The two of them were startled by Ning Shu's words and subconsciously wanted to deny it, but they were interrupted by her outstretched hand.
"Your lives?"
In the dark woodshed, there was only the begonia lamp in Forsythia's hand. The warm orange light shone on Ning Shu's body. She was as beautiful as a fairy, but her eyes were like two balls of black mercury immersed in water. She could easily see through their hearts.
"No, Madam Yun has already ordered you to die. Since you're not afraid, it shouldn't be this. Then what is it? " As she spoke, she scrutinized their expressions and slowly shook her head, "Oh, it's the lives of your entire family."
When her voice fell, the two people who were like wooden puppets waiting for death revealed extremely panicked expressions.
It proved that she had guessed correctly.
With a plan in mind, Ning Shu continued, "Let me continue to guess. The first wave of people to interrogate you was from the Jingji government, so it was Lord Wei who warned you. If you dare to open your mouth, your entire family will die."
From the two people's terrified and suffocated expressions, she knew that she had guessed correctly again.
Ning Shu looked at them with pity, "You only know that you want to save your family's lives, but you don't know that sometimes, compared to death, living is more painful. Although I'm just a harem's daughter, I've heard of some punishments that are worse than death. I'll use one of them, burning, as an example.
In your impression, burning is nothing more than roasting a person to death. Although it hurts a little, as long as you don't implicate your family, you'll die. It's a clean death.
The new and improved version is many times more cruel. While roasting you on a fire, your family will watch from the side and smell the aroma of your roasted meat. Then, they will use a knife used to cut mutton, which must be extremely sharp, to cut off your roasted meat piece by piece and feed it to your family. As they eat, they will also have to listen to your screams. When they're full, we'll send them home safely. "
Her voice was neither arrogant nor impatient, neither fast nor slow. It was as pleasant as jade, but it made the two people drenched in sweat. They were more terrified than if their entire family had died.
"This kind of punishment, Imperial Censor Yun knows many times more details than I do. I asked you again today because I wanted to give you a chance, but it seems that I can't help you. " Ning Shu sighed regretfully and got up, unwilling to waste any more time on them. "Forsythia, let's go."
The warm orange light was withdrawn from the woodshed. An invisible knife for shaving mutton was set up behind the darkness, forcibly prying open the two tightly shut clamshells.
"Lady Ning, we've already told you! We said it! " The two of them, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't help but reveal everything. "Half a month ago, Young Master lost four hours!"
The embroidered shoes, which were about to step over the threshold, finally stopped. Ning Shu turned her head, and her eyes flashed. "Lost?"
"Actually … it's not that bad."
Ning Shu asked, "Where did it happen?"
"On a … pleasure boat in the Moon Seizing Lake …"
Moon Embracing Lake, pleasure boat.
These two words spun around in her heart and Ning Shu faintly had an impression. She slowly said, "Is it because of the new Lady Qiu who came to the Moon Seizing Lake a few months ago?"
Since they had already decided to speak, there was no need to hide it anymore. The two of them smacked their dry lips, looked at each other, and decided to talk about it later.
"Three months ago, a new Lady Qiu came to the pleasure boat in the Moon Seizing Lake in the west of the city. Her name was Niinu. It was rumoured that her voice was like pearls and jade, ethereal and pleasant to the ear. Anyone who heard it would be intoxicated, only feeling that the Sanskrit of the Immortal Realm was nothing more than this.
Moreover, that Lady Qiu had integrity, she only sold her skills and not her body. Other than that, she also had a peculiar point, which was that she always covered her face with a light veil. She once said that unless the heavenly power descended, she would only invite the other party to take off her veil. Otherwise, even if they had ten thousand taels of gold, they wouldn't be able to take half a step into her pleasure boat. Therefore, the scholars in the capital all supported her. Young Master's poetry club was even more so. Everyone wanted to board her pleasure boat, to prove that their literary talent was better than others. "
Although Ning Shu had never seen it, she had heard of it. It was said that Lady Qiu was in the limelight for a period of time. Even the number one star of the capital, Little Hong Yan, was suppressed by her, causing a lot of unhappiness.
On the side, Forsythia unhappily frowned when she heard this, "So, your family's Young Master went to see that Lady Qiu?"
Note 1: Lady Qiu, another name for female singers in the ancient times. In Bai Juyi's 《Pipa Song》, it was written that Lady Qiu was jealous of Lady Qiu.
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