Chapter 239 What is the Secret Weapon?
Shitou dodged with his hands covering his head, and replied to He Jinglan, "I was wrong, I shouldn't have said that to Sister Jinglan. You took me with you, you must be a good person!"
He Jinglan stopped for the moment, "Although you are stupid, you still woke up in time. I will spare you."
Shitou breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I just can't understand why you deliberately let that bad guy turn around and look at Sister Xixi?"
"I didn't even see anything clearly, and you dragged me away."
Shitou frowned and thought for a while. Although he felt it was unlikely, he still made a bold guess, "Could it be that Sister Xixi has a secret weapon that can beat the bad guys?"
He Jinglan hesitated for a moment and said vaguely, "Yeah."
Shitou's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked around excitedly, lowering his voice, "Is there really a secret weapon?!"
"What is it? What does it look like?"
"Hidden arrows? Poison darts? Or the legendary fire gun that can shoot through a target from a hundred paces away?!"
The little guy stared at He Jinglan with anticipation and excitement, his eyes reflecting countless sparkling star-like rays.
He Jinglan felt like she was about to be blinded by the light, and looked away in disgust, saying, "Why are you so excited? Don't forget where we are."
"How many bad guys like that are there around? Will they come over? It's still unknown."
"Rather than using secret weapons, you'd better stay quiet and save your energy. If someone comes later, I won't have time to take care of you. Just run away quickly."
He Jinglan could neither abandon Gu Xixi nor implicate innocent people.
She had already made up her mind that if she met other killers again, she would run away from Shitou.
Of course she turned back to the yard to look for Gu Xixi, while Shitou ran as far away as possible.
Anyway, the other party only wants to capture He Jinglan and Gu Xixi.
As long as the stone ran away, those people would not specifically chase after an unrelated child.
However, He Jinglan had just finished speaking.
Shitou raised his head, showing a big smiling face, "Hey, it's okay, I don't need to run!"
He Jinglan frowned in confusion, "Are you being stupid again?"
Shi Tou smiled confidently and said, "I'm not stupid. Sister Xixi has a secret weapon. I believe in Sister Xixi!"
He Jinglan couldn't help but sigh. Should she say that this child is smart or a tiger?
She looked up at the sky above the courtyard wall, feeling anxious. Why was there no movement?
Shitou saw that He Jinglan wasn't staring at him, so he crouched down and quietly moved forward along the wall.
However, after taking two steps, He Jinglan reached out and grabbed the back of his neck by the collar.
He Jinglan didn't even look at him and said, "You are not allowed to go."
Shitou turned his head stiffly and grinned to ease the embarrassment, "Hehe..."
"Then I won't go over there. I'll just climb over the wall and watch from the top."
"No," He Jinglan said firmly, "You are not allowed to peek until Xixi tells us to go home!"
Shitou said with a bitter face, "Why?"
He Jinglan didn't say anything and pretended not to hear.
Because this question is too difficult to answer.
Was she trying to say that the state of a person who was poisoned to death might be strange and bloody, and that the body was left exposed in one's own yard, which was not suitable for young children to watch?
What if Shitou gets scared and ends up with something bad happening to him, and he has a psychological trauma on Gu Xixi from then on?
Or if he told others what he had seen, who knows what kind of bizarre rumors would spread in the village.
Fortunately, I didn’t have to wait long this time. I heard Gu Xixi say, “Jinglan, Shitou, come back!”
He Jinglan, who had been tense since she saw the killer just now, can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"Oh! Here it comes!"
As soon as Shitou entered the yard, he ran towards Gu Xixi.
"Sister Xixi, are you okay?"
Gu Xixi touched the stone's head and said, "It's okay."
The man in black was lying in the middle of the yard.
He Jinglan saw traces of sweeping next to it, as well as some newly sprinkled loose soil.
She gave Gu Xixi a meaningful look.
There must have been blood here just now.
Gu Xixi responded with a smile that indicated “everything is under control”.
Shitou also turned his head to look at the man in black.
The black-clad man's death was not horrific. Apart from his pale face and black lips, he looked peaceful, as if he was asleep.
But Shitou was young after all, so he was still a little scared and didn't dare to look at it for too long.
"Sister Xixi, he...he fainted, or, or..."
“Dead…?”
Gu Xixi said calmly, "Yeah, I fainted."
He Jinglan looked up in shock.
How did she manage to stand in front of the corpse and say calmly that the other person was just fainted?
Shitou relaxed and smiled, "It turns out he is not dead, he just fainted."
He then said alertly, "We can't leave it like this. What if he wakes up? We have to tie him up quickly!"
"No rush." Gu Xixi patted the stone soothingly.
"I gave him a drug that made him sleepy, and he won't wake up until tomorrow."
Stone's clever head drew inferences from what he had learned, "Oh, I understand!"
"Sister Xixi's secret weapon is sleeping pills, right?"
Gu Xixi smiled and nodded.
He Jinglan applauded, "You guessed it right, so smart!"
According to the laws of the Daye Dynasty, anyone who broke into someone else's home with bad intentions, especially if the attacker was armed with a knife, could resist and kill the attacker, then report it to the government. The homeowner would not be charged with murder and would be innocent.
The killer's body is here and needs to be dealt with.
So Gu Xixi found an excuse to get Shitou away, "Xiaohua was frightened just now and hid under my bed in response. You can go to my room and keep it company."
Shitou has always had a good relationship with Xiaohua. When he heard that Xiaohua was frightened, he went over immediately.
Gu Xixi and He Jinglan looked at each other silently and continued to remain vigilant.
Until a faint whistle came from outside the courtyard wall.
This is the special code of the He family's shadow guard.
The two people in the courtyard looked relieved.
He Jinglan said angrily, "I want to ask them, why didn't they stay here to guard, and where did they go at the critical moment?"
"Wait." Gu Xixi stopped her and said, "Don't be too harsh on me. Just ask the reason."
He Jinglan nodded, went out with a gloomy face, and came back a short while later, sneering and saying with an unpleasant face:
"Those people are really willing to spend a lot of money to catch us!"
"Do you know how many assassins entered this small Huachidu Village today?"
"More than forty!"
"And the division of labor, time periods, and locations can be said to be blooming in multiple places. If played well, it can be a feint to the east and attack in the west!"
It turned out that He Jinglan and Shitou had gone home before noon.
Seeing that Gu Xixi was busy, the two men kept silent and planned to go out to pick some wild fruits and let Gu Xixi make some iced fruit drinks.
When the He family's secret guard discovered the killer's trail, he left Gu Xixi's yard and followed to protect He Jinglan.
This resulted in a gap in the defense around the courtyard, allowing the black-clad killer to break in.
He Jinglan said, "In the end, everything was calm on my side, and the shadow guards only caught one person."
"I've interrogated him. Unfortunately, this man is a marginal person who was used as cannon fodder. He only knows that he participated in the big operation, about 40 to 50 people, but he has not seen many of them."
"I privately speculate that these people deliberately lured away my shadow guards with the intention of arresting you first."
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