He ruined his own plans again, so why can't he be the hero?
"Huo Yan, why aren't you letting go of... Miss Su!"
Bai Bai gritted his teeth and looked at Huo Yan's hand that was wrapped around Su Ruanruan's waist.
He liked Su Ruanruan because of a special fate.
But what about Huo Yan? What is he always doing jumping around in front of Ruan Ruan?
Huo Yan seemed not to hear him. Instead of letting go of her waist, he scooped Su Ruanruan up.
"Lord Bai and your daughter must still have something to say. I will take Miss Su out to find someone to treat her injuries."
Before Bai Bai could answer, he had already strode away with Su Ruanruan.
Su Ruanruan was stunned; she couldn't leave yet.
She came to the cell to cause trouble for Bai Yun. She hasn't even tried to sow discord with Bai Bai yet, so how can she leave?
Leaving at this critical juncture would only result in her shoulder being injured a second time for no reason.
"Put me down!"
"I won't let go!"
Su Ruanruan: "..."
This person might have some serious illness.
"You don't actually like me, do you?" Su Ruanruan teased.
Huo Yan was holding Su Ruanruan when he heard this. He looked down at the woman in his arms who was blinking and looking at him.
"What are you thinking? I, Huo Yan, will never look at you in my entire life!"
Su Ruanruan struggled a few times, but the pain from her injuries intensified.
I might as well stop torturing myself.
"That's fine, you're not my type anyway."
"Since Officer Huo doesn't like me, how about you stay away from me in the future?"
"Ha! Further away? Don't forget, you still owe me money."
Su Ruanruan was silent for a moment, then looked up at him. "Do you know what three thousand taels means? Poor families like ours might not even save a few taels of silver after a year of hard work. You also know that I'm just a handyman at the tofu shop, working only sporadically. The shopkeeper only took me in because he pitied me. Do you really think I have the ability to repay you several thousand taels?"
"Although your dagger looks gorgeous, it's just a small gemstone, and you're asking for too much."
"I could work my whole life and still not earn that much money."
Huo Yan placed Su Ruanruan in the corridor of the courtyard.
He glanced at her and took out the small piece of cloth from his person.
Su Ruanruan stared blankly at Huo Yan until he opened his palm, revealing a fabric that looked very similar to the clothes she had been wearing before.
It really does look like her dress.
I'm not sure, I'll think about it some more.
Su Ruanruan stared at it for a few more moments.
If she wasn't mistaken, it should be hers. Even if it was just a small piece, she could smell a faint fishy odor when she got close.
As for which part of her clothing it was made of, she... didn't seem to notice.
only……
What use is this piece of cloth to him?
"What does Officer Huo mean?"
"Do you recognize this? Is it yours?" Huo Yan glanced at Su Ruanruan. "Don't tell me you don't recognize it? You were staring at it intently just now."
"Officer Huo is really joking. What can I see from such a small piece of cloth? How can I know if it's mine without taking a closer look?"
Huo Yan raised an eyebrow, "You don't admit it?"
Su Ruanruan recalled the unusual behavior of Huo Yan and her brother before they went to jail.
She felt like a fleeing rabbit, with the hunter already in pursuit.
I was already very careful, so where did I go wrong?
What happened to this piece of cloth?
Huo Yan moved even closer, his eagle-like eyes fixed on Su Ruanruan.
He leaned down slightly and sneered, "Zhou the Butcher...did you kill him?"
Su Ruanruan was shocked and quickly looked at Huo Yan.
His gaze remained fixed on her, his eyes filled with inquiry and scrutiny.
Su Ruanruan felt her mouth was dry and her palms were sweaty. "Is Officer Huo so obsessed with solving this case that he's lost his mind?"
"Look at my small frame, I was almost crippled by Butcher Zhou, how could I possibly have the strength to kill him?"
"If he hadn't lost interest in me and let me go, I might not be alive today."
Su Ruanruan looked at him, staring directly into his eyes, "Besides, I was in the tofu shop when he died..."
Huo Yan smiled and said, "You're really cunning. Do you have an accomplice?"
Su Ruanruan laughed too, "Officer Huo, you're really joking. What accomplice would I have?"
"My reputation is even worse now. I was kidnapped by a womanizer before, and now I've been captured by a butcher. Even if I live, I'll be pointed at and gossiped about by the world. Why do you have to make things worse for me?"
“I know you hate me, but you shouldn’t frame me like this without any evidence. I thought you were different from other constables, but I didn’t expect you to be like this…”
Huo Yan laughed, "Do you know where this piece of cloth was found?"
"Zhou the Butcher's fingers were tightly clenched. If he was murdered at Chenshi (7-9 AM), then I'm quite curious..."
"What has he been doing since you left?"
Su Ruanruan was taken aback; she had really miscalculated.
She didn't even notice the cloth in Butcher Zhou's hand at the time.
She already knew what Huo Yan was going to say.
"So what? What does it prove that the fabric of my clothes is caught between his fingers?"
"Perhaps the murderer picked it up from the ground after killing him and deliberately put it in his hand."
Huo Yan was certainly aware that this was also a possibility.
But he just felt that Zhou the Butcher's death was definitely related to Su Ruanruan.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Su Ruanruan sneered, "Since there is no evidence to prove that Butcher Zhou's death is related to me, please don't wrong me anymore, Officer Huo. If there's nothing else, I'll go back now."
Huo Yan watched her retreating figure and called out, "The tofu shop makes iced drinks every day, so why didn't it do so on the very day Butcher Zhou died?"
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