northernbook Chapter 153 The Death of Norlin
Chapter 153 The Death of Norlin
"How dare you! Do you know who I am? Does your Jiang family want to rebel?" Lin Yi had just entered the courtyard when he heard that guy from the Nuolin family shouting incoherently.
The other soldiers behind him, along with their griffins, lay dejectedly on the ground, while he alone continued to roar.
"The Norlin family? It seems to be an ancient family." Lin Yi walked up and said casually, while the Norlin family officer raised his chin.
"You know that although my family background is far inferior to yours, punishing other nobles in private is against the law and will be punished!"
"So the reason why the Norlin family has been so weak over the years that it has almost fallen out of the ranks of nobles is because all the family's children are idiots like you?" Lin Yi sat down on a chair that his subordinates had brought over, arms crossed.
“You! Please watch your words! I am older than you, how can you be so offensive!” Norlin shouted, his neck stiff.
"Offend? When you and those damned pirates offended my wife, didn't you expect this day to come?" Lin Yi asked, enunciating each word clearly, his sea-blue eyes filled with gloom.
"You...you can't make things up without evidence! We just came back from patrol, how can you slander us like this!" Norlin shouted in protest. "I want to see the Emperor! Do you have no law? Setting up a private torture chamber in your own residence without evidence, aren't you afraid of incurring the Emperor's wrath?!"
"That's strange, how could anyone be so stupid?" Lin Yi wondered. He gestured to his subordinate, "Tell him whose idea it is."
His subordinate stood ramrod straight; it was the same man who had just reported to him. The young soldier said in a loud voice, "The palace sent word that this person is at the general's disposal, life or death is irrelevant."
"Do you really think there aren't any of the Emperor's men on board?" Lin Yi looked at his speechless expression and gave him a bloodthirsty smile: "That concludes the explanation. Now let's settle the score."
"Men, the griffins are innocent. Take them all away and find them some reliable owners if you have the chance." This made it clear that these men had no way out today. Norlin's soldiers were even more desperate, watching helplessly as their griffins were dragged away with cries, their eyes turning red.
Norlin finally lowered his voice desperately: "General Lin Yi, I am acting on Lady Tini's orders. She will not abandon me. If you go too far, Lady Tini will not let you off the hook!"
“Mrs. Tini?” Lin Yi sat with his legs apart, elbows on his knees, leaning forward in his chair, and said with a sudden realization, “So you’re one of Mrs. Tini’s people. I’ve heard so much about you.”
"I wonder if you know about Madam Tini's new favorite, that Mr. Zhong Qin with his unparalleled good looks." Lin Yi looked at Norlin with malice, his lips pursed in resentment, and continued, "Madam didn't even care when he was chopped into mincemeat, do you know why?"
Lin Yi's smile widened: "Because she was also sliced into a skeleton. Otherwise, when you see her later, show some concern and ask her how it felt to be slowly sliced to pieces?"
Norlin's pupils dilated, and for a moment he couldn't believe what he had just heard. "Impossible, how could this be? Madam is the Emperor's wife, you're lying to me, this is impossible!"
"So you're an idiot? Guess who wants her dead the most?" Lin Yi was getting impatient. He stood up, walked up to Norlin, and looked down at him.
"Tell me in detail, how exactly did you offend my wife? Did you touch her face? Did you touch anything else?" Lin Yi kicked Norlin, who was kneeling on the ground, and stepped on his right hand. He used a little force with his foot, and Norlin broke out in a cold sweat from the pain.
He was a soldier after all; even with his hand crushed into a mangled mess, he didn't utter a single sound.
"Tsk, what a tough nut to crack. Too bad showing off won't work." Lin Yi pulled his foot back, softening his tone. "How about this, you tell me what kind of treatment my wife received on the ship, tell me everything you know, and I'll give you and your men a quick death. What do you say?"
Norlin stared intently at Lin Yi and sneered, "How dare you be so rebellious and treat the lady so cruelly? I shouldn't have been so lenient and let the pirates chop Lord Jiang Yu to pieces."
"You're all in such dire straits, it must be because Lord Jiangyu has run into trouble, is he dead? Hahahaha, what use is your high status? You're just a young widower, hahahaha."
"You're just like me, a pitiful person who has lost your loved one!" Norlin spat out a mouthful of blood and said viciously.
"Tsk, I didn't realize Commander Norlin was such a romantic," Lin Yi said in surprise. "You really don't have any taste."
“Since we each have our own preferences, you can only blame yourself for being less skilled. You should thank me and send you down to serve that old whore with Zhong Qin.” Lin Yi stretched out his foot again and this time stepped on Norlin’s head.
"How dare you! You conspired with pirates to murder my wife, and now you even dare to curse her. You deserve to die!" Lin Yi's eyes were filled with intense killing intent. He thought of Jiang Yu, who was missing, and Fan Qingyin, who was on the verge of death. His heart felt like it was churning with violent magma, desperately wanting to find an outlet to erupt.
"Go to hell," he whispered. Then he crushed Norlin's head like he was crushing a watermelon.
The crisp sound of skulls shattering, the splattering of brains and blood, and the expressionless face of General Lin Yi—this starkly bloody scene intensely shocked everyone present.
Lin Yi's men fully understood their general's uncontrollable rage, while Norlin's men were too terrified to react. Their commander's tragic death made them feel the approach of death, and they feared that the same thing would happen to them.
“General Lin Yi… when we left the ship, Lord Jiang Yu was unharmed. None of us hurt her!” Finally, one of the soldiers couldn’t bear the fear any longer and stammered an explanation.
"I swear, General, I didn't touch Lord Jiang Yu's hair, no, not even a scrap of her clothing." The soldier was terrified, tears streaming down his face. "Those pirates drugged her, made her unconscious, and then tied her up in the hold!"
"But I'm certain that no one harmed Lord Jiangyu, at least not before we left the ship. Please, spare us! We were just following orders, General!"
“Yes, yes!” Another soldier crawled up to his knees, kowtowing repeatedly. “Please spare us! We are willing to make amends. We will search for Lord Jiangyu’s whereabouts. We are willing to serve you like cattle and horses, as long as you spare us!”
For a moment, cries for mercy, oaths, and mournful sobs filled the air, giving Lin Yi a headache. He wiped away a splatter of blood that had accidentally landed on his face, glanced down at Norlin's gruesome corpse, and said impatiently:
"A bunch of trash. Drag them away and get rid of them."