Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 665 - 663

Chapter 665: Chapter 663

"We can’t execute them just yet, I suspect they are in league with General Li’s army in the northwest. I must root out the enemy spies hidden in Shengping County!" Feng Yang spoke up.

Treasonous Li’s soldiers? Isn’t this tantamount to mutiny? Mrs. Liu was taken aback.

Mrs. Liu thought of the blood-filled scene outside the Meridian Gate that day and fell silent.

Treason was a crime punishable by the extermination of the entire family. Her own family had cut ties with the old house, and the fact that Shen Jingwen sought to poison them proved they were enemies rather than relatives! But what about her younger brother’s family?

She slightly regretted her earlier words, wondering if it was too late to send a letter back to the Imperial Capital.

Was Shen Jingwen out of his mind? How dare he get involved in treason. It was such a burden, for him and for others. Mrs. Liu was infuriated.

Then she tugged at Jingrui’s hand and said, "Jingrui, will this implicate your uncle’s family? Quickly write a letter to the Imperial Capital to inform them!"

If they were really going to be involved, they should flee immediately! Of course, Mrs. Liu did not voice this in front of the Sixth Prince’s subordinates.

Jingrui frowned slightly, unsure of the extent of Shen Jingwen’s involvement with the rebel army, he found it difficult to speak on the matter.

Shen Chengyao’s brow furrowed tightly; he’d left for just a few years and upon his return, still groggy with sleep, he was met with such a crisis?

Would he dare to return home in the future?!

"With Shen Jingwen’s dimwitted mind, he probably isn’t too deeply involved. He’s likely just a pawn, I don’t think it’s serious enough to warrant extermination of his entire clan." Shen Chengyao speculated.

If it did come to that, he would have to do something, even if it meant abandoning his title as Marquis, to save his younger brother.

"The attempt to assassinate the Sixth Prince’s fiancée alone, is enough to warrant extermination!" Feng Yang added.

Such troublesome relatives, they should be dealt with sooner rather than later! Feng Yang thought. Why give them a chance to harm him!

Mrs, Liu: "..."

Shen Chengyao: "..."

Hadn’t Xiao’er not yet married? Was it not too early to refer to her as the Sixth Prince’s fiancée?

"Feng Yang, stop scaring my parents. My uncle’s family is not like the people of the old house, they’re simply ordinary folk."

Feng Yang, upon hearing this, fell silent.

Xiao’er felt something was amiss.

The toxin extracted from the ants could render a person immobile, did that mean paralysis?

She had a question and asked: "Feng Yang, do those ants eat people?"

Feng Yang nodded at this, and a flicker of fear and resentment crossed his eyes but quickly disappeared. "Yes, they do! When those ants bite someone, the person begins to be paralyzed by the toxin, starting with the bitten area, making the person overlook it. However, the toxin spreads quickly, and soon the entire body would be immobilized. Then, thousands of ants would appear, crawling all over the person. The paralyzed person would be forced to watch as their body was slowly consumed, until there was nothing left."

Upon hearing this, the housekeeper couldn’t help but shiver. What kind of ant was this? It was horrifying!

Watching oneself getting eaten alive by endless ants, even if they didn’t bite you to death, you’d still die of fright.

The thought of one’s body being slowly consumed by ants?! How cruel! Mrs. Liu quickly asked: "Did Shen Jingwen put poison in our water tank because he wanted us to be devoured by those terrifying ants, thus eliminating any trace of our deaths? So that our family’s wealth would fall into his hands! Such cold-blooded intent!"

However, Mrs. Liu was mistaken, Shen Jingwen did indeed intend to murder them for their wealth, but he was unaware of the true function of the poison, he thought it would kill instantly.

He merely intended to poison all the villagers and kill them.

But the person who gave him the poison knew that Xiao’er had the antidote pill. He still gave Shen Jingwen the poison, banking on the slim chance that if they consumed the poison, they would be instantly paralyzed and not even have the time to retrieve the antidote pill!

Therefore, he specifically instructed Shen Jingwen to poison the entire family, to render them helpless to detoxify themselves!

These man-eating ants breed rapidly. Without any natural predators here, General Li opposed introducing this type of ants, or else he might not know whether the Central Plains would be his, or the ants’ in the future.

Their only goal was to kill Xiao’er. Whether that was done surreptitiously or not didn’t matter to them.

Now that they’ve retaliated, what should they do if they realize it was them? Send someone to kill them? Haven’t they already dispatched an army for that purpose?

As long as the family of Rui’an’s countess was poisoned, and the outside world was none the wiser, the family would be helpless and could starve to death!

Even if they didn’t starve, they could give an unexpected final blow!

Upon hearing Mrs. Liu’s words, both the house servants and maids rushed to look at the ground: May there not be any ants! Even if they had to die, they didn’t want such a tragic cause of death.

"Don’t worry, there are no man-eating ants here." Zhao Yong reassured everyone.

Upon hearing this, the servants all let out a sigh of relief. Without the ants, they would at least dare to sleep!

"Feng Yang, how did you come to know about these man-eating poisonous ants?" Xiao’er continued to ask.

"I’ve encountered them before in the northwest desert with my master. My younger brother Fengfan was killed by these damned man-eating poisonous ants. By the time we found him, his whole face had been chewed off, his entire hand was gone. We couldn’t save him."

Feng Yang had lost his parents at a young age. He and his brother stuck to each other for survival, both rescued by Shangguan Xuanyi and then swearing loyalty to him.

Fengfan had exceptional martial arts talent. The master used to say that even he was inferior.

But such a gifted younger brother, who was just beginning to grow up, was killed by these tiny ants!

How could he not hold a grudge!

But these man-eating poisonous ants breed exceptionally fast, their whereabouts unpredictable because they move with the shifting sand dunes. They couldn’t be eradicated, so he couldn’t even take revenge for his younger brother.

Everyone:...

Such a tragic story!

"Does General Li know about the destructive power of these ants?" Xiao’er asked.

"He does."

"In that case, he wouldn’t bring the ants to the Central Plains." Xiao’er murmured.

But if he could use these toxins against her, wouldn’t he use the same method against the soldiers in the northwest?

Thinking of this, Xiao’er became agitated: "Feng Yang, you interrogate them to find who is behind all of this. This prefecture first privately recruited soldiers and then smuggled military food, there’s too much connection to Li’s army, someone must be behind this."

She needed to return to her room and write a letter to Shangguan Xuanyi.

Feng Yang nodded in acknowledgment.

The Sixth Prince had bars across the country, used to secretly collect and investigate information. He wanted to bring out the people hidden in the deepest corners, it wouldn’t be impossible!

Returning to her room, Xiao’er took out a piece of paper and wrote a letter.

Then she entered the space and turned all the spirit liquid from the pond into antidote pills.

She didn’t have enough small bottles to hold so many antidote pills.

So she put them all in a clean large wine jar.

But how could she send such a large wine jar to Shangguan Xuanyi?

Xiao’er thought for a while, took off her space ring, placed the jar in it first, added a lot of food, fruits, filled a few water tanks with space water, and used her mind to take cotton to the space processing plant. Considering the cold weather, sending some cotton clothes over was always the right choice.

In any case, Xiao’er had prepared everything she could think of.

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