Reborn to Become A Queen: The Real Heiress's Comeback-Chapter 360: They will kill me, let me out...

The old woman felt a shiver run down her spine when she saw Zhan Lan’s smile. She stopped the menacing assassins behind her and said, "Stop!"

"My son!" Seeing her son blind, she was stricken with grief, her eyes red with sorrow.

In her eyes, the two people opposite were heartless desperadoes!

Wu Jiangliu was trembling all over, his breath short, with aching eyes and ears, feeling as if his head was about to explode.

Unable to hold back, he roared in rage, but when Mu Yan glanced at him, he forcibly shut his mouth.

Zhan Lan looked at the old woman and said in a chilly voice, "Now it’s your turn to kneel down and kowtow a hundred times."

With her son in Zhan Lan’s hands, the old woman gritted her teeth and looked at Zhan Lan: "Fine!"

She bent her knees in humiliation and knelt down.

Thud thud thud!

After kowtowing three times, her forehead covered in dust, Zhan Lan looked at her and said coldly, "Continue!"

Thud thud thud!

The old woman kowtowed another three times, blood oozing from her forehead; she looked up at Zhan Lan and said, "You must keep your word!"

Zhan Lan looked at the old woman with a blank expression and said, "What did I say?"

Enraged, the old woman stood up in a flurry and shouted, "How dare you play me!"

Zhan Lan frowned and replied, "Did I promise you anything? You chose to kowtow on your own volition."

A hint of amusement curled at the corner of Mu Yan’s lips; he found Zhan Lan’s shameless behavior quite endearing.

The old woman was infuriated by Zhan Lan, veins popping on her forehead.

Suddenly, a steward ran up behind the old woman and whispered something to her.

The old woman sneered, and in an instant, the chains on Wu Jiangliu’s wrists fell off, and someone from a secret door behind him pulled the person out swiftly.

The assassins summoned by the Wu Residence immediately surrounded Zhan Lan and Mu Yan.

The old woman laughed gravely, "To oppose the Wu Family, you are still too naive."

Mu Yan spoke calmly, "Vermilion Bird, since you’re here, why haven’t you shown up yet!"

Vermilion Bird had just been enjoying watching Madam deal with the old hag, finding the spectacle quite satisfying, unwilling to interrupt.

Now was his time to make an entrance!

Vermilion Bird beckoned with his hand, and suddenly, more than twenty Hidden Guards appeared behind the assassins; they dispatched the desperate criminals on the old woman’s side within a few breaths.

Vermilion Bird nodded towards Mu Yan and Zhan Lan and said, "I am late, please forgive me, Master, Madam!"

The old woman, held down by the Hidden Guards, knelt on the ground, her gaze falling upon the fallen experts, and began to feel fear.

Who exactly are these people?

Why are they calling those two Master and Madam?

Swallowing nervously, the old woman struggled to maintain her composure and said, "Both of you, a first-ranked official in the court is my cousin, please show mercy to my household."

Though she was pleading, her tone still carried a sense of superiority.

"Liu Hanlin, is it?" Mu Yan asked with a solemn expression.

The old woman looked at Mu Yan, who was addressing the Chief Minister by name with a mixture of mockery and disdain.

She frowned in return and questioned, "And you are?"

Mu Yan ignored her and directed the Hidden Guards, "Every member of the Wu Family, men, women, old, and young, is to be thrown into the prison and interrogated, one by one!"

"Yes!" Vermilion Bird nodded in agreement.

The old woman was intimidated by Mu Yan’s imposing manner; she had thought him easy to talk to, but now he had completely changed his demeanor.

Seeing him like this, he seemed to be a person of extremely high status.

Who in the court can call Liu Hanlin by his name?

The old woman suddenly felt a bit nervous; could it be that the person was one of His Majesty’s Princes, a Prince?

Her tone became softer as she pleaded: "I am blind in my ignorance, I am the cousin of the Grand Secretary of the court. Please, Your Excellency, have mercy!"

Her plea this time was much more humble than the last.

"Take her away!" Mu Yan ordered, his face expressionless.

It wasn’t long before the Hidden Guards arrived, and shortly after the soldiers came, the entire Wu Family was taken to the official government office. The prison cells were already too full to accommodate any more.

Since there was no more room, they didn’t bother separating the male and female prisoners.

The five women who were in the dungeon were locked up with the old woman.

After arriving at the government office, Mu Yan turned to Zhan Lan and said, "Lan’er, I’m a bit tired and would like to go back to the hostel to rest for a while."

Zhan Lan, knowing how hard Mu Yan had been working recently, urged, "Go on then, I’ve got this."

Mu Yan smiled faintly and left alone.

It was only after the interrogation that Zhan Lan found out that the disrespectful old woman was named Zhang Shuyan, the Old Madam of the Wu Family, and the cousin of the Grand Secretary Liu Hanlin.

And those five women locked up in the dungeon were all her daughters-in-law!

The second son of the Old Madam, Wu Jiangliu, had personally killed his first wife for adultery.

Since then, he developed a strange habit of marrying several women who slightly resembled his first wife.

He would torment any that bore even a slight resemblance to her once they were brought home.

Over time, tormenting his wives was no longer satisfying his vengeance, so he constructed a dungeon. Sometimes, his mother Zhang Shuyan would also come over to whip those women.

The mother and son gradually became more insane, finding pleasure in torturing people. Many disobedient maids and servants, as well as Wu Jiangliu’s remarried wives, died in that dungeon.

These five women were lucky to be rescued by Zhan Lan and Mu Yan.

Hearing Wu Jiangliu’s confession, Zhan Lan looked coldly at this mother and son pair; as the saying goes, like mother, like son.

These five women were also pitiable, having married such a brutal husband as Wu Jiangliu.

"Place these five people with the Old Madam first!" Zhan Lan said with a cunning smile.

The five women were originally fearful and timid, but seeing the smile curling on Zhan Lan’s lips outside the cell, it seemed that she allowed them to take their revenge.

The five women, enduring their pain, all lashed out at the old woman with punches and kicks.

They had suffered humiliation day after day, and now that the Old Madam was arrested, she was merely a powerless old lady. They resolved to pay back everything she and Wu Jiangliu had done to them.

Hatred filled the eyes of the five women. Their tongues had been cut, leaving them unable to make accusations, so they could only use their fists to strike the Old Madam, releasing their hatred.

The Old Madam wailed, desperately crawling towards the cell door, reaching out her hand and pleading, "They will beat me to death, let me out..."

After the Old Madam had been beaten black and blue, Zhan Lan spoke again, "Put Wu Jiangliu in as well."

Wu Jiangliu, blind in one eye and missing one ear, had his hands and feet bound by chains, leaving him powerless to resist. The five women took out their full fury on him.

As Wu Jiangliu’s former wives, they whimpered their accusations and beat him with their fists and feet.

"Ah! Don’t hit me, we were husband and wife once, please don’t..."

The longest of the five women had been imprisoned for three years, the shortest for six months, and many others who couldn’t bear the torture had died one after another.

That dungeon had been their nightmare, and the Wu Family an evil they could never dare to oppose in their lives.

If not for these two nobles saving them, they too might have died in that dark dungeon.

Now, the Wu Family was finally finished!

Indulging in their catharsis, the women felt unspeakably relieved!

As Zhan Lan observed that the women had vented enough, the officers dragged Wu Jiangliu out and locked him alone in a room. Zhan Lan personally interrogated him: "Tell me, what did you do during the construction of the Heiling Reservoir three years ago?"