“Lord, I beg you, spare me!”
“Wuwuwu…”
Lin Mengzhi pleaded with him desperately.
“Speak, tell me everything you know, or Lin Feng will use a branding iron on you,” Ming Jiu Xiao threatened her.
Seeing the branding iron in Lin Feng’s hand getting closer, Lin Mengzhi panicked again. The burn she had just endured had made her feel as though she was dying, and if Lin Feng were to burn her again, she might faint immediately.
“I’ll tell you, but I don’t know if this method can remove the tracking蛊 from your body,” Lin Mengzhi said with difficulty.
“What method?”
Ming Jiu Xiao asked, looking at her.
“Find the location of the蛊 worm on your body, and then have someone perform surgery to remove it. However, no one has ever done this method from ancient times to the present, and I don’t know if it will work,” Lin Mengzhi revealed her plan.
“You’re not even sure if this method will work, so why are you telling me about it?” Ming Jiu Xiao said coldly.
Lin Mengzhi felt wronged, thinking, “Didn’t you force me to tell you?”
“Lord, didn’t you ask me to speak?”
“Then do you think the surgery to remove the 蛊 is a feasible method?”
Ming Jiu Xiao retorted.
“Lord, aren’t you close to the Cold King’s Consort? I heard she knows surgery, you can go and try it with her.”
Lin Mengzhi reminded him. Although she disliked Leng Ruo Li, she admired Leng Ruo Li’s medical skills.
Ming Jiu Xiao, reminded by her, finally remembered that Li’er, that girl, knew medicine.
“Alright, this time I’ll spare you the branding iron punishment. But you must answer truthfully what I ask you next.”
Ming Jiu Xiao’s expression turned sinister as he looked at Lin Mengzhi again.
“Were you the one who spread the rumors outside?”
Lin Mengzhi’s face turned pale upon hearing this.
“Lord, I don’t know what you are talking about.”
“You’d better answer me truthfully, or this branding iron punishment will not spare you.”
Ming Jiu Xiao, with his exceptionally handsome face and beautiful peach blossom eyes, had sharp, deep, and icy eyes beneath his proud brows. At this moment, he looked neither human nor demon.
“Lord, I, I really don’t know about this,” Lin Mengzhi said, her lips trembling.
“Were you present on the night of the Cold King and your wedding?” Ming Jiu Xiao suddenly asked.
“I, I was indeed present.”
Lin Mengzhi replied evasively, her eyes darting away.
“I had people investigate this matter. You were the only one present that night who knew my identity. Others were merely curious about my true identity. Even Jun Mo Han, who possesses the largest intelligence network on the entire continent, dared not confirm my true identity,” Ming Jiu Xiao said calmly.
“I, I… Lord, the rumors outside are really not my doing…” Lin Mengzhi replied incoherently, tears streaming down her face.
“Lin Mengzhi, don’t think that just because you reminded me earlier, I will let you off,” Ming Jiu Xiao warned her.
“Tell me, were you the one who spread the rumors outside? Otherwise, the branding iron awaits,” Ming Jiu Xiao asked her again with icy eyes, his tone resolute.
As he finished speaking, Lin Mengzhi’s face turned pale again.
She truly couldn’t bear to be burned again, so she confessed everything she had conspired with Lin Zhen Fan.
As she spoke, Ming Jiu Xiao’s expression grew increasingly grim.
Lin Zhen Fan was truly cunning, trying to pit him against that cold, emotionless person (Jun Mo Han). But how could he and that cold, emotionless person be so easily tricked by others?
However, he didn’t even know this Lin Zhen Fan, so why would Lin Zhen Fan scheme against him?
The reason he and Lin Mengzhi knew each other was that Lin Zhen Fei had saved his father’s life years ago. Although his father died later, he still repaid Lin Zhen Fan for saving his father’s life by helping Lin Zhen Fan with something, and as a result, he became entangled with this Lin Mengzhi, who had been clinging to him all these years.
What he didn’t expect was that this Lin Mengzhi, at such a young age, already possessed such schemes.
“Lin Feng, dispose of her immediately, and then throw her body outside the city.”
Otherwise, he, Ming Jiu Xiao, couldn’t guarantee what harm this woman would do to his Li’er girl if she continued to live.
“Yes, Lord!” Lin Feng replied respectfully.
Afterward, Ming Jiu Xiao flicked his sleeves, pushed down the ladder to the basement, and walked out of the coffin lid.
Watching Ming Jiu Xiao’s ruthless back, Lin Mengzhi’s heart was suddenly filled with fear.
“Xiao Ge Ge, Xiao Ge Ge, I beg you, let me go, I will never dare to cross Leng Ruo Li again. Wuwu…”
Lin Mengzhi pleaded with Ming Jiu Xiao in a humble tone, but Ming Jiu Xiao walked out of the basement without looking back.
As Ming Jiu Xiao’s words fell, Lin Mengzhi was indeed killed by Lin Feng with a sword to her throat, and warm, fresh blood gushed out.
Meanwhile, as Ming Jiu Xiao emerged from the coffin, he noticed something unusual outside the small wooden house.
“You can all come out. I noticed you following me when I left the Duke Lin’s mansion. The person who spread the rumors this time is that crazy woman Lin Mengzhi, and the person behind her who instigated her to spread the rumors is named Lin Zhen Fan. And that crazy woman has already been dealt with by Lin Feng.”
Even though the hidden individuals did not reveal themselves, Ming Jiu Xiao spoke to himself.
After he finished speaking, Leng Ruo Li and Jun Mo Han slowly emerged from the shadows.
Upon seeing the Cold King and his Consort, Ming Jiu Xiao’s face broke into a slight smile.
“Ming Jiu Xiao, I didn’t expect these two bright red coffins in this small wooden house to be the entrance to the basement,” Leng Ruo Li said to Ming Jiu Xiao, her eyes sparkling.
“Girl, there are still many things you haven’t expected. How about I take you to break them one by one right now?”
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, he was met with a killer move from Jun Mo Han. After dodging it, Ming Jiu Xiao gave Leng Ruo Li a flirtatious glance before swiftly escaping the scene.
…
The next day, as Leng Ruo Li and Jun Mo Han got up, they heard Ye Ying reporting that the eldest daughter of the Duke Lin’s mansion had been found dumped outside the city gate, and moreover, she had been… stripped naked.
Upon hearing this, Leng Ruo Li immediately looked at Jun Mo Han. She guessed that Jun Mo Han had ordered the stripping of Lin Mengzhi’s clothes.
After all, they had followed Lin Feng out of the city last night, and they hadn’t seen Lin Feng strip Lin Mengzhi’s clothes at that time.
Therefore, she was certain that Jun Mo Han had ordered someone to do it.
Meanwhile, Ming Jiu Xiao also heard the news from outside. When he heard that Lin Mengzhi had been stripped naked, he was also very surprised.
Immediately, he thought about who could have done it. Besides that pervert Jun Mo Han, who else could it be?