After Mother Wu detoxified the assassins, she fed each of them a sub-gu poison pill, the same kind used to control the bandits.
The mother gu poison was in Mother Wu’s control. As long as these assassins stayed beyond a certain range from the mother gu, they would fester and die.
However, Mother Wu only told them they had been poisoned, not that it was gu poison. She warned that if they left the Red Tree Slope, they would fester and die.
The assassins didn’t believe her, thinking the old woman was tricking them. How could poison be so magical?
They were fortunate to have been spared their lives. As the saying goes, as long as the green hills are there, there will be firewood to burn. As long as they were alive, they would have a chance to escape later.
They were the Queen’s elite guards, merely caught in the enemy’s trap for the time being. Experts like them couldn’t be kept imprisoned!
With this thought, all the assassins became calm.
Yang Ming and the others threw them directly into the prison cells.
Fortunately, they had dealt with the mine workers a while ago; otherwise, they wouldn’t have had a place to lock up these assassins.
Feng Pingyuan planned to discuss with the elder to build a few more prison cells. It seemed this group of assassins was far from the last, and if they captured more people in the future, they would need more space.
With the experience gained from dealing with the bandits, the people of Red Tree Slope were now adept at handling these assassins.
First, they had to starve them for a few days until they desired nothing but food.
Hunger was the most effective way to break a person’s will. In extreme hunger, they would do anything for food.
Once they were willing to work, they couldn’t let them eat their fill immediately. They had to be kept on a tight leash. To eat their fill, they had to work desperately.
After working more, people became resilient, and their unrealistic ideas would be thoroughly worn down.
In the end, they would feel fortunate to have enough to eat three meals a day.
In essence, the key to breaking someone was to reduce their desires to the lowest possible level, making them numb to their current life, slowly getting used to it, and eventually becoming dependent on it and even enjoying it.
Gaye’s father, Chibao’s father, Xiaoma’s father, Zhugan’s father, Cheng Tuo’s father, and others, who were responsible for supervising the captives, had accumulated extensive experience in breaking captives through practice.
While they couldn’t articulate profound theories, they could judge a captive’s state by observing them and determine how far they had been broken.
It could be said that any captive who entered the Red Tree Slope prison and became free labor never managed to escape as planned, unless Red Tree Slope voluntarily released them.
When dawn broke, the guard team found two or three more dead assassins in black in a hidden gully.
General Fentou was happy again.
Everyone at Red Tree Slope knew that more than twenty assassins had come last night. Without losing a single soldier, they had been either poisoned to death or poisoned and injured by Lightning and its companions.
Regarding Lu Ye and Bai Sheng’s use of gu techniques, Mother Wu asked them to keep it a secret as much as possible, the fewer people who knew the better. Thus, Lightning became the scapegoat for poisoning the assassins last night.
Anyway, Lightning, the scapegoat, was already aloof and mysterious, and couldn’t speak human language, making it naturally suited to be a scapegoat.
Everything at home was as usual. After breakfast, Lu Ye moved the baby crib into Bai Sheng’s room. The open wooden windows let in the bright daylight, making the room very bright.
The two sat by the bed, staring intently at their four biological offspring, unable to take their eyes off them. The more they looked, the happier they became.
In just one day, the complexions of the four little ones had faded from their initial redness, their skin becoming smoother and more tender.
Bai Sheng thought that the children might be quadruplets from different eggs, which was why their appearances were not identical. Although it was obvious that they were siblings, each had their own unique characteristics.
The eldest daughter, the eldest child, looked exactly like Lu Ye, a definite beauty in the making.
The second, third, and fourth children resembled Bai Sheng more. They were also extremely handsome, and they had inherited the advantages of both parents’ appearances. When they grew up, they would undoubtedly become three bewitching individuals who could ruin countless lives.
Bai Sheng had already begun to secretly pray for countless young girls in her heart.
Lu Ye’s eyes wouldn’t move from the four cubs. Just looking at them made him feel like the happiest man in the world.
The Creator was truly amazing. He and his darling had actually created little babies, four little babies who looked like both of them simultaneously.
Just thinking that they were the little ones he and his darling had created made him so happy that he wanted to roll wildly on the ground.
His nearly six-foot frame made rolling on the ground impossible, so he rolled on the bed.
Bai Sheng saw her man rolling around on the bed like an idiot, occasionally kicking his legs happily and chuckling.
Fortunately, the four little ones ate and slept, slept and ate, every day. Otherwise, seeing their father like this, they would definitely think they had a silly dad.
Although both were overjoyed by the four cubs, a major challenge still lay before them: what names to give the four cubs.
From the time Bai Sheng became pregnant, the couple had started considering names for the cubs. After so much time had passed, the parents still felt they hadn’t found names that suited their cubs.
After pondering for half a day without results, they decided to announce the names of the four cubs on their full moon banquet. Therefore, they still had a month to think, and there was no need to rush. Perhaps inspiration would strike inadvertently, and the names for the four cubs would come to them.
On this day, apart from feeding times, the cubs were monopolized by their parents. Other family members didn’t even get a chance to see them.
At dinner, Lu Yun, as the cubs’ uncle, directly expressed his dissatisfaction. “Big Brother, you can’t always keep my nephews and nieces in your room. I can’t even see them, and I’m their uncle.”
The sound of eating stopped abruptly. Everyone at the several tables stopped chewing and looked at Lu Ye expectantly.
“Big Brother, I haven’t seen my nephew and nieces all day either. I miss them,” Lu Yu said, his eyes starting to well up and his mouth pouting.
Lu Ye paused for a moment, then suddenly felt that he had indeed been a bit excessive. His cubs were too lovable, and he shouldn’t hog them all to himself.
So, he softened his voice and said, “Uh, Xiao Yun, Xiao Yu, this is the first time I’m a father, so I’m a little excited. I can’t get enough of looking at my cubs. How about this, starting tomorrow, the wet nurses and Lu Huo and the others will take care of the cubs, and you can see them whenever you want.”
The wet nurses and the four maids, including Lu Huo, immediately had sparkling eyes.
“Really? Big Brother, you promise?” Lu Yun asked excitedly.
Lu Ye smiled and nodded, “Of course, I promise.”
Only then did Lu Yun happily start eating his meal heartily.
The others also smiled broadly, and the clinking of bowls and chopsticks resumed merrily.