Chapter 299: Baby Case (2)
Tao Zi returned to the town. There were a lot more people on the street than before. Her eyes fell on a stall.
"Huang, your handkerchief is embroidered very well. No other embroiderer can compare to you."
The woman was thin, but she looked quite energetic. She smiled and said, "No, Sister He really knows how to joke."
If I remember correctly, this person should be the mother I met at the town entrance before.
Tao Zi stood in front of the stall and flipped through the handkerchiefs. The woman said attentively, "Miss, these handkerchiefs are very cheap. Take a look and see if there are any you like."
She took another look, then nonchalantly put down a tael of silver and said, "I have a large family, so I'll take it all. You don't need to give me the change. Just pack it up and help me take it to the town entrance."
The woman nodded repeatedly in surprise, packed up the handkerchief, and followed her out of the town carrying the bamboo basket.
There were almost no people around, and even the entrance to the town was a little unclear. The woman stopped and became alert after realizing it belatedly: "Girl, where is your home?"
Tao Zi turned around and looked at her. A very light powder brushed past the woman's nose. Her eyes became dazed and her hands drooped naturally.
"Did anything unusual happen on the day your child disappeared?"
"The child has been crying."
"Has anyone special come to town?"
The woman mentioned a series of people, and Tao Zi keenly grasped the identity of one of them: "People from the Minglan Sect's Steward Hall? What are they doing here?"
"Come here and collect the list."
She raised her eyebrows. If she remembered correctly, the Minglan Sect did not set up a branch of the Management Hall here, and the mortals in this town were all registered under the names of other sects. What was the name list for?
"Do you know the name?"
"Zhang Qian."
Tao Zi asked a lot of details before letting her leave.
The woman walked in a daze for a while, and suddenly woke up. She looked around and her eyes changed from confusion to joy.
My mother-in-law came hurriedly from a distance and said, "You are such a fool! You just leave when someone tells you to. Aren't you afraid of dying out there?"
The woman lowered her head and listened to the lecture, but she couldn't help but say, "Mother-in-law, the girl just asked me to deliver the handkerchief to an oxcart not far away. It's not dangerous, and she paid a lot of money."
The mother-in-law dragged her daughter-in-law home, cursing at her.
Tao Zi walked towards a big town. At sunset, she stood at the entrance of the town. There was a big stone at the entrance with the words "Xuanzhen" engraved on it.
This town was much more lively than that small town, with people coming and going. She found an inconspicuous inn to stay in.
There was an unpleasant smell of dampness in the inn, but fortunately it was located in a remote area and no one paid attention to it.
She tidied up the room casually and lay down to rest. In the middle of the night, she opened her eyes and sneaked out quietly.
According to the woman, Zhang Qian came from the small town and married a woman from Xuan Town. The couple settled in Xuan Town and were scolded by the elderly people in the town.
She sneaked into the Xuanzhen branch as if she knew the place well, dodged the patrollers, found the branch list, wrote down the names one by one, and then found Zhang Qian's address.
As daylight approached, she arrived in front of a courtyard.
Zhang's ex-wife got up to prepare breakfast, opened the door and walked into the east kitchen. When she came back to call her husband after everything was ready, she found that the room was empty.
She frowned and muttered, "You left early in the morning without even eating, and without even saying hello. You deserve to starve to death."
At this moment, Zhang Qian opened his eyes in a daze, but found himself curled up in a sack. His face changed and he struggled out of the sack. A man in black and a cloak stood in front of him.
He fell back and sat on the ground: "What are you going to do? I am from the Minglan Sect!"
The voice of the man in black was very hoarse, he must be a man: "Zhang Qian, you did such a heinous thing, aren't you afraid that the baby spirit will come to you in the middle of the night?"
Zhang Qian's face turned pale, and his voice suddenly became louder: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"He" half-knelt down and laughed hoarsely, "How many babies on that list are still alive?"
He rolled and crawled to hide beside a big tree, shaking his head non-stop: "It wasn't me, it wasn't me, I was just following the orders from above!"
"You knew what was going on, yet you still aided and abetted the evil. Zhang Qian, if you don't die, who will?"
"I don't know, I don't know anything. They were clearly talking about an invasion of fake demons, and they wanted to list a list of fake demons to check. Really, I really don't know anything..." His voice became softer and softer, and his expression became more confused and frightened.
"But if you find out, will those people let you go? You will die sooner or later, so it's better to die in my hands."
Zhang Qian collapsed to the ground, grasping at his few remaining shreds of rationality amidst the overwhelming fear, and asked, "What do you want me to do in exchange for not killing me?"
"He" laughed twice in a low voice and said, "Only useful people can survive."
"You will kill those people, right?" Zhang Qian also came to his senses at this moment. Perhaps it would be best if those people died.
"Of course, have you thought about it?"
He swallowed and nodded vigorously. He was not stupid. Just because those people didn't kill him now didn't mean they wouldn't kill him in the future. As long as the man in front of him didn't regret it, that would be a good thing.
The man in black threw something at him, told him something, and then asked him to swallow a poison pill: "The poison will definitely take effect in three days. If you want to get the antidote, you must do your best."
"He" turned around and left without waiting for Zhang Qian's answer. In just a few steps, he was ten miles away.
Zhang Qian stood up with the help of a big tree, and when his legs were no longer weak, he ran back home as if he was escaping for his life.
My wife was scolding her six-year-old son for running around and soiling his new clothes.
When she saw him come in, her expression turned into surprise: "Why do you look like this?"
The son clapped his hands and laughed, "Mom, look, Daddy's clothes are dirtier than mine!"
Zhang Qian was in a daze as his wife packed the clothes. After she finished nagging, he said, "I, I have something to say."
Not long after, neighbors passing by the courtyard were startled by the angry roar coming from inside: "Say that again!"
Zhang Qian huddled in a corner, his voice as low as possible: "I didn't know at first. Honestly, if I had known, I would never do such a wicked thing even if I died."
The woman paced back and forth in the room, finally pulling him up and calmly saying, "Listen to me, go to the Minglan Sect and complain. This must be the work of those idiots. Let's tell the sect, and they'll definitely take care of it."
Zhang Qian shook his head vigorously, fearing that the man in black would target his wife, so he didn't tell her about the poison. Instead, he said, "So many babies have been in trouble, and the sect hasn't done anything. It shows that those bastards have someone protecting them. What if, I mean, we just happen to find that person, what if?"
She fell silent, and Zhang Qian continued, "I have a way to save your life. You take the child back to my parents first."
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