Chapter 15 — Once I am reborn, I will not give him even a strand of hair

The woman raised her cloudy eyes. When she saw the white jade hairpin in my hair, tears immediately fell.

“Tu Nhi…”

With just that one call, I recognized her. Every time she soothes me to sleep, my mother always gently pulls the last syllable of the word "Tu". I took a step forward, and Cong Cong Hoa's short sword was immediately close to the woman's back.

“Jade order.”

He smiled and held out his hand.

“If you don't, I'll let you lose her again.”

However, Tong Uyen Nhu suddenly pulled out his dagger and stabbed straight at Hoa Cong Cong from behind. The old man leaned forward to avoid it, and conveniently knocked her weapon away. Tong Uyen Nhu fell down the tunnel, and from her side fell a secret mat with a royal seal on it. Co Nghien Hanh picked up the honey mat and immediately changed color after just one look. On the secret decree, it was clearly written that on the day the Khuong family's secret treasury was opened, the entire Co family and the Khuong family's mother and children... No one was allowed to survive. The firelight passed through the lipstick mark on the mat, illuminating the blood-red words even more dazzlingly. Co Nghien Hanh brought the secret sheet closer to the lantern, his fingertips slowly rubbing the corner of the seal.

"This is not the writings of the current Saint."

Cong Cong Hoa was still holding the short knife behind my mother's back, the smile on his face had faded a bit.

“The general has been poisoned to the core, and his eyes are no longer clear?”

“The royal seal is real.”

Co Nghien Hanh held up the secret mat.

“But this paper is cloudy paper that was stopped being used in the palace seven years ago.”

"The person who wrote this secret edict has prepared everything since the time the Khuong family was in trouble."

My mother suddenly struggled against the iron chains.

“Tu Nhi, don't trust him.”

“There is no gold or silver in the secret vault, nor is there any elixir of immortality.”

Cong Cong Hoa's wrist gently pushed forward, the blade immediately sliced open the clothes on her back. I stop walking.

"You want the jade order, so at least let me know what's in the secret vault."

“It's something your father left behind.”

Hoa Cong Cong squinted his eyes.

“One book is enough to change half of the capital city.”

“Hand over the jade command, I will let you and your mother be reunited.”

I took out a piece of jade from my chest. The snow peak pattern on the jade surface sometimes appears and disappears under the firelight. Hoa Cong Cong's breathing suddenly became heavy. Tong Uyen Nhu sat down at the tunnel entrance and suddenly shouted loudly:

“Don't give it to him!”

“He promised that if he got the book, he would let my father go back, but my father had already died in the old pharmacy.”

Hoa Cong Cong lifted his foot and kicked her hard in the chest. Tong Uyen Nhu rolled down two stone steps, blood immediately flowed from the corners of her lips.

"If your father wasn't greedy, he wouldn't have ended up like that."

“It was you who told me to approach the Co family, it was you who told me to steal gold.”

Tong Uyen Nhu stared at him.

“It was you who told me to put the medicinal herbs in the bowl of ginseng soup that my cousin drinks every day.”

Co Nghien Hanh's eyes darkened.

“The second golden needle was also placed by you?”

A troubled look flashed across Tong Uyen Nhu's face.

“I just want to make your illness worse and force her to take out the jade order.”

“I never thought I would let you die.”

“So who placed the first needle?”

“I don't know.”

She shook her head, no tears stop falling.

“When I entered the martial arts arena, that needle was already inside you.”

Cong Cong Hoa suddenly grabbed my mother's shoulder, pulling her back deeper into the tunnel.

"Miss Khuong, I no longer have the patience to stand here while you guys review."

“Throw the jade order over here.”

I held up the jade block high, but did not immediately let go.

“First remove the iron bracelet on my mother's left hand.”

“You have no right to dictate conditions.”

"Then you don't even want to get the complete jade order."

We turn the back of the jade block around. The back of the jade order is missing a corner the size of a fingernail.

"The missing part is in my hands. Without it, any organ will not be able to open it."

Cong Cong Hoa's face finally changed. Right at the moment he was distracted, my mother suddenly bent down and hit him hard in the chest with her shoulder. The short sword deflected from behind her, stabbing her in the shoulder. I threw the medicinal powder hidden in my sleeve into the fire basin. Blue flames suddenly flared up, thick smoke immediately filled the tunnel. Cong Cong Hoa covered his nose and mouth, while pulling his mother, he quickly backed away. Co Nghien Hanh pulled out the short sword and threw it away. The blade pierced the smoke screen and stabbed straight into the back of Cong Cong Hoa's hand holding the iron chain. My mother fell to the ground. I rushed straight into the smoke screen, clutching my mother's cold wrist.

“Mother, follow me.”

But my mother pushed me back.

“Under the tunnel there is already buried ammunition.”

"He wants to destroy the food warehouse, and also wants to make all evidence disappear."

A series of faint sounds of burning wires echoed from the darkness.