The three men brought Chu Jiang and Minister Cui to Yin Jin'an. Xiahou Yan reported, "Master, Chu Jiang and Minister Cui have been captured."

Chu Jiang struggled to his feet. He had been tossed about on horseback the whole way, almost breaking his bones. The cold wind had made his throat dry and hoarse, and he coughed incessantly.

Yin Jin'an stared at him with amusement, neither offering him a seat nor water.

These two men, one the murderer of Empress Wei and the other the executioner of "Xiao Jin'an," are asking for a seat? A drink of water? Or perhaps riding a wooden donkey and drinking horse urine?

Jiutian sat next to Yin Jin'an, the uncle and nephew both looking at each other with disdain.

Who are you?

It took Chu Jiang a long time to find his voice.

When Minister Cui saw that the legendary eldest prince was wearing a mask and had a little child sitting next to him, calling Yin Jin'an "Second Uncle" repeatedly, he concluded that he was not the real eldest prince.

Yin Jin'an said to Xiahou Yan, "Go and call Gu Bahuang here."

When Chu Jiang heard the name Gu, he knew he was in grave danger.

A short while later, Gu Bahuang was summoned from the barracks. Upon entering, he saw Chu Jiang and Minister Cui lying on the ground.

His fists clenched so tightly they cracked, and his eyes instantly flashed with venom, as if he wanted to smash Chu Jiang to death with a single punch.

However, he lowered his eyes and respectfully said, "Your Highness..."

"Gu Bahuang, look at these two old geezers, do you recognize them?"

"Traitor Chu! Traitor Cui!" Gu Bahuang said through gritted teeth.

"Your Highness? You're impersonating the First Prince?" Chu Jiangyi demanded sternly, displaying his official authority. "Who exactly are you?"

"Who am I? I am your living father!" Yin Jin'an said, then shook his head in disgust, "Pah, you are ugly and wicked, how can you be worthy of being my son!"

“You are not the First Prince. The First Prince has no sisters, and you have no nephews.” Minister Cui also shouted, “You are a fake, you traitor.”

"Gu Bahuang, give him a good beating and collect some interest first!"

Gu Bahuang had long since lost his temper and, holding down Minister Cui, delivered a vicious punch that broke Minister Cui's cheekbone. Minister Cui spat out a tooth in embarrassment and angrily said, "How dare you hit an official of the imperial court?"

Gu Bahuang kicked out again, and Minister Cui hissed as his ribs broke!

Chu Jiang angrily said, "Stop! I don't care if you are the Crown Prince or not, assaulting a government official is something I will report to the authorities!"

"Fuck you! Gu Bahuang, beat him up. Teach him a lesson in how to speak properly," Yin Jin'an said. "Don't kill him, leave him alive!"

Chu Jiang was both afraid and furious. He sneered, "You're all in cahoots! If you dare to hit me, I'll make you regret ever being born..."

"beat!"

Gu Bahuang glanced at Yin Jin'an, and seeing that His Highness was really going to punish Chu Jiang, he immediately began to land blow after blow on Chu Jiang with his big fist.

Anyone who practices martial arts knows how to fight in a way that hurts but doesn't kill you.

Therefore, each of his punches, while not enough to kill Chu Jiang, caused him so much pain that he wanted to dig up his ancestral graves with his claws.

Gu Bahuang fought for quite a while, until Chu Jiang was barely breathing and Gu Bahuang reluctantly stopped.

Yin Jin'an looked at the half-dead Chu Jiang and said, "You're right! Snakes and rats are in cahoots, that's exactly you and Minister Cui. He's a venomous snake, and you're a rat in the gutter, it's so apt."

Chu Jiang stared at him helplessly.

"Minister Cui and Xiao Zuo pretended to have suffered a defeat and fled to Lingshan. They tricked the naive Wei Mu into marrying Xiao Zuo. Minister Cui had been playing the role of a confidant of Empress Wei and Xiao Zuo all along."

After the Western Xia was stabilized, this confidant secretly defected to Chu Jiang, betraying and causing the death of Empress Wei.

They then falsely claimed to have issued an imperial edict, luring me into the palace. Avoiding my guards, they secretly imprisoned me in the Cui family's carriage and transported me to the border town of Longmen. There, they chained me with iron chains, intending to starve me to death. Tell me, isn't Minister Cui a treacherous and ungrateful viper?

Vice Minister Cui trembled all over, but could not refute it.

"As for Prime Minister Chu, you and your good sister killed Empress Wei, stole her position, and then fooled that fool Xiao Zuo to gradually seize the country. Am I right?"

Forget it, I'm too lazy to say anything more.

"I would like to ask Lord Chu, what brings you and Vice Minister Cui to Ganzhou? Did you come to see if I'm dead, or to see the charred corpses of Second Young Master Chu and Xiao Hongli?"

Upon hearing Yin Jin'an call out the names of Chu Bu'nu and Xiao Hongli, Chu Jiang struggled to his feet and roared in a hoarse voice, "What have you done to Nu'er and the Prince of Liang?"

"Kill them!" Yin Jin'an said lightly. "They wanted to kill me, but I killed them instead."

"You, you devil."

"You're wrong, I am the God of War! Everything you enjoy is thanks to me, the God of War!"

"You're a devil, a demon!" Chu Jiang was at a loss for words. "Where did you take them? Where are they?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, you're really getting old and useless. You've already forgotten what you just said? I swore that I would leave no one from the Chu family alive and turn them all into human pigs. The Second Young Master Chu will naturally be the first human pig. I always keep my word."

"You devil... my wrathful son!"

Overwhelmed with rage, Chu Jiang coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Don't you dare die! Isn't it perfectly normal for me to seek revenge? Killing your son and the Prince of Liang was the first wave of my revenge; killing you is the second wave!"

Yin Jin'an didn't care at all. She looked down at him and said with a slight smirk, "Tomorrow the army will set off. We'll use Chu Jiang and Minister Cui as sacrifices to the flag."