"So you have to help me get my things back quickly! Let's leave here together, otherwise if we're too slow, Prince Shun's men will catch up, and they don't care who you were before!"
At this point, Yuan Fangqin seemed to be caught up in a terrible memory!
My whole body was trembling!
"Those people are a bunch of animals!"
"No one will be left alive after you leave your mark. And if you are killed with a single blow, that's fine, but otherwise you will face endless torture!"
"Any woman would be taken turns being played with by them until she breathed her last!"
"They don't care if you're a child or an old woman; you'll be raped to death!"
"What they especially enjoy is making those men watch helplessly as their wives, daughters, and mothers are brutally violated and killed!"
"Wherever they go, it becomes a living hell!"
Lin Ru frowned as she listened. Since ancient times, women have always been among the spoils of war in battles between two armies!
Women are treated like objects, causing people to fight over them!
It's disgusting to even think about!
Now that she had obtained the information she needed, Yuan Fangqin was no longer of any use. She stepped forward, took out a dagger from her waist, and slit her throat in one swift motion!
Blood splattered into her eyes, making her a little annoyed. She took out a handkerchief from her bosom and wiped her eyes.
Yuan Fangqin thought about herself and realized that she had ended up with this result!
At this moment, she finally began to suspect the relationship between Lin Ru and those people. Perhaps the people above were not bandits at all, but rather the little girl's men, who were only after her food and money!
How else can you explain it? In this remote place, far from any village or shop, this little girl suddenly appeared in the woods nearby, as if she had been waiting for her there!
So that's why they wanted to get information out of her!
She clutched her bleeding neck and mumbled indistinctly, "You..."
"You vicious woman!"
"I……"
"I won't let you get away with this either!"
"Prince Shun will be here soon... and you won't live much longer either..."
After saying these words, she collapsed to the ground, convulsed a few more times, and then stopped breathing!
As Lin Ru listened, her hatred level increased by 30,000, and she slowly wiped the blood off her body bit by bit!
She was somewhat troubled. Ever since the last full upgrade, the system had been reporting an increase in hatred points, but even with all that accumulated, she still hadn't reached the standard for redemption!
She even suspected that the system might have pocketed all that hatred points!
Or is there a malfunction in the system?
This lousy system doesn't even have clearly marked prices; it's really frustrating!
She was in the middle of complaining about the system when she suddenly saw the wooden box that Yuan Fangqin was holding tightly in her arms even in death!
She crouched down and carefully pried open the woman's fingers, taking the box from her arms and weighing it in her hand. She was surprised to find that the box was quite heavy!
And there was even a lock on the box!
Lin Ru took the dagger and slashed hard at the lock, breaking it completely!
When the box was opened, there were thirty gold ingots, fifty or sixty gold leaves, and some jade and jewelry that looked very valuable. Below that were some silver notes and land deeds!
Those gold ingots, each one probably weighs about a pound!
In ancient times, one jin was equal to sixteen liang!
Add those gold leaves too!
There are probably more than 500 taels of gold!
If all these silver notes are added together, they amount to 40,000 taels!
The most valuable things here are those few pieces of lustrous and translucent jade!
Lin Ru carefully inventoried the contents and was shocked by the wealth of Magistrate Yu! This was just a small box, although it might be the most valuable one inside!
But this is definitely not something that a mere county magistrate's salary could achieve!
It's obvious they've plundered so much of the people's wealth!
Moreover, Yuan Fangqin, with her thin arms and legs, would pant after just a few steps, yet she could carry this 30-pound box and run incredibly fast!
That's quite admirable! Human potential is truly limitless, especially when it comes to money!
With war raging everywhere, these silver notes and land deeds are useless. I don't know if they'll be useful in the next city, so I'd better put them in my spatial storage!
After she put all the items, including the box, into her spatial storage, she quickly walked back!
She had just stepped outside when she saw Ji Wenxuan leading a group of people to look for her!
"Miss Lin, are you alright? What about that woman? Is she dead?"
Did you find out anything?
Lin Ru was surprised that these people resolved the issue so quickly!
"You guys finished so quickly? I killed that woman!"
"I did get some useful information out of you, I'll tell you when we get back!"
Ji Wenxuan nodded!
"Those people are just a rabble, but there are a few skilled fighters among them who are currently engaged in combat with the rest of the brothers!"
"I was worried something might have happened to you here, so I thought I'd come and check on you. Is there anything I can do to help you?"
After he finished speaking, he looked back in great surprise. He remembered that when the woman ran away, she seemed to be carrying a box in her hand. Why didn't he see Lin Ru bring the box back?
"Brother Ji, what are you looking for?"
"Has anyone else come in here?"
"Or did you lose something?"
Ji Wenxuan: "Oh, when that woman entered this forest, she was carrying a box. It seemed like the box was quite important to her, and she was going back to get it. But when you came out, I noticed you weren't carrying the box either!"
"I'm a little curious if she's hiding somewhere?"
"Didn't you see it when you killed her?"
Lin Ru shook her head innocently!
"No, what box? I only saw her alone!"
"Did she hide the box because it was too heavy during her escape, intending to avoid this crisis and come back to find it later?"
"You can take some people and look around here. I'll go back and check on them!"
"Let's see if there's anything we can do to help?"
Ji Wenxuan was curious to know what was inside the box. After all, the woman hadn't even taken her son's body with her, so one could imagine how valuable the contents were!
"Alright! You can go back now. I'm really curious about what's in her suitcase. She didn't even take her son's body with her because of that suitcase!"
Lin Ru thought this was quite normal. Yuan Fangqin wasn't the kind of woman who was indecisive. Her son was dead, so what was the use of carrying the body? It would be more practical to take the money!
She thought about what was inside the small box and was somewhat curious about what was inside the larger boxes!
If it's filled with gold and silver, then she'll secretly take a portion of it into her space and use it as money for them to buy poison!
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