"I ask a question and you answer a question. If you dare to tell lies, then don't blame me for throwing you into the Qiantang River to feed the bastards." A hoarse voice sounded in the room.
"You, you, you, you, ask, we promise to know everything and tell you everything." One of the five big men yesterday, like the others, knelt on the ground and said repeatedly.
"Tell me, does Yang Yue have a young and beautiful woman in his hands?" The person with a hoarse voice asked calmly.
"Yang Yue? Sir, I don't know Yang Yue."
"Fuck your mother, you don't know me!" Next to the man with a hoarse voice, another person kicked the big man to the ground. The horizontal knife in his hand was instantly unsheathed and placed on the big man's neck.
"My lord, have mercy on me, my lord, have mercy on me, I really don't know Yang Yue, I really don't know him." The big man was lying on the ground. Because of his big ties, he was kicked over and couldn't move like a bastard turned over, so he had to panic. Urgently begging for mercy.
"It's the old Yangtou who I asked you to take me to just now. Didn't you say that he was hiding a beautiful little lady? Is this true?" The hoarse voice stopped the people next to him and helped the big man up. asked.
"Old Yangtou? Yang Yue? Yes, yes, it's absolutely true. I promise you with my head, Old Yangtou... No, Yang Yue does have a beautiful girl in his hand, and she also knows poetry and songs. ." The big man responded hurriedly.
The person with the hoarse voice pondered for a moment, then continued to ask: "Then do you know the surname of that young lady? Where is her surname? How old is she?"
The big man was stunned for a moment, trying his best to recall the beauty of the woman. Then he paused and said with a grimace: "Sir, Xiaomin thinks that the young lady is only eighteen or nineteen years old. Her surname seems to be Chen. As for where her surname is? , Xiaomin really doesn’t know.”
"What's your name?" Cui asked as the hoarse voice tightened.
"My name is Chen Qinghan." The big man said.
"That's right. It seems that Yang Yue is really such a waste. He stole people away without anyone noticing. Okay, since you don't know where they are now, then... what do you mean to me? It's useless..." The hoarse man said with a sinister smile, looking at the five Hangzhou gangsters.
I just took five people to Yang Yue's home, but they missed it. Not to mention Chen Jingzhi's daughter Chen Qinghan, I didn't even see Yang Yue or his granddaughter.
And seeing that there was nothing in the bare-walled house, it was obvious that Yang Yue noticed something and moved away quietly.
"My lord, my lord, please forgive me. Really, we saw Lao Yang... Yang Yue yesterday. We really didn't see the woman at that time, so we beat Yang Yue hard."
"Why?" The husky man asked with a cold expression.
Facing the hoarse man's questions, the big man had no choice but to recount what happened last night.
It turned out that Yang Yue had always lived in that area, and the five people would occasionally ask Yang Yue to sing a song with his granddaughter. But one day when the man went to Yang Yue's house, he heard a clear female voice at the door.
So standing on the wall, he saw a graceful and beautiful woman, Chen Qinghan. The big man who opened the door and walked in shocked Yang Yue, and Chen Qinghan was also scared to the spot.
In the end, Yang Yue came to his senses and said that it was a woman who came to learn singing. But because of this excuse, the big man became even more tempted by Chen Qinghan's beauty.
So he began to ask Yang Yue every day to let Chen Qinghan sing songs for their brothers. After Yang Yue made excuses to refuse and declined several times.
In the end, being forced to do nothing, Yang Yue had no choice but to bite the bullet and take his little granddaughter to the river.
So what happened was that Princess Dalai stopped them from beating up Yang Yue. Yang Yue, who returned home, was always wary of Bai Chun's questioning of him, so he took Chen Qinghan and his little granddaughter to another place overnight.
After finding the big man, the husky man immediately went to Yang Yue's home. Unexpectedly, he rushed to nothing, so he brought these five people here and prepared to question them.
As for how these people found these big men, Li Hong didn't know, but now he knew very well that these people were secretly sent by Li Jingye, specifically for Chen Qinghan.
In this way, Li Hong can be sure that the people sent by Bai Chun will probably be in vain, but where will Yang Yue take Chen Qinghan? Leaving Hangzhou
"Sir, we know where to find Yang Yue, really? Please, don't kill five of our brothers. Please, I am telling the truth." The big man kept begging and pleading.
"Where can I find them?"
"You can find it in the countryside, and there is Gushan Temple. You can definitely find Yang Yue in these two places." The big man said with certainty.
Seeing the big man's determined tone, the husky man slowed down and said, "Why are you so sure that Yang Yue can be found in these two places?"
"His relatives are in the countryside. It is very likely that he has returned to the countryside or went to Gushan Temple. It seems... it seems that he goes to Gushan Temple every ten days and a half." The big man's face was full of tears. It's sweat, he said anxiously.
"Why go to Gushan Temple?" The hoarse man asked again as if he didn't believe the big man's words.
"As for the friend of Gushan Temple, I have never asked you who he is," the big man said pleadingly.
Li Hong gently opened the small gap in the window outside and peeked inside. He saw that the husky man had just finished speaking, then he took the horizontal knife from the man next to him and was slowly raising it. , put it on the big man's neck.
After clearing Li Hong's doubts about the reason why the big man's voice suddenly became trembling, Li Hong believed that these people were probably going to kill these big men next.
Yang Yue's disappearance means that these people are of no use at all. If they stay, they are very likely to discover their existence. Therefore, these people are left with a dead end.
"Sir, do it. Keeping them will cause endless troubles. We can't afford such a high price. What they just said, the woman who stopped them from beating Yang Yue last night, including the person who beat them, must be..."
The husky man interrupted the words of the men next to him, then looked at the big man again and asked: "After you were stopped last night, did you see a woman dressed in white like snow? Her hair was spread down behind her head."
"Well, I think I've seen it before, but... it's not the woman who stopped us... It seems that a woman in white ran to Yang Yue to ask questions." The big man tried hard to recall everything that happened last night, but he only vaguely remembered it, and turned his head When he looked around, he saw a tall white figure asking a few words beside Yang Yue.
After hearing the big man's uncertain reply, the husky man looked at each other with his two men, and both saw traces of worry and panic in each other's eyes.
If what the big man said is true, then this woman in white must be Bai Chun who is beside His Royal Highness. If she starts to interfere in this matter, then this unannounced visit to Hangzhou will become even more difficult.
As expected, the man next to him swallowed his saliva and said intermittently without confidence: "Sir, I heard... I'm so... back to Hangzhou."
"Yes, it seems that this case is difficult to handle. If the five of them are caught again, we will be exposed. Brothers, I'm sorry, for our safety, you must..."
"Sir, spare your life. We won't tell anyone. We won't tell anyone who asks. Don't worry. I guarantee that we won't tell anyone who asks. Even if Master Li, the governor, arrests us, we won't say we have seen him." Yours, please, please let us go, please." The five big men begged for mercy in unison.
They are gangsters from the Hangzhou area. They usually bully the neighbors. They have no background and so on. They are just common people like bullies.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to afford the boat ride, and the only option would be for five men to sit on the boat, drink, and find an old man to sing for them.
So, where have they ever seen an official who would silence him if he disagreed? At this moment, I heard that the three people were trying to prevent them from walking around and silence them. They were all frightened and fell to the ground. One of them was even so frightened that he wet his pants.
Li Hong never imagined that one day he would be able to do work like a ranger single-handedly, but now that he was seeing five people being silenced, it was impossible for him to ignore them.
The five people were not guilty of serious crimes. He had already known very well last night that these five people were not the children of wealthy nobles, so he did not even come forward.
If Princess Dalai hadn't run out to stop him, he would have left Mang Zhong behind to calm the situation, and he himself wouldn't have even asked.
This kind of thing still happens all the time in the Tang Dynasty, even in other places. It is impossible for this kind of bullying to happen in the world. After all, everything in the world has its own natural laws and fun. in.
Through the gap in the light-transmitting window, when Li Hong saw that the Husky was about to take action, he had no choice but to stand up, knock on the window generously, then open the window and jump in.
Facing the wary eyes of the three people, Li Hong patted the dust left behind when he held the window, and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, the five of them have not committed any serious crimes. They will just hand it over to Li Chongyi when the time comes. As for you, you can do it too. If you don't die, tell me how many of you have come from Yangzhou, and then I will hand you all over to Li Chongyi."
"Who are you?" The man next to the husky man asked with a pointed sword in his hand.
"You don't deserve to ask, let alone know. What are you doing under Li Jingye? Are you a soldier? Or his retainer?" Li Hong walked to a chair, kicked it away gently and fell down on the chair. The big man next to him sat down and asked.
(End of chapter)