22. The Incident Begins - Exposure (Medium)

Meng Runan roughly cleaned up some of the softness in his room, and sat at the table in the room, drinking a little cold tea while waiting for Qi Song.

Before Qi Song told himself that Xu Heng, the housekeeper of the gambling house, was looking for him to go to the banquet, and he said that he would go back to explore the other party's intentions. Meng Runan agreed, but now she really regrets it, and she doesn't know why she always feels that something bad will happen in her heart.

"Brother Xuan, Xiaoyu······ I don't know how you're doing now. Meng Runan's eyes revealed a little sense of powerlessness, which was the helplessness of knowing that the other party was in trouble, but he was completely unable to help the other party.

Perhaps because he was a little tired, Meng Runan felt that his head was a little heavy, and then his eyes gradually became blurry, as if he was immersed in water, and the air around him became viscous.

Meng Runan is so tired now, all she can do is close her eyes, and then slowly sink here.

"Squeak—" The door opened, and it was probably the last sound she heard before she fell.

When Meng Runan woke up, he found himself in a dark room, with a dim oil lamp on the table, where a little light was pulsing.

"Madame, you're awake." A voice suddenly came from a darker place, Meng Runan was startled, she didn't expect that there were other people in this room.

"Who are you?" Meng Runan felt that the voice was familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it.

"Hehe, don't be afraid, madam," the voice fell, and a figure slowly walked out from the darker depths, "It's me, I'm Tianbao." ”

Meng Runan's brows furrowed, staring at Tianbao who came out of the darkness, she remembered him, he was a person from the gambling house, he was Xu Heng's person, the little follower who followed Xu Heng all day long.

"You ······" Meng Runan swept the surrounding environment with her eyes, she wanted to determine where she was, but this place was completely unfamiliar to her, "······ What to do? ”

It was already dark outside, and the already dim room was getting darker and darker.

Tianbao also seemed to think that the room was too dim, so he walked to the middle of the room, and then picked up the bamboo stick next to the oil lamp, picked the wick, and the firelight shook a few times under the provocation of the bamboo stick, like a happy child, where he kept shaking his body, and then slowly illuminated the whole room.

"Madam, take a sip of tea first." Tianbao sat at the table, poured himself a cup of tea, thought about it, and then picked up another cup, poured it full, and then pushed it to the opposite side of himself, signaling Meng Runan to drink this cup.

Meng Runan didn't move, just looked at Tianbao who was pouring tea there, as if he wanted to see through everything about the other party.

"What the hell are you going to do?"

"Xu Heng wants me to kill you." Tianbao said slowly to Meng Runan.

Meng Runan's face turned pale, and she shrank back slightly, as if she felt that it was there that made her feel safer.

"Isn't he afraid that Dong Tiankuo will blame him?"

Tianbao thought for a moment, then shook his head and said to her, "Who knows, after all, I'm a small character." ”

Saying that, Tianbao walked towards Meng Runan, and said as he walked: "Because I am a small character, I ······ I'm not going to kill you. ”

Meng Runan was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had misheard, and then asked a little incredulously, "What did you say?" ”

"I'm here to save you, not to kill you." Tianbao repeated to Meng Runan again.

"Why?" Meng Runan was a little suspicious, she was afraid that this was a trick by Xu Heng and the other party.

"If you don't believe me, I can't help it, I just do what I am told."

"On whose orders?" Meng Runan is ready to get to the bottom of the matter.

"I have no comment," Tianbao naturally knew Meng Runan's thoughts, but because of his identity, he couldn't explain the matter to Meng Runan in detail.

"And how do you make me believe you?" Meng Runan seemed to be sure that the other party was here to deceive herself, so her whole body retreated again, but in an inconspicuous place, Meng Runan's hand was in her sleeve, and she didn't look carefully but thought she was retracted into her sleeve because she was afraid, in fact, what Tianbao didn't know was that Meng Runan was holding a dagger in her hand at this time, as long as Tianbao got closer to herself, the dagger in Meng Runan's hand would pierce the other party's chest, without mercy.

Tempo didn't notice, and of course he couldn't have taken any further steps.

"Since Mrs. Meng doesn't believe it, then I'll leave now, this is no longer the Silver Hook Gambling House, Mrs. Meng, you wait here first, I will find a way to inform Brother Qi, and let Brother Qi take you out of here when the time comes."

With that, Tianbao pushed the door and left.

This made Meng Runan, who thought that the other party was trying to harm him, a little confused, after all, this was not the same plot as he thought in his heart.

"Am I wrong to blame him? Is he really here to save me? Meng Runan began to doubt his judgment just now.

"Tempo?" Meng Runan wanted to try to stop him, but the other party didn't answer.

"It's not going to be so far soon." Meng Runan frowned and looked carefully in the direction of the door.

She didn't chase it, because she still had a trace of vigilance in her heart, she was afraid that it was a trap for the other party, and they were secretly waiting for her to walk into the trap at the moment.

Just when Meng Runan was thinking wildly, the door of the room was pushed open, and she thought that Tianbao heard her shout and came back, so she didn't pay attention to it, and said, "Tianbao, I'm sorry I misunderstood you." ”

"Huh? What is the misunderstanding? ”

The voice was cold, and there seemed to be a hint of chill.

"This is not Tempo's voice!" Meng Runan looked at it intently, and saw that the other party was slender, wearing a gorgeous brocade robe, and a folding fan pinned to the back of his waist, like a scholar's dress, but when Meng Runan saw the other party's face, especially the two whiskers on the upper lip, she recognized him.

"Dong Tiankuo!"

The person who came in was the owner of the Silver Hook Casino, Dong Tiankuo.

"Why are you here?" Meng Runan had a faint bad feeling in her heart.

"My subordinates tied Mrs. Meng here without permission, and I came here to pick you up." Saying that, Dong Tiankuo entered the house, just like his own home, and found a place to sit down casually, as if he felt a little thirsty again, so he went to the table and poured a glass of water, and then drank it slowly.

"Tsk, this water is too astringent, and I don't know where Tianbao's kid found the bitter water well," Dong Tiankuo seemed to be unsatisfied with another sip, and then seemed to be talking to himself, and said, "When I was a child, my family was poor, so I drank this kind of water every day, and then I didn't have to drink it, but sometimes I miss that feeling." ”

Meng Runan ignored Dong Tiankuo's somewhat nervous confession.

"Where's Tempo?"

"You said the traitor who tied you here?" Dong Tiankuo casually pointed to the door, and then said, "At the door, I have to bring you all back in a while." ”

Dong Tiankuo said it very casually, as if he was going to do a very casual thing.