I turned the cold palace into a paradise

"As for me, I don't kill innocent people indiscriminately. How about this, you two point out who has killed someone and who has bullied a woman?" Yun Yue said.

"Lu Wang! He even killed children who couldn't even talk before!"

"And Brother Feng... Zhang Feng! He killed several people when he robbed the cloth shop last time!"

"Niu Laosan! He loves to bully women the most! He has bullied the wives of his companions in the village!"

"Yes, yes, yes! And Huang Chengcai..."

In order to survive, everyone started reporting on each other. Those who were reported refuted with pale faces, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

Yin Yi and a few others pulled the people who had been reported out of the crowd and threw them aside. There were thirty-two people in total, all of whom were quite skilled in fighting and were considered the pillars of the village.

Forget Yunyue, who was a minor thief, for now. The remaining twenty-six people were all covered in blood.

"Son!!"

"Daddy! Daddy!"

"Husband!"

Just as Yunyue was thinking about how to deal with these people, a group of women, children, and the elderly, armed with kitchen knives and sticks, rushed over.

Yin Yi and others immediately stopped them with swords raised.

"Please let our boss go! How are we going to survive without him?"

"Son! My son! I told you not to do evil things, but you just wouldn't listen..."

"Daddy, please let my dad go..."

Old and young women, men and women knelt on the ground and kowtowed to beg for mercy for their loved ones.

Yun Yue was getting a headache from the noise and yelled, "If you keep making noise, I'll kill you!"

The scene suddenly became silent. Some children were still sobbing, but their mouths were covered by the adults.

Yun Yue first looked at the twenty-six people and asked, "Are there any relatives of yours among them?"

One third of the people raised their hands. Yun Yue thought about what they had done. They were basically forced to kill one or two people. Except for that time when they were forced, they didn't harm anyone else, so she let them come out.

"You, this is the antidote. Take your wives and children down the mountain now. I will spare your lives this time. If I see you doing evil again in the future, I will kill you. Zhang Feng, stay." Yun Yue took out a few pills and threw them to them.

They were overjoyed, knelt down and kowtowed after receiving it, and then hurriedly took their wives and children down the mountain without taking any luggage, for fear that Yunyue would regret it.

Zhang Feng was left alone, and he regretted it very much. If he had known that the two women were a hot potato, he would not have caught them. Looking at his white-haired mother, he looked at Yunyue again: "Please let me go, I... I have a mother. If I lose her, what will happen to my mother?"

"Heh, what you said is really interesting. When you were a bandit, did you ever think about my mother? When you killed others, did you ever think about the fact that they also had mothers?"

Zhang Feng's mother looked at her son, whose face was as pale as paper, and cried, "It's all your fault that your father and I didn't teach you well! That's why you hurt so many people... You don't have to worry about me, and I don't need you to support me. I will leave before you today and go downstairs to make amends to those who died in vain!" As she spoke, she put the kitchen knife in her hand to her neck...

"mother!!!!"

Yunyue hurried over to help stop the bleeding, but the old woman held her hand tightly and closed her eyes in relief. Ever since her son became a bandit, she had never had a good night's sleep. She was either afraid that her son would be killed by the officials, or that her son would kill innocent people and they would come to her to claim his life. No matter how she tried to persuade him, it was useless. Now... she could finally have a good night's sleep.

"It's all your fault!! You killed my mother!" Zhang Feng roared with red eyes!

Yunyue said nothing. Even now, he still did not realize his mistake. Even my life could not bring back his conscience. What was the point of her saying more?

Yun Yue was depressed by the old woman's behavior. She pointed at Zhang Feng and his group and said to Si Yin, "These people should pay for the lives of those innocent people who died. Throw them under the cliff to feed the fish."

"No! Please spare us!"

"I'll change! I'll never do bad things again!"

"Bah! Even if I die, I'll be a hero again in 18 years!"

Li Wanhua was annoyed by the noise, so she pulled a piece of clothing from the crowd and used it to cover their mouths.

Yin'er pushed a cart over, piled the poisoned people who had collapsed on the ground onto the cart, and pushed it with Yin'er towards the back mountain.

The others lowered their heads, looking terrified and not daring to speak, fearing that they would also be thrown to feed the fish.

Niu Laosan lay in the car without saying a word, but he breathed a sigh of relief. He had been able to swim since he was a child, so if he was thrown into the river, he might still have a chance to survive.

Who knew that when he arrived at the place, he felt a chill in his chest just before he was pushed down. Then he pulled out the knife, looked at Niu Lao San's incredulous eyes, and sneered: "The secret guard's rule is to kill people by rooting out the roots, and not leaving any chance of survival."

……

Yunyue looked at the remaining people and thought about it.

"Where is your cottage warehouse?"

Song Li, who had been silent, raised his hand and said, "I know. I'll take you there."

"Take him to get the box of money." He then took out the remaining pills from his purse and handed them to Basho: "Bring two buckets of water and pour this into the water."

Yin San and Yin Si helped Song Li take out a key from Fang Tianhu's waist and went to the warehouse.

"Now I'll give you two choices. First, if you want to leave, go ahead and get five taels of silver each. But don't do such evil things again."

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief, wondering if they had heard it wrong. How could someone let them go and give them money?

"Really...really?" someone brave enough asked.

"it is true."

"What's the second one?"

"The second is for those who are willing to stay. From now on, you will receive two taels of silver every month."

As soon as Yun Yue finished speaking, the crowd was in an uproar. Two taels of silver!! They had worked so hard before that they could not even earn one tael!!

Yin San and Yin Si placed the box they had brought at Yun Yue's feet, and when they opened it, they found a box full of silver.

Everyone stared with their eyes wide open.

"I...we need to go down the mountain." The person who spoke was a young man. He was already scared out of his wits after Yunyue came up and dealt with so many people.

Yun Yue nodded, and Si Yin took out a silver ingot from the box and handed it to him.

The man took the silver and felt it was unreal. He had never seen such a large amount of silver before.

"Then... I'm leaving?" he asked tentatively. He felt like there was something fishy going on.

"Wait a moment." Yun Yue said.

The man froze. It was over. Was he testing me? Was he going to be fed to the fish too?

"Wait a minute, drink the antidote first. Otherwise, how are you going to get down the mountain?"

Basho scooped a bowl of water from the bucket and handed it to him.

The man thought that the sooner he died, the sooner he could be reborn, so he took the bowl and drank it all. After a while, he felt stronger.

"Okay, let's go."

The man looked back every few steps and when he saw that no one was stopping him, he immediately ran down the mountain.