AWB Chapter 304 Kill them
Chapter 304 Kill them
Wen Yitong was terrified. She clenched her hands tightly and kept backing away. However, the cabin was not large, and after only a few steps, she leaned against the bed.
She slumped onto the bed, staring at the newcomers with terrified eyes: "How dare you... in broad daylight..."
"Why wouldn't we dare? Do you know who we are?" The man laughed loudly. "This entire river is our territory! We are river bandits who kill and plunder! But your good husband specially invited us here to kill you and steal your dowry!"
"I just didn't expect your husband to change his mind at the last minute, angering our boss." The man sneered. "We came all this way not for a mere few hundred taels of silver."
As he spoke, the man pressed a dagger against Wen Yitong's face. There were still traces of blood on the dagger, and it was obvious that this dagger was the murder weapon that killed Chen Che.
Wen Yitong was so frightened that she dared not breathe. Her lips trembled as she whispered, "If you want money, I can give you all the money I have on me."
"I'll give you a thousand taels." Seeing the man's dangerous gaze, Wen Yitong hurriedly added, "Five thousand taels! Ten thousand taels!"
Wen Yitong kept raising the price, but the man's expression didn't change much. Clearly, Wen Yitong's words weren't enough to sway him.
Ten thousand taels of silver isn't enough!
Wen Yitong's face showed despair: "If you can let me leave, I'm willing to give you all my silver."
As long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn. The most important thing is her life. She has to compromise to survive, so how could she give it up easily?
What harm is there in giving this silver to these bandits? Granny Lin must still have some silver; Mother must have left her a way out.
Upon hearing this, the man looked at Wen Yitong with an inscrutable expression: "All the silver?"
Wen Yitong thought he was tempted, so she quickly said, "That's right! All the silver! My dowry contains a full fifty thousand taels of silver, I can give it all to you! As long as you are willing to let me leave!"
"I just want to live," Wen Yitong said urgently. "All that money is just material possessions."
The man squinted and looked Wen Yitong up and down. He remembered what he had heard from Chen Che before—his wife was a noblewoman from a fallen family, whose dowry was tens of thousands of taels of silver.
So the man looked at Wen Yitong and asked, "Are you really going to give us all of them?"
“Of course.” Wen Yitong nodded quickly. “Compared to this silver, my life is more important.”
“But before that…” Wen Yitong stared at Chen Che’s head and said, word by word, “You have to help me kill one.”
It was only when the man introduced himself that she realized that this ship's journey to the south of the Yangtze River was a carefully orchestrated scheme by the Chen family to plunder and kill for money.
The instigator, Chen Che, is dead, but one person is still alive.
Thinking of this, Wen Yitong's eyes flashed with coldness: "I want you to kill that old woman for me."
She will never let Madam Chen go. Chen Che and Madam Chen should both go to hell together.
At this moment, Wen Yitong looked at Chen Che's head, no longer showing the timid look she had before; the flames of hatred burned fiercely in her eyes.
Upon hearing this, the man was taken aback, then burst into laughter: "It's just killing someone, a piece of cake."
"The boss will definitely agree to your request, considering the tens of thousands of taels of silver you've given me." The man waved his hand and walked out.
Wen Yitong was left slumped on the bed, staring blankly ahead, suddenly unsure of where to go next.
Upon hearing the man speak, the boat captain immediately said, "Go and capture that old woman, then bring the woman here and let the woman kill the old woman herself, wouldn't that solve the problem?"
As he said this, his eyes gleamed: "Did that woman really have so much silver in her hands?"
“Of course,” the scarred man nodded immediately. “I noticed her distinguished bearing; the beads in her hand are made of rare mutton-fat jade, and that single string of beads is worth several hundred taels of silver.”
Upon hearing this, the boatman nodded: "In that case, let's fulfill her last wish."
Upon hearing this, the scarred man chuckled and said, "We're thinking the same thing."
From beginning to end, they never intended for Wen Yitong to live. Their accommodating attitude was merely a means to extract the last bit of value from her.
The conditions proposed by Wen Yitong were a risk-free deal for them. Fulfilling her last wish would not require much effort and would also gain Wen Yitong's trust.
The boat captain chuckled and said, "This deal is a good one. Tens of thousands of taels of silver is enough for us brothers to live it up for a while."
When Madam Chen was dragged to Wen Yitong, she was still in a daze. The men were rough and pressed down on her hands, and all her attention was focused on the pain in her shoulders.
When she saw Wen Yitong, she was stunned for a long time.
"What is this...?" She looked around and realized that Wen Yitong was the only woman, and the rest were all men on the ship.
For a moment, Madam Chen stared intently at Wen Yitong, a multitude of thoughts swirling in her mind: "Are you having an affair with these people?"
Otherwise, how could Wen Yitong have gotten so many people to do things for her?
Upon hearing this, Wen Yitong burst into laughter: "Have you been having an affair with them? Isn't it Chen Che who has been having an affair with them?"
"Do you think I don't know?" Every word Wen Yitong spoke was chillingly cold. "This ship, these people, were all invited by Chen Che!"
"You've gone to so much trouble to murder for money," Wen Yitong said with a sinister look in her eyes, "and now you're still pretending?"
"Do you really think I don't know your plan?" Wen Yitong said coldly. "I knew all along! You paid these people to harm me!"
Madam Chen was aware of this, which is why she suspected Wen Yitong.
They were the ones who invited them, so why did they help Wen Yitong?
What is it about Wen Yitong, apart from her face, that would make these people's hearts flutter?
Suddenly, Madam Chen's heart skipped a beat. Her eyes widened as she suddenly remembered that, apart from her face, what was most captivating about Wen Yitong was her large dowry.
In an instant, Madam Chen's heart sank to the bottom.
Her eyes darted around, and she was about to say something when she saw Wen Yitong looking at her calmly, as if she had already guessed her plan.
"Take the things out." Wen Yitong beckoned to the scarred man behind her.
She was used to being pampered and had a knack for ordering people around.
The scarred man cursed inwardly, but showed no sign of it on his face, and picked up the thing he had been carrying behind his back.
Madam Chen looked closely and realized that it was actually a head.