"Mother!"
At two quarters past midnight, Feng Cailan and Yu Jingyang, who had already gone to bed in the main room of Yaoguang Courtyard in the General's Mansion, were awakened by Si Chengfeng's hurried knocks on the door.
"Feng'er, you come here so late, is there something important? It's late at night and the weather is cold, come in quickly."
After Yu Jingyang got up and lit the lights in the room, he opened the door and called Si Chengfeng into the room. Feng Cailan was already dressed and sitting at the table waiting for him.
"Mother, Father, please forgive Chengfeng for coming to disturb me so late. Mother, do you still remember why Chengfeng met you back then?"
"Of course I remember. That year, you and the second wife of the Si family were kidnapped when you were riding in a carriage. Fortunately, you were smart and alert and escaped from the thieves. You just happened to meet me when I was returning to the capital." Feng Cailan looked at him leisurely and thought for a while before answering.
"That's right. Mother, Chengfeng discovered that the 'bandit leader' who kidnapped me back then is the leader of the assassins who attacked Qingcheng in the woods east of the city today."
"Are you serious?" Feng Cailan was also shocked when she heard this. She didn't expect such a coincidence to happen.
"Mother, where are those assassins now?"
"The twenty-eight survivors are still in the dungeon of the mansion. I have had them tortured and interrogated. As for the twenty-two assassins and their leader who died, they have been handed over to the Fengcheng government office for processing."
"Mother, back then, someone hired a killer disguised as a bandit to kidnap me, intending to humiliate me and then kill me. The person behind this must be related to Nangong Chen. And today, the assassin leader led people to assassinate Qingcheng, which must have been because someone hired them. I just don't know who is behind this?"
"When my father was young, he was traveling and was hunted by assassins from the Luosha Sect. It was at that time that he met Si Tianyu. It was because Si Tianyu bravely rescued him that my father fell in love with her. The irony is that I only found out later that this was all a show that Si Tianyu deliberately bribed the assassins to put on."
"According to my father's description, the assassins were dressed exactly like the assassins we encountered today in the eastern suburbs of the city. Although hiring assassins to kill Qingcheng may not be related to the Si family, they do know how to contact this assassin organization."
"Walk!"
Feng Cailan's eyes widened slightly when she heard that, and she immediately stood up from her seat.
"Mom, where are we going?"
"Dungeon."
…
"Great General!"
"Luo Bing, what's wrong?"
In the dungeon of the General's Mansion, Feng Cailan frowned slightly as she looked at a group of women in white tied to pillars. These people were the assassins who had assassinated Hua Qingcheng in the woods outside the east suburbs of the city today.
"Report to the general, this group of people are very stubborn. We have been interrogating them for more than three hours, but they still refuse to reveal a single word." The young general Luo Bing's face darkened slightly. He didn't expect to meet such a tough guy today.
"Killing is not enough. Death is not terrible. What is terrible is a life worse than death. You guys continue. I will go out first."
"Yes, General."
"Come on, Feng'er, let's go to Fengcheng Prefecture."
"Yes, mother."
When the carriage carrying Si Chengfeng and Feng Cailan arrived at the gate of Fengcheng Prefecture in the city, it was already the hour of the Rat.
Fengcheng Prefecture Governor Mo Xiaozhu oversaw the government affairs of the capital. Although her position wasn't as high as that of a general, she held considerable power. Upon hearing that the general was approaching, she immediately rose from the back hall, donned her official uniform and hat, and went out to greet him personally.
"I wonder why General Feng came here so late at night?"
"Master Mo, please make yourself at your own convenience. I have only come to view the bodies of the assassins that were delivered to the government office today. I suspect they were involved in a kidnapping nine years ago, so I have brought the victim here to identify them."
"I obey your command!"
Mo Yuzhu glanced at the handsome young man beside Feng Cailan and immediately understood. This young man must be General Feng's adopted son, and the victim she mentioned who had been kidnapped nine years ago.
Mo Youzhu quickly took Feng Cailan and Si Chengfeng to the place where the assassin's body was temporarily placed in the government office.
"Afeng, how is it? Is it her?"
When Mo Youzhu opened the white cloth covering the eighteenth corpse, Feng Cailan looked at the woman in white lying on the wooden board with a dark red patch on her chest, and asked Si Chengfeng who was standing beside her.
At this time, Die Fei's veil and the arrow in her chest had been removed, revealing a face with a cross-shaped scar on the right side of her face. Her eyebrows were thick, her face was ferocious, and the scar on her face made her look very fierce.
"It's her! It's really her!"
It was indeed the terrifying face he had seen countless times in his dreams. Si Chengfeng clenched his fists, his body trembling slightly with excitement. He had almost died at the hands of this woman back then, and he had never expected that after growing up, he would finally find the one he loved, only to be nearly killed by her again today.
"Sir Mo, this man is a vicious criminal. Please be sure to take good care of his body first." Feng Cailan said sternly.
"As you command."
…
It was already Yin time when Si Chengfeng and Feng Cailan returned to the dungeon of the General's Mansion.
"How's it going? Did you recruit?"
"General, we have used all kinds of torture on them. Eight of them could not bear it and have died. Thirteen have committed suicide by taking poison. The remaining seven still refuse to reveal a single word. In order to prevent them from biting the hidden poison pills and committing suicide, I have already removed their jaws." Luo Bing reported truthfully.
Feng Cailan also felt that the situation was a bit tricky after hearing this. The characters of these killers were really tough.
"Mother, maybe there is someone who can help..." Si Chengfeng said after a slight hesitation.
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