If Song Yaoyao had known what they were thinking, she would definitely have said, "You're overthinking it!"
Assistant Minister Song hurried over and grabbed Song Yaoyao.
"Yaoyao, what are you doing?"
"Dad, don't stop me. I heard assassins are all loaded. They make quite a bit for every person they kill!
"I just want to borrow a little spending money!"
Everyone stared speechlessly at Song Yaoyao. They had thought Little Lord Song was going to do something to those men...
Their minds were impure. They had been overthinking it!
Only now did Assistant Minister Song realize just how greedy his youngest daughter was. He told her,
"Wait over there. Let someone else do this."
"All right."
Only then did Song Yaoyao step aside.
Assistant Minister Song gave his men a look, and all thirty of them got to work.
They began searching the bodies of the hundred-odd assassins.
Song Yaoyao kept reminding them from the sidelines,
"Search their hair, inner clothes, shoes, and socks. Oh, and don't miss their underpants!"
Was it really appropriate to search other people's underpants in full view of everyone?
Assistant Minister Song's aging face flushed crimson as he barked,
"Song Yaoyao, shut your mouth!"
Song Yaoyao pouted and muttered, "As if anyone here doesn't wear underpants. Yet I'm not even allowed to mention them."
The assassins' leader could bear it no longer. Mustering all his strength, he cursed,
"You shameless wretch! Kill us or carve us up as you please. Why must you humiliate us like this?"
Song Yaoyao sneered,
"If you knew it would come to this, why did you do it in the first place? You offended me, your grand-aunt, and still expect a quick death? What pretty dreams you're having!
"This is just a body search. We've barely even begun!
"In a moment, you'll learn what I'm capable of."
"You venomous woman! You're a demon..."
Song Yaoyao laughed even more wildly, planting both hands on her hips like a villain in a television drama.
"Keh keh keh! That's right, I'm a demon.
"You're fish on the chopping block now. I can do whatever I want with you!
"Curse me again, and you'll be the first one I turn into a eunuch!"
"You... you..."
Everyone present felt a chill between their legs and hastily clamped their thighs together.
The assassins' leader trembled with rage, but he dared not curse her again. He was truly afraid this lunatic would castrate him!
One man, repulsed by the task, searched only an assassin's upper body. Song Yaoyao spotted him and pointed.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you only searching his upper body? Why aren't you searching everywhere else?
"If you can't do it, I'll do it myself!"
Hearing that, the man hardly dared let the young miss do it herself. If she had to touch these filthy men, his lord would skin him alive!
At that thought, he had no choice but to search them as Song Yaoyao had instructed.
Before long, someone brought a stack of banknotes and some silver, presenting it all to Song Yaoyao.
Song Yaoyao certainly wasn't going to turn up her nose at the banknotes and silver because of where they had been found.
As a military doctor in her previous life, what part of a man's body hadn't she seen or touched?
They were only underpants. She hardly considered that worth worrying about!
These banknotes would be perfect for buying more medicinal ingredients!
Song Yaoyao counted the money. There were actually over twenty thousand taels.
Hadn't she said so? Since when were assassins poor?
Just look. Every last one of them was rich!
Song Yaoyao gave each of the twenty-four men sent by the emperor and her father's thirty men two hundred taels. Just like that, 10,800 taels were gone.
The men refused to accept it.
It wasn't that Song Yaoyao was generous. Without these men protecting her, she would have been dead long ago.
Although they had only been following orders, Song Yaoyao felt that they deserved this money!
Song Yaoyao insisted on pressing the banknotes into their hands.
"Take it. It's a windfall, and everyone here gets a share!"
Only then did the fifty-odd men thank Song Yaoyao.
"Thank you for your reward, Little Lord Song."
"Thank you for your reward, Second Miss Song."
Song Yaoyao waved a hand. "No need to thank me. You earned it."
Song Yaoyao then gave her father a thousand taels and set aside another thousand for the emperor!
She remembered the kindness the emperor had shown by sending men to protect her.
When the hidden guards returned to the palace to report what had happened here, she could have them take these thousand taels in banknotes to the emperor.
The emperor had vast wealth and might not think much of this mosquito's leg of a sum, but it was still a token of her gratitude, wasn't it?
Naturally, she had to save the emperor a share of this windfall!
Once Song Yaoyao had finished dividing it up, she said,
"I'll keep the remaining few thousand taels. I still need to prepare a lot of medicinal powders, so I'll use this money to buy ingredients."
Song Yaoyao still wanted to explain to everyone what she would use the money for!
One of the men asked,
"Lord Song, what should we do with these hundred-odd assassins?"
Assistant Minister Song had something of a headache himself. Having captured so many assassins at once, how to deal with them really was a problem.
Seeing that her father hadn't spoken, Song Yaoyao edged closer.
"Dad, can we just kill them?"
Assistant Minister Song looked at Song Yaoyao. What sort of daughter had he brought into this world? How could she be so violent, so bloodthirsty?
Assistant Minister Song sighed and said,
"These men were probably just sent out to carry out a mission. They have no idea who hired them.
"Even under severe torture, we probably wouldn't get anything out of them.
"We might as well kill them, then!
"But how are we going to dispose of so many bodies?"
Song Yaoyao blinked.
"Dad, I can handle the bodies!"
Assistant Minister Song looked at his troublesome youngest daughter, wondering what she was planning now.
He asked in return,
"Can you really handle them?"
Song Yaoyao nodded firmly. "I can."
"How are you going to do it?"
"Dad, knock all the assassins unconscious except their leader."
Although he didn't know what his youngest daughter intended to do, Assistant Minister Song still had his men follow her instructions and knock everyone unconscious except the assassins' leader.
Song Yaoyao nodded in satisfaction at the sight.
She pulled a packet of medicinal powder from her pocket and swaggered toward the assassins' leader with a stride that acknowledged neither kin nor family.
Seeing the demon Song Yaoyao approaching him, the assassins' leader instinctively tried to retreat.
"You witch! What are you going to do?"
Song Yaoyao laughed even more brazenly.
"Ha ha ha! Oh my!
"In just this little while, I've become a witch too!
"Thanks for the compliment! No reward for you, though!
"As for what I'm going to do, you'll find out soon enough!"
Song Yaoyao looked over the assassins' leader. Dressed entirely in black, he gave no clue as to whether he was wounded.
Song Yaoyao picked up a sword from the ground and sliced his arm.
Before the assassins' leader could cry out, Song Yaoyao opened the paper packet in her hand and poured the powder onto the cut.
The assassins' leader had been weak and listless from the drug, but now he let out a harrowing scream!
The assassins' leader glared venomously at Song Yaoyao and roared,
"What did you do?"
Song Yaoyao said innocently,
"Didn't you say earlier that I could kill you or carve you up as I pleased?
"Aren't I just fulfilling your request?
"I don't know how effective this new medicinal powder I prepared is. You're the perfect person to test it on."