"Brother, did you really kill those three people?" Gao Yanei asked.
"No, you killed him."
"Brother, you're joking."
"You were unconscious at the time, and the criminals immediately pulled out their weapons and wanted to kill us. If I didn't kill them, they would kill us. Do you think I had any other choice?"
"Thanks to you, brother. If it weren't for you, I would have died." Gao Yanei bowed.
The two walked south along the Imperial Street. After a while, Zhang Shixun suddenly stopped and asked him, "Young Master, have you ever done anything bad?"
"No, not only recently, but also in the past."
"You've never done anything bad?" Zhang Shixun didn't believe it.
"This..." Gao Yanei glanced at him secretly, feeling a little guilty: "Does it count if I seduce someone else's wife?"
"Why not? Of course it does."
"I didn't force them, they all did it voluntarily."
"Voluntary?"
"Yes, it's all voluntary. They love money, and I have money. It's a mutual consent."
So that's how it is.
Although this kind of thing is immoral, it is not a crime.
If a playboy like Gao Yanei didn't do such things, he wouldn't be called a playboy.
Zhang Shixun pretended to think for a moment, then asked, "Yanei, was your disgusting affair with a certain woman exposed, and her husband hired someone to kill you?"
"They are all small families. Even if they knew, they would turn a blind eye. They definitely don't have the money to hire a killer. To be honest, some men even deliberately allowed their wives to have contact with me."
"Intentionally indulging? Don't be ridiculous. Are there any men like this in the world? Willing to be cuckolded?"
"You don't understand. There are many men like this. As long as they have money, they would not only sell their wives, but even their parents."
"Since you haven't done anything harmful, then there's only one explanation left: someone must be trying to kill us."
Gao Yanei shuddered: "Are you going to kill us?"
"Yanei, there is no hatred without reason in this world. The thieves from Wuyou Cave have no grudge against us, so why would they attack us?"
"They may be after your treasure."
"You have a pig brain? They killed me and got nothing. What did they gain?"
"That's right." Gao Yanei scratched his head.
"Tomorrow, go to Kaifeng Prefecture and find out whether the thief from Wuyou Cave whom I caught has confessed."
"Okay! I'll go early tomorrow morning." Gao Yanei agreed readily.
"Young Master, to tell you the truth, I'm most worried that the mastermind behind this is the Wang family father and son. If it's really them, things will be troublesome. They are rich and powerful. If they want our lives, all they have to do is offer a lot of gold and silver, and someone will definitely come to kill us for the money. Today it's the thieves from Wuyou Cave, tomorrow it might be some mountain king with a group of minions coming to Beijing to kill us."
Hearing Zhang Shixun's words, Gao Yanei turned pale with fear and stammered, "Wang Fu doesn't have that much courage, does he? If the court finds out, his entire clan will be implicated."
"Are you stupid, or is Wang Fu stupid?" Zhang Shixun glared at him. "How could Wang Fu not have thought of this before doing something like this? I guarantee that the Kaifeng government won't be able to come up with any results."
"No results from the trial?"
"The criminals in Wuyou Cave only know that someone paid them, but they don't know who paid them."
"In that case, why did you ask me to go to Kaifeng Mansion to ask?"
"Not only should we ask, but we should ask in a big way, maybe even make a scene and make it bigger. The bigger the better, and it would be best if everyone in Kaifeng knew about it."
Gao Yanei seemed to understand something when he heard this: "You mean, after the incident gets out of hand, Wang Fu will get scared and stop?"
"Once things get out of hand, Wang Fu will get scared and become more restrained."
"Okay! Let's do it." Gao Yanei also has a fearless character.
When they reached Zhouqiao, Zhang Shixun stopped and said, "Yanei, it's getting late. Let's say goodbye now."
Gao Yanei looked around and stammered, "Brother, I don't know why, but I'm feeling really nervous and panicky right now. How about... could you take me home?"
Zhang Shixun saw that he looked unhappy, so he turned around to look at the Black Impermanence. Seeing that it was following him not far away, he nodded and agreed: "Okay! I'll recognize your home by the way."
Gao Yanei breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, brother. To be honest, after what happened just now, I'm very upset. I always feel like there's someone following me."
"This is called suspicion breeds evil. You are worrying too much. Haha!"
Crossing the overcrowded Zhou Bridge, Zhang Shixun asked Gao Yanei, "When were you tied up and taken into Wuyou Cave?"
"When I was about four or five, I sneaked out of the house to play and was tricked into taking to Wuyou Cave by a candy figurine seller." Gao Yanei spoke of this incident with a mixture of hatred and fear. "Those people used me as a threat and stole a hundred taels of gold from my father."
"General Gao holds the military power, but he allows these people to be so arrogant?" Zhang Shixun was a little bit unconvinced. They were just a bunch of petty thieves who had dug a hole, but they dared to scratch the tiger's head. They were too lawless.
"Of course my father wouldn't let them off easily." Gao Yanei shook his head and smiled bitterly. "After redeeming me, my father reported this to the emperor. The emperor was furious and ordered the Kaifeng Prefecture to arrest me. As a result, they sent over twenty people down to Wuyou Cave, but only five or six came out alive. It was a tragedy."
"Then what?"
"Then, the government didn't dare to send anyone in there anymore. Too many people died. If the news got out, the government couldn't afford to lose this person."
"If that were the case, the government would be even more embarrassed. If it were me, I wouldn't stop until I wiped them out."
"Brother, you don't know how difficult these thieves are to deal with. It's not as easy as you think."
"Oh! A bunch of idiots! Can't you think of other ways? For example, pour water into the hole, or pour poisonous smoke into it. I don't believe we can't kill them." Zhang Shixun said.
Gao Yanei shook his head and said, "Don't think you're the only one who's clever. I've tried all the methods you mentioned. Pour water in here, and it will flow out from somewhere else. The same goes for smoke extraction. Light firewood in dozens of holes, and have soldiers fan the air with large fans. As a result, smoke billows everywhere in the city, but the smoke escapes and doesn't reach them at all."
"Haha! When the enemy comes, we will fight them; when the water comes, we will block it with earth. This is a typical tunnel warfare. These bandits are really difficult to deal with." Zhang Shixun thought of "Tunnel Warfare" and couldn't help laughing.
"What is tunnel warfare?" Gao Yanei didn't understand.
"You wouldn't understand even if I told you."
The two men walked along the Cai River. Gao Yanei walked to the other side of Zhang Shixun, trying to stay as far away from the Cai River as possible.
Zhang Shixun saw this and asked, "Yanei, what are you afraid of? Is there an entrance to Wuyou Cave by the river?"
"It's hard to say. Any exit to the water could be the entrance to Wuyou Cave."
Zhang Shixun glanced towards the river. Although the moon was very round and bright today, he couldn't see anything.
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