Chapter 155
Before Ma Qianli could answer, the person inside opened the door.
A familiar face appeared from the crack of the door.
"It's you!" Xue Shun exclaimed in surprise. After a moment's reaction, he felt something was wrong. "Aren't you in the clinic?"
The man behind the door was the man who had lost his daughter and his wife, half of whose body was smashed to pieces when Chuge Tower collapsed that day.
Xue Shun also comforted him and specifically asked Wei Qian to treat his wife first. Fortunately, although the woman was seriously injured, she was still breathing and might be able to survive.
At least when Shen Jiao and Xue Shun left the clinic, the woman was still alive and well, so he should be taking care of her in the clinic now, right?
Could they be twins?
"It's you, benefactor."
Without giving Xue Shun a chance to think wildly, the man also recognized Xue Shun and was very puzzled, "Why are you here, benefactor?"
Xue Shun was speechless for a moment.
He didn't know what to say.
Shen Jiao glanced at Xue Shun, then looked at the man and said, "We're here to look for Li Yan. Does he live here?"
"...Yes, he is my brother. What does Benefactor want from him?"
Xue Shun's grip suddenly tightened, causing Shen Jiao some pain.
She spoke for Xue Shun: "It's about your brother. My master wants to know what happened that day."
"Oh, I see... Then come in and tell me, Ah Yan is in the room, but he doesn't want to see anyone. We have to talk to him through the curtain... I don't know if he's willing to talk about this with anyone."
The man didn't seem to be curious at all about the purpose of their question and simply let them into the yard.
He led them into the side room and sat them down. While pouring water, he said, "Ayan, someone is here to see you. It's the benefactor I mentioned to you. He wants to ask you something about what happened that day."
"My benefactor wants to ask, but there's no harm in asking."
A slightly immature voice came from behind the thick cloth curtain.
After saying this, Li Yan continued, "Brother, please go back to town. I'm fine here."
The reason why Li Cheng rushed back was obvious: it was for his younger brother.
He had to take care of his seriously injured wife, and he couldn't just abandon his brother who was also injured.
Although it happened last year, the broken arm can still be healed, but the blinded eye and injured back are difficult to recover and may affect mobility.
Li Cheng obviously had concerns.
But this concern seemed completely irrelevant to the three strangers sitting in his house.
He said to Li Yan behind the curtain, "I'd better ask my aunt to come and see you sooner or later."
Li Yan behind the curtain was silent for a moment before he said, "Alright, big brother, go and tell them that we should go back to town soon. My sister-in-law is seriously injured and needs someone to take care of her. And there's also my little niece... We can't leave her in the charity cemetery forever. It's too hot and she'll rot. I'm fine here, big brother, don't worry about me."
"Ah," Li Cheng said with a sigh, as if in agreement, and then looked at Xue Shun and the others, "My benefactor, I'm sorry for the poor hospitality. I..."
"Just go ahead, we'll close the door when we leave." Xue Shun finally spoke.
"Thank you so much."
Li Cheng had already prepared a bag, which should contain clothes and other things to take to the town. He could just take it and leave.
There was nothing much to say, but the moment he left, the room fell silent.
Ma Qianli felt that he could not breathe. The doors and windows were open and the room was quite ventilated, but he still felt stuffy and gulped down a mouthful of water.
"Sir, you guys say, I'm going to the door to cool down."
He almost ran away.
Xue Shun was also fidgeting, unwilling to expose someone's wounds. Shen Jiao was getting tired of waiting and said bluntly, "Is it okay for you to be home alone? We've reviewed your case, and you seem to be seriously injured."
"That happened a year ago. I'm fine now. It's not difficult for me to do some housework and take care of myself. My eldest brother is just too worried and always worried about me."
He said it as if it was easy.
Shen Jiao: "Now that you're well, can you come out and see me?"
Xue Shun pulled her.
Shen Jiao slapped his hand away.
Li Yan: "Please forgive me, my benefactor and this young lady. I am not in a good mood to be seen by others."
"Then I won't see you," Xue Shun held Shen Jiao down again and said carefully, "I've read everything about you, but there seems to be something strange about what's written in black and white. Could you please tell me more about what happened that day?"
"If my benefactor wants to know, there's nothing wrong with that. This isn't a secret, and many people know about it.
That day I went on stage as usual, waited for the guests to place their bets and send people to fight with me. The first few rounds went smoothly. After two or three more rounds, it was time for me to call it a day and go home. At this time, Master Lin came and sent a guard on stage. He said that he was very powerful and had been undefeated in the previous rounds.
I'm counting on him to make a fortune today.
I had never fought with him, so I didn't know how powerful he was, but the manager gave me a secret signal, telling me to beat him no matter what, so I was more careful. After dozens of moves, the man lost, and Master Lin got angry and jumped onto the stage to beat us.
This is a common thing. The customers pay real money to win, and it is inevitable that they will be in a bad mood after losing a lot. We didn't fight back, thinking that we would let him hit us a few times to vent our anger. But he hit us for a while and seemed to be leaving, but when we were not prepared, he picked up the melon hammer on the shelf and swung it at us, hitting the guard on the back of the head. He wanted to hit us again!
When I saw what was happening, I stepped forward to stop him, but he ordered someone to hold me down, breaking my arm and injuring my back. I was furious and glared at him, which resulted in another blind eye.
He spoke calmly, as if he was talking about someone else's affairs, with almost no ups and downs.
Xue Shun's heart was not at peace.
Shen Jiao didn't have time to dwell on the passing of time. "The paper says you already have a back injury. Is that true?"
"Yes, before that incident, about two months ago, I hit my head against a pillar. It was pretty bad. My boss asked me to recuperate for more than ten days. I only went there when I was okay."
"So, the story of blackmailing someone due to a serious injury is completely false... Did you go to the clinic when you were injured that time?" Shen Jiao asked again.
"No, the gambling house employs two doctors. Whenever we have any illnesses, we go to them. They are cheaper than outsiders," Li Yan said. "If you want to ask them, don't bother. The owners of Yonghe Restaurant and Taihe Gambling House are originally from the same family. They won't tell the truth."
This is something they don't know.
Shen Jiao: "Since we are one family, why doesn't the gambling house allow him to win money?"
"When you open a business, it's naturally better to put the money into your own pocket. Besides, the relationship between the two families is ordinary on weekdays, but when encountering such a thing, you still protect your own family." Li Yan also laughed.
Shen Jiao pondered for a while.
Seeing that she was silent, Li Yan took the initiative to ask, "Do you and Miss have anything else you want to ask?"
Xue Shun didn't.
Shen Jiao does have:
"One more thing, do you usually stay in the gambling house?"
Li Yan said: "We work in the gambling house. Unless it is a holiday, we are always here."
"Then you weren't there when Lin Changxi took that guard to fight the other few times?"
"……exist."
"Then you haven't seen him fight others? Even if you haven't fought him, you should have a good idea of the level of the people you work with, and you should be able to roughly estimate it, right? Why do you say you don't know how powerful he is?"
"After all, we didn't do anything..." Li Yan defended.
"But you live very close to each other. He's from a nearby village. Have you never met him? Don't you know each other at all?"
Shen Jiao felt something was amiss when she heard him speak. He was too focused on emphasizing that he and Quanfu didn't know each other, as if he was intentionally distancing himself from the matter. Furthermore, his tone only became a little agitated when he mentioned Quanfu being beaten...
Xue Shun didn't hear the problem. He held Shen Jiao's hand again, shook his head at her, and told her not to ask any more questions.
The more you talk, the more it seems like you're nitpicking.
Shen Jiao understood what he meant and added, "We are not in league with any restaurant or gambling house. We are here only for justice. If you have any hidden secrets, please tell us directly. Only in this way can we help you."
Li Yan: ...
"We confirmed that on that day... Fuzi lost to me on purpose."
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