After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

The boy's name is Wang Dabao. He claims to be a farmer living in the mountains. He has no parents and only has one brother, Wang Erjie, to depend on.

In recent years, his younger brother Wang Erjie has learned some hunting skills and often comes to this mountain to hunt. He sells the prey for some money, and he has come to know the woman who is responsible for buying food for Zhixuan Mountain. The woman is kind-hearted and takes care of them, a pair of brothers without parents, and occasionally gives them some rice, flour, oil and salt... In this way, they become more and more familiar with each other, and even can enter and leave Zhixuan Mountain freely.

What happened tonight, after all, was caused by the two brothers' temporary greed.

A few days ago, they heard the kitchen maids talking about the distinguished guests in the guest house, saying that they were provided with delicious food and drinks. They originally just wanted to come in to find some food to take back, but they didn't expect that after hiding for several days, they saw that the maids and maids in the yard were very cautious and could not get in, so they used drugs...

"Tsk..." After hearing this, Lin Mu's eyebrows became more arrogant. He took a few steps forward, raised the lantern in his hand, patted the other person's cheek, and sneered, "I gave you the opportunity, but you didn't want to seize it... Wang Dabao, right? Do you think we are as stupid as you, or do you think we are even more stupid than you, and we believed it just because you said a few words casually?"

Wang Erjie stood there with his head down, clenching his hands tightly, and said nothing.

Wang Dabao looked up at Lin Mu, smiling awkwardly with the look of a good old man, and bowed his waist frequently, "I, what I said is true, true..."

The boy was thin and short, wearing a nightgown and kneeling there, looking up at people. His face was not big, but his eyes were surprisingly big. When he opened his eyes and looked at you, the whites of his eyes were bloodshot outside his dark pupils, making him look particularly innocent and tired.

Unfortunately, he was facing the forest.

Although Guard Lin Mu seemed unreliable most of the time, he had seen more prisoners than the other party had caught prey. He had encountered the most difficult, sinister, and well-disguised criminals, so how could he be fooled by such a young boy?

He grinned, raised the lantern in his hand, and asked, "Really?"

"Yes Yes……"

Lin Mu raised his hand suddenly, and the other party subconsciously dodged, but saw that Lin Mu was just faking a shot. He turned his fingertips in a different direction and grabbed Wang Erjie's collar and dragged him in front of him, threatening him with a stern face, "We gave you a chance, but you treated us like fools in the middle of the night. In this case, you can go! We will ask your good brother!"

How to ask? Obviously, he would suffer some physical pain. Wang Erjie was so scared that his face turned pale. He could only helplessly call his brother, like a frightened quail. Even Yuan Ge, who saw all this, suspected that these two guys were not really the petty thieves from the mountain. How could they not be frightened? But the surprise in the other party's eyes when he saw him was almost unmistakable. It was obvious...the other party knew him and Hong Lan.

Yanhuo and Linmu have always been the good cop and the bad cop. Now that the bad cop has been cast, Yanhuo, who can stop a child from crying without saying a word, can't really play the good cop. He just held down Wang Dabao who wanted to get up and asked Song Wenyuan in a calm voice, "Master, what should we do now?"

Lord Song glanced at Wang Dabao and said, "Ask the elder to find a secluded courtyard, hang him up and beat him until he tells the truth... Beat them separately to avoid collusion."

Lin Mu chuckled, "Alright! Leave this tender quail to me, and I promise he will confess everything!"

The candlelight flickered in the lantern, the tone was warm, but the white teeth that were revealed when the other person smiled somehow made him look eerie and spooky. Wang Erjie was so scared that his legs were shaking. "Brother, brother... I, I don't want to die! Brother——"

Guard Lin Mu had never looked so dignified before. He raised the lantern in his hand, illuminating the other party's face full of fear. He "comforted" him in a good-tempered manner, "Don't worry, we are all civilized people. We will be careful when we attack, and no one will die... Before you speak the truth, you will definitely not die. At most, you will have a few more bloody holes on your body, and your tendons will be broken. If you recover early, you can still recover a little. If you recover too late, you will just be a piece of living meat in this life... But you will not die anyway, don't worry."

Wang Erjie couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears, choking as he cried, "Brother, I'm sorry, I won't be greedy for money anymore! If, if there is an afterlife, I will definitely hunt honestly and will definitely, definitely listen to you! Brother, I'm sorry! It's all my fault!"

He spoke with sobs and choked up several times at the end, so one could just barely make out his meaning.

Wang Dabao's face turned pale, and he fell to the ground. After a while, he pounded the ground, until his knuckles were red... Then he said softly, "We were paid to do things for others..."

"For whom?"

“I don’t know…” Wang Dabao shook his head. He was probably really scared. He felt that his words were not convincing, so he hurriedly continued to clarify, “I, I really don’t know. The person was wrapped in a cloak and covered her face with a scarf. We brothers had never seen her before. We only saw that she was a tall girl with big steps. She walked and talked in a hurry. She found us and asked if we dared to kill someone. We are hunters. We are good at killing chickens, sheep, rabbits, etc. But killing someone… How could we do that!”

The girl was tall, walked and talked quickly, almost pointing directly at Zhuang Mengdie.

Yuan Ge gathered his clothes, walked to the door, lowered his eyes and looked at Wang Dabao who had fallen silent, and urged him in a low voice, "Continue."

"I refused at first." Wang Dabao pounded on the bluestone bricks a few times, looking very distressed. "But this kid got addicted to gambling a while ago. Not only did we lose all the little savings at home, but we also owed the gambling house a lot of money. The principal plus interest, the interest compounded by interest, has reached a huge amount of one hundred taels in just ten days... We two brothers can't save so much money in our lifetime! Erjie, Erjie had evil thoughts and thought of taking a risk..."

"Where's the evidence?" Yuan Ge raised his lips with an unpredictable expression. "If you kill someone for someone else, you should leave some evidence, right? Otherwise, how can we know whether you are just making random accusations or are truly repentant?"

"I..." The other party was speechless. He half-knelt and looked back at Yuan Ge, hesitatingly saying, "It's the first time for me to do this kind of thing of taking money to help others get rid of disasters. I have no experience... and I'm afraid. How can I think so thoroughly?"

It looked like the clumsy and flustered behavior of a novice.