"Alright, since we've fulfilled a teaching session here, let's get back to what we're supposed to do now," Peng Mingzhu announced, her voice not too loud and not too quiet.
"What are you going to do?" Wei Li asked after Peng Mingzhu finished announcing.
Peng Mingzhu did not answer his question. Instead, she walked up to the woman lying on the ground who was still hypnotized.
In a soft and calming voice, Peng Mingzhu asked, "What is your name, how old are you, and what is your gender?"
As though following a procedure she has done dozens of times before, her questions flowed from her tongue to her lips smoothly and effortlessly.
"Kang Huian. Twenty four. Female," the woman directly answered as her consciousness was too weak at the moment due to the soft voice of Peng Mingzhu.
"Who are your parents?" Peng Mingzhu asked as she guided Kang Huian slowly onto the path that she wanted her to go into.
"I do not know who my mother is...but my father is the best artist in the country...people call him Elder Kang...I do not know his given name…" Kang Huian slowly said as her subconsciousness was being attacked fiercely by the voice of Peng Mingzhu.
"Why did you run away from your family?" Peng Mingzhu asked while slowly kneeling down to Kang Huian.
"..." Kang Huian did not answer.
When everyone saw the closed lips that refused to speak, they all turned to Peng Mingzhu with high expectations as they all thought that she would definitely have a method to make Kang Huian speak.
"What ya'll staring at me for?" Peng Mingzhu asked with a frown.
"That…" Wei Li tried to say. "What do you plan to do?"
"Well, she refuses to speak, so what do you want me to do?" Peng Mingzhu asked back.
Then, Peng Mingzhu finally realized why they were all staring at her.
Speaking with a fake smile, Peng Mingzhu questioned, "You guys think I'm a magician, right? Or perhaps a goddess or immortal?"
Although no one answered, they did not say yes or no either. However, their silence was all Peng Mingzhu needed to know what they were thinking.
"I'm a human just like any of you guys," Peng Mingzhu stated. "There are limits to hypnosis and if I try to mess with her any further, I'd just break her into pieces and fragment her memories."
"Then, how do we get her to answer our interrogations?" Wei Li asked with a frown since he knew that Kang Huian was definitely not going to be cooperative.
"We still have the other person in the jails to interrogate," Peng Mingzhu told them.
"Wait, you mean, we are still not done questioning him?" Wei Li questioned with a shocked expression on his face.
"What? Did you think we'd be done with the most important character in this case so quickly?" Peng Mingzhu asked him as she folded her arms.
"But did we not just interrogate him just a few moments ago?" Wei Li asked as he placed a hand behind his neck, showing an embarrassed stance.
"That was a false interrogation in order to get the real culprit to expose herself," Peng Mingzhu stated before yawning.
Then, looking out the window, Peng Mingzhu suddenly announced, "It's already so late. We can handle the rest of the case tomorrow. I'm going to sleep."
"Wait, what? So suddenly? We're not even done talking!" Wei Li started talking fast.
Stretching his hand, Wei Kangnuan patted Wei Li on the shoulder, "Let us leave her alone for now. She has been dragged around everywhere by us and has been helping us to discover clues and evidence for this case. Father will be very proud of us once he hears of this achievement."
Heaving a sigh, Wei Li asked, "Ah Nuan, you really like her?"
"Yes, why?" Wei Kangnuan answered with a waver in his voice or doubt in his eyes.
"She is intelligent...but too intelligent," Wei Li said. "She is beautiful...but too beautiful."
"What is wrong with that?" Wei Kangnuan questioned with a raise of his brow.
"Have you not read the books? History has stated time and time again that a beautiful woman is the downfall of an empire," Wei Li tried to tell Wei Kangnuan.
"She will not cause us to fall, but cause us to expand," Wei Kangnuan denied the idea that Wei Li was giving him. "You still do not approve of her even after all the hard work and intelligence she has shown?"
"But what about her loyalty? What of her commitment?" Wei Li asked his brother seriously as he knew too well that Wei Kangnuan probably never even asked Peng Mingzhu her current marital status.
"..." hearing what Wei Li just posed, Wei Kangnuan realized that he indeed did not know much about her personal life.
Yes, he knew that she was struggling with her family.
He knew that she did not have many friends.
He knew that she had a traumatic past.
However, there were many questions that he needed to know to which he did not know.
But then, when he thought about it, were they even important?
After all, why would she allow him to hug her and even hold her hand if she was already married or taken. Besides, she did not seem like a woman who would play with two men.
"I will make sure to ask her at a later time," Wei Kangnuan stated with a furrowed brow.
Even though in his heart, he said that she was not married, not engaged, and not related to any males, he knew that with her beauty and intelligence, she is sure to have a significant other in his life. However, he did not want to question her today.
Today was too tiring and stressful. The group had engaged in many activities and Peng Mingzhu ended up using too much of her brain cells. Wei Kangnuan was sure that everyone was tired.
"Brother, let us go rest now," Wei Kangnuan told Wei Li. "Let us wake up early tomorrow. I believe that Ah Nai will definitely wake up before us tomorrow."
"How are you so sure?" Wei Li asked while squinting as he could not believe that Wei Kangnuan would know Peng Mingzhu well.
"I just know," Wei Kangnuan briefly answered before turning his body to walk out the study room door.
Once Wei Kangnuan left, everybody else filed out of the study in an orderly line. At the same time, they made sure to not forget about Kang Huian who was tied up.
No matter what place they were at, they could not let their guards down. They did not know how skillful Kang Huian was in the art of concealing or the art of martial arts. However, they did know that there was a warning from Peng Mingzhu, so they all made sure to listen.
Though she was not an official soldier, they all really looked up to her.
She was beautiful, graceful, and elegant. Her pink robes always made her appear like a peach and an immortal who was descending upon humans. There was not a single part of her that the men could address as bad.
However, it was not just her looks and style of dressing that caused the soldiers to praise and highly upon her.
Apparently, many of the soldiers happened to witness Peng Mingzhu "dueling" with Wei Kangnuan that ended in a tie which caused many of them to almost immediately accept her. Of course, with many people there, each individual saw something different that made people realize that Peng Mingzhu and Wei Kangnuan were not actually childishly dueling as though a young flirting couple, but were actually seriously dueling.
Only...that was actually what the two were doing.
Anyways, since Peng Mingzhu managed to demonstrate her abilities in fighting that was on par with their commander and prince, all the soldiers decided to accept her. Though if she were to do anything to betray the country, they would still make sure to decimate her first.
At the same time, since she was good at martial arts, the soldiers also thought that she was probably also great at sneaking and skills of assassination or whatnot. Of course, she never showed them before, so they did not know what she looked like as an assassin.
Though, if they were to know, they would still be shocked. Peng Mingzhu was amazingly good at fighting. However, she was incredibly horrible at hiding herself in the dark.
Perhaps disguising was her area of expertise, but the art of concealing was such a historical and old thing that she never did manage to start painting the canvas. Concealing oneself was a famous technique and skill dating back to Before Christ began, but Peng Mingzhu never did use the ability after learning it back then.
In fact, she did not even professionally learn the skill. Instead, she merely picked up on the skill after she saw Xiao Qiqiang use the concealment.
Thinking that concealing herself was cool, Peng Mingzhu gave the ability a practice. However, she later on learned that she would never use such a thing since she was such a public figure.