Chapter 2334: Wei Qin Silenced by the Killer

Chapter 2334: Wei Qin Silenced by the Killer

However, as much as Wei Qin might have wanted to suppress her curiosity, she couldn't control her overwhelming desire for the truth.

After the guest left, she subtly asked her young lady about the identity of the guest. However, her young lady claimed not to know the guest and said that he might be her eldest brother's friend.

Wei Qin didn't dare to inquire further. If her young master's friend turned out to be the murderer, what kind of person was her young master?

Fortunately, after that day, she didn't see that guest again, and it seemed like the matter had passed.

Until a few days ago when that guest reappeared.

Wei Qin didn't want to focus her attention on him, but she couldn't help herself.

She even did something reckless that almost cost her life – she eavesdropped on their conversation. She wanted to know what they were conspiring about; this was the closest she had ever been to uncovering the truth about the Song family massacre. If she missed this chance, she might never learn who the real murderer was.

"So, what did you hear?" Meng Yunzheng asked.

Wei Qin sighed, "They spoke very softly at first, and I couldn't hear anything. The less I could hear, the closer I got. I didn't know what they were saying, but suddenly, that guest said in frustration, 'They've been in the county for two days, just wandering around. When are they going to meet someone named Qi?' That was all I heard, and I gained no other information."

Meng Yunzheng, Shu Yu, and Zhao Xi exchanged glances.

Did this 'they're wandering around the county' refer to them? Could it be that the guest returned two months later because they had come but hadn't met with Qi Lie yet?

"What happened afterward?" Meng Yunzheng asked.

Wei Qin continued, "That statement caught me off guard, and I accidentally bumped into the window frame. It seemed like they heard something inside, and I quickly ran away. At the time, my young master had come out to check, and I thought I had run away fast enough that he wouldn't have seen me. But who would have known..."

Who would have known that in the middle of the night, her young master would silently enter her room, covering her mouth and attempting to silence her.

If it weren't for Wei Qin's habit of poor sleep she had developed during her time at the wealthy merchant's residence over the past few years, she might have been killed right then and there.

At that moment, people were in their deepest sleep. Her young master believed she was fast asleep, but what he didn't realize was that Wei Qin was half-awake.

So when her mouth was covered, she woke up suddenly.

When her young master tried to cut her throat with a knife, she immediately struggled.

Her young master seemed unprepared for her to be awake and missed his first strike. By then, Wei Qin's hands were already protecting her throat, making it impossible for him to succeed. He then attempted to stab her in the abdomen.

This time, Wei Qin didn't dodge, and she was stabbed in the abdomen.

However, the wound wasn't fatal, and she quickly knocked over a copper incense burner in the room.

The falling copper incense burner made a loud noise. Just then, her young lady's voice came from outside the door. "Song Juanmei, what are you doing in the middle of the night? You're not sleeping, and you're sneaking around like a thief."

The voice was right outside, and there was even a faint sound of someone trying to open the door.

Startled, her young master feared that she would enter, so without saying a word, he stabbed Wei Qin again and then jumped out of the window through which he had entered, blocking her young lady at the front door.

"Younger sister, why are you awake so late? What are you doing here?" he asked.