Chapter 376 What is oil?
"Master, the Prince and Princess of Langya have come to demand our people."
A man in black handed over a note.
The man took the note and casually tossed it into the brazier. "Hmph, Chen Jie will definitely be ruined by that Song Zhuran in the future."
"Master, what should we do now? Should we hand them over or not?"
"Let's just kill him outright. We won't get anything out of him anyway. Yu Hai is very stubborn, and you won't let us use torture, Master."
"If you put it another way, just use all the instruments of torture. I'm not afraid he'll confess honestly."
"If anything happens to us, Chen Jie will take the blame, and we won't need to show our faces at all."
"You're talking too much." The man turned around and laughed. "Everyone wants to fight for Yu Hai while he's alive, but if he dies, no one will benefit. So why must I be the one to kill him?"
"Do you really think Pei Yanchuan is a pushover?"
“He will always find his way back to me. Since I can’t smell it, I won’t ask anymore. I’ll just let someone else make the knife.”
"Master, do you mean to just release them? We've treated them to good food and drink, and you're just letting them go like that?"
"Then what have you been hiding here for so long?"
"I never intended to be their enemy; I just wanted to reclaim something that was very precious to me," the man said, looking down at a purse.
The embroidery on that purse was ugly.
The man gently placed the purse into his pocket and waved his hand, "Go, take the person back."
The man in black had no choice but to obey. The man inside looked at Pei Yanchuan and Jiang Wanning outside, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"I was a step too late, but it's okay, I'll definitely win you over."
"No, I will definitely make you follow me willingly."
"My lord, the princess will be arriving in Dongling soon," another person said. "These past few days she's been restless, asking when she can enter the capital."
"Tell her to behave herself. I didn't save her in the first place so she could cause me trouble."
"Tell her that if she doesn't behave, there are plenty of people who would be willing to be the princess."
The man's face revealed a chilling expression as he spoke.
Pei Yanchuan and Jiang Wanning did not expect the other party to release the person so quickly. Not only that, but Ah San even came out while rubbing his stomach and burping.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, if you don't come soon, I'm going to die from overeating." Ah San looked aggrieved. "What kind of perverts are these people?"
"They don't hit or scold me, they just feed me well, they're trying to stuff me to death."
As Ah San spoke, he nudged Yu Hai with his elbow again, "Hey, what did you eat?"
"Let me listen to see if it's the same as what I ate."
Yu Hai briefly mentioned two dishes, and A-San nodded, "Pretty much, but you have an extra dish of braised pork knuckle."
"We weren't locked up together?"
Yu Hai shook his head. "I was changing Ah San's bandages. Their target should have been me. Ah San was just someone they took advantage of."
"Did they ask you anything?" Jiang Wan Ning turned to ask Ah San again.
Ah San shook his head. "No, they just let me eat and sleep, they didn't ask me anything else, but they scared me to death."
"They did ask me some questions, mainly about the blueprints for that big wooden bird and how to use it. I didn't answer, so they didn't press me any further."
"I never expected that doing this for Zhizhi would attract so much attention." Yu Hai said with a worried expression. He regretted not doing it in the first place.
But if she didn't do it, Zhizhi wouldn't be able to travel back and forth between the two countries so happily.
"However, if they really use torture, it doesn't matter if I hand over the blueprints for this thing. It can't fly without oil."
"That thing, even if it's made, will just be a decoration."
"Why didn't you say so earlier? If you had given me the blueprints sooner, I wouldn't have been stuffed to death," Ah San complained.
"But what is oil? I've never heard of it."
"A natural resource, hard to find. The Lingxiao Sect obtained it occasionally, and now there's very little left."
Yu Hai didn't tell the truth. In fact, he discovered an oil field near the Lingxiao Sect. It wasn't that he didn't trust Pei Yanchuan and Jiang Wanning, but rather that there were too many people around.
Revealing this matter will surely bring trouble to the Lingxiao Sect. Perhaps if we say it this way, no one will bother with this giant wooden bird anymore.
Then you'll be safe.
Pei Yanchuan and Jiang Wanning didn't ask any further questions, and the group rode away on horseback.
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Inside the palace.
Having suffered setbacks and anger outside, Song Zhuran stormed into the Empress's palace to vent her frustration.
Empress Song Zhuyi watched as her palace was smashed into a mess, and the clothes she had made for her child were now being carefully admired by Song Zhuran.
Song Zhuyi let her smash things, standing in the middle of the bedroom without saying a word.
Peony tried to step forward to stop her, but Song Zhuyi stopped her.
The only person she could rely on for now was Shaoyao; the others had either been killed or taken to other palaces by Song Zhuran.
She couldn't let Song Zhuran have another chance or excuse to drive Shaoyao away.
Of course, she also knew that Peony was not someone from the palace, but someone from Jiang Wan Ning, which was why Song Zhu Ran didn't act so quickly and needed to think it over.
"Sister, your hands are still as skillful as ever. This little dress you made is really beautiful."
"It looks just as good as the ones you used to make for me."
"But sister, why aren't you making them for Ranran anymore?"
Empress Song Zhuyi remained silent, merely watching Song Zhuran's madness unfold.
"Sister, why are you ignoring Ranran? Are you still angry with her?" Song Zhuran said. "Last time, I said that the people of the Song family should die, but Ranran let them go because of how good you've been to me in the past."
"But Ranran has been very angry these past few days and needs to find an outlet for her anger."
"We can't do anything to my elder sister, after all, she's pregnant." Song Zhuran's gaze drifted to Empress Song Zhuyi's belly. "This child will be seven months along in a little over a month, right?"
“There’s a saying among the people: seven months to live, eight months to die,” Song Zhuran said. “For the sake of the child’s safety, it’s best to let him come out as soon as possible.”
"Ranran can't wait any longer." Song Zhuran smiled mischievously. "Sister, you'd better pray it's a boy, so as not to disappoint His Majesty, and also not to disappoint Ranran, okay?"
Although Empress Song Zhuran felt a chill in her heart, she was not afraid because of Shaoyao and Mo Qing in the shadows.
Remembering what Jiang Wan Ning had said to her, Song Zhu Yi became even calmer.
"But sister, we are sisters, why did you reveal this information to Sister Jiang?"
"You have no idea how furious Sister Jiang was. She killed all those loyal assassins I painstakingly trained. Sister, who should Ranran vent her anger on?"
Song Zhuran slowly walked forward, playing with a small fruit-peeling knife in her hand.
The tip of the knife slowly sliced down Song Zhuyi's cheek to her abdomen.
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