Chapter 215 Liniang's Revenge (3)
Liu Liniang then stopped what she was doing, threw the whip to a servant, and slowly sat back down in her chair.
She took the teacup handed to her by a servant and slowly took a sip. "Wake everyone up. Why are they sleeping in the middle of the day? It's such a waste of precious time."
Upon receiving the order, the servants immediately brought three buckets of ice-cold salt water and poured it mercilessly onto the three men on the rack.
"ah--!"
Three piercing screams rang out simultaneously.
The three of them were suddenly jolted awake from their unconsciousness. The salt water kept irritating their wounds, causing them excruciating pain.
Adding to the fact that it was December and they were soaked to the bone by the cold water, they were shivering uncontrollably.
Liu Liniang's two brothers had obviously already experienced her methods. When they opened their eyes and saw their sister sitting upright in the chair, their faces turned pale instantly, and they begged for mercy while their teeth chattered.
"Sister! We were wrong! We really know we were wrong! Please, have mercy, don't hit us anymore, okay?"
Another brother quickly chimed in, trying to move her with familial affection.
"Yes, sister! No matter what, we are siblings born of the same mother! We grew up together since we were little! If our father and mother were alive, how heartbroken they would be to see you treating us like this!"
The three men's mother had died long ago, and their father, Minister Liu, was killed by the Longwu Army at the New Year's Eve banquet.
However, the Liu family did not escape this purge. Because they had allied themselves with the Cui family, their property was confiscated and the whole family was exiled.
Liu Liniang's two brothers naturally fell into her hands.
"Why would I be sad?" Liu Liniang put down her teacup and asked softly, "When you saw Cui Dalang beat me half to death, you weren't sad either, were you?"
"Back then, didn't you all advise me, 'It's just being beaten, it's not like you've lost a piece of flesh, just bear with it and it will pass'? What? Now that it's your turn, you can't bear it anymore?"
The two of them instantly recalled things from the past.
At that time, Liu Liniang had been married into the Cui family for less than a year. She advised Cui Dalang to take fewer concubines and focus more on his studies, which led to him aborting her six-month-old child.
At that time, Liu Liniang dragged her body covered in wounds back to her parents' home and cried, begging them to help her get a divorce from Cui Dalang.
But in order to cling to the powerful Cui family, they not only didn't help her, but instead pointed their fingers at her and scolded her for being ignorant and not knowing how to please her husband. That very day, they sent someone to take her back to the Cui family.
After that, Liu Liniang never went home to look for them again.
Over the years, Cui Dalang's beatings and scoldings towards her have become increasingly severe, and the entire Liu family has witnessed it all but has remained indifferent.
Because in the eyes of these men, it's not a big deal at all.
She was nothing more than a tool to curry favor with the Cui family, a married daughter, and it was not worth offending the Cui family or Cui Dalang for her sake.
On the contrary, they often got together with Cui Dalang to drink and frequent brothels, calling each other brothers and getting along quite well.
They originally thought that Liu Liniang had resigned herself to her fate, but they never expected that she had kept her hatred hidden so deeply all along.
The eldest brother caught sight of Cui Dalang, who was also being tortured on a rack like them, and quickly shifted the blame, saying, "Sister! Hit him! Hit him! It's all that beast Cui Dalang's fault for torturing you, it has nothing to do with us brothers! We were deceived by him back then!"
The second brother quickly chimed in, "Yes! It's him! He's inhuman, how dare he treat you like this! Even skinning you alive and tearing your heart out wouldn't be enough to vent your hatred! Sister, please don't drag us into this!"
Cui Dalang was already covered in bruises from the whipping, and when he heard that his two brothers-in-law, who usually fawned over him and always tried to please him, were now kicking him while he was down in order to save his own life, he was so angry that he cursed them.
"Who do you think you are? Who was it that helped me send Liu Liniang back? Who was it that kept saying women deserve to be beaten? You dare say it has nothing to do with you!"
Liu Liniang felt disgusted watching the group bickering like dogs.
She pressed her temples and said, "Did I give you permission to speak?"
The sound wasn't loud, but it immediately silenced the three men, who didn't even dare to breathe loudly, for fear of being beaten again.
Seeing their reaction, Liu Liniang smiled coldly. "What's the rush? Take your time. None of them will escape."
Her voice was light and airy, yet it sent shivers down the spines of the three of them.
Just then, Brother Liu's stomach rumbled at an inopportune moment.
His face turned deathly pale instantly. He looked at Liu Liniang in terror, his eyes filled with fear and panic, afraid that the voice would anger her.
Liu Liniang was not angry. Instead, her face softened back to its gentle expression, and she asked softly, "Are you hungry?"
The two were imprisoned in this dungeon and tortured for three or four days. They hadn't even had a drop of water, let alone food. They were starving, but they were too intimidated by Liu Liniang's ruthlessness to speak.
Seeing her suddenly speak so gently, Brother Liu was puzzled, but he still mustered his courage and nodded cautiously.
What would you like to eat?
Liu Liniang asked again, her tone as if she were inquiring about the child's feelings.
Brother Liu turned and exchanged a glance with his second brother, both of them seeing confusion in each other's eyes.
What's wrong with me today?
So easy to talk to?
Are they planning to let them off the hook?
Brother Liu swallowed hard and whispered, "Meat."
Upon hearing this, Liu Liniang smiled and nodded, then turned to the servant beside her and instructed, "The meat on the leg is the most tender, so let them eat the leg meat first today."
Upon hearing this, the servant beside him immediately pulled out a dagger from his waist and walked towards Cui Dalang on the rack without hesitation.
Cui Dalang's pupils contracted sharply, his eyes widened in disbelief, and his voice trembled.
"What are you doing... I'm warning you, don't come any closer!"
He didn't realize what was happening until the servant ripped off his pants, exposing his thighs.
When Liu Liniang said "the flesh on his legs," she was actually referring to his own flesh!
They want to cut off his flesh to feed his two older brothers!
His body stiffened with terror, his eyes filled with utter fear, and he pleaded in a hoarse voice, "No...no! Li Niang, I was wrong! Please spare me!"
But his pleas for mercy were useless. The next second, a sharp dagger pierced his thigh, tearing off a large chunk of bloody flesh.
A scream rang out, so shrill it was inhuman.
Brother Liu and Brother Liu Er were so frightened by the bloody and terrifying scene that they trembled all over, their crotches instantly became wet, and a fishy smell filled the air.
Liu Liniang smelled the odor and frowned in disgust. "How old are you? You still can't control your lower body."
"I've heard that castrated pigs grow bigger and live longer."
Her gaze swept over their wet crotches. "How about this, for your own good, let's just castrate them. That way, we can avoid such embarrassing things from happening again in the future."
As soon as Liu Liniang finished speaking, the servant holding the dagger immediately turned around and headed towards the two of them.
Brother Liu was terrified, twisting his tightly bound body wildly and letting out a pig-like scream.
"No! Sister, you can't do this to me! I'm your older brother! If we lose our lineage, our Liu family will die out!"
His voice was filled with despair, and his face was covered in a mixture of tears and snot.
Liu Liniang sneered, "Is there any need to keep the Liu family's heir? Keeping him around will only bring trouble to all sides."
The servant walked up to Brother Liu and ruthlessly reached out to hold down his struggling legs.
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