The crowd didn't even have time to react to what was happening, only feeling the pressure points throughout their body, like their tigers' mouths, faces, throats, shoulders and necks, chests, waists, and abdomens, being pierced by silver needles, causing sharp pain, intense numbness, or piercingly itchy sensations.
Some lay on the ground convulsing, unable to bear the severe pain, wailing incessantly.
Some stiffly moved forward on the ground like puppets.
Some laughed hysterically as if they had been hit on a laughter point, their faces distorted with laughter as tears streamed down.
Mrs. Qin watched this scene of chaotic figures with a stunned expression, finding the sight both horrifying and strange, with a thoughtful look at Yun Ran.
"What, what have you done to them?"
Yun Ran gently blew on her fingers, under the soft sunlight, holding several silver needles in her jade-like white fingers, each needle reflecting different glows of red, blue, pink, and purple.
"What? Do you want to try it too?"
Seeing the bright and gentle smile on Yun Ran's lips, Mrs. Qin suddenly felt a chill all over, with an instinctual impulse to retreat.
However, the pride of being the mistress restrained this impulse, and she lifted her head high with pride.
"How dare you! You dare to commit murder openly in the Minister Mansion! And using such despicable methods like poisoning! Who taught you!"
"Despicable?"
Yun Ran curled her lips with some amusement, "Speaking of despicable, who can compare to you, an insidious, vicious, not very attractive, but with quite delusional thoughts old woman?"
Especially the last few words, like a pot of hot oil poured onto Mrs. Qin's suppressed anger, instantly igniting a towering flame.
Mrs. Qin was almost driven to madness, desperately wanting to rush forward and tear Yun Ran's mouth apart.
But, having navigated through intrigues and scheming to reach this point, her mind was no longer comparable to ordinary women, and she quickly suppressed that fiery rage.
"Lin Wanyue, this lady really underestimated you, I couldn't even see through your disguise before."
"Because you're stupid and blind!"
Mrs. Qin: "..."
She endured! Calculating the time, Lady Zhen should be arriving soon, and by then she would deal with this vile girl properly!
Hearing the urgent footsteps approaching from a distance, Yun Ran's eyes moved slightly, lazily glancing at Mrs. Qin, and raised her eyebrows casually.
"How about I send you to the lake to clear out the water in your brain?"
Mrs. Qin paused at the words, instantly realizing the danger, hesitating whether to throw away her pride and step back for now? Yun Ran was already in front of her, smiling brightly at her.
And then...
Mrs. Qin was shocked to find herself flying, her body completely out of her control heading towards the lotus pond.
"No! Don't!"
In a panic, Mrs. Qin no longer cared about her image, shouting loudly, and then, with a 'bang,' she fell into the lotus pond, splashing waves of water.
"Ah—help! Help! Someone come quickly—"
Mrs. Qin floundered in the water, her image completely ruined in an instant.
Yun Ran stood by the lake, looking down at her, smiling as warmly as a spring breeze.
"Is it fun in the water? Do you want me to send someone down to accompany you?"
Without waiting for Mrs. Qin's response, she directly kicked a thug closest to her into the lake.
Mrs. Qin was startled, and at the same time, her face was twisted with rage.
"Ah! You little brat, you, you wait for me, I won't let you off..."
Along with a hurried and chaotic sound of footsteps, Lady Zhen arrived with a team of guards, immediately spotting Zhen Fantong, whose face had been swollen into a pig's head, lying on the ground.
Lady Zhen's eyes were splitting with anger, "Son! Which beast with a leopard's gall dared to beat you like this?"
Zhen Fantong, upon seeing his savior, felt a surge of emotions—excitement, joy, grievance, pain, all mingled together, leading him to burst into loud sobs.
"Mother, it's her! It's Lin Wanyue! That savage, vulgar, and vicious woman, she was the one who beat your son like this."
Lady Zhen heard this, throwing a vicious look at Yun Ran, her voice particularly grim, "Did you injure my son?"
That expression made it seem as if she would tear Yun Ran to pieces alive if she dared say yes.
Yun Ran's expression was lazy, carelessly sweeping her gaze over the guards she brought.
Aside from two having slightly higher martial arts skills, barely reaching Third Grade, most of the others were between Sixth and Seventh Grades.
Taking them all on was no problem for her.
"I did it, want to see a demonstration again?"
As she finished speaking, Yun Ran flicked her toe, sending a small stone flying, hitting Zhen Fantong right on the forehead, dead center, immediately raising a bump.
Zhen Fantong instantly cried out like he was calling for his father and mother.
Lady Zhen's anger flared wildly, staring at Yun Ran with a dark look that could turn pots black.
"Good! Very good! Do you know what happened to those who acted arrogantly in front of this lady?"
"You'd better first worry about what will happen to you and that dead fatso."
"Mother...she called me fat, and a dead fatso, Mother, teach her a lesson quickly."
"Hold her down for me, slap her face! Slap her hard!"
Lady Zhen ordered fiercely, and the guards exchanged glances, then two stepped out, approaching Yun Ran.
"What's going on here?"
Just then, Lin Qianqiu's authoritative voice came, prompting everyone to look towards the sound.
Zhen Fantong was the first to howl, "Uncle! It was all Lin Wanyue's doing! You must stand up for your nephew!"
Lady Zhen followed closely, "Brother, you raised a good daughter! Truly capable! If I hadn't arrived in time, I fear that today Tong'er would have been finished in your Minister Mansion!"
"Master, that wretched girl is lawless, and she's trying to murder her legal mother! Master, you can't condone her any longer."
Mrs. Qin, just rescued from the lake, was in a mess, shivering, with a look of grief and indignation.
Lin Qianqiu watched these scenes, only feeling his temples throb intensely, his head aching terribly!
"Lin Wanyue! You unfilial daughter! Kneel and admit your wrongs!"
A furious roar scared countless birds in the forest away, showing Lin Qianqiu's current anger.