After the system ran, I took off with my family

Chapter 348 Troublesome

The man's face was tense, his teeth clenched and he said nothing.

Lin Shuyue stared at him for a while, then suddenly smiled and gestured to Qinghe, "Remove his jaw."

"Click..."

Qing He quickly and decisively removed the man's jaw which had just returned to its original position.

"If you don't say it, there are plenty of ways to make you say it."

Lin Shuyue glanced at the man, took out a mantra talisman from her arms and handed it to Qingzhi.

She didn't want to waste time. These death warriors trained by powerful people or noble families were different from ordinary guards. They all crawled out of the pile of corpses. They were not afraid of death or pain. Once the mission failed, they would find ways to end their lives.

Therefore, torture is completely useless to them, and the most direct way is to use mantra talismans.

Qingzhi understood what he meant, turned around, took a bowl, poured some water into it, and put the talisman paper into the bowl. Then, she walked step by step to the man and squatted down with the bowl in her hand.

The man stared at the bowl of black talisman water in her hand, and a look of panic appeared visibly on his originally expressionless face.

As the man looked panicked, Qingzhi grabbed his hair and pulled it back, forcing the man to tilt his head back, and a bowl of black talisman water was forced into his mouth.

The man tried to struggle desperately, but to no avail, and was forced to swallow the talisman water.

Qingzhi let him go only after making sure that he had finished drinking the talisman water. The man fell to the ground and began to cough violently.

After he recovered, Lin Shuyue slowly spoke: "Tell me, who are you? Who is your master?"

"I...we are the death squad of Prince Gong's Mansion, and our master is Prince Gong, wuwu..." The man bit his lips tightly and shook his head in horror.

Prince Gong's Mansion?

Lin Shuyue's eyebrows jumped. Prince Gong was the younger brother of the late emperor and the emperor's uncle.

Prince Gong was the youngest son of Emperor Taizu, twelve years younger than the late emperor. It is said that when he was young, Prince Gong liked to follow the late emperor around, and when he grew up, he still followed the late emperor's orders.

The late emperor was very fond of this young and non-threatening younger brother, and after he ascended the throne, he became even more caring towards him.

When Prince Gong was young, he loved beauties and fine wine, and often frequented brothels. He once made a scene in which he had a fight with the Princess of Gong over a courtesan. The late emperor specially summoned him to the palace and reprimanded him for this.

After being reprimanded by the late emperor, he did restrain himself a lot, but within half a year after the late emperor's death, his old habits returned.

The last time I was in the capital, I heard someone say that someone had sent a beautiful woman thousands of miles away to please Prince Gong.

Lin Shuyue felt a little complicated. Although she guessed that the person behind the scenes was not simple, she did not expect that it involved the emperor's uncle, a true royal relative.

But, what on earth made such a person pursue a six-year-old child so relentlessly?

"Then why did you send Gousheng to the bandit's lair, and why are you chasing him so relentlessly now? Who is he?"

Her voice was like a spell to the man. His eyes widened in horror and his mouth uncontrollably spilled out everything he knew.

The man's name was Bing Qing. He was a small leader in the first group of Prince Gong's death squad, ranked with the character "Bing".

Four months ago, his team leader handed him a portrait and ordered him to take several of his men north to find the child in the portrait.

He was also asked to send the child to the north as soon as he found it, the farther the better, and then find a bandit's lair and give the child to the bandits to raise.

After receiving the task, they headed north and eventually found the child in the hands of a group of human traffickers in Yi'an County.

Just as they were about to send the child up the mountain, a group of men in black appeared out of nowhere and tried to snatch the child from them.

The group chased them all the way to Xiaoxiangling under the jurisdiction of Yaojiang County. After a fierce battle, they finally eliminated the group.

At this time, it happened that Wang Gao, the second in command of Xiaoxiangling Tianlang Village, who had just returned from drinking wine in the county town, was hiding and watching.

So he threatened Wang Gao to take the child back to the mountain village to raise him, and then he and his men hid in Yaojiang County, secretly monitoring Wang Gao and the child.

Until yesterday, Lin Shuyue's bandit suppression incident took place.

After Bingqing learned that the child had been rescued from the mountain, he hurried to make amends and sneaked into the county government office at night in an attempt to kidnap Gousheng. However, Luo Bingwen was prepared and he ultimately failed.

It was not until the next day that they saw Gousheng again, so they followed Lin Shuyue and the others out of the city, secretly looking for an opportunity to attack.

According to Bing Qing's confession, he did not know Gousheng's identity. He only knew that his superiors were extremely concerned about the child and even ordered them to keep a secret watch on him and ensure that the child could survive to adulthood.

After hearing what Bing Qing said, Lin Shuyue felt that the situation was becoming more and more difficult.

Fortunately, Bingqing had not yet reported the child's rescue to the capital for fear of punishment, so the capital did not send anyone over.

She only needed to get rid of this group of people. Even if the capital sent more people, those people would only follow the trail of Bing Qing and others towards Longzhou.

Thinking of this, she looked at Bing Qing with an even more unfriendly look.

After being forced to confess, Bing Qing was completely disheartened and only asked Lin Shuyue to give him a quick death.

Lin Shuyue didn't say much and killed him with one sword as he wished.

It was still two hours before dawn. The dilapidated temple was filled with a strong smell of blood and corpses were scattered everywhere. It was no longer suitable for rest.

Lin Shuyue made a prompt decision and asked Qinghe and Qingzhi to pack their luggage, take Gousheng and others out of the ruined temple, and set off again under the cover of night.

The carriage traveled safely for five days and finally entered the territory of Longzhou.

That evening, the group arrived at a large town called Yinkeng in Wuhua County under the jurisdiction of Longzhou.

After checking in at the largest inn in town, Lin Shuyue took Qinghe, Qingzhi and Gousheng for a walk around the town, and then went to the most famous restaurant in the town for dinner.

After drinking their fill, the four returned to the inn.

As soon as I entered the inn, I happened to meet the innkeeper coming down from upstairs.

Lin Shuyue's eyes rolled, and she immediately took Gousheng to the shopkeeper and asked him how far it was from here to Anxing Prefecture in Longzhou and how many days it would take to get there.

After getting the shopkeeper's answer, she thanked him with a worried look on her face, then took the dog, Qinghe, and Qingzhisheng upstairs to her room.

This look caused the innkeeper to look at them curiously.

The next day, at dawn, they checked out of the hotel, carried the still soundly sleeping Gousheng into the carriage, and then they hurriedly set off in the carriage.

The sleepy-eyed boy watched them leave in confusion. If one didn't know better, he would have thought that a ghost was chasing them.

After leaving the town, the carriage stopped on the side of a deserted official road.

Lin Shuyue took out the handkerchief she had prepared, shook it under Gousheng's nose, and then got off the carriage.