Glancing at him, I looked suspicious and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Pursing his stained lips, he stammered again, "Thank you." ”

Thank you for bringing them food? I just got here by luck, and I can't afford to thank you.

I casually replied 'it's okay', and I turned to leave, but he shouted urgently: "I've seen you!" ”

With a twinkle in my brows, I turned back to face him, my fingertips touching the silver needle in my sleeve, but my face was silent: "Oh? ”

I pretended to be curious, but I made up my mind that if he said something against me, I would take his life.

Pointing at me tremblingly, he moved his lips and said a few words for a long time: "The day before yesterday...... ...... in the yard next door."

It turned out that he was the beggar I bumped into that day when he hid in the corner of the courtyard wall, and since he could face me as a person, he would not be at my disadvantage.

Lowering my hand, I looked at him fixedly and asked, "Then why did you run away when you saw me that day?" ”

As soon as I asked this, he straightened up nervously, and his cloudy eyes looked around, and he was afraid, afraid that he would be found out and see him.

Helplessly, I had to follow his wishes and came to a dark alley where no one passed.

Squatting down along the wall, he slowly calmed down, and cried to me in a trembling voice: "Girl, you don't know, it's not that I'm afraid...... It's that what I saw that night was horrible......"

As he spoke, he subconsciously hugged his knees, and his body shrunk into a ball.

That night, was the night when the Fang family's son committed the crime? Sure enough, he saw something!

Squatting down, I reached out and patted him on the shoulder, reassuring him: "Don't be afraid, let me tell you the truth, I am the arrester sent by the Jiangzhou Mansion to investigate the case, if you can trust me, tell me what you saw, we will definitely find out about this matter, and we will guarantee your safety." ”

I didn't reveal my true identity to him, but the prefect of Jiangzhou, which is also directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, is enough to reassure him.

The beggar curled up and looked up at me cautiously, and after a few moments he nodded slightly, and in a trembling voice he told me what he had seen that night......

"That night, Chen Da and Liu Er, I walked home together after begging for money, and as soon as we walked near the small courtyard, we heard the sound of a woman crying......

At first, they thought the cry was coming from a blind girl who lived with them, and fearing that something had happened to them, so the three of them went to check on them together.

I didn't want to just walk to the entrance of the alley, and I saw a few officers and soldiers surrounding a little girl, who looked no more than ten years old, surrounded by several people, crying and begging for mercy.

"Please beg a few officials to spare me, I really can't do this, I still have elderly parents at home, if something happens to me, ...... if something happens to me"

"Less nonsense!" One of the officers and soldiers at the head pushed the woman and rudely interrupted her, "If you don't do what we say, your father, your mother, and your deaf brother will die!" Listen to me, and when they come, you stand out...... Do you hear that? ”

Under the intimidation and threat of the officers and soldiers, the woman sobbed in fear and agreed.

The three of them didn't know what the officers and soldiers wanted the woman to do, and several of them didn't dare to show up easily, so they thought about leaving quietly.

When a few people saw that the situation was not good, they pulled their legs and ran.

As beggars, they are often chased and beaten by others, Chen Da and Liu Er were injured by people for grabbing people's steamed buns in the morning, and they were unable to run, but the beggar in front of me flexibly ran directly into the back of the house on the side.

Then, he witnessed a series of tragic events next to a dilapidated water tank.

Chen Da' and Liu Er didn't run far before they were surrounded by officers and soldiers, and they were escorted by soldiers, and the officers and soldiers led by them asked them sideways: "Did you hear anything?" ”

"No, no, Master Jun, we didn't hear anything, we just want food...... Passing by here. The two denied it again and again, but the leaders of the officers and soldiers were already murderous.

"Can't let them do anything bad!" The voice of the leader of the officers and soldiers sank, and he waved his hand to signal several soldiers.

After receiving the order, several soldiers directly covered the mouths of the two and stabbed the two of them with blood holes one after another.

"Search carefully to see if there are any others nearby!" The officers and men of the leader acted extremely cautiously, and immediately ordered the soldiers to search all places carefully.

"I saw Chen Da' and Liu Er die tragically in front of my eyes, the knives in their hands are bright...... It's like chopping a watermelon, stabbing into their bodies one after another...... I was so frightened that I hid in the broken vat and didn't dare to make a sound, and it was also because it was dark that I wasn't discovered by them, and if it was daytime, I'm afraid I would have died......" Curled up, the more the beggar spoke, the more frightened he became, and the whole person shook into a sieve.