mesbooks Chapter 243 Questioning
Chapter 243 Questioning
After the skinny man escaped, he headed straight for Hulu Temple three miles away, where his two brothers were still left behind.
Originally, the four of them worked in pairs to guard these little beggars day and night, but who knew something would happen tonight!
"Little bunny!"
The skinny man spat fiercely, covered his stomach which had been hit hard by the little beggar's head several times, and quickened his pace towards the Taoist temple.
Inside Hulu Temple, two men in tight clothes were sitting at a stone table in the yard, drinking and feasting on a roast chicken.
The house not far from them was where the Taoist priest made elixirs.
At this moment, the room was lit up with orange candlelight, and the busy figure of the old Taoist priest was reflected on the window paper. When the shorter man saw it, he couldn't help but shudder, and a chill rose on the back of his neck for no reason.
"Do you think this resurrection pill is really effective?"
He asked another man, who was fat and had thick lips.
"Pah!" The thick-lipped man spat out a chicken bone. "Who knows? Anyway, since the master wants to make this damn pill, we should just do it!"
The short man sighed, "After all... it's a bit of a sin."
The thick-lipped man said indifferently, "Don't we have enough blood on our hands? The adults feed us with good food and drink, isn't it just for us to do these dirty jobs?"
The skinny man ran in at this time, with scratch marks all over his face, and said anxiously:
"Oh no! Those little beggars killed Li Zhong and ran away!"
Li Chong is the long-faced man.
"What did you say? Li Chong was killed?" The man with thick lips stood up suddenly and exclaimed loudly.
The skinny man was breathing heavily, looking terrified.
"Li Zhong insisted on telling those little beggars that he had captured them to dig out their hearts to make elixirs. When the little beggars heard that, they went crazy and rushed over to kill Li Zhong. I only managed to escape when they weren't paying attention."
"What are we waiting for? Catch them back quickly!" The thick-lipped man stopped drinking and eating the roast chicken. He called his two brothers and walked out of Hulu Temple.
"Wait a minute!" The short man stopped him, "These little beggars have been hungry for several days. They can't run far. Besides, it's so dark at night. How can we find them?"
"But I'm out of ingredients for refining the elixir tonight. My master will send someone to get the resurrection elixir tomorrow. What should I do?" asked the thick-lipped man.
"This..." The short man was speechless.
"I have a solution!" The skinny man suddenly interrupted, "Li Zhong is also unmarried, so he is still a virgin."
"Are you going to use Li Zhong's heart to make the elixir?" the thick-lipped man was surprised.
"Do we have any other choice?" the skinny man asked. "Besides, today's incident was caused by Li Zhong's excessive talk. It's best to let him settle the matter himself."
"But," the short man pointed to the candlelit room, "the old Taoist priest has always done the job of dissecting the heart himself. Even if we say we helped him dig out the heart, Li Zhong's heart should be bigger than that of the little beggar, right?"
The skinny man waved his hand indifferently, "Just say that the little beggar we killed tonight is special, and his heart is bigger than other little beggars! We were sent by the adults to help this old Taoist priest, and he has nothing better to do than to suspect us!"
"Then how do you explain Li Chong's death?" the short man asked the last question.
The skinny man covered his aching stomach, thinking that all this was caused by Li Chong. He felt annoyed and spoke in a very harsh tone.
"We dug out his heart and threw his body down the mountain. We can say he fell down accidentally. We can't let the adults know that the little beggar ran away, otherwise none of us will be able to escape!"
The thick-lipped man agreed and said, "Let's do it! Let's get through tonight first, and tomorrow morning we'll go find those little beggars. When we find them, I'm going to give them a good beating!"
……
When Zhao Xiaobing and the children pushed open the black lacquered wooden door and came out, they found that this was not the backyard of the county government as he had imagined, but a desolate wilderness somewhere in the wilderness.
The house where they were imprisoned was overgrown with weeds and looked very dilapidated. The moon was obscured by thick clouds, making it almost impossible for people to see a way to escape.
"Let's hold hands and walk in the same direction. Just don't stay here."
Everyone agreed with Zhao Xiaobing's proposal, so more than a dozen small figures supported each other and slowly walked into the depths of the woods.
……
"boom--"
Butcher who fell to the ground felt that his body was about to fall apart. He looked at the woman opposite him who looked like a killing god, his eyes full of fear.
Luo Xiaoran finally let the wretched old debtor go because he knew the address of the county constable Tu Ye.
Coincidentally, this is very useful for Luo Xiaoran.
"Where did An Luhai take those kids from Po Wa Lane? Was my brother also taken away by An Luhai?"
There was no warmth in Luo Xiaoran's voice. She was playing with a sharp dagger in her hand and looking at Tu Ye as if she was looking at a pile of dead things.
Master Tu swallowed and said, "Luo Xiaoran, no, Miss Luo, I don't know what you just said, and I have never arrested any children."
"Really?" Luo Xiaoran approached Tu Ye and put the dagger against his heart without hesitation, her eyes fixed on the expression on Tu Ye's face.
"Someone saw with their own eyes that a group of people wearing government-issued boots kidnapped the little beggar from Powa Lane. Now you tell me you didn't know?"
The sharp iron object could cut through the soft human body through the cloth in one go. The butcher was so scared that he had trouble breathing.
"Not all those who wear government-made boots are constables. Lord An also has dozens of servants in his mansion who also wear this kind of boots.
Didn't you see it last time when Lord An wanted to shave your hair? Except for the constables, half of the people in the yard are servants."
"House servants?" Thinking back to the scene of that day, Luo Xiaoran couldn't help but sneer, "Whose servants can even use bows and arrows? An Luhai trained such a group of servants, I'm afraid they are specially used to help him do dirty things, right?"
The dagger had pierced through the fabric and was pressed tightly against the butcher's heart.
Tu Ye's heart trembled. First, he was afraid that the dagger would really stab him, and second, he didn't expect that Luo Xiaoran's casual words would hit the mark.
In fact, he had often heard that although Lord An was a well-known county magistrate on the surface, he had done many evil things behind the scenes, and the people he used were just those servants.
"An Luhai made such a big move this time. You worked in the county government office all day, so it's impossible that you didn't notice anything, unless you didn't want to tell me."
"hiss!"
As soon as Luo Xiaoran finished speaking, blood appeared on the dagger and Tu Ye cried out in pain.
"I do work in the county government office, so I know there is no such little beggar as you mentioned..."