This time, Ji Wan met the spy in the county magistrate's mansion. When Xiao Cui was escorted in by two soldiers, Ji Wan couldn't help but sigh. His left leg, which had been aching just now, became even more painful.
As God knows, Ji Wan had never been on guard against Xiao Cui. Looking at Xiao Cui kneeling on the ground in thin clothes, she subconsciously asked, "Why? Xiao Cui."
Xiao Cui and Shen Cuichun were held down by the soldiers with embarrassed expressions and knelt on the ground. "Your Highness, Cui An used the information about my father and brother to make me work for him. But Your Highness, I only told them a little bit of information about you, nothing else!"
As she spoke, Shen Cuichun became more and more choked up, and in the end she burst into tears.
It matched up. Now everything matched up. Xiao Cui had passed on Ji Wan's information to Cui An's men, but she hadn't told them everything. Instead, she had held back, deliberately creating confusion so that Cui An's men didn't attack Ji Wan directly, but instead used some underhanded means to get rid of her.
Unable to describe the feeling in his heart, Ji Wan pursed his lips, picked up the teacup after a while, and gulped down two big mouthfuls.
To be honest, Ji Wan didn't know how to deal with this matter. Should she punish Xiao Cui? But she was doing this for her father and brother, and she didn't tell the Cui family everything.
When it comes to the topic of family affection, Ji Wan has always been confused about which side she is on, but if she brings herself into it and her mother is caught, she will definitely lose her composure and do anything stupid.
But Xiao Cui's betrayal was not just about leaking the news; her betrayal almost caused the deaths of the people of an entire city.
What's more, the most important thing is that the refugees at the city gate are very difficult to deal with. If Ji Wan treats them so lightly, how will the soldiers who died outside the city gate deal with themselves, and what will happen to their families?
As she thought about it, Ji Wan had made up her mind. She could indeed understand Xiao Cui. But now she was not just Xiao Cui, she was also an imperial princess who protected the people of her fiefdom.
If not for himself, he also wanted to seek justice from Xiao Cui for the soldiers who died at the hands of the refugees.
The only thing to blame is Xiao Cui and Ji Wan’s different positions.
"Yang Guan, bring Cui An up." Ji Wan waved his hand.
Seeing Xiao Cui's tearful eyes, Ji Wan continued, "Chen Cuichun, what's the news about your father and brother? I will personally let you listen to Cui Ping and Cui An's interrogation. If you can really get the news, I will spare your life and set you free. But if this matter is completely nonsense, I will let you die in front of all the people of Qingshizhou."
After saying that, Ji Wan didn't even look at Xiao Cui's tear-stained face, which was constantly kowtowing. He just waved his hand and asked someone to cover her mouth and drag her behind the screen.
If there is any news about her father and brother, Ji Wan is willing to give Xiao Cui a chance to meet her father and brother before dying. After all, she was also coerced.
But if it wasn't true, Ji Wan could only blame Xiao Cui for not judging people well and for having been someone else's scapegoat for nothing.
But it is just the difference between dying early or late. After all, so many soldiers in the city cannot die in vain. The culprits and accomplices must be found to comfort their souls in heaven.
When Yang Guan brought two young eunuchs and held Cui Ping at Ji Wan's feet, Ji Wan kicked him hard in anger, which hurt the wound on his left leg. Ji Wan hissed in pain.
It's all his fault. If it weren't for the brothers Cui Ping and Cui An instigating trouble, how could she have lost such a useful subordinate!
Cui An's jaw was crushed by Cui Min, and he had difficulty speaking. Only Cui Ping was left with a bruised face and a broken arm.
"If you want to live, answer whatever I ask you honestly." Ji Wan was not polite at all.
Cui Ping's eyes were filled with resentment and hatred in his heart. Both of his brothers had fallen to this point now, so who cared whether they lived or died!
"Do you recognize Shen Cuichun?"
Cui Ping still looked angry, but he spoke vaguely: "No, I don't know him."
He had been tortured to the point of being unrecognizable. If he could survive, who wouldn't want to live...
"Xiao Cui beside me is your spy, right?" Ji Wan looked at the body that suddenly stiffened behind the screen, his eyes full of ridicule.
"yes."
"Then what method did you use to coerce her?"
"Her background is known to all the children at Moxiang Academy. We found an unwanted beggar child and brought her to Moxiang Academy. We found out Xiao Cui's exact background. Then, in order to keep her in the Cui family, we fabricated a story about her father and brother that perfectly matched her background."
Ji Wan looked at Xiao Cui struggling frantically, lowered his eyes, and sighed subconsciously: "Take everyone away, Yang Guan."
Xiao Cui seemed to finally understand at this moment, and she shouted loudly with guilt and regret: "Your Highness, be careful of Fanzhou!"
Fanzhou, the neighboring prefecture of Qingshizhou, was also the prefecture that had previously sent a visiting card to Ji Wan asking for food.
Be careful of them? Be careful of what? Is Fanzhou also the Cui family's territory?
Ever since Ji Wan personally interrogated the brothers Cui Ping and Cui An, Cui Min began to send people to the city to arrest the Cui family's spies who had a record list.
The border troops captured twenty people, fifteen city officials, ten merchants, and five tenants.
The whole city was in a state of impending storm these days, and many people kept their doors closed. It was half a month later when Ji Wan eliminated the brothers Xiao Cui and Ping An in front of the people.
Coincidentally, just as Ji Wan beheaded someone, God showed kindness and sent rain to the people who had been without water for several months.
The people were so happy that they kowtowed to Ji Wan and knelt down to worship God, saying that Ji Wan was getting rid of an evil for the people and that God had specially rewarded Ji Wan with heavy rain.
The rain brought with it a drop in temperature, instantly dispelling the once 40-50 degree weather. With the sudden drop in temperature, the city's formations lost their effectiveness. Ji Wan instructed Xiao Ling to use the spirit stones that had previously controlled the temperature for the city's defense formation.
The people of Qingshizhou were extremely happy. Some men bathed in the sweet rain with their upper bodies naked, and some women happily held basins to catch the rootless water falling from the sky.
With Yang Guan's continuous supply of spiritual power every day, the scabs on his legs have begun to fall off, and Ji Wan can happily run out of the county magistrate's mansion to play for a while when it rains.
Ji Wan begged Yang Guan to go out and have some fun for a long time, but he caught a cold that night. Yang Guan was so angry that he had a sullen face and refused to go out to play no matter how much Ji Wan begged.
The rain fell from the sky, and Pan Zhuo's mood improved a lot. He bought many hairpins and jade pendants that young women liked for his old wife at home to amuse her.
When I got home, I saw Lao Laizi wearing the Moxiang Academy uniform: "Diedie, go... to school!"
"Oh my dear, why are you wearing such big clothes? Be careful not to trip."
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