Dressed as the villain's stepmother

"Don't worry, the guards here are so tight, I can't escape even if I want to."

Jiang Lianzhu agreed casually.

After waiting for the three men to leave, she reached out and untied the hemp rope tied to her feet, stood up and kicked her legs while holding on to the wooden box beside her.

She didn't quite know where the room where she was locked up was located in the entire village.

The three men were vigilant enough to seal up all the windows in the house, so she couldn't look outside through the windows.

Suddenly, the closed wooden door was pushed open from the outside.

Jiang Lianzhu immediately sat down on the spot, pretending to be weak, raised her eyes and looked outside.

Lin Suji held the food box in his hand and walked cautiously inside. Seeing Jiang Lianzhu suddenly opened her eyes, her steps slipped slightly.

"I, I'm here to bring you food."

"Put your stuff here."

Jiang Lianzhu pointed to the open space aside.

Lin Suji responded and carefully placed the food box he was carrying on the open space.

"Why did you help those people tie me here? If I guessed correctly, the anti-mosquito spice you ordered in the inn that night must have been incense, right?"

Jiang Lianzhu spoke as if chatting. Seeing the slight pause in Lin Suji's hand movements, she knew that she had many secrets hidden in her heart.

"There are only two of us here, and I can't escape now, so you don't have to worry about me taking revenge on you."

Jiang Lianzhu then said again, looking at Lin Suji with bright eyes.

Although she can only place her hopes on Liao Yunchuan now, this does not prevent her from knowing more. If Liao Yunchuan is unreliable, she can escape with her own ability.

"I...what I said before are actually not lies. It's just that I was kidnapped by them into the stronghold at that time. They thought I didn't have much money, so they negotiated terms with me and said that if I could help them solve the problem, Once it’s done, promise to let me go.”

Lin Suji whispered, with a slight tremor in his voice.

She originally thought that she would always be able to escape the sea of ​​suffering, but now it is not as simple as she imagined.

Xu Mai's words were just used to deceive people. Now she had cooperated with their actions and tied Jiang Lianzhu to the mountain, but they had no intention of letting her go.

"In that case, you should be able to leave the stronghold now, why are you still staying here?"

Jiang Lianzhu looked at Lin Suji with a smile.

What she said was knowingly asking questions and stepping on the pain in her heart.

Lin Suji pursed her lips and couldn't answer a word.

How could this be, but it was just because the three of them did not keep their word that they allowed themselves to continue to be left in the village.

"It doesn't matter, let's not mention those things before. What I'm curious about now is, can you move around at will in the village?"

Jiang Lianzhu quickly changed the topic.

Having already been reduced to this situation, she has no idea to keep digging out other people's pain points.

"I can move within a certain range. If it goes beyond this range, it is no place for me to set foot."

Lin Suji answered honestly.

How big is this cottage?She still hasn't figured it out yet. She only knows that she can only step into a few of the houses and deliver meals to the people imprisoned there.

"In this case, do you know what the backgrounds of Xu Mai, Liu Wanli and Zhu Yi are?"

Jiang Lianzhu asked after thinking for a while.

"I don't know much about the origins of these three people, but I heard some people in the village mention it before. They seemed to be gangsters in the capital. I don't know what kind of opportunities they encountered. I can dominate the mountain here and become the king."

Lin Suji carefully said what he knew.

The channels through which she could get the news were really limited, not to mention that the village was full of men. When she saw those people inside, she would not dare to say more words, for fear of causing some trouble for herself.

After Jiang Lianzhu listened to what she said, she digested all the contents in her heart for a while, then she raised her head and asked seriously.

"Then do you still have the idea of ​​going out now?"

"If it's possible, of course I would."

"Okay, then you help me pay attention to the movements in the village. If there is anything wrong, remember to tell me. I will naturally have a way to take you out by then."

Jiang Lianzhu nodded, understanding Lin Suji's thoughts.

Since she wanted something in her heart, she could just take this opportunity to manipulate her and use her for herself.

"This... are you sure?"

Listening to Lin Suji's slightly hesitant voice, Jiang Lianzhu couldn't help but chuckle.

"What's so uncertain about this? Since I've told you that, it means I have a way. What's more, you can only believe me now?"

"Okay, I'll keep an eye out for you."

Lin Suji pursed her lips, lowered her head, took out the food in the food box and put it aside, then left with the box.

After she left, Jiang Lianzhu took a look at the food that could be placed at her feet.

I don’t know when it was cooked. It looks like it has been left for two or three days. If you smell it carefully, you can still smell it.

Jiang Lianzhu put the uneatable food by the door, picked up an already hard steamed bun and took a few bites.

the other side.

Xu Mai specially sent someone to deliver the letter to the Governor's Mansion.

Yang Fei saw Liao Yunchuan's name written on the envelope, and after thinking for a while, he opened the envelope.

He read the entire letter from beginning to end under the gaze of a group of men, and his face immediately darkened.

"Sir, those bandits are so rampant that they even dare to arrest the leader. They don't even take us officials seriously!"

One of his subordinates said angrily.

Although Jiang Lianzhu didn't use any serious words in this letter, he could still imagine what the scene looked like just by looking at it, and he got angry after just thinking about it.

"Don't worry, the boss will arrive this evening. I will show him this letter then, so that we can work out a countermeasure together."

Yang Fei was silent for a moment before answering.

Although he also wanted to catch all those people as soon as possible, it was obvious that the time was not right at the moment.

The thoughts of the few of them are far less delicate than Liao Yunchuan, and he still needs to make the decision on something as big as the encirclement and suppression of bandits.