A Western Doctor's Happy Farming Life[3]

C300: Xiaosi's Scheme

Song Qinghan didn't care that much, they hadn't done anything wrong anyway, no matter who came to investigate and in what way he was willing to cooperate.

However, the thing that happened today was indeed quite creepy. Wu Ke seemed to know nothing on this matter at all according to his reaction. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so wrathful as he saw those man-made bricks and accused them of framing.

Moreover, it would be less possible that Wu Ke's subordinates did it behind Wu Ke's back.

Those vicious men had been beaten severely on their backs and they wouldn't have any strength to make it possible to steal anything as it was hard for them to walk. How was it possible for them to steal the bricks at midnight?

Besides, they were not the newbies who spent their first day being Wu Ke's subordinates, they knew that Wu Ke wasn't a guy who allowed his subordinates to do anything unscrupulous without permission. They weren't that unwise to ruin their futures by venting their anger and taking revenge.

In this logic after a full analysis, Song Qinghan found that creepy things were permeating everywhere. And it was just like ghosts were haunting all around, if not, he wouldn't have any idea who would have done all these at midnight.

While he was thinking, Wu Dahu came out of the tent and motioned him to go in.

Without wasting time, Song Qinghan unveiled the curtain of the tent directly and then walked in peacefully.

As soon as Xiaofan saw him, he said straight away, "I think someone is deliberately stirring up the relationship between you and that Lord Wu."

Song Qinghan was shocked with his expression froze on his face, as if he did not expect that Xiaofan would draw the same conclusion without even asking any questions about him.

But instead of being anxious to investigate further, he remained extremely calm while responding, "Then who do you think it could be? A spy?"

Could it be Mork who learned something from the tactic? Maybe this wicked king attempted to use the same scheme by sending a spy here to disintegrate the inner structure of Muhammad's region?

If that was the case, Song Qinghan suspected that the spy he had sent would have died of his stupidity before he could even walk into Empire Mu.

Wouldn't it be stupid to send a spy in the kingdom of a master of spies?

Even though Xiaoyan was already dead, Muhammad who stayed aside him for years wasn't someone impotent at all. Moreover, no one would know whether the prowess of being a spy for Xiaoyan was imparted by Muhammad or not.

As expected, Xiaofan shook his head earnestly and tapped on the table, and then he said softly, "No, we find no trace of any spies so far, the hidden man should have nursed other intentions himself but we can't figure it out right now. Do you have any suspected person in your mind?"

Song Qinghan thought about it carefully. In an instant, for some reason, Xiaosi's face popped upright in his mind, yet he still denied and shook his head, "No, we just arrived here not that long, and there are only a few people we know."

It seemed that this answer did not exceed Xiaofan's expectation, he held his chin pondering, and then nodded and turned to Song Qinghan saying, "Alright then, you can leave here now and get me someone in, anyone."

Song Qinghan then walked out of the tent and gestured to Hualian. After Hualian entered the tent, he pulled Wu Dahu to the other side and started to whisper to negotiate.

"Do you have any thoughts?" asked Song Qinghan.

Yet to his surprise, Wu Dahu nodded, and answered in a deep voice, "I do have a suspected person in my mind, but I just don't want to inform Xiaofan right away and am going to interrogate this person first."

Song Qinghan paused and he mentioned a name directly. As he found Wu Dahu did not deny his guess at all, he started to be confused.

The interrogation continued. After around finished, Xiaofan came out of the tent and nodded at Wu Dahu and Song Qinghan before leaving calmly.

If Song Qinghan did not get it wrong, Xiaofan was heading to Wu Ke's group.

After everything was over, Xiaosi took the initiative to come over to say goodbye to Wu Dahu and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Lord Wu, if they can't give you an explanation, we will give you one..."

Wu Dahu nodded and he responded in a deep voice, "Yeah, you indeed have to explain something to me."

Xiaosi was stunned, and then he asked subconsciously, "What do you mean by saying that, Lord Wu?"

"I have thought about the whole thing from the very beginning this morning and found that even though there was someone who got a glimpse of us hiding the bricks, it would still be hard for a unique strength to move all the bricks to a certain area. So there must be a group who have done this instead of a person since they were not the ones who were to blame, then something might be wrong in our side, right?"

Noticing that Xiaosi was anxious to explain, Wu Dahu continued, "Or maybe you can inform me whether there are some other forms of a group that I might not know."

Xiaosi scratched himself on the head, and then he answered, "We just arrived here and we are all Qingmu people, isn't it normal for us to form a group? They even dare to disrespect you, Lord Wu, let alone us."

Wu Dahu sighed softly and patted him on the shoulder, "That's why you didn't panic when searching for the bricks we made because you surely knew that we could only find the bricks in Wu Ke's area."

Probably because Xiaosi wasn't that good at lying at all, so when Wu Dahu said so with an imposing temperament, he started to panic as his expression on face turned into a wronged one, and he answered with a crying tone, "Lord Wu, it won't be detected by others. Let's just pretend that they did that on purpose, otherwise we just can't stand what they had done to us yesterday."

Song Qinghan sighed heavily as well. He knew that Wu Dahu was so torn in his mind even though he remain his calmness outside.

They did not want Xiaosi to get hurt nor did they want Xiaofan to investigate further without a clue while the truth was right out there.

"It's too late. All of you come with me."

Xiaofan's voice suddenly sounded in the tent behind Wu Dahu, which startled Xiaosi and his group of brothers.

Xiaosi subconsciously looked at Wu Dahu and saw him frowning slightly, so he knew that this was not a scheme Wu Dahu and Xiaofan colluded. With a determination in his heart, he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, Lord Wu, since I have done this all by myself, I will be fully responsible. I will accept the punishment no matter what it is."

After saying this, he walked towards Xiaofan with pursed lips like a generous warrior going to his death.

Although Xiaosi had almost admitted that he deserved this fate, Wu Dahu still couldn't help but ask, "What kind of punishment are you going to give them? I was the main cause leading to this scheme, if they were to be punished, count me in."

Xiaofan took a glance at him but said nothing.

If Wu Dahu were to be included, whatever the punishment was, it would end up being a little bit lighter, after all, Muhammad still had to consider appeasing the Qingmu people.

Xiaosi was of no importance to the Qingmu group, but things would change when Wu Dahu had to be counted in.

It was not that he couldn't mitigate the seriousness of the punishment for the sake of Wu Dahu, yet it was necessary to punish one to warn the others from doing it again. Otherwise, no one was able to assure whether there would be any more similar events again in the future.

He thought about it and was about to open his mouth when he suddenly saw a tall figure from the corner of his eye. Dammit! The thing was getting more uncontrollable.

Wu Ke seemed to have understood what was going on as soon as he took one look at their stance, he clutched his arms while sneering and mocking, "What now? No more shows? I heard that all the Qingmu people are quite smart, and I believe it for sure. You are so smart that you even know how to accuse the innocent of the theft to shirk the responsibility? Oh well, how smart of you!"