Soul swap tyrant always wants to have a baby

Chapter 117 Deliberate Calculation

"Oh, I forgot to tell you that the Duke of Zhenguo, whom you admire and respect, also participated in the struggle for the throne."

"Who knows, your family might have been killed by the Duke of Zhenguo."

"And now they are living their luxurious lives by stepping on the corpses of your family members."

The three men already had many scars on their bodies from An San's torture, and now Zhong Li Yuan had cut many more of them.

Even if he had all the internal energy, he couldn't bear the bleeding from dozens of places on his body at the same time, and his vision went black.

"Want to take revenge?"

"Do you want to kill your enemy?"

"I can give you this opportunity."

"Why should we trust you?"

The one who seemed smarter among the three glared at Zhongli Yuan fiercely.

"It's up to you. Why should I lie to you about something you can find out by just asking around in the capital?"

"I never imagined that the three renowned martial arts masters could be so stupid as pigs."

"Instead of seeking revenge on the culprit, you're going after a prince who wasn't recognized by the previous emperor since birth and didn't receive any preferential treatment before ascending the throne. Tsk tsk."

"Humph, you said you were giving us a chance to take revenge, but now you're torturing us. Who knows if you're deliberately misleading us?"

Zhongli Yuan was not as patient as Leng Qingyi when facing these three people.

It would be a waste to kill someone directly without making good use of such good martial arts. He has plenty of time and patience.

"You seem to have not yet understood one thing. You were brought here and tortured every day because you killed someone from Zhongcui Palace and assassinated the emperor in public."

"You must know that you have committed a heinous crime punishable by the extermination of your entire clan. The fact that you are still alive is a waste because the Emperor saw your martial arts prowess and killed you."

"I didn't expect you three to be such brainless idiots, tsk tsk."

"I believe you are also aware that although your martial arts skills are extremely high, they are nothing to the emperor."

"It only takes a word to take your life."

The three people lost too much blood and their heads were buzzing. They watched Zhongli Yuan's mouth opening and closing with blurry eyes.

There was a buzzing in my ears, and my already slow brain became even more confused.

When one of them was about to faint, a tall figure suddenly flashed through his mind.

Seeing that the man was about to faint, Zhongli Yuan stabbed him hard in the thigh with a knife.

This immediately sobered the assassin up a lot, and the image in his mind became clearer.

"Big Brother and Third Brother, do you remember where we heard that families are destroyed because of the royal family?"

The other two weakly raised their heads and looked at the second assassin in the middle.

"What I had forgotten was that we overheard a group of very well-dressed people chatting as they passed by."

"Brother, think about it carefully. That road is the one we must take every day, but why do we pass by it every day?"

"Because that road is difficult to walk on and there are few people, it is more convenient for us to use Qinggong."

"Yeah, let alone the rich, even ordinary people wouldn't take that road if they didn't have anything urgent to do. How could a wealthy family take that road?"

"And just as we were passing by, they were saying that the royal family had committed crimes that had caused so many people to lose their homes and become displaced."

"Now that I think about it, nothing seems right."

"Now that you mention it, I remember it now. After you two left, I listened to them talking for a while, but I couldn't quite understand what they were saying."

"When did you go back?"

"I said I was going to pee, and I saw they were still talking, so I quietly leaned over to listen. I couldn't quite understand what they were saying."

"How is that possible? We've been to every place in Dongxia. How could there be something we don't understand?"

The three of them looked at each other in silence, as if they had finally realized that they had been taken advantage of.

Zhongli Yuan obviously didn't expect there would be an unexpected surprise. He thought it was just a rumor heard by three idiots from somewhere.

Now it seems that it is not that simple. It is obvious that someone is deliberately plotting against them.

"What did you do before?"

Zhongli Yuan put down the dagger in his hand, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and looked at the three people seriously.

"The three of us are orphans. We were adopted by our master and taught him martial arts. After completing our training, we traveled around robbing the rich and helping the poor. We recently settled down in a small town in the south."

"Does anyone there know the identities of the three of you?"

"Of course, the three of us are the famous Three Musketeers of Jianghu. How could no one know our names?"

Zhongli Yuan was rarely speechless. If such a high-profile person didn't plot against them, who would he plot against?

"How did your family die?"

"I don't know. I was only one and a half years old when my master picked me up."

"My family sold me while fleeing famine because they couldn't afford to support me. The person who bought me wanted to cook and eat me, but my master saved me."

"I also got separated from my family while fleeing famine."

Zhongli Yuan was rarely speechless, and this time he was truly speechless.

What does fleeing famine have to do with their royal family? How can this be blamed on him?

"So what does your family's destruction have to do with the royal family? Your family sold you out, and you became separated from them. You don't even know who you are, yet you consider the royal family your enemy. This is truly ridiculous."

The three of them looked at each other, seemingly not quite understanding the twists and turns involved.

"It's all thanks to your royal family. If you hadn't levied taxes, would we have to flee from famine?"

"Oh, if I'm not mistaken, you're talking about the drought that happened 25 years ago."

"how do you know?"

"Why don't you blame the sky for the drought caused by the lack of rain?"

"If you, the royal family, hadn't withheld the relief grain, we wouldn't have had to flee the famine."

"Okay, okay, how can you be sure it was the royal family who withheld the relief grain? How many people had to pass through the hands of the relief grain before it reached the people? Why don't you seek revenge on those corrupt officials?"

"It's just like when your various factions fought for power in the royal family and used our disaster relief grain to win over the people."

"So you should go find the late emperor, find Prince Xin, and find those powerful figures who participated in the fight for the throne. You are really brave to go to the emperor's harem and kill a woman."

The three of them blushed after hearing what Zhongli Yuan said, as if they had never thought that there was anything wrong with sneaking into the harem and killing people.

"Have you ever considered how innocent those palace maids and eunuchs you killed were? Have you ever considered that their families might have relied on their monthly stipends from the palace to survive?"

"If you kill them directly, won't that also destroy their families? What's the point of doing that with the enemies you mentioned?"

The three of them were completely stunned, and they didn't seem to have considered the consequences of their actions.

In their subconscious, there is no good person in the royal family, so what good can there be about those who work for the royal family in the palace.

But he never thought that those people were just ordinary servants who came to the palace to work and received monthly wages.

Most of them were under twenty years old, and the disaster that happened twenty-five years ago had nothing to do with them.