A mass grave
His black eyes stared at Ji Yunshu for a long time without saying anything.
Ji Yunshu tilted her head, "Hmm … Fine, it's fine if you don't want to tell me. I don't want to force you to tell me. Just pretend that I didn't say anything and pretend that you didn't hear anything. If you still want to die, then you'd better be quick. Although I won't stop you, you have to be quick. Otherwise, when the people outside come in, I'm afraid that your acupuncture points will be sealed again. If that happens, and you get itchy, the feeling of not being able to scratch it will be worse than being stabbed."
Yes, that feeling, she had experienced it before!
It was simply too ruthless.
The man furrowed his brows, a hint of surprise in his cold eyes.
She thought to herself, this person's tone and manner of speaking are really strange.
Logically speaking, shouldn't they hold a knife to his neck and interrogate him? Shouldn't they be trying their best to prevent him from committing suicide and then torturing him to a state worse than death? In other words, he was sparing his life so that his companions who came to rescue him would walk into the trap! But why did this person ask a bunch of questions, say a bunch of things, go around in circles, and in the end, say things like "pretend I didn't say anything", "you didn't listen", and even encourage him to commit suicide? Moreover, he had to move fast!
What a strange person!
In order to express the sincerity of her words, she really turned her back to him.
"I'll help you watch the door. Be quick, but … don't let the blood get on my clothes. I'm just a poor scholar. I only have one or two decent clothes. If they get dirty and can't be washed off, I'll have to buy new clothes. You know, a poor person like me naturally doesn't have much money at hand. Every day, I only have salted vegetables and radishes for a meal. Besides, I …"
She intended to continue her long speech!
However, he was interrupted by the person behind him.
"It's an order!"
The atmosphere suddenly quieted down. At that moment, Ji Yunshu also stopped talking. After a while, her crimson lips curved into a smile.
He smiled in satisfaction.
Surprisingly, she had used the trick of "playing hard to get."
She turned around and looked at the person on the bed. She put away her previous indifferent expression and put on a serious expression.
"Under orders to kill a prince?"
Heh!
The man smiled. His pale face twisted together, and his gloomy eyes were suffused with monstrous killing intent and ruthlessness.
"Then His Highness deserves to die."
"Why should I die?"
"If he deserves to die, he deserves to die. I advise you not to get too close to him."
"Why?"
"In case in the future …"
"What about the future?"
The series of questions made the man speechless. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into a trap and said something he shouldn't have, so he immediately changed his words. "Anyway, I've already been captured by you. I'm going to die anyway. You can find out what you want to know."
Ji Yunshu couldn't help but laugh. "You're really stubborn."
"Stubbornness is nothing to someone who isn't even afraid of death."
"That's true."
The man said nothing.
Ji Yunshu suddenly thought of something. "Hey, if you really want to die, why don't you help me test a dose of medicine?"
Huh?
She took out a small bottle and turned it in her hand. Then, she threw it on the bloodstained sheets. "This is a dose of poison I developed. I don't know if it will work. Since you want to die anyway, why don't you do me a favor before you die? Help me test whether this medicine works or not. If it works, your death will be worth it. Next year, I'll burn joss paper for you. But if it doesn't work, you can find another way to die.
Death, coming from her mouth, was like playing house.
Easy and relaxed!
The man asked, "Poison?"
"You don't dare?"
"I dare!" The man took the bottle, looked at Ji Yunshu, and laughed. He immediately uncorked the bottle and drank the poison in one gulp.
Not a single drop was left.
The medicine took effect quickly. In a few seconds, the man spat out a mouthful of blood. The already bloodstained sheets were now even more ghastly. He clutched his chest and fell to the side. He powerlessly raised his eyes to look at Ji Yunshu, who was standing by the bed.
"To be able to die in your hands, I have no complaints, and I have no regrets!"
When he finished speaking, his eyes widened and he couldn't catch his breath.
Dead!
His body tilted and rolled to the ground.
"Bang!"
Hearing the loud noise, Jing Rong immediately rushed in.
When he saw the scene in front of him, his eyes narrowed. He went forward to check the man's breathing. He was indeed dead.
"What happened?"
"He wanted to die, so I fulfilled his wish." His tone was filled with good intentions.
Jing Rong was speechless.
Mo Ruo followed him in. When he saw the man lying on the ground with his mouth full of blood, he went forward to check his pulse. After confirming that he was really dead, he felt pity!
His eyebrows were knitted together.
"I wasted a whole night to save a person. With great difficulty, I managed to save his life, but he died just like that." He gritted his teeth and said ruthlessly, "In the future, I won't casually save people. My reputation as a divine doctor will be ruined."
He fiercely waved his wide sleeves and stepped out of the door.
Jing Rong called two guards and ordered, "Throw him to the mass grave. Let the wild dogs eat him."
After the man was dragged away, Ji Yunshu put away her leisurely expression.
She tilted her head and asked Jing Rong with a grave expression, "Was it really poison?"
Jing Rong smiled, "Although Mo Ruo's medicine is always strange, if he says it's not poisonous, then it must be poisonous."
"What do you plan to do next?"
"Wait. Wait for that kid to come back to life in the mass grave."
… …
Late at night.
At the foot of the mountain on the west side of Yufu County, the muddy, winding road was overgrown with weeds. Gusts of cold wind blew from the ravine, causing the surrounding trees and weeds to rustle. That sound extended all the way to a pothole behind the mountain. It was a huge pit that had been dug by someone. From afar, it did not look strange, but upon closer inspection, it made one's hair stand on end.
In the pit, rotting corpses were piled up one after another.
Some had already decomposed into a pile of bones!
Some were dripping with blood!
Some were covered with maggots!
Some …
It was as if they had been stirred in a giant blender. It was extremely disgusting.
Most of these corpses were people who had starved to death and nameless people who no one claimed. Because they didn't have the money to bury them, or because they were too lazy to dig up the soil to erect a tombstone, they were directly thrown into this mass grave.
The person who was ordered to be thrown into the mass grave by Jing Rong was awakened by the stench of rotting corpses.
Before he could open his eyes, he choked and coughed, spitting out all the poison he had drunk. His pale face turned red.
When he saw where he was, his eyes were filled with shock. When he looked down, he saw a female corpse with a festering face and gouged eyes lying on top of him.
"Ugh!"
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