The two men immediately started searching around the house without hesitation.
Although Li Bihuai was an official of the Northern Qin Dynasty, the county magistrate was no more than an eighth-grade sesame official, so he did not have much power, and there were not many servants and guards in his private residence.
However, the area of the house is not small, and it is more than enough to accommodate dozens of people.
Xiao Lingyue and Zhan Beihan searched around, and finally were surprised to find that Li Bihuai lived in the side courtyard of their home, while the main courtyard was empty, leaving them empty-handed.
The bedroom was quiet and dark, the owner had already gone to bed.
Zhan Beihan opened the door latch silently, Xiao Lingyue stepped in sideways, and saw someone lying on the bed at a glance.
She covered her face, silently holding a dagger in her hand, and quietly approached the bed.
She and Zhan Beihan had already discussed it on the way here. Since they didn't know whether Li Bihuai was an enemy or a friend, they didn't intend to reveal their identities. They simply pretended to be assassins and captured and interrogated the people first to see if they could dig out some information.
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But what Xiao Lingyue didn't expect was that she had just approached the bed and had not yet raised the dagger.
suddenly!
The person lying on the bed lifted the quilt and suddenly covered Xiao Lingyue.
The heavy quilt covered her head and face. Xiao Lingyue was caught off guard for a moment. In the chaos, she saw a flash of cold light, stabbing her fiercely!
"Whoa!" The wind suddenly sounded, and at the critical moment, a sharp dagger stabbed from the door of the room, penetrated the quilt and stabbed towards the bed. After relieving Xiao Lingyue's crisis, it hit the edge of another sword.
A string of sparks lit up, and Li Bihuai groaned in pain. The long sword in his hand was hit by the dagger and fell to the bed.
Before he could rush to grab the sword, Xiao Lingyue stepped forward and pressed the dagger against his throat!
"do not move!"
Li Bihuai immediately stiffened: "..."
Zhan Beihan closed the door with his backhand. The light in the room was extremely dark. He walked towards the bed and looked down at Li Bihuai, who was wearing underwear and held hostage by Xiao Lingyue, with cold eyes.
The position where Zhan Beihan stood was facing the moonlight outside the window, so Li Bihuai couldn't see his face clearly, and Xiao Lingyue, who was holding him hostage, had her face covered, revealing only a pair of cold eyes.
He forced himself to calm down and asked, "Who are you? You are so brave, you dare to break into my house at night!"
Xiao Lingyue laughed and said in a cold voice: "Master Li, I have my knife on your neck, what else is there to be so bold about?"
Li Bihuai was stunned, she was actually a woman?!
"However, Mr. Li gave me a surprise."
Xiao Lingyue continued, "I heard that you were born as a civil servant, but I didn't expect that you have good martial arts skills. You are not forgetting to be alert even in your sleep, and you can attack in time. You are better than those guards in your family who sleep like dead pigs.
Too much."
The cold sweat on Li Bihuai's forehead slowly fell: "Who are you? Why are you here with me?"
Xiao Lingyue chuckled: "Don't be nervous, we are not asking for your life, we just want to ask you some small things."
"......What's up?"
"About the Nanyan caravan living in your house."
Xiao Lingyue deliberately lowered her voice and paused mid-sentence.
She immediately noticed that Li Bihuai's breathing was tightening. Under close observation, his pupils shrank instinctively and his eyes were dark.
But, it was only for a moment.
Li Bihuai asked with an ugly face: "Are you here for the caravan's money?"