Ruan Shengpeng looked at Battalion Commander Wei and removed the sock from his mouth: "What do you want to say?"
Battalion Commander Wei shook his head repeatedly: "Commander, I didn't. He's lying. I rescued him on the mountain. When I rescued him, his head was covered in blood. I didn't smash it!"
Ruan Shengpeng looked at Battalion Commander Wei, then at Xiao An. One of these two must be lying. But who was lying?
If it weren't for Xiao Wu's incident, he would have 100% trusted his bodyguard. But now he trusts no one and needs concrete evidence before he will believe them!
Xiao An seemed a little anxious: "Commander, I'm not lying. He really hit my head with a brick. I was looking at the person who was following me and trusted him a lot, which is why he ambushed me!"
Battalion Commander Wei also hurriedly defended himself: "When I arrived, he was lying on the mountain. You can see the blood on my body is from rushing to get him down the mountain!"
Xiao Gengwu wasn't lying; he just looked at Battalion Commander Wei and then at Xiao An, as if he were intently watching a play!
Seeing Xiao Gengwu's expression, Ruan Shengpeng sat down next to him and asked in a low voice, "Do you think any of them are lying?"
Xiao Gengwu glanced at Battalion Commander Wei's clothes: "The answer lies in their clothes and shoes!"
Ruan Shengpeng looked at Battalion Commander Wei's clothes, which were stained with blood and his military boots were covered in mud. Xiao An's clothes were covered in mud, which almost completely covered his back.
Some places had more, some places had less, and his shoes were worn through at the heels. Ruan Shengpeng's heart skipped a beat: "Battalion Commander Wei, you said you carried Xiao An down the mountain, did you carry him down?"
"I carried him down the mountain on my back. I don't have that much strength, and I was afraid of dropping him!" Battalion Commander Wei said confidently.
Ruan Shengpeng continued to ask, "When you're carrying him, do you want his face close to your neck, or the back of his head close to your neck?"
Battalion Commander Wei dared not answer. He looked at Xiao An and then at Ruan Shengpeng, gritted his teeth, and said, "I'll let Xiao An's face get close to my neck!"
"Oh! Let his face get close to your neck, how tall are you?" Ruan Shengpeng already had the answer in his mind, and he relaxed and leaned back in his chair.
"I haven't measured it, but everyone says I'm 1.7 meters tall!"
Ruan Shengpeng gave a soft "Oh," and then asked, "Do you know how tall Xiao An is?"
Battalion Commander Wei's heart skipped a beat. He hadn't measured each other's height, but Xiao An was from the north and was at least 1.8 meters tall.
The fact that he, a 1.7-meter-tall man, was carrying a 1.8-meter-tall man on his back was a clear weakness, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Commander, I... I misremembered. I meant for him to have the back of his head close to my neck!" Battalion Commander Wei had already seen that Xiao An's heels were covered in mud!
Ruan Shengpeng didn't want to say much, so he nudged Xiao Gengwu, his meaning clear: "You're in charge now." Xiao Gengwu was speechless: "Father-in-law, this is your official business. Why are you making me do it?"
Ruan Shengpeng glared at him: My business? It's all your fault!
Xiao Gengwu lost the battle of wits with Ruan Shengpeng. He coughed and said, "Commander Wei, you said his back of the head was facing your neck. May I ask if your neck is so clean?"
Battalion Commander Wei's face turned deathly pale. He had forgotten that Xiao An's head was still bleeding from the blow he had inflicted. He had walked right into a trap! But he still struggled, saying, "I just cleaned it up!"
Xiao Gengwu gave a soft "Oh": "Then what about the bloodstains on your clothes? There are some spray-like patterns on them. If you got the bloodstains from holding him, they wouldn't look like this!"
Battalion Commander Wei was speechless. He had dragged the man down, and only when there were people below did he pretend to hug Xiao An, which is how he got the bloodstains!
Xiao An finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that he would be falsely accused, and he wouldn't know how to defend himself!
Battalion Commander Wei struggled to untie the rope, but how could he possibly break free so easily? He panicked, knowing that he was not only going to lose his future, but also his life!
In his panic, he blurted out, "This man was about to die, but you, his son-in-law, gave him some kind of water and he came back to life!"
"Do you think you can still live in peace if outsiders find out about this? If you don't want things to fall apart, you'd better let me go!"
Ruan Shengpeng's heart skipped a beat, but he maintained a nonchalant attitude: "Oh! Don't you know my daughter is a very skilled traditional Chinese medicine doctor? This is a miraculous medicine she prescribed for people who have lost too much blood!"
"It's a pity that someone like you, even if you die in front of me, I won't give you any food. Go outside and say, do you want me to open the door for you? Let you go and shout?"
Ruan Shengpeng's confident demeanor caused Battalion Commander Wei's mental defenses to crumble: "Commander, it was the regimental commander of our First Regiment who ordered me to do it. If I don't do it, he'll find a fault to make me retire!"
"I finally got to the position of battalion commander, and I had no choice but to obey his orders!"
"You have no other choice? Why don't you come to me? Why don't you report this to me? You saw a way to make money, didn't you? How much money did he give you?"
Battalion Commander Wei got stuck. He always received a lot of money for helping others. At first, it was just some trivial things, which he was happy to help with, but later the things he did were increasingly going too far.
He made more and more money, and he had a fluke mentality, thinking that it didn't matter, so he kept doing it. Originally, he wanted to use Xiao An's name to become a familiar face in the army.
As a result, he got to know the face, but fell into a trap. If he had known this would happen, he should have just listened to the leader and killed the person, pretending to be a wild beast and biting him!
He thought Xiao An was surely dead, which is why he dragged him down, but...
Ruan Shengpeng called over Xiao Liu: "Go and interrogate him. Use every method you can to make him talk!"
Xiao Liu quickly dragged the person away. Ruan Shengpeng looked at Xiao An and said, "You were able to wake up this time because he gave you the life-saving medicine that my daughter gave him!"
"This medicine uses a lot of precious herbs, and there's not much of it in total. If you drink it all, I won't be able to give it to anyone else who wants it. Do you know what to say next time?"
Xiao An immediately stood up: "I told you that this medicine was given to me by someone I saved before, and that Brother Xiao saw it and fed it to me, which is how I survived!"
That's a good answer, but when Ruan Shengpeng saw that his wound was no longer bleeding, he said, "This medicine is too amazing. You should bandage your head, otherwise even more people will ask you about it!"
Xiao An immediately agreed, and after settling the matter, Ruan Shengpeng asked, "You've been following them for over two days. Did you see any people or see any events?"
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