"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

Patriarch Jia suddenly raised his head and shouted loudly.

"I, Jia Sicheng, am willing to lead the entire Jia family to serve under Your Majesty and follow Your Majesty's lead. To show my loyalty, I am willing to offer you the map of the Snow Mountain Trade Route. Please, Your Majesty, spare me!"

After saying that, he knocked his head to the ground.

Qin Qiong looked at him with a sneer on her lips. She knew that this idiot would use this trick in the end.

Prince Hong glanced at the man on the ground, then looked up at the others.

Then he asked, "So, what about you guys?"

Upon hearing this, the crowd immediately became excited...

"We are all willing to serve you and serve you wholeheartedly! Please spare our lives, my Lord!"

"Yes, we do!"

"Save us, Lord!"

……

The people below also shouted in unison.

"Well, if you say so, I believe it. So, today, let's make it clear. You just sit here and think carefully about what you can do for me. What do I need you to do? Wait a minute, we will talk together."

Prince Hong finally regained his cool, handsome, and wise look. The merchants below did not understand what he meant and could only kneel there in fear.

Here, a sergeant went to the back and started to boil water, and made hot soup and passed it out. Obviously, this group of people had been waiting outside for too long, and now they were freezing to death, and they needed to take a rest.

The prince also turned around and started talking to Mr. Chen. They ignored the businessmen who were still kneeling there and everyone was busy trying to be as quiet as possible.

After a while, the sound of a carriage entering the village was heard outside.

Soon, the door was pushed open again from the outside, and more than a dozen elders and clan leaders from the town walked in, supported by others.

Among them were Uncle Li and the elders of the Li family, several elders of the Jia clan, and several elders from the Pon families who had settled in the town and owned land.

They were invited into the hall by the soldiers in the wind and snow, but they did not even look at those who were still kneeling on the ground. They sat as quietly as possible in the seats assigned to them.

The soldiers separated the merchants and took them to two sides. The tables and chairs in the middle were thrown aside, and the hall was empty.

At this time, everyone understood that the case was going to be tried.

But, what are these for?

Why do we need to review it?

Didn't they just want that road? But it had already been promised to him, so what else did he want?

The merchants became even more panicked!

After all the arrangements were ready, the prince turned to look at Qin Qiong, who was sitting on his right.

"Master Qin, there are too many wronged souls and we can't find the victims right now. Please ask the Anmin League to ask questions on their behalf. You can ask whatever you want. I promise you that I will bring justice to those who died unjustly!"

At this point, there was a sigh in the hall.

Qin Qiong stood up and kowtowed to the prince respectfully. Then she stood up and faced everyone in the hall.

"In the past, there was a trade route on top of this snowy mountain that led to the outside world. People could use it to send goods outside and trade with people over there, thus gathering people at the foot of the mountain to form a market and then a town."

"This is our present-day Camel Town. The first people who arrived here benefited from this trade route and multiplied and thrived here. Year after year, the trade route nourished the town and allowed the people in the town to pass on their heritage from generation to generation. This went on for several generations..."

As she spoke slowly and leisurely, the old people in the hall couldn't help but sigh.

"One day, the snow mountain got angry and the ground shook, and the trade route disappeared... So, every year people would send people to look for it, hoping to find a new trade route that could lead out of the mountain. However, after so many years, people always returned empty-handed."

"You know, this trade route is very important to everyone in this town. Don't forget that this trade route was discovered and developed by the ancestors of this town. It doesn't belong to anyone, it belongs to everyone!"

At this time, there was some commotion among the crowd, and everyone began to whisper...

"The old people in the town all know that there was a tribe on this mountain, but later, they disappeared overnight. About ten years ago, the people in the town rescued a man on the mountain. This man was from that tribe. He said he was a witch and he could point out a new trade route for the town, but there was a price to pay. People believed him and were willing to pay some price because the trade route was too important to the town!"

"But they were wrong. The price was too high. Twenty people went, but only a dozen came back. They realized then that all wealth and money were nothing compared to living lives."

"Especially when those who lost their lives were your relatives and friends, all those who came back no longer mentioned the trade route. People felt that they could live safely without it."

At this time, the prince looked at the woman standing in front of him and nodded slightly.

"Originally, people could have forgotten it, forgotten the sad past, but no, some people don't want to."

"Greed finally defeated his conscience, and wealth made him abandon his conscience! Just six or seven years ago, someone... the Jia family, started traveling by caravan again. Moreover, they were traveling along the same trade route that had killed their own relatives and had long been cursed!"

Having said this, Qin Qiong turned to Jia Sicheng who was kneeling there.

She asked loudly, "Chief Jia, can you tell us how you found the secret path in the valley ahead? What did you let these five new members of the caravan drink? Do you dare to tell us?"

Jia Sicheng knelt there and trembled, his mind was in a mess...

It’s over, it’s over, Dad has already said it, no, no!

But, but so many years have passed, it’s okay!

Everything has been fine!

Ask him what he gave those people to drink? What was it? What else could it be…

How did it go?

How do you say we can get through? How else can we get through? Do you have any other method?

"Say!"

The prince above also questioned loudly.

But what do you want him to say?

He didn't know, he didn't know what to say...

"So where are you? Has anyone said anything?"

The prince turned around and looked at the people from the other two families.

"I said! I said!"

Suddenly, the head of one of the families spoke. He crawled forward two steps.

He said hurriedly: "Your Highness! I said... We, we are merchants from Bande City, we just followed here, everything else was done by Patriarch Jia and their Juyi Escort Agency. Yes, it was Patriarch Jia, Jia Sicheng, who arranged everything."

"We, we just knew, we just thought... they would send the 'human sacrifice' over there, and we didn't participate in anything else! Please show mercy, Lord!"

The man began to kowtow desperately. He understood clearly that they were finished.

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