Chapter 71 Interrogation

"Don't talk, I'll take you away."

Murong Li looked at the lock on the door, held the lock with his hand, exerted light force, and then twisted the lock off.

Those inside, come out quickly.

"Why are there only a few of you here? Where are the others?"

Murong Li saw the people behind the head of the Qi family. There were about twenty people in their group, but now there were only seven or eight left.

The head of the Qi family sighed and said, "The others died because they were trying to protect me. We encountered many assassination attempts on the way here, and all the secret guards who followed me were killed."

Murong Li's eyes flashed, which meant that all the secret guards he sent were dead.

He said coldly: "Then let's go, this is not the place to talk."

The head of the Qi family nodded.

The two of them quickly left the prison with a group of people.

Su Yue used her mental power to find an uninhabited house. After arranging the Qi family head and several others, the two returned to the county government office.

The two of them returned to the study. Su Yue first threw the fat county magistrate out and poured a basin of cold water on him.

The fat county magistrate slowly woke up and was shocked when he saw the two people.

He just opened his mouth to shout, but Murong Li put a sharp dagger to his neck and said coldly: "If you dare to shout, I will kill you."

The fat magistrate was terrified of death and immediately changed his tone: "Hero, good man, grandpa, don't kill me, don't kill me, I will give you whatever you want."

The cold dagger was pressed against the fat county magistrate's neck. Murong Li only used a little force, and a cut was made on his white and plump skin, and blood immediately oozed out.

The fat county magistrate almost fainted.

Murong Li patted his head and said, "If you dare to faint, I will cut your neck. If the refugees outside see your fat body, they will definitely not mind that you stink."

"I'm not dizzy, not dizzy." The fat county magistrate was shaking all over, his teeth were chattering, and his mind was suddenly a mess.

"Tell me, why don't you let the refugees in?" Murong Li asked directly. He wanted to see if the fat county magistrate was honest and whether he dared to play tricks at this time.

"Well, well, this good man, this grandfather, there are simply too many refugees. If we let them in, our county town has no place to house them, and there's no food for them to eat. If we let them stay outside, they can flee to the capital..."

"That's nonsense. I'll kill you if you don't tell the truth." Even at this time he still didn't behave honestly. Murong Li used a little force on his hand and it started bleeding again.

The fat county magistrate was so frightened that he raised his hands high in the air and cried out, "Grandpa, Grandpa, I'm telling you, it was the county magistrate who refused to open the city gates and provide porridge to the refugees. It wasn't my fault. Please have mercy on me, sir."

As he said this, he fell to the ground and kowtowed violently.

Su Yue found it funny. This fat county magistrate was actually a talented person who could bend and stretch.

"Who is Mr. Gao?"

The fat county magistrate was stunned for a moment, then said, "Master Gao is the confidant of the county governor."

"Who is the master you are talking about?"

The fat county magistrate then realized that Murong Li had overheard his conversation with Mr. Gao.

I used to have a lucky mentality, but now, it’s gone.

He shook his head and said honestly, "I don't know who the master is. I only know that he is the master of our entire northwest. The county magistrate and everyone else are his people."

The two men didn't think he was lying, so they thought the master behind them would definitely not let anyone know who he was.

That would be too much. If the emperor knew about it, he would be unable to sit still.

Murong Li asked some more questions, and after that, he realized that nothing else had any value except where the food was stored. Then he knocked him unconscious again. Su Yue took him into the space and threw Mr. Gao out.

After being thrown out, Murong Li first sealed his Xue Dao, and then Su Yue woke him up.

"Who are you and why did you kidnap me?"

Mr. Gao jumped up, but found that he couldn't move.

He looked around and saw that he was still in the study. He glanced around and didn't see the fat county magistrate, so he looked at Murong Li.

"Are you King Li?" Lord Gao was horrified. One of his missions this time was to kill him.

This person was captured before he even saw him.

"You still remember me? But now I'm not Prince Li anymore, I'm just Murong Li. Tell me who's the master behind you?"

After getting a lot of information from the fat county magistrate, Murong Li just wanted to know who the master behind them was.

Only when you know yourself and your enemy can you win every battle.

No one behind the scenes knew about it, but he had lost several secret guards.

Training secret guards takes more than a day or two, or just a few grains of rice.

He spent so much effort and financial resources to train eighty of them, but now he has lost three of them.

Murong Li covered his swollen chest and kicked Mr. Gao.

Mr. Gao lowered his head and said nothing, looking as if he was ready to die.

"If you don't tell me, aren't you afraid that I will find your family and use them to threaten you?"

Murong Li grabbed Mr. Gao's chin, lifted his head up, and threatened him directly.

"you?"

Lord Gao wanted to scold Murong Li for being shameless, but then he thought about the fact that the victors are kings and the losers are bandits. Now that he has fallen into the hands of others, how can he still be so tough?

Lord Gao said dejectedly, "In fact, we don't know the true identity of the master behind this. We only know that he was once a royal family member, just like you. We don't know much else. The county governor should know.

Please, Prince Li, have mercy on me. This is all I know. No one knows what the master looks like, but he knows everyone in the royal family very well. He has portraits of every royal family member. I can recognize Prince Li because I have seen the portraits."

What Mr. Gao said was probably similar to what Murong Li thought.

"Did the Sihai Bank and Wuhu Commercial Bank also fall into his hands?"

Mr. Gao nodded.

After Murong Li asked some more questions about the situation in Northwest City, he could no longer get any information out of him, so he knocked Mr. Gao unconscious and threw him into the space.

"Now that you're here, that person should have known about it, right?" Su Yue asked Murong Li.

Murong Li nodded. "You should know, but I don't know why no one came to kill me, but instead robbed and killed Patriarch Qi. I'm afraid they knew Patriarch Qi was my man, and they wanted to cut off my arm. And I sent people to protect Patriarch Qi, but now they have lost contact, and they are probably dead. This shows that the person is quite powerful."

"Why don't we go to Northwest City? Why not just stay in this county town first?"

"We still have to go to the Northwest City. We must occupy this place first. Since my uncle and his men are here, let's leave it to them to guard. We won't touch the food for now. Let him recruit soldiers. There are so many refugees outside. I think many of them will want to join the army."

Su Yue gave him a thumbs up: "Smart."

Just stand at the city gate and shout, and a lot of refugees will rush over.

Murong Li smiled and rubbed her head: "Yue'er is still smart."

"Let's stop bragging. I'll stay here and you go and get them all in."