Chapter 192
"Are you alright?" Li Zhiwei was not an ungrateful person. At this moment, she also understood that Xu Heming had just saved her.
"I'm fine. Let's leave quickly." Xu Heming frowned. He hadn't expected that in Li'an County, someone would actually want Li Zhiwei's life.
"Mm." Li Zhiwei no longer had the mood to continue shopping.
She felt a lingering fear in her heart. That sword had been firmly embedded in a nearby pillar. If it had hit her, she didn't dare imagine the consequences.
And just now, Qinghua and Qingyue, who were by her side, hadn't had time to react at all.
She had even blamed Xu Heming at first for holding her in his arms in public.
Upon returning to the Li residence,
Xu Heming didn't dare let Li Zhiwei leave his sight. The hidden guards who had gone to chase the person who shot the sword had not yet returned.
Xu Heming also didn't know if they had caught the person.
"Have you offended anyone in Li'an County?" Xu Heming looked at Li Zhiwei and asked.
"Your Highness, isn't the Huo family an example?" Li Zhiwei said without thinking.
"The Huo family currently has no time to spare for hiring someone to take your life. Aside from the Huo family, is there anyone else?" Although Xu Heming didn't want to speak up for the Huo family, that was the reality.
"The Cao family. Cao Yunpeng has already been sent to the capital, right? How was he dealt with?" Li Zhiwei thought of the disgusting Cao Yunpeng and felt angry.
He had even wanted to force himself on her, to make her his equal wife. She didn't know where he got the nerve.
"The Cao family... aside from Cao Yunpeng, do they have any other influence?" Xu Heming asked with a frown.
The Cao family?
Hearing Xu Heming's words, Li Zhiwei also carefully recalled. If the Cao family had no other influence, but Cao Yunpeng's wife, Mrs. Tang's elder brother, seemed to be a prefect in Heping County.
Could it be Mrs. Tang's brother who wanted her life?
Li Zhiwei wasn't sure. After all, whether in her past life or this one, she knew very little about Cao Yunpeng.
In her past life, she married into the Ru'an Marquis Manor and never stepped outside its gates again for the rest of her life, ultimately meeting a tragic death in the Lin family.
In this life, if she hadn't returned to Li'an County, and Cao Yunpeng and Mrs. Tang hadn't set their sights on her, they should have had no interaction, just like in her previous life.
"Cao Yunpeng's wife, Mrs. Tang's elder brother, seems to be the prefect of Heping County, not far from here. But Mrs. Tang seemed quite amiable. Now that Cao Yunpeng has been taken to the capital, he couldn't possibly target me because of this, could he?" Li Zhiwei asked somewhat uncertainly.
"A mere prefect dares to try to move against this prince's wife?" Xu Heming frowned, thinking that as long as Tang Youquan wasn't a fool, he wouldn't do something like hiring an assassin.
"Then who is it? A few days ago, someone also had An'an tell me that someone wanted my life." Li Zhiwei suddenly remembered the strange person from before who said someone wanted her life.
At the time, she had suspected it might be the Huo family. Now, thinking about it, was it someone else?
"What? How did Qing Chuan handle this? Didn't he deal with the person properly?" Xu Heming hadn't expected that this matter of someone wanting Li Zhiwei's life had been preceded by a warning.
"That person seemed to be an insider. He didn't seem to have any intention of harming me." Thinking of Xun Lang, Li Zhiwei felt his foolish demeanor didn't seem like someone who harbored murderous intent towards her.
"Qing Chuan!" Xu Heming called out displeasedly to behind him.
"Your Highness!" Qing Chuan rushed obsequiously before Xu Heming, then smiled and nodded towards Li Zhiwei beside him.
"This matter of someone wanting the princess consort's life, why didn't you investigate it properly?" The expression on Xu Heming's face clearly showed displeasure, feeling that Qing Chuan had been negligent towards Li Zhiwei.
"Your Highness, please calm your anger. This humble one did investigate that person. He is an assassin named Xun Lang. However, he didn't seem to have murderous intent towards the princess consort. Moreover, we have been following the princess consort closely every day and haven't noticed any suspicious individuals." Qing Chuan hurriedly explained.
"What did you say his name was?" Xu Heming wondered if he had heard wrong.
Did he just hear the name Xun Lang?
He should know, this person is one of the top assassins in the martial world.
If it really is Xun Lang, then the person who wants Li Zhiwei's life probably isn't Tang Youquan.
However, regardless, he still needed to make a trip to Heping County.
It's just that, thinking of the dangerous situation Li Zhiwei encountered today, he wasn't comfortable leaving now.
"Wei'er!" Lady Yao and Yao Qisheng, having learned that Li Zhiwei had nearly met with disaster, hurried over.
"Mother heard you nearly had an accident on the street today. Are you hurt?" Lady Yao looked at her daughter with a face full of worry and asked.
"Mother, I'm fine." Li Zhiwei quickly reassured Lady Yao.
"Weiwei, if you are hurt, you must tell us." Yao Qisheng looked at his two nieces with concern.
"Uncle, I'm really fine." Li Zhiwei stood up and turned around, letting the two of them see that she was truly unharmed.
"Who knows what kind of person it is, daring to commit violence on the street in broad daylight. My heart..." Lady Yao, hearing her daughter had nearly been harmed, was extremely anxious.
Now seeing her daughter was fine, her mood improved somewhat.
"Mother, don't worry. Qinghua and the others are all by my side. I won't be in danger." Li Zhiwei felt a bit upset.
Now, she had only nearly been injured, and her mother was this worried.
In her past life, when she lost her life in the Ru'an Marquis Manor, how heartbroken must her mother have been?
"Mother-in-law, don't worry. I will definitely protect Zhiwei." Xu Heming also quickly assured her.
"Your Highness, you must catch that villain." Lady Yao looked at Xu Heming with hopeful eyes.
"Mother-in-law, rest assured." Xu Heming naturally had no intention of letting that person go either.
It's just that, thinking of Xun Lang, Xu Heming felt the matter wasn't that simple. After all, Xun Lang was a figure from the martial world.
A mere prefect like Tang Youquan probably couldn't command Xun Lang.
And the price to hire Xun Lang to take action wasn't just about money.
However, it was also possible that behind Tang Youquan, there was a force that he had previously overlooked.
"Beautiful sister, how about we return to the capital? This Li'an County is too dangerous." Xu Qingshi had also heard about Li Zhiwei's near miss and said with a worried look.
Xu Qingshi felt that Li'an County wasn't as fun as the capital. You couldn't go here, you couldn't go there.
It was better in the capital. He missed his grandmother and his little friends.
Xu Heming gave his son an appreciative look.
He had actually wanted to say this for a long time.
There were many matters in the capital requiring his attention, but he didn't know how to broach the subject with Li Zhiwei.
"Mother?" Li Zhiwei, however, looked towards Lady Yao beside her.
She knew she wouldn't stay in Li'an County for long.
She had come to take Lady Yao to the capital.
If Lady Yao was willing, she also wanted to return to the capital sooner, as she was still worried about Li Tianyou being alone in the capital.
