"No, they all said that I was going to collect medicine." Xiaohai was impatient.

"Did you say you took any medicine? Those precious medicinal materials are grown in inaccessible places, and they are places where people will not go, where can I still see people when I go to those places to collect medicines? ”

After Xiao Hai finished speaking, there was an anxious expression on his face.

"I'm begging you, can you stop turning it over? Otherwise, when my parents come back, they will beat me. ”

The leader didn't eat this, he grabbed Xiao Hai's collar and lifted him directly, Xiao Hai's toes could only barely reach the ground, and his hand grabbed the collar tightly.

"Then tell us the truth!"

Jiang Chen, who was in the cellar, revealed that when he saw this scene, his brows furrowed.

Gu Shenyuan also became more and more nervous.

As he expected, these people would not leave easily, but what he was afraid of was that if they couldn't ask the answers they wanted and refused to leave easily, then Xiaohai might be in danger next.

"I'm telling the truth." Xiao Hai struggled to speak, and it was already a little difficult.

"Boss, found this in the kitchen."

At this moment, a small soldier stepped forward and respectfully handed something like the leader.

Xiao Hai saw that it was Sister Jiang's handkerchief, which she inadvertently put in the cupboard when she was washing the dishes.

Just now, the big guy hurriedly packed up his things and ran to the cellar to hide, everything that should be cleaned up has been cleaned up, but only this handkerchief has been forgotten by everyone.

Jiang Ruanyan also rang at this time, and she forgot her handkerchief in the kitchen.

Oh no, it's not going to be discovered.

"Where did this come from?" The leader was very happy, he put down Xiaohai and pinched the handkerchief with two fingers, and mentioned it in front of him, and his tone was a little crazy.

"I ask you, where did this come from?"

"I picked this up." Xiao Hai stammered a little when he spoke, which made everyone even more worried.

These people don't look that easy to fool.

"Really? Where did you pick it up? Tell me. The higher the curvature of the man's mouth, the more penetrating the smile became.

Xiaohai was terrified.

"When I passed by the river today, I went to fetch water, and I saw this handkerchief floating down, it looked very good, and I wanted to pick it up and give it to my mother."

Xiao Hai stumbled. The man smiled and looked at the handkerchief and nodded.

He straightened up and stopped staring at Xiao Hai.

But just when Xiao Hai thought that his excuse had succeeded, the man suddenly slapped him to the ground with a wave of his hand, and rolled on the muddy floor of the yard several times before stopping.

This is not the end, the leader immediately stepped forward, pulled out his sword at the position where Xiao Hai had just stopped, and pointed the tip of the knife at Xiao Hai's neck.

"I'll ask you one last time, did you meet a stranger today?"

Seeing this scene, the hands of the people in the cellar were clenched into fists.

Jiang Chen was very angry, and he was about to explode in the blink of an eye, Jiang Qing grabbed him on the side.

When he saw the man draw his sword, Jiang Chen couldn't help it, he walked to the door of the cellar and grabbed the ladder and prepared to climb up.

Gu Shenyuan hurriedly came over and held him down, "Can you save him if you go out now?" You're only going to hurt him! ”

The voice was low but powerful, and Jiang Chen calmed down instantly.

Indeed, Jiang Chen has the ability, and it will not be a problem to deal with those few people in the courtyard at all, but the problem is what happens after injuring them?

Even if they were killed, the man who sent them would soon know what was going on.

After that, regardless of whether they left or were arrested, Xiaohai's family was convicted of harboring fugitives.

The only thing that awaits them is the end of being beheaded, then they will harm Xiaohai instead.

Jiang Chen lowered his head, calmly stood in place and thought about it, and then glanced through the gap again, the people outside did not continue to hurt Xiao Hai.

"So what now?"

"Wait and see." Gu Shenyuan said bitterly, this is also a fact that he doesn't want to happen, but there is no way, someone must be outside to deal with it.

And with the posture of these people, even if he didn't find the handkerchief, Xiao Hai probably wouldn't be able to avoid this slap.

At this time, Xiao Hai in the courtyard was lying on the ground, blood was already flowing from the corner of his mouth, and the sword was above his eye.

"I said, I haven't seen any strangers, that handkerchief was picked up in the river, believe it or not."

After he finished speaking, he stubbornly twisted his face to the side, looking like he loved it.

"So you're really not afraid of death?" The man spoke unhurriedly.

"Little brother, I admire you for being a man, but now you have to think clearly, these people are fugitives who escaped from the capital, and if they don't report it, it will be the same crime as them."

The threat of a man is nothing in Xiao Hai's eyes.

He stretched out his hand, and the man next to him handed him a money bag full of silver, and the man threw the money bag into the air, and caught it steadily.

"Do you hear that? Now all you have to do is tell the truth, and this bag of silver is yours. ”

She withdrew her sword and placed the silver in front of Xiao Hai.

Under the moonlight, the light of the silver was very dazzling.

"Think about it, then your father and mother will no longer have to ask for wages, and you can even buy a few acres of land and hire workers to come to your house to help you farm, what a wonderful thing."

The man bewitched Xiao Hai, and he thought to himself, the biggest wish in the hearts of these hillbillies should be nothing more than this.

What he said is tempting enough, shouldn't all children at such a young age be easy to deceive?

Xiao Hai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stood up from the ground.

"The truth is ......," he paused deliberately.

"I have not seen any strangers in the woods to-day, and that handkerchief I picked up by the brook in the forest, and if you don't believe me, I can take you after dawn ......"

Xiao Hai didn't finish speaking, and then there was another slap on the other side of his cheek.

"Toast and don't eat and drink!" The man's patience seems to be running out.

He threw the money bag back into the man's hand, stepped forward and pressed his sword against Xiao Hai's neck.

This time, Xiao Hai directly felt a chill in his neck.

But he still clenched his teeth and glared into the man's eyes.

"Then it looks like you're useless!"

"Snakes! There are snakes! Just as the man was about to make a move, a soldier standing in the corner of the courtyard suddenly shouted and ran forward in panic.

But because the night was too dark and the light was too dim, after the shouting everyone looked around the corner, but saw nothing.

"What do you scream about? Do you want to be with this kid? ”

The leader was obviously very unhappy, probably trying to hide this anger, and he was also taken aback.

"Master Bing, you might as well listen to my advice before killing me." Xiao Hai seized the opportunity to speak.

"Our place is remote and located in a ditch between two mountains, so there were originally a lot of snakes here, and our ancestors were snake hunters, so most of the snakes hated the people in our village."

"What does this have to do with me?" The man's knife was a little closer.

Xiao Hai felt a tingling pain in his neck, but he continued to keep his composure.

"When I was a child, I heard from the adults in my family that after we stopped catching snakes, for a while, the snakes launched a retaliatory attack on our village, biting more than half of the people in the village."

The leader listened.

"It was only later that the village chief came forward to make a sacrifice to the snake and withdrew from the group, and the two sides reached a contract, the snake no longer bites, and people are not catching snakes, which is calmed."

Xiao Hai saw the person in front of him, although he was still holding a knife to his neck, but obviously there was fear in his eyes.

"It is precisely because of this contract that more snakes have gathered here and made this place their protectorate."

The leader was even more scared.

"Maybe that person just now wasn't dazzled, maybe you came to my house before and the movement was too big, disturbing the snakes sleeping in the corner."

"Do you have a snake nest?" The leader's eyes widened.

"The village here is built on the mountain, not to mention that snakes are afraid of cold in winter, and they will not be frozen to death next to people, so every household in this village is basically next to a few snake nests, which is not unusual."

Xiaohai behaved normally, but the people in the courtyard had begun to tremble when they heard it.

"Oh, by the way, if you really provoke the snakes, I advise you to solve it tonight, or they will chase you all the way back to the capital."

The more Xiao Hai spoke, the more terrifying it became, and even if the leader didn't believe it just now, he was a little shaken at the moment.

He immediately asked the people below to go to the corner to check carefully and see if there were any snakes at the bottom.

In the end, it is the man who is dazzled, or is there really such a thing.

The person who received the order stepped forward tremblingly, and the people next to him made way for him.

Even if he was afraid of disturbing him, he was afraid that the snake would suddenly come out.

The man stepped forward tremblingly, and was worried about not knowing what to do, when he suddenly saw a broom erected on the side of the yard.

He reached for his broom, some of which were long enough for him.

He was as far away as he could, holding a broom in his hand and ready to open the straw basket, and he had just touched it once or twice, but it was still open.

"Didn't you have dinner today?" The leader began to urge again.

The man was frightened, so he waved his broom and knocked over the bamboo basket with all his might.

"Shhh

Underneath it was a snake spitting out a letter, the bright red letter showing a deep red hue in the moonlight, reminiscent of those who had been poisoned to death after being bitten by a snake.

"Hiss~hiss~"

What's even worse is that there are more and more voices spitting letters around him, and even the hands of the leaders are starting to tremble.

The scene was really as Xiaohai said, stabbing the snake's nest.

Those men in black have arrested many prisoners, but they have never seen such a scene.

If they don't attack, they will be surrounded by snakes.

The people below panicked, took the torches of the people next to them and began to wave them at the snake.

At first, it had a little effect, and the snake leaned back in fright, but after waving it a few times, the snake seemed to understand.

When he swung to the left, the snake on the right advanced, and the man was afraid and immediately took the torch to the right and lit it, and the snake on the left began to move forward again.

Slowly, the circle of the man in black became smaller and smaller, but the scope of the snake's attack became larger and larger.