for Emperor Yi. However, the people who went discovered that Prince Ying had sent a group of people out of Jingyue and was rushing South.

“That person rushed back to report what happened, but found out he was being followed the entire time. He didn’t want to overtake them and be discovered, so he followed them all the way to Xinyuan County.

“That group of people accidentally discovered that you were staying in this inn and wanted to kill you. The person heard that the group of people planned to make a move tonight.

“Knowing that you didn’t have many people to protect you, that person hurriedly went to find Xue Yan, so I came over first to make sure that everything was under control.

“Xue Yan is also on the way here.”

Although no one told her that Xue Yan was coming, but with Xue Yan’s personality, she was sure that he definitely wouldn’t be able to stay in the inn. Once Erfu fell asleep, she knew that he would definitely come to the county.

Plus, she was certain that he would also call Shao Zhongxi over.

After all, Shao Zhongxi’s skills were unmatchable. Fortunately, Shao Zhongxi was also in town not too far away from them.

Empress Dowager Yunzi’s expression changed drastically when she heard Prince Yings name,

Everyone, including the Imperial Censor and the Minister of Justice, found it strange. They didn’t know what Jiang Yue had said to their Empress Dowager to make her expression change so drastically..