The Cui family really has an inexplicable fate with Ji Wan.
"Go and tell someone to call Cui Rucheng." Ji Wan wanted Cui Min to come and see the Cui family with his own eyes.
It's late autumn and the weather is not cool at all.
After several days of massacre, even in the city, one could smell the thick smell of blood mixed with the smoky smell of ashes wafting from afar.
In the largest prison in Tongcheng, Zhang Zhou sat slumped in fear on the straw-covered ground. Beside him was an assassin in black clothes who was tied up and had a rag stuffed in his mouth.
Ji Wan specifically told Xiao Ling to remove the temperature control formation covering the prison.
So at this time, both of them had disheveled hair, sweat on their faces, and an indescribable stench all over their bodies. It seemed that they had not solved their physiological problems all night.
Ji Wan raised her chin.
The jailer whipped Zhang Zhou hard and shouted, "Lift your head!"
"Tell me who ordered you to do that, and I won't hit you." Ji Wan pointed to a bowl of water held by the jailer behind him.
Ji Wan knew that the best way to deal with this frightened prisoner was to directly state his purpose and use the long-term prospect of "living" and the real and clear water to arouse his desire to tell the truth.
"Really...really?" Zhang Zhou's eyes lit up and he swallowed as he looked at the pottery bowl.
He had been in the cell for a whole night. There were no windows in the cell, the air was stuffy, and the weather was hot. He was gasping for breath due to the heat and could not stay there any longer.
"I, I said, that man is the steward of the Cui family in the city. He said that he just brought me the magic weapon on the orders of his master."
Ji Wan waved his hand, and the jailer took a step forward holding the bowl in both hands.
"The Cui family in the city? What did that person tell you?"
Zhang Zhou's eyes lit up, and his beard trembled. "He said that if I could destroy the barrier in the city, he would make me the city lord in the future!"
Ji Wan sneered in his heart, Wow, he is so capable, even the one who will be the city lord is decided by his Cui family.
Then, as the acting city lord, isn't she blocking other people's way?
"Is that all?" Ji Wan raised his hand.
Zhang Zhou stared at the bowl of water, his eyes growing increasingly fiery. "Yes, they didn't say anything else, but they knew I was Zhang Baojiang's uncle."
Ji Wan raised an eyebrow. Uncle? No wonder they look a bit similar.
The bowl of water finally reached Zhang Zhou's hands. He swallowed the clear and sweet water in big gulps.
He had been drinking human blood for months, and suddenly drank the water, even licking the bottom of the bowl clean.
Even the scattered water droplets on his chin and beard were carefully wiped into his mouth with his fingers.
Ji Wan was a particularly careful person. He waited until everyone finished drinking the water before ordering someone to take Zhang Zhou out.
Give Ji Wan and his group a chance to talk to the assassin.
During this period, Yang Guan and Cui Min remained silent. Yang Guan had become accustomed to staying by Ji Wan's side and being her crutch.
Cui Min looked at the tied-up assassin in a daze.
At this moment, he felt complicated and tense. When he thought of the news that Ji Wan had just brought about the crown prince's ascension to the throne, he felt so angry that his teeth itched.
He could fully imagine the faces of the Crown Prince and the Queen after they ascended to high positions, and he couldn't help sneering in his heart.
Although there were hidden reasons behind the crown prince's ascension to the throne, he had become the supreme leader of Donglin after all.
Now the imperial concubine will no longer have the chance to give birth to a little prince.
His retreat was cut off, and from now on he could only assist his lord Ji Wan.
It is now even more difficult to avenge my mother and elder brother.
I don’t know how my father and brother are doing. What should I do if the third prince is not capable of being of any use?
Moreover, Ji Wan is currently only the leader of a state or county. If he were older, he would be able to call his father and younger brother with confidence.
Wouldn't it be better if their family worked hard for this?
Suddenly, a howling sounded outside. "You don't keep your word, ahhh! Ji Wan! Ji Wan, you will die a horrible death!"
It was Zhangzhou's scream.
"I'm a servant of a branch of the Cui family in the royal capital. You... you can't kill me!"
The voice of the black-clad assassin gradually drew Cui Min's attention back.
"A branch of the Cui family? Is Cui Ping your master? Or Cui An?" The upper half of Cui Min's face was hidden in the darkness.
The assassin's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe that someone knew so much.
At this time, another wailing sound was heard outside: "Master, please forgive me. I was wrong. Please forgive me. Ahhhh! It hurts!"
The man in black in the cell shuddered at the roar, "It's Cui Ping!"
The assassin knew that this was a warning to him.
"I told you, you have to spare me..." His voice trembled, "I am Cui Ping's subordinate. He is following the Queen's order to get rid of you.
It’s just that the cultivators around you were too powerful before, and they were stopped every time.”
Having said this, the black-clad assassin paused for a moment wisely.
After Ji Wan promised "yes", she continued: "Cui Ping replied to the Queen's letter, and then a few days ago the Queen sent over the magic weapon."
It was delivered just a few days ago? How was it delivered? Ji Wan had specially closed the city gates to prevent the refugees from breaking in, and no one was allowed to enter.
"So, how did this thing get in?"
"I... I don't know either. It's just that Cui Ping went out of the house and wandered around the military camp, discussing things with someone for a while. When he came back, he found this thing."
Oh, when you pull out a radish, you bring out the mud, and it's all brought to the army.
That's right, apart from the military, no one else can go out of the city to patrol every day, so they naturally have ways to contact people outside the city.
Ji Wan nodded, turned to glance at Cui Min, who was still in the shadows with a gloomy expression, and said directly: "Rucheng, there is a big fish behind this. Do you want to scare this little shrimp to death with your face?"
The second wife, Xiao Cui, left the family and not only lost the family's support and protection, but more importantly, she probably lost the source of money to support her subordinates and followers.
One even has to pay a lot of money to the Cui family in Wangdu in order to successfully break away from such a huge family.
Money, power, influence, and all the things he had enjoyed since childhood were reduced to nothing overnight. After paying so much, it was normal for Cui Min to look bad in front of the Cui family.
What's more, Cui Min's mother and elder brother were humiliated by the queen and ended up with no remains left. If Cui Min did not leave the family, his family would have died sooner or later.
"Your Highness, you are joking. If Min could be so effective at killing people with his expression, the Cui family in the royal capital would have long been gone."
Cui Min sighed inwardly. To be honest, following a lord like Ji Wan who could truly do practical things for the people under his rule was much better than following a good-for-nothing who only cared about women, money, and enjoyment.
And the most important point is that she, the imperial concubine and the Cui family have an irreconcilable feud.
The hatred for his mother and elder brother has been cruelly engraved into his bones.
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