"Tell me! Who sent you?"
Jiang Sanlang kicked the man hard.
The man looked around, his heart sinking to the bottom, but he relied on his confidence and shouted, "Do you know who I am? Let me go! Otherwise, your Jiang family will be in trouble!"
Jiang Sanlang looked fierce and asked again: "I'll ask you again, who sent you here? What do you want to do in my house?"
The man snorted, "Who do you think you are! How dare you ask grandpa..."
Before he could finish his words, a dagger was stabbed into his thigh.
“Ahhh…” the man screamed and twisted his body.
Jiang Sanlang said in a cold voice: "I'm asking you this for the last time. If you don't answer honestly, I'll send you to hell!"
The man was terrified and begged for mercy: "I'll tell you! Don't kill me... It was Chen Guanglu who asked us to arrest people. He said he wanted to take your little witch to sacrifice to the gods."
Jiang Sanlang suppressed his anger and asked, "Where is Chen Guanglu? Why didn't he come?"
"He said that everyone in the village knew him, so it was inconvenient for him to come over, so he asked us to capture someone and meet up at Simen Town." The man rolled his eyes and continued, "Chen Guanglu is now a favorite of Prince Cheng. If you, a commoner, offend him, you will probably end up in trouble... Otherwise, I'll take you to find him..."
Seeing Jiang Sanlang deep in thought, the man said, "However, Chen Guanglu's whereabouts are hidden. Without me leading the way, you will definitely not be able to find him by yourself."
"Okay, I'll let you lead the way." Jiang Sanlang did not miss the flash of pride in the man's eyes.
He pulled out the dagger and suddenly stabbed it into the man's heart.
Since you won't tell the truth, there's no point in keeping it.
Afterwards, Jiang Sanlang put the three people into a sack, asked his daughter to go out first, and ran to the mass grave to release him and the three corpses.
Although Yingbao was panicking, she remained calm and left the cave. She put on her backpack and ran to a cemetery far away from the village.
After releasing her father and the three corpses, Yingbao began to feel her legs and feet trembling.
From then on, she didn't dare to enter the cave alone.
Jiang Sanlang dug the hole silently and buried the three sacks deep.
Seeing that the little girl was a little trembling with fear, he comforted her: "Don't be afraid, Bao'er, these are all bad people. If we don't eradicate them today, our family will never have peace."
Yingbao nodded repeatedly.
She also felt that these people deserved to die. They dared to break into her house and rob people in broad daylight. How brazen must they be to do this
After burying the sacks, the father and daughter returned home, and Yingbao quickly released A Niang.
Chunniang had woken up long ago and knew that the bandit had died at the hands of her husband, so she didn't ask anything. She washed her face and went to cook, but half of the pancakes she made were burnt.
The next day, Jiang Sanlang took his daughter and quietly left the village.
Yingbao put the family's chestnut horse into the cave early in the morning. After walking out of the village with her father, they let the horse out to a place where the villagers could not see them. The father and daughter rode on the same horse and headed for Simen Town.
Regardless of whether Chen Guanglu is in Simen Town or not, Jiang Sanlang will go and take a look.
Yesterday's incident reminded him that his family had become enemies with the man named Chen. If he allowed him to do whatever he wanted, his own family would be the ones to die.
More than an hour later, the father and daughter arrived at Simen Town.
At this time, Yingbao was wearing boys' clothes, and she had drawn two thick eyebrows with charcoal, painted her face with brown powder, and wore a conical hat on her head. She could hardly be seen as a girl.
Jiang Sanlang also dressed up. Not only were his eyebrows drawn sloppily, but he also drew a black mark around his mouth with charcoal. He also wore a bamboo hat on his head and carried an umbrella on his back, like a traveler on a long journey.
Yingbao put away the horse and strolled in Simen Town with her father.
They first went to the best local restaurant, where the father and daughter ordered two dishes and started chatting with the waiter.
When asked if there were any outsiders coming here recently, the clerk said, "Of course there are many. It's been very busy here recently. Foreign grain merchants are buying grain at high prices and hiring many people to transport the grain. It's 200 coins a day. If my mother didn't want me to leave home, I would also like to sign up."
Jiang Sanlang asked calmly, "Excuse me, little brother, where do the grain merchants live?"
"Customer, do you want to sign up too?" The waiter took a look at Jiang Sanlang and saw that his clothes were neat and tidy, made of good material. Although his face was a little dirty, he still looked dignified and did not look like someone who was looking for a job.
Jiang Sanlang: "I have a business to discuss with them, not to sign up for the job of moving."
"I see."
The waiter seemed to be unconvinced and did not want to answer, but when he saw the man handing him a string of copper coins, he immediately smiled and said, "The grain merchants are staying at Yunlai Inn. If you want to discuss business, please do it as early as possible. When they came to eat this morning, they said that they would set off early tomorrow morning."
"Thank you for letting me know." Jiang Sanlang and his daughter ate in a hurry, left the restaurant, found out the inn the waiter mentioned, went in, and asked to stay at the inn.
The innkeeper said quickly, "I'm so sorry, our inn has been booked. You might as well go somewhere else."
Jiang Sanlang looked regretful and said, "In that case, I'll take a break and leave soon."
The innkeeper of course had no objection and asked the waiter to bring the kettle and pour tea for the guests.
Yingbao followed her father and sat in the most secluded spot in the lobby of the inn. She slowly drank the tea poured by the waiter and looked around secretly.
The inn is a civil structure with two floors.
The lower floor is low and is the lower-class dormitory; the upper floor is a wooden corner tower and is the upper-class guest room.
After a while, someone came out of the superior guest room, stood at the railing and shouted to the shopkeeper, "Hey! Go buy two jugs of wine! Cut two pounds of pork head meat, and buy a braised goose. It must be whole, without any missing limbs!"
The shopkeeper responded and told the waiter to go out and buy some wine and meat.
Yingbao and her father have already seen that Chen Guanglu is indeed here.
It's just that he was playing backgammon with others in the inn and didn't come out.
After confirming that Chen Guanglu was there, Jiang Sanlang got up and took his daughter out of the inn.
After looking around, we finally arrived at the riverside pier in Simen Town.
This is a small pier. Usually there are no large ships docked here, but today there is a large ship anchored not far away.
Porters were carrying bags of food onto the ship.
Yingbao noticed with her sharp eyes that the person supervising the work was actually one of County Captain Cao's men.
"Dad, did you see that man? He is a subordinate of County Magistrate Cao."
Yingbao whispered to her father, "I saw this man when the county lieutenant was trying a case. He should be Cao Shen's confidant."
Jiang Sanlang narrowed his eyes and glanced at the man, and whispered, "Let's ignore Cao Shen for now and get Chen Guanglu here first."
Jiang Sanlang felt unsafe keeping Chen Guanglu for a day.
This person is insidious, cunning, and cruel. If I don't take action first, I'm afraid my family will be the one to suffer.
On the other side, Chen Guanglu finished a game of backgammon and called one of his men over anxiously, asking, "Has Gao Xun and the others not returned yet?"
Subordinate: "No, they should have arrived last night, but they haven't come back yet."
Chen Guanglu paced around the room with his hands behind his back. Suddenly, he heard the man behind him laughing and saying, "It's not a big deal. It's just an enemy. Why go through so much trouble? Just kill him directly."
Chen Guanglu glared at the man and said, "What do you know? It's easy to kill the Jiang family, but the king wants to take the kid to the county town, so we have to be cautious."
The village where the Jiang family lived was very dense, with only a few entrances and exits. If he alerted the enemy and killed someone first, not only would he not be able to catch the baby, he might also lose his life.