Bai Lang very carefully removed the bricks one by one, and soon a square chimney appeared. It was made of bricks, and the inside had been blackened by time.

He leaned in and listened carefully. At this time, the voice inside was clearer. It was a man and a woman who spoke, and it must have been Old Man Yang and Lu Ji's mother.

Unfortunately, Lu Ji's mother was overly scared and weak, and her voice became extremely hoarse and still shaking.

"Good...... Good...... I say, I say...... Please take your hands off...... I'm almost strangled to death by you......"

"If you confess, I can let it go. And, it is also possible to send you to your daughter. Say it! ”

"Okay,...... I say...... However, this was a long time ago, and it had been years......"

"Don't be so verbose!"

Old man Yang couldn't help but scold angrily.

"Don't play around with this! Don't try to prevaricate me with these words! If you don't say it this time, you won't want to live until tomorrow. Do you even say it?!"

"Okay, I said, I'll say it all......"

Old and frail, she coughed and said, "Well, there was still a war at that time......

"Do you mean a war with country E?"

"Yes. At that time, the national army was defeated, and the army of country E captured my hometown. At that time, my husband owned a carriage shop. One day, two people came to the shop, and they panicked and said that the enemy had come, so they had to take refuge in a distant place. They asked my husband to catch a carriage and take the two of them and their luggage to the port. ”

"Did you know those two people before?"

"I don't know, I've never seen it. At that time, many people fled to distant places, so the carriage dealership was very prosperous. After negotiating the price, my husband decided to take over the business. However, because of the wartime, most of the carriages had already been requisitioned by the government, and we only had one horse left in the shop, and there was something wrong with it.

"However, since you have promised others, you must do it. So, my husband got the car, grabbed the people and luggage and set off. Unfortunately, there was a heavy snowstorm on the way, and the two guests urged them to hurry up, so they had to beat the horse as hard as they could, and the horse fell to the ground. ”

"Where did it fall?"

"It's about a place more than 10 kilometers away from Dongzhou. At that time, I heard from others that the E army was approaching, and the two guests were frightened like floating dirt and covered in chaff. But it's useless! Just when they were at a loss, Joan, who knew my husband, happened to be driving by. He was the right-hand man of Abbot Cihang

So my husband stopped Joan and told him that the two guests were willing to pay a high price for his horse. However, Joan said that he had an important task ahead of him, and that he was in a hurry to get on the road, and refused to sell the horse. The two guests pleaded with him, but Joanne was unmoved, and prepared to drive away. Seeing this, the two guests jumped into the carriage like madmen, beat Joan so hard that he fainted, and then, throwing Joan in the snow, carried his luggage onto the carriage.

"I heard that Joan's carriage had a small boxwood box. After a while, the carriage driven by the two guests was gone. ”

"Where's your husband?"

"My husband was also thrown out of the carriage by them."

"Did Joan pass out at the time, or did she let those two guests die?"

"That's, that's ......"

"Old lady, if you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for being ruthless. Say, did those two people kill Joan and then grab the car and escape?"

"Yes...... Yes. ”

"Then your husband didn't go to the Security Bureau to report it?"

"No, no...... It was supposed to go...... But...... But ......" Lu Ji's mother hesitated, and seemed to be unable to speak.

"Probably accepted the benefits of those two guests, right? Didn't those two men shut your husband by taking some gems from the chest and giving them to him?"

"Yes. But in fact......"

"How? That's it, right? There were 100 gems in that little box, and they grabbed a handful and gave them to your husband so he didn't leak them, right?"

"It's not just one, it's just seven rings. For the rest, they took it themselves.

"Hah...... Ha, you finally said it. So, how did you get those seven rings back?"

"I brought it back in that empty box. Later, when my husband died, I hid the little box. Because I think it's going to get you in trouble if you let people see these things. So, I hid it in a place where no one would notice.

"After my husband died, my daughter and I moved to Lujiapu. Later, my daughter became an actress and was going to Dongzhou, and I don't know when she found the little box and took the seven rings away. ”

"We all know the above. However, there is one key question that needs to be answered, and that is, where did you hide that little box?"

"I didn't take it."

"Your daughter was brought to Dongzhou?"

"No, she didn't take the little box."

"Where the hell is that?"

"Not in my hands"

"Who the hell did you give the box to? You're such a stupid pig! ”

"No comment."

"Hey! Old woman, I asked you for more than ten days, and I still said this. Okay, let me ask you again, there are a lot of words engraved on the bottom of the box, what are they written?"

"I can't see it clearly, and I can't read it either."

"Can't you really understand it?"

"I really can't read it, I can swear to God."

"It's so hateful, you're hopeless...... Finally, let me ask you again, who is holding the little box?"

"Absolutely no comment."

"When did you give it away?"

"It's the night before you go to Lu's shop."

"Unfortunately, it's just one night away...... Who is that person? Where did he go? Where does he live?"

"I've said it over and over again, I have nothing to say about this, even if you kill me, I can't say it."

"Hmm—did he go specifically for that box?"

"No, it's entirely accidental. He saw a box in the corner of the warehouse...... The little box was found by my daughter from the haystack, and she later took seven of the rings and left them in the corner. And that person thought the box was simple and elegant, and cherished it very much. ”

"Who the hell is that person? I've asked you so many times, can't you really say it?"

"Yes, that man was gracious to me. If I speak out about him and something happens to him because of it, I will be ashamed of him. Therefore, I have to keep it a secret. ”

Lu Ji's mother was unmoved.

Old man Yang probably had nothing to do with her, and his voice stopped for the time being. Maybe Old Man Yang is thinking of a new plan.

For Bai Lang, all this is indeed unexpected. Haomei and Old Man Yang drugged themselves and made themselves unconscious. After that, they went to Lu's shop to find Lu Ji's mother, trying to get the small box first, but no one expected that the night before, there would be another person who did it first.

Who is this man? Bai Lang racked his brains and thought.