Reborn to marry the regent and seize the throne as queen

When everyone saw Gu Yanbai coming, they couldn't hold back their shouting and rushed over.

Seeing the hoe swinging down, Jiang Qingwu could only use force, but he didn't dare to really kill the villagers. He was tied up and could only block it.

"Gu Yanbai, don't be silly, let's go first and explain later."

Yan Xue came over to pull Gu Yanbai, but a villager grabbed her arm and threw her out.

Seeing this, Gu Yanbai turned around, pushed the man away, leaned over to pull Yan Xue, but was hit on the back by a stick by the villager and fell directly to the ground.

"Gu Yanbai..."

After hearing Yan Xue's shout, Jiang Qingwu realized that they were surrounded.

Then he leapt in front of the two men and knocked down and pushed the villagers away one by one.

"I'm warning you, if you dare to mess around again, don't blame me for being rude..."

Jiang Qingwu shouted, picked up the wooden stick on the ground and pointed it at everyone, with murderous eyes and standing sternly.

"I will never deal with this matter perfunctorily. I am Jiang Qingwu, the daughter of Shunqing Marquis. I guarantee with my personal integrity that I will investigate this matter thoroughly..."

"Shunqing Marquis Mansion? Yes, it's you, yes, it's you..."

"They were killed after they saw you. It was you who killed them to silence them..."

"The Shunqing Marquisate is so powerful that it cannot let us ordinary people live. We will fight you to the death..."

Jiang Qingwu saw the elder leading the group rushing over with a hoe, so he knocked the hoe away with a stick and grabbed the other person's wrist.

He raised his hand, wrapped it around his neck and strangled him hard.

"Back off..."

"I say again, this is the princess of the current dynasty. I am here today, let's see who dares to come forward."

Everyone felt a little timid when they saw the elder being held in their hands.

Yan Xue, who was behind her, looked at Jiang Qingwu who was standing in front of her and was distracted for a moment. It was only when Gu Yanbai pulled her that she came to her senses.

"How's it going? Is everything okay?"

"Nothing." Gu Yanbai echoed, looking at the villagers who dared not step forward, and took a few steps forward.

"The people who killed the villagers and set the fire are from the Fuye tribe... I followed them here last night."

"When you found me, I was putting out a fire. Are you blind?"

"You're talking nonsense..." A voice came from the villagers, and then someone echoed it.

"That's right, how could he be the one putting out the fire? He was clearly the one who set the fire..."

"We saw him with a torch in his hand..."

Amid the shouting, everyone began to get restless again.

At this moment, Wanyue's shout was heard suddenly, and the sounds of horse hooves and footsteps came flooding in.

"Miss...someone from Jingfusi is here."

Liu Cheng from the Jingfu Division rushed over with his troops, and Wan Yue also brought the people from Wutong Garden to protect Jiang Qingwu and the others.

The soldiers of the Jingfu Division separated the villagers from Jiang Qingwu and his group and surrounded them. Upon seeing this, Liu Cheng hurriedly turned around and came over to greet them.

"Your humble servant Liu Cheng, I pay my respects to Miss Jiang and the Fourth Princess. I am sorry for being late in coming to your rescue. Please forgive me, Miss Jiang."

Jiang Qingwu looked at Liu Cheng kneeling on the ground and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Get up."

Having said that, he ordered his men to release the old man.

The villagers were surrounded and gathered together, dropping the weapons in their hands in an instant.

But the next moment, someone suddenly sat on the ground and burst into tears.

"My poor brother, my pregnant sister-in-law, you died tragically."

"Wow... They died so tragically. My nephew was only three years old..."

Jiang Qingwu felt upset when he heard the crying and looked at the elder who was the first to wipe the tears.

“Where are the villagers who were killed?”

"In...in the dilapidated temple in the village."

……

A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Qingwu, Gu Yanbai, Yan Xue, and Liu Cheng from the capital saw more than twenty corpses in the ruined temple.

The courtyard of the dilapidated temple was filled with corpses.

"Ah..." The moment Yan Xue saw it, she screamed in fright and turned around and ran away.

The moment Jiang Qingwu stepped into the ruined temple, he froze and his heart trembled violently.

Just now, she was still thinking that the villagers were instigated by someone.

Now looking at this shocking scene, I feel that what they said and did was normal.

"Eight families... twenty-eight corpses." Jiang Qingwu murmured, his eyes filled with blood, and his heart was instantly in suspense.

"Liu Cheng...Coroner..."

"Yes, girl."

Liu Cheng turned and left, and Jiang Qingwu immediately walked towards the corpses.

Most of them were knife wounds, and almost all of them were killed with one blow. A few people were probably burned to death.

Among the twenty-eight people, there was a pregnant woman, two children aged three or five, and a girl in her teens.

The elderly, women, and children were all killed.

The eight families were the eight people who went to her villa.

Jiang Qingwu looked at the somewhat familiar faces, and his heart felt as if it was deeply hurt by something.

"You came for me, huh, you came for me, why, why didn't you come directly to me..."

Jiang Qingwu tightly grasped the knife in his hand, turned around and saw the villagers crying outside the dilapidated temple, his heart sank instantly.

"It's my fault. If I hadn't looked for them and asked them about the whereabouts of that gentleman, this wouldn't have happened..."

As he spoke, Jiang Qingwu sneered, "Killing people to silence them is also a warning and a provocation to me."

"Why don't you come to me?"

"What do they know and what can they know? Why don't they leave any of them behind?"

"What does human life mean to him?"

Gu Yanbai looked at the corpses all over the ground, as if he was numb. He looked at Jiang Qingwu quietly and let out a bitter smile.

"Human lives? They're just ants."

"He can even kill Yan Nan, so what can these villagers do to him?"

When Yan Xiuchen arrived, the coroner was performing an autopsy. Jiang Qingwu was standing at the temple gate, looking at the bodies being collected in the yard, in a trance.

"So I'm in love..."

Hearing Yan Xiuchen's shout, Jiang Qingwu was filled with uncontrollable anger and turned around to grab Yan Xiuchen's collar.

"Where is he? That old man... where is he?" Jiang Qingwu asked, his eyes full of murderous intent, "I want to kill him, I want him to pay with his life."

Jiang Qingwu's eyes were filled with murderous intent as he stared at Yan Xiuchen. Although his voice was very low, Gu Yanbai who was standing beside him also heard it.

"Gu Qing, calm down first. I... I don't know where he is?" Yan Xiuchen answered in a low voice, gently holding Jiang Qingwu's hand that was holding his lapel.

"I've asked Jiuhan to investigate. The Fuye people can only hide in the black market. It won't be difficult to find them."

"Fuye people? How many Fuye people must be killed to pay for their lives?"

Yan Xiuchen sighed secretly and said softly, "The Fuye people may know his whereabouts."

Jiang Qingwu came back to his senses, nodded absentmindedly, and pushed Yan Xiuchen away.

"Fuye people? Yes, they know."

Jiang Qingwu murmured, then turned around and ran away.

But before he had gone far, Yan Xue suddenly called him, "Jiang Qingwu."

Hearing the voice, Jiang Qingwu turned around and saw Yan Xue pulling a little girl of four or five years old.

The little girl was in a dishevel, her face was covered in dirt, and she was holding a wooden box tightly in her hands.

Jiang Qingwu walked over uneasily, looked at the timidity on the child's face, and handed the knife in his hand to Wanyue behind him.

"I asked, she is the child of the village chief's daughter."

"The village chief's daughter lost her husband, so she brought her daughter to seek refuge with him. She just arrived last night."

"She said... an older brother saved her and pushed her out."

Jiang Qingwu was shocked and his eyes instantly turned red. He suppressed the reluctance and self-blame in his heart and squatted in front of her.

"In the box...in the box, what's in it?"

"My grandfather gave it to me. He said it could support me." The little girl didn't cry or make a fuss. She looked at Jiang Qingwu quietly with her eyes wide open.

Jiang Qingwu looked at the burnt box and forced a smile towards the little girl, "Can you show it to me?"

The little girl hesitated for a moment and opened the box.

There was nothing inside except a silver ingot, an ingot of fifty taels of silver.

It was that night, in the villa, that she asked Luo Ming to distribute the reward money to the villagers.

Jiang Qingwu looked at the silver ingots in the box, and his whole body seemed to fall apart.

The swelling emotions could no longer be suppressed, and she immediately started to sob.