My whole family time-traveled! I became a god during my exile in a famine.

Chapter 115 Not a Single One Is Innocent

"Wang Yinghui, don't think you can get away with this by staying silent." The Crown Prince said coolly, "I have plenty of time. If you want to stall, I'm always ready."

Time passed little by little.

Wang Yinghui lay limp on the ground like a lump of mud, not moving an inch for a long time.

The mountain spirit leader, unwilling to give up, called out to him a few times. Seeing that he didn't respond, he turned his head to look at Zhu Yan and the others, "Who exactly are you? What do you want to do with us?"

"What's the rush?" Xiao Jinzhi said indifferently. "Lord Wang still doesn't want to speak at this point, isn't it because he's waiting for someone?"

"Don't worry. I will make sure you see them one last time."

Wang Yinghui's lifeless eyes twitched slightly, and he suddenly looked up to see Liu Huo leading a crying little woman towards him.

The young woman was adorned with gold and silver, her eyebrows painted and rouge applied, her clothes extremely luxurious. It was clear at a glance that she was pampered and never lifted a finger.

"Wan Niang." Wang Yinghui's expression changed drastically, and he turned to look behind her.

Sure enough, they saw a little boy, about three or four years old, being held by the Crown Prince's guards, who was gesticulating wildly and cursing indiscriminately.

Wang Yinghui never expected that not only would the Crown Prince send people to kill his entire household, but now he would also find his mistress hiding in a deep alley.

"Lord Wang, now that you have seen the person you wished to see, can you speak freely and without reservation?" The Crown Prince smiled at him, his expression amiable.

Wang Yinghui immediately burst into tears, "Your Highness, this old minister dares not lie to you. The Mountain Spirit, this minister does indeed know that the Mountain Spirit is roaming around the nearby villages."

The prince shook his finger, and Liu Huo immediately grabbed the weeping woman and pulled her forward a few steps, placing a long sword against her neck.

"Ahhhhh, Master! Master, save me, Master!"

"Wan Niang!" Wang Yinghui's eyes widened in fury as she turned to glare at Xiao Jinzhi. "Your Highness, what are you trying to do?!"

The crown prince remained silent, only offering a cold smile.

With a slight lift of his fingertips, Liu Huo slashed the woman's neck with his long sword and tossed her to the ground like a dead dog.

"Wan Niang, oh Wan Niang!" Wang Yinghui looked heartbroken and collapsed to the ground, pounding her fist and sobbing uncontrollably.

The Crown Prince smiled, his phoenix eyes seemingly enjoying the expression of grief and indignation on Lord Wang's face. "Someone like you would actually show this expression because of the loss of a beloved concubine?"

"When you caused others to be displaced, their families to be destroyed, and their lives to be ruined, why didn't you shed a single crocodile tear?"

With a cold expression, Liu Huo took the boy from the servant's hand and once again held his longsword to the child's delicate neck.

With a press, blood dripped down his neck.

Wang Yinghui's pupils suddenly contracted sharply. He prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed several times, shouting in a hoarse voice, "I'll talk, I'll tell you everything."

“It was your humble servant who listened to my son’s words and was blinded by greed, making one wrong step after another. But all of this was planned by my son, Wang Shanting… Now that he has been punished and brought to justice, I hope Your Highness will show him some leniency.”

"You talk too much nonsense."

Seeing the Crown Prince's cold and deep phoenix eyes, he slowly raised his slender fingers resting on the armrest.

Wang Yinghui clutched his chest as if he had been punched hard in the face, and cried out in a distorted and distressed voice, "It's me, it's all my son Wang Shanting's fault." "Upon learning of the massacre in Xiaoling Village, I sent people to investigate overnight. My son Shanting went with him, but he brought back many things."

"Upon further inquiry, it was learned that the mastermind behind the massacre of the village was none other than his nephew, Wang... You should have heard of him; the villagers respectfully call him Commander Wang. Wang Shanting acted on his own initiative and reached an agreement with this Commander Wang. At the time, I was completely unaware of it, Your Highness."

Wang Yinghui's voice cracked as he howled, "I was blinded by greed, and actually believed my son's words. Letting the culprit who massacred the village go unpunished was my biggest mistake."

“But these things have nothing to do with my child. What has the child done wrong? He knows nothing about this matter. I hope Your Highness will be lenient.”

The crown prince looked at him coldly.

Liu Huo grabbed the wailing child and shouted, "Keep talking!"

"My son, he has informed me that there is a very powerful sorceress by Commander Wang's side. She has accurately predicted the coming of the Long Night and that an even greater disaster will follow. If it weren't for my son's advice, I wouldn't have listened to her and sent people to stabilize the city's residents, guard the major granaries, and establish martial law at the city gates..."

"What responsibility are you trying to shirk?" Commander Hu stepped forward, torch in hand, his face full of anger. "Nonsense! Just tell me, did you send these mountain spirits to plunder grain and utensils from the neighboring villages?"

"No, no, no!" Wang Yinghui waved his hands repeatedly in fright, sobbing, "Absolutely not, Your Highness. How could I possibly send them to commit violence in nearby villages?"

"No?" Commander Hu sneered, slashing down one of the robbers with a single blow. "But they've all confessed. They said it was you, Prefect Wang, who ordered it all."

"Impossible!" Wang Yinghui screamed hysterically.

"What do you mean it's impossible? Do you know how arrogant and domineering these bandits are, Your Excellency? When I led my team to find them, they were still fast asleep in West Village, having eaten and drunk their fill."

“And they just withdrew from Dongcun three days ago. You might ask why they withdrew? Because they ate and looted everything! So they moved on to the next village.”

"These bandits, under your orders, have been robbing one village after another in the vicinity. They're really something else, they even know how to eat and rob everything in one village before moving on to the next!"

"It hasn't been long, Lord Wang, and you've already turned Wan'an Prefecture into a mess, with chaos and misery for the people. Are you only concerned about your own Wang family living in peace? Huh?" Commander Hu stepped forward, lifted Wang Yinghui up, and patted him hard on the chest three times.

"Lord Wang, don't you feel ashamed? Oh, you certainly don't feel ashamed. You even deployed heavy troops at the city gate to slaughter the people entering the city."

"You not only killed civilians, but you also tried to kill our Crown Prince! Is this even human? What was your son planning to do in our master's garden in the middle of the night, leading three hundred archers?"

"Hey, this long night has exposed all the dirty tricks of your Wang family! Your Wang family wants to rebel and usurp the throne from the Xiao family to unify the world!"

Wang Yinghui's face turned pale, and he waved his hands repeatedly, crying out in alarm, "No, no, no!"

"Nothing, nothing at all. Wang Shanting led troops to surround His Highness the Crown Prince in the middle of the night. What else could he be but rebelling against the emperor?"

"It's all Wang Shanting's fault, it has nothing to do with anyone else."

"None of your business. You, you, you, and all of you, who is innocent?"

"Wang Yinghui, if we hadn't been on guard against you, and you had succeeded today, who knows who would be laughing and crying right now." Commander Hu turned to look at the Crown Prince, who was sitting there without saying a word.

The latter raised an eyebrow slightly and nodded indifferently.

Commander Hu grabbed Wang Yinghui by the head and dragged him to the side of the Mountain Ghosts and their group, saying, "Let Grandpa see you off today."

"Your Highness, Your Highness, spare the little dog's life! He's only four years old!"

His Highness the Crown Prince responded with an extremely cold smile.