"here."
Ma Liu opened his eyes and saw the light of candlelight around him. It was a stone house, a square shape with little furniture, and a man in gorgeous robes was sitting not far away and looking at him with a smile.
"Are you awake? I didn't expect the incense in the army to be so powerful. I said I couldn't wake up without an antidote, so I've been sleeping all the way until now, and there's no chance of waking up.
Ma Liu, this is Yongchuan City, Xinjun Village at the south entrance of the city. "
"Is this Yongchuan City?"
Ma Liu, who was still dizzy at first, felt as if someone had poured a basin of ice water on his head when he heard the words Yongchuan City. His dizzy head suddenly woke up, and then he was filled with deep fear. Dazed to wake up.
"Haha, I see you are so frightened that your face is pale. It seems that you have guessed why you were suddenly taken back to Yongchuan City." The man paused and introduced himself: "Let me meet you. My name is Li Youjun. From the Imperial Sect Yun Sect.”
Ma Liu felt that his heart was about to jump out of his throat. When he heard the words Huangmen Yunzong, he knew that his worries had come true.
"You, why would you..." Before he could finish his sentence, Ma Liu suddenly felt dizzy and almost fell back on the bed.
"You were kidnapped and were on the road for more than ten days. I had to feed you some gruel to survive. Your body is so weak that you'd better eat something first. I've prepared it for you." Li Youjun said while pointing to the bed. There was a small table on the side with a bowl of white porridge, a pile of pickles and two fist-sized steamed buns.
Ma Liu was so nervous that he didn't notice his hunger. Now when the other party said this, he suddenly felt hungry. So with the idea of "I can't die, I have to eat until I die", I propped myself up and moved to the small table next to the bed and started to wolf down the food.
"This meal will help your stomach and intestines first. Wait for a few more days before the meat and fish can enter, otherwise your internal organs will have problems."
Li Youjun smiled and spoke very kindly, and his body felt better after eating, which also took away some of Ma Liuyi's initial despair.
After finishing the food on the small table, although Ma Liu was still not satisfied, he also knew that he was not suitable to eat too much in this meal. At the same time, most of my energy has recovered.
"My lord, I just want to survive."
Li Youjun smiled and said: "Your life is worthless. When you were in Yongchuan City, you were just a pimp. No one even looked for you after you ran away. The same is true for you this time when I found someone to kidnap you. The war was chaotic. No one cares that there is an insignificant person missing from their side.
Therefore, things that are inherently worthless can be destroyed or kept, it depends on your choice. "
"You can ask if you have anything, sir. Ma Liu is now the meat on the chopping board. Whatever you say will be his."
Ma Liu saw his current situation clearly. There is no other connection at all between him and Huangmen Yunzong, the top power in the Hong Dynasty. The only connection that can be said to be related is the previous murder case in Yongchuan City, and the city lord's palace behind. During the re-examination, I heard that it was Huangmen Yunzong who was investigating the case. But it happened that Ma Liu had tampered with the accounts. It was also because of this that he was forced to stay away from home. In order not to be silenced by the ruthless Bai Lang, he did not dare to risk his own life.
Now it seems that after going around in a big circle, it may just be a wasted effort in the end.
"Oh? Aren't you going to help others cover up?"
"My lord, you are joking. There is nothing to hide. I went to a foreign country to survive, and it is the same now. How can a little person like me have so many worries? It is already very difficult to save my life." Ma Liu sighed, He knew that he was not a tough guy, so it would be better for him to cooperate from the beginning rather than suffer all the hardships. Besides, he didn't have any motive to cover up Bailang.
Li Youjun's reaction to Ma Liu was not surprising. He is just a pimp. You can't expect him to be a tough guy, right?
"Very good. It seems that you had no choice but to go away from home. You were afraid of being killed and silenced, right? Don't worry, Huangmen Yunzong always keeps his word. You just need to tell me what I want to know, and Promise not to make anything up, and I will protect your life and give you a sum of money."
"Thank you, sir!"
"Okay, let's talk about the previous roundup when Yaoxie was captured in Yongchuan City. The girls who were used as baits at that time were all transferred from your hands. Among them, the girl who was abducted by Yaoxie and died in the end was Your accounts don’t match the accounts you sent to Li Yuxiu, the wife of the City Lord’s Mansion. You have to think about this matter clearly before talking about it.”
Ma Liu didn't need to think about it, he just opened his mouth and said: "To tell you what to say, there is something wrong with the dead woman. She was not the sister that Xiao Xiao originally had, but someone temporarily put it into my hand before the incident happened. In order to cope with the subsequent routine inspections, I made false accounts at that time, thinking I could get away with it.”
"Who gave it to you?"
"Bailang from Dongcheng Knife Hall."
"What?! Bai Lang?! That Bai Lang who is only in his early twenties?" The smile on Li Youjun's face disappeared instantly, and his brows also frowned deeply. Because this result was really beyond his expectation. And with a rather dramatic sense of absurdity, you must know that when he first arrived in the Yongchuan City Army, he asked Bailang to accompany him on a tour of Yongchuan City, and mentioned Ma Liu in his words.
"Yes, sir, that's Bai Lang. He is the only one with this name in the Dongcheng Knife Hall."
Li Youjun's last bit of luck disappeared with Ma Liu's answer. He was now sure that his previous actions had directly exposed his intentions due to coincidence. Now Bailang must have known that he was checking Ma Liu.
"Tell me carefully about your relationship with Bailang, and also why he wants to send people to your death."
Ma Liu recalled: "I met Bailang because of a demon case. The yamen didn't care. They came to see the situation and reported it to the city lord's palace."
As Ma Liu recalled, Li Youjun slowly felt something strange in his heart.
After Ma Liu finished speaking, Li Youjun concluded: "You mean that you don't know the purpose of Bailangsai people giving you, but you are sure that Bailangsai people are going for those evil spirits. Right?"
"Yes sir."
Li Youjun never let go of any subtle changes in expression on Ma Liu's face, and did not see any clues. Moreover, it was also consistent with the "husband and dog friend" relationship between a pimp like Ma Liu and the knife master.
And Li Youjun remembered very clearly that the Yongchuan City Lord's Mansion's campaign against evil spirits could be said to be a success or a failure.
The failure was that the City Lord's Mansion failed to catch or kill Yaoxie who took the bait, allowing Yaoxie to kidnap the woman that Ma Liu said was given to him by Bai Lang.
It was successful because in the end, during the search, the City Lord's Mansion found the woman's mutilated body outside the city and there were traces of the evil spirit's death.
"It seems as if Bailang is also targeting those evil spirits, and the one who kills the evil spirits may be the ghost cultivator. In this case, isn't Bailang directly related to the ghost cultivator?!" Li Youjun suddenly said that he had been there before All the deductions in the sect were connected together. It turned out that what he had been missing all along was this blank space in the deduction, and he did not expect that there would be a living person among them who would act as a pawn of a ghost cultivator.
"Bai Lang. This situation is a bit troublesome right now."
(End of chapter)
