"What 'magpie girl'?" Zhuo Cong's sworn brother kicked the sycophant and said, "You should be calling her 'sister-in-law' soon!"

The underling was kicked hard, but dared not make a sound. He quickly smiled and said, "Yes, yes, look at my loose tongue, boss, sister-in-law, please don't mind."

He cursed inwardly: "You lackey, can't you just flatter yourself? Why do you have to step on others to get ahead? You'll fall to your death sooner or later!"

Zhuo Cong instructed the two henchmen who were escorting Xi Que forward: "Just pretend for a moment, but be careful not to hurt Miss Xi Que, and don't actually push her down. If she loses a single hair, I'll take your heads!"

"Yes, boss!" the two underlings replied respectfully, then stepped forward timidly, one on each side pretending to hold a magpie, and whispered, "Sister-in-law, please."

Seeing their timid expressions, Xique suddenly remembered a story the young lady had told him and blurted out, "What's your mother's surname?"

Brother A: "..."

Brother B: "..."

"What, it's hard to say, or..." The magpie seemed eager to know the answer, talking as they walked, "My young lady said that humans are born of human mothers, and demons are born of demon mothers. Everyone has a mother, and every mother must have her own name..."

"My mother, Tian Liushi," the younger brother said with a dark expression.

My mother, Liu Jiashi, and her younger brother, Yi, also looked puzzled.

Seeing the two of them looking like they were the two little demons in the young lady's story who were told they had no will to live, Xi Que pouted and tried her best to suppress her laughter, almost causing her to suffer internal injuries.

The two younger brothers thought she disliked their mother's name and were extremely ashamed. They lowered their heads and said, "Our ancestors were illiterate, so our mother's name is a combination of her husband's surname. This is a custom of our ancestors. In the past, the names of unmarried girls were generally not very nice."

"It's alright, it's fine," the magpie said, bored and trying to suppress his internal injuries as he continued to tease the two simpletons. "Our young lady also said that a dog doesn't despise a poor home, and a child doesn't despise an ugly mother; you must not feel ashamed just because your mother's name is not nice. You must be filial to your parents, respect the elderly and love the young. Do you understand? Even as bandits and robbers, we must have some sense of thievery. We can't be so heartless as to do things that will be struck by lightning..."

Fortunately, the magpie had undergone training, and its memory was many times better than before.

She delivered this long speech fluently, though she had only partially memorized it.

The two underlings were so stunned they were practically speechless.

Good heavens!

Is this girl really a bandit, not a top scholar?

The two men, escorting the magpie, arrived at the edge of the cliff, still looking completely bewildered.

Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here?

Xi Que, however, displeased them, and whispered a reminder: "Big brother? Big brothers? If we go any further, we'll be putting on a live cliff-jumping performance."

Brother A and Brother B then came to their senses and looked down at the sheer cliff less than half a step away, and were immediately startled.

By this time, quite a few people had arrived at the foot of the cliff, and most of them were looking up at the cliff.

Although Ji Fengyao and the others were still dozens of meters away from the summit, they could clearly see the situation at the edge of the Broken Soul Cliff.

"It's Sister Magpie!"

Bai Lu excitedly grabbed Lin Shuang's hand and whispered a soft cry.

All around them were people who had come to kill the Ninth Prince; they were all enemies. Lin Shuang quickly pulled Bai Lu back, signaling her to calm down.

She looked up and saw the magpies on the cliff top, and couldn't help but quietly bite her lower lip.