Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

Li Yuan walked to the back wall of the dilapidated temple.

He peered into the courtyard through a gap in the temple wall.

The point where the light beam landed was faintly within a broken-down house in the back hall of the earth god temple.

It seemed that the little thief should be hiding there.

Having pinpointed the target's location.

Li Yuan took out a bamboo whistle and put it in his mouth.

He blew the whistle sharply, the shrill sound echoing across the dilapidated shantytown.

Then, Li Yuan's figure flashed, and he leaped into the temple's backyard, heading straight for the broken house.

With a loud bang, Li Yuan kicked open the wooden door of the back hall and rushed inside.

But after rushing in, Li Yuan looked around.

The back hall of the earth god temple was actually empty.

There was no sign of the little thief at all.

The commotion in the back hall caused a stir near the temple gate, obviously the beggar children had noticed someone entering the temple.

The beggar children were startled to see so many burly men rushing into the temple, and they scattered in fright to hide.

Zhao Yong and the others saw Li Yuan standing in the back hall and asked loudly.

"Brother Li, have you found the little thief?"

They had agreed that in order to avoid revealing their identities, they would not use official titles while strolling the streets, so they addressed each other as brothers.

Li Yuan smiled slightly and said.

"Come over here."

"That little thief is right here."

"Oh!"

Including the Marquis of Longxiang, their eyes lit up.

They hurried into the back hall of the earth god temple.

But looking around, it was just a somewhat dilapidated empty Buddhist hall.

Apart from that, they couldn't see a single person.

Seeing the puzzled expressions on everyone's faces, Li Yuan pointed to the roof beam above the back hall and said.

"The little thief is up there."

Everyone suddenly looked up.

Sure enough, they saw half a corner of clothing peeking out from the shadows of the roof beam.

Zhao Yong and Zheng Biao grinned coldly, drew the sabers from their waists with a 'shua' sound, and shouted upwards.

"Little thief, come down!"

"You can't escape!"

The figure above, realizing that he had been exposed, suddenly leaped up, seemingly wanting to jump out of the window into the courtyard to escape.

But while still in mid-air, Li Yuan, who had been prepared, rushed over and grabbed him down.

With a scream of "Ah", the little thief was thrown directly to the ground.

Immediately, several guards surrounded him.

Li Yuan bent down and quickly pinned the little thief's arms behind his back.

Then, he lifted him up with one hand.

The little thief, captured by Li Yuan, didn't say a word.

The others came over for a closer look and found that the little thief looked like a young and handsome teenager.

Zhao Yong and Zheng Biao, holding their saber sheaths, said to Li Yuan.

"Brother Li, this kid dared to steal the Marquis's things."

"Let us loosen his skin a bit, let's beat him up first."

Li Yuan waved his hand and said.

"Not so fast, I want to ask him a few questions."

Then, looking at the teenager with sharp eyes, he asked.

"Where did you put the stolen items?"

The teenager was intimidated by Li Yuan's gaze and didn't speak, but his eyes looked towards a corner of the wall in the back hall.

Zheng Biao understood and immediately ran over, using his saber to pry open a floor tile at the corner of the wall.

In the small pit under the floor tile, the Marquis's lost money bag and jade pendant were indeed placed.

Zheng Biao quickly took out the items and respectfully returned them to the female Marquis.

Having recovered the jade pendant, the Marquis of Longxiang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She glanced at the little thief being held in Li Yuan's hand and said.

"Li Yuan, don't make things difficult for him."

"Hand him over to the local government for disposal."

Li Yuan quickly said.

"Marquis, I still have a few questions I want to ask him."

The female Marquis didn't care and signaled Li Yuan to do as he pleased.

Li Yuan looked at the stubborn-faced teenager and asked coldly.

"You little thief."

"I see your eyes are clear and bright, you must have been a child from a good family."

"There are so many ways to make a living in this world, why did you become a thief?"

The little thief, upon hearing Li Yuan's words, only blinked his dark eyes and didn't answer.

Li Yuan continued.

"Even if you became a thief, why do you show no remorse upon seeing the victim?"

"Do you perhaps think that stealing other people's belongings is right?"

Li Yuan asked this because he found the little thief's expression quite interesting.

His eyes didn't have the slyness of a habitual criminal, but were very clear.

Moreover, the golden light from the system just now also made Li Yuan very concerned.

It indicated that, according to the Keen Eye appraisal, this little thief was useful to him.

Li Yuan decided to question the teenager further.

Upon hearing Li Yuan's words, the little thief muttered in a low voice.

"What did I do wrong? I clearly saved this young lady."

"Not only am I not thanked, but I'm being handed over to the authorities."

"Truly, I offered donkey liver and lungs to an ungrateful person."

Hearing the little thief say this, the female Marquis's face showed anger, and she turned her head to glare at the little thief, shouting.

"What! ?"

"You say you saved me?"

The female Marquis sneered.

"Then I must ask you, when did you save me?"

Unexpectedly, the little thief said coldly.

"This elder sister walked through the gates of hell, but doesn't even know it."

As soon as he said this, the surrounding people were stunned.

Li Yuan continued to press.

"What do you mean by that?"

The little thief continued.

"That Pure Moon Pavilion."

"It's run by a bunch of bad people."

"You young ladies from wealthy families don't know, but we poor children can see through it."

"They often use kind-faced old women to trick beautiful women into going inside to buy jewelry."

"Many women are tricked inside and never come out again."

"I saw that elder sister was good-looking and had an extraordinary temperament, definitely a young lady from a good family, and I didn't want you to suffer."

"So I took your money bag and that jade piece."

"I wanted you to leave the Pure Moon Pavilion quickly, so you wouldn't be tricked inside by the bad people there."

"But you repaid kindness with hatred, and you even want to hand me over to the government, how unlucky."

Hearing the little thief's words, everyone, including the female Marquis, looked at each other.

This little thief actually said that the Pure Moon Pavilion was a black shop.

And he said that the purpose of stealing the items was actually to save the female Marquis.

This reversal of information was a bit too much.

For a moment, everyone's minds couldn't quite process it.

The female Marquis's face turned cold, and she shouted at the little thief.

"If you dare to lie, I will not spare you!"

"What else do you know, tell me everything immediately!"

The little thief stubbornly turned his head.

"I've said everything I know."

"There's nothing I can do if you don't believe me."

"Many of the missing women in Qingzhou Prefecture have been abducted by the bad people at the Pure Moon Pavilion."

"They do it secretly, and the government hasn't caught them red-handed."

"It's a pity my good intentions."

Suddenly, the female Marquis's eyes widened, and she abruptly turned her head to ask Zhao Yong.

"Who is protecting my younger sister!"

Zhao Yong quickly replied.

"I left two guards to protect Miss Bai."

The female Marquis's expression improved slightly, but she instructed.

"Let's go, we'll go back to Yunhua Lane first."

"We'll reunite with my younger sister first."

The group immediately got up and ran towards Yunhua Lane.

Li Yuan glanced at the little thief he was holding.

Then he casually tucked him under his arm.

He got up and chased after Zhao Yong and the others ahead.

The beggar children in the temple, seeing the little thief being captured, some wanted to chase after him, while others were anxiously crying.

Li Yuan and the others didn't have time to care about them.

The group quickly passed through the streets and headed towards Yunhua Lane.

Before long, Zhao Yong and Zheng Biao ran back to the entrance of the alley in Yunhua Lane.

Zhao Yong saw the two guards he had left standing in front of the Pure Moon Pavilion chatting, so he ran over and asked.

"Where is Miss Bai! ?"

The two guards looked up, saw that it was Zhao Yong, and quickly replied.

"Miss Bai is inside picking things out, she told us to wait in front of the door."

At this time, Li Yuan hurried over and asked urgently.

"Did Miss Bai personally instruct you, or did someone relay the message?"

The two guards scratched their heads.

"It was... it was a woman who relayed the message."

Hearing this, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

Li Yuan punched the wall.

"It's a trap!"