After I disguised myself as a man, I became everyone's white moonlight

Chapter 172: Old Zhang said it well, to catch a thief, you must seize the stolen goods

Such a handsome boy is more frightening than a demon.

What the waiter feared most was not the means Chu Xi would reveal, but that the lies he told would become extremely clumsy and ridiculous under Chu Xi's half-smiling eyes.

"If you didn't know, you wouldn't have avoided my sight." Chu Xi took a bite of the apple slowly. The crisp chewing sound was particularly clear in the room.

"When people lie, they always reveal some flaws unconsciously. Your flaws are too obvious."

Without Chuuji, her interrogation methods were still rough, but not completely brutal.

After all, compared to Chu Er who would just cut a wound with his hands at any time, her interrogation was more inclined to use a combination of soft and hard methods.

The waiter licked his dry lips and said in a weak voice, "I'm just a waiter. No one would tell me about the moldy rice in the granary."

Chu Xi stepped forward, squatted in front of the waiter, biting an apple, and chuckled and retorted, "There is a big mistake and loophole in your answer. Since you are the person arranged by Yuan County Magistrate to work in Yuanxi Grain Shop, you must be a part of this."

The waiter gritted his teeth and said, "Maybe the rice inside has always been moldy."

Chu Xi had a look on his face that said, "You're not taking me for a human being, are you?" and said slowly, "The rice in there must have been replaced recently. Before the heavy rain, if it was all moldy rice, the news would have spread throughout the city a long time ago, and there would be no need for them to come here to buy rice!"

"People work hard all year round and can only save a few taels of silver. The price of rice in your grain shop is not low to begin with, but you deliberately raise the price. Under such circumstances, those people will not come here to buy rice even if they go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables."

Knowing that real rice cannot be bought here and the price has increased, there is no need for people to spend their last bit of private money to buy rice here!

It is not difficult to tell from their reactions that Yuanxi Grain Shop must have switched to this moldy rice recently!

She had never doubted this.

As a county magistrate of an unknown city, County Magistrate Yuan's power is limited. Even if he can mobilize a dozen yamen runners in the yamen, he will not choose the yamen runners in order to prevent the news from leaking!

"I like people to answer questions honestly. You have answered this question wrong twice." Chu Xi bit the apple but did not finish it. He used his right hand to decisively and quickly pull the dagger off the bedpost.

Then, at lightning speed, he quickly cut a cut on the opponent's left arm. His fingers lightly touched the bright red blood, and he slowly stroked his fingertips, lowering his eyes to observe.

Before the waiter could react, he felt a burning pain, as if something had scratched his arm fiercely, and then... he looked down and saw a medium-sized cut that was bleeding continuously.

He was about to scream in pain when a bloody dagger was pressed against his neck, and the sound was stuck in his throat.

Chu Xi smiled and said, "Go ahead. I'll give you another chance. I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer this time."

Although the boy seemed to be smiling, he could see the subtext in the other's eyes: "If you lie again, I don't mind cutting you again."

The waiter didn't dare to answer Chu Xi perfunctorily anymore. After looking down at his wound, he told the truth.

"I did participate in the food exchange, and the rice was indeed exchanged at midnight three days ago, but that was not my intention. I was just following the orders from above."

Half of it was telling the truth, and half of it was justifying his own behavior.

Chu Xi didn't care whether he really wanted to participate or not. Anyway, this man was definitely not as innocent as he said. Before the rainstorm came, Yuan Xi Grain Shop must have done a lot of things to deceive the people.

This waiter has been staying in the grain shop until now, which shows that he is not a man with a conscience. He is saying this now only because he is worried that Chu Xi will kill him.

"Keep talking."

The waiter stuttered, "Tell me, what did you say?"

Chu Xi's eyes were cold, "Where was the food transported to?"

Since the good rice was not left in the locked granary of the grain store, it must have gone somewhere.

The waiter swallowed his saliva. Facing the threat of Chu Xi and the dagger on his neck, he did not dare to hesitate at all. He made up his mind and gave out a name.

Chu Xi did not retract the dagger, but stared at the waiter's face for a long time, and then slowly retracted the knife. As for the apple, he had already thrown it aside.

She didn't recognize the name that was reported.

So she grabbed the waiter's collar with her bloody left hand and said, "You lead the way tonight."

The waiter had no choice to refuse. No matter Chu Xi's cold gaze or the threat of losing his life at any time, he could only obey Chu Xi.

Chu Er came back half an hour later. When he returned to the room, he saw a familiar face tied to the bedpost with a pale and bloodless face. He just glanced at it and quickly looked away.

Chu Xi had no intention of letting this person know more, so he glanced at Chu Er, who was covered in moisture and had soaked clothes.

Chu Er immediately understood what he meant and walked straight towards the waiter. Under the other party's fearful gaze, he decisively pressed the other party's sleep point.

The waiter was trembling and trying to beg for mercy the previous second, but the next moment he felt an irresistible sleepiness and instantly fell into deep darkness, no longer aware of the outside world.

The news Chu Er brought back was similar to what Xiao Er knew. In front of Chu Xi, County Magistrate Yuan repeatedly promised to severely punish the culprit. But in fact, what he saw was that the boss was taken back to the government office and was taken to a quiet wing to talk...

Not to mention severe punishment, he wasn't even thrown into jail.

Chu Er followed all the way to the rooftop and listened to the whole process with an expressionless face.

The boss panicked and complained to Magistrate Yuan that he had only wanted to teach these troublemakers a small lesson, but he did not expect Chu Xi to suddenly jump out and disrupt the situation, making things out of control.

However, the smiling county magistrate changed his attitude in front of Chu Xi, closed the door and slapped his boss twice, then with a gloomy face, he scolded the boss for being a good-for-nothing and incompetent who couldn't even handle such a small matter!

Chu Xi had already guessed this, and Xiao Er's words only confirmed her guess, so when she heard Chu Er repeating their conversation word for word, she was in the mood to comment.

"I'm a little uncomfortable with you talking so seriously about these two people."

It feels like a breakdown.

Chu Er obviously didn't understand what Chu Xi meant, and looked at the smiling Chu Xi with some confusion.

"Forget it, let's just ignore him for now. Even if we know that this grain store is really opened by him, he can just say that his subordinates concealed the truth and he had no knowledge of it. We can't do anything to him."

"Just leave it like that?" Chu Er frowned.

"Of course not. I'll take you to see something good tonight." Chu Xi slowly wiped the blood off the dagger with paper.

As the old saying goes, to catch a thief you must seize the stolen goods!

Empty shouting is useless, especially in this era, without fingerprints and surveillance, we can only catch them on the spot!