Feeling the chill of the blade on his neck, Li Ling was also a little nervous, unconsciously shrank his neck, and then smiled bitterly: "But the problem is that I don't have a grain of food on my hand now, but what are you going to give it to you?"

"We naturally know this. We have to wait two days before we can give you the money. So I can save your life first, but you have to be with our brothers. When you get the food, you will let you go. Don't worry, we keep our word. As long as the food is obtained, we will not hurt you a hair!"

Li Ling stared at the face covered by black cloth thoughtfully, and could hear that the other party was not lying to himself. But he did not dare to hand over his life to the integrity of a bandit, and said, "Is this good? What you ask for is nothing more than wealth. I still have some silver notes with me, and the value is not below that batch of food. Just take it and let us go. But I have a request, you must let him go first..."

"No, we don't want money, we only need food!" The other party refused Li Ling's request, "We can wait for two days, and there is still this patience." As he said that, he made a gesture. The two of them had tied him firmly except for Li Moyun's knife, so that he would no longer have any threats.

Until he was convinced that Li Moyun could not get out, he took back the knife on Li Ling's neck: "Is this sincerity okay? As long as you hand over the food to us at that time, I can make sure you can leave safely."

Li Ling looked at the other party with a strange look. The other party's choice was too strange, so he subconsciously asked: "Why do you want such a request? What are you in a hurry to ask for so much food?"

"You don't have to worry about this. Just follow what I said and come forward to buy food." After he said that, he signaled the other two to bring Li Moyun aside, and he stayed in Li Ling's room. "You have been wronged for the past two days and live with me. As long as you stay honestly, I will not hurt you at all."

At this point, even though there were many questions, Li Ling could only accept the fact that he was held hostage. He hummed, turned around and walked to the bed, while the one turned around and closed the door, obviously not taking Li Ling too seriously. He saw that when he was taking the person just now, this one could only make fuss and could not even take a single move of his own.

But just as he closed the door and sat down at the table. Li Ling, who was also sitting on the bedside, almost jumped up, and at the same time he felt a little afraid that he shouldn't have: "You have an insider in Ruyi Building, right? So you can have such a clear grasp of how much food I bought, and successfully targeted and followed me to come here."

Seeing the other party silent, Li Ling said again: "Then let me guess your identities. You must be locals, at least from Huguang or Suizhou Prefecture. Judging from your wise skills and the accuracy of night attacks, you should be a force in the world. But because of this, you have conflicts and even hatreds with the government, gentry and businessmen, which makes you unable to buy food even if you have money. Therefore, although I just proposed to give you silver, you are indifferent and still only have food.

"But why do you have to ask for money? Is it to support your own brothers, or is it useful? I thought..."

"Enough!" The man suddenly spoke and stopped Li Ling's inference. His eyes were shining with anger outside the black cloth. "Don't think that I can be unscrupulous if I don't want to hurt you. I really annoy me..." As he spoke, he had already stood up and reached the bed in two steps. He pressed one hand on the head of the bed beside Li Ling, staring at him from a high point, "I must make you regret it..."

But to his surprise, after saying these threatening words, he not only did not see regret or panic in Li Ling's eyes, but instead saw him showing a strange smile, as if he was very... proud!

"No!" He suddenly thought of something and hurriedly turned around, but someone turned out to be faster than him!

With a bang, the rear window exploded, and a man rushed in like a cheetah, and made a move like lightning. He stabbed his back in the heart with a knife, forcing him to no longer attack Li Ling. He could only dodge to the side quickly, and then he almost avoided this deadly knife.

But then, another man rushed into the room quickly, taking advantage of the moment he retreated and rushed to Li Ling to protect him. The sword lights that jumped in first rose up again, and cold lights trapped him in a flash. The dense and rapid sword moves made him not even have time to pull out his weapons. He could only dodge hard, retreated and retreated, but finally hit the wall with a bang, and there was no way out. The sword also slashed towards him at this time--

"Don't hurt him!" With Li Ling shouting from behind, the knife that should have slashed into his neck finally stopped half an inch away from the vital point. What he saw in his eyes was a pair of murderous eyes, and it was Yang Zhen who took action to control him!

It turned out that when the thief thought he had controlled everything, he relaxed and turned around and closed the door, Li Ling, who was beside the bed, saw a figure flashing outside the window.

Although he couldn't see the figure clearly, he guessed that it must be Yang Zhen and the others who came back. Originally, they were ordered to follow the buyers and came to report after finding out their identity and residence. However, time was delayed in the end, and it was only later than these uninvited guests. But with their alertness, they naturally easily noticed something was wrong here after arriving.

So the figure flashed by, and Li Ling made a decision. In order to help them win the opponent more easily, Li Ling deliberately used words to attract his attention and led him to the bed with his back facing the back window. Yang Zhen outside did not disappoint him. He decisively seized the opportunity, hit the target with one blow, and successfully took the person down, while Li Ling was safe and unscathed.

At the same time, a few bangs came from the next room. After a while, Li Moyun's voice sounded outside the door: "Young Master..."

"Come in." Li Ling greeted.

The door opened, and saw that Li Moyun had just been controlled and was tied up by him and two other guards in front of the door. The faces of the people were full of fear and guilt. Just as they were about to apologize, Li Ling waved his hand to stop him: "It happened suddenly, and you were on my order again, so no wonder you. And this time it was thanks to you who arrived in time to save me, so you have made merits and no demerits."

"Young Master, it's me that's useless..." The others were fine, but Li Moyun was full of self-blame and wanted to kneel down, but was stopped by Li Ling in time: "It was me who fell into their hands to make you afraid of the mouse, don't worry." After helping the person up, he patted the other person's shoulder hard, and then he then looked at the thief next to him, "Okay, now we can have a formal chat. What's your name?"

"Xue Jiong..." This man was also unsteady because of this sudden reversal. At this moment, he subconsciously reported his name. As soon as he spoke, he realized something was wrong, and his expression changed again: "I underestimated you. Since it fell into your hands, I would kill you and cut you into pieces. I would betray you, and I would not be a hero! But don't think of asking more things from me. Even if I, Xue Jiong, will not betray my brother!"

Li Ling smiled when he heard this: "You are very loyal and a hero. But what a saying has exposed yourself. Do you have any other accomplices besides you?"

"You..." Xue Jiong was upset, and then he remembered that the person in front of him was as careful as he could guess his origin through a few details just now. Now that the situation has reversed, why is he his opponent? Understanding this, he immediately closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Li Ling didn't care, and his eyes turned back and forth on him and his two companions, and then said, "Don't speak anymore? Then let me tell you. I can see that you are not those evil thieves who are just doing things and killing innocent thieves. This is also the reason why I let my subordinates not hurt you. Judging from your various styles of doing things, as I said just now, you are people in the martial arts world of Huguang.

"But your influence on the government and gentry and businessmen is too small, and you can't even spend money to buy grain, so you can only use robbery... It can be seen that your own power is actually not big and cannot make them afraid. It should be a small gang in Suizhou.

"In addition, you have already reported your name. With your martial arts, you will not be unnamed in the local world. So if I really want to check it, you will not be able to check it until noon tomorrow. So do you still need to continue to hide your identity?"

As Li Ling said this, Xue Jiong's expression became increasingly ugly, and the other two shivered even more. It was obvious that fear arose in their hearts. It was so bad that they were completely grasped by someone and had nowhere to hide.

"Hmph, you don't have to spend your energy to inquire, so what if you tell you? We are brothers from Baiyitang, Suizhou!" Xue Jiong saw that he couldn't hide it, so he could only report the record himself.

Li Ling frowned slightly and looked at Yang Zhen again. Naturally, he did not know the people and things in the world thoroughly, as this master of the Imperial City.

Yang Zhen did not disappoint him, and immediately said, "Baiyitang is a medium-sized gang in Suizhou. It has always had a good reputation. It is eager to be righteous and willing to help poor people do things. Since that is the case, why do you want to attack my eldest... the uncle?" He almost called out the adult, but fortunately he reacted quickly enough.

Xue Jiong did not notice anything unusual, but did not answer the question. He had decided not to speak anymore, lest he be extrapolated by this terrible guy.

But Li Ling still said: "If what I expected was good, he would attack us to save the local people, or it could be said to help the disaster victims. Brother Xue, I wonder if what I said is right?"
Chapter completed!