"At the time, although I had promised her, ever since I was banished from the mountain by the Patriarch of the Violet-Eyed Clan, I had no friends, no skills, and no money. I could only wander the streets as a vagrant for several years, gambling. Where was I supposed to find people with such great abilities? After all, Zi Yiyun of the Violet-Eyed Clan had already become Consort Rui's woman. If I couldn't handle this matter properly, and it was discovered that I also had a potential death sentence, I was extremely apprehensive," Ju Jianxing recounted truthfully.
"However, this matter is quite strange. Not long after that old woman found me, a mysterious person dressed in black robes and a black cloak approached me. This mysterious person claimed to be an enemy of Prince Rui and proposed a collaboration: to lead him to the Violet-Eyed Clan's dwelling, help me vent my anger, and promised me a fortune upon completion. I didn't agree directly at first; he asked me to go back and consider it. As he left, he tossed me a black token with the character 'An' inscribed on it, telling me to find him at a courtyard outside the city with the token once I'd made up my mind."
"What happened next? Do you still have that token?" Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli asked with great excitement.
"A few days later, I lost a large sum of money in a casino. Because I couldn't repay my debts, the creditors chased me and beat me severely. It was then that the mysterious person reappeared. He paid off my gambling debts, and I had no choice but to agree to his demands. As for the token, I still have it. I've hidden it in the stone cave where I was hiding from you earlier," Ju Jianxing said with great helplessness.
"Are you stupid? Anyone with eyes can see that this was a trap set by that mysterious person, and you willingly walked into it!" Liang Bo scolded him angrily.
"Then what should I do? I lost too much money, and I had no way to repay my debts. Those people would have killed me immediately. I could only do this to save my life." Even though Ju Jianxing realized it was a trap set by the mysterious person, what difference did it make? He didn't want to die.
"Don't you know that your betrayal will lead to the deaths of hundreds of people?" Leng Ruoli couldn't help but reproach him again.
"I didn't think that far ahead at the time, I just wanted to avoid getting beaten. Later, I could only lead the mysterious person to the mountain outside the Violet-Eyed Village. However, I couldn't break the illusion that guarded the entrance to Violet-Eyed Village."
"But by chance, the head steward, Liang Bo, had gone down the mountain to purchase supplies that day, and it would take two to three days for him to return. So, the mysterious person gave me a large sum of money and bribed the other guards. He instructed them to inform me if anyone from the village came out. It was truly too coincidental; the very next day, someone from the village slipped out. The mysterious person and I were ecstatic upon hearing this."
"Without a word, we seized that Violet-Eyed tribesman and forced him to reveal the method to enter the Violet-Eyed illusion. We also snatched the Seven-Colored Stone from him. What I didn't expect was that the mysterious person that very day brought over a hundred assassins and stormed into the Violet-Eyed Village, slaughtering all the Violet-Eyed tribespeople."
"I personally witnessed the Patriarch and his wife being brutally murdered by the mysterious person, and the Patriarch's daughter, Zi Yiyun, committed suicide. The entire Violet-Eyed Village was littered with corpses, and blood flowed like rivers. The air was filled with a thick scent of blood. At that moment, I became terrified, afraid they would kill me too. So, I quickly found a place to hide. It was only after the mysterious person led his men away from the Violet-Eyed Village that I emerged."
"As a result, as soon as I came out, I saw Prince Rui and Liang Bo entering the village entrance. At the time, I was afraid they would misunderstand me, so I hid again... Later, I realized that I had personally witnessed the entire process of those people slaughtering the Violet-Eyed tribespeople. Even if I escaped, those people wouldn't let me go. Therefore, I decided that staying in this Violet-Eyed Village was the safest..."
Ju Jianxing recounted the entire process of the mysterious person's massacre of the Violet-Eyed tribe in great detail.
The Cold King couple and Liang Bo listened, and all three trembled with anger in their chests.
"You fool! It's all because of you that the Violet-Eyed Clan suffered this calamity." Liang Bo, enraged, kicked Ju Jianxing several times on the spot, not even caring that insects were crawling all over Ju Jianxing.
"Ah... That hurts so much!" Ju Jianxing cried out in pain as Liang Bo kicked him.
"You promised me just now that as long as I told you about the murder of the Violet-Eyed Patriarch, you would help me get rid of the insects on my body. You can't go back on your word, can you?"
"Don't worry! We will help you get rid of the insects." As soon as Leng Ruoli finished speaking, Jun Mohan knocked Ju Jianxing unconscious with a chop.
Immediately, Leng Ruoli took out a can of insect repellent and helped Ju Jianxing by eliminating the insects on his body.
"Jun Mohan, should we go to the stone cave where Ju Jianxing was staying to look for the black token the mysterious person gave him?" Leng Ruoli asked after a few seconds of thought.
Hearing this, Jun Mohan nodded forcefully.
Subsequently, the Cold King couple asked Liang Bo to keep an eye on Ju Jianxing, and the two of them went to Ju Jianxing's stone cave. As they entered the cave, they saw a messy scene.
The pots, pans, bowls, chopsticks, and other utensils in Ju Jianxing's cave were likely scavenged from the village. Among them, Jun Mohan recognized a familiar item: a sword knitted for him by his mother, and a revolving lantern made by his maternal grandfather. After the Violet-Eyed Clan incident, his mother had hidden him in the cellar behind the house, but he was still discovered, knocked unconscious, and taken away, which led to him being fed wolf venom later.
Jun Mohan quickly picked up these two items, brushed off the dust, and handed them to Leng Ruoli to store in her space. Leng Ruoli, seeing the pile of messy items in the cave, felt overwhelmed and didn't know where to start searching for the black token with the character "An" on it, so she had to search one by one.
"Lier, with Ju Jianxing's cowardly nature, he wouldn't just casually discard that token. We don't need to search through all these messy items. I guess he likely hid the token in some secret corner." Jun Mohan's long, handsome violet eyes scanned the entire cave, his gaze finally landing on the stove. Because the walls of this cave were very hard, it was difficult to dig a hole to hide something.
However, the stove Ju Jianxing usually used for cooking was built of earth, and it was built unusually high, unlike the stoves they usually built here. Jun Mohan guessed this, walked up to the stove, and poked around in the stove with a wooden stick. He indeed found something under the stove. On top of the stove, there was a metal box. Jun Mohan then took out the metal box, opened it, and found a token with the character "An" inscribed on it inside.
"Lier, I found the token!" Jun Mohan exclaimed happily to Leng Ruoli.