"If you don't believe me, just go and have a look. If the prisoner is a man, those bandits will never be so relieved and won't even leave a guard behind." Xiao Lingyue said with a sneer, striding towards the houses.
She remembered which room the injured middle-aged cook was sent to, so she headed straight for her goal.
Zhan Beihan also followed.
Xiao Lingyue walked to the door of the house, stretched out her hand and pushed it, and the door opened with a sound.
It was pitch dark and deadly quiet inside, and the space was narrow and cramped, almost like a tomb.
Xiao Lingyue took out the fire stick she had with her and blew on it, causing the flame to light up.
She walked in cautiously and took a look by the faint firelight.
The small room was empty except for a pile of moldy straw in the corner, with cockroaches and small bugs crawling around inside.
There was a figure lying on the haystack, it was the middle-aged cook. She opened her eyes and looked straight up, obviously awake, but silent, like a corpse that refused to rest in peace.
Xiao Lingyue signaled Zhan Beihan to stay at the door. She walked in holding the fire folder, squatted down, and asked softly: "Are you okay?"
The woman didn't move at all.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person." Xiao Lingyue originally wanted to say, I'm here to save you.
But when the words came to her mouth, she saw the woman's numb and sluggish appearance, almost no different from a dead person. Maybe it didn't matter to her whether she saved her or not.
Xiao Lingyue changed her explanation: "We are people sent by the imperial court to investigate the situation. The imperial court is preparing to eradicate this bandit den. Are you a commoner who was captured by them? Can you tell us about the people in this bandit den?
Condition?"
Sure enough, the word imperial court was mentioned.
This numb and dull woman suddenly trembled, her eyes moved, and she looked at her.
"I saw those bandits on the roof while they were drinking. They said they were going to loot a nearby village. When you heard this, you knocked over the wine bottle because you were afraid that they would actually go to that village, right?"
Xiao Lingyue observed her expression and asked tentatively: "Are you from that village? Or do you have relatives over there?"
The middle-aged woman said hoarsely: "You...are you really from the imperial court?"
"I am!" Xiao Lingyue said immediately.
"Are you lying to me?" the middle-aged woman murmured: "The court doesn't care about this at all... The bandits have killed so many people, and the court doesn't care, are you lying to me?"
Seeing that the faint sparkle in her eyes was about to be completely extinguished, Xiao Lingyue turned to Zhan Beihan and said, "Give me the token!"
The man frowned slightly, pulled off the token from his waist, and threw it to her.
Xiao Lingyue caught it and waved it in front of the woman's eyes: "This is the government token, can you see it?"
She grabbed the woman's hand and held it on the token: "Look clearly, it has the official seal engraved on it. This should prove my identity, right?"
In fact, what Zhan Beihan was wearing was not a government token.
It is the token of Prince Yi's Mansion.
If you really think about it, this is more effective than any government token, and no one dares to forge it.
However, Xiao Lingyue was not sure whether this woman could read or not. Maybe she didn't even know what Prince Yi's Mansion was, so it might be easier for her to believe it if she just said it was a government token.
The woman tremblingly reached out and touched it. She did not recognize the character "翊" on the token, but she recognized that it was indeed a token made by the government.
She had seen it once in a bandit's village, and was hung as a trophy by those beasts...
Under the weak firelight, the token reflected a dazzling golden light, which stung the woman's eyes. Popular "" This chapter has been completed!