Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

The room was eerily quiet.

The man's words were like a thunderclap that exploded directly in the ears of several people.

They looked at each other, their eyes filled with surprise and suspicion.

If this is true, then is a chaotic world about to begin?

Li Yuan remained silent. After a quarter of an hour, he stood up and stood in front of the man. He squatted down and pinched the man's shoulders.

"If the situation is not true, you will be cut into pieces."

The man was shaking like a sieve, and all he could think about was his wife, children and the elderly.

Li Yuan stood up, and the people behind him silently asked the man what to do. Li Yuan glanced at the man, "Let this man go back, he knows where to go."

Fang Hongji knew he was fine, but he didn't feel happy at all. He just twisted his limbs with his hands tied, and asked Li Yuan expectantly: "What about my wife and children?"

"where are they?"

Li Yuan glanced down at the man. Although he was wearing splendid clothes, there were traces of mending on the cuffs, and the stitches were tight, which seemed to be someone who had carefully sewed them for him.

"You can see them when you go back."

After that, Li Yuan walked around him and left. The people who were originally guarding the yard gradually left, leaving only the man who had just patted him on the back of the head to untie him.

Seeing Fang Hongji still in a daze and not understanding what the master meant, the man explained in a rough voice: "The master means that he didn't touch your wife and children. The patchwork clothes were found in your house in the city. It must have fallen on the way when you left in a hurry. The master is trying to trick you."

After untying it, the man prepared to leave in a hurry.

But the man stopped her at the last moment: "You, you really didn't touch my wife and children?"

"If I say no, then no, I don't. We just want to ask questions. Master, he is not an unforgivable person, otherwise we can't follow him."

After saying that, she walked away a few steps, but was stopped by the man again.

"Have you any money?"

"If so, I have another secret place where I keep my stock."

The man licked his lips and said with a bit of bitterness: "As long as you give me silver and gold, I will tell you where the food is."

"How about it?"

The man who untied him was shocked. He didn't expect that this man was so bold that he was thinking about doing business after escaping death.

He slowly took two steps back and looked at the man doubtfully.

“Really, I really have such a place.”

This person insisted on the same statement in front of Li Yuan who had returned.

Li Yuan raised his eyebrows, his expression somewhat like a smile.

"Why do you think I will believe you?"

When he made this expression, there was something evil in it, as if his originally cold and indifferent appearance was gradually cracking and finally revealing the truly foul part inside.

However, this expression lasted only for a moment, and the man with an injured eye did not see clearly, and he thought he was dazzled.

"This batch of goods is very hot stuff for me. I have thought of many ways to sell this grain to earn some money for my mother and me, but the city gates are under martial law and there is no way to escape!"

Li Yuan only believed about 70% of Fang Hongji's statement, but this 70% or 80% was enough to get the job done.

"Tell us the address."

Li Yuan asked.

The man shook his head: "No, wouldn't it make me lose my bargaining chip if I told you where it is?"

It is true that there is no fraud in business.

Li Yuan said calmly: "Since you told me this, do you think I would let you go if I didn't get what I wanted?"

Fang Hongji then realized who he had met. He stared at Li Yuan's shameless appearance in amazement, thinking that he had made a mistake.

After another round of coercion and inducement, Fang Hongji had no choice but to tell them the location, on the condition that Li Yuan agreed to give him one-tenth of the money for the grain.

He didn't ask for too much, and one tenth of the money was just enough for him to take out.

Li Yuan agreed to him, but he had learned from previous experience that it was useless for a man to know that the other party was going to go back on his word.

Several people came to the place the man mentioned. Fang Hongji just took out the key when he saw someone climbing over the wall in an inconspicuous place. He looked at the key in his hand for a while, and then at the wall he had just climbed over.

The person inside jumped out quickly, and after nodding to Li Yuan, someone pushed Fang Hongji from behind, motioning him to come forward and unlock the door.

Pushing the door open, there was a warehouse with a yard inside, but the yard was a little small, and the rooms on both sides were arranged tightly together.

Li Yuan opened a door at random. As soon as he opened the door, the food in the room fell down, and some of it fell next to his shoes.

The man looked at his harvest and said, "This room contains the grain from the farmers I collected recently. I was so busy that I didn't even have time to pack it into bags."

Li Yuan picked up some grains at random and rubbed them in his palm. Seeing that it was indeed not old rice, he knew that the man in front of him was telling the truth.

He told people to guard the place and not let anyone find it, then his eyes fell on the man who was still ready to make a move.

"You stay here, and when we take the food out of the city, you can follow us out of the city."

"As long as I get out, I can get some money and go back to see my wife and children."

Fang Hongji was tied up again, but this time he did not resist.

When Li Yuan arrived, Wei Qiqi had already changed her clothes and was lying on the bed resting from exhaustion.

Because he moved so gently, he did not wake Wei Qiqi up.

Li Yuan stood quietly beside Wei Qiqi's bed for a while.

Because of her illness, Wei Qiqi looked frighteningly pale. It was clearly just a cold, but she looked like she had some emergency.

Maybe Qi Niang herself didn't realize that whenever she was sick, she would lose weight. The thin little ball nestled there only made Li Yuan's heart ache.

Qi Niang once said that she didn't like this kind of weak body that couldn't take care of itself. If her body was suitable for practicing martial arts, she would also like to learn martial arts to protect herself.

She also said that it doesn't matter whether you are beautiful or ugly, fat or thin, as long as you are healthy, that's the best.

But Qi Niang's old illness made her feel uncomfortable every time. What if she couldn't recover?

When Li Yuan thought of this possible outcome, his heart ached. He was so sad just imagining that Qi Niang would die.

Qi Niang...

After tucking the corner of the quilt for Wei Qiqi, Li Yuan quietly left again.

The guards outside followed Li Yuan's footsteps.

"Master, what should we do now?"

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes unconsciously: "Go prepare a carriage, it's better to have soft furnishings inside.

And find a way to deal with the guard at the side gate so that we can transport the food out together."

The guard was a little worried: "Under such a strict inspection, will they be unwilling to..."

"They are also human beings, and they will want to think for themselves. Besides, there are not many people at the side door, so you can choose to go when there is no one."

"If there are still people who are unwilling..."

Li Yuan glanced at the man with a dark gaze and said, "Kill him."

The man being stared at by Li Yuan shuddered, but still responded with an OK.