At this point, if he wanted to stay alive, there seemed to be no better option than the one Tall Guy had suggested.
The moment Huang Yingying saw the two powerful figures, he wasted no words. He burst into tears, dropped to his knees with a thud, and wailed at the top of his lungs, "City Lord, save me! Someone wants to kill me! City Lord, save me! Someone wants to kill me..."
From the outset, his crying was a performance brimming with feeling, complete with tears and snot. Combined with his wretched appearance, "pitiful" hardly began to describe him.
Never mind his miserable state now-even at his best, Li Xianghong thought nothing of him. She truly could not understand why Bai Qiru had married such a creature.
She rebuked him sternly, "Have you any dignity as a man? Stop crying! Enough. Tell us exactly what happened."
As she spoke, she glanced at Po Yuan beside her, who was studying Huang Yingying. She wondered whether seeing Old Huang behave like this would disappoint him. Would he still believe this creature was the killer?
"Yes..." Huang Yingying raised his sleeve to wipe his tears. He stopped crying as quickly as he had started, his mangled palms conspicuous. Once he had suppressed the sobs in his voice, he rattled off his account. "Yesterday afternoon, the Bai Family Rice Shop received a large order for a thousand sacks of spirit rice, to be delivered to Barrier Slope outside the city. My wife ordered me to escort the shipment. Who knew that shortly after we reached Barrier Slope and started waiting, a gang of masked killers would suddenly appear? I tried to escape underground, but a flying chain caught my ankle and dragged me back. Then they knocked me unconscious and took me away.