Chapter 84: Not as Courageous as I Imagined
Mu Xingci listened to the woman's hatred for him, his eyes cold and gloomy: "Since that's the case, then let me see how tough you are. Come, tie her up."
Following his order, the two guards quickly tied Yun Wansheng to another torture rack.
Seeing that there was no hope for her to escape, Yun Wansheng didn't bother to even look at that dog marquis.
She could hear the sound of knives clashing against each other, as if their sounds were about to cut her flesh at any moment, which made her body shiver uncontrollably.
"My Lord, everything is ready." The jailer said respectfully.
"Let's start! Remember, don't shake your hands, I'm afraid she will feel pain." Mu Xingci blinked slightly.
"I understand!" the jailer said flatteringly, then walked up to Yun Wansheng.
"Girl, I just used this scraper, so it might not be that sharp. It will hurt a little when I cut the flesh later, so you have to bear with it."
Upon hearing this, Yun Wansheng couldn't help but open her frightened eyes. At this moment, the spy beside her screamed again, which made her look over instinctively.
When she saw the jailer pulling a piece of flesh from the man's belly and cutting it like a saw, she was so scared that her already pale face became even paler, and even her red lips lost their color, which made her tremble even more violently.
Just as she was terrified, she suddenly felt something cold touching her arm, which made her look down. She saw that the curved lingchi knife was already against her skin and was about to cut it off.
Thinking about the bloody scene of the prisoner just now, and thinking that she would become like that next, Yun Wansheng was so frightened that she felt her eyes go black and she fainted.
"My lord, the girl fainted from fright." The jailer put away the knife that he had no intention of using to cut meat and reported.
Mu Xingci saw the woman fainted from fear. His eyes were blank for a moment, and finally he sighed: "Do you hate me so much? You hate me so much that you would rather be tortured than help me?"
No one in the torture room answered his question.
Mu Xingci walked forward a few steps, untied the rope for the woman, then picked up the unconscious woman and walked out of the cell.
The carriage drove away from the government office. Inside the carriage, Mu Xingci looked at the woman in his arms with complicated eyes: "Yun Wansheng, what should I do with you?"
When they returned to the villa, the woman had not yet woken up. Mu Xingci looked at her for a moment with a dazed look in his eyes: "Xiaoqing, bring me a cool cotton towel."
Xiaoqing agreed and went behind the screen to wash the cotton towel with cold water, then came out and handed it to her master.
"Go away!" Mu Xingci drove the person away without even raising his head. The cotton towel in his hand fell on the woman's little face. After only two wipes, his mistress woke up.
Yun Wansheng looked at the man in front of her in a daze, not knowing why she was lying on the bed. After a while, she remembered what happened today.
"Why are you looking at me like an idiot? Are you really scared silly?" Mu Xingci couldn't help but scold her when he saw that she woke up but didn't say anything.
"Mu Xingci, what do you mean? Do you think it's fun to scare me like this?" Yun Wansheng couldn't help but get angry when she thought about being scared unconscious by this bastard.
"That's not fun. You still haven't told me what you know. Yun Wansheng, is this matter so important to you? It's so important that you'd risk your life for it."
"Mu Xingci, some things should not be used on the battlefield. You should rely on your own abilities to unify the Three Kingdoms! I can't help you." Yun Wansheng said coldly.
"Are you determined not to help?" Mu Xingci's face darkened slightly.
"Um!"
Mu Xingci stared at the indifferent woman with a cold gaze. He didn't speak for a long time, and finally stood up and walked out.
After he left, Yun Wansheng cursed, "You son of a bitch! You're not my man. Why should I help you with such an important matter? I don't have any friendship with you. I don't owe you anything."
Mu Xingci returned to the general's mansion. As soon as he entered the room, he kicked over a chair and vented his anger.
"My Lord, please calm down. Maybe Miss Yun really doesn't know the true origin of the pistol." I hurriedly persuaded her.
"Qiyi, she knows it. She has already admitted it in disguise in the villa just now. She just doesn't want to help me. Tell me, how can I convince that stubborn woman?" Mu Xingci said angrily.
"This... I can't think of it for the time being. After all, the Marquis has threatened her with the punishment of slow slicing, but she still refuses to give in." He laughed dryly, but muttered in his heart, I think it's difficult.
At this time, Wanchun, who was waiting on the side, said, "My Lord, I don't know what happened between you and Miss Yun, but after listening to your conversation just now, I have a general idea.
I think that the reason why Miss Yun dared to disobey the Marquis was that she was sure that the Marquis would not dare to do anything to her, so she acted without fear.
If you want her to listen to you but don't want to hurt her, you can only start with her relatives.
I just don't believe it. She can disregard her own safety, but she can't disregard her grandfather, right?
After listening to her, Mu Xingci's eyes were filled with deep thought. After a moment, he said, "Let me think about this matter again."
Yun Dashan's illness had just recovered, and he absolutely could not use him to threaten Yun Wansheng at this time. If something unexpected happened, that woman would hate him for the rest of her life.
"Yes!" Wanchun concealed the cold light in his eyes.
That night, Mu Xingci came to the villa. As soon as he entered the room, he saw that the woman had already fallen asleep. This made him frown in discomfort. At this time in the past, she should still be reading.
Seeing that the woman didn't move, he didn't wake her up. He took off his clothes and got on the bed. He even shamelessly got into the woman's quilt, and his hands naturally wrapped around her waist.
"Are you still angry?" Seeing the woman's indifferent reaction, Mu Xingci knew that she was angry about what happened during the day.
Yun Wansheng closed her eyes and ignored him, continuing to pretend to be asleep.
"I know you're not asleep. Yun Wansheng, I'm not forcing you to do this. I'm doing this for the sake of the 500,000 soldiers of Shun Shang State.
Because behind each of them is a family. They voluntarily join the army to defend their country and resist foreign enemies. Our country has such passionate men like them. What I can do is to minimize their casualties.
You have seen me recently that I have been studying crossbows and catapults painstakingly every day. Isn't it just to make my soldiers invincible and strive to return home alive?
You have no idea how happy I was when I discovered that the pistol you were using was an excellent combat weapon.
I thought that as long as I mentioned it to you, you would tell me the truth immediately, but unexpectedly, you refused to say it.
"Yun Wansheng, is your secret more important than those millions of lives?" Mu Xingci said in a serious tone.
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