So Zhu Yunwen spoke up:
"I will ask you any questions, and you will not be polite if you say anything wrong."
The female bandit nodded and said:
"Ask away, we will answer all your questions to the best of our knowledge."
Zhu Yunwen said:
"Alright, that's the first question. Have you ever taken anyone's life?"
The female bandit shook her head and said:
"We only rob people of their money; we don't do anything else. Let alone taking lives, we must ensure that we don't hurt the victims during the robbery."
Zhu Yunwen nodded in satisfaction and said:
"You only rob people without harming them, which shows you have some principles. But let me ask you again, how long have you been doing this, and how many people have you robbed?"
The female bandit paused for a moment, then sighed and said:
"Don't laugh at me, but you were our first order. I never expected that you would fail before you even got started, and that our business would suffer such a huge blow before it was even halfway done."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Yunwen almost burst out laughing. It has to be said that these bandits with some principles are rather pitiful.
It's quite unlucky that someone who had just started in this line of work ran into Zhu Yunwen.
Then Zhu Yunwen said again:
"So how much of your existing assets do you have?"
The female bandit paused for a moment, but didn't think much of it at first. She then took out some silver coins, jade pendants, and other items from her person.
"That's all we have."
The other bandits behind them also took out their most valuable possessions.
They didn't know what Zhu Yunwen was going to do; they just knew to obediently do as he said.
Zhu Yunwen looked at the silver, copper coins, jade pendants and other valuables in their hands, and with a wave of his hand, the Imperial Guards behind him stepped forward and shoved all of these things away.
In that instant, the female bandit was completely stunned, and said with some confusion:
"What are you doing?"
Zhu Yunwen: "What are you doing? Giving them a taste of their own medicine. Although you failed to rob others here, your actions were still wrong."
As punishment, I have confiscated all your valuables. This serves as a lesson and a warning.
I hope you will learn from this lesson and never do this again.
Upon hearing this, the female bandit and her group of bandits were all shocked and their mouths dropped open.
This is so fresh!
What kind of situation is it when bandits get robbed before they can even rob someone else?
Would anyone believe me if I told them?
Wouldn't that make us a laughingstock among our peers?
The female bandit immediately objected and said to Zhu Yunwen:
"This is robbery."
Zhu Yunwen looked at the female bandit and said:
"How can you call it robbery? Didn't I say this is punishment for you? Don't you understand the fine? This is a lesson for your own good."
The female bandit stared wide-eyed and said incredulously:
"You're amazing. It's already too much for us to be bandits, but you've gone even further than us. At least we know that being bandits is wrong."
You've got some nerve, trying to justify yourself like that. You robbed us and think you're doing a good deed? Why don't you just come and be our leader? We'd have to become your apprentices!
Zhu Yunwen chuckled and said:
"If I can't make it here anymore, I'll become your leader. But right now, you can't have any objections. If you do, I won't care."
Besides, if you can rob others, what if I rob you? I'm doing a good deed, after all.
The female bandit looked on incredulously and said:
"Is there no law? Is there no justice? We're a bunch of bandits, and you've robbed us instead? If this gets to the authorities, even the magistrate will be dumbfounded."
Zhu Yunwen said, "If you keep talking nonsense, I won't hesitate to send you to the yamen."
Upon hearing this, the female bandit immediately shut her mouth, knelt there properly, and swore an oath to Zhu Yunwen:
“I suddenly realize that what you just said makes sense. We mountain bandits are indeed no good, and we shouldn’t be robbing people here. Although we haven’t succeeded yet, we shouldn’t even be thinking about it.”
And your punishment of us is justified; we should offer you our silver as a fine, as a warning never to walk down such a path of no return again.”
Zhu Yunwen took a step back and said:
"I didn't expect you to be so enlightened. If I had known you were so enlightened, I wouldn't have wasted so much breath on you."
As was his duty, Zhu Yunwen collected all the money and valuables he had seized, and then said to the female bandit:
"Remember, today is a chance I'm giving you. I won't be leaving here anytime soon. If I hear of you committing robberies in this area again, I will punish you severely."
The female bandit dared not utter a single word of dissent; she could only nod repeatedly to indicate that she understood.
Zhu Yunwen smiled with satisfaction, then turned around and swaggered away with Zhao Qingzhu and ten Imperial Guards.
The female bandit and a group of bandits were left standing there, looking at each other in bewilderment.
Now, what was supposed to be a random robbery has turned into a robbery.
This made their already difficult lives even worse.
How are we going to live from now on?
Moreover, Zhu Yunwen threatened them, saying that he would be in the vicinity for some time and would not let them go if he heard any rumors of their robbery.
Doesn't this cut off their path to robbery?
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