The prince stepped on me to get to the top, I angrily flirted with the enemy's hostage

The boy looked at Su Rou with eyes full of vigilance.

"Didn't you run away yesterday? Why are you back today, and with helpers? Do you want revenge?"

Su Rou almost laughed out loud. She squatted down and pinched his cheek. "Even if I want revenge, I won't do anything to a little kid like you. I just want to ask you something."

Before Su Rou could even say what it was, the little kid started yelling at the top of his lungs.

Su Rou quickly covered his mouth with her hands, but the boy opened his mouth and bit her hand.

She grimaced in pain.

Andre helped her restrain the boy's movements, and his legs kicked like a toad.

"Help! The bad guy is here!"

Su Rou's eyes flashed, and she knocked the boy unconscious.

"You little bastard, you're still crying! Throw him into the river!"

Andre said, "Throwing him into the river may not save him."

Su Rou waved her hand. "Throw it into the river. I checked the water yesterday. It's not deep. It won't drown anyone. Just teach him a lesson."

"you……"

"Who's over there?"

Su Rou and Andre immediately became alert and hid aside with the boy.

It seems that the boy's voice just now attracted other people in the village.

It was raining, and the only sound in the woods was the sound of rain hitting the leaves.

She and Andre held their breath. The villager looked around but didn't find anything unusual, so he left.

Andre said, "I just entered the village and found that they have arranged people to patrol."

"Because I escaped yesterday? Are they on guard? I'm really curious, do they find the corpses in the village shameful, or is there something else shameful going on?"

Andre said, "Don't act on your own."

He grabbed Su Rou who was about to stand up.

She said, "Why do you care about me? Wait here, I'll find someone who can communicate with us properly."

Just now, Andre was able to sneak in by himself without being discovered.

Then she can too.

Su Rou set her sights on the man who was in charge of outer patrol.

This man is tall and strong, with a righteous look on his face. Su Rou hopes he can cooperate with them.

Su Rou found a hemp rope on the roadside, tied him up, stuffed his mouth with leaves from the roadside, and took him back.

The leaves had a grassy smell and I felt nauseous when I put them in my mouth.

Su Rou said, "I took it for you. I want you to answer a few questions for us. If you can answer them well, we can let you go. If you can't answer them, we can only kill you and the child and throw them into the river."

"If you understand, just nod and I'll pull the leaves out of your mouth for you."

The man nodded. Su Rou had just picked up this leaf. She didn't know what kind it was. When she pulled it, she could feel the prickles on it.

"Didn't you run away yesterday? Are you one of those desert people who poisoned us?"

The man was calm, but his voice was filled with stubbornness.

Just because she has Andre by her side, one can tell from this that she is also from the desert and a bit clueless...

Su Rou said, "It doesn't matter who I am. I'm not from the desert, and I'm certainly not one of those who poisoned you. I want to ask you, why are there so many corpses under the cellar where your village imprisoned me yesterday?"

The man's eyes looked her over and over, "Are you from the government family?"

Su Rou raised her hand and punched the man on the head, "Answer my question."

The man was tied up by her at the moment. Even if he shouted at the top of his lungs, Su Rou could kill him before the villagers arrived.

The man has self-knowledge.

His voice relaxed slightly, but the wariness on his face remained unchanged.

"The bodies in the village are all villagers who died after drinking well water."

It seemed that Andre had not lied to her.

Su Rou asked again, "Why are the other people in your village fine? Are they the only ones who drank the village well water?"

The man shook his head. "Yes, the men in the village were working in the fields, and the women at home cooked and took their children to eat first. When they came back, they found that their wives and children had been poisoned to death. Later, the village chief investigated and found that the cause of their poisoning was the use of the village well, so we dared not eat anymore."

"We put the poisoned people in the cellar, but it's so hot that they'll start to rot in seven days. The village chief was afraid word would spread to the city, so he told all the men in our village not to tell anyone. Some women and children who were late for dinner and didn't start eating were lucky enough to survive, but now they're all confined to their homes and not allowed to go out."

This kind of thing was similar to what Andre told her.

Su Rou said, "How did you know that the person who poisoned you was from the desert? And why did you arrest me and lock me up when you saw me drinking water by the river that day?"

"When those desert people entered the village that day, it was the village chief who led us to receive them. They were very generous. They were the only outsiders who came to our village. Occasionally, there were a few on their way, but they would just drink a sip of water and leave. No one had the chance to poison us, except those desert people!"

Su Rou's eyes darkened. "What else did that desert man do when he came to the village?"

The man shook his head. "No more... They ate everything in our village and left."

Andre said, "That's probably their only purpose."

Su Rou said, "Since that group's target is this village, they will definitely set up camp nearby and observe the changes in the village."

The man looked at Su Rou and pleaded in a low voice, "Can you please let us go? We have said everything we need to say..."

Since Su Rou was able to escape from here yesterday, the man had more or less realized that she was not an ordinary woman.

Su Rou said, "I can't let you go yet, so please do me a favor and be a hostage for me... I want to go to your village."

Su Rou asked the man to walk in front, and she followed behind him, holding the man hostage with a knife, and walked towards the village.

They soon attracted the patrol officers from the villages.

The knife in Su Rou's hand was Andre's. It was a little difficult to use and felt heavy and uncomfortable.

If he wasn't careful, the sharp blade would have cut the man's neck.

"Someone come quickly! The woman who escaped yesterday has returned on her own!"

The patrolman shouted, and the rest of the village was quickly attracted.

They rushed out of their homes with weapons in hand.

But when they saw the man held hostage by Su Rou, they were stunned.

Su Rou said, "I have no intention of hurting you. I hope you can bring up all the bodies in the cellar."

The villagers looked at each other, and none of them wanted to waste any more words with her.

"The bodies in the cellar are all our family members. What do you want to do?"

The crowd suddenly parted and automatically made way for someone to pass through.

The village chief from yesterday slowly walked out from behind the crowd with a cane.

"Girl, we don't want to hurt you. We might just move those bodies out of the cellar like this!"

Su Rou grabbed the man under her hand and threw him backwards, but the man was caught steadily by Andre.

Su Rou strode forward and put the knife in her hand against the village chief's neck.

"now what?"

"village head!"

It was obvious that this old man was the stubborn type, so Su Rou didn't need to say anything more to them and it would be more convenient to just take action directly.

"You! Who are you? An official who came to our village to investigate?"

Su Rou said, "No, we're not investigating the case. We're here to tell you to report it to the government. If you continue to hide it, it won't do you any good. Those people can massacre your entire village with just a flick of their fingers. It's better to report it early so the government can keep you safe. What's more, even according to the laws of the Southern Kingdom, you should be charged with delaying the investigation for secretly hiding a corpse."

The village chief's white beard wrinkled slightly. "It's not that we haven't reported this to the authorities, but the government office in Jingzhou City doesn't care at all. The newly appointed Jingzhou governor is a complete jerk! We didn't kill the people in the village. If word gets around in Jingzhou, they'll definitely conclude that we did."

Su Rou was stunned for a moment. The Governor of Jingzhou? That Lord Jiang?

The people chosen by the Gong family shouldn't be so bad...

Su Rou let go of the village chief and said, "Go and report it. Hiding these bodies is not a good idea. If they don't care, I will."

This incident must make the Gong family notice that something strange is happening in the eastern part of the desert.