Forced to be a villain, my righteousness comes first

Chapter 13
"Ha~ Ah Choo!"

Sneezing mixed with yawning, Li Xing, who had been blowing the cold wind all night on the side of the street, stepped on the rising sun and came to the old city north of Shili City with a few steaming oil paper bags.

This place used to be the witness of the moment of the birth of Ten Mile City, but now it has been reduced to the bottom of Ten Mile City, and countless people who are struggling to make a living live here.

The houses are densely packed, tightly leaning on each other and arranged in a messy manner. Most of the houses are dilapidated, and some of them are broken and left unattended.

As soon as you enter here, you can feel the smell of smoke, and what you see is the numb peace on everyone's face.

Li Xing has not been to this rotten place too many times, but he barely knows the way. After avoiding countless garbage and sewage, Li Xing came to the destination of this trip, a house that is still in good condition.

"Where's your boss?"

Li Xing squatted down and touched the head of the timid little girl in front of her. She was only six or seven years old, and she already knew how to get up early and line up to fetch clean water and prepare washing tools for her family.

Li Xing had seen this little girl before, and she was the youngest of several children adopted by Xiaoliu.It was a refugee orphan that Xiao Liu forcibly protected outside the city before Ren Yazi attacked him.

It was because of the robbing of this child that Li Xing and Xiao Liu did not know each other, and had a friendship of fighting side by side.

"Boss didn't come back last night!"

Seeing that it was Li Xing, the child's suddenly alert expression gradually relaxed. She is not young anymore, and she can clearly distinguish between good and evil.

Li Xing helped her pick up the bucket that was almost half her height, and walked into Xiaoliu's lair.

Ordinary civilian houses are a bit shabby, without decoration, and no wind or rain leakage is the biggest luxury, but at least this place is warm and tidy.

Such a house of [-] to [-] square meters lived in Xiaoliu and several children he adopted.

If you are poor, you are alone. Li Xing asked Xiao Liu about it, but he felt that he had been exposed to the rain, and he couldn't see others like him.

Just be kind!

Li Xing is ashamed of himself.

In Xiao Liu's words, he can't offer too good conditions, but at least he won't let these guys be maimed and beg along the street, or be sold into a hook bar and never turn back.Those who have hands and feet can at least choose the path they want to go!

At this moment, the children had just woken up, and when they saw Li Xing's entry, they all showed a trace of vigilance.

Li Xing didn't think that he wasn't very familiar with him, so he couldn't expect much enthusiasm from these precocious children. He opened the oil paper bag and shook the breakfast he had brought along.

"Come and eat!"

"Master Xing, why are you here?"

While everyone was sharing breakfast, Xiao Liu's voice came from the door.

Li Xing looked back, Xiaoliu was standing at the door in a dusty manner, his head was covered with dew, his face was full of tiredness, and he was looking at the unexpected guest who appeared in his home in surprise.

"Didn't sleep all night?"

"Don't mention it, I stayed up all night last night!"

After receiving the fritters that Li Xing handed over, Xiaoliu gobbled it up in one gulp, and said to several little ones at the same time.

"Hurry up and eat. After eating, go to the workshop if you should go to the workshop, and go to the class if you should go to class! Don't wander around all day long!"

Obviously, Xiao Liu didn't want the children to know what he was doing.

"Entered school?"

"Yes!"

With a little pride, Xiao Liu pointed to one of the children, "Ziqiang wanted to study, so I made some Shuxiu and gave it to my wife at the front door. I begged and begged and finally sent him in."

"It's very uplifting, the master said he studied very well!"

Following Xiao Liu's finger, Li Xing also gave him an encouraging look.

"As for the others, if you want to be a carpenter, you should be a carpenter, and if you want to be an apprentice, you should be an apprentice! A few girls have also gone to learn female celebrities, at least they will have a way to make a living in the future!"

After listening, Li Xing nodded silently. Xiao Liu is a young guy, but he thinks quite comprehensively.

After breakfast, the children left the room one by one with discernment, leaving the place to Li Xing and Xiao Liu.

"Master Xing, I discovered a new situation last night!"

"There is a masked man in black who quietly sneaked into the City Lord's Mansion!"

"Ok?"

Li Xing keenly felt something was wrong.

"Tell you to stare at Jin Yanzi, why did you stare at the City Lord's Mansion?"

Xiao Liu also seemed to feel that this was his mistake, and hurriedly argued.

"It's another suspect we're staring at. He lived very close to the City Lord's Mansion. I was just watching, and I happened to see him sneaking into the City Lord's Mansion."

"That agility..."

There was an involuntary look of longing in his eyes.

"The person we want to keep an eye on is the Golden Swallow! Why is the Golden Swallow entering the City Lord's Mansion? There are no female family members of the right age in the City Lord's Mansion!"

"Master Xing, I thought about it all night last night, and suddenly came up with an idea, I don't know if I should say it..."

Xiao Liu hesitated to speak.

"Come and listen!"

But Li Xing felt that the stones from other mountains could be used to attack jade, so it sounds like it's no big deal.

After looking left and right, Xiao Liu moved closer and whispered into Li Xing's ear.

"This golden swallow, could it be that the city lord found it? Just going to the city lord's mansion to listen to orders?"

Um?What kind of guesswork is this?

Li Xing signaled Xiao Liu to continue with his eyes.

"The old man of the Lan family is the secretary of the city. He has been in charge of the financial construction of the inner city for many years. There have been rumors a long time ago that the city lord is afraid of the old man of the Lan family...the gossip spreads well!"

"Originally, the young lady of the Lan family married the young master of the Ye family. The Ye family is just a big family in the city, and the young master is still unpopular. The city owner is also happy to see this."

"But this Zeng family suddenly appeared! I heard that Anping City, where the Zeng family is located, is an upper city! It's not the backwaters of our Shili City... I heard that the Zeng family's wealth can rake in tens of millions of dollars. A strong family has tens of thousands of soldiers..."

"If the Lan family gets a relative..."

Xiao Liu's words are enough here.

Makes sense!
Li Xing also had to subconsciously cut into this angle to consider the problem.

Mr. Ran asked me to persuade Ye Yan to retreat. At that time, the steward Wang of the Zeng family had already come to Shili City. If the Zeng family had long been interested in Miss Lan, the city owner would have heard the news early. It is not easy to intervene directly, and there is no legitimate right The reason, it seems reasonable to make such a bad move...

its not right!Mr. Ran is the son of the city guard, and the city guard is the confidant of the city lord. From this standpoint, Mr. Ran must try his best to promote the century-old friendship between the Lanye family. How could he get mixed up with the Zeng family's Steward Wang, and then let me come forward? , leading to the Ye family's divorce.

This logic is wrong!
But Li Xing changed his mind and thought again.

If Mr. Ran, Steward Wang and the Lan family are in the same group, then this matter has been made clear again!

The city lord's Ye family's resignation was within the city lord's expectation, so he reserved his hands early and asked Jin Yanzi to take action to ruin Miss Lan's reputation, then she would not be able to climb high and marry into the Zeng family...

That being said, Wang Steward told me last night that he had an old friend with the city lord, maybe he had an old friend with the Ran family!

In addition to the city lord, the Ran family can also justifiably mobilize several teams of guards!

Li Xing's mind was a little tangled. The current clues were not enough to prove what was going on behind the scenes, so he shook his head.

Why do you care so much, my goal is just to make money!

Since the benefactor has agreed to scare the snake out of the hole and lure the snake out of the hole, then I just have to cooperate with all my strength!
Once a few suspects are caught, if there happens to be a Golden Swallow among them...

If you catch this guy, although you won't be able to swallow the big head, your own share is guaranteed!
Thinking of this, Li Xing slapped Xiao Liu on the head, causing him to let out an exclamation.

"Master Star!"

"You care so much, someone pays, we just use the money to work! You don't care who hired him."

"Golden swallows are worth 1 taels. We have wasted so much energy, so 3000 taels is not too much!"

"Once the person is caught, the money is in hand, and we add two to one to five! You can immediately achieve a class leap, move to Yangliu Lane, and don't have to worry about a few small livings anymore!"

The beautiful future outlined by Li Xing made Xiaoliu's eyes bright, and he couldn't help but fall into the beautiful expectation.

"Master Xing, you can take me as your apprentice by the way! I want to learn martial arts from you!"

"It's not that easy to worship me as a teacher, it depends on talent!"

"Okay, you go to sleep first, and I'll go to the suspect's place to check the situation!"

Li Xing shook his head and discarded distracting thoughts, he is a small person, why do he care about so many shits!
Let's muddy the water first!

(End of this chapter)