strictlysupreme Chapter 233: Trap! Capture alive...
Chapter 233: Trap! Capture alive...
"You dog officer, you..."
The village chief was so angry that she almost let it slip. Fortunately, at the last moment, she suppressed her anger and said, "I don't know what you are talking about..."
"..."
grandma's!
Listening to these familiar lines, Gu Jingzhi suddenly felt like he was the villain.
Gu Jingzhi was in no mood to continue this meaningless conversation, so he decided to subdue him first.
He just pulled up a slight smile on his lips, and then his whole body flashed and appeared directly in front of the chief of Lianyun Village. Before everyone could react, he grabbed the chief's neck and returned to the original place.
"Now……"
"Can we talk now?"
Gu Jingzhi's voice rang out, and everyone finally reacted.
"You dog officer, how dare you hold our chief hostage?"
Gu Jingzhi raised his eyebrows and exerted a little force on his hands: "I say, are all the people in Lianyun Village such brainless idiots? You are in my hands now, and you are still threatening me?"
"Also, who gave you the courage to let a bandit speak like an emperor?"
The bandits: "..."
Damn, this bastard official’s words are really infuriating!
However, since the leader of the village was in their hands, they did not dare to act rashly.
Only the second leader who was imprisoned in the cell shouted: "Don't hurt my eldest sister, if you want to talk, we will talk with you!"
"Hmm! Finally, I see someone with some brains!"
Gu Jingzhi smiled slightly, then looked behind him: "I will jail all these bandits for me. If they don't obey, I will beat them up. If they are mean, I will beat them up too! Just don't hurt their lives!"
What the hell...
Do you think we are all dead?
The bandits wanted to resist immediately, but they were immediately silenced by the soldiers who swarmed over them.
Looking at the bandits being beaten, the village chief said with difficulty, "You, you want to know... anything, you can, please, stop first!"
Gu Jingzhi turned a deaf ear to them. After all the bandits had been thoroughly beaten, he finally said, "Alright, lock them up and clear out another place. No one is allowed to disturb us without my permission!"
……
Soon, they arrived at a tidy cell.
Gu Jingzhi was making tea while laughing, "Brewing tea in this prison is quite interesting, what do you think?"
"..."
The two leaders of Lianyun Village felt helpless.
What kind of hobby does this official have? What decent person would come to this prison to make tea?
"Just ask what you want to ask us, sister and brother!" The village chief obviously didn't have the leisure time to do that. Now her sister and brother were like meat on someone else's chopping board, and there was no room for bargaining!
Gu Jingzhi poured himself a cup of tea, sniffed it, and then asked, "What are your names, and what is your relationship with the Gu family in the past?"
"We are just ordinary people who have fallen into poverty. What relationship do we have with the former Gu family?"
As if they knew that Gu Jingzhi would not let them die easily, the two of them just said it lightly!
Gu Jingzhi smiled slightly after hearing this, then pulled something out of his sleeve and said, "You guys are carrying this military order that once commanded hundreds of thousands of Gu family soldiers... This thing that symbolizes the supreme glory of the Gu family... How could it appear on the bodies of two mere ordinary people?"
Their pupils shrank!
The look he gave Jun Ling also grew slightly dim.
Gu Jingzhi said, "I have no ill will towards the Gu family. I just want to know if you two are the orphans of the Gu family who once escaped from Zhao Zhongli!"
When the two heard this, their hearts skipped a beat.
However, he then said, "We don't know what you are talking about. This token was only found in Lianyun Village after my sister and I took over!"
"..."
Still don’t admit it!
Although the two were reluctant to admit it, Gu Jingzhi could basically confirm their identities from their tone.
He thought about it and decided not to dwell on this issue any further. Instead, he said, "Since you don't want to answer this question, let's talk about something else!"
He looked at the two of them and said, "I'm very curious. You're just a bunch of bandits on Lianyun Mountain. How could you have someone in the imperial court conceal everything from you?"
"Who is manipulating your Lianyun Village behind the scenes, and what is your purpose?"
"We don't..."
"Alright, alright!"
Gu Jingzhi said impatiently, "Don't tell me you don't know. I won the first place in the imperial examination at the tender age of twenty, and was made a marquis in less than a year. Do you think I'm as stupid as you guys?"
"This……"
The two were a little dumbfounded.
The top scholar at the age of twenty was also granted a title of nobility?
Gu Jingzhi said calmly, "I'm not telling you this to show off, but to tell you that as prisoners, you have no right to negotiate any terms with me. If you don't want to suffer and don't want to see thousands of your fellow prisoners sent to the guillotine, then answer the questions honestly!"
"..."
Hearing that Gu Jing was going to kill thousands of people in Lianyun Village just because of a disagreement, the second leader immediately became anxious. He said, "How could you do this? Those are thousands of lives!"
"Thousands of lives?"
Gu Jingzhi's eyes turned cold as he scolded, "How many lives have been lost by your Lianyun Village?"
"I, we..."
After being confronted by Gu Jingzhi, he was suddenly speechless.
It was the same village chief who calmly said, "In the past ten years in Lianyun Village, all those we have killed and robbed were those who deserved it. We have never harmed innocent people, nor have we ever..."
"enough!"
Gu Jingzhi scolded, "Do you think this can cover up the mistakes of Lianyun Village?"
"Weren't those bandit problems throughout Ningzhou supported by your Lianyun Village in the early years?"
"Nine out of ten houses in Ningzhou are empty because of these bandits. This has led to Ningzhou becoming even more impoverished. Do you dare to say that this wasn't caused by you back then?"
"me……"
The village chief was choked. After a while, she said, "Those bandits were indeed supported by us in Lianyun Village, but we issued a strict order in the early years not to harm the people, and we have always done so!"
"But later, Lianyun Village was surrounded and attacked by government troops. After losing power, they were unable to control the situation. This led to the other strongholds starting to behave abnormally!"
"Humph!"
Gu Jingzhi snorted coldly, "Do you think that by saying this you can wash away your sins?"
"Throughout the dynasties, apart from those who abused their power for personal gain and fostered bandits to protect themselves, have you ever seen bandits that were not eradicated by the imperial court? You are trying to support those bandits, are you planning a rebellion?"
"You're talking nonsense! We're just trying to survive!"
"To survive?"
Gu Jingzhi sneered, "The Great Xia nation has only been established for twenty years. How many years have you been bandits? Living peacefully as a commoner, isn't that better than being a bandit?"
The brother and sister from Lianyun Village: "..."
Gu Jingzhi put down his teacup and said, "Alright, I don't have the heart to chat with you about this anymore. Who is behind Lianyun Village? You should confess first!"