From the moment he saw the man in black until now, he hadn't said much, but every word he uttered shocked Jiang Mingwei.
I first met her, and now we say we haven't seen each other for many years.
She squinted and looked the man up and down, thinking and thinking, but still couldn't figure out where she had met him before, or what kind of connection they had.
Even if something had happened between the original owner and him, and she inherited the original owner's memories after transmigrating, she still gained nothing...
"Noisy? You're standing here outside the prison, you're the butcher and I'm the fish on the chopping block. Don't you find it ridiculous that you call me noisy?"
"If you have the guts, let me go! Who are you? Stop playing tricks. If you don't let me go, they definitely won't let you off the hook!"
Jiang Mingwei rebuked her without any politeness.
Upon hearing her speak, the lame woman's face grew even more panicked.
"Master, I'm so sorry, I didn't expect this woman to be so bold. I'll pull out her tongue right now!"
After saying that, she got up and was about to step forward to open the cell door when Jiang Mingwei instinctively stepped back.
The man raised his hand to stop the lame woman, and then looked at Jiang Mingwei meaningfully, scrutinizing her from head to toe.
"No need. After so many years, her current fierce and unruly demeanor is quite amusing, far more endearing than her previous delicate and affected manner."
The lame woman looked strange; she hadn't expected her master to actually know this woman.
Should we kill that woman or not?
He used to be pretentious, but now he's all bared his teeth and claws. The two of them have known each other for many years but haven't seen each other. There must be some connection between him and the original owner of this body!
Jiang Mingwei is, after all, a high-achieving student, and logical reasoning is not difficult for her.
Putting all the clues together and looking at the handsome man in front of her, she had a sudden flash of inspiration.
"You're Wei Zhi? You're Wei Zhi, aren't you!"
The more she looked at the man's features, the more identical he appeared to Wei Zhi in the original owner's memories.
Even though the two had only met on their wedding night and their memories were already hazy, he seemed to look exactly like this now.
Unlike Wei Jing's coldness and aloofness, she always had a faint smile on her face, exuding a noble temperament that made people feel like they were bathed in a spring breeze.
He doesn't seem like a young general leading troops into battle; he's more like a refined and elegant scholar!
"Wei Zhi? How do you know I am him, and why do you think I am him? Give me a reason."
The man in black chuckled softly, his gaze toward Jiang Mingwei growing increasingly interested.
"Why should I give you a reason? If you take off your hood and mask, I'll know who you are! This is just my guess, but I don't have much contact with men anyway, so who else could it be but you?"
"Release me immediately! Since you're not dead, why don't you go back to the Wei family? Why make me bear the stigma of being a widow? And what about Lu Yun and your son? Don't you really care at all?!"
Jiang Mingwei scolded him angrily, but the man in black chuckled softly.
"What does it have to do with me?"
"Master, this woman is really rude. I think we should just pull out her tongue!"
Seeing the two arguing more and more fiercely, the lame woman looked frightened and pleaded again.
The man's smiling face suddenly darkened, but with a flick of his sleeve, a gust of wind carrying internal force pushed towards the lame woman.
She crashed into the opposite wall and couldn't get up for a long time...
"How annoying! When have you ever had the right to tell me what to do? I said I won't use it, and that's final! How can an incomplete woman be used to make incense, let alone make it more effective? Don't ruin the king's grand plan!"
The lame woman coughed up blood, lowered her eyes, and dared not utter another word.
Jiang Mingwei was struck dumb, almost frozen in place.
What is this "Dharani Incense"? What is this about using a complete woman to make it? She can understand all of these things, so why does it sound so obscure and difficult to understand when combined with other ingredients?
But just now, she had already guessed the identity of the lame woman—she was from the spice shop!
The faint fragrance on her body was exactly the same as the one she smelled in the store.
The spice merchant must have been the one who kidnapped her here!
"What are you talking about? I don't understand a word you're saying!"
Jiang Mingwei asked herself a question, and the man in black looked at her again.
With a smile playing on her lips, she explained in a low voice, "Didn't you notice the fragrance on you?"
Jiang Mingwei was taken aback and subconsciously sniffed her sleeve. There was indeed a fragrance on it, the kind she had wanted to buy before, but which was out of stock.
Could this be the incense they're talking about?
"The spice you wear comes from the northern border. It helps people forget their pain and find joy. Since it was introduced to Bianjing, it has circulated among high-ranking officials and nobles, making them feel like they are in heaven. The daily demand is quite large!"
"However, few people know that the making of this Dharani Incense requires a woman's blood and essence!"
The man in black smiled cruelly, ignoring the fear and unease on Jiang Mingwei's face.
He spoke each word ruthlessly.
"The woman needs to be turned upside down, her neck cut open, and her blood dripped out until she died. Then her blood can be used to make incense, which can continue to be enjoyed by the high-ranking officials and nobles in Bianjing. After enjoying it for a long time, they will become addicted and will never be able to live without it!"
"But they don't know how this Dharani incense is made; they can only buy it. And the recipe for this incense is in the Northern Frontier. Therefore, if they want to obtain Dharani incense, there is only one way to do it—"
He didn't explain himself very clearly, but Jiang Mingwei already understood.
With disbelief on his face, he muttered to himself.
"You're using this spice to control them, making them addicted and unable to escape, and then threatening them to submit to the Northern Frontier and betray Southern Jing. In this way, you can control Southern Jing from the court and achieve the goal of winning without bloodshed!"
Upon hearing this, the man in black burst into laughter, nodding repeatedly and exclaiming that Jiang Mingwei was right.
"That's right, you are indeed quite clever, worthy of being a woman of the Jiang family! But what good is knowing? You are already a trapped beast, unable to escape, and no one will come to save you in the future."
"I will not use you to make incense, as a last bit of affection between us. But now that you know these things, you should understand that I will not let you leave alive!"
“I will give you a complete corpse and then send you back to Wei Jing so that he can understand who his enemy is now.”
After saying that, the man turned and left with a cold laugh.
The cloak fluttered, stirring up a gust of cold wind.
Jiang Mingwei snapped out of her daze, looked at his departing figure, and immediately shouted loudly.
"You're Wei Zhi, aren't you? You're him! I never imagined you were such a treacherous and shameless person. You traitor, stop right there!"
No one paid her any attention; the man in black left, leaving only the limping woman staring at her with a gloomy gaze…
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