The gambling god's wife in the Duke's Mansion is getting divorced again

"This is what happens when you disobey me!"

Wang Xiaoer glared at everyone from the high platform: "Yanhong, Qingshan, I'll count to three! If you don't get out of here, I'll kill one person per stick of incense! Light the incense!"

In the middle of the ghost market, a man holding a big knife and half of his arm with tattoos showing, holding a small incense burner, looked around.

It was a thin incense stick, and the spark at the tip was almost undetectable in the bright light of the fire, but everyone held their breath and watched the ashes fall inch by inch.

The incense is getting shorter at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yan Hong couldn't stand it anymore, so she opened the scroll and got out: "No, I can't watch my fellow villagers die like this."

Qingshan followed up: "Let's fight our way out."

"Wait!" Sang Wan was anxious, and a light bulb went off in his head: "I have a good idea."

"What's the idea?"

Yanhong and Qingshan stopped.

Sang Wan whispered to a few people. Yan Hong hesitated, Qingshan was undecided, and Xiao Shun refused directly: "Master, no."

Seeing that the incense stick was almost burned out, Sang Wan made the decision:

"Listen to me. Take a gamble!"

*

"Wang Xiaoer, you're lying!"

Qingshan had stepped onto a loess slope at some point and spoke loudly to the people in the street:

"Wang Dana wasn't killed by Yan Hong and me. The real murderer is you. You killed him in order to seize the position of City Lord!"

"Catch him!" Wang Xiaoer pointed at Qingshan and shouted, "If I say it's you, it's you!"

Yan Hong's clear voice pierced the sky above the Ghost Market like a silver bell:

"Everyone, stop right there! This is Concubine Rong's younger sister, Princess Jianing! If anyone dares to come forward, I'll kill her!"

Just now, Sang Wan went through all the noble ladies in Beijing in his mind and picked out the most annoying one to use.

Yan Hong put a dagger against Sang Wan's neck and stood out from behind Qingshan:

"Wang Xiaoer, do you dare to be an enemy of His Majesty?"

When did a county lord appear in this ghost market?

Wang Xiaoer looked at the followers around him in confusion.

The attendant shook his head: "I don't know how he got in."

"You said she was the county lady? What evidence do you have?"

Wang Xiaoer rolled his eyes and said, "Don't tell me you're lying!"

Sang Wan took off the jade pendant from her waist and held it up tremblingly to Wang Xiaoer, saying, "Here is the royal jade pendant! If anyone dares to kill me, my sister, the Imperial Concubine, will never let you go!"

At Wang Xiaoer's signal, the guard reached out for the jade pendant, and Sang Wan threw it over.

As soon as Wang Xiaoer touched the jade pendant, he knew that what she said was true. The luster and feel of this jade showed that it was not an ordinary item and it was impossible for an ordinary person to own it.

"Get out of the way and let us go!"

Yan Hong pushed Sang Wan out. The guards of the Ghost Market did not dare to stop them and made way for them.

As they approached the exit, Wang Xiaoer suddenly changed his mind:

"Wait! Since you are the county lady, a rare guest! Why don't you come to my ghost town and have a seat?"

"Wang Xiaoer, you dare to detain me?!" Sang Wan stared at him, "Aren't you afraid that my brother-in-law, the emperor, will kill you?"

"With the county lady here, who dares to act rashly? Coincidentally, I have a business deal to discuss with the emperor's uncle."

In the past, Wang Dana had frequent contacts with nobles in Beijing and did a lot of things in secret, receiving a lot of benefits. However, this person was extremely stingy and could not even give a few taels of silver to his brothers.

Now that he is in charge, he has the final say in the entire ghost town.

If the connection with the nobles in the capital is gone, it would be a good idea to cling to the emperor's uncle. It would be better to hold the county lady in hand and do a favor.

"Catch them all!"

As soon as Wang Xiaoer finished speaking, a group of guards rushed over and held Yan Hong and Qing Shan down.

"Don't hurt them!" Sang Wan shouted.

"They kidnapped me, and I can't swallow this anger. You can negotiate a deal with my father, but if you kill them, I won't be able to vent my anger, so I'll have to go after you. Don't blame me for razing the Ghost Market then!"

Wang Xiaoer felt a little scared when he heard her speak so domineeringly, but he still maintained a tough attitude, for fear that the people in the ghost market would see his cowardice and he would not be able to control the situation in the future.

"Alright, then I'll lock you all up in the dungeon! Wait for the uncle of the emperor to come and personally examine you to see if you're the county lady!"

The guard tried to push her, but Sang Wan raised her head proudly, "Don't touch me! I can walk by myself!"

*

The dungeon in the ghost town was right next to the water dungeon where Qingshan had been rescued. The dungeon was deep and connected to an underground river. The closer you got, the louder the sound of the flowing water became.

There was only a dim oil lamp hanging on the wall, and almost everything in sight was dim.

The entire dungeon was dark and damp, with moss growing on the walls and a strong fishy smell rushing into one's nose.

Sang Wan has a sensitive nose and feels nauseous when he smells it.

Wang Xiaoer glanced at her sideways with a smug look:

"The princess is a delicate woman, she has no idea how dangerous this ghost town is. There are crocodiles in the water."

As he was speaking, the crocodile from under the water popped its head out, as if to bear witness to his words. Its long mouth opened and closed, and a fishy smell hit his face.

"There's hair in its mouth. That's..." Qingshan's eyes were sharp and he was horrified: "Did you feed Wang Dana to the fish?!"

Wang Xiaoer laughed grimly: "If I don't feed it to the fish, do I really want to chop it up and make meat buns for you to eat during the New Year?"

"Ugh..." Yan Hong felt sick. "Wang Xiaoer, you're much more disgusting than Wang Dana."

"You're so kind! So kind!" Wang Xiaoer sneered. "Send a letter to the Rong residence. If you want to save the county lady, please ask the uncle to come alone!"

"Come in!" As soon as the wooden gate was opened, the three people were locked in.

Yan Hong felt bad and secretly sat down next to Sang Wan: "I'm sorry, Wan."

"Shun is still outside, don't panic." Sang Wan pursed her lips towards Qingshan and said, "Brother Qingshan, you guard the door."

"Okay!" Qingshan sat down alone by the wooden prison door, chewing a piece of straw.

"This Wang Dana deserved his punishment. He died at the hands of his own people."

“How many alligators are there down there?”

Sang Wan had only heard of this kind of animal, whose entire body could be used as medicine, making it a very rare source of medicine.

“I’ve been in the ghost town for as long as I can remember, and I heard back then that this underground river connected to the Gulf Stream outside and that alligators were infested;

Later, Wang Dana became the city lord and often threw disobedient people into the pond to feed the fish. The crocodiles grew in number. There are probably more than a dozen of them now. It's terrifying!"

“So many, that’s great!”

Sang Wan's heart instantly became excited. She had found a storehouse of medicinal herbs for free. If that old man Bai Shi knew about this, he would be so happy.

Yan Hong got goose bumps all over her body:

"What good can come of something so horrible?"

Sang Wan briefly explained to her that crocodiles are valuable from head to toe. Yan Hong's eyes immediately lit up: "Can they be sold for money?!"

That's really good!

She was suddenly no longer so afraid of this ugly thing.

Seeing the two of them talking enthusiastically about how to make medicine and how to sell it, Qingshan couldn't help but look back at the crocodile pond.

Wow, looking at it this way, it seems like those in the pool are even more pitiful than those in the prison.

These two women, eh~

Qingshan moved his butt and stayed away from them.

A pale hand reached out from the darkness and knocked on the wooden pillar beside Sang Wan:

"Hey, it's so noisy! Can't I sleep?"