Starting with a cub, the superpower boss becomes the richest man by lying flat

Chapter 148 The Emperor's Son Must Not Be Allowed to Return to the Capital
The scene of Lin Xin's fury that everyone expected did not occur. She just smiled faintly and said, "I have nothing to explain to you. No one can wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep."

After speaking, she didn't even glance at her again, but turned to the surrounding villagers. "Everyone heard what Lin Ju said. This whole thing was a setup by them to frame Chu Yu, so..." She glanced at everyone, "We don't want to hear anyone linking Chu Yu and Lin Ju together again. If I find out..."

She didn't say anything more, but walked to a tree that was about as thick as her waist, clenched her right fist and swung it hard, hitting the tree trunk directly.

With a "crack" sound, the tree snapped in half at the spot where she hit it.

"Wow!" Everyone exclaimed as they looked at the broken ends, and at the same time, they resolved to keep their mouths shut. Those whose wives were gossipy at home also became determined to make their wives shut up too.

"Alright, that's all. Everyone go about your business! We won't entertain you any longer." To the astonishment of Gao Yong and the others, Lin Xin grabbed Lin Ju and her mother, one in each hand, and threw them outside the door. She then dusted off imaginary dust from her hands and closed the gate.

"Miss Lin, you're amazing!" Gao Yong gave her a thumbs up in admiration.

The others looked at her with admiration. Meng Yixuan nudged Chu Yu's lower back and whispered, "Why don't you go thank Miss Lin? If it weren't for her today, you'd be in deep trouble even if you jumped into the river."

Chu Yu's heart had been in turmoil ever since she was brought to the door that morning. She was filled with hatred when everyone criticized her, and she even wanted to draw her sword and chop off those ugly faces. It wasn't until she heard Lin Ju tell the truth that she felt a little more at ease. Now, after hearing Meng Yixuan's reminder, she immediately bowed deeply to Lin Xin and said, "Thank you so much, Miss Lin, for getting me out of this predicament. Otherwise, I don't know how this matter would have ended."

Lin Xin waved her hand, "This matter doesn't really have much to do with you. It's mainly aimed at Tao Tao. And I personally think that the reason Lin Ju's mother chose you to scam is largely because you give the impression of being easy to talk to and not fierce. If today's matter succeeds, their family can then leech off your daughter."

Chu Yu felt even more disgusted upon hearing this and shook her head repeatedly, "Even if I kill her, I will never let her into the Chu family."

"Miss Lin, you just said that today's matter was aimed at Lin Tao. What evidence do you have?" Meng Yixuan asked with a frown. He had always thought that the village girl just wanted to climb the social ladder by marrying Chu Yu, but he did not expect that she had a deeper purpose.

"Based on..." Footsteps sounded just in time outside the door, and she smiled slightly, "The evidence has arrived."

"Huh?" Everyone present looked at the courtyard gate, and saw Mo Ziyuan walk in from outside with a villager in his hand and a face full of anger. After entering the gate, he threw the person in his hand to the ground, and then turned around and closed the courtyard gate.

"What happened?" Gao Yong looked at the person on the ground, then at Mo Ziyuan, and asked.

At that moment, the person on the ground tilted his head slightly, and the hair that had been covering half of his face slipped to the side, revealing his face. Gao Yong was staring at him and exclaimed in surprise, "Holy crap, it's you!"

"What exactly is going on?" Meng Yixuan asked.

"Let him speak for himself." Mo Ziyuan turned his head away angrily, clearly not wanting to see the man.

"Commander Zhao, what did you do to make Ziyuan so angry?" Meng Yixuan had previously served as a guard by the late emperor's side and had dealt with the Imperial Guards, so he recognized the man at a glance as Zhao Jie, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards.

"It's just a matter of the victor taking all, nothing more to say." Zhao Jie turned his face away expressionlessly, clearly not intending to say anything more.

"Did you get any information?" Lin Xin walked up to Mo Ziyuan and asked in a low voice. Mo Ziyuan shook his head. "He won't say anything."

"Leave it to me." Lin Xin walked up to Zhao Jie, took out a pill that was exactly the same as the one she gave Lin Ju, and without saying a word, stuffed it into Zhao Jie's mouth. Then, she gently slid it across his throat, and his Adam's apple bobbed as the pill steadily fell into his stomach.

A look of terror appeared in Zhao Jie's eyes. He had seen clearly how Lin Ju had exposed herself, and he understood the effects of this pill all too well. He couldn't help but feel fear and subconsciously gritted his teeth. However, before he could even close his two rows of teeth, a sharp pain struck him, and his jaw was dislocated.

With no lingering hope, Zhao Jie turned and glared fiercely at Lin Xin. No one present doubted that if looks could kill, Lin Xin would already be riddled with holes and dead.

"Take the poison sac out of his teeth! Otherwise he'll kill himself before he can even speak. Oh, right, just taking out the poison sac isn't enough. If he bites his tongue, that could also kill him," Lin Xin said, then took out a light yellow pill and stuffed it into Zhao Jie's mouth.

"What did you feed him this time?" Gao Yong asked curiously.

“A good thing,” Lin Xin smiled innocently, “something that keeps him awake, but he has no strength to do anything except talk.”

"You!" Zhao Jie glared at him angrily, drool dripping from her mouth where her jaw had been dislocated. She looked extremely disheveled, a stark contrast to when she had provoked him at the village entrance.

After estimating the time, Lin Xin said to Mo Ziyuan, "We can start asking questions now."

Mo Ziyuan nodded, stepped forward, pried open Zhao Jie's mouth, removed a small, dark brown lip from the third to last tooth, and then snapped his jaw shut, causing Zhao Jie to groan in pain.

"Why did you instruct the villagers to stop us from leaving?" Mo Ziyuan asked, standing in front of him.

Beads of sweat the size of soybeans appeared on Zhao Jie's forehead. He bit his lip hard, trying not to speak, but even though he bit his lip until it bled, he still managed to squeeze out a sentence through his teeth: "...The people on the road haven't been deployed yet... We can't let you leave so quickly."

"What is your purpose?"

This time, Zhao Jie resisted even more fiercely, but still couldn't withstand the effects of the drug, and mumbled, "...ambushing you halfway...we can't...let the Emperor's...son return...to the capital..."

Everyone frowned. "What do you plan to do? Kill the future Crown Prince?"

"The orders I received... were... were like this..."

"Who gave you those orders?"

"It is... the head guard of the Third Prince's residence!"

With each word he uttered, Zhao Jie's expression grew more desperate. When he finished speaking, his face was ashen, and he lay on his back on the ground, his eyes vacant as if he had lost all life.