northernbook Chapter 616 Jiang Suining rescues Shen Yanxi
Chapter 616 Jiang Suining rescues Shen Yanxi
Mother Li refuted without hesitation: "It has come to this point, there is no room for stopping! If we let Jiang Suining go now, we will not even have the last bit of bargaining chips, and there will definitely be no way out."
"Mother also knows that we have come to this point. Even if you don't stop, we have no room for maneuver." Li Zheng's face was deathly still, like a withered tree. There was not a trace of hope in his expression.
Seeing such a hopeless look, Li's mother suddenly became angry, "How could I give birth to such a useless son like you? I have spent so much time and effort during this period of time just to create a way out for us, but what about you? You are timid and only know how to escape. You are useless. You..."
Mother Li was furious, but before she could finish her words of reprimand, when she met Li Zheng's eyes, she suddenly felt as if someone was strangling her throat and could not utter a word.
This hopeless and fighting spirit, with only a tired look left, was like a loud slap in the face, hitting Li's mother hard, causing her expression to suddenly fall.
"Zheng'er, I am already old. Isn't everything I do now all for you? Don't you really understand my painstaking efforts at all?"
"Mother, thank you for everything you have done, but I really can't go on. I am really too tired. So..." Li Zheng took a deep breath and looked at his mother with a different look in his eyes. "Mother, I'm sorry!"
As he said the word "sorry", Li Zheng suddenly made a move and snatched the dagger from Li's mother's hand in front of her shocked eyes.
This sudden change left everyone stunned.
Jiang Suining reacted quickly and wanted to run away immediately.
However, Li's mother also reacted very quickly. She pulled out the hairpin on her head and stabbed Jiang Suining's neck with it, showing an attitude of giving up completely and dying together.
The moment Li Zheng tried to grab the knife, Shen Yanxi quickly stepped forward and grabbed Li's mother's wrist before the hairpin stabbed her.
As Li's mother cried out in pain, the hairpin fell to the ground.
Lu Yan, Yuan Liang and the others all breathed a sigh of relief.
However, at this moment, Yuan Liang suddenly saw that Li Zheng, who had just snatched the knife, suddenly raised the dagger and stabbed Shen Yanxi.
This time the incident was even more sudden. In a flash, Yuan Liang didn't even have time to raise a warning before he saw the dagger stabbing down in horror.
Even Shen Yanxi failed to react in time to dodge, but just as the dagger was about to stab Shen Yanxi, a white hand grabbed the dagger first.
Li Zheng widened his eyes and looked at Jiang Suining in disbelief. He obviously did not expect that the other party could stop him in such a sudden situation.
Seeing blood oozing from Jiang Suining's palm, Shen Yanxi's expression suddenly changed. He twisted Li Zheng's wrist, snatched the dagger from his hand, and kicked him more than a foot away.
"Zheng'er!" Li's mother screamed and ran towards Li Zheng who was kicked away.
Shen Yanxi carefully took the dagger held by Jiang Suining, looked at the bleeding wound on her palm, and his whole body stiffened.
"Ning Ning..."
"I'm fine!" Jiang Suining shook his head.
Yuan Liang, the coachman, and several guards who came with Shen Yanxi also reacted and quickly stepped forward to subdue Li Zheng and Li's mother.
"Almost, just a little bit."
Li Zheng stared at Shen Yanxi and Jiang Suining in a daze. His expression was no longer as hopeless as before, but instead full of unwillingness. His eyes were fixed on Jiang Suining.
"Even Shen Yanxi didn't react, how could you react so quickly!"
Jiang Suining spread out his palm and let Shen Yanxi check the wound. He then looked at Li Zheng, "Because I suspected from the beginning that everything that happened today was not just to plot against me."
If he was using A Yan to set up a trap today and only wanted to plot against her, then Xiao Yi should not have said anything like "good luck to you" when he left the Heavenly Prison.
Especially when she pointed out that you were referring to her and Yan Xi, not her and A Yan, Xiao Yi's reaction confirmed that her guess was correct.
But if he just killed A Yan and used it to frame himself, this matter would not implicate Yan Xi too much, and even this kind of frame-up might not be able to successfully frame himself.
So at that time she had been secretly thinking in her heart, maybe she was overthinking, or maybe Xiao Yi was just following her words and deliberately disturbing her thoughts.
It was not until Li's mother proposed to exchange herself and A Yan as hostages and to meet Yan Xi that she became more and more certain that this game was not over yet.
But she didn't think about what Li's mother and the others wanted to do at that time. After all, under such circumstances, she couldn't think of any ingenious plan to trick Yan Xi into it.
Until just now, when Li Zheng suddenly took away Li's mother's dagger, and Yan Xi stepped forward to save herself, she felt that Li Zheng's reaction was not right, and suddenly realized that any ingenious calculation was not as practical as taking direct action.
After all, when a person dies, everything is resolved.
After listening to Jiang Suining's words, Li Zheng took a deep breath and said, "No wonder you reacted so quickly just now."
Jiang Suining shook his head. "It's too late for me to think clearly. Besides, your movements were really fast. Otherwise, I wouldn't have grabbed your dagger with my bare hands."
In that situation just now, she didn't have time to pull Yan Xi away, and even if she pulled him away, she couldn't be sure that Li Zheng wouldn't rush forward, so she could only reach out to stop him reflexively. But fortunately, she stopped him!
Jiang Suining's voice was calm, with a hint of relief that he had managed to grab the dagger. However, to Shen Yanxi, every word he said was filled with regret and heartache.
He regretted being too careless. Without saying a word, he applied medicine to Jiang Suining and carefully bandaged the wound on her hand. His whole body was terribly cold.
Even Yuan Liang, who was holding the golden wound medicine beside him, couldn't help but shiver and didn't dare to say much.
It was not until the wound on Jiang Suining's hand was bandaged that he finally looked at Li Zheng and Li's mother.
"What did Xiao Yi promise you to perform such a big show?"
The tone was cold, without a trace of warmth, as if the mother and son in front of him were already dead.
It was like the end of a big play, and the actors who had appeared on stage finally took off the layers of disguise on their faces. The anger and resentment that Li's mother had just felt quickly faded away at a speed visible to the naked eye, and were replaced by horror and fear.
On the contrary, Li Zheng, facing Shen Yanxi's gaze, although he was afraid, did not show any sign of retreat or panic.
A little blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He covered the wound from being kicked away by Shen Yanxi and stood up little by little.