Chapter 1463 - 333: Chen 94, How Could You Possibly Find Me!

Chen Jie immediately began searching inside the shop.

But after a thorough search, he found nothing, so he furrowed his brow slightly and handed the shopkeeper one ingot of silver.

"Sir, what is this for?"

Chen Jie glanced at the shopkeeper and said, "Whose carriage is that outside?"

The shopkeeper said, "It’s Wu Laosan’s."

Chen Jie was taken aback and asked the shopkeeper, "Wu Laosan?"

The shopkeeper replied, "Yes, it’s Wu Laosan’s."

"Have any female riders alighted from the carriage?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "No, no females, only Wu Laosan himself."

Chen Jie frowned, pondered, and then asked the shopkeeper, "So where is Wu Laosan?"

"He’s gone to the toilet."

The shopkeeper pointed towards the toilet, and Chen Jie said, "Thank you."

Then Chen Jie walked straight out of the shop, and at that moment, he saw a person walking towards the toilet. Chen Jie quickly reached the toilet entrance, just in time to see Wu Laosan shivering, coming out of the toilet, fastening his belt, and humming a tune.

At this moment, Chen Jie suddenly raised a knife to Wu Laosan’s neck.

In an instant, Wu Laosan became fully awake, fell to his knees, and pleaded, "Spare me, hero, spare me."

As he spoke, he took out his pouch and said, "Hero, there’s five silver taels here, earnings I’ve just made, all for you, hero, all yours."

Chen Jie chuckled and said, "You know the rules, money can wait. I need to ask you something, and if you lie to me, I’ll take your head."

Upon hearing this, Wu Laosan immediately said, "Ask away, sir, I wouldn’t dare to hide anything."

"Did you have any female passengers today?"

"Yes, yes."

"Where did they come from?"

Chen Jie asked.

"From the hillside outside Feng Family Village, there were two of them. One was wearing black night clothes, I couldn’t see the face, but from the figure, it looked like a woman. The other was very pretty, but seemed to be under duress."

Wu Laosan was straightforward, immediately revealing everything.

Chen Jie asked, "Where did you take them?"

"To this, this I really don’t know."

"You don’t know?"

Chen Jie furrowed his brow at Wu Laosan’s words, glaring at him.

"You’re being dishonest, aren’t you?"

Chen Jie’s knife moved closer, scaring Wu Laosan into shouting, "I really don’t know, hero, truly I don’t!"

Chen Jie said, "They were your passengers, yet you don’t know?"

"Hero, I’m not lying. Yes, they were in my carriage, but when they boarded, they told me to open the back door and run the carriage forward as fast as possible, or take detours if possible. When they’d leave was none of my business; they’d jump off when they decided to."

"And you had no reaction when they jumped off?"

Chen Jie frowned, Wu Laosan said, "Sir, I dared not react. That masked woman was very fierce; when she boarded, she threw money at me and, just like you, held a knife to my neck, asking whether I valued money or life."

"I was truly terrified, only dared to close my eyes and run forward, never dared to inquire further, sob sob..."

As he spoke, Wu Laosan started crying and then knelt down, "Hero, I’ve old and young waiting for me, I support a family of five on my own, sob..."

Wu Laosan cried and cried, but by then Chen Jie had silently slipped away. Wu Laosan continued crying for a while and tentatively asked, "Hero, hero?"

Yet no one answered him, and Wu Laosan bravely looked back, realizing the person who’d threatened him with a knife was nowhere to be seen, as if they never existed.

Wu Laosan wiped his cold sweat and picked up the pouch from the ground, seeing that not a single coin was missing.

He spat on the ground and cursed, "Straight-up thief, today you’re lucky, if not for the wine I drank, making my steps weak, just you little thief, daring to provoke your grandpa, I’d have taken your head."

...

Wu Laosan cursed and returned to his house. As a common man at the lowest rung of society, when faced with oppression, all he could do was curse a few times, comforting himself with Ah Q spirit, as there was really no other way.

Chen Jie left the inn, pondering the information he just obtained.

First, Wu Laosan provided crucial information, confirming the enemy is a woman who favors wearing black night clothes.

Chen Jiusi has many female enemies, like Han Miaozhen.

But Han Miaozhen is too proud, never worn black night clothes. So considering other female enemies, Chen Jie recalled what Yuan Sanjia told him about the female assassin sent by the Ruyang King, the Shadow Assassin.

It ought to be the Shadow Assassin; Yuan Sanjia said he’d protect me for a month, and the month is just ending.

The enemy cleverly hired a carriage to mislead, deceiving me as well.

Chen Jie felt a headache coming with so many detours and wondered where the Shadow Assassin might be hiding.

Where could she have jumped off the carriage?

Thinking this through, Chen Jie rubbed his temples, wishing his information system wasn’t in a cooldown period.

Indeed, Chen Jie’s information was on cooldown; the last time he checked was just the day before, investigating Feng Xuewen’s background. The system had a ten-day cooldown, giving Chen Jie quite a headache.

Chen Jie thought as he wandered near the carriage route, hoping to glean some information.

But while he found no information, that evening he encountered Jin Yanzi, the informant he had an appointment with through Ni Wenjun.