Zhao Ji put his younger sister's ashes into the red sachet and held it tightly in his hand. Since those people had brought so much pain to his sister, he would make them taste the same pain she had endured.
Zhao Ji still had four hundred taels of silver on him. He had calculated that there would be some left after buying tools. He would distribute the remaining money to those who had once helped him as a token of gratitude; otherwise, he would feel uneasy.
With the silver, Zhao Ji bought himself a new set of clothes. He knew that the two human - traffickers were still staying at Laifu Restaurant. He would kill these two men first, and then it would be the turn of that vicious woman.
Coincidentally, Laifu Restaurant was recruiting kitchen workers. Zhao Ji went for an interview. Since the shopkeeper was in urgent need of help, he was hired.
Zhao Ji didn't expect his chance to come so soon. Li Da and Li Er had made an appointment to meet Mama Zhang. Perfect! He could kill all three of them at once to console his sister's soul in heaven.
He bought poison from the pharmacy. To ensure he could punish the three of them properly, he specifically bought a kind of poison that could render people speechless.
"Sir, you have good taste. This knife is very sharp."
Zhao Ji ignored the shopkeeper's sales pitch. He paid for the knife and left.
For some reason, although it was a sunny day, it started to snow heavily at night. The white snow wrapped the entire Liuyun Town.
In the kitchen of Laifu Restaurant, Zhao Ji was still tidying up. After a kitchen worker finished his work, he said to Zhao Ji, "Xiao Zhao, I'll leave first!"
"Okay, see you."
Just as Zhao Ji was about to leave, Zhang Xiao'er trotted in. "Xiao Zhao, are you leaving?"
"Yes, Brother Xiao'er. Do you still have to work?"
"Yeah, it's really annoying. The two guests in Room 174 upstairs have invited Mama Zhang from Cuiqing Tower to come and drink. I'm going to take them some drinks now."
"Brother Xiao'er, the previous jar of wine has been finished. I'll go and open a new one for you."
"Okay, then I'll trouble you."
Zhao Ji walked into the inner room and took a jar of wine from the shelf. The seal on the wine jar was a thin red cloth. After dissolving the poison in water, he poured it onto the red cloth and let it drip slowly into the wine jar.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Brother Xiao'er. I saw there were small jars of wine on the shelf, so I brought one for you to avoid waste."
"Okay, then I'll take it to them."
Once the wine here is opened, it's best to finish it within a day; otherwise, the taste will be affected. Laifu Restaurant generally sells small jars of wine, but occasionally there are large ones.
Seeing that the seal of the wine jar Zhao Ji gave him was intact, Zhang Xiao'er didn't think much of it and took it upstairs.
The poison wouldn't take effect immediately. It would gradually make people unable to speak, then paralyze their whole bodies, and finally let them die with their eyes open.
Calculating the time, Zhao Ji came out of the kitchen. By this time, Laifu Restaurant had closed. There was no one in the lobby, and it was pitch - black. Zhao Ji looked at the lit rooms upstairs and tiptoed up.
The snow outside was getting heavier and heavier. The wind howled, making the carved wooden windows rattle.
Zhao Ji looked at the three people lying on the ground, a cruel smile playing on his lips. Li Da, Li Er, and Mama Zhang wanted to speak, but due to the poison, they couldn't make a sound.
They all thought this man looked familiar.
He squatted down in front of them. His low voice was drowned out by the wind. "Do you know? My sister died very miserably. Her limbs were broken, and her head was full of blood. It was really scary. She was so afraid of pain. How could she bear all that suffering?"
Zhao Ji paused. He took out a knife from his bosom. "I wanted to ask her, but unfortunately, she can never answer me again."
The moment they saw Zhao Ji take out the knife, the three people's faces turned pale. They shook their heads desperately, their eyes full of pleading.
"Did my sister plead with you like this before she died?" Zhao Ji squatted down in front of Mama Zhang. Tears streamed down Mama Zhang's face. "Oh, I shouldn't have asked you. You can't answer me anyway."
Then, Zhao Ji stood up and walked in front of Li Da and Li Er. He smiled. "If you two hadn't abducted my sister, she would still be by my side now."
Zhao Ji leaned closer to them. His lowered voice seemed to come from an endless abyss, ready to drag them in at any moment. "Hey, have you ever thought you would end up like this?"
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, making the doors and windows bang. Zhao Ji looked at Li Da and Li Er. His lips moved, but his voice was inaudible.
However, Li Da and Li Er could see clearly.
The time was up.
Zhao Ji took the knife and brutally cut off parts of Li Da and Li Er's hands and feet. The process wasn't smooth at all. The knife was far from as sharp as the shopkeeper had claimed. Instead, it was rather difficult to cut.
The cut surfaces of the severed hands and feet were very uneven. Blood had splashed all over Zhao Ji. Due to the poison, although they were still in pain, Li Da and Li Er died in an extremely distorted state.
Mama Zhang on one side was already pale with fear. Zhao Ji's face was stained with blood, and he held the somewhat dull knife in his hand. "It's your turn. You're the most despicable one."
Tears still streamed down Mama Zhang's face. She was extremely frightened.
"I wonder what will happen if a person's head is cut off?" Zhao Ji stroked the blade of the knife, saying very terrifying words. Then he looked at Mama Zhang. "Do you know?"
How could she possibly know!
"Judging from your expression, you don't know. So, you should give it a try."
Saying this, Zhao Ji raised the knife and brought it down on Mama Zhang's neck. But it got stuck in the bone. Zhao Ji had no choice but to grind it down hard. The blade gradually sank into Mama Zhang's neck.
In the second half of the night, the snow became lighter. The clouds covering the sky gradually dispersed, revealing the bright crescent moon hiding behind them.
Zhao Ji threw the severed hands, feet, and head onto the snow. The blood - stained limbs splashed onto the stones piled on the ground.
He went downstairs, built a snowman that his sister liked, and hid the limbs inside. After finishing everything, he left Laifu Restaurant.
"You don't need me to tell you what happened next, do you?" Zhao Ji looked at Wei Shuxuan.
"Do you have any unfulfilled wishes before you die?" Wei Shuxuan met his gaze and asked.