Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 223 I’m not a bad person

Manager Ge was horrified. All the maids sent to the mirage would have their tongues cut off, so they would not be able to speak. The person in front of him must not be a real maid!

He immediately stepped back, took out a hidden weapon from his sleeve pocket, aimed it at Yan Ci Wan, and opened his mouth to shout.

"Come……"

However, before he could utter the next word, Yan Ciwan hit him hard on the head with a flowerpot. He suddenly felt dizzy and his shouting stopped abruptly.

Yan Ciwan dodged the hidden weapon that was fired.

Yan Ciwan snatched the hidden weapon from Manager Ge's hand. It was a thumb-sized metal cylinder with a mechanism at the end. As long as the mechanism was pressed, the hidden weapon would be ejected from the front end of the cylinder.

She glanced back and saw a silver poisonous needle deeply stuck in the ground where she had just stood.

The poison needle reminded her of the owner of the rouge shop. The owner was murdered and the cause of death was a poison needle shot from nowhere.

The blow that Yan Ciwan had just dealt was not particularly severe, and it did not take Manager Ge's life, but his head was still broken, and blood flowed from the wound.

He staggered back, opening and closing his mouth, trying to call for help.

Yan Ciwan chased after him and hit him on the head again.

This time he finally couldn't hold on any longer, and he fell to the ground, staggering. The blood from the wound kept flowing, and his body twitched slightly.

Lu Jinshu, who followed closely, felt quite complicated when he saw this scene. He was still not used to the fact that the delicate and weak little princess in his impression could beat a grown man with her bare hands and make him bleed.

He couldn't help but remind him: "Don't beat him to death."

Yan Ciwan ignored him.

She bent down and put the flowerpot on the ground, pulled off the mask on Manager Ge's face, and found that he was a middle-aged man in his forties. His facial features were regular, but his hairline was high and there were signs of baldness. It seemed that he often stayed up late.

But think about it, this place is dark and you can't tell the difference between day and night, so it's easy to lose your sense of time and get day and night mixed up if you're not careful.

Yan Ciwan threw away the mask and reached out to untie Manager Ge’s belt.

Lu Jinshu's expression became more and more strange: "Why did you take off his clothes?"

Yan Ciwan used her belt as a rope to tie Manager Ge's hands behind his back. Then she stood up and rolled her eyes at Lu Jinshu: "What do you think I want to do?"

Lu Jinshu realized that he had misunderstood her and smiled awkwardly.

Yan Ciwan walked to the desk, picked up a book and flipped through it, and found that it was an account book recording the black market income, which included the proceeds from human trafficking.

It seems that what the owner of the rouge shop said was true. The trafficked people flowed into the underground black market and became commodities for the Five Gods Sect to make money.

Yan Ciwan remembered that those who disappeared were all young men and women. Those recorded in this account book were all young women who had been trafficked. Where did those young men go?
She put the account book down and picked up a ledger instead.

This account book records the recent external expenditures of Mirage. Yan Ciwan read it quickly and found that there was a sum of 50,000 strings of cash that was paid to Xie Li. However, the money was not given directly to Xie Li, but was transferred to the Xie family's main family far away in Chang'an.

In addition, Mirage also paid a sum of 500 strings of cash to Liu Qingguang.

Yan Ciwan's gaze stayed on the name Liu Qingguang, secretly wondering how Liu Qingguang was related to the Five Gods Sect?
She put down the account book and picked up the heavy pen washer filled with clean water.

She splashed the water on Manager Ge's face.

Manager Ge was so shocked that he shivered all over and woke up immediately. He was dazed for a moment after opening his eyes, until he saw a man and a woman standing in front of him, and then he suddenly remembered that someone had sneaked into the mirage!
He opened his mouth to call for help, but the next moment, the blade of Ning Dao was already against his neck.

He could clearly feel the cold touch of the blade, and his expression changed accordingly. He had to close his mouth again after just opening it.

Yan Ciwan said slowly: "Manager Ge, don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person."

Her face was hidden behind the mask, so her expression could not be seen, but from her smiling voice, one could guess that she must be smiling at the moment.

Manager Ge tried his best to stay calm. The other party must be very powerful in martial arts since she could sneak into the mirage silently. He was no match for her and would definitely be in trouble if he confronted her head-on.

She didn't kill him directly, she must have other intentions. This way, he would have the bargaining chip to negotiate with the other party.

So he opened his mouth and asked in a trembling voice: "Who are you?"

Yan Ciwan ignored the other party's question and continued, "Next, I will ask a question and you answer it. Don't say a single extra word. If you don't listen, don't blame me for being merciless. Do you understand?"

Manager Ge glanced at the coldly shining Ning Dao and uttered a word with difficulty.

"understood."

Yan Ciwan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he seemed quite satisfied with his cooperation.

She asked, "You killed the owner of the rouge shop, didn't you?"

Manager Ge was obviously stunned.

"how do you know……"

Before he could finish his words, he felt his neck cut by the blade. The pain made him shudder and he hurriedly changed his words.

"I killed him!"

He guessed in his heart that the other party should be here for the murder case in the Rouge Shop, and might be someone from the Governor's Office or the Internal Guard Office.

He thought the other party would launch a series of questions around the Rouge Shop case, but the next moment he heard the other party suddenly ask.

"Do you know He Chunzhuo?"

This question was completely irrelevant and Manager Ge was completely unable to follow the other party's train of thought.

But for the sake of his life, he did not hesitate and quickly answered, "I know him."

Yan Ciwan asked again: "Then you should also know He Chunzhuo's cousin, right?"

Manager Ge seemed to be thinking of something and his expression turned extremely ugly.

He replied softly: "I don't know him, I just heard of him."

"Then tell me everything you've heard."

Manager Ge's eyes revealed fear. "I heard that Mr. He's uncle is the witch, and they are originally a family. Because of this, Mr. He's status in the Five Gods Sect is extraordinary, and even the envoys are polite to him. Even though Mr. He messed up the task assigned by the witch, causing the black market in Xiangzhou to be confiscated by the government, the witch did not kill him directly. But since he went to Luzhou, there has been no news. I heard that he fell into the hands of the Internal Guard and it is estimated that he will never come back."

Yan Ciwan asked, "What is the task that the witch gave to He Chunzhuo?"

"I am not familiar with Mr. He, so I am not very clear about his affairs. I guess the witch sent him to Xiangzhou to persuade Qi Songsheng, the governor of Xiangzhou, to join our Five Gods Sect. In this way, the strength of our Five Gods Sect will be even greater."