Qin Chuan snorted and said, "You used a sleeping potion on me, and the old man died from the poison. I naturally have reason to suspect that you poisoned him!"
"How dare you, you female thief!" Zhang Cheng pointed at "Jiang Yun'er" and roared in his shrill, hoarse voice, "You dare to murder a good citizen of our dynasty! I'm going to send you to the Ministry of Justice to be brought to justice!"
"Eunuch Zhang, you mustn't!"
Qin Chuan interrupted Zhang Cheng, saying, "This female thief's purpose is probably not that simple!"
After saying that, he walked up to "Jiang Yun'er" and stared at her face: "What is your real name?"
"Heh...Why should I tell you?" The woman looked at Qin Chuan with a seductive smile, letting out a cold laugh.
Qin Chuan rolled up his sleeves and threatened, "If you don't talk, I'll strip you naked and throw you into the river to feed the fish!"
Hearing this, the woman showed no fear and still smiled charmingly at Qin Chuan: "Young Master Qin, do you think I would believe that? This eunuch said he would send me to the court for prosecution."
Qin Chuan looked at Zhang Cheng, who quickly said, "Young Master Qin is right, we'll throw you into the river to feed the fish!"
The woman just sneered: "Then you won't hear any secrets."
Qin Chuan was speechless. This woman was incredibly audacious; no amount of threats worked.
It seems she either has something to rely on, or she's a female assassin with extremely strong mental fortitude.
Zhang Cheng was also anxious. The woman in front of him resembled the assassin who had tried to kill the emperor before; she was very stubborn and he couldn't get any information out of her...
After much deliberation, Qin Chuan decided to resort to his most ruthless tactic.
"You guys go out first, I'll deal with her alone."
Zhang Cheng and his guards followed instructions and left the cabin, closing the door behind them.
Qin Chuan took off a piece of clothing, rolled up his sleeves, and walked over with gritted teeth.
The woman panicked, "What are you going to do?!"
"Hehe," Qin Chuan chuckled, "Of course I'll poke you with a stick!"
The woman was horrified when she saw Qin Chuan's appearance: "A scholar can be killed but not humiliated! If you dare to insult me, I will tear you to pieces!"
"Even when death is imminent, you still dare to be stubborn!"
Qin Chuan pulled out a large object from his waist and began stabbing it repeatedly into the woman's body...
"Uh...uh..."
The woman rolled her eyes, her body convulsed, and she collapsed on the deck of the boat...
Even after collapsing, the body was still convulsing...
"Stubborn to the end? Keep being stubborn! I'll show you the power of my stun gun!"
Qin Chuan held the stun gun, turned it off, and then tucked it back into his waistband.
Then, he picked up a chair and sat there quietly, waiting for the woman to wake up.
After a while, the woman woke up.
"name."
Qin Chuan looked down, fiddling with the stun gun, squinting his eyes, and asked seemingly casually.
The woman trembled involuntarily, and when she looked up at Qin Chuan again, fear filled her eyes. Sitting on the deck of the boat, she said, "Jiang Ran."
When Jiang Ran saw the dark stick, she seemed terrified and instinctively shrank back.
His body was simply bound by ropes, so he couldn't move much at all.
Qin Chuan stared at the stun gun in his hand and said slowly, "That's more like it. Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely, understand? Answer whatever we ask you."
"Age," Qin Chuan then asked.
"Twenty-two years old," the woman said instinctively.
Place of origin.
"What?"
"Where are you from?"
"A person from the Jiang Kingdom."
Qin Chuan suddenly stood up from his chair, squatted down, stared at her coldly, and asked, "What are the people of Jiang doing in my Gan Kingdom?"
Jiang Ran looked distressed and said, "I can't tell you, it's a secret."
"snort?"
Qin Chuan brandished the stun gun in his hand, as if to say, "If you don't talk, you'll be in trouble. Be careful, or I'll stab you to death with this stick."
"Okay, I'll talk..."
Jiang Ran was terrified, as if the electric baton had cast a shadow over her that she had never experienced before.
An hour later, Qin Chuan finally understood Jiang Ran's purpose.
It turns out that because Da Gan was constantly encroaching on the land of Jiang, Jiang could not defeat Da Gan head-on, so it specially established an assassination organization targeting the Da Gan empress. This organization was called "Red Moon".
The "Red Moon" organization has both men and women. The women have cinnabar dots on their foreheads and arms, while the men need to castrate themselves to prove their loyalty to the Great Jiang. They infiltrate the Great Gan under various identities and then try to sneak into the Great Gan imperial palace. Anyone who can assassinate the empress will be granted a title and a hereditary title, and the Meng family will receive a high pension even if they die, enough to make the family prosperous for a generation.
Jiang Ran is a member of the "Red Moon" organization.
She received news that the Empress had summoned Qin Chuan to the capital for an audience, and seeing this as a golden opportunity, she orchestrated a deliberate ship collision. Then, she planned to use a combination of aphrodisiacs and mind-altering drugs to control Qin Chuan, causing him to fall into indescribable hallucinations, believing that those events had occurred, when in reality Jiang Ran had done nothing. She then used the tragic backstory of "Jiang Yun'er," a woman with no family left and no relatives, to evoke Qin Chuan's pity and persuade him to take her in. She planned to then completely control Qin Chuan—after all, romantic scholars love this kind of damsel-in-distress trope—and once in the capital, find an opportunity to approach the Empress and assassinate her…
To her surprise, Qin Chuan was wearing an N95 mask and wasn't fooled by her act at all...
After hearing the secret revealed by Jiang Ran, Qin Chuan clicked his tongue and said, "Why call it Crimson Moon? It sounds awful!"
Jiang Ran was taken aback, then surprisingly nodded: "That's right. When 'Crimson Moon' was created, I also thought it sounded awful, but the Holy Maiden insisted on using this name, and I was powerless to argue against it..."
Qin Chuan listened intently, as if listening to gossip. "So you're one of the founders of this organization? And you have a Holy Maiden? In other words, this Holy Maiden is your leader?"
Jiang Ran seemed to have completely forgotten her current predicament, and started gossiping with Qin Chuan, "The Holy Maiden isn't the top leader. We are directly responsible to His Majesty. The Holy Maiden is at most the second-in-command..."
"Oh, I see..." Qin Chuan came to his senses. Oh dear, why did I start talking about gossip with her?
He quickly refocused on his business, his expression suddenly changing as he demanded, "Since your target is Her Majesty the Empress, why did you kill the old man? He's worked hard fishing all his life, he didn't offend you at all!"
Jiang Ran's expression was complicated, then she gave a bitter smile: "Would you believe me if I said the old man begged me to poison him?"
"The old man begs you to poison him?"
Qin Chuan snorted twice, then burst into laughter.
It was like hearing the biggest joke ever.
Is this reasoning to treat him like a fool?
Jiang Ran sighed softly and said, "If we, the members of the Crimson Moon Society, kill indiscriminately, we will only expose ourselves sooner. We carry secrets, so why expose ourselves?"
“This old man was indeed terminally ill and had no money for treatment. After learning that I had various poisons on me, he begged me to poison him with a kind of poison that would not cause him pain. I can swear to God that I am not lying to you!”
When Qin Chuan went to perform the autopsy, he did see that the old man's face was peaceful, as if he had passed away without pain. At this moment, he began to believe Jiang Ran's words to some extent.
But wouldn't this also be considered a form of indirect murder?
Are there any friends who frequently commit murder who can answer this question...?
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