Chapter 250 - Chapter 250: Chapter 237: Unwilling (1/2)

Chapter 250: Chapter 237: Unwilling

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Chu Jinnian was assisting the Fourth Prince, yet Mr. Wei was not on their side. As they competed with each other, Chu Jinnian and the Fourth Prince naturally saw Mr. Wei as a thorn in the eye. He worked for Mr. Wei, and though not his confidant, he indeed served as his genuine henchman and knew about some of their affairs.

Chu Jinnian wanted to know about these affairs.

“You mean…” Du Yingwei’s voice was somewhat hoarse.

“I can’t spare your life, you reap what you sow. At best, I can leave your body intact for burial back home,” Chu Jinnian said. “But I can promise you to spare the lives of your wife, children, parents, and your entire family of thirty-two, and not only that, they can also live without any worries about their food and clothing.”

“As for what I want you to do…”

“I’ve already said it, Magistrate Du is a smart person. You should understand

what I want you to do.”

Du Yingwei certainly understood.

What Chu Jinnian wanted was that he must spill out all the information he knew, and as a family dog, he had to bite back at the master who once raised him.

Bite as hard as he could.

“I know that Magistrate Du is a person of loyalty and righteousness, fearing the tremendous power of Mr. Wei, but don’t forget, under heaven’s high arch, all land is the king’s; on its every inch, all folk are his servants. Mr. Wei can’t block out the sky with one hand alone.”

“Moreover, for all these years, you have been serving wholeheartedly without any fault, your merits and hard work are not small, but you haven’t yet exchanged for a golden token of immunity from death, which is a bit regrettable.”

Chu Jinnian said: “If Magistrate Du feels troubled, you don’t have to agree immediately. You can reply after some time.”

“Of course, I will protect you, Magistrate Du. I hope you can wait until that

day.”

What did this statement mean? Was he implying that he might lose his life and couldn’t wait until that day?

Does that mean…

Suddenly, Du Yingwei’s eyebrows furrowed.

That night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, with intermittent winds blowing.

The thin fog was complexly interwoven, making the originally bright moonlight increasingly blurry.

At this moment, Du Yingwei was locked up in the prison, sitting on the cold and damp stone floor, watching the moonlight, pouring in from the small window, gradually dim.

Would he lose his life? Then, how would he lose it?

Would Mr. Wei send someone to silence him?

Or was it just a threat from Chu Jinnian…

The clanking sound of the prison guard opening the iron chain interrupted Du Yingwei’s thoughts. A prison guard entered the prison and delivered a bowl of water to each jail cell.

The same was done for Du Yingwei’s cell.

Serving water on time was a rule in the prison. The weather was hot in summer, and the prison was very stuffy. An extra bowl of water was added at night to prevent prisoners from getting dehydrated and delaying the case.

The dinner was a dried and hard cornbread, the vegetables were as salty as road kill, and Du Yingwei was extremely thirsty at this time. He picked up the bowl to drink.

But when the bowl of water was lifted to his mouth, Du Yingwei paused.

This water, brought by the prison guard in the afternoon, was given to prisoners as a routine check, so it wasn’t particular. It was obviously fetched from a shallow well, and it wasn’t boiled, you could smell the earthy taste of mud and sand.

But the water tonight, did not have an earthy taste. Instead, there was a faint, osmanthus-like fragrance, very subtle and hard to detect.