Gu Yuqi looked over and met Tong Yan's gaze. After a moment, he looked down at the kneeling person.
The reason he chose to seek help from Tong Yan instead of himself was because he knew that she seemed to be more likely to be soft-hearted.
The group of people quickly approached and stopped about a foot away. Their scrutinizing gazes went back and forth on the three of them, thinking about the relationship between them.
Gu Yuqi said promptly, "It has nothing to do with us, please feel free to do whatever you want."
This means that she does not intend to save her. Although Tong Yan has a slight disagreement in her heart, she has learned the lesson from Gulang City before and is not to mess around with strangers. Secondly, she must only listen to this woman's one-sided words and act chaotically without knowing the cause and effect.
If you try to help, you can easily be used as a weapon.
So when she heard Gu Yuqi's statement, she stopped speaking and acquiesced to his statement.
The man who was the leader among the people opposite him bowed his head and gave a polite greeting to the two of them.
"We are the Baicheng Square Banner Guards. We are under orders to hunt down fugitives. Our swords have no eyes. Please stay away from the two of us."
Gu Yuqi nodded slightly and pulled Tong Yan back into the cave. The kneeling woman immediately grabbed the hem of her clothes in a panic.
Seeing that the skirt was about to fall into her hands, a strong wind blew it away immediately.
Gu Yuqi glanced at the woman coldly, and then looked at the captain of the guard Fang Qi. The meaning in his eyes was obviously telling them that they could take action.
With the two of them cooperating like this, the captain of the guard felt much more relaxed and ordered people to come forward and take the woman away.
The closer the guards got, the more frightened the woman became. She trembled and hid behind her. She stood up and tried to run again. After taking a few steps, she was pinned down in the snow by two guards and caught.
"You can't arrest me. I have nothing to do with his death. Why are you arresting me? I am innocent." After she was caught, she still struggled and screamed.
One side struggled, the other side became more and more restricted, and Tong Yan couldn't bear to watch the scene.
"Can I ask what she did and why you wanted to arrest her."
The captain of the guard looked at Tong Yan, glanced at Gu Yuqi, and explained, "She killed her stepbrother, who was also a guard in Baicheng."
As soon as the captain of the guard finished speaking, the woman immediately retorted loudly: "I didn't kill him! He is usually very nice to me, how could I kill him? He is my brother, how could I kill him!"
As she yelled, her voice became hoarse. The captain of the guard looked at her coldly and did not argue with her. He just said goodbye to Gu Yuqi and the others.
"The human trafficker has actually been caught. I have to go back to recover my life, so I took the first step."
After turning around and walking a few steps, he turned back and said to them, "You are foreign monks. Go west here for a while and you will see Baicheng where we came from. If you need to rest or ask for directions, you can join us.
Baicheng welcomes foreign monks."
The captain of the guard came here in a hurry, caught the person and left in a hurry. The blood stains, footprints and dragging on the snow were soon covered up by the heavy snow.
It was as if they had never appeared.
After a long time, Tong Yan asked Gu Yuqi, "Why didn't you save her?"
Gu Yuqi looked at her and said, "Why do you want to save her?"
Tong Yan can't answer this question, because compassion? Kindness? But how can you guarantee whether a woman is good or evil?
"Then why not help?" Tong Yan seemed to want to get to the bottom of it.
Gu Yuqi: "It's not necessary."
This statement conflicts with Tong Yan's own three views, "How can it be considered necessary? Whether you save people or not depends only on whether it is necessary?"
After she finished speaking, Gu Yuqi looked at her deeply and said, "It is necessary to save you."
After a pause, he added: "That woman just now was lying."
Tong Yan was stunned when he heard this and looked at him in disbelief, "How did you see that? I watched her the whole time and didn't notice anything wrong."
And there was nothing wrong with what the woman said. It would be too irresponsible to come to this conclusion based on mere guesswork.
But Gu Yuqi just slightly twitched his lips, "The words she repeated, 'How could I kill him?' were wrong."
She actually sensed something was wrong just because of her tone of voice. She agreed that she had grown a pair of ears. Why didn't she hear anything different?
"What's wrong?" Tong Yan asked after being silent for a moment.
"Emphasize, suggest to yourself in your mind."
"Then she really killed her stepbrother? If she really killed someone, she deserves to be caught."
Gu Yuqi's eyes fell on the flames, with dancing flames in his deep eyes.
"What's the truth? We can't tell much just from the superficial information we just saw."
After a long time, Gu Yuqi said, "When the wind and snow stop, we will go to Baicheng first."
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Baicheng is one of the three major cities in the Snow Region, the others being Linchun City and Yecheng.
The snow melts only in one season of the year, and the rest of the time, the territory is covered with thick snow.
Also because of the extremely harsh environment, the Snowy Region has become an almost completely closed place. The monks inside can form a group and basically do not interact with the outside world.
But since we are on the same land, it is naturally impossible to be completely isolated from the outside world, so monks from outside will occasionally come here to practice in the snowy area.
The three major cities in the snowy region operate independently and enforce each other without interfering with each other. There is no sect here. The monks in the areas governed by each of the three major cities all practice their own city's skills and serve their city.
In the snowy region behind closed doors, the three major cities only interact with each other by themselves, and there is naturally a kind of xenophobia towards people from outside.
The former Baicheng was the only city among the three major cities that was not so obviously xenophobic.
Tong Yan said that if they want to leave the snowy area, they must pass through the Baicheng area, so it is imperative to go to Baicheng.
Although the price was a bit more expensive than expected, overall it was not a loss for him, so the middle-aged man walked away with the tiger skin in his arms with satisfaction.
Xu Zhen also carefully put the money that was still warm in his hand into his arms, picked up the toothless little tiger, and walked into an alley somewhere.
Coming out of the corner of the alley, Qin Ran was holding another tiger and was leisurely cracking melon seeds and waiting for him.
When people came closer, her eyes with special meaning fell on Xu Zhen and looked at him again and again.
"Tsk, tsk, I didn't see it. I can perform well on the spot."
Although Xu Zhen looks rigid on the surface, he is still very bright when it comes to doing things.