Wu Jiangliu hemmed and hawed, unwilling to answer, but Zhan Lan didn't press him, instead saying, "If you're not willing to talk, that's fine. Others are willing to speak."
Having said that, Zhan Lan left.
She sat in the yamen drinking tea, and after a quarter of an hour, Zhan Lan returned to the cell where Wu Jiangliu was being held.
Wu Jiangliu looked at Zhan Lan with suspicion, and Zhan Lan said breezily, "Secure Wu Jiangliu well. He will be interrogated and executed tomorrow."
Wu Jiangliu shouted, "You can't just kill people arbitrarily!"
While Wu Jiangliu was making a clamor, suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a concubine of his elder brother, Wu Jianghai, being helped out of the cell by two maidens.
Zhan Lan looked at him indifferently and said, "Your dear elder brother has a concubine who is pregnant. To save this child, your brother has confessed everything!"