bullyxtreme Chapter 116 Did Dongdu send someone?
Chapter 116 Did Dongdu send someone?
"What happened on the road?" Wei Ling gestured for Su Jixiang to sit down, then looked at the man in black.
The man in black wore a dark mask, so his features could not be seen clearly. Only his eyes looked very bright.
"In reply to the prince, as you expected, the shopkeeper wanted to attack this guy after the prince left." The man in black said. "I went up and knocked the shopkeeper unconscious." Wei Ling's shadow guards still kept the previous name of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion. They were used to it over the years, and Wei Ling did not specifically correct them.
"Where are the people?" Wei Ling asked.
"He's on the beam. I'll throw him down right away." After saying that, the man in black flipped over and climbed directly onto the beam. With a bang, he kicked a man down from the beam.
Su Jixiang was shocked. Just throw it down like that?
Seeing the shopkeeper, who was tied up, fall heavily to the ground, Su Jixiang couldn't help but look to the side. Fortunately, the floor of the house was cleaned, otherwise, such a heavy fall would have crushed smoke and dust.
"Hello, shopkeeper." Wei Ling looked at the shopkeeper with a smile. The shopkeeper was now tied up and unable to move. He was dizzy from the fall and it took him a while to come back to his senses.
"General, spare my life!" He immediately cried out for justice. "I was forced to do this!"
"You mean that your wife, children and the elderly are all in other people's hands, right?" Wei Ling asked slowly.
The shopkeeper was startled, then immediately nodded.
"Who instigated you to kill?" Wei Ling asked.
"General, please be wise. I don't know either." The shopkeeper burst into tears. "My wife and children went to the temple to pray for blessings a few days ago. They also wanted to ask for a couplet and a statue of the gods to protect the house. Isn't it almost the New Year? But they didn't come back until the night. When I said I would go to look for them, they were thrown into the house. They were both unconscious, and there was a letter on them. The letter said that as long as I did what they said, they would give me an antidote to save my wife and children's lives! I didn't dare to act rashly, and I also found a doctor to see. The doctor only said that my wife and children were bitten by a snake and poisoned. There were indeed snake bite marks on their legs. But in this cold winter, the snake has disappeared long ago! How could I encounter a poisonous snake? This must be poisoned!"
He cried, "General, if you don't believe it, just hang up and read the letter! I have already given it to this lord!"
The shadow guard nodded, "The letter is indeed here." He pulled out a letter from his lapel and handed it to Wei Ling with both hands.
Wei Ling took a look at it and handed the letter back to Su Jixiang.
Su Jixiang was stunned. Was he really not shying away from her at all? Then she didn't hesitate and took the letter and took a look at it.
The handwriting is not bad!
The content of this letter is exactly the same as what the shopkeeper said.
He only said that if he encountered a shop assistant who was trying to kill someone, no matter whether he succeeded or not, he would just say he had no knowledge of the matter and would find an opportunity to kill the shop assistant. As long as he succeeded, his wife and children would be safe.
"Are these people sure that you will accompany me to the cloth shop?" Su Jixiang asked a little surprised.
Wei Ling smiled at Su Jixiang.
Su Jixiang...
Okay, stop laughing. It's all her fault for being so talkative. Why did she have to make up a story about Wei Ling going into the mountains to hunt foxes for his beloved wife on the first day of his marriage?
Now, because of Su Jixiang's kindness, he released the fox that he had captured alive at the cost of personal injury.
This story of deep love but short life spread like wildfire, and now everyone in Mangcheng knows that Wei Ling is deeply in love with his new wife!
The character of Wei Ling’s beloved wife was established by herself!
Since he loved his wife so much, he would definitely take his new wife to the most expensive cloth shop in the city to buy cloth for making clothes. After all, the fox fur was gone and the New Year was coming soon!
Good, good, good! Su Jixiang silently gave himself a thumbs up! It’s really great!
"It's not that hard to guess..." Su Jixiang said a little angrily.
"Everything I said is true!" the shopkeeper cried, "I have worked in the cloth shop in Mangcheng for more than ten years. If I was not forced, how could I cause trouble for my boss and ruin my job! General, I know that I have committed a serious sin and cannot ask for your forgiveness, but I just want to see if my wife and children are safe. If they can really give my wife and children the antidote after I did all this, I will die without regrets!"
"Does your boss know about this?" Wei Ling asked.
His tone was very light, and one could not tell whether he was sad or happy, but his eyes were so cold and sharp that the shopkeeper did not even dare to look at him for a second.
"The boss probably doesn't know." The shopkeeper cried, "How dare I tell the boss about this! My whole family's livelihood depends on the monthly salary I earn as the shopkeeper here! I dare not tell the boss about this."
"I'm afraid you won't be able to continue working in the cloth shop in the future." Wei Ling said calmly.
The shopkeeper looked as sad as if he had lost his parents. "I have no choice but to do this!"
"You are good at accounting and have an excellent memory. Do you want to change your job?" Wei Ling asked.
"General, please stop teasing me at this time!" The shopkeeper burst into tears. "I know that I might even lose my life if something like this happens, so how can I want to change jobs? I only ask the general to let my family go. My wife and children are innocent. Even if you really want me to pay with my life, I am willing to do so. But can you let me go back and make sure my wife and children are safe first!"
"You are very good to your family." Wei Ling nodded. "Okay. I will do what you want. Take him to see his wife and children."
"Yes!" The shadow guard clasped his fists, picked up the shopkeeper like a chick, and directly pushed the door and jumped onto the roof.
Su Jixiang stood up and closed the door, but the shadow guard was so quick that he disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Is he still unconscious?" After Su Jixiang closed the door, he turned around and looked at Ye Shizhi who was still tied to the pillar. "Can he hear us talking?"
"Dizzy." Wei Ling glanced at Ye Shizhi and said with certainty. "If you have anything to say, just tell me."
"So you knew you would be assassinated when you went out?" Su Jixiang asked with relief after making sure that Ye Shizhi could not hear her conversation with Wei Ling.
"It's just a guess, not a sure thing." Wei Ling said, "Zhou Ziqi noticed that someone checked what medicines I had been using recently, so he became alert and told me that someone suspected that I had internal injuries."
Su Jixiang nodded.
After all, Wei Ling hadn't been to the military camp for so many days, so there would always be people who were uneasy.
"Then do you think that someone from Dongdu might be sent to investigate you?" Su Jixiang lowered his voice and asked carefully, "Didn't you say before that you might have provoked Emperor Longchang?"