After I traveled through the book, my sister kidnapped my mother

When He Yuanyao arrived in Nanshao with reinforcements, Wen Ke had already closed the city gates and refused to leave the city to surrender.

Qi Linglang and Zheng Shu had been sent out of Nanshao City, and only Shi Wanyue remained in the city.

Wen Ke had gone completely crazy. When the imperial edict of punishment arrived, she refused to plead guilty and directly ordered her men to close the city and fight. The people in the city were not allowed to leave.

Shi Wanyue was imprisoned by her in Prince Shun's Mansion, and Wen Ziqiong and Wen Rongxue were both controlled by her people.

But Shi Wanyue seemed to have expected it. She was not panicked at all and even went to chat with Wen Rongxue.

Under Lu Jiaoyue's care these days, Wen Rongxue's illness has improved a little.

The toxins have not been completely cleared out, but Lu Jiaoyue said there is still hope in time.

When He Yuanyao's reinforcements besieged Nanshao City, Lushui City where Duan was located was also besieged by a large army of mountain bandits.

Duan Jiling was in the city, sitting in the position of the head of the family.

"At this point, do the elders still think we have a chance of winning?" Duan Jiling raised a playful smile.

The Duan elders who were sitting below her frowned slightly when they heard her words: "What does the Patriarch mean by this?"

"Don't even mention that my Duan clan's 30,000 troops can come back to help immediately. Even if they can't, as descendants of the Duan clan, we can only die in battle. How can we surrender to a group of bandits?"

Duan Jiling laughed and said, "You don't have to wait for the 30,000 troops. A part of the 30,000 troops you mentioned have already changed their generals and surrendered to Tianqi. The other part is just a mob."

"Elders, do you know who is the leader of those ignorant bandits you are talking about?" Duan Jiling raised the corner of his mouth.

"It's His Highness Tianqi Yuanzhao, who you thought was dead."

"The ignorant bandits you mentioned were formed by the elite soldiers of Apocalypse. They just set up camp temporarily on the mountain to accommodate the people." Duan Jiling couldn't help laughing mockingly.

"As the head of our Duan family, you actually colluded with the descendants of a destroyed country?" The great elder who was closest to Duan Jiling had a gloomy face and gathered his internal strength in his palms, as if he was going to punish Duan Jiling according to the family rules in the next moment.

But before he could actually start, he felt a piercing pain.

Duan Jiling raised the corners of his mouth, with a crazy look on his face: "His Highness Yuan Zhao asked me to tell you that she doesn't like things like elephant grain, so she didn't eat it. But since the elders like it so much, and want her, a stranger, to taste it, why don't the elders taste it first."

"Of course, this is what His Highness Yuan Zhao said. Personally, I still hope that you will try the immortality elixir developed by the wizards in our clan. I have good intentions. Are you elders happy?"

Her grey eyes were slightly red due to excessive excitement. She showed her fair wrists, which were covered with crisscross black marks, looking eerie and scary.

The masked woman standing behind her frowned unconsciously.

"Kill her, kill her!" The great elder, who had been poisoned by the heart-eating insect that Duan Jiling had raised himself, gave orders to the Duan family tree guards with a distorted face.

But the tree guards, dressed in black armor and wearing wood-grain masks on their faces, did not move.

Duan Jiling had a dagger in her hand and she used it to cut the elder's face: "Great elder, you forgot that Lingling is the head of the family."

"Shuwei only obeys the orders of the head of the Duan family. This is the rule you set yourselves." She looked at the blood on the dagger and laughed wantonly.

"Throw them all into the Gu pool to feed the Gu." After laughing, Duan Jiling's face suddenly turned cold.

But when Shuwei was catching people, she suddenly changed her mind.

"Leave a few who are in better health to the witch doctor. Don't you like to test medicine on people? The elders can try it out in the next few days."

"Here."

After the tree guards escorted the men away, the entire meeting room fell silent.

Bian Ruitong, who was standing behind her, took off the mask on her face and looked at Duan Jiling, who was lying on the table and suddenly burst into tears, feeling at a loss.

Duan Jiling's crying was particularly ear-catching in the empty meeting room.

Bian Ruitong stood beside her and had no idea what to do.

"You..." She said one word and then scratched her ears and cheeks, not knowing how to continue.

Fortunately, the old elder came over with a beautiful woman not long after.

When Duan Jiling heard Bian Ruitong's reminder, she quickly wiped away her tears and looked over.

But after just one look, I couldn't help crying again.

She stood up and stumbled over. Looking at the haggard woman, she couldn't help crying again.

Bian Ruitong thought the woman seemed somewhat similar to Duan Jiling. It was not until she heard Duan Jiling call "Mom" twice that she was sure that she was Duan Jiling's mother.

But no matter how Duan Jiling called out, her mother didn't respond at all. She looked dazed, as if she had lost her soul.

Bian Ruitong sighed. After coming to the south, she finally understood why her mother always said that she didn't appreciate what she had.

There are indeed many people in this world who are more miserable than her.

The old elder sighed and said, "Master, the lady has already been unable to recover. I have only managed to save her life."

Duan Jiling hugged her mother and cried silently, and some tree guards standing nearby couldn't help but look sideways.

Until a guard came with a message saying that the bandits outside the city were preparing to attack the city.

Duan Jiling then let go of her mother: "Elder, please help me take good care of my mother. I still have some things to take care of."

The old elder nodded slightly: "Go."

Then the old elder took another deep look at the meeting room and said, "Master, will the Duan family still exist after today?"

"Does Elder Lao know why I chose to cooperate with her?"

"Because she would not use poison and witchcraft to control people like the Elders, nor would she massacre her own people."

"Why did the Duan family destroy their country back then? Over the years, neither the Elders' Council nor the Duan family has understood. The demise of the Duan royal family was the will of heaven. It was self-destruction. It had nothing to do with the Wen family, let alone the current emperor." Duan Jiling said, looking at the dim sun.

The rain has finally stopped in the past few days, and there is even some sunlight today.

"Elder, I just want the Duan family to live in the sunshine."

After saying this, Duan Jiling left.

Soon the city gate was opened and the head of the Duan family surrendered the city.

The leader of the bandit army led his troops into the city without slaughtering any innocent civilians.

Three days later, the general in charge of suppressing the rebellion, Cong Yinghe, personally accepted the surrender of the bandits outside the military tent.

The leader was actually His Highness Yuan Zhao, who had already passed away.

He Yuanyao followed behind Cong Yinghe, and when she saw Wen Zhimiao, she quickly ran over and hugged her.

"Miao Miao, you are so impressive. Do you know that my sister and I were scared to death? When I heard the news of your death, I almost believed it!"

He Yuanyao accused her.

Wen Zhimiao felt guilty and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry for making you worry."

"Forget it, I'll forgive you this time. If you scare me like this again next time, I will definitely break up with you!"

Wen Zhimiao smiled relaxedly: "There won't be a next time."

How could she dare to do it again? If she did, not only would He Yuanyao break off their friendship with her, she would also fail to appease Shi Wanyue, not to mention that Zhou Zhou and her mother would also beat her.

Wen Zhimiao has really figured it out these days.

Everything Shi Wanyue said was right. She was just too stupid in the past.