The Buddhist chant pierced through the flames and reached outside, leaving the men in black visibly shaken.
One of them asked, "Are you really going to kill them all? These are all children and monks..."
The Buddhist chanting, tinged with pain, terrified him.
He was afraid of retribution.
Hearing the sound, Ye Zhen staggered and ran outside.
She saw the person being questioned and pulled off the mask from her face.
They are barbarian slaves!
There was no trace of foolishness left, only ruthlessness and viciousness.
She sneered, "Madam Hou and the Ye family were too careless, allowing Ye Zhen to hide so many people in the south."
If it weren't for the old lady and Master Fu's vigilance, these people might have caused trouble all the way to the capital, creating unnecessary complications.
As she spoke, she thrust her sword down forcefully, saying coldly, "Both the old lady and Master Fu have ordered that weeds be cut and the roots wiped out!"
Ye Zhen looked in the direction she was looking.
Eyes bulging with rage!
Lying on the ground were the four children that the host and Ah Li had risked their lives to give up.
Their bodies were dismembered, some with a single sword piercing their hearts.
They must have been killed in mid-air by people outside when they were being brought out, which is why no screams of the children could be heard inside the house.
They didn't die in the fire, but at the hands of the barbarians, without even a chance to speak.
Ye Zhen looked at the youngest child, who was only two or three years old. She must have been picked up by Yin Yue and the others after she left the manor. She was a very pretty girl, and her eyes, which had not yet closed, were full of fear.
"Ah!" Ye Zhen roared to the sky, his eyes filled with tears of blood.
"You beast! I'm going to kill you!"
She screamed with all her might, finally making a sound, and her body passed through the barbarians and the darkness, arriving at a house.
It was more accurately described as a torture chamber, where several disheveled people were tied to a wooden frame, with a charcoal brazier placed beside them.
Ye Wantang held a red-hot branding iron in her hand and pressed it against one of the men's mouths with a ferocious expression.
The flesh sizzled from the heat, but the other person didn't let out a scream. Instead, he looked up and glared fiercely at Ye Wantang.
When Ye Zhen saw the other person's face clearly, she was so shocked that she fell to the ground.
It's Drinking the Moon!
It's her Yinyue!
“Every year, the village sent messages to the capital saying that Ye Zhen was timid and cowardly, and was tightly controlled by the village head.”
Now that she has broken her vows and been sent by the Marquis's mansion to repent, she has managed to attract the help of people like you.
It's clear that all these years, her so-called honesty and taciturn nature has been a lie; she and the village head have been deceiving us all along.
Since you refuse to reveal what happened to her in the south, there's no need to keep your mouth shut.
She laughed wildly, pointing at the others, "If you hadn't spoken up, you would have ended up like her."
No one revealed a single word.
Anger flared between her brows as she snatched a sword from a guard and lashed out at Yinyue in a fit of rage.
Ye Zhen tried to stop her, but to no avail. Helpless and desperate, she shielded Yin Yue, but felt Yin Yue's pain even more clearly.
All he could do was repeat to Yin Yue and the others, "Tell her everything she wants to know. Tell her to live first, Yin Yue, please, tell her to live..."
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