"Well, it wasn’t anything much, just went to protect you." The third-in-command, who had just been quite flustered, suddenly ca up with a perfect excuse because he suddenly rembered that the last ti he went down the mountain was to protect the Boss.
After a pause, he continued, "Boss, you’re back now. Big Brother is probably coming back soon too."
But Xue Zhiyi didn’t believe such an excuse at all. The third-in-command’s behavior was too abnormal, and he could see that sothing was definitely up. He had to find out because he absolutely wouldn’t allow anything shady to happen in the stockade.
He knew they were not ordinary people. When they ca to him, they were poisoned. He felt a bit guilty because the poison was made by him, so he took them in.
Seeing they seed honest and straightforward, each of them were n of iron, he let them manage the stockade.
He hadn’t questioned much about their identities, but now it seed he should, "Why were you poisoned back then?"
Hearing such a question, the third-in-command beca sowhat terrified and didn’t know how to answer, so he could only avoid responding.
"Who exactly are you?"
Seeing the third-in-command standing there silently, Xue Zhiyi continued, "You look more like guards. Guards from where? The governnt office? The palace? Or the military camp?"
The third-in-command standing there was at a loss. They had guessed before that the Big Boss probably already knew who they were, but now it seed that the Big Boss was determined to know the specifics. What should he do?
Should he confess everything? Or silence the Big Boss?
But he couldn’t do it; after all, he saved their lives.
It seed Xue Zhiyi had penetrated the third-in-command’s thoughts. He calmly said, "To tell you the truth, the poison you were afflicted with was made by , so if I wanted to take your lives, it would be very easy."
The implication was that you couldn’t harm at all.
These words sent a chill down the third-in-command’s spine, and he imdiately knelt down to plead, "Boss, we are definitely not bad people. You must believe us."
"Yet you still won’t say?"
Seeing the determination on the Big Boss’s face, the third-in-command knew there was no getting past this. If he confessed and the Big Boss handed them over to the governnt, he had no complaints. After all, their lives were given by the Big Boss, so he chose to confess everything, "We are guards by the Empress’s side, ordered by the Empress to quietly dispose of Consort Ling’s child."
"It was a newborn child, and we couldn’t bring ourselves to do it, so we decided to take the child away to escape. However, we didn’t expect to be pursued. Many of us died or scattered. To draw away the pursuers and let the child live, we let Fourth Brother take the child and run in the opposite direction. Big Brother went down the mountain this ti to inquire about Fourth Brother and the child’s whereabouts."
Sighing, the third-in-command said, "Alas, they are probably in danger. I never expected that the Empress had already prepared to silence us by poisoning us. If it weren’t for you, Boss, we would’ve lost our lives long ago. As for Fourth Brother and the child, they probably aren’t so lucky."
Upon hearing all this, Xue Zhiyi was utterly shocked. He just wanted to know their identities, didn’t want them to do anything bad.
Yet he uncovered such a huge secret.
A child from the palace? The child supposedly died at a hundred days? This was too much of a coincidence. Could it still be the sa child?
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