Don't Ask Where People Go After Time Travel

Chapter 1514 Awakening

"This is not enough..." Fu Congnan coughed and looked at Li Qiyou, who had woken up, and said intermittently: "The Dugu family in the Western Region took advantage of the favorable location of Xiguan City to collect tolls from merchants. In this matter, the Fang family It should be the clearest.”

He took a breath and continued: "How much money has flowed into the pockets of the Dugu family, but outside Xiguan City, robbers are still rampant. The businessmen passing by are on tenterhooks and may be in danger of their lives at any time..."

"What did you say?" Li Qiyou's voice interrupted Fu Congnan's words. As soon as he woke up, hearing these accusations was like a bolt from the blue.

But Fu Congnan didn't give Li Qiyou time to accept it. He questioned word by word: "May I ask His Highness King Yucheng, is what the Dugu family did, was it a bandit act, or..."

"That's enough." Fang Zilan glanced at Fu Congnan, with murderous intent gradually rising in her eyes. She didn't know how Li Qiyou would react if he heard that the Dugu family was colluding with the robbers.

But she knew that no matter what the reaction was, she didn't want to see it.

"The suppression of bandits is not over as long as there is one bandit in the world." Fang Zilan heard her own voice, calm and restrained, "If it is not over, in the eyes of outsiders, it is the same as starting from the beginning. After all, there are twists and turns in it. The hardships cannot be seen by outsiders. Even so, the hard work behind it cannot be erased.”

She paused as she spoke, "Fu Congnan, not everyone is like you. They give up on something they can't do. Then they follow the trend, or even join in the trend, and they call it understanding of current affairs."

Hearing this, Fu Congnan sneered, "Miss Fang San, what benefits did the Dugu family give you to let you speak for them like this?"

Fang Zilan didn't say anything, she just walked to Fu Congnan, took the knife from Hongtai's hand, and said casually: "What do you think it is good for?"

"I don't think it's for the benefit, but for King Yucheng..." Before Fu Congnan could finish his words, Fang Zilan stabbed him again, exactly where Hongtai stabbed him before.

"I know what the world thinks of me, and I don't need you to repeat it." Fang Zilan twisted the handle of the knife casually, and the blade spun down, making Fu Congnan miserable, his expression twisted, but he still said harshly: "You...Uncle Li The canary raised by my nephew..."

Seeing this, Fang Zilan snorted, with disdain on her face, but her words were extremely solemn, "I am here for King Yucheng, but I am not trying to please and cling to him, but I don't want his sincere heart to be covered in dust."

Li Qiyou's expression froze, and Fang Zilan looked at him steadily and said seriously: "No matter what the Pei family and the Dugu family have done, it is all in the past. However, the road to becoming a king lies in the future."

Hearing this, Fu Congnan was startled, "What do you mean...?"

"If not, why do you think King Yucheng is here?" Fang Zilan's expression became colder, and Fu Congnan showed a look of disbelief, "You mean...impossible, this is impossible!"

He shook his head, but the wound was affected, and he bared his teeth and said, "The king of jade is as noble as gold, he won't..."

"Why wouldn't I?" Li Qiyou spoke slowly, and Fu Congnan's eyes dimmed. "You are the hope of the Dugu family. There is no need to ruin your future by getting involved in this mess. Do you know that they are all waiting for you to inherit the throne..."

"If the king insists on doing this, what can you do about it?" Li Qiyou changed his self-proclaimed name, his voice was deep and intimidating without even being angry.

Fu Congnan let out a long sigh, "Then please forgive my disrespect, King Yucheng."

After he finished speaking, soldiers rushed up from all sides like a tide, surrounding the few people, obviously intending to silence them. "Fu Congnan, what are you doing?" Li Qiyou's face was as cold as snow, and Fu Congnan sneered, "Miss Fang San's lies are misleading the people, and everyone in the Fang family is in cahoots with them, so kill them right here."

"You dare..." Li Qiyou just opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Fu Congnan, "Prince, if you don't want the Empress Dowager in the capital to have a hard time, don't interfere."

Before Li Qiyou could say anything else, he heard Fu Congnan say loudly: "If the Fang family survives today, the Dugu family, the Pei family, the Zhuge family, and even other families will have no chance to survive. Your Majesty, do you, understand?"

Fang Zilan had no intention of letting them go. She looked at their red and swollen hands indifferently and said, "Your hands are useless. Now that things have come to this, are you still unwilling to reveal the mastermind?"

"There is no mastermind... it's all..." One of them cried in agony, "It was a spur of the moment decision..."

"I didn't realize that the bones were so hard." Fang Zilan snorted coldly. Zheng Yan leaned down and applied a little force. With a slight sound, the man's fingers broke.

At first, the man was completely unaware, and it took him a long time before he cried out in pain. The people around him all turned pale, and someone immediately shouted, "I said, it's Pei Poming! It's him!"

Fang Zilan raised her hand and lightly frowned, then said to Xu Youtong nonchalantly: "Master Xu, since someone has confessed, then let's sentence him as he should."

"They are all sentenced to exile, and their families will not be implicated?" Xu Youtong asked tentatively, but Fang Zilan shook her head, "No."

She pointed at the man who had just betrayed Pei Poming and said, "He will be exiled, but his family will not be affected. The others and their families will be exiled."

Xu Youtong was stunned for a while, then as if he had made up his mind, he stood up and bowed, saying, "I'm sorry, I can't obey your order."

Fang Zilan looked at the man in front of her who stood still with interest, "What does Lord Xu mean?"

"In the capital, the death penalty is the heaviest, followed by exile." Xu Youtong looked directly at Fang Zilan and said word by word, "Master Fang, don't you think that exile is too severe for all your family members?"

Fang Zilan seemed to be thinking about something. Instead of answering, she asked, "Master Xu, as the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, you should know the meaning of punishment."

"Punish criminals and warn the world, so as to ensure the peace of the people and the harmony of the world." Xu Youtong answered without hesitation. Fang Zilan nodded and said, "Yes, but before, someone kidnapped a woman and was sentenced to exile. Today, there are still people who dare to attack women. May I ask, Lord Xu, what is the warning effect?"

She paused, and without waiting for Xu Youtong to answer, she lowered her voice and asked, "Or is it that exile is not severe enough, and only the death penalty can serve as a warning?"

"Your humble servant..." Xu Youtong bit his lip and took a deep breath, "Your humble servant does not agree with what Lord Fang said. I personally think it is not that the sentence of exile is not severe enough to serve as a warning, but that the culprit has not yet been brought to justice, which makes it difficult to appease the people."

His words were like spilled water, there was no room for turning back once they were out, indicating that he was completely standing on the opposite side of Pei Poming and had no regard for the Pei family at all.

Fang Zilan didn't expect Xu Youtong to be so courageous. She looked at him carefully and said with a smile, "Since Lord Xu knows the key, I won't beat around the bush. Lord Pei Poming, when can Lord Xu be brought here?"