Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside Chapter 1721: Kill Him

These are all people from Great Chu. General Liang would not set them on fire, but the court had no silver to support these people. Later, they asked Ms. Gao Lei to temporarily take them in.

Ms. Gao Lei agreed, which is why Master Xiao Yu knew this spy.

“Tell me, who are your accomplices? Are they people from the Female Slave Camp?!” Master Xiao Yu questioned. If these spies were not found, not only would the people of the Female Slave Camp be slaughtered, but even the Lei Family’s Trading Team would be implicated.

After all, the people of the Female Slave Camp are currently under their temporary care.

The spy raised his head, his gracefully curved neck glowing fair under the sunlight. He made muffled sounds, indicating for Master Xiao Yu to remove the cloth from his mouth.

“Old Madam?” Master Xiao Yu asked Ms. Gao Lei.

Magistrate Hao couldn’t wait any longer and said, “Let him speak!”

Ms. Gao Lei frowned, finding it inappropriate, but some matters had to be questioned by the government office, so she nodded.

Only then did Master Xiao Yu take out the cloth ball.

The spy moved his mouth and with intoxicating peach blossom eyes, glanced at Magistrate Hao and said, “I know whatever you want to ask because I worship the Witch God…”

“Shut up! Speak any more of that alluring nonsense, and I’ll hack your head off immediately!” Magistrate Hao, not being stupid, immediately rebuked him.

The spy, hearing this, gave a disdainful smile, evidently ignoring Magistrate Hao’s words, and hummed a tuneless melody to himself. Listening to the tune, it seemed to be a song from Da Rong.

Magistrate Hao was enraged, drew his knife, and pointed at him, saying, “Shut up, stop humming that Rong bandit song! I ask you, did your accomplice steal the Insect Attractant? How many people were there, when did they leave, which city gate did they exit from, where did they go, did they hide in the mountains?!”

If they hid in the mountains, they would have to search the mountains to avoid losing track of them on the main roads.

“Oh, my accomplices~” The spy’s voice was soft and carried a hint of melodiousness. After pondering for a moment and taking a few deep breaths, he suddenly shouted, “The Northwest is Da Rong’s land. It was the Bastard Chu who killed people and snatched the land. God and the Witch God are furious, bringing down the plague of poisonous insects to punish you. You’ve been retributed. Only by worshipping the Witch God and submitting to Da Rong can you…”

Ms. Gao Lei: “Kill him!”

Crack!

Master Xiao Yu’s hand rose and fell, chopping off the spy’s head, his eyes stabbing toward Magistrate Hao.

Magistrate Hao shivered all over. Unexpectedly, this spy came with the intent to die, to invert black and white, and disrupt the hearts of Great Chu’s people.

Magistrate Hao had been an official for twenty years and had seen all sorts of commoners. He knew that rural farmers could be exceedingly dull, and rumors tended to become more exaggerated as they spread. If this spy’s words were spread, there would definitely be foolish people choosing to believe them.

Heaven, Earth, Sovereign, Parent, Teacher.

Heaven above, everyone believed in God, and because the poisonous insects were so severe, everyone was cautious. Another round of rumors would truly make the elderly believe it.

If they believed such rumors, three people as a tiger and the power of words swaying the masses, Magistrate Hao could already foresee the development of the situation… He had seen some elderly people bewitched by the words of ghosts and deities to the extent of burning their own grandchildren alive.

Clang, clang, clang!

The copper gong sound startled everyone present, drawing their gaze to the person hitting the gong. Uh, it was that little woman who had sores on her body again.

Bang!

The copper gong was hurled out again.

Boss Wang was nearly in excruciating pain, glaring at her, “Stop smashing my copper gong. It’s been smashed twice, and if it breaks, you’ll pay for it!”

Don’t think that just because you came to my house with Old Madam Gao, I won’t dare to make you pay.

Saying this, he hurried to pick up the copper gong, holding it tightly in his arms, hiding in the crowd to avoid being too close lest the little woman snatches the copper gong again.

“Erqing, compensate him with three taels of silver.” Gu Jinli was very generous, and after giving the command, pointed to the spy’s head and said, “Wake up, don’t be bewitched by the Rong bandit spy’s alluring words. What disaster brought by God and the Witch God? The Rong bandits don’t believe in God, they believe in a monster with a wolf’s head and bull’s head! Because of believing in this monster, the Rong people sacrifice three living people to the Witch God every year during the Witch God Festival… Have you ever seen any proper deity needing to burn living people for worship?!”

After listening, everyone shook their heads: “No, no, no, never seen… Their deity indeed looks very fierce.”

Why do they need to burn living people for worship?

Aren’t three animals enough?

But someone still questioned: “But the poisonous insects really have overrun our Great Chu, killing many people.”

“The poisonous insects are not a natural disaster but a human disaster brought upon us by the Rong bandits! And because they have sinned too much, even God can’t bear it anymore, causing the poisonous insects to backfire on them, making the Rong soldiers also catch the poisonous insect disease, and without any Insect Attractant to use, tens of thousands of Rong soldiers were killed by the poisonous insects!” Gu Jinli shouted, “While we are the ones blessed by God! God is very fond of our Great Chu, seeing us harmed by the Rong bandit demon people, allowed me to create the Insect Attractant, and now even sent them out of the way to bring us the Rong bandit’s anti-parasitic medicine!”

She raised a pouch and said, “It’s this kind of medicine, the spy was wearing this kind of anti-parasitic medicine, which is why the poisonous insects didn’t get on him and were desperately fleeing from his body.”

Gu Jinli spent considerable effort explaining to them the principle of the anti-parasitic medicine and the difference from the Insect Attractant, then shouted, “So there is no retribution or punishment, the Northwest is ours, has been since ancient times! The Rong bandits have sinned too much and after failing to beat us, wish to use these kinds of alluring words to harm us, everyone wake up, don’t be bewitched. Anyone who is bewitched by the Rong bandit demon people’s words will have no Insect Attractant to use!”

Damn it, listen or not, if not, you don’t get the medicine.

Gu Jinli shouted until she was exhausted. Erqing hurriedly brought the water bag, poured out a bowl of water, checked it, and let her drink it.

Magistrate Hao already stood out and shouted, “The Rong bandit spy just wants to disturb our Great Chu, everyone must not be deceived. According to Great Chu Criminal Law, anyone who dares to spread alluring words and cause trouble during wartime will have their entire family executed! Even the surviving relatives will be implicated and unable to receive Insect Attractant!”

Ah?

With these two punishments in place, everyone was terrified.

The Feng Family Escort Agency was quite apt at managing situations and immediately echoed, “Lord Magistrate is right, anyone who dares to spread rumors and cause trouble in the city, our Feng Family Escort Agency will never let them go!”

Ms. Gao Lei said, “Our Lei Family’s Trading Team also won’t let them go!”

These two families could play both black and white in the Northwest, having spoken in unison, those who had believed the spy’s rumors previously were now too afraid to even think about speaking recklessly, due to fear.

“The Prefecture Record, the Prefecture Record is here!” Qi Vice Magistrate was relatively shrewd, upon hearing the Rong bandit spy’s words, knew that if this matter wasn’t explained clearly, it was likely the Northwest would face chaos, so he hurried back to the government office to fetch the Prefecture Record, shouting, “The Prefecture Record documents, from the start of Western Qin, the Northwest has been our ancestors’!”

“The ancestors of Western Qin were granted the lands outside the Longshan Mountain range, including Qingma County and Hu Yang County, by the Emperor for their military achievements. Later, Western Qin grew strong, leading forces from Qingma County over the Longshan Mountain range into the pass, ruled the Northwest, and pointed the sword at the Central Plains; it’s all documented clearly!”

“Get a few literate people over here to take a look!” Magistrate Hao shouted to the crowd, determined to dissect the spy’s rumors on the spot, lest they remain unclear and become twisted by some foolish people, turning our ancestors’ land into that of the Rong bandits!