"Also, once you came through, that body was in tatters and almost dead. That was intentional, wasn't it?"
Jiang Henian raised his eyes worriedly and looked at He Jinshan who was sitting beside him:
"He Jinshan..."
"Does that system want to kill you?"
Sudden.
The tungsten filament bulb on the roof flashed twice and went out.
The room suddenly fell into darkness.
There was complete silence all around, with only a pair of glowing green animal eyes hanging in the corner.
Jiang Henian opened his eyes in vain, his heart suddenly started beating rapidly, and he reached out to touch He Jinshan hurriedly.
"He Jinshan!"
A warm big hand grasped her hand, "It's okay, the power in the village is out again."
The kerosene lamp on the small square low table was lit, and the warm yellow flame illuminated half of the room.
Jiang Henian slowly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and complained weakly, "The power outage happened at the perfect time..."
He Jinshan drove Dewang to the yard to guard the gate and came back with a cup of warm water.
After drinking the water, Jiang Henian was still a little uneasy. His fingertips scratched the handle of the enamel pot, making a slight sound.
He Jinshan held her hand in his big palm and said calmly: "You guessed right."
When Jiang Henian heard that on the first night after He Jinshan woke up from his serious injuries, that is, not long after she left to change the dressing, a killer came down from the back mountain, her whole body was covered in chills.
She used her elbows to try to get up, but as soon as she moved, her tailbone started to throb with pain, and she slapped the bed in anger.
"What a nuisance!"
The girl's voice was filled with anxiety, annoyance, and a strong sense of uneasiness.
He Jinshan raised his palm to support her chin, stroking it soothingly twice, and pushed her back, "Don't worry, the situation is different now."
"The two break-ins today weren't from the same group. The one in black has some skills, so he's probably here looking for this letter."
"I guess the previous killers came here for the same reason, to get this letter and silence them. It's very interesting that they insisted on getting the letter before taking action."
Jiang Henian was a little confused, but he didn't interrupt and listened very carefully.
He Jinshan was amused by her good student appearance of tilting her head while trying to listen to the lecture while lying on her stomach. He rubbed his cool earlobes and teased:
"With you here, what can't we hide?"
Jiang Henian's eyes lit up.
Yes! She has space!
"Then I'll put it away right away." She stretched out her hand to put the letter away.
"Wait, make a copy first."
"You want it?"
"It's useful. We don't worry about thieves stealing, but we worry about thieves thinking about it. Catching the big guys who cast their nets behind the scenes will prevent the endless stream of annoying flies. Children don't need to worry about this."
He Jinshan always exudes the calmness of someone who is in control of everything from head to toe, and Jiang Henian unconsciously calmed down.
Yes, Mr. He must be very powerful. He can even understand this kind of code with dots and bars!
Jiang Henian didn't think to ask He Jinshan about his background; she instinctively knew it wasn't something she could know. Although they were close and familiar with each other now, she still felt a certain fear for "Master He," a figure even the loan sharks treated with respect and trepidation.
The two of them could get along like this because of a special encounter. She didn't want to know too much and disrupt this harmony. After all, she still owed a huge debt.
She nodded, half understanding, "What about the other person? He's wearing ordinary clothes and covering his face with his coat. Could he be someone I know?"
He Jinshan was about to speak when the door was pushed open silently.
Half of a wolf's mouth squeezed in from the crack of the door, and behind the dark door was a pair of dark green wolf eyes.
Jiang Henian: ...
"Dewang... is he really that clingy?"
Fortunately, she was frightened to the point of tears at first.
A furry ball slipped in from under the door, and ran towards a basket of herbs under the small square table with wild little steps. It jumped in with its short legs, and rolled inside, making the basket spin.
Dewang had no choice but to walk out and knock on the door. He walked in and his huge body pushed the door open.
However, it did not go to find the rabbit immediately, but walked over with steady steps under the owner's nose.
Jiang Henian stared at Dewang, who had opened his mouth and placed the deer-head dagger in He Jinshan's hand, and asked in surprise, "Dewang, did you secretly play with the dagger?"
The wolf immediately swung its tail and snorted.
Wolf Kiss pushed the dagger aside, then turned and howled towards the door.
He Jinshan's eyes moved slightly, and he followed Dewang out for a while and came back quickly.
"I found it in the grass at the foot of the backyard wall."
"The backyard?" Jiang Henian was puzzled. "I remember you put it in the house yesterday, on the table or somewhere else? How—"
Jiang Henian paused, and a picture quickly flashed through his mind.
She took the dagger and said, "Could it be... that thief dropped it? When I tried to pull him away, something seemed to fall out."
"This guy came here specifically to steal a small dagger?!"
Jiang Henian frowned tightly. He Jinshan had already checked and found nothing was missing from the house.
It's so weird.
He Jinshan stared at the dagger, and suddenly his eyes flickered, "Where did this dagger come from?"
"It belongs to 'Jiang Henian'. When I set fire to Jiang's house, I took away all her things. This was hidden at the bottom of the box, wrapped in a dirty red cloth. It scared me."
"Has anyone asked you for it?"
Jiang Henian thought about it for a while and shook his head.
He Jinshan asked again: "Where is Song Wenqing?"
Jiang Henian was stunned. "Why mention him?"
He Jinshan told the story that he borrowed the dagger from the educated youth who were distributing corn yesterday, and when he went to get it back later, Song Wenqing had put it in his pocket.
He originally thought that the man surnamed Song had some perverted and improper thoughts about his own child, but it seemed that he was after the dagger.
Jiang Henian frowned as she listened, thinking back to the last time they met him outside the village, when he had also asked her for something, and had been chasing her like a pervert, forcing her into a stolen car belonging to a human trafficker. Later, he had come to her several times to try to make peace with her...
There is something fishy.
It’s a big trick!
The dark peach blossom eyes flickered, and a bold idea emerged.
"You think... maybe he knows something too?"
"That big potato said the main plot of the protagonist can't deviate from it, so it is biased towards the protagonist. Will it deliberately give him spoilers? Just like that time when it suddenly pulled me into a strange room made entirely of glass."
The more Jiang Henian thought about it, the more he felt it was right. He tried hard to recall what the original owner had given Song Wenqing the last time they met...
That infatuated fool took the only remaining dollar and a few cents and gave her a bag of steamed bread and...
"Ah! A token of love!"
Jiang Henian slammed the bed and said excitedly, "She gave this dagger to that guy surnamed Song!"
"That makes sense! I was wondering why the plot had to make things so difficult for me, a minor cannon fodder character. Turns out it's because I didn't give the dagger away!"
"This dagger will definitely be of great use to the protagonist! So important... without it, will the hero's path to becoming the richest man be impossible?"
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