Seeing this, Yi Rui could only give up angrily. She turned to look at Zhou Yaoniang and said softly: "Yao Niang, do you feel better? Does your foot still hurt?"
After hearing this, Zhou Yaoniang immediately smiled and said, "I'm fine. Yi Rui was really grateful to you just now."
Hearing Zhou Yaoniang's thanks, Yi Rui couldn't help but have a bright smile on her face. She liked the feeling of being needed by Zhou Yaoniang.
At this time, Zhao Lang had also begun to interrogate the prisoner. He asked calmly: "Who sent you here? Why are you chasing Zhou Yaoniang?"
Although the prisoner could not speak, his eyes already gave the answer. He looked at Zhao Lang with fear and resentment in his eyes.
When Zhao Lang saw this, he immediately sneered and said, "It seems you won't speak easily. Then don't blame me for being cruel."
After saying that, Zhao Lang turned to Yi Rui and said, "Yi Rui, use your illusion to give this kid a little shock."
Yi Rui was very excited when she heard Zhao Lang's words. She has always treated her enemies as cruelly as the autumn wind sweeps away fallen leaves. She likes to see her enemies' psychological collapse caused by the torture of her illusions, but there is no physical scar at all.
Yi Rui approached the prisoner with a smile. The prisoner looked at Yi Rui's smile and felt dazzled.
At the same time, he also looked down on women from the bottom of his heart. After all, the women he had come into contact with were all weak and weak women who could not take care of themselves. So in his mind, how cruel could a woman be, no matter how cruel he thought she was?
Even if this woman cracked the whip, it would probably only be like scratching an itch.
Yi Rui smiled and took out a colorful piece of jade and shook it gently in front of the other party. The prisoner didn't know Yi Rui's purpose. When he stared at the jade, he started to feel confused.
And Yi Rui also said softly after that, "Tell me what's your name?"
Facing Yi Rui's question, the man whispered, "Chen Ke."
"Okay, Chen Ke, tell me obediently, why are you chasing Zhou Yaoniang?"
However, when faced with Yi Rui's question, the man suddenly stopped talking.
Seeing the man's appearance, Yi Rui sneered, "I didn't expect you to be a tough talker. Well, it seems you won't tell the truth without suffering some pain."
After the words fell, Yi Rui asked in a low voice, "Tell me what you are most afraid of."
This time the man finally spoke. Although his words were vague, Yi Rui still heard him clearly.
She shook the beautiful jade in her hand and said, "Since you are afraid of these, then I will make you more desperate."
As soon as the words fell, the prisoner instantly fell into a nightmare that tortured his flesh to the extreme.
The dream was so bizarre that he didn't understand how a person could survive being stabbed for more than three hundred times and still breathe. He couldn't even imagine what it felt like to have mercury injected into the skin.
In that dream, it seemed that he had only tried all the punishments once, and having just died once, he saw that he was about to enter a new execution ground, with his hands and feet tied to the hooves of a mad cow.
Seeing that the mad cow was about to tear him apart, he was immediately frightened and screamed and broke into cold sweat.
"No! Don't kill me!"
Screams rang out, and at the same time, everything in the nightmare disappeared like smoke.
He looked up and saw Yi Rui's bright smiling face. Everything that happened just now seemed to be just a dream, but the torture inflicted on his body in the dream only left a faint phantom pain in his limbs, and he couldn't even feel himself. body of.
Yi Rui saw this and sneered: "It seems you are still not strong enough. Now can you tell me who sent you and why you are chasing Zhou Yaoniang? I can let you die quickly."
After hearing Yi Rui's words, the prisoner had a psychological breakdown. He stared at Yi Rui and struggled to utter a few words: "You are a devil."
Hearing this, Yi Rui smiled even more happily. She knew that this interrogation had already severely damaged the other party's spirit. She continued: "I am not a devil, I am just an ordinary person who pursues a simple world. You have offended people you shouldn't offend, and this is your retribution."
The prisoner was now completely broken. It happened that Zhao Lang also came over at this time. Although he had just seen with his own eyes how Zhao Lang killed his brother with one knife and how he captured himself, compared with that woman, Zhao Lang was simply an angel at the moment. .
Because of this, the man suddenly shouted: "Master, I will tell you everything! Please don't let that woman torture me anymore!"
Zhao Lang saw that this man had completely broken through his defenses, and he still admired Yi Rui's methods. However, facing the prisoner, he still said calmly: "Now you know how to beg for mercy? What have you been doing? Tell me, who sent you here? of?"
The prisoner immediately said in a trembling voice: "Yes... our gang leader sent us to kill them. The gang leader said that the girl in purple knows too many secrets and cannot keep them. The girl in yellow must also be eliminated."
Zhao Lang and Yi Rui were both stunned. Gang leader? Who is this gang leader? Do the two women from the boudoir, Zijuan and Zhou Yaoniang, have any interaction with the gang leader?
Thinking of this, Zhao Lang asked, "What is the name of your gang leader?"
The prisoner just wanted to die early and be reborn, so when Zhao Lang pressed him with questions, he almost always answered them.
"Let's help the master call Guangchucheng!"
Zhao Lang was confused when he heard the name Fanchucheng, and Yi Rui was naturally even more confused.
Zhao Lang couldn't help but turn around and look at Zhou Yaoniang and Zijuan. He thought that since this person was determined to kill the two of them, they must have a grudge against him, and the grudge was so deep that they couldn't possibly not know about their own. Enemies.
Thinking of this, Zhao Lang couldn't help but ask Zijuan and Zhou Yaoniang, "Which one of you knows the scope?"
Not wanting to face Zhao Lang's questions, Zhou Yaoniang and Zi Juan acted even more confused than Zhao Lang.
Zhou Yaoniang said directly, "I don't know what kind of person it is. How can I, a woman from a boudoir, know other men besides my servants and husbands?"
On the other hand, Zijuan, who was trying to recall to no avail, just shook her head and said, "I don't know anyone in the Zhou family, and there is no servant named Fan in the Zhou family."
Zhao Lang and Yi Rui were both disappointed when they heard their answers.
But at this moment, Zijuan only said, "Although I don't know these people, their methods are very similar to those who attacked me before."
"Attacked you? Who attacked you?" As Zhao Lang and Yi Rui had recently returned to the capital, they naturally did not know the love and hatred involved.
Naturally, Zijuan only told Zhao Lang and Yi Rui about the previous attack at the inn. Finally, Zijuan said, "I don't know who attacked us? They said before that it was a man named Fang Dali." But according to the recent investigation by Mr. Lu, the butcher seems to be innocent, and I can serve as a witness, so I think this matter may be related to the last case."
Hearing this, Zhou Yaoniang immediately stood up excitedly and said, "It's related to the last case. Should we also report this matter to Mr. Lu? Maybe we can help him solve the case as soon as possible! Mr. Lu If we solve the case as soon as possible, we can become safer as soon as possible."
Seeing that Zhou Yaoniang said this, and Zhao Lang and Yi Rui also had other things to deal with, they naturally had no objection to Zhou Yaoniang's proposal.
However, there are only two things they have to do right now. One is to escort Zhou Yaoniang and Zijuan back to Shangjing safely, and the second thing is that they must hand over the guy who is chasing Zhou Yaoniang to Lu Zhizhang. .
As soon as they thought of it, they decided to do it. At this moment, they wanted to send Zhou Yaoniang back to the capital. In fact, this matter was quite simple. After all, the distance from here to the capital was not that far.
As for handing over the prisoner to Lu Zhizhang, that would be even simpler. They only need to send him to Dali Temple and the matter would be settled.
However, Zhou Yaoniang's carriage broke down in the middle of the road, and it was impossible for them to get back. At this moment, they only had two horses together.
If there were no other issues between men and women, he and Yi Rui could actually take one person home on horseback.
But he is a man after all. If he takes one of them back in the capital in a swaggering way, he will have nothing to do, but wouldn't this ruin the reputation of one of them?
Zhao Lang was in a dilemma, Yi Rui just said to Zhao Lang, "What are you thinking about? Let's go back quickly?"
Hearing Yi Rui's words, Zhao Lang looked at Zhou Yaoniang and Zi Juan beside him, then lowered his voice and hinted to Yi Rui, "We only have two horses."
Yi Rui nodded with a puzzled look on her face, "Yes, just two horses. What's wrong with the two horses? Can't we carry them back?"
When Zhao Lang saw Yi Rui's answer, he knew that she did not understand what he meant, and the men and women in the Voodoo tribe did not have any rules. Thinking of this, Zhao Lang could only tell Yi Rui his concerns in full. .
"In our Yong Dynasty, men and women cannot sit together at the age of three. One of them is a former official lady and the other is an unmarried woman. If I take any of them back, it will be tantamount to ruining their reputation."
Hearing Zhao Lang's words, Yi Rui suddenly realized, "So you are worried about this. This is not easy to handle. You can give your horse to their master and servant to ride together, and I will give you a ride back."
After hearing Yi Rui's answer, Zhao Lang whispered, "Many of the women in our Yong Dynasty are not good at riding horses and shooting arrows. This is not something a lady would do."
Upon hearing this, Yi Rui was obviously in disbelief. "If you are not good at riding a horse, what will you do if the enemy comes? Isn't it better to just sit back and wait for death and be captured without mercy?"
Hearing this, Zhao Lang only said, "Our Dayong is very safe, and the women in Dayong are protected like iron barrels by our Dayong men. They will not be in danger. Even if there is danger, we will escort them to the place first." A safe rear, and then we go into battle to fight the enemy."
Zhao Lang was very proud of his masculinity.
However, Yi Rui, who heard Zhao Lang's words, clearly disagreed with Zhao Lang's words. She said, "That's not the reason why women don't learn to ride and shoot. Although your Central Plains dynasty has a vast territory, many people, and strong soldiers and horses, through the ages, There will always be times when the military strength is weak and the world is in chaos and strife.”
