Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family-Chapter 1067 - 1066: Back to Square One

He prodded the corpse’s chest and said, "Look at these...clearly, they’re marks left by two different sets of hands. Based on my speculation, the first group just tied up the shopkeeper from the little tea house and didn’t harm his life. Then they left. As they struggled, the next group came, interrogated them, and then killed them outright. From these wounds on the chest, it shouldn’t be hard to see that what I just mentioned is the case..."

After Di Yelei finished speaking, he stood up straight and continued to look around for clues.

"No matter how many groups came, the most important thing is, did my sister-in-law ever come here?"

Zhang Peng also hurriedly started searching carefully.

"Sisi must have been here, but she must have left long ago. At least, she left before these two people died," Di Yelei said with certainty and then suddenly got up to walk outside, "Come on, let’s see if there’s anything else we missed."

Starting from the little tea house, the two of them searched.

They quickly found the path and followed it.

At the moment, Liu Sisi was being held by the other party, running furiously. Her ears were filled with the howling wind.

She didn’t know how far they had run or where they had ended up, but finally, the person stopped, threw her onto a rock, and stood up.

"Unexpectedly, just being a woman, you still have various factions competing for you. I didn’t see anything special about you before. But now, I’ve changed my mind. You’re the first one to feign unconsciousness under my watch," the man said.

Liu Sisi, laying on the rock opposite, remained still and silent, unmoved.

"Alright, I’ve said so much, isn’t it a bit too much for you to keep pretending?"

Liu Sisi maintained her pose, and after quite a while she slowly opened her eyes, glaring coldly at him, and propped herself up to sit on the rock.

"Was the poison in me administered by you?"

"Poison? What poison, are you saying you were poisoned?"

The man was shocked! He stepped forward quickly and took Liu Sisi’s pulse, after a moment he let go and narrowed his eyes at her, "Does the Princess find this joke amusing?"

"A few days ago, I was afflicted with a weird poison, my face and body were covered with poison sores. Later, a successor from Shenlong Valley treated me, curing the weird poison in my body. However, at the same time, a large amount of residual medicine was left in my body, which can neutralize various strange poisons. Although I was poisoned and couldn’t speak or move, I could still perceive everything happening outside. Do you believe this explanation?"

Liu Sisi spoke lightly, not caring in the slightest whether he believed her or not.

Instead, she got up using the rock for support and scanned the surroundings, "There are hills everywhere here, where exactly are you planning to take me?"

"Quit the nonsense, now that you’re awake, follow me on your own, it’ll save me the trouble of carrying you."

With that, he walked to another side, pushed through the dense underbrush to reveal the entrance of a cave and went straight in. Liu Sisi gritted her teeth and hurriedly followed.

From the very beginning, she had felt something strange, especially about Granny Peng’s vibe, that sensation of the same person feeling oddly different was indescribable. So she had been quietly observing, and to her surprise, she ended up being preempted by the man before her eyes.

From the conversation between the two earlier, this person should be an agent of the ruler of Xixia Country, right?

Then Granny Peng and Di Yelei’s factions fighting ended up benefiting this fisherman, who caught her.

Now, entering the cave fully conscious, Liu Sisi could see everything especially clearly. The cave was obviously excavated long ago and wasn’t recently made, as both sides of the stone were of an old hue.

After walking about thirty meters, they entered a natural karst cave. Seeing stalactites and the like again, she hesitated; could this place be the underground of Nine Dragon Cave?

Thinking about it again, she felt it was impossible.

This area was Dacheng County, and over there was Macheng County, with such a long distance between the two counties... If there really was an underground connection, nature would be too miraculously skilled!

"Looking at you, it seems you’re not worried at all. Aren’t you afraid I’d simply kill you? You should know that your existence greatly disturbs our Master’s peace of mind. Once you’re dead, the thorn in our Master’s side would also be gone."

The person walking in front led the way, speaking in a cold tone.

However, this made Liu Sisi burst into laughter!

"Pfft! If you wanted to kill me, you had plenty of opportunities. Besides, as a weak woman who couldn’t even fight off a chicken, why would you need to ask? Just one move and you could have finished me off, right?"

She rolled her eyes, thinking if she couldn’t see such an obvious fact, she wouldn’t deserve to be alive!

The other party clearly hadn’t expected such a response and was taken aback for a moment before shaking their head. Indeed! He had thought too much!

"At least you know your place!"

In fact, the Master had not specified whether to bring her back dead or alive. He, somehow compelled by a strange force, had spared her life, which even he found astonishing!

Meanwhile, as they talked, the two seemed to have reached the end of the cave. Just when Liu Sisi was getting curious, the other person suddenly stopped in their tracks: "Don’t move! Or else I can’t guarantee what might happen."

The next moment, he swooped up Liu Sisi, grabbed a rope, leaped, and kicked against the cliff wall, propelling them both to a higher place.

Liu Sisi was abruptly taken upward, her body soaring off the ground, which reminded her of the time when Ye Lei had taken her on a mission to kill...

It seemed like just a blink, and the person had lightly touched the walls of the cave a few times, swinging along the rope and entering another cave.

The temperature in this cave was noticeably cooler, and the air dryer.

Without saying another word, the person let go of her and turned to walk ahead.

This assassin was truly strange!

Liu Sisi suddenly became curious about the identity of the person, and she couldn’t help wanting to meet the ruler of the Xixia Country, to understand what kind of person would have such subordinates?

After making several left and right turns and winding along the cave for a long while, until Liu Sisi felt somewhat dizzy, a thunderous rumbling sound suddenly filled the air, deafening.

The person didn’t say a word more and immediately stepped forward and grabbed her waist, letting out a high-pitched roar, and once again, they took off, soaring upward.

When Liu Sisi’s feet finally hit solid ground again, she was still somewhat unable to react.

Click!

The sound of striking flint came through, and the torch was lit the next moment, illuminating the surroundings.

Liu Sisi swept the area with her gaze and was instantly stunned!

She was very familiar with this place. Over the years, she had delved into this gold mine multiple times, and just five hundred meters ahead was the entrance to the gold mine!

"Do you find this place familiar? It’s no wonder, given that your gold mine is just a short distance ahead. Speaking of which, we should thank you for your cover, which has kept our base secure until now."