Chapter 377: Strange

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As the twilight gradually spread from the side of the mountain into the air, the back door connecting the Lilai Teahouse and the Wang family creaked open.

Wang, who rarely appeared in the teahouse, led a mother-in-law and rushed into the backyard of the teahouse with a panicked expression.

"Wang Lilai, come out quickly, you come out quickly! Come on! โ€

The shout was filled with complex emotions such as anxiety, irritability, panic, and helplessness, and it exploded like a long firecracker towards the curtain next to the lobby.

As soon as Wang was about to lift the curtain, he collided with the shopkeeper Wang, who came in after hearing the sound.

The shopkeeper Wang will hold her, and she was slapped on the body, and before she came back to her senses, she was stunned by Wang's next words.

"Our little profit has been lost! Tell someone to find it, hurry up! โ€

"My son! What kind of god is it that wants to kidnap my family's little profit?! He's not even seven years old! โ€

After a long time, the spirit of the shopkeeper Wang's body was shaken away from his body, and he repossessed his body in Wang's cry.

"How could people be gone? What about the old king, didn't he go to pick up Xiaoli? He suddenly shouted, "Wang, you make it clear, don't howl!" What's the use of howling?! โ€

The movement of the couple at the door curtain alarmed the tea customers and men in the store, Jiang Han and the three hurriedly gathered around, and the tea customers also stretched their necks to visit.

Wang cried so hard that she followed her mother-in-law to answer the question of the shopkeeper Wang.

"Master, the old king didn't come back, he went to pick up the young master - the wife saw that he didn't come back for a long time, so she asked the slave to run to look for it, but the slave and the maid found a private school, and the old man who guarded the door said, I went to ask along the road, but no one paid attention to where they went."

After listening to the mother-in-law's description, Jiang Han couldn't help but interject and asked, "Could it be that you went to your classmate's house to play?" The old king was not at ease, so he went with him? Suddenly he remembered something, so he comforted, "Don't worry, will you go to my house?" โ€

"Yes, Xiaoli likes to follow Brother Han and his cousin, have you ever gone to Jiang's house to ask?" The shopkeeper's hurried voice was like grasping a life-saving straw.

The mother-in-law glanced at Jiang Han, her eyes were a little strange, she shook her head and said: "The young master didn't go, the slave went to the Jiang family, and the kid who opened the door of the Jiang family said that his cousin didn't go home either, and the cousin girl and the two aunts who invited them went out to look for someone, and they haven't gone back yet." โ€

Jiang Han's face froze, his eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly asked, "Then you didn't meet anyone from my family on the road?" โ€

"The slave maid felt that something was wrong, so she hurried back - master, go to the inspection department to report the case!"

didn't wait for the shopkeeper Wang to react, but he saw that the Wang family was crazy and pounced on Jiang Han, and scolded with tears in his eyes: "It must be your cousin who ran around with my family's Xiaoli and ran into a kidnapper, you return my son!" โ€

Jiang Han took two steps back, pushed her away, and shouted, "Mrs. Wang, do you still want a son?!" Why don't you hurry up and find someone, you still have something to bite indiscriminately, you have a sick brain, right?! Don't say that my Xiao'an won't do that kind of thing, just say that the old Wang Tou went to pick up your Xiaoli and hasn't returned yet, this thing is weird, and I have that mind to blame me, so it's better to ask everyone to help find it together! โ€

As she spoke, she didn't look at Wang, explained to the shopkeeper Wang, and hurriedly walked towards the lobby.

"Shopkeeper, I'll go home, you hurry up to the Inspection Division, and let everyone here help find someone."

As soon as she reached the lobby, there was a commotion outside the door, and then Yun Niang stumbled into the teahouse.

Jiang Han understood everything as soon as he saw the tears on her face, and his heart seemed to be hit hard by a stone that suddenly fell to the ground.

She greeted Yun Niang, held her hand, and spoke with a dry voice of disbelief: "When did you find out, and where was it taken away?" โ€

As soon as Yun Niang heard this, she hugged Jiang Han and cried regardless of the occasion.

"It's all me, I shouldn't have doubted it at the time, if I had gone faster, arrived earlier, Xiao An might not have ......"

Doesn't sound right? Jiang Han intuitively felt that things were not simple, and hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" What shouldn't you suspect? Don't cry just yet, tell me what happened. โ€

Yun Niang nodded, sobbing and said what had happened.

Jiang Han's mind became even more confused after hearing this, but she understood the key point.

"You went to the Inspection Division...... In other words, the people from the inspection department are already on the scene, so you came to me? โ€

"Well, Aunt Hua wanted to come, but there are some things...... And she is more familiar with that place than I am......" Yun Niang glanced at the Wang couple who had come out, and the guests in the teahouse who were looking at this side, and her words were a little vague.

Although she explained what happened very clearly, the shopkeeper Wang was still a little confused: "Miss Xie, could it be that when your brother was beaten, my family Xiaoli was also there?" "If that's the case, it's impossible for the old king not to stop it?!

Yun Niang was stunned, then she looked at the Wang couple and understood that things were far more simple than she thought, and she asked: "Your family is Xiaoli, is it ......?"

"Yes, my family Xiaoli has not returned yet, and his scholar and even the old servant who went to pick him up have not been seen."

How so?

Could it be that Wang Xiaoli happened to be by Xiao An's side again, so he was implicated?

Yun Niang felt apprehensive and guilty, and subconsciously looked at Jiang Han.

If it was the man in black this time, she didn't dare to imagine what the result would be for the two children......

In an instant, Yun Niang's tears that had just stopped some of her tears became sore again.

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"Whew!"

With the sound of heavy breathing, Xiao An finally opened his eyes from the heavy confusion after struggling.

He stared at the broken walls hung with many cobwebs, his hands and feet were tightly strained by the hemp rope, and he curled up on the ground, biting his lower lip and kicking hard before he sat up.

swept around the hut, which was only about 20 square meters, and found that Wang Xiaoli, the master and servant who had been taken captive with him, were still in a coma and huddled in another corner, but they didn't see the old king's head.

Those thieves must have been afraid that the old king would wake up and help them escape, so they deliberately split the switch.

It seems that they are on their own.

Xiao An thought like this while slowly moving towards Wang Xiaoli's side.

When Wang Xiaoli's master and servant woke up, he was already sweating like rain.

Wang Xiaoli, who had just woken up, asked in a daze: "Xie Anji, why were you tied ......up?"

Although I don't know where I am, it was quiet in this room, and as soon as Wang Xiaoli spoke, the stagnant air seemed to burst open.

Xiao An's face changed greatly, he hurriedly "shhh โ€

Wang Xiaoli came to his senses at this time, and then what happened before the coma instantly flooded into his mind, and fear suddenly invaded his heart.

At that time, Xie Anji decided to go to the teahouse with him, and he was so happy.

chattered all the way, and said that when he went back, he would show Xie Anji his favorite set of wooden figures.

When they walked through the mouth of an alley, a carriage suddenly came from behind, they gave way to the side, but the car stopped beside them, and then suddenly jumped down two people, one of them held a stick and knocked on the old king's head, they were frightened, and before they could react, the other person covered their mouths one by one, and then opened their eyes and came here.

In an instant, Wang Xiaoli trembled all over, his mouth was deflated, tears reached his eyes, and he was about to cry out with a "wow".

Xiao An was so frightened that he was going to die, and he hurriedly shouted fiercely: "You don't want to live anymore?" Cry those people, and we'll die! โ€

Wang Xiaoli was frightened by him, and the "wow" sound choked back, but he was choked and burped.

Ah Hou, who was younger on the side, was calmer than his young master, and although he trembled like a sieve after listening to Xiao An's words, he trembled and tried to comfort his young master not to be afraid.

Xiao An glanced at him, and had a plan in his heart.

He warned Wang Xiaoli again, "Don't cry", and raised his chin to Ah Hou to signal him to come over.

Ah Hou looked at his young master, hesitated for a moment and slowly moved towards Xiao An's side.

"Help me untie my belt, climb down with my teeth, and move faster." Xiao An rolled to the ground, revealing the buckle on his right belt.

His belt was strange, a palm-wide piece of thick black cloth, with three pieces of bamboo strips inlaid on the left, right, and back.

Although Ah Hou didn't know why, he still climbed down as instructed.

Seeing this, Wang Xiaoli forgot to sob, and the atmosphere in the hut suddenly became tense.

Xiao An raised his head and glanced at Wang Xiaoli with difficulty, and commanded in a low voice: "Wang Xiaoli, don't look at him, you go to the front of us to block, keep an eye on the movement at the door, if someone comes, you will pounce on me and cover up, you know?" โ€

Wang Xiaoli, who was originally scared to death, stared at Xiao An's calm face, the fear in his heart dissipated a little, he looked at the wooden door with a few cracks, and mustered up the courage to nod.

When he was nervous, time always passed very slowly, and when Xiao An felt that his waist was about to stiffen, he finally heard a soft snap and his belt fell off.

He was overjoyed in his heart, and instructed Ah Hou to pick up the belt and grasp the strips of cloth on both ends of the piece on his back, but he moved to the front of the piece, leaned down and bit the corner of the piece and tried to pull it up.

There was silence all around, and in the dimly lit hut, only the heartbeat of the three children was left, and the sound of Xiao An's increasingly heavy breathing, time passed little by little, and finally, just when Xiao An's eyes were about to be completely blinded by sweat, the shard was torn open from the thick cloth, and then a small dagger blade fell out of the shard......

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In the depths of twilight, the archers who expanded their search with the small stone alley as the center point only got a favorable clue.

A mother and son saw three children and an old man appear in the small stone alley, when a little beggar knocked on the door and begged.

According to what the mother and son said, the archers knocked on the doors of the four houses in front of them, but found nothing unusual.

As for the idle man, after Yun Niang stayed on the road under the pretext of leaving him, he didn't take two alleys and wanted to run, but Aunt Hua noticed that something was wrong and chased after him, but he still fled.

After Xiaoqi, who was in charge of this matter, reported the matter, he searched for the idler in the whole town, and the idler was caught at this time, but he said that he didn't know any kidnappers, and he ran away because he suddenly felt that something was wrong and didn't want to get into trouble.

As for why he went to Jiang's house to deliver the letter, he said that a woman gave him twenty dollars to let him go.

He told her about the woman's features, and the portrait was quickly put up, and there was no new progress at this point.

It was dark when the sky saw it, and how the three children and the old king disappeared had no clue.

Everyone returned to the inspection department, Yun Niang's eyes were red and swollen, and in just a few hours, a string of small blisters appeared on the mouth of the shopkeeper Wang, although the Wang family wilted, but the eyes that looked at Jiang Han were like poisoned arrows.

Originally, she stayed in the teahouse to wait for news, but there was no good news, so she went to Xiaoshi Lane with the support of the mother-in-law, and then came to the inspection department with her.

Lord Shen had just returned to the town, and after listening to the report, he looked at Jiang Han in silence and muttered, "Someone saw that there were a few streets near Xiaoshi Lane, but there was no trace...... There are no sneaky people...... Three small and one big, it must not be easy to be taken away...... At that time, was there a car in the neighborhood - a car with a compartment? โ€

Hearing this, everyone's eyes looked at the little flag chief like searchlights, and they all felt that they had found the key point.

It's a pity that the little flag commander replied respectfully: "Anyone who can ask about anything, his subordinates have asked, that is a residential area, and there are three or two horse-drawn carts, three or two donkey carts, and an ox cart within a radius of three miles, including four carriages with carriages." โ€

"What are the characteristics of these four cars?"

"My subordinates also asked, but everyone who saw it said that it was an ordinary car, and I didn't see anything special."

As soon as these words were finished, there was silence in the meeting hall where the inspection department had already turned on the lamp, and the silence only lasted for a short time, and after a whimper, Wang's irrepressible cry sounded.

This time she didn't need to howl, but it had the effect of tears coming to the listener's eyes.

With her soft call "My son", the shopkeeper Wang raised his head and blinked, Jiang Han's eyes were red, Yun Niang couldn't support Jiang Han's body, and Aunt Huatian, who had been with her, and the mother-in-law of the Wang family, who had been by her side, also raised their hands to wipe away their tears.

There was a lot of mourning in the audience, and Lord Shen was also very moved, he looked solemn and said, "The incident happened suddenly, and the town was not closed in time. Now, I can only look at the results of the house-to-house search......" As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Han, who was frowning, and didn't want Jiang Han to look at him as well.

"My cousin, my cousin can't support it, can you find a place for her to lie down." She glanced at Wang, who was crying silently, and added, "Mrs. Wang also needs to take a break." โ€

Lord Shen received the information from the bottom of her eyes, agreed very happily, and instructed someone to lead the more serious Wang clan down first.

After the Wang couple left, Jiang Han immediately told the whole story of the man in black.

"I thought about it, and I thought that the man in black might be doing it better."

Lord Shen bowed his head slightly and said, "The people on the mountain, for the time being, I'm afraid they won't be able to spare their hands." But if, as you say, the killer is the most ruthless, children, I'm afraid ......"

Before Lord Shen finished speaking, Yun Niang, who was leaning on Jiang Han's body, turned black in her eyes and fell softly to the ground.