Qin Yue Zhao didn't say much, she just waved to Huo Ting Ye.
In an instant, more than a dozen northern barbarian soldiers were kicked to their knees on the marble floor.
Seeing Qin Yue Zhao dragging her broadsword closer and closer, a hint of panic flashed across their faces, which had been resigned to their fate.
But soon he gritted his teeth and began to roar and curse in a barbarian language:
"Qin Yue Zhao! The Northern Barbarian King will surely raze Liang City to the ground, imprison you in his bed, and let the Northern Barbarian royal family ravage you!"
"Even if we die, we will become vengeful ghosts and raze your vast territory to the ground, you vile woman!"
"Kill me if you want! I'll be a hero again in eighteen years!"
"Heroes?" Qin Yue Zhao bared her teeth and retorted in fluent barbarian language, "You bunch of scoundrels, burning, killing, looting and committing all sorts of evil deeds, what kind of heroes are you?"
"In my opinion, you all deserve to be cast into the deepest hell, never to be reincarnated!"
Turning to look at Huo Zichu, her eyes were like those of a demon from hell, "Huo Zichu, I'm giving you one last chance! Kill them to atone for the sins of the Huo family that gave you life and raised you!"
"Atone for my sins?" Huo Zichu laughed loudly, "What sins have I committed?"
"Since you say you're innocent, then take a look at who she is?"
As soon as the words were spoken, a woman dressed in coarse linen clothes and holding a child walked out from behind the crowd.
The moment Huo Zichu saw the woman, he was completely stunned.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, you...you're still alive?"
Looking at the child in the woman's arms, he noticed that the child bore a striking resemblance to his older brother, and his voice trembled.
"This child is...my older brother's? What's going on?"
He remembered witnessing Qin Yuezhao kill his brother and sister-in-law at the Meridian Gate.
That year, his sister-in-law was five months pregnant, and the baby in her belly had not yet been born.
How come they're still alive?
Seeing that he was still obsessed, the woman slapped him hard across the face.
"You beast, what have you done? Do you know that if it weren't for the princess, our whole family would have died back then?"
Huo Zichu was stunned by the slap.
"No, that's impossible! You must be a fake. Qin Yuezhao sent you to deceive me!"
"Liar?" The woman rolled up the child's sleeve, revealing a birthmark shaped like a wolf's head. "You say I'm lying, but what about this birthmark? Does it lie too?"
Upon seeing the same birthmark as his clansmen, Huo Zichu collapsed to the ground.
The woman continued to berate him with exasperation: "Huo Zichu, it was your brother's treason that led to his death when it was discovered that he was colluding with the enemy."
"Princess Yue Zhao went to great lengths to find a death row inmate who looked like me in order to protect me and my child."
"Later, she even took me and my father to hide at the border, but by then you had already disappeared."
“We’ve been searching for you for years, and my father even died of grief while searching for you. I never imagined you would become a traitor! How can you face your father? How can you betray General Huo’s teachings…”
The woman's words were like thorns, piercing deeply into Huo Zichu's heart.
"No, that's not it. Someone clearly told me that Qin Yue Zhao was trying to make her brother a scapegoat..."
"Who told you that?" Qin Yue Zhao stepped forward, staring coldly into his eyes.
He shook his head in anguish.
“I, I don’t know. I had just joined the Imperial Guard at that time. I only knew that he was an officer. He told me that my brother was killed by Qin… by His Highness, and that he was going to kill my whole family. He told me to run away quickly.”
"Furthermore, I personally witnessed His Highness beheading my brother and sister-in-law, so I believed what he said was true..."
Hearing this, Qin Yue Zhao didn't rush to blame him, but continued to ask, "Do you remember what he looked like?"
“I remember, but I only remember what he looked like back then.”
People's appearance changes with age, and as a member of the Huo family, he naturally knew what Qin Yue Zhao was planning.
Qin Yuezhao waved her hand.
"No problem! You just need to draw his picture. The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Military Affairs have rosters and portraits of the personnel on duty. I will be able to find out who this person is."
Hearing this, Huo's army and Nan's army were displeased.
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