The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

Gao Zhiming: "You talk too much. The person hasn't been tried yet. Don't let him hear too much."

Qu Le didn't care: "What does it matter if he heard it? He is now a fish on the chopping board. Besides, Pan Jun must have known that he woke up. She didn't even say she wanted to knock him out."

Gao Zhiming: "I knocked him out, and Taoist Sanzhu didn't object."

Qu Le: ...

Gao Zhiming asked: "Who taught you that just now?"

Qu Le looked around and said, "We were left behind, and you're not angry? It was your junior sister who drove the carriage. She hasn't asked you a single question since we came back."

Gao Zhiming: "Who said we fell behind? There are still two people behind us."

Qu Le was stunned: "Who?"

Just as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of rapid running outside. He immediately turned around and opened the curtain and looked out. He saw Chen Liutao and Qu Zhixing running towards him. They slowed down when they reached the car and saluted to Pan Yun: "Master Pan, all traces on the road have been cleared. There are no bloodstains, axle marks, or footprints left. There are traces left at another fork in the road."

Pan Yun nodded with satisfaction: "Thank you for your hard work."

The two men said it was not hard, they just squatted at the city gate, cleared some traces after making sure everyone had left the city safely, and then forged some traces.

They, the Jinyiwei, are familiar with this kind of thing!
Someone was left behind to ensure their safety.
Qu Le silently lowered the curtain and sat there quietly without saying a word.

Pan Yun and his companions walked until midnight before stopping and finding a place to rest.

Pan Yun then dragged Ouchi Hiromi out, lit a torch and looked at him carefully.

Under the strong light of the fire, Ouchi Hiromi woke up again. This time, he had to open his eyes. The fire was about to burn his eyebrows, burning them.

As soon as he opened his eyes, tears welled up in his eyes. He could only barely make out a very young, female face behind the torch.

He was slightly startled and narrowed his eyes: "Are you from the Ming Dynasty?"

Pan Yun then moved the torch away and smiled at him: "Yes!"

Ouchi Hiromi was startled.

Pan Jun stared at his face, and when he saw his expression change, he nodded slightly: "It seems that you know why we are here."

Seeing his fingers twitching, Ouchi Hiroshi said, "I didn't expect you to come here. There aren't many people left in those villages, mostly old people, women and children."

He raised his head and looked at Pan Yun, his face calm: "If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have been in such a hurry to leave. I should have massacred all those villages."

"We are not from those villages," Pan Yun said calmly, "There are countless villages in the Ming Dynasty. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, there are more than 9.7 million households and 50 million people. If we cannot kill all of them, we will seek revenge."

Ouchi Hiroki looked surprised and said, "You are not from that village, what does this have to do with you? They are not your family either."

Qu Le was furious when he heard this. He drew out his sword and said, "Why waste your time talking to him? This guy is worse than an animal. Just torture him. I don't believe he won't confess."

He sneered and said, "You are still trying to reason with him. How can a person without any sense of propriety and shame know about benevolence, righteousness, and goodness?" Pan Yun asked Ouchi Hiromi, "What do you say? Do you want to go through the punishment first and then decide, or should you hand over the list of the rest now?"

Ouchi Hiromi sneered, "No, all the other participants have landed on the island. Didn't you occupy the island? Kill me, and your revenge will be taken."

"No, no, no," Pan Yun shook his finger and smiled at him, "You are just a little guard, how could it be worth it for me to cross the sea thousands of miles to kill you? Now that I am here, I certainly can't just kill you. What do you think of the head of the Ouchi family?"

"You want to kill our head of the family?" Ouchi Hiroki sneered, "You think too highly of yourself. Just go ahead and be buried with me."

Pan Jun smiled at him and clapped his hands.

Qu Zhixing brought a box forward, opened it, and a bloody smell rushed out.

He drew aside the curtain without changing his expression, allowing the head inside to face Ouchi Hiromi.

When Ouchi Hiroshi saw the head clearly in the light of the fire, his pupils constricted.

Pan Yun smiled and whispered in his ear: "In order to prove that what I said is true, I specially selected the most popular person in your Yamaguchi Hall recently, and cut off his head surrounded by a group of samurai and gave it to you. How about it, Ouchi Hiromi, am I sincere enough?"

Seeing that his lips were trembling, Ouchi Hiroshi looked at Pan Jun with fear and resentment.

Pan Yun knew that she had done the right thing. She patted his shoulder and whispered in his ear, "Not only that, I also left some of your things next to his body. I heard that your superior Tao Honghu and Naito Mitsuo's father Naito Hiroki were both retainers of the head of the Ouchi family. They were the left and right arms of the head of the Ouchi family. I wonder which one your head will support if the left and right arms fight?"

Ouchi Hiroshi was so angry that he was shaking all over.

Pan Yun kept her distance and watched him get angry quietly, giving him time to get scared.

Xue Shao walked up to him, handed him a bamboo tube of warm water, and said softly, "We all know that you are just following orders. The Ouchi family is a big family with great wealth. I'm afraid your family master doesn't know about this matter, right?"

Pan Jun stood up, folded his arms and walked to the side, watching him play the villain.

"We just want to know who that cloaked woman is. She is the only one left among the criminals who massacred the village. If we kill you and her, our revenge will be complete." Xue Shao looked at him gently and said, "If you don't tell us, we won't leave."

Pan Yun sneered and said, "I don't want to leave either. I'm very interested in your patriarch's head. Even if I can't kill your patriarch, I can always kill Tao Honghu and Naito Hongju, right? I wonder what effect killing them will have on the Ouchi clan?"

Ouchi Hiroshi clenched his fists, raised his head and looked at Pan Yun: "Where do you think this is? How dare you, a Ming Dynasty man, run wild in Japan!"

"The people of a small country whose name was bestowed by our emperor dared to go to the suzerain country to massacre villages and kill people. I am only trying to take the head of the culprit. Why shouldn't I dare?"

"You're talking nonsense. We Japanese named ourselves. We didn't use the 'Wa' that you use in China. We are Japanese..."

Xue Shao released the hand that was holding his wrist, and with a sigh, he recited the book: "Japan is another kind of Wakoku... Because it is in Japan, it is named Japan. It was your envoys who sent to the Tang Dynasty to ask the Tang Emperor to change the name of the country. Although the word Japan is a self-name, it is also a title bestowed. After the Tang Dynasty, it went through the Song Dynasty and then to our Ming Dynasty. Letters were sent from the country. When the two countries had close exchanges, Japan would send envoys to pay tribute every other year, and our Ming Dynasty also sent letters and state gifts in return. How can you not acknowledge it?"

Ouchi Hiroshi became anxious. This was the truth. He didn't know how to defend himself, so he could only shout, "You farted!"

Xue Shao shook his head, as if he was doing something unreasonable, and said gently: "It's normal that you don't understand. After all, you are just a warrior. Although you can speak Chinese, you may not be able to read, and you have never read the books of sages, right?" (End of this chapter)