Good luck every time

The escort leader standing aside had never expected such a sudden change to happen, and the smile on his face did not fade away.

Li Ruyi's expression suddenly changed.

At this moment, a hand pulled her clothes back.

Li Ruyi leaned back and fell onto the bench where she was sitting to eat.

The next moment, a blade flashed by. The blade was so fast and accurate that it covered both of them.

Warm blood splashed all over Li Ruyi, but her eyes were cold.

Li Er had also stood up by this time and pulled Li Ruyi to protect her behind him.

Li Ruyi seemed to be frightened and kept her mouth open for a long time without saying anything.

The smile on the escort leader's face slowly faded, along with the blood color on his face.

With a pale face and a stiff body, he tried to stand in front of Li Ruyi, but was pushed away by Li Eryi.

"Don't come closer!"

The escort leader was stunned for a moment.

Li Er's suddenly raised voice attracted everyone's attention.

Suddenly a few screams broke the sudden silence.

"It's dead!"

"Ah..."

"what happened?"

The escorts around panicked immediately. Although everyone was a little relaxed today, there were still people guarding around.

They were sure that no one had sneaked in, so why did someone die?!

A group of people gathered around and saw the body on the ground and the dagger dropped next to the body.

Someone reacted quickly, and his expression changed along with the escort leader's.

Some people looked at Li Ruyi, whose clothes were stained with blood, with a confused look on their faces.

Li Ershi was like a leopard, all his muscles were tense, and his vigilant eyes swept over everyone present.

Only then did the escort leader regain his voice.

"Boss, I didn't know the right person. I will definitely give you an explanation for this matter."

When Xiaoman heard this, her face wrinkled!

"If I had been a step later, it would be my sister lying here! Explain!? What do we need to explain? Isn't it obvious?"

The leader of the escort team heard the hidden meaning in Xiaoman's words and was instantly provoked.

"What do you mean, Third Miss? Do you think I ordered these people to do this?"

Xiaoman snorted coldly.

"Humph! I didn't say that! Whoever did it knows it."

The muscles on the escort leader's face trembled with anger.

"If I instigate others to assassinate the boss, I will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death!"

After hearing this, Xiaoman didn't feel that the other party was pitiful or trustworthy at all.

"Come on! If God has eyes, why is there still a saying that good people don't live long and evil people leave their mark for thousands of years?"

The escort leader was so angry at Xiaoman's words that he was shaking all over, but Xiaoman had no intention of restraining himself and continued to speak.

"I said you have been pretending to be so nice all the way, and you have been waiting here for a long time! Why do you want to kick us away now that we are here? Where is your face? Where is your conscience? My second sister has paid so much for you all the way, and this is how you repay her?"

The impact of these words was so wide that it made people around him a little unhappy.

Seeing them approaching fiercely, Li Eryi stopped Xiaoman behind him.

"My third sister said this because she was very angry! The truth of today's incident is still unknown. We brothers and sisters are a little tired, so we will go back and rest first!"

The escort leader opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Li Ershi protected Li Ruyi and Xiaoman as they passed by everyone.

After they left, the shopkeeper looked up and pointed at the waiter.

The waiter came over happily and grabbed the escort leader who wanted to chase Li Ruyi back to the room to explain.

"Hey!? Sir, you killed someone in our store, you can't have no explanation!"

The escort leader's attention was drawn by the waiter, and he turned back to look at the other party.

"What did you say?"

The waiter couldn't help but shrink back when he saw that he was a bit fierce, but he thought of the shopkeeper behind him, the handyman in the backyard, and the cook in the kitchen...his confidence came back!

"We are doing business with open doors. If you do something to us, how can we do business in the future?"

The escort leader finally came back to his senses from his previous confused state.

"You want compensation, right? How much?"

The waiter was friendly this time, smiling with his big teeth showing.

"According to the rules of the industry, a corpse costs fifty taels. We will take care of it for you. It depends on whether you want to take the whole body back or the ashes. Of course, you don't need to take anything back. We can help you bury it on the spot or throw it in the mountains to be eaten by wild dogs. We guarantee that we will handle it properly for you, so that you don't have to worry about it."

The escort leader remained silent, feeling that the other party's words were a bit cruel.

But when he looked at the two men's faces lying on the ground with their eyes wide open, anger surged in his heart.

Just then, someone in the crowd whispered.

"This... whoever killed him should be held responsible, right? It's one hundred taels, you can't let us pay for it, right?"

They may not even earn a hundred taels even if they risk their lives, so why should they give it to others?

"That's right! Big brother, why don't we call the manager down."

The dart leader took a deep breath and gritted his teeth.

"No, it was because I didn't discipline my subordinates and sent someone to assassinate the boss, which is why this happened. I'll pay for it!"

The escort leader felt very painful, but he still started to collect money in front of the waiter.

One hundred taels of silver is not a small amount of money. Even if gold is added, it is still a very heavy pile.

The waiter happily ran to get the scale and started weighing in front of everyone. After putting away the one hundred taels, he shouted back.

Two tall and strong handymen came out from the backyard, dragging the corpse and ready to leave.

The waiter asked the escort leader before leaving.

"By the way! What are you going to do with this corpse?"

Some of the escorts had a good relationship with them. Seeing the person who was talking to them before now lying there coldly, they couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic.

"Brother, death is the greatest thing. How about I see..."

"Yes! They were also deceived. The boss has nothing to say to us, but we have been brothers for so many years, and I know them. They must have their own difficulties!"

The escort leader was silent for a while, looked towards the backyard, then turned back and spoke.

"Burn it. I'll take the ashes back."

For many people, cremation means no remains left, which makes people sigh that the death is miserable.

This can be considered as another form of punishment from the escort leader to the two men.

After things here were dealt with, the escort leader looked at the food on the table which had hardly been touched, and felt extremely upset.

He sat down, picked up the wine jug beside him and took a sip of wine.

The spicy taste sobered him up a little.

Most people walking outside can drink a lot. It’s so cold here in the winter that you can’t survive without a few sips of wine.

Of course, this sip of wine didn't make the escort leader drunk, but it only made him feel even more guilty.

On the one hand, he almost killed Li Ruyi by mistake, and on the other hand, he knew clearly how much impact this incident would have on the escort agency. Once it got out, the escort masters of their escort agency would rob the escorts and their escort agency would be disbanded in the future.

Just when the escort leader was feeling extremely sad, Li Ruyi returned to the room and had become a completely different person.

She and Xiaoman packed up their things quickly, while Li Ershi stood by to keep watch for them.

When they originally came out, they didn't have much with them.

However, he encountered too many bandits along the way, and Li Ruyi looted everything he could, so he naturally saved some money.

And because he knew that silver notes were difficult to use, Li Ruyi had already exchanged all the silver notes for gold.

Such a big bag of gold must be very heavy.

Leaving the letter and enough money on the table, Li Ruyi opened the door, called the handyman in the yard, and spoke.

"Excuse me, could you go to the front yard and call someone over for me?"

After hearing what Li Ruyi said, the handyman nodded without hesitation and ran away in a very friendly manner.

After he left, Li Ruyi looked around and didn't see anyone passing by, so he didn't blow out the lamp, but left it burning as if there was someone in the room.

The three of them put on their bags and Li Ruyi closed the door.

They took the horses from the stable in the backyard while no one was noticing and then slipped away from the backyard.

As soon as the three men left, the escort leader was called over.

He felt guilty and didn't know how to face Li Ruyi. He stretched out his hand to the door, wanting to knock but didn't.

The hand gestured twice in the air, the dart leader gritted his teeth, and then spoke to the inside.

"I wonder why the master called me here so late at night?"

He thought that if it was an order about keeping watch, there was no need for him to go in and he could just listen to the instructions at the door.

After saying this, he pricked up his ears for a while, worried that he hadn't heard Li Ruyi's instructions and might miss something important, so he knocked on the door again, wanting to remind the people in the room that he hadn't heard them talking yet.

This time he leaned against the door and listened carefully, trying hard to listen, worried that it was not that something was not said just now, but that his ears were not working well.

However, after a while, there was still no movement inside.

He thought about it and knocked on the door tentatively again. This time he leaned his head forward, thinking that he had to listen to some noise no matter what!

However, despite his force, there was still no movement from inside, but he did manage to open the door a crack.

Looking at the slowly opening crack in the door, the escort leader frowned and reached out to push the door open.

The house still looked the same as when they first came to stay at the hotel.

The only difference is that there is a cloth bag on the table at the entrance.

There was a letter under the cloth bag.

The escort leader looked around and asked again.

"Boss, are you there?"

His own voice was the only one in the empty room. He walked forward hesitantly and saw the words written on the envelope.

From the Head of Escort

The escort leader's heart fluttered, and he quickly took out the letter and unfolded it.

There are two pages of letter paper with beautiful small calligraphy.

Li Ruyi didn't write anything too profound. Her writing skills were average, and she didn't get any satisfaction from showing off in front of the escort leader.

The main idea of ​​the letter is divided into several parts.

The first part is what the escort leader is most worried about.

In a nutshell, Li Ruyi and his two siblings are gone.

After making it clear that she was leaving, Li Ruyi also explained the money that would need to be paid to the escort agency upon her return journey, and she had already placed it on the table.

The escort agency does not collect the full payment at once for the escort. Instead, a portion of the payment is made as a deposit first, and the balance is paid after the escort is completed.

Li Ruyi had to pay a large balance as well. After all, he had hired so many people and paid several hundred taels of silver to each person, not to mention the compensation for the dead and injured!

Li Ruyi's accounts are very accurate, and she has sorted out all these messy debts clearly.

The cloth pocket contained the money for the escort agency, not a penny more.

The leader of the escort team glanced at the cloth bag on the table, then looked away and continued reading.

The last part of the letter is a reminder from Li Ruyi.

She had been working with the escort leader for many days and had great confidence in his character.

Such an open-minded escort leader would definitely not have a good ending when he returns after being assigned to do such a thing.

Li Ruyi died, and he couldn't give an explanation to the escort agency. He was a sinner with heinous crimes.

Li Ruyi is not dead, and the escort agency and the people behind the scenes cannot be held accountable, so he has to be pushed out to let people vent their anger.

And knowing the secret of the escort agency, how could he live well?

From the moment he stepped out of the city, he had already embarked on a dead end, with no possibility of turning back.

The escort leader took a breath of cold air and clenched the letter in his hand.

For a moment he was filled with confusion.

Every word Li Ruyi said was true, and every word hit home with his anxieties.

His parents, wife and children are still in the capital. If he goes back, his whole family might be buried with him.

But what if...

His expression instantly became serious, and he quickly walked out of Li Ruyi's room and went to the backyard with the money bag.

The goods that Li Ruyi brought were still there, and each box showed no signs of being opened.

The escort agency's seal was affixed to it, and the iron chains that bound it were still intact as before.

The escort leader is not a fool. He must have rich experience to become the escort leader.

Looking at these things, a plan slowly took shape in his mind.

He turned and left.

Although the escort agency was ruthless to him, the escort leader could not give up his bottom line as a human being. He packed up his things and took everything he could with him.

Then he went out with the money bag that Li Ruyi left in the house.

In the lobby of the inn, many people did not notice anything unusual and did not react when they saw the escort leader come back.

The escort leader walked to the previous position and held up the cloth bag given by Li Ruyi.

"Everyone! Everyone, listen to me!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, many people looked in his direction.

"The boss just talked to me. What happened today made her extremely angry, so they discussed it and decided to part ways with us."

After hearing this, all expressions changed.

"What? She was supposed to cover all the food and necessities for the round trip, why is she just not caring about it?"

"Just...what should I do when I get back?"

After hearing this, the escort leader stretched out his hand to suppress it.

"Everyone saw what happened just now. It was our fault for not protecting the master. The boss has shown great kindness and justice by not pursuing the matter..."

"Nonsense! That's your escort agency's business. What does it have to do with us coolies?"

"That's right. We are here to work. Those goods are still stuck in the backyard. Why should we go back?"

"That's right! Why should we go back?"

The escort leader frowned when he heard this.

"I made it clear when I hired you that you were responsible for the safety of the house and the goods. Now you want to shirk your responsibility without even looking at your own moral character!"

"Haven't you gained enough along the way?"