Uncle Qin snarled, "You're lying! From what I know, Yiyou is an only child, raised in poverty. His mother is an orphan, his father an only child, and both his parents died young. Now he only has a wife and a daughter, with no relatives from outside the family. You say you come from a poor family, but you look so delicate and tender, you don't look like a child from a poor family at all... Just tell me, who are you?"
Ji Xingzhi was slightly stunned. Uncle Qin actually knew so much about Yiyou?
Raising her head, Ji Xingzhi said desperately, "I'm good-looking, so my parents can't bear to ask me to work. Is that okay? Besides, I'm not the only one lying. You're all lying. Although you're big and strong, you're light on your feet. You don't look like a human trafficker at all. I also want to ask you, who are you?"
Uncle Qin narrowed his eyes, suddenly grabbed Ji Xingzhi's delicate neck, and said coldly: "Are you tired of living?"
Ji Xingzhi's face flushed crimson as she uttered a few words incoherently: "If I... were tired of living... how could I possibly... go to... Yiyou for help?"
It was because of this sentence that Uncle Qin let go of Ji Xingzhi's neck, squinted his eyes and looked at Ji Xingzhi, saying something that had nothing to do with the matter and was completely unrelated: "You... are very smart."
Ji Xingzhi couldn't help coughing a few times, rubbing her still sore neck and complaining, "If I were really smart, you wouldn't have caught me."
"He's smart, but he just has bad luck," said Uncle Qin.
Ji Xingzhi nodded hurriedly after hearing this. Yes, he was only a little bit away from escaping. Obviously, his luck was not ordinary.
Uncle Qin looked at Ji Xingzhi silently for a long time, then suddenly took out a brown pill from his chest. It looked a bit like the elixir that the ancients longed for.
However, Ji Xingzhi's heart tightened. He knew at a glance that this thing was not tasty.
"Eat it." Uncle Qin was quite gentle. He just handed the pill to Ji Xingzhi and asked Ji Xingzhi to take it herself. He did not restrain Ji Xingzhi's jaw to let her swallow the pill.
When Ji Xingzhi saw the pill and Uncle Qin's attitude, she knew that Uncle Qin was watching her. Uncle Qin didn't look like a human trafficker at all. Instead, he looked like a soldier, and a general at that.
What is the purpose of a military general disguised as a human trafficker in Lizhou State to buy and sell children? There is only one explanation, to train spies.
There are requirements for becoming a spy. Not everyone can catch Uncle Qin's eye. It is useless to just be good-looking. Not only must one be good-looking, but also smart and know how to deal with all kinds of changes.
After thinking about it, Ji Xingzhi took the pill from Uncle Qin's hand, smelled it, and found that it was quite fragrant, with the faint fragrance of flowers.
Ji Xingzhi looked at the pill and asked with a puzzled look, "Is this poison?"
Uncle Qin was slightly stunned and nodded. He was about to tell Ji Xingzhi to take the pill and not to play tricks, but he saw that Ji Xingzhi had already put the pill in his mouth and... started chewing it.
Ji Xingzhi took a few bites, and her face suddenly became tangled. Her fair face became even paler. She looked at Uncle Qin with tears in her eyes, aggrieved. She wanted to vomit but didn't dare to, so she had to swallow it and choked out two words: "It's so bitter."
Uncle Qin was speechless: "...Who told you to chew it?"
Ji Xingzhi pouted: "I've never eaten poison before, I want to try what it tastes like..."
Hearing this, Uncle Qin's mouth twitched, and he immediately felt that he must have been out of his mind just now, to actually think this idiot was smart...
Uncle Qin was unexpectedly considerate and poured a glass of water for Ji Xingzhi to drink.
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