Chapter 310: Little Black Dragon, Can You Be a Bit More Serious?

Chapter 310: Little Black Dragon, Can You Be a Bit More Serious?

Ci Xin quickly raised his hand to cover Xiao Xi'er's mouth to stop her.

Look at this girl, what kind of outrageous things is she saying?!

She's so young, it's really troubling.

"Ah, Little Heart, you're too naive, you wouldn't get it. These tricks, among commoners, especially in the eyes of the rich and powerful, are just standard practice!"

Xiaoyue also heard Ruo Xi Baby's thoughts. She wanted to stop her but decided against it. This girl was likely an extraordinary figure in her previous life, explaining why she knows so much now. As for herself, the mother, she seemed to have few skills in comparison.

"Depraved! Absolutely depraved! My husband is a total degenerate!" Zhao Le's wife cried.

"A total degenerate? What did he do?" someone asked in a low voice.

"Just look at those injuries; it's gruesome!"

"The things he did are beyond belief!"

The townsfolk shook their heads one after another. Zhao Le, on the other hand, hung his head and remained silent.

"I beg you, Prince, Imperial Tutor, and Princess Royal, to seek justice!" Zhao Wen kowtowed to Xiao Yu Heng.

The young teenager had already understood what had happened and the cause of Zhao Wen's injuries. His face flushed slightly, but he composed himself and sternly demanded, "Zhao Le, do you have anything to say?"

"Your Highness, these are just my personal preferences; surely they aren't illegal? Or a capital offense?" Zhao Le thought for a moment, then looked up at Xiao Yu Heng and said.

"Bring in Mother Wang from the Qingliu Courtyard!" Ci Xin said.

The Qingliu Courtyard, a brothel near Zhao Le's home, was a place even Ci Xin had visited.

Mother Wang was brought over. She glanced at Ci Xin, then at Zhao Le beside him, hesitated, and finally said, "Prince, Imperial Tutor, I don't know anything. I only bought girls from him. They were delivered half-dead, all tortured by him. He sold them cheap, so I took them..."

"You're talking nonsense, that's slander!" Zhao Le immediately turned to her and shouted, "Mother Wang, if you keep talking like this, I'll take over your Qingliu Courtyard, and you'll lose everything!"

"Oh, with your current state, you still think you can threaten me? Let me tell you, don't try to scare me. We saw everything you did from the back of the courtyard!" Mother Wang turned and started arguing with Zhao Le.

Since they were close, they soon started fighting. Mother Wang scratched Zhao Le's face until it bled. Even though Zhao Le was in shackles, he wasn't idle. The shackles nearly strangled Mother Wang to death.

"Enough, separate them!" Xiao Yu Heng waved his hand and said after they had fought enough.

The guards stepped forward and kicked each of them, pulling them apart.

"W-What happened? How did it come to this?" Mother Wang looked at the blood under her nails, then at Zhao Le's bloodied face, her mouth twitching in disbelief.

Zhao Le, meanwhile, looked at the strangulation marks on Mother Wang's neck, then turned to Xiao Yu Heng and the Imperial Tutor, his eyes filled with fear. "No, Imperial Tutor, I didn't mean to, I didn't want to hit her, I swear..."

He was out of control, something that Ci Xin understood better than anyone. Because Ci Xin had sensed a faint energy emanating from nearby. Xiao Xi'er, annoyed by their disobedience, had decided to punish them.

Especially Mother Wang, who had previously plotted to steal Little Bao'er from the brothel. That was practically asking for death.

"Speak, confess all your crimes, both the known and the unknown," Xiao Yu Heng commanded coldly.

"I confess, I confess!" Mother Wang said, trembling and bowing her head to the ground. "I was greedy for money and he, Zhao Le, is a pervert. He doesn’t know where he got so many women from, tortured them within an inch of their lives at home, and then sold them cheaply to my brothel. Some of them couldn’t survive because they were too badly injured or had lost too much blood, so I had to bury them alive."

"Where are they buried?" Xiaoyu Heng asked.

"Buried, buried behind the Qingliu Courtyard," Mother Wang said.

Xiaoyu Heng ordered his guards to take people there, and soon they dug up many corpses.

"Zhao Le, what else do you have to say?" Seeing the dozens of corpses piled up, Xiaoyu Heng was so enraged that he kicked Zhao Le hard, breaking two of his ribs!

Zhao Le spat out a mouthful of blood and mumbled, "Spare me, spare me! Your Highness, spare me! I’ll confess everything!"

According to Zhao Le’s confession, these women were either tricked or drugged from various places and brought to his home.

He didn’t trust anyone outside, so he brought them to his home. His wife was too afraid of him and would help to cover up for him.

As for Mother Wang from the brothel, she was happy to buy the inexpensive girls from him, and that’s how this operation came to be.

"You said you have buyers in the Imperial City? Brothels in the Imperial City?" Xiaoyu Heng asked.

Seeing this scene, Ruo Xi Baby sighed and tightened her small hand into a fist.

"This kind of beast deserves to suffer!" Ruo Xi Baby sighed in her heart. "Confessing without interrogation is too easy on him!"

She never let any slight go unpunished, and even Ci Xin found it quite amusing, but at this moment, his brows were deeply furrowed in anger.

"Tell me, which brothels use your girls? As the Imperial Tutor, I’ve been investigating from the south to the north. I’ve always wondered who, through what channels, could import women from the Western Regions for trade, not to mention the many young and beautiful women from the Great Wei who ended up in brothels! It turns out you were the one behind these vile deeds!" Ci Xin shouted coldly, and with another slap.

"Ptooey!"

Zhao Le spat out a few teeth. He struggled to get up, but the pain that followed made him feel utterly miserable.

"Aaahhhh!"

Zhao Le rolled on the ground in agony, his hands now covering his chest, now hugging his legs, now... covering his groin.

"Xier!" Seeing this scene, Ci Xin turned to look at Ruo Xi Baby. "Be serious!"

"..." Ruo Xi Baby looked at Ci Xin for a long moment. "You should get your mind right, little black dragon. He was already sick, and besides, he usually took medicine, so his body rotted away due to his illness and the medicine he took."