Chapter 2548: Chapter 32: Extra – Lele’s Story

Moreover, they directly rushed from the crowd into the hall, beating Liu Cheng soundly.

"Give me back my son..."

"Give me back my grandson!!"

"..."

It seemed to be a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pair; the mother-in-law appeared to be around fifty, and the daughter-in-law seemed to be in her thirties.

Seeing this scene, people couldn’t help but shed tears, "What a sin!"

"The Yan family has been passing down for three generations by a single heir. The son of the Yan mother bore a child only after thirty but lost him right after the maternity month."

"Good people receive no blessings; the Yan family is kind-hearted. Their bun shop has been open for decades, and on the first and fifteenth of every month, they give buns to the little beggars. Who would have thought..."

"This beast deserves death, ruthlessly cutting off someone’s lineage."

"Indeed. Ever since the son of the Yan mother lost the child, he fell ill and passed away just half a month ago."

"..."

Ye Haoxuan’s temple veins pulsed with anger, "Men, drag Liu Cheng down first, give him a heavy beating of twenty strokes, and remember not to beat him to death. It’s an injustice to the city’s citizens if he dies too easily."

"Yes!"

Immediately, someone came up to drag Liu Cheng away for a heavy beating, with the sound of the board slapping sharply, Liu Cheng’s mouth was left uncovered, allowing him to scream.

After twenty strokes were complete, he was dragged back inside.

"Honestly confess, why do such heinous deeds?"

Liu Cheng knew he couldn’t escape today, yet because Ye Haoxuan was thinking of his son earlier, he started to negotiate, "Prince, I know I deserve to die, and I plead guilty, but please, Prince, show mercy on the face of my old master, spare my child. In my next life, I’ll be your servant."

"Heh..." Ye Haoxuan looked at him playfully, not only trying to negotiate but also bringing up the Situ Family? Truly ignorant of life and death.

"Liu Cheng, say one more word, and I’ll take your son’s life now!"

With a sharp look sweeping across, he waved to the back, and Si came forward, stepping on his hand.

"Crack..."

"I’ll talk, I’ll talk!" Liu Cheng couldn’t stand the harsh interrogation; just a bit of pain was unbearable for him, so he hurriedly said, "It was this damned old man who instigated me, saying that consuming human marrow can lead to a long life and can connect you to both heaven and the netherworld. It was all instigated by this old man, this old man was originally a Taoist priest from Liuzhou Temple, he’s a monster!"

"Humph, what do you mean by instigated? It’s a fact. I am already seventy-eight years old this year, yet I don’t look like an old man in his eighties at all. Isn’t it all because of the nourishment of human marrow?"

Only then did Ye Haoxuan take a closer look at the old man, with a hooked nose, sunken eyes, and white hair, clearly not the face of a benevolent person.

Seeing how he treated consuming human marrow as if it were as common as a meal, you could tell his mind was twisted beyond any norm.

"It was him who instigated it!"

"It was indeed him, Lord County Magistrate thought this matter was inhumane, but this old man kept nagging in his ear daily, saying he could live for at least another hundred years, claiming the earlier the consumption started, the better the effects. Who doesn’t fear death? Who doesn’t wish for immortality?" said the steward of County Magistrate Liu.

Another person was a minor official managing the prison of Jingzhou.

"Very well!" Ye Haoxuan clapped his hands and said, "In the cave, this old man said that after a course, it would be effective, and since he’s taken a course, he should be invincible, shouldn’t he?"