Chapter 411 This King Still Has a Life-Saving Talisman
The King of Qin could tell from the way Jiang Wan Ning looked at him like he was a fool that she didn't understand.
Perhaps she simply didn't want to understand.
"You must be wondering, since what I'm doing now is also a dead end," the King of Qin said to himself, "but I still have a way to save myself."
"I don't want war either, I don't want so many deaths and injuries."
"I think this life-saving talisman should be able to save my life."
"......"
Jiang Wan Ning listened to the King of Qin's incessant rambling until she became annoyed, so she simply stood up and prepared to leave.
The King of Qin called out from behind, "Don't you want to know what this life-saving talisman on my back is? You should be interested, how can you not ask?"
"You and the Emperor, oh no, now it should be the Emperor, you two have a very good relationship."
"You must be eager to know about her."
"......"
Jiang Wanning said, "You'd better pretend. I don't know you well and don't want to chat with you."
“Since you just want to live, tell them to release me and Niannian. When I get out, I will naturally tell Zhizhi to spare your life and bring you back from the northern desert.”
"You mean what you say?" The King of Qin stood up and chased after him. "You can't lie to me. You'll be punished for lying to me. Swear it!"
Jiang Wan Ning looked helplessly at the King of Qin, "You can also choose not to believe it, and wait for Zhi Zhi to get angry and banish you to a more distant place."
Jiang Wan Ning was too lazy to argue with the King of Qin anymore and prepared to go out to check on Niannian. Just as she was about to open the door...
A man rushed in, brandishing a dagger, shouting, "I'll kill you!"
Jiang Wan Ning dodged to the side, while the King of Qin bent down and hid behind the table. "You'd better think carefully about who you're going to kill."
The man stood still and looked at the two of them. "You're together, so I'll kill you both!"
Jiang Wan Ning was closer to the man, who charged at her first. Jiang Wan Ning drew her long whip from her waist and knocked the dagger out of his hand.
The King of Qin clapped his hands, "Excellent skills."
As he spoke, he gave Jiang Wan Ning a thumbs up.
Jiang Wan Ning frowned, "You don't know martial arts?"
"Does this body look like someone who knows martial arts?"
Jiang Wan Ning frowned slightly and kicked away the man who rushed up to her.
The scarred man outside rushed in after hearing the fighting inside.
"Hey, stick, what are you doing?" the scarred man shouted at the assailant.
“Scarface, I killed them.” The man called Stick stared viciously at Jiang Wan Ning and Prince Qin. “If it weren’t for them, my wife wouldn’t have died.”
“Our brothers won’t be arrested either. Now we’re being used by them to fight against the imperial court.”
"How good can the final result be?"
"Let me go, let me kill them, and then I'll go to the authorities to confess. I'll take full responsibility for everything."
Jiang Wanning looked at the King of Qin.
The King of Qin shrugged. "I was the one who did the latter part of the matter, but I really didn't steal his wife away."
The King of Qin then looked at the stick and asked, "Um... your name is Stick, right?"
"What happened to your wife that you just mentioned?"
The stick spat, "You still have the nerve to ask?"
“It is you heartless people who have driven us to extinction.”
"Do you think we all enjoy being bandits? Go outside and see what kind of people are here!"
As he spoke, Gunzi walked to the door and opened it. Only then did Jiang Wanning see that most of the people outside were elderly, weak, women, and children.
The King of Qin was naturally aware of the situation here. “Say what you want to say directly. I didn’t force you to become bandits. I myself was forced to want to become a bandit.”
As if remembering something, the King of Qin said, "Speaking of which, do you need any more people here?"
"If I'm being hunted down, can I hide here with you?"
"Stop insulting us here," Stick said angrily. "We're only here because of officials like you."
“One after another, this prince and that prince, this official and that official.”
"They forced us ordinary people to have no way to survive, and in the end, we had no choice but to go up the mountain and become bandits."
"So you're the Empress, aren't you?" The stick pointed at Jiang Wan Ning. "I'll kill you too, so you won't have to go out and seek revenge on the people here!"
"Stop, stick!" the scarred man shouted. "She's not the empress."
"Do you think I'm really stupid? Daring to kidnap the Queen?"
The King of Qin pointed his folding fan at the scarred man, "So you knew from the beginning that the other party wasn't the Empress, not because my portrait wasn't good-looking?"
The scarred man sighed, "Please, brother, we're bandits, not pigs."
“I will definitely look for clues before I make an arrest. I’ve seen the Queen on the street before. She can eat so much.”
"This girl is clearly half a head taller than the Empress, isn't she?"
"And I'm so careless that I wouldn't even let her take off that face-covering thing," the scarred man said, twirling his hand around his head, "do you really think she's the most important person in the world?"
"Just because she's wearing clothes embroidered with dragon patterns?"
Stick stood there, stunned, staring at the scarred man. "Scarface, what do you mean by this?"
"What do you mean?" The scarred man slapped his stick, then said to Jiang Wan Ning and the King of Qin, "Gentlemen, we are just ordinary people."
"Forced by the imperial taxes, he went up into the mountains, found a secluded place to live, and occasionally robbed one or two corrupt officials or wealthy merchants with bad hearts."
"This man is called Stick. His wife was raped by the soldiers under the Third Prince."
The scarred man glanced at the stick, hesitated for a moment, and continued, "Later, his wife hanged herself."
"Those soldiers were mocking Stick, and Stick wanted to fight them to the death, but I stopped him."
"The people here were all forced to come here."
The scarred man then looked at the stick and said, "You've mistaken him for someone else. This prince is not your enemy. He is the eldest prince, not the third prince."
Stick glanced at the King of Qin, "I don't care who he is, he's a prince, it's all the same."
The King of Qin immediately said, "I won't take the blame for this. Although I am a prince, my life is also very hard. I am sick and may die at any moment."
"As far as I know, whether it was the previous Western Xia emperors or the present, the taxes of Western Xia were not high."
"How did you end up here?"
The scarred man scoffed, "The imperial court doesn't need much, but the emperor is far away and the sky is high. In our small places, if we encounter a corrupt official, he becomes the law of our land."
“Our Peach Blossom County magistrate is just a small county magistrate. Half of the county is occupied by his family’s mansions, and he can marry more than a dozen concubines.”
"Even the dog bowls are made of gold."
"Old Bai wanted to sue, but the officials protected each other, and in the end, he would at least get a beating, and at worst, his whole family would lose their lives."
"If you want to go to the capital to file a complaint, I'm afraid you'll be killed by assassins before you even reach the capital."
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