A life of two souls traveling through time

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Qile City should have been a place where people would walk through the streets and congratulate each other on the new year. However, today, officials were everywhere on the streets posting notices to search for the suspect Zhao Chu. In an instant, the whole city was talking about the Zhao family:

"I heard that the young master of the Zhao family committed a murder."

"Zhao Chu is always arrogant and domineering, so it's not surprising that he committed murders."

"That's right. What's strange is that the government is finally going to arrest him. Even Mr. Zhao can't protect him."

"You debt collector, you are going to kill your mother! The young master of the Zhao family is now a wanted criminal by the government..." Xiao Si's mother was so angry when she came back from going out early in the morning that she pulled her son out of the bed and cursed in a low voice, but before she could finish her scolding, her son covered her mouth with his hand.

"Shh, stop yelling!" Xiao Si, who was sleeping soundly, immediately sobered up when he saw that my mother had learned the truth. He stopped my mother and looked outside. He heard no movement in the room where the young master next door slept, so he comforted my mother with peace of mind: "Don't worry, my master will take care of it."

"It must be a big murder case that caused the government to mobilize such a large number of people. Is Mr. Zhao so acquainted with the world or is he capable of anything? I heard that the Zhao Mansion was surrounded by officials today. If the government knew that the young master of the Zhao family was in my house, we would be implicated by him..."

The mother and son in this room were arguing in low voices. Behind the closed door opposite, Zhao Chu listened to the conversation between the mother and son through the crack of the door. His face turned pale and he was trembling.

"Young Master, Young Master, please get up and eat something?" Xiao Si coaxed and deceived my mother for a long time and then ignored her. He turned around and knocked on the door of the room where Zhao Chu was sleeping, but there was no response after knocking for a long time. Xiao Si felt uneasy and kicked the door in hurriedly, but there was no one in the room.

"It's over, it's over, where are you going, young master?" Xiao Si looked at the half-open window anxiously. What if the young master lost his master and the master came to look for him later? Thinking of this, he turned around and wanted to go out to look for him, but as soon as he opened the gate, he ran into Zhou Botou and several other constables.

It turned out that when Xiao Si's mother saw that he didn't pay attention to herself, she secretly went to the government to confess Zhao Chu, but she didn't expect that her son had also helped Zhao Chu to get his hands on blood and kill people. So when Captain Zhou failed to find Zhao Chu and took Xiao Si away, the white-haired old mother was filled with regret.

After Zhao Chu jumped out of the window and escaped from Xiao Si's house, he hid from the officers on the street. When he ran into an alley, he saw an elegant figure who seemed to be waiting for him.

"Miss Xuanyu, I knew you would come to save me!" Zhao Chu cried with joy when he saw Xuanyu, but it was also within his expectations.

"This is not the place to talk. Follow me." Xuan Yu smiled faintly at Zhao Chu, and when she turned around, murderous intent appeared in her eyes.

Without giving it much thought, Zhao Chu followed Yan Yu around and came to a dilapidated house that looked abandoned for some time.

"Miss Xuanyu, you don't want me to hide here, do you? No, you have to find a way to send me out of the city and send a message to my father. I can't get caught by the government. If I get caught, the secret between us..." Zhao Chu was disgusted with this dilapidated house and was very dissatisfied with Xuanyu's arrangement. He was anxious and started to speak without restraint.

"Master Zhao, are you threatening Xuanyu?" Without waiting for Zhao Chu to finish, Xuanyu sneered, turned around and pointed at a well in front of them and continued with a smile: "There is also a well here, but it is not a dry well, the water is very deep."

"You...what do you mean?" Seeing Yan Yu suddenly reveal a creepy smile, Zhao Chu felt a chill on his back and stepped back unconsciously.

"It doesn't mean anything. Xuanyu just wants Master Zhao to keep the secret forever."

Huan Yu continued to speak with a smile, and when she saw Zhao Chu was so scared that he tried to run away, she quickly stepped forward, grabbed his throat, and dragged him to the well. At this moment, her whole body exuded the coldness of a killer.

"Mercy...Mercy..." Zhao Chu wanted to struggle at first, but the strength of Xuanyu's hand was unexpectedly strong. Before this, he knew Xuanyu had martial arts skills, but he didn't expect that her skills were so profound. When Zhao Chu was dying, he couldn't hold back his urine and wet his pants, which seeped into the snow. At this time, he had lost his usual arrogance and domineering, and just begged Xuanyu for mercy hoarsely with the instinct to survive.

"Mr. Zhao, who is usually so suave wherever he goes, wet his pants in front of me, the courtesan of Hongxiang Pavilion. It's really ridiculous." But Zhao Chu's begging for mercy only made Yan Yu increase the strength of her hands. The murderous intent in her handsome eyes was not reduced, but even a little more amusement like a hunter's prey under his feet.

"thump"

There was a loud noise in the deep well. Huan Yu took out a silk handkerchief and wiped her hands which had just strangled Zhao Chu's throat. Her delicate hands could both play the piano and kill people.

"How dare a fool dream of being a chess player above the chessboard?" She inadvertently glanced at the urine stains on the snow beside the well and smiled contemptuously. She threw the silk handkerchief she had used to wipe the urine into the well and turned away.

The Zhao family was closely watched by people sent by Captain Zhou, which caused Zhao Changhe to be afraid to go out for a long time. He really couldn't think of any good way to send his son out of the city.

"Master, master, it's bad, Xiao Si was taken away by the government!" The servant who was sent out to gather information ran back to report to Zhao Changhe.

"What? Xiao Si was arrested? Where is the young master?" Zhao Changhe was shocked and asked quickly.

"There is no news from the young master yet."

"Go and inquire again, quickly!" Zhao Changhe was extremely anxious, but he could not let the servant go directly to Xiao Si's mother's house. Now everyone in the Zhao Mansion was being watched, and going there would undoubtedly expose his son's hiding place. But he did not know that Xiao Si was sent to the government by his own mother.

In the government office, the captured Xiao Si confessed everything before he even had to endure the second torture.

Half an hour later, the detectives from the prefectural government went out again to arrest people everywhere. Within a day, the Qile City, which was originally celebrating the new year, was suddenly in turmoil, and the people were talking about it a lot.

In the study of the Li Mansion, Li Xingyuan was also waiting for news from outside.

"Master, Zhao Chu is missing, and the Zhao family is finished." Later, Butler Fang came back to report with a serious face.

"Zhao family? Isn't there only Zhao Chu?" Li Xingyuan asked in surprise when he heard it.

"What the old servant in the Zhao family's villa confessed last night was just the tip of the iceberg. The servants around Zhao Chu, starting from Xiao Si, confessed everything in the government office today. It is really too numerous to list! There were not only nine lives lost in the villa, but some of them have even been left without a trace. And the heinous crimes in the villa were not committed by Zhao Chu alone. There were also Zhao's son-in-law Bai Yu and his cousin. In addition, the two young masters of the Liu family who were close to Zhao Chu seemed to be involved. The government has arrested people everywhere. I heard that Captain Zhou went to the Zhao Mansion personally and took away Zhao's son-in-law. After Miss Zhao learned the truth, she had a miscarriage and bled profusely. In the end, she died and the baby in her belly was not born." After Butler Fang finished speaking, he sighed.

"How... could this be?" When Li Xingyuan heard that Zhao Chan and her son were dead, he was so shocked that he fell into his chair, at a loss.

Li Xingyuan originally only wanted to punish Zhao Chu and stab Zhao Changhe, and never thought of hurting innocent people. He also did not expect that the incident would escalate to such an extent.

"Master, don't blame yourself. After all, the Zhao family's current situation is their own fault. It's karma. No matter how innocent the eldest daughter of the Zhao family is, she is still a member of the Zhao family. We prosper together and suffer together." Seeing the master's worried look, Butler Fang began to comfort him.

"Having said that, I still feel uneasy..." Li Xingyuan stood up and walked to the window, looked up at the gray sky and sighed.