Chapter 535 This Lifetime is Completely Ruined (5)_1
The family at Old Pei’s House had plenty of people, and Pei Qin had always wanted to assign someone to follow Fang Liuming, but he refused, claiming he knew martial arts and didn’t wander out at night. Chang Yonglin’s two guards and Sun Quanliang’s two sons also lived in the workshop to keep him company. Who would dare mess with him during the day?!
As for the person who attempted to assassinate Pei Qin, Fang Liuming also suspected it was the doings of the Shen family. No one else had such a big grudge against Pei Qin, enough to wish her dead and send an assassin after her. Now that she had married Mo Heng, it shouldn’t affect Shen Songming anymore, and the Shen family should have backed off.
Although in Pei Qin’s eyes, teenagers were still just kids, in these ancient feudal times, at seventeen, one was already considered an adult man, not a delicate girl who needed to be coddled and protected. So she listened to him.
Fang Liuming also thought about how Old Pei’s House didn’t want to see him succeed academically and strengthen the Fang family. But after he was certain the assassin who came after Pei Qin was very likely sent by the Shen family, he let his guard down a bit—never conceiving the possibility that thugs would come after him.
After dinner, Li Baoxiang came over to discuss academics with him. It got a bit late, and as he was seeing Li Baoxiang out, several thugs charged at him and started beating him.
Fang Liuming had not trained in martial arts for a short time; it was all learned from practicing punch by punch with Pei Qin. It was only because Pei Qin had become pregnant that the sparring sessions had become less frequent, but Chang Yonglin’s guards had also often sparred with him. Though he was initially shocked, he quickly started to fight back.
Li Baoxiang was terrified. Seeing that Fang Liuming could fight and that the thugs were after him, while he was nothing but a scholar who couldn’t shoulder burdens or lift weights, and couldn’t withstand their beating, he immediately ran towards the village.
The thugs saw him running towards the village, "He’s going to alert others, grab him!"
Pei Qin always had martial arts experts for protection, and one of them would be more than enough for them to handle. They caught Li Baoxiang, who was trying to escape, and beat him viciously.
Li Baoxiang couldn’t withstand it, nor did he know how to fight back.
"Brother Li!?" Fang Liuming saw him lying on the ground, defenseless, and while fighting, he called out for help. Chang Yonglin’s two guards and Sun Quanliang’s two sons were sleeping in the workshop, keeping watch over it.