I simply couldn't talk sense into the rampaging Song Xiaotian.
But I couldn't watch him kill someone in front of everyone, so I could only drop to my knees before him.
"Think of your wife!"
With those words, I got Song Xiaotian to calm down again.
He froze for two seconds, got up, and set the short club aside. Then he took out a cigarette, lit it, and took several drags.
Then, with the cigarette between his lips, he picked up the short club again, pulled over a chair, and sat down.
"Talk. How did you kill Xu Hui?"
He looked at the boss and said coldly, "How many people were there that night? Where did you do it? Tell me everything."
"Get up and talk!"
The boss had already been beaten half to death. He shuddered and hurriedly scrambled up from the floor, kneeling with blood all over his face.
"No, bro, we didn't..."
"Didn't what?"
"We didn't kill Xu Hui, and we never went looking for her..."
"Do you think I'm deaf?"
Song Xiaotian leaned down, his voice chilling. "Do you want me to repeat what you just said?"
"No, bro." The boss wiped the blood from his eyelids and hurriedly said, "I made it up. I didn't know how tough you were just now. I said it deliberately to make you angry. I'm sorry. We really never went looking for Xu Hui. We really didn't."
Song Xiaotian looked at him and frowned. "How can you prove you never went looking for Xu Hui?"
The boss began to choke up. "I... I don't know how to prove it, but we really never went looking for her. We're just a bunch of small-timers without any real connections. We wouldn't dare kill anyone."
"All we usually do is lend money