The Female Assistant of Wei Yuyan Shuangfei

Li Shixian sat in front of the tea stall for half a day, and never left except to relieve himself. He could see everything the beggars did.

Faced with Li Shixian's abnormal behavior, the tea stall owner was obviously uncomfortable and worried. He hurriedly called the waiter to his side and whispered a few words to him.

"Go quickly! Go directly to find the street master Zhou or Liu. If you meet Captain Cao, that's fine too."

The waiter raised his eyes upon hearing this, glanced at Li Shixian and said, "Boss! Is this a bad idea?"

"You want to kill me."

The shopkeeper knocked the waiter on the head and said angrily, "Don't you know that the government has been arresting people everywhere recently? Anyone who makes the slightest mistake will be arrested and sent to make ice outside the city. If this person has any problems, you and I will be waiting for jail time."

"But...but, shopkeeper, this young man doesn't look like he has any problems?"

"Whether there is a problem or not is not up to us, but the government. Go quickly and go out the back door quietly." As the shopkeeper spoke, he kicked the waiter again.

Under pressure from the shopkeeper, the waiter had no choice but to nod happily, slipped out of the back door of the tea stall, and ran straight to North Street.

Li Shixian was so focused on these beggars that he didn't realize that the shopkeeper had already arranged for someone to notify the yamen runners.

Time passed by little by little. Li Shixian raised the kettle and said, "Boss! Add some water."

"Coming...coming." The shopkeeper responded with some hesitation.

Li Shixian was startled when he heard this, and turned back to look at the shopkeeper in surprise and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I... I'm fine. Hello, sir. What would you like to order?" The shopkeeper rubbed his hands awkwardly.

Li Shixian saw this, thought for a moment, and took out ten copper coins from his pocket and said, "If you don't have enough money for the tea, just tell me. I don't need this little money from you."

"Yes yes yes!~"

The shopkeeper put down the tea as if he had been pardoned, put away the copper coins tremblingly, and walked back to the counter in one brisk step. His feet could not help but tremble.

Li Shixian noticed the shopkeeper's series of abnormal behaviors but did not make trouble for him. He just thought that he was just annoying because he sat there for too long.

After a while, under the expectant gaze of the shopkeeper, the waiter came in with a group of yamen runners.

The shopkeeper immediately went to greet him with a relieved look: "Manager Liu! You are finally here."

"Yeah!~"

Liu An nodded, glanced at the tea stall and asked, "Where is the person you are talking about?"

The shopkeeper pouted, glanced at Liu An, and took a few steps back.

Liu An followed the shopkeeper's gaze and noticed Li Shixian, who was wearing white clothes in the corner, and walked over immediately.

Li Shixian, who was drinking tea, suddenly felt the light in front of his eyes dim. He looked up with a hint of surprise and happened to see Liu An and his group.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" Li Shixian asked with a little confusion.

"When the government is investigating a case, you just answer whatever they ask you," Liu An said in a hoarse voice.

Li Shixian looked around, still looking confused, and pointed at himself and said, "Are you talking about me?"

"What are you doing here? What are you doing?"

Li Shixian did not answer, but glanced at the yamen runners, looked at Liu An with a frivolous look and said: "I don't seem to have done anything wrong, I'm just drinking tea here, is that wrong?"

"Drinking tea?"

Liu An narrowed his eyes and said with a hint of anger: "It takes half a day to drink tea. If you can't explain it, today..."

"What's going on today? Are you going to arrest me?"

"That's not a bad idea. Come here, lock him up for me." Liu An raised his hand and waved it. Two yamen runners stepped out and approached Li Shixian with handcuffs on.

Just when the two were about to succeed, Li Shixian frowned in anger and threw two copper coins at the acupoints of the yamen runner.

The two yamen runners were immediately restrained, and cold sweat broke out on their cheeks.

Before Liu Qing could say anything, Li Shixian made another move, and a group of yamen runners stood in the tea stall like ice sculptures.

Looking at the scene in front of him, the shopkeeper knew that he might have encountered a ruthless person today, and immediately whispered to the waiter beside him: "Go and invite someone."

"Boss, why don't you go? This young man obviously doesn't look like a good person?" The waiter couldn't help but asked worriedly.

But facing the shopkeeper's coercive eyes, he had no choice but to slip away from the back in shame. But this time, his actions were seen clearly by Li Shixian.

Li Shixian smiled without saying anything and continued to drink her tea. When she turned her head and looked at the city gate again, she found that several beggars had moved not far from the tea stall.

At such a short distance, no matter how carefully two people spoke, the other party could hear them clearly.

She immediately understood, with a slight smile on her face, and muttered to herself, "There really is a ghost. It seems Shu Ting is right."

After a while, Zhou Qing came over with his men in a hurry. Unexpectedly, after just a brief encounter, he was also detained by Li Shixian.

Fortunately, the curtain of the tea stall was relatively low, so the people did not panic. But the owner of the tea stall even wanted to die at this moment.

"This young man looks innocent, could he be a notorious thief?" the shopkeeper muttered to himself, and then cast a glance at the waiter.

Seeing the shopkeeper's begging eyes, the waiter waved his hands repeatedly with tears in his eyes, and he didn't dare to ask for help no matter what.

Li Shixian smiled but said nothing, still drinking tea by himself. Zhou Qing, Liu An and a group of yamen runners could only wait in the tea stall.

At sunset, Cao Zhen led the yamen runners across South Street. The shopkeeper rushed out as if he had seen a savior.

"Crack!~"

The shopkeeper knelt on the ground and bowed his head to Cao Zhen, saying, "Captain Cao! Hurry up! Are there bandits around here?"

"Bandits?"

Cao Zhen's expression was stern, and he said with a hint of surprise, "How long has it been since bandits appeared in Laigu County? Can you see clearly, shopkeeper?"

"It's true, it's true. Both Manager Liu and Manager Zhou were subdued by the bandits, in a small tea stall." The shopkeeper said repeatedly.

"Yeah!~"

Cao Zhen held the hilt of the knife with one hand, and the yamen runners behind him grasped the iron bars as if facing a great enemy and moved towards the tea stall.

When Cao Zhen entered the tea stall, he was stunned when he saw the yamen runners. He pushed through the crowd and when he saw the figure in white, he understood everything.

"Miss Li! So it's you here." Cao Zhen bowed with a smile on his face.

"Captain Cao! Long time no see." Li Shixian immediately bowed in return, showing the unrestrained and carefree nature of a man of the world.

Cao Zhen glanced at the immobilized yamen runners and looked at Li Shixian helplessly, "Miss Li! Please forgive these colleagues for any offense they have caused."

"There is no offense, it's just that you guys are having tea with me."

As Li Shixian spoke, he slowly stood up, patted the shoulders of the imprisoned yamen runners one by one, and said, "Everyone, what I said is correct."

As soon as Li Shixian finished speaking, the yamen runners who were originally standing collapsed to the ground one by one, looking like they had survived a calamity, which made Cao Zhen helplessly shake his head.