“Yes,
Mistress, Qing Zhu will keep this in mind!”
“Of course,
when you come out in the future and run into these kind of situations, you must
fully understand the situations first. Don’t kill the innocent inadvertently
nor let a bad person go because of a wrong decision!”
“Yes,
Mistress!”
“You are
still young. You will experience more and more in the future!”
Bighead Chi
appeared before them shortly followed by a few more men. They were still tied
by jade vines; it was obvious that Yuteng hadn’t paid them any attention yet.
“Mistress!” said
Bighead Chi respectfully.
The six men
behind him walked up, knelt in front of Cheng Xiao Xiao but none made a sound.
Cheng Xiao
Xiao casted a glance at them and raised her brows before looking at Bighead
Chi. She trusted that he had something to tell her.
“Mistress,
none of them became bandits willingly. Dayong and Zhang Ping were ordinary
hunters. But they were very good with their arrows so under part temptation and
part threats by Flower Monk, they finally joined the group of bandits.
“Lin Tang,
Wang Li, Dao, and San were teachers in their town. But they had inadvertently
hurt the bad official’s son so there were warrants out on them. When they were
trying to run away they ran into Flower Monk who were robbing the peasants.
They only joined the bandits partly because they were threatened and partly
because they didn’t have a lot of other options. Mistress, I guarantee you that
they have good men. Every time Flower Monk ordered us to kill everyone, they
have always tried everything they could to save the people!”
Cheng Xiao
Xiao was surprised. She thought perhaps Bighead Chi saved a few of the ones
that he was closer to; she didn’t expect the ones saved were the ones with good
hearts.
“Young
Mistress, we know what we have done. Even though we didn’t have a lot of
choice, but after all, we had killed a lot of innocents. We will own up to
that. If you want to kill us, I don’t have any defense for myself!” said Lin
Tang with his neck straight.
Wang Li said
after him, “We knew it’s a matter of time before we were killed the day we
became bandits. So whatever happened today, it’d be fine. We have survived long
enough!”
“We will
leave it up to young mistress. What Bighead Chi said was true, and we were
prepared to be killed. If only we had the courage to commit suicide, we really
should have taken our own lives a long time ago!”
The rest
didn’t say anything but all nodded in agreement.
Cheng Xiao
Xiao was surprised again by their words. She didn’t think much of them before,
but now she couldn’t help but started thinking about keeping them around.
“Young
Mistress, they are all telling the truth!”
Little
Yuteng provided her with a definitive answer.
The few in
front of her were all around 20 – 30 years of age, none too old. All of them just
at their prime; it would be quite worthy to retain them.
She waved
her right hand and the vines that had been binding them all disappeared. She
said, “Okay, get up, all of you!”
The six
exchanged looks and stood up one by one. Cheng Xiao Xiao waved her right hand
again and a dagger appeared in each of their hands!
“You had all
said you don’t want to live any more, now it’s your chance to end your own
lives. I trust there aren’t a lot more that you couldn’t leave behind, right?”
They all laughed
and looked at the gleaming daggers in their hands, each of them gripping onto
the dagger tightly. Dayong smiled and said, “All my good brothers, we are not
real brothers, neither have we ever sworn into brotherhood during our times at
bandits, but we have fought along side each others for years. Today we are
lucky to be able to die together and have each others’ company us on our way to
hell, we should be happy about that!”
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