Chapter 163 Water Drops Wear Away Stone
"Father, I've brought back the tea cakes you requested."
As Qin Jinzhi and Cui Cheng confronted each other, Cui Ying knocked on the door of the side room.
Qin Jinzhi's smile was both eccentric and strange.
She leaned back, sitting crookedly in the chair, looking at him.
Cui Ying pushed open the door and walked in.
Although Qin Jinzhi was smiling, Cui Ying still sensed the tense atmosphere.
Qin Jinzhi, like a big bad wolf wanting to eat a rabbit, smiled and pushed the cup of tea in front of Cui Ying.
"You must be thirsty after all that traveling. Have a cup of tea."
Cui Ying nodded, "I'm thirsty."
As she was speaking, she reached for a teacup, but Prime Minister Cui shouted, "A-Ying!"
Cui Ying was startled. "What's wrong, Dad?"
Prime Minister Cui stared intently at Qin Jinzhi.
She's a complete madwoman!
He had no doubt that what Qin Jinzhi said was true.
Prime Minister Cui looked at Qin Jinzhi and asked, "Princess, why are there no guards with you when you come out to see me?"
Qin Jinzhi laughed arrogantly. Prime Minister Cui was only threatening her; he could kill her right now?
She raised her finger, gave a whistle, and seventeen figures instantly poured into the window.
"Does Prime Minister Cui consider the Dragon Feather Guards left to me by my father to be safe enough?"
Prime Minister Cui frowned deeply. "Didn't the Dragon Feather Guards already die in battle alongside the Crown Prince?"
Qin Jinzhi shrugged. "Not all of them died; the rest are all here."
The Dragon Feather Guards are secret guards capable of taking on a hundred men single-handedly.
The guards he brought were no match for the Dragon Feather Guards!
Cui Ying asked timidly, "Father, you haven't told me what you want me to do yet?"
As Prime Minister Cui watched Qin Jinzhi's increasingly excited gaze, bloodshot veins appeared in his eyes.
"Drink slowly, the tea is hot."
Cui Ying nodded.
Qin Jinzhi burst into laughter, "Hahahahahahahahahaha!"
She stood up and slapped the teacup out of Cui Ying's hand.
"This tea will not taste good once it gets cold. I have wine in my house, and I would like to invite you to drink with me today."
Cui Ying pouted and nodded.
However, Prime Minister Cui did not notice the sadness in Cui Ying's eyes.
Qin Jinzhi said defiantly, "Your daughter belongs to me."
After saying that, he laughed and left the private room with Cui Ying.
Prime Minister Cui also breathed a sigh of relief and slumped into his chair.
After a while, his expression suddenly changed!
"That wolf cub is indeed very cunning!"
No wonder she suddenly asked to play some game; Cui Ying must have been at the door just now, and she deliberately let Cui Ying overhear their conversation.
Cui Ying knew clearly that he was her father, and that he had abandoned her!
He really underestimated this wolf cub!
It doesn't matter, as long as Qin Jinzhi is dead, Cui Ying will return to the Cui family.
He will make it up to her then!
Cui Ying followed Qin Jinzhi into the carriage of the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion.
Lower all the carriage curtains.
"Can't people outside the car really hear what's going on inside?"
Qin Jinzhi nodded, puzzled. "Of course."
Cui Ying sat down to one side and suddenly started wailing!
"ah!!!!!!!"
Qin Jinzhi covered her ears with her hands, "Why are you crying!"
Cui Ying pointed at Qin Jinzhi and cried, "You bad guy! You big bad guy! You knew I was at the door, you deliberately let me hear you! Ah!!!!!!!!!"
Qin Jinzhi raised an eyebrow. "Why don't you say your father is a bad guy? He's the one who made you drink it."
Cui Ying cried even louder after hearing this.
She knew that no matter how much her father said he loved her, it was all for naught.
In her father's heart, she could never compare to her second brother.
No one could get over hearing their own father abandon them.
Qin Jinzhi poured her a cup of tea.
Cui Ying pointed at the tea, then at Qin Jinzhi, and cried even louder!
Qin Jinzhi sniffed and finished her tea.
She took Cui Ying back to the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion. Cui Ying asked for a room, locked herself in the room, and refused to come out.
Qin Jinzhi didn't let anyone disturb her. She returned to her room and took out the token that Lang Mingyue had given her.
This token must be very important to Xiao Yin, otherwise he wouldn't have hidden it.
But what is this token for?
Access token?
Identity token?
Qin Jinzhi suddenly stood up, calling out, "Lark! Lark!"
Lark walked in from outside the door.
Qin Jinzhi asked, "Are the assassins who tried to kill me brought back alive and locked up in the dungeon?"
The lark nodded.
Qin Jinzhi got up and went straight to the dungeon.
All the assassins here had their jaws removed.
Everything hidden in the teeth has been removed.
No one spoke.
Qin Jinzhi pointed to one of the assassins who seemed to have the toughest temper.
"Tie him to this stool."
The guards blindfolded the assassin.
The assassin had assumed it was some kind of severe punishment.
But all I felt was a drop of water dripping onto my forehead.
A few drops followed after a short while.
Qin Jinzhi said, "This is called the Water Drop Torture. The process is not painful at all, but your scalp will be soaked in water for a long time. After a month or two, your hair will fall out and your scalp will rot. The water droplets will drip a hole in your skull. You will stay awake and listen to the sound of the water droplets hitting your skull. Then, slowly, slowly, you will feel your death. This is called Water Drops Wear Away Stone."
The most important aspect of this punishment is that it will break people's spirits.
Qin Jinzhi ignored his response and instead took out the token, waving it in front of the other assassins. "I will only listen to one person tell me what this token is for. Three days later, everyone else will suffer the same fate as him."
Qin Jinzhi left with the token.
That evening, the carriage from the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion stopped again at the back gate of the Cui residence.
However, Choi Tzu-yu came out a little late this time.
The redness and swelling on her face had not yet subsided.
Qin Jinzhi burst into laughter after reading it, "This Prime Minister Cui looks so gentle and refined, how could he possibly resort to violence?"
Cui Ziyu answered truthfully: "My elder brother discovered that I had given Fusheng a false letter, which led to Fusheng's death, so he took action against me."
Qin Jinzhi smiled even more broadly, "Prime Minister Cui is so humane in his own residence? That's truly rare."
Looking at Qin Jinzhi, Cui Ziyu thought of what his brother had said that afternoon.
"How could you be so foolish! You abandoned me for a woman! Fusheng even lost his life because of it! He was our friend of decades!"
Cui Ziyu didn't care about the slap on her face. "I owe Miaoyin a lot, and I don't want anything to happen to her."
Prime Minister Cui simply couldn't believe it.
"Ziyu! What kind of love potion did that woman give you?!"
You are the backbone of my Cui clan, yet you have acted so absurdly for the sake of a woman!
And then there's Qin Jinzhi, who can be used as a blackmailer even by her own mother. You're asking a tiger for its skin!
She's a madwoman! A beast that would kill us all!
Cui Ziyu let Prime Minister Cui pull him along, "Brother, I have been in love with Miaoyin since I was sixteen. I agreed to such an absurd thing back then only because I loved her too much. I will never let anything happen to her. Qin Jinzhi, our Cui family ruined her family and caused her death. Even if she wants revenge, it is only right and proper."
Prime Minister Cui could hardly believe that these words came from his own brother.
"Get out of here!"
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