"You... why didn't you stab me?" The man in black's hand holding the knife was trembling, even his voice was trembling. As soon as he spoke, he was swept into the woods by a gust of wind and disappeared without a trace. If you don't listen carefully, you really can't hear what the man in black said.
Yan Li's tone was very slow: "It's not my goal to kill people, but to save people. Let me ask you again, who are you, and why did you set up a trap for Xue'er?"
Rong Changan was taken aback when he heard Yan Li's words, his face paled: Those men in black actually set up a trap for Rong Changan? How is this going? After thinking about it, Rong Changan understood. Those men in black just now fled into the alley, not because they wanted to escape, but because they had a clear division of labor. The three led Rong Changan to the forest, and the other six people squatted outside the forest, or used hidden weapons, or used sneak attacks to trap Rong Changan to death in the forest.
The man in black swallowed: "We just want to catch Xue'er, we don't want to kill her."
The men in black deliberately avoided the question of "who are you?"
Yan Li: "What are you doing to catch Xue'er?"
The man in black: "Our master wants to know Xue'er's identity."
The man in black's answer aroused Yan Li's curiosity, and his eyebrows twitched: "Have you found out Xue'er's identity?"
Yan Li was at a loss when it came to tracking down Xue'er's identity. He really hoped that these men in black could provide him with valuable information.
The man in black shook his head: "No."
Yan Li's sword moved forward: "Really?" Yan Li's eyes were lowered, and his eyes were even sharper.
The man in black couldn't help shaking his tiger's body: "I...we really didn't find any clues."
The corner of Yan Li's mouth twitched into a hair-like sneer: "You are lying to me, and those who lie to me can only die."
The man in black was in a hurry, it was getting cold, and there were big beads of sweat on his forehead: "I... I didn't lie to you, you can ask them!" He pointed to another person next to him. said the three men in black.
So Yan Li asked the question again: "Is what he said true?"
One person said: "He didn't lie to you. It's useless even if you kill him or us. We don't know much more than you."
Yan Li: "But you caught Xue'er's stepmother, didn't she say anything to you?"
The four men in black were taken aback, and asked in unison: "You... how do you know we caught that old woman?"
Yan Li showed a cold complacency on his face: "You guys burned the thatched cottage, am I right? Since you burned the thatched cottage, then Xueer's stepmother must be in your hands. I saw it near the cottage The bloodstains did not belong to Xueer's adoptive mother, because she is an old man, how could she run so far after being injured? So, I can be sure that you didn't kill Xueer's adoptive mother, those bloodstains only Could be someone else's."
Although the man in black did not agree with Yan Li's conjecture, judging from his expression, Yan Li had already guessed six to seven or eight.
"You caught Xue'er's adoptive mother, didn't you ask for any valuable information?"
This is exactly what annoyed them. An old woman could be so persistent, holding Xue'er's identity, she would rather die than speak out.
"Believe it or not, we really didn't get anything out of her mouth." The man in black who was pointed at by Yan Li's sword said dejectedly.
Maybe they didn't use the right method. If Xue'er's adoptive mother was in Yan Li's hands, he might have a way to make her speak.
"Where is she, where are you hiding?"
The four men in black looked at each other, none of them would be the first to tell Yan Li where the old lady was hiding.
Yan Li raised his voice, and the sword light had already touched the man in black's throat: "Say it quickly! Otherwise, I will stab it with this sword!"
The man in black swallowed his saliva again: "I said, I said!" His spirit completely collapsed, "The old woman was locked up in the rice store by us, hiding in the rice warehouse."
Yan Li didn't relax at all: "The rice shop?"
The man in black: "Laishun Rice Shop!"
Yan Li looked at the other three men in black: "If you don't want him to die, then take me to that rice shop. I won't let him go until I see Xue'er's adoptive mother with my own eyes."
Although these people are desperate in the world, they also pay attention to the loyalty of the world and become brothers of the opposite sex. Since they are brothers of the opposite sex, how can they be willing to watch their brothers die without helping them.
So the three men in black nodded and agreed to take Yan Li to Laishun Rice Store.
The street is still dark and silent, and the moonlight reflects coldness on the corners of the roofs of rich and noble houses. Turning around the hotel just now, and walking past several shops, Yan Li could vaguely recognize the words "Laishun Rice Shop" written on the front of the shop by the faint moonlight.
"Here it is!" said a man in black.
Yan Li ordered: "Open the door and enter!"
One of the men in black stepped up the stone steps first, put his hands on the door panel, creaked, the door was not locked, and opened easily.
"How is it possible?" The man in black exclaimed in amazement, "When we left just now, it was obviously locked!"
Horror flashed across Yan Li's face.
"It means that someone else went in?"
The man in black hurriedly jumped from the door onto the road. Everyone's eyes were on the inside of the dark shop, as if there was a goblin hidden there.
"Who is it?" Someone couldn't help asking softly, but it was useless to ask, no one could answer his question.
Is there a third group of people going to the thatched cottage tonight? Yan Li's eyebrows were tangled, which made him look more majestic and wise.
"You, go in!" Yan Li said, pointing at the man in black who was pointed at by the sword.
No one knows what dangers are hidden inside. Going in is like entering a dragon's pond or a tiger's lair. You may die, and the man in black trembled again.
"I... I dare not go in!"
Yan Li's sword cut a gash on his neck, and the burning pain made him suffer a lot: "You either die here, or let me go in!"
The man in black had no choice but to stiffen his neck and walk into the rice store step by step. Most of the houses in the market here have this layout: the front is a shop, the middle is a hallway, and there is a patio inside, and behind the patio is the owner's living place. In this rice store, two rice warehouses were built on both sides of the courtyard, and the rice warehouses were covered with wooden boards and straw to prevent the rice from being wet by rain and snow.
"Look for something that can illuminate!" Yan Li said to the other three men in black.
Someone found a bowl of oil lamps and lit them with a torch. The whole rice shop became brighter, and the two towering rice warehouses beside the courtyard could be seen. There is a Hu ladder in the rice warehouse on the left, along which you can climb to the rice warehouse.
The man in black: "We hid the old woman in the rice barn. But when we left, we didn't put a ladder on the rice barn. Someone must have come here!"
Yan Li shouted: "Bring the lamp!"
Then a man in black handed him an oil lamp. Yan Li climbed up the Hu ladder and moved the oil lamp down, but there was no rice, let alone people.
"Where's the person?" Yan Li's eyes showed a murderous look.
The men in black knelt down on the ground in fright: "We don't know, obviously, someone has already come in!"
Yan Li made a deep jump, jumped in front of the four men in black, put his sword across their necks, and shouted sharply: "Did you kill the old man already? You lied to me that the man is still hiding here? "
"That's not the case, we don't know who stole the old woman!"
Suddenly, Yan Li heard a faint cry and searched for the sound. Behind the rice barn, under a mat, he saw two people, a man and a woman, hugging each other and shrinking.
"Don't kill us! Don't kill us!"
Yan Li held the oil lamp: "Who are you?"
The man said: "I am the owner of this rice shop, and this is my wife. Please hold your hands high and don't kill us!"
Yan Li understood, and looked at the four men in black sternly: "You arrested the owner of this shop, right?"
One of the men in black was also surprised to see the boss and the old lady hiding under the mat: "You... you were tied up in the rice warehouse by us, weren't you?"
The owner of the rice store said: "A woman came here just now and rescued the old woman. She was kind-hearted and let us go. As soon as she left, I heard the sound of you coming in, so I hid with my wife Here, I don’t want to be discovered by you!”
"Female?" The man in black looked puzzled, "What does it look like?"
The boss said: "I don't know, she covered her face."
Yan Li had already guessed who it was! She was one step ahead of him and rescued the old woman!