Chapter 1722 - 1724
At this moment, Ye Yi and the others had also prepared everything.
"You all go out for now."
"Do you want to be left alone, my lady?" Ye Zi’an immediately objected, "I’ll stay with you."
"I have to bathe her, do you want to stay for that too?" Yang Chuxia gave him a sidelong glance.
"Uh..." Hearing this, Ye Zi’an rubbed his nose and left with the others.
Once they were gone, Yang Chuxia put on gloves, picked up the scissors on the table, and grabbed the old woman’s hair. She cut it swiftly, and soon, the black strands, accompanied by hidden red strands, fell completely.
Looking at the completely bald head, Yang Chuxia was very satisfied.
After finishing with the hair, she moved to check her fingernails and toenails, trimming them meticulously close to the skin before stopping.
Once the nails were done, she moved on to the ears.
Finally, she checked the mouth, examining almost every tooth before stripping the person bare and tossing her along with her chained hands and feet into the wooden tub.
"Young Master, can Madam handle it alone?" Ye Yi couldn’t help but ask in the courtyard.
"If she can’t, are you going to go in?" Ye Zi’an rolled his eyes at him irritably.
But Ye Liu, crossing his arms, said, "I’m more curious why the Madam is giving her a bath? It’s like serving her as if she were a master, even though she’s a prisoner."
"You’re right," Ye Yi nodded slightly, "I really don’t understand."
"You’re just being foolish," Yang Chuxia came out from inside and said, looking at the people in the courtyard, "A master of poison techniques like her could have poison on every inch of her skin. Her mouth, ears, nails are all good places to hide poison, even her hair strands can hide poison. Do you get it now?"
"Madam, we’ve checked her mouth and nails, but how can her hair strands hide poison?" Ye Yi was unclear on this point.
"Want to know?" Yang Chuxia beckoned with her hand, "Follow me, once it’s all done, we can start interrogating her."
So when they came down, they saw that the former poisonous woman had changed into the clothes they had prepared, but what was with that bright bald head?
Yang Chuxia donned the gloves again, picked up the hair on the side, singled out a red strand, and said to Ye Yi, "Do you see this red hair?"
Saying this, she soaked the red strand in the clear water nearby, then dipped a silver hairpin into the water, and the tip of the hairpin quickly turned black.
"These red strands were hidden under the black hair, which you couldn’t see, and they’ve all been soaked in poison."
"Oh my, if she had shaken them when we were delivering her meals, we could have been poisoned at any time." Ye Yi was stunned; so many red strands, just how much poison was there?
"Do you know why your interrogations have made no progress?"
Ye Yi and the others shook their heads in unison.
Yang Chuxia said, "Today I’ll teach you a lesson. There’s been no progress because your methods haven’t threatened her. A few lashes are merely physical pain, they neither hurt her dignity nor touch her vulnerability. So you need to find her weaknesses and vulnerabilities; in critical moments, you can even resort to trampling on her dignity. When a person’s dignity is threatened, very few can withstand it."
Picking another red strand, she continued, "For someone skilled in poison like her, once her dignity is violated, she’ll either commit suicide with poison or use poison to kill the other party. That’s why I cleaned her from head to toe, searched for all the poison on her body, and am now ready for the next step of interrogation. Do you agree?"