Chapter 362 Gong Shao
Zhu Lan immediately noticed that Gong Shao was not in the right state and said:
"Don't be afraid. We..." She thought for a moment and said, "We are your father's friends."
The fear in Gong Shao's eyes faded a little, and he looked at Zhu Lan and the other man suspiciously, as if he was recalling whether he had seen them before.
Zhu Lan quickly interrupted his recollections and took some more food to show that he had no ill intentions.
Gong Shao looked at her suspiciously for a few times, and finally couldn't resist the temptation of food and continued eating.
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Half an hour later, the three of them sat on the gravel ground in front of the dilapidated temple.
After Gong Shao ate, his hostility towards the two men decreased a lot, but he still looked a little dazed and his expression was dull.
Zhu Lan hesitated for a moment and asked, "After your family got into trouble... have you been hiding in this dilapidated temple?"
She had just entered the temple again to check again, and found that there was actually a secret door behind the merit box. The secret door was extremely hidden, and it was almost invisible from the outside, but from the inside, one could clearly see the situation outside.
The space behind the secret door is just enough for one person to hide.
She had also found some dried food residues on the temple floor.
Since the temple was cleaned after the massacre and even the bloodstains on the ground were washed away, the food residue could only have been left behind by someone later.
That's why she guessed that on the night when Gong's family was killed, Gong Shao hid in the secret door and escaped. After that, he hid in the ruined temple and only went out to find something to eat when he was extremely hungry.
He rushed out of the secret door just now because he saw that the woman was carrying food on her, so he decided to steal the food.
After hearing Zhu Lan's question, Gong Shao nodded in a daze after a long while.
Zhu Lan continued to ask: "Then why don't you leave here and return to Yunzhou City, but hide in the temple?"
Gong Shao stared blankly without answering.
Zhu Lan simply speculated: "You... want to take revenge so you don't want to leave, but for some reason, you can't return to Yunzhou City?"
Gong Shao's eyes trembled, and Zhu Lan knew that he had guessed right.
"Your family members were killed in front of you, and then the government sent people to come. Why did you refuse to show up?"
Zhu Lan narrowed his eyes slightly, and a sharp gleam flashed in his eyes.
"Are you afraid of the government officials?"
When Gong Shao heard the word "government", he trembled all over.
Zhu Lan immediately understood why Lao Chang had said that he couldn't find Gong Shao before.
He distrusted and feared the authorities.
Since he and Zhu Qingyan were women and wore casual clothes, Gong Shao was less wary of them.
Thinking of this, Zhu Lan winked at Zhu Qingyan. Zhu Qingyan understood and pretended to look for something in the bag, but actually stuffed the two people's Hanlin Academy waist badges into the deepest part of the bag.
"I remember..." Gong Shao, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke.
His voice was hoarse, somewhat inconsistent with his youthful appearance.
He raised his head and looked at Zhu Lan and the other person in front of him, his tone uncertain.
"You...are the daughters of Mr. Wang, right? Mr. Wang has moved away for more than ten years, and my father still talks about him from time to time.
I haven't seen you for so many years, I hardly recognize you."
Zhu Lan frowned slightly and was about to remind Zhu Qingyan with his eyes, but the other party had already taken up the conversation.
"Ah, yes... My father asked us to come and say hello to my uncle, but I didn't expect something like this to happen."
Zhu Lan's eyes darkened. Qingyan was young after all, and although he was smart, he still lacked some experience in intrigue.
If the other party was lying to her, wouldn't she be exposed immediately?
Zhu Lan observed Gong Shao calmly, and was slightly relieved when he saw that he did not show any suspicion or other abnormal expressions.
"Yeah, who could have thought something like this would happen. Is Uncle Wang okay?"
Zhu Qingyan was slightly startled. He felt that Gong Shao had just experienced the tragic death of his entire family, but he still cared about that "Mr. Wang". It was a bit strange, but he didn't have time to think too much, so he nodded and said:
"My father...everything is fine."
Gong Shao nodded gently, "Okay, that's good."
He seemed to remember something, "I still remember that there was a big locust tree like that in front of Uncle Wang's house. Here, it's that tree—"
He stood up and pointed towards the locust tree not far away.
Zhu Lan subconsciously moved his eyes in the direction he pointed for a moment, and immediately realized that something was wrong.
"Qingyan, stop him!"
As Zhu Lan spoke, Gong Shao, who had already stood up, ran away as if the two were some kind of man-eating ghosts.
Zhu Qingyan finally reacted and jumped up, but Gong Shao, whose survival instinct had been aroused, was very fast and had already run quite a distance.
Zhu Qingyan felt annoyed. Gong Shao was obviously much more familiar with the terrain here. If he continued to chase him, he might really be thrown off by him.
This time Zhu Qingyan reacted extremely quickly. He grabbed a piece of gravel on the ground and shook his wrist slightly. The stone flew out and hit Gong Shao's calf.
Gong Shao screamed and fell to the ground, with several scratches on his body, and blood soon seeped out of the wounds.
He turned around and saw Zhu Lan and the other man approaching him. Knowing that there was no hope of escape, the fear on his face turned into desperate anger.
"You...you are Liao Xing's people, right?
Fine, fine, if he wants to kill you all, I, Gong Shao, will never let you go even if I turn into a ghost!
The lives of our entire family... I will turn into a ghost and kill his entire family too! Make him pay with blood!
And you, you! I won't let any of you go!"
"Who is Liao Xing?" Zhu Qingyan asked.
Gong Shao was stunned at first, then he cursed: "Stop pretending. If you want to do something, do it quickly. I will just turn into a ghost and come after you!"
Zhu Lan frowned, and seeing his look, he couldn't help but sigh and feel sympathy in his heart.
She squatted down and slowed down her voice:
"Don't be afraid, we really have no ill intentions, and we don't know the 'Liao Xing' you mentioned.
Think about it, if we wanted to harm you, we had so many opportunities to do it, but we did nothing. "
"That's right!" Zhu Qingyan said angrily, pulling out the Wenliu from his waist and shaking it.
"If I wanted to kill you, I would have done it a long time ago. Why would I give you good food and drink?"
Gong Shao's suspicious gaze lingered on the sword blade that was flashing with cold light for a long time, and he finally believed what Zhu Qingyan said.
“You don’t know Liao Xing… so how do you know my name?
Who are you guys?
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