"We can't let him get away so easily!"
"Come on, cut off as much of his flesh as possible!"
"Hmph, you've eaten our blood and flesh, it's time to pay back!"
"Huh? What are you looking at, you brat?! Oh right! You're all family, you're part of it too! Come on! Grab her!"
"don't want!"
"Don't arrest me, I didn't... I didn't do anything wrong."
"You don't have any? Bullshit! The only clean thing about your family is those two stone lions at the gate!!"
"No, no!"
With a "poof," the candle flame ignited.
"Miss, Miss." Qing'er stood in front of the bed and gently shook Jin Changge's shoulder.
In the dim candlelight, Jin Changge suddenly opened his eyes, his pale and thin face covered in cold sweat, as if he had collapsed from exhaustion.
"Miss, are you alright?" Qing'er asked with concern, touching her face. But as soon as she touched the fair skin, Qing'er's hand trembled slightly.
That face was frighteningly cold.
"call--"
Jin Changge was panting heavily, staring blankly at the bed curtains.
Qing'er frowned and sighed, "Miss, you're having another nightmare."
Jin Changge seemed not to have come to his senses yet, muttering to himself:
"How terrifying! I dreamt that my second brother, eldest brother, and father were all..."
She had only spoken halfway when she reached out from under the covers and rubbed her eyes. Qing'er looked down at her with a pained expression.
"What you think about during the day, you dream about at night, Miss. The Second Young Master has led troops to Anyang County. You and the Second Young Master grew up together, that's why..."
Jin Changge interrupted her, her voice still trembling slightly: "No, it's not because of that."
"What is it?" Qing'er lowered her eyes, looking at her thoughtfully.
Jin Changge's face was pale. She gripped the blanket tightly, shrank back a little, and said in a muffled voice:
"I've been going out too many times these past few days, and tonight it's windy and rainy; I've probably caught a chill."
Seeing that Jin Changge did not answer, Qing'er leaned over and brushed away a strand of black hair damp with cold sweat from Bai Jie's forehead, and whispered:
"Miss."
"I'll go get the doctor to take a look at you, and then I'll brew you a pot of tea..."
She was suddenly hugged halfway through her sentence.
A sob rang out at that moment: "Qing'er, after I went out, I heard them all cursing us."
"So many people, so many people..."
Qing'er lowered her head, looking at the tear-filled face in her arms, and whispered:
“The place you went to, Miss, is the lowest-level commoners’ area, so naturally they say all sorts of things.”
The sobbing began again: "Our whole family are utterly wicked people, I...I..."
The sobs turned into choked sobs, and Jin Changge, choked with sobs, could not speak.
"Sigh." A barely audible sigh escaped Qing'er's lips as she gently wiped away the tears from Princess Yongning's face, who was now a weeping mess in her arms.
Then she lowered her head and gently hugged Jin Changge: "Miss is not a bad person."
Jin Changge continued to sob, but her voice grew softer and softer.
She let go of his hand and turned around, but her body was still trembling slightly.
Qing'er lowered her eyes and gently patted her back. After a long while, Jin Changge finally fell into a deep sleep.
Seeing that she had fallen asleep, Qing'er carefully arranged the quilt, then sat on the edge of the bed and stared blankly for a while before getting up and blowing out the candle.
Lifting the lantern, Qing'er slowly stepped out of the room, uttering a soft murmur:
"Long confined in a cage, yet untouched by the world's mortal realm, Miss, now you understand."
Qing'er stepped out of the room, then gently closed the door and left.
——
The tent flap was lifted, and Zhi Xiong and Tao Bao carried a corpse inside.
"My lord, the person has been brought."
"Unfortunately, this man chewed his tongue up and swallowed it, committing suicide." Tao Bao scratched his head, looking ashamed.
Qin Ze turned around and frowned as he looked at the bloodstains on the corpse's face.
He then stepped forward, his eyes narrowed, coldly scrutinizing the corpse before him.
After a long pause, Qin Ze shook his head and said, "Wrong, this is not Jin Jiande."
Although Qin Ze had been under house arrest in the capital for two years and hadn't seen Jin Jiande again, he still remembered his appearance clearly. The person before him, while somewhat similar in appearance to Jin Jiande, was not him.
Upon hearing this, Tao Bao's eyes widened as he stared at the corpse in astonishment.
"Not Jin Jiande?"
"When did you change your clothes?! This...."
Qin Ze shook his head and said calmly, "I've heard a lot about the Thousand Machines Camp. They have all sorts of methods and tricks up their sleeves."
“In the previous round of melee, Jin Jiande swapped clothes with his assassins; he’s capable of doing that.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhi Xiong lowered his head and said, "It was our oversight, my lord."
Qin Ze waved his hand and casually said:
"It's understandable that you don't recognize Jin Jiande's appearance."
"The key point is that the battle at Yanluo Mountain was a complete victory."
Tao Bao sighed and gritted his teeth, saying, "Damn it, this person has some skill. He used that grappling hook to leap and bound, running deep into the mountains and forests. He's more cunning than a rabbit. I didn't expect him to capture the wrong person."
"Jin Jiande, that bastard, really went to great lengths to save his life."
"My lord! Let's go find him again!"
Qin Ze raised his eyebrows when he heard the word "hook and rope," and said in a deep voice:
"It's probably going to be hard to find them. Yanlu Mountain is so big. Although both the front and back routes are blocked, since they know how to use grappling hooks, it's really possible that they can escape from the cliffs."
"but....."
"Hehe." Qin Ze continued, "Go and search the cliffs to see if anyone is clinging to them."
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