Chapter 380 Confession

Ling Chu became more and more impatient. He glanced at the ghost next to him and saw that his face changed.

He took out a yellow talisman and said coldly, "This is the soul-destroying talisman. I'll give you one last chance. If you don't confess, you will have only one end."

Although the ghost had never heard of this talisman, he knew what it was used for just by hearing the name.

His face changed.

But he still clenched his teeth.

Finally, he closed his eyes as if he was ready to die.

Ling Chu was not angry either. She didn't expect this person to confess.

He raised his hand and threw the talisman paper on the masked man.

With a scream, the man's soul flew away in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the ghost was gone like this, the eyes of the imperial guards looking at Ling Chu changed.

Once again, their understanding of her was refreshed.

Sure enough, you can't judge a person by appearance. This princess who looks so weak and fragile is actually no worse than them, the imperial guards.

The emperor is quite satisfied with Ling Chu's methods.

Although Ning Chuyi was extraordinary and heroic, many ladies secretly admired him.

But he had always been cold and aloof. After he joined the Jinyiwei, he became even more tough and ruthless. Those ordinary ladies were afraid of him.

Now the daughter of King Dingyuan had both courage and means, and the two of them were quite a match.

No one knew what the emperor was thinking.

The masked man next to him saw that his companion was so scared that his face changed drastically, and his already gloomy ghost face became even more terrifying.

Ling Chu was satisfied with this.

He took out the Bodhi whip again.

He asked softly, "Have you thought about it? Do you want to confess?"

Her voice was not loud, and it could even be considered gentle.

But in the eyes of the ghost, it frightened him more than anyone else.

Seeing that he was hesitant, Ling Chu didn't even give him a chance to consider.

He raised his hand and whipped him.

The ghost immediately howled in pain.

When his voice became quieter, Ling Chu asked, "Have you made up your mind now?"

The ghost almost couldn't help crying. The girl asked him if he had made up his mind, but in fact she didn't give him a chance to choose.

He didn't want to confess.

Originally, he was dead, so he wasn't afraid of the pain of the flesh. But the strange whip didn't hit the flesh, but the soul.

The pain of the burning soul made him doubt his ghost life.

Before he could speak, Ling Chu flipped his hand and took out another yellow talisman.

It was the same soul-destroying talisman as before.

The ghost finally changed his face, fearing that he would be as dead as the previous ghost, and said anxiously, "We are from the Wei family of Bingzhou."

The emperor frowned and searched his mind, but couldn't find any information about the Wei family of Bingzhou.

The eunuch chief steward who was accompanying him hesitated for a while before saying, "Your Majesty, I remember that Concubine Li's cousin seems to be from Bingzhou. I wonder if it is..."

As the eunuch chief steward of the emperor, he must not only be able to serve people, but also have an extraordinary memory. The emperor is busy with all kinds of affairs, and he does not take all the trivial matters around him to heart.

Just like now, he has to rely on him to remind him.

Eunuch An did not finish his words, as if he was not sure, but he knew in his heart that it was probably close.

With the reminder of Eunuch An, the emperor also remembered.

He seemed to have heard Concubine Li mention that her cousin's family was in Bingzhou, and his surname was indeed Wei.

But if he remembered correctly, the Wei family was just a local merchant in Bingzhou that dealt in porcelain.

Concubine Li once wanted to help her cousin Wei Dongkui get the qualification of an imperial merchant from him. But because the porcelain of the Wei family did not please him, he refused Concubine Li.

This happened many years ago, and the emperor had long forgotten it. If it weren't for Eunuch An mentioning Lipin's cousin, the emperor wouldn't have remembered.

"Are you sent by Wei Dongkui?"

The ghost saw the emperor staring at him fiercely, and instinctively shuddered in his heart.

He was hesitating whether to continue.

The emperor had lost his patience.

"Don't tell me? I don't believe it can't be found out. Since you don't confess, there's no point in keeping him. Princess Jiashan, kill him."

"Okay."

The masked man was dead. He was not afraid of the emperor, but he was afraid of Ling Chu's soul-destroying talisman.

He dared not hide it anymore.

"Yes, we are indeed sent by Wei Dongkui."

Seeing that he was about to confess, Ling Chu stopped.

The emperor looked very bad, "Did Lipin instruct this?"

"I don't know, we are just killers raised by the Wei family. How could the people above tell us about such a big thing?"

Even though the man had confessed, the emperor still found it hard to believe.

It's not that he didn't believe what the man said, he just couldn't figure out why the Wei family wanted to kill him.

The Wei family is just a merchant, how could they have the guts to risk the entire family to send someone to kill him?

If it was Lipin who ordered it, the emperor couldn't figure it out.

Lipin only has a little princess, no son, even if he is killed, what benefit can Lipin get.

Lipin can live well in the harem and give birth to a child, which is enough to show that she is not a stupid person.

She must know that only if he, the emperor, is alive and well, can she and her child live a peaceful and smooth life.

The emperor couldn't figure it out and continued to interrogate.

But the ghost didn't know much.

These masked men with strong martial arts skills who were sent here are just killers raised by the Wei family.

How could the people above tell them who ordered such a big thing as killing the emperor?

These assassins just received a message yesterday, asking them to disguise as bandits to kill the emperor. Originally, they didn't dare to do such a thing, but the Wei family has more assassins than those who came today.

If they don't agree, they will be killed by another group of assassins with higher martial arts skills.

Although they are assassins, they don't want to die at a young age.

There is no choice but to agree.

Although the emperor was angry, he couldn't get more information from the ghost. He was in a hurry to go to Xuanqing Temple and didn't want to pursue it further.

He just told Ling Chu to keep the ghost and deal with it later.

Then he asked Ning Chuyi to send a letter back to Beijing to secretly investigate Lipin.

Ling Chu was relieved to see that the matter had finally come to an end and he could leave.

Although the rain stopped, the cold wind was still biting.

Everyone was tired and hungry, and the fight with those masked men made their stomachs beat like drums.

The sky had already darkened.

But they couldn't leave immediately.

In the fight just now, the bodies of the dead imperial guards still had to be dealt with.

Some imperial guards found some half-dried branches from somewhere and lit torches to illuminate the place.

The emperor still had to go to Xuanqing Temple, so he couldn't take the bodies with him. He could only dig a big pit and bury them. When he returned to Beijing, he would send people to transport the bodies back.

As for the captured survivors, the emperor ordered them to be dealt with after the interrogation.

Assassinating the emperor was a serious crime that would implicate the entire clan. The emperor would not let them go just because they were forced to do it.

After the bodies were buried and the injured imperial guards treated their wounds, the team finally set off again. (End of this chapter)