Chapter 159: Interrogation as a Chat 1
Beishui City, the secret prison in Fengxue Tower.
Stone was hung on the rack, his clothes stained with blood so much that the original color could not be seen.
This was already the third time he had been interrogated, but this man who was interrogating him was the first time he had seen him.
Shan Li sat opposite the rack, looking at the man in front of him who was almost half dead.
From his eyes, Shan Li could not see any desire to survive.
It is useless to torture such a person. Maybe he can get what he wants as soon as possible.
"Your name is Shitou?" Shan Li spoke first.
Shitou looked at Shan Li and nodded slightly.
There was no need to hide this kind of problem. When he was caught by these people, they knew it.
"Do you know Ma Yuan?" Shan Li didn't want to beat around the bush.
"I know." The sound of the stone was hoarse due to the lack of water. It was like a strong wind blowing through a pile of rough sand. The listener could not help but frown.
"Do you know me?"
Shitou looked at Shan Li carefully, hoping to find something from his face, but after a long time, he shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know him."
"Ma Yuan died to save me."
"Brother Ma is dead?!" Shitou's eyes were filled with shock. He couldn't believe it.
After he was arrested and brought here, the people who interrogated him kept asking about his relationship with Brother Ma, what kind of deal they had, etc. He thought these people were Brother Ma Yuan's enemies, so no matter how they forced him to confess, he never said a word about Brother Ma.
But no one ever told him that Brother Ma was dead.
"He's dead. He's been dead for three years." Shan Li said without hiding anything. This is the fact, and the people concerned should know it.
"How could this happen?!" Shitou didn't believe it at all. He had always thought that Brother Ma had just left Beishui City. He didn't expect that he had died three years ago.
"Did Brother Ma really die because he saved you?!" Shitou wanted to confirm it.
"It's absolutely true." When he mentioned this, Shan Li's heart trembled slightly.
"So you are a major general?!" Shitou immediately thought of the major general that he had heard Brother Ma Yuan mention before.
"Yes, I am Shan Li."
"It's you, after all." Shitou seemed to understand it instantly.
"Can I ask you now about your relationship with Ma Yuan?!" Shan Li's expression didn't look like he was interrogating her, but rather like he was chatting about family matters.
Perhaps it was because of this that the stone that had been holding on for a long time finally loosened.
"Brother Ma is my lifesaver."
Shan Li did not say anything, but acted as if he wanted to hear more details.
"About four or five years ago, I was trying to make a living in Beishui City and was bullied by a group of hooligans. It was Brother Ma who passed by and saved me from those hooligans."
"At that time, he told me that he was a soldier under the Major General and came to Beishui City to buy military supplies and medicine. Saving me was just a convenience. He didn't need me to repay him."
"But my grandparents always told me that a drop of water should be repaid with a spring. If it weren't for Brother Ma who saved me, I would have been beaten to death by those hooligans that day."
"Later, Brother Ma helped me find a temporary job in the medicine shop where he bought medicinal herbs. Although the income was low, it was stable and I didn't have to wait for work on the street every day. This was a great help to me at that time."
"Later, Brother Ma came several times, and every time he saw me, he would chat with me. That's how we became familiar with each other."
"When was the last time you saw him?" Shan Li asked at the right moment.
"It was about three years ago. I was no longer working in the original medicine shop at that time." Shitou continued Shan Li's words without any defense. "I met Brother Ma at the city gate. He looked a little flustered at the time. I thought he didn't recognize me. After all, we hadn't seen each other for almost a year."
"But I didn't expect that he still remembered me and took the initiative to call me."
"What did you do at that time?" Shan Li continued to ask.
"I brought him to my temporary residence and gave him some food and drinks," Shitou said as he recalled.
"Did he ask you to do anything?"
When Shitou heard this question, he instinctively wanted to evade it, but in the end, he compromised and said, "Brother Ma gave me a bundle and asked me to help him deliver it to the City God Temple. He said to put it directly under the stone seat under the statue. There is a hole under the stone seat, and you can touch it. Just put the bundle in there."
''You did it?!''
Shitou nodded, "Brother Ma is my benefactor, I will definitely help him. What's more, it's just a small matter like delivering something."
"Have you ever opened the bundle and taken a look? What's inside the bundle? " Shan Li had a hunch that what was inside the bundle was the key.
"No." Shitou continued to shake his head. "The package belongs to Brother Ma. He just asked me to deliver it, but didn't ask me to open it."
"What happened next?! After you delivered the package, did you see Ma Yuan again?"
"No, after I delivered the package, I never saw Brother Ma again." This was the regret in Shitou's heart.
He wanted to repay Ma Yuan, but since then, he never saw Ma Yuan again.
''Where did you go after that?! ''
"I was supposed to go with a few fellow villagers to deliver the goods, but I was delayed because I was delivering something to Brother Ma, and the original deliveryman didn't wait for me. Later, I found another merchant and followed them to deliver the goods."
The so-called running orders means helping traveling merchants to transport goods from local areas and sell them to other places.
This is a very common profession in Beishui City. Many young and strong men make a living by doing this.
Because the merchants had to travel a long way and the route was not absolutely certain, these merchants from all over the world would find someone to help escort the goods to the next place after they had traded.
Some orders are very close, that is, in nearby towns, and they can run an order every few days or even ten days. The price of such orders is relatively low. The threshold is also relatively low. Basically, as long as there is a guarantee from a commercial bank, it can be done.