She took his hand, kicked away the scattered small table furnishings, and roughly pushed away the chaotic crowd to move to a higher place.
As she was almost at the stern, Jia Han's figure was not far away. She was about to shout when suddenly a man came out from the narrow door of the bottom cabin.
The other party seemed to be in a hurry. He walked a few steps out of the door before looking up. When he saw Xiao Nanhui, he was stunned.
The areas surrounding the cabins of this pleasure boat are extremely narrow, allowing only one person to pass through.
When two people meet on a narrow road, in fact, as long as one of them steps back half a step, everyone will be happy. At this moment, she actually has no intention of making things difficult for the servants on the boat. She just wants to chase Yuan Sanniang, so she took the first step to pass the other party.
But who knew that the pockmarked servant suddenly pulled out a fish-killing knife from under his clothes and ran straight behind her.
Xiao Nanhui moved upon hearing the sound, and barely managed to dodge the attack by pulling Su Wei along with him, but the opponent pounced on him again regardless of his life or death.
This time, she left no room for maneuver.
The armor hidden in her carapace has warmed up, and it's time to see the wind.
The thin and narrow sword blade emerged from the collar at the back of her neck, cutting through the opponent's attack cleanly and neatly, then turned the sword blade and hit the opponent's ribs three-quarters with the hilt.
The man staggered back half a step, coughed a few times and raised his head, but his eyes fell on the person behind her again.
The moment she realized the other party's intention, a kind of madness that had not appeared for a long time suddenly rushed to the top of her head.
She was familiar with that feeling, it was her murderous intent.
After going through so many things, she has become tolerant and peaceful, but there is only one thing she cannot tolerate, that is someone pointing a knife at her.
It wasn't easy for them to get to where they are today. If anyone wanted to destroy this, she would kill him.
The moment the other party rushed towards her again, his armor was removed and a stream of light shot out from his throat.
The servant covered his neck and staggered back to the railing. Just before he fell into the boat, his two gray eyes were still staring at her.
There was a splash of water, and the river water instantly swallowed up the corpse.
Jia Han's boat finally arrived, and Yuan Sanniang and her men who hesitated to abandon the boat and escape were caught red-handed. When everyone returned to the shore, most of the pleasure boat had sunk into the river.
Jia Han's men were still patrolling the river, convinced that the "River God" would not leave the gold in the paper boat unattended. But as daylight began to rise, they still hadn't found anything.
There was nothing unusual to see on the dark river surface, not even a fish showing its back to breathe. Just as Jia Han was about to order the return, there was finally movement on the river surface.
"Got it!"
For a moment, everyone's eyes were turned to the river, and they saw three or four officers escorting a dark figure swimming towards the shore.
The "River God" of the Ju River came ashore.
Like the river shrimp caught in the net, the sea bass on the hook, and the turtle that turned over, they were tied up and thrown onto the dock without any dignity.
Yuan Sanniang initially insisted that she knew nothing about the river god, but later, when she saw that her last tail had been caught, she became cowardly. However, she still refused to admit that she had abandoned the boat and fled out of fear of punishment. She only said that she was doing a shady business and had not done anything against the law.
Everyone was exhausted after a night of tossing and turning, except Xiao Nanhui, who was in high spirits and looked like he could continue to work non-stop for three days and three nights.
"If you tell me the truth, maybe you can suffer less."
She has been studying hard in the dungeon these days, and has learned a lot from Li Siyou, and she is very good at interrogating people.
The short, mustachioed "River God" was already feeling a little dispirited and no longer wanted to repeat the confession he had repeated countless times.
"Auntie, you wouldn't believe me even if I told you. Please let me go. Wouldn't it be better if I could be taken away by the officer..."
Xiao Nanhui had his own plans. How could he dare to let him go without getting to the bottom of things?
"Then what did you do with those boys and girls? Tell me, did you..."
"It's unfair, lady!" The man with the mustache barely had the energy to even beg for mercy. He practically groaned, "They were just three little beggars. I spent a few ounces of silver to hire them to act in my drama, and I haven't even touched them once."
"Playing along? You're a big liar pretending to be a ghost, and you still need three babies to play along?"
"It's true. If you don't believe me, just send someone to ask those three little bastards and you'll find out. Even though this river god isn't famous, he's still a deity. If I don't act with sincerity, who would believe me and listen to me?"
Xiao Nanhui crossed his arms and looked at the other person.
Apart from the fact that he was a good swimmer, she couldn't see what other abilities he possessed. But precisely because of this, her doubts deepened.
"If you can't get things done, no one will believe you even if you organize a huge human sacrifice."
The man with a small mustache blinked guiltily, and spoke in a low voice after a long time.
"It's not me...it's someone else."
Her arms slowly dropped down, her voice deep.
"Who?"
"You know the Shen family, right? They were so prosperous back then. Who would have thought they'd be in trouble at the beginning of this year? They all said it was the work of that person in the palace. He said he was a servant who escaped from the Shen family in Huozhou..."
Xiao Nanhui's face changed and his expression became fierce.
"Where are the others?!"
The man with a mustache was so scared that he stuttered a little. After a while, he stretched out a finger and pointed at the river behind him.
"Just now, just now you killed him with your sword!"
Xiao Nanhui's mind flashed back to the pockmarked servant and his strange reaction, and he finally began to understand what was happening. But not far away, the tilted pleasure boat had been completely swallowed by the river, leaving only a few tattered paper flowers floating on the surface.
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