Are you stupid? I am the villain behind the scenes

Hua Xi was assigned to be responsible for patrolling the East District.

The East District is a residential area with numerous courtyards and a complex layout, like a huge maze.

It is easy for people who are not familiar with the road to get lost once they walk in.

Therefore, new guards will receive a detailed Li family route map to prevent them from getting lost.

Hua Xi actually didn't need this map. She had lived here for a while and naturally knew the way.

But her current identity is a newly recruited guard, so how could she reveal that she is familiar with the situation here?

So she pretended not to know the way and followed the team, occasionally pretending to look at the map.

There were five guards in a group, with Hua Xi walking at the end.

She had been looking straight ahead, but when she passed a yard, she turned her head and glanced back.

That was the courtyard where Li Cenyuan lived, and there were four guards standing at the gate.

Hua Xi had inquired earlier and found out that Li Qingchi did not severely punish Li Cenyuan, but instead confined him to the courtyard.

Hua Xi was a little surprised by this. Li Qingchi treated her much more kindly than she had imagined.

I originally thought that with Li Qingchi's personality, he would definitely punish Li Cenyuan severely, but I didn't expect it to be just house arrest.

While Hua Xi continued to follow the team, she secretly thought about whether she should find an opportunity to meet with Li Cenyuan to see what his situation was.

Before they made a decision, a team member suddenly spoke up: "Hey, do you know why the Li family is recruiting new guards this time?"

Hua Xi looked up at the person who was speaking and found that he was the person who was curious about Ye Xiao's identity not long ago.

"Ah? Isn't it just a normal flow of personnel?" another team member asked, his face full of confusion.

The man said mysteriously, "No, I heard that a group of guards died in the Li family and they needed new recruits, so they recruited us."

Everyone was shocked, and Hua Xi couldn't help but prick up her ears.

She was not aware of this matter. Like everyone else, she thought it was a normal staff addition.

"How could someone die? Where did you hear about it?" another person in the team asked.

Zhang Dingkai did not answer immediately. Instead, he hesitated for a moment and said as if he had made up his mind: "I can tell you, but you have to promise that besides the five of us, no one else will know."

Several people nodded in agreement, including Hua Xi, who also wanted to know what had happened.

Seeing this, Zhang Dingkai lowered his voice and said, "There is a buddy in my neighbor's house who works as a guard for the Li family for five or six years. Suddenly, a few days ago, someone from the Li family came to his house and gave his parents a lot of money, saying it was compensation. They also asked them to keep it confidential and not spread the news of his death."

After saying this, except Hua Xi, the other three people gasped.

I didn't expect there would be such a thing.

"This is what I overheard. You must not tell anyone else. If the clan leader finds out, he might expel us and drive us out of the Li family." Zhang Dingkai added, as if he was afraid that they would leak the secret and cause him to lose his job as a bodyguard.

"How could people die out of the blue...Did you hear exactly how they died?" someone asked anxiously.

Zhang Dingkai shook his head, his expression solemn: "No, they didn't say that."

"Since you know that you recruited us because the guards died, why did you come? Aren't you afraid of losing your life too?"

Zhang Dingkai: "What are you afraid of? Fortune and wealth come from risk. The treatment of being a guard here is much better than elsewhere. Besides, how could we be so unlucky to be the first one to do so?"

Just as someone was about to ask something else, Zhang Dingkai interrupted and said, "Okay, let me stop here. We just got here, and we can't let the deputy captain see us slacking off instead of patrolling properly."