The Useless Miracle Doctor Consort Is Spoiled Rotten by the Prince!-Chapter 1335 - 1330 Inside Qiongzhou City

Chapter 1335: Chapter 1330: Inside Qiongzhou City

Chapter 1335: Chapter 1330: Inside Qiongzhou City

Chu Yihan didn’t say more, but despite originally planning to interrogate the civilians they had brought back from Qiongzhou City immediately, he still waited two hours for Lin Sisi to return for a rest. It wasn’t until evening that he joined her to meet those few people.

Ye Qingru and the military doctor went first to care for these five civilians they had taken by force, essentially rescuing them from Qiongzhou City.

Ye Qingru discovered that those men and one woman, curled up at the city gates, were either close to starvation or suffering from severe untreated injuries, struggling in pain. It was when Lin Sisi breached the city gates that she casually picked them up, thereby saving their lives.

When they saw Chu Yihan, they all knelt to thank him for saving their lives, showing no sign of perceiving him as the enemy emperor. Instead, they each bowed their heads in gratitude, “Thank you, Emperor, for saving our lives, thank you, Emperor!”

“Thank you, Emperor!”

“Thank you, Emperor!”

The one kneeling at the very front was a man who had lost both his arms; he had to be fed by Ye Qingru. Ye Qingru reported to Chu Yihan in front of him, “Emperor, this man used to be part of the Qiongzhou military. He lost his arms in battle and was abandoned to fend for himself.”

Chu Yihan nodded, his gaze growing more solemn.

He had intended to question this man about some matters, but before he could speak, the man bowed eagerly, his voice trembling with emotion, “Emperor, you are the emperor of Great Cheng Dynasty. Qiongzhou too is a subject of Great Cheng. I beg you, save the men of Qiongzhou—save us!”

Chu Yihan raised his hand, “No need to get agitated, speak calmly.”

Chu Yihan ordered Ye Qingru to bring some chairs for them to sit and speak, but the man who had lost his arms refused to rise. His eyes were bloodshot, brimming with tears, “The Qiongzhou Army is valiant; they prefer death over surrendering to the enemy. Today, on behalf of the hundred thousand soldiers of Qiongzhou still suffering, I beg you, Emperor… breach Qiongzhou and rescue them! Save them from the hands of that heartless woman, Chen Ruobai!”

Chu Yihan informed him, “Chen Ruobai invaded our borders, disturbing the peace of Great Cheng. I will certainly not let her off. However, I need to know the current situation inside Qiongzhou City.”

The armless man hung his head, his tears soaking into his clothes, a sight that made Lin Sisi’s heart ache. She took a clean handkerchief, intending to help wipe his face.

Seeing that Lin Sisi was a woman, he immediately retreated in terror, “You… you’re a woman, don’t come near!”

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He was that fearful of women.

Especially a woman like Lin Sisi, who possessed the demeanor of a great general.

Like the female general Xin Yi, she had a similar presence, frightening and intimidating.

“This…” Lin Sisi looked puzzled, “I just want to help you; I, as a general, won’t harm you!”

“Female generals! Female generals are the empress’s henchmen, even more brutal!”

The man who had lost his arms crawled instinctively towards Ye Qingru, cursing his luck for being armless and could only move his torso, relying on the proximity to Ye Qingru’s legs.

“General Lin, don’t mind him, the soldiers from Qiongzhou City must have been tormented by a woman too harshly, hence their fear of women,” Ye Qingru helped to explain, as he knew a bit more about Qiongzhou City than Lin Sisi did from their experiences at Ruo Shui Pass, so he could understand this man better.

If it weren’t for the sheer brutality of their experiences, it wouldn’t have been possible to frighten a man of such character into this state.

Lin Sisi looked helplessly toward Chu Yihan, she just wanted to understand the military situation.

Chu Yihan glanced at the last kneeling old woman and ordered Lin Sisi, “Help the elderly up and speak with the empress behind the screen.”

Lin Sisi bowed, “This subordinate obeys the command.”

When she went to assist the old woman, she didn’t resist like the man who had lost both arms, just looking at her with a very complex expression.

Su Yingxue also went with Lin Sisi, sitting behind the screen with the old woman.

Once they were separated from Chu Yihan, with the men on one side and the women on the other, the atmosphere in the military tent changed.

The kneeling men outside, led by the man who had lost both arms, visibly sighed in relief.

The man with no arms began to recount to Chu Yihan the situation inside Qiongzhou City. He spoke for a full half hour, starting from Chen Ruobai’s arrival in Qiongzhou City three years ago, to her waging war against Qiongzhou. He told of how Xin Yi betrayed the Qiongzhou Imperial family, opened the city gates, allowed the city to fall, and welcomed Chen Ruobai as the new ruler of Qiongzhou. Next, he described how Chen Ruobai segregated the men and women of Qiongzhou, favored women in governance and commerce, while belittling men, treating them like ants. He continued to elaborate on how men were used as gu corpses, killed off for amusement, and how all military leaders in Qiongzhou were poisoned by her, forcing them to submit to her rule.

The man with no arms spoke until he was hoarse, but still, he continued with red-rimmed eyes to accuse, “Chen Ruobai is the most venomous woman in this world. Countless men in Qiongzhou have died at her hands. Not a single leader of the Qiongzhou army is free from her poison control, from the main and deputy generals to the chiliarchs and centurions, without exception. If anyone fails to act as she directs, she withholds the antidote, and they would die from poison, in extreme agony before death, and after… after death, they would be turned into gu corpses by her, creating those abominable creatures that are neither human nor ghost!”

Recalling the horrors he had witnessed, the man with no arms couldn’t help but burst into tears.

Men shed blood, not tears, even on the battlefield they would not cry so bitterly!

Yet the tragic plight of the men in Qiongzhou City was too much for him to bear. So many souls unable to rest in peace, further tormented and frightened by Chen Ruobai using them as gu corpses!

Among them were many of their fathers, brothers, relatives, and comrades!

All spirited men, who would never flinch even in death. But one Chen Ruobai broke their backbone, forcing them to live on their knees, each day lived in agony!

For death was not a release; it was merely the beginning of becoming a nightmare for others.

He continued in pain, seemingly with many more grievances he wanted to express to Chu Yihan, yet possibly due to his overwhelming emotions, he became unable to speak. Several others behind him, seeing his fervor, also began sharing one by one the plight of the civilians.

Unlike this armless man, they were not soldiers of Qiongzhou, but the life of the ordinary men was even more miserable.

Not a single one could live as freely as before; they were either forced into hard labor or taken to serve women. Men of even slight attractiveness were selected by Chen Ruobai to be sent to Qiongzhou Prefecture to serve as slaves to female military officers and court ladies as a reward.

The rest… were used by Chen Ruobai as tools for experimenting, acupuncture, and dissection and discarded in the Blood Pool afterward.

There were even those who were dragged away, subjected to constant abuse.