"The arrows were ordinary arrows, but the fire was some kind of rare fire that I didn't know about."
We can only discuss this matter when Minghuan returns.
Tang Nian carefully put away the arrow; now all she had to do was ask Cui Wensong a good question.
No, let's check if he's dead or not first.
The vengeful ghost has left, and the resentment clinging to the people is gradually dissipating, so he should also return to normal.
Remove his stomach, which had been forcibly cut open.
The flabby, loose skin never closed up.
Seeing that Cui Wensong was still alive, Tang Nian didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or to deliver the final blow.
She was about to activate her magic when Lou Mu grabbed her and pressed her down.
He flipped his folding fan, and a beam of white light shot into Cui Wensong's body.
Tang Nian looked closely and saw that the wound had not healed and the blood was still flowing. Apart from these, Cui Wensong was no different from an ordinary person.
The riverbank was not the place to discuss matters. After cleaning up the battlefield, the group took the man back to Song's Pharmacy.
Having just witnessed the true skill of the two people beside him, Cui Wensong had no intention of running away. He simply curled up in the chair and kept groaning in pain. No matter what anyone asked, he kept shouting that he was in pain.
Lou Mu stared at him for a few seconds, then turned to whisper to Tang Nian, "The wound on his stomach and his current posture are at least eight or nine parts similar to the corpse we found in the water earlier."
Although the abdomen was clearly cut open by the ghost baby, the wounds looked almost like knife wounds.
The two exchanged a glance, both already having made up their minds.
"Stop shouting." Tang Nian walked around, grabbed a rag and covered Lou Mu's mouth. Amid the other's terrified accusations, she said calmly, "You should understand, right? If it weren't for us, you would be dead long ago."
"Now we ask questions, you answer, cooperate a bit."
Cui Wensong nodded repeatedly.
Sure enough, after this incident, Song Shiyi lost control over Cui Wensong.
"You killed Song Shiyi, and you caused her and her unborn child to die, separating the mother and daughter."
He hadn't expected such a blunt approach from the start, so he quickly shook his head, pulled the rag away, and cried out, "I didn't! I fell in love with her at first sight, I'm completely devoted to her, how could I possibly harm her like this!"
Lou Mu leaned against the side and chimed in: "Because you just want a beautiful, virtuous pet to satisfy your sexual desires, and some of her autonomous behaviors annoy you."
Cui Wensong was speechless for a moment, then shook his head weakly in his argument.
When pets were mentioned, Tang Nian subconsciously glanced at Lou Mu.
I asked him a few more questions, and he maintained the same attitude.
Tang Nian's patience was wearing thin, and just then, Ming Huan returned.
"How is it?" Tang Nian already understood when she saw that Ming Huan was alone, but she still asked.
“They escaped.” Ming Huan was dejected, and he even looked at Cui Wensong with displeasure.
How did you end up with him?
Could it be that Ming Huan was at the Cui residence when the ghostly aura was so strong?
If that's true, what is he doing there?
Ming Huan rolled his eyes at Cui Wensong, who was wailing, and said irritably, "He blocked the entrance of the inn. I even used magic to travel, but who knew he could still follow me."
This was definitely not Song Shiyi's doing. If Ming Huan wasn't lying, then it must be that mysterious person behind it.
Now that it had already happened, Tang Nian didn't want to dwell on it. Pointing at Cui Wensong, she said to Ming Huan, "He won't tell the truth."
Ming Huan understood, raised his hand, and a ball of flame appeared out of thin air in his hand.
The sight of flames reminds me of that ghost baby who was burned alive.
Cui Wensong even forgot to cry out in pain, staring blankly at the scene before him, his body leaning back involuntarily.
He accidentally aggravated his wound, and his eyes widened in pain. After convulsing a few times, he fell to the ground and struggled to roll around.
When he shouted, "I'll tell you everything!" the pain suddenly lessened, and he realized that this was also one of these people's tactics.
He couldn't win, so he had no choice but to grit his teeth and accept defeat.
When he climbed back onto the chair, he was much more behaving himself, at least admitting to killing his wife and disposing of her body.
After a few rounds of polite questioning, they will sometimes throw caution to the wind and bring up other things on their own initiative, as if it were a way to vent.
He went to the capital to participate in the imperial examination, and the people in the city had high hopes for him.
This was because he was the first scholar from Lancheng to go to the capital to participate in the imperial examinations.
In the capital, he met several other scholars who were also taking the imperial examinations, and they stayed at the same inn. Over time, they became acquainted.
It was these very people who led Cui Wensong down a path of no return.
He was tricked into going to the casino.
Casinos are insane places, places that devour people without spitting out their bones. How could a bookish scholar possibly compete with those gamblers?
His parents had both passed away, leaving him a considerable fortune. However, he not only gambled away all the money he brought with him in the capital, but he was also gambling when the imperial examinations began.
He was heavily in debt and couldn't earn any money back. Fortunately, he didn't tell anyone where his hometown was, fearing he would be beaten to death. So he fled the capital overnight, hoping to take a shortcut back to Lancheng.
When passing through Nanyu City, the story of the Song siblings became the talk of the town, and they were the subject of gossip everywhere.
Cui Wensong came up with a plan.
Although the Song family pharmacy has declined, even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. If his plan succeeds, he will be set for life.
He collapsed on the path that Song Shiyi would inevitably take to gather herbs; she certainly wouldn't stand by and watch him die.
As long as I can get into Song's Pharmacy, nothing else matters.
What happened next was just as Song Shiyi remembered; the two returned to Lancheng.
But he didn't expect that Lancheng also had a branch of a casino, and that they had found him.
Fortunately, Song Shiyan gave Song Shiyi a considerable dowry, which he used to pay off his debts.
Song Shiyi was completely unaware that these dowry items were later sent to Lancheng by Song Shiyan, and were all intercepted by Cui Wensong.
Although he didn't have a high school education, he married such a beautiful woman from a wealthy family. The neighbors all came to patronize their business, and life was quite good.
But a leopard can't change its spots, and Cui Wensong went gambling again.
The shop's storefront grew smaller and smaller, and the family couldn't save any money. In fact, besides the expenses for visiting brothels, most of the money was spent on gambling.
"How did you kill Song Shiyi? Why did you kill her? How did you pay off your debts?" Tang Nian asked, clenching her fists, when Cui Wensong stopped.
Cui Wensong turned his head away, unwilling to utter another word despite the pain in his body.
Tang Nian and Lou Mu exchanged a glance, then turned and walked towards the pharmacy.
"Ming Huan thinks highly of him."
They hadn't been living day to day in the city; they had already figured out most of Lancheng.
They were heading to the largest casino in Lancheng.
I just don't know if the people in the casino are controlled by Song Shiyi.
It could be that Song Shiyi escaped, or it could be that she never even thought of this place; everything seemed normal inside the casino.
Just like something like this never happened in Lancheng.
Looking around, every table was filled with gamblers.
The smoky, noisy atmosphere made Tang Nian's head buzz.
She casually sat down in an empty seat, one foot on the chair, her roguish appearance blending perfectly into the casino.
In the crowd, several people exchanged glances and moved closer to Tang Nian.
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