NOVPUBChapter 307: 307, waiting, the only choice
Chapter 307: 307, waiting, the only choice
After leaving the shop, Li Wei frowned and asked Song Qinghuan, “Qinghuan, why did we just leave like that? Isn’t the issue still unresolved, and why did you tell him about Tao Wenliang, isn’t this like striking the grass and startling the serpent?”
Song Qinghuan didn’t immediately answer Li Wei, but pulled Li Wei along, walked a little further, then circumvented back, hiding in an alleyway opposite Li Xiaoyi’s shop.
She glanced toward Li Xiaoyi’s shop, then answered Li Wei’s question, “I know Li Xiaoyi is fishy, but no matter how we question him, we won’t get anything. If my suspicion isn’t mistaken, he is definitely involved in my brother’s case, and for that very reason, he won’t confess. If we don’t startle him a little, we will return with nothing. Just wait and see. He will be sure to panic about Tao Wenliang’s case. Once he panics, he will seek the person who made him do it. Of course, maybe that person is Tao Wenliang, or maybe not, but now we can only give it a try.”
“So, how long do we wait?” Li Wei asked.
Song Qinghuan thought for a moment, “Two days at most. If anything is to happen, it will be within these two days. If nothing happens then we’ll leave empty-handed. Or, at that time, we can think of other ways.”
So it was decided. They stood in the alley, waiting.
At noon, Li Xiaoyi came out of his shop and drove to a restaurant. 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
Of course, Song Qinghuan and Li Wei silently followed. They sat down in a small restaurant opposite to the one visited by Li Xiaoyi and ordered a few dishes to have for lunch.
Li Xiaoyi took quite a time to finish his meal. If he hadn’t sat by the window, and they hadn’t been able to see him from their location, they would have thought he left from another exit.
After lunch, Li Xiaoyi didn’t go anywhere, he immediately returned to his shop.
Naturally, Song Qinghuan and Li Wei followed him back and continued to observe from the alley.
An afternoon passed, and Li Xiaoyi showed no signs of abnormality nor any intention of going out.
Li Wei, growing impatient, asked Song Qinghuan for the umpteenth time, “Qinghuan, should I go in and ask again?”
Song Qinghuan shook her head: “No need to, it won’t do any good, he won’t tell us anything. Don’t be anxious, let’s wait a little more.”
Indeed, even Song Qinghuan was starting to grow impatient.
But what else could she do? Apart from waiting, they couldn’t do anything.
She had already planned. If Li Xiaoyi did not take the initiative to seek those people out, she would set up a ploy to let Li Xiaoyi know that, just like Tao Wenliang, he too could be the target of a murder one day.
Only then would he become frightened.
As long as he was afraid that one day he would end up murdered just like Tao Wenliang, he would start looking for another way out, and cooperating with them would be his only escape route.
What Li Xiaoyi would do in the end depended on the circumstances.
Even if he didn’t choose to take their side, she would figure out a way to make Li Xiaoyi set foot onto her boat.
Night fell and it was getting late. It was already past dinner time, but Li Xiaoyi still hadn’t left the shop.
It was past nine, the shop employees had gotten off work and had closed the shop doors, but Li Xiaoyi still hadn’t emerged.
“What should we do, Qinghuan, what if we missed him leaving while we weren’t watching?” Li Wei asked worryingly.
