Chapter 50: A Kind Mother and Son
It is not accurate to ask for the foot of the mountain, because the entire White Tiger Cottage is built on this White Tiger Mountain, but the dozens of houses that Ma Wenbing and Xiang saw over there are indeed different, they are close to the mountain, surrounded by wooden stakes, and there are more guards inside.
The house over there must be Wang Mazi's residence, Ma Wenbing and Xiang were very sure in their hearts, so they walked slowly over there.
However, Ma Wenbing and Xiang will be checked for a kind of sign when they see anyone who goes in, and they will only be allowed to enter it if they are checked to have that brand, it is estimated that it is an identity waist card or something, Ma Wenbing and Xiang stopped advancing, and the two of them did not have that brand, otherwise it would be easy to arouse suspicion.
Ma Wenbing and Xiang found a place to hide, and they also looked at the situation clearly, otherwise standing still would cause suspicion.
The house in there is very different, especially the largest one in the middle, with two floors above and below, supported by wooden pillars, which should prevent poisonous insects, snakes, ants and the like.
There is a wooden ladder between the upper and lower floors, and there is a corridor-like passage that connects each room, with guards at intervals.
"It seems that Liu Ling'er should be locked up in a certain room inside. "Xiangsheng said, because the king of Mingshan will marry Liu Ling'er, and Liu Ling'er will not be locked outside.
"I've got to find a way to get in outside. Ma Wenbing sighed, unless he found the exact same waist card, but it was impossible to stun two people and snatch the waist card in front of everyone in this place.
But it's better to happen sooner, just after Ma Wenbing finished speaking, there were a large number of people holding streamers, colored paper, red lanterns, red cannons and the like, it seemed that they were decorating those houses for festivity, Ma Wenbing and Xiang saw the opportunity, took the opportunity to sneak behind them, and also pretended to be festive personnel.
"Big brother, you can't take it, I'll help you get one. Ma Wenbing said to the person in front of him, that person was an old man, moving slowly, his eyes were dizzy, it was not very convenient to carry these things, and it was not very good to have someone to help him now, so he gave some of the colored paper ribbons on his body to Ma Wenbing.
Ma Wenbing's heart was stable when he got these things, and he also divided some incense, and the two of them followed these people closely and entered it very easily.
After entering the inside, a short and fat black man walked in, who seemed to be a leader or something, and said to these people: "You people must make these houses in the afternoon, the point is that the color hall of this house must be good, and here, there, there must be ribbon lanterns or something, there must be a very strong festive atmosphere, the king will have clothes after the construction, if you don't build it well, it will cost you your life, I heard no cherry blossoms."
At this time, a person came out of the crowd, who should be the person in charge of building the color hall, a middle-aged man, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, general, we must work hard, and we will definitely dress up this place beautifully, so that our king can marry a wife in the eighteenth room." ”
"Well, very well, then you guys go and get busy, if you need help, come to me, I'll live in that room, you know?" said the black fat man, pointing to a room next to the largest room.
"General, remember, that's busy. ”
After the middle-aged man finished, the black fat man also left, and the middle-aged man began to arrange the number of people to be responsible for various tasks, some people were responsible for stickers, some people were responsible for hanging lanterns, some people were responsible for hanging streamers, and so on.
The middle-aged man walked to the end and was very surprised to see Ma Wenbing and Xiang, because he hadn't seen these two people, and he didn't know why there were two more people, and when he was about to open his mouth, he was preempted by Ma Wenbing.
Ma Wenbing took the lead and said with a smile: "We are new to help, you call me Gouzi, he is called Niuzi." ”
Hearing Ma Wenbing's this, the middle-aged Ru nodded, and didn't suspect anything anymore, so he pointed to the wooden ladder and said: "Seeing that the corridor and the wooden ladder are not, you two will go and hang red lanterns, and hang them in every place, I will come and check later." ”
"Okay, the two of us promise to get the job done, thank you...... Thank you for your kind attention. Ma Wenbing doesn't know what to call this person, looking at his appearance, he is not an adult but also a businessman, and an adult should not be able to pass.
Hearing Ma Wenbing call him an adult, the middle-aged man seemed to be even happier when he heard it, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's go and get busy with the lanterns, if we don't build them well in the afternoon, we will all lose our lives, hurry up and get the lanterns." ”
After the middle-aged man finished, he turned around and took some stickers or something to help, although he usually doesn't do this kind of thing, but this time it was extraordinary, he had to help.
And Ma Wenbing and Xiang came to the wooden ladder with more than a dozen red lanterns, first looked at the wooden ladder and corridor, if all the red lanterns are hung up, there will be at least thirty lanterns, and there are wooden poles on them to hang red lanterns, the wooden poles should usually hang flags to show their majesty, and now those flags have been taken down, in order to hang festive red lanterns.
The wooden pole is very high, if you want to hang the red lantern, you must first draw it down, but Ma Wenbing tried to draw one of the wooden poles, it was inserted in the dark groove very deep and very tight, and it could only be pulled out little by little, according to Ma Wenbing's speed, a wooden pole would take at least ten minutes, and thirty wooden poles would be delayed for a longer time, so the two of them knew that they couldn't hang all these red lanterns before going to Liu Ling'er.
"Wenbing, what should I do? This is a waste of time. Xiang asked softly, it must be dark when all the thirty red lanterns are hung, and it will be even more difficult to find Liu Ling'er when the time comes.
Ma Wenbing thought for a while and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go and make it convenient for me, take the opportunity to hide and look in every room, you wait to find the middle-aged man, and ask him to help find a few soldiers to come over and help pull up these wooden poles." ”
Xiang nodded, this method is very good, but Ma Wenbing has to go into every room to find it, which is very dangerous, so he instructed: "Then you have to be careful, except for the big room, the inside of the other rooms has not been arranged by us, you must be careful when you enter." ”
"Don't worry, I'll be there. Ma Wenbing took a look at the surroundings, and then lowered his head and walked towards a place, that place was a remote place in the middle of the two houses, just hide it first, and then look for an opportunity to look for it room by room, if Liu Ling'er was in one of the rooms, he believed that he could find it.
Ma Wenbing kept walking with his head down, but was stopped by a soldier and stopped drinking: "Hey! You can't enter here, what do you want to do?"
Ma Wenbing turned his brain and quickly came up with a solution, and replied with a smile: "I have some urgency, I want to make it convenient." ”
Hearing Ma Wenbing's words, the soldier became serious, but this person is here to build a color hall, he shouldn't know the rules, and he has nothing to do, so he sighed and said: "This is a heavy place, how can you pee casually, see that you don't understand the rules, I will spare you, you come with me, I will take you to a big place where you can pee." ”
"Thank you very much. ”
After Ma Wenbing followed the soldiers, after passing by several houses, he walked towards the side of the cliff, there was a house there, there was a commotion, it seemed to be the place of thatched houses.
It is also favored by the top, there is no other person here to be convenient, Ma Wenbing saw the opportunity, slammed the soldier from behind, stunned the soldier, and then dragged him to the back of the thatched house, just in case, he also removed a tree vine from the cliff and tied him to the stone, and blocked his mouth with steps, even if he woke up, it would not affect himself, he could only be wronged that he smelled the smell.
Ma Wenbing finished this, turned out from the back of the thatched house, just no one found out, in front of him was the back of four or five rooms, Ma Wenbing planned to start looking from the first room on the right, so he quickly slipped over.
There are soldiers guarding the front of each room, and Ma Wenbing can't enter through the front main gate, he can only enter from the back, but there is no door in the back, and there is not even a window to turn in.
Ma Wenbing first hid in the lower layer, all of which were wooden pillars, and the ground was very damp, but it was relatively dark here, and he could see the people coming and going outside, and it was not easy to be discovered.
Ma Wenbing looked at the roof, there was a distance of two meters between the top and bottom heights, and it was not a problem to climb a wooden pillar to go up, and then bite a hole in a corner, so that you could see clearly what was going on in the house above.
came up with a way, Ma Wenbing began to act, first found a pillar that was a little bit off and climbed up, and then listened to it with his ears first, there was no footsteps and the sound of talking, Ma Wenbing then used its iron teeth and copper teeth to start biting, and instantly bit out a thumb-thick hole, through this hole, Ma Wenbing peeked inside with one eye.
The room inside has everything, the furniture and the stacked clothes are excellent, there is a burst of fragrance in the room, there is a bed, there is a boy about ten years old on the bed is sleeping, it seems to be a bedroom, there is no Liu Ling'er in it, so when he was about to come down from the wooden pillar, at this time the door opened, and a woman of about thirty walked in, graceful and luxurious, but with a bitter look.
Suddenly a person came, Ma Wenbing did not leave immediately, but wanted to hear something, this woman knew at a glance that it was not an ordinary person, the biggest possibility was Wang Mazi's wife.
After the woman entered the room, she sat on the chair and began to sobble and cry, crying very softly, but crying very sadly, she must have encountered something difficult, and then Ma Wenbing was very curious, how could this woman cry so well.
So Ma Wenbing continued to eavesdrop on his ears, but no one found him.
The sound of the woman sobbing and crying woke up the boy on the bed, he looked very delicate and loved by everyone, the boy got up and rubbed his eyes and walked to the woman's side, and walked barefoot without scrupling to put on the clothes outside.
"Mother, why are you crying again?" the boy asked, confused.
It seems that this woman has cried more than once, she must have cried several times, it may not have something to do with that Wang Mazi, and it may not necessarily involve Liu Ling'er, Ma Wenbing thought so.
The woman stopped crying, hugged the boy into her arms, and said, "Mu'er, your shameless father and wife, take a twenty-year-old girl as your eighteenth mother, more than his eldest grandson, he is almost seventy years old, he is really old-hearted, I really want to kill him with thunder!"
Hearing this, Ma Wenbing was stunned, it seemed that it was Liu Ling'er, it seemed that he was not wrong to eavesdrop, and he continued to listen.
"Mother, is Sister Liu locked up in that room?" the boy asked.
It seems that it is confirmed that it is Liu Ling'er, Ma Wenbing was very surprised to hear this, it seems that Liu Ling'er is sure that he is locked up here, if only he could hear which room he is locked in.
Ma Wenbing pressed his ears tighter, for fear of leaking a key word.
Then the woman sighed: "It's your sister Liu, it was sent by the thief monk and the thief nun, it's really hurtful! Mu'er, my mother has an idea, you go and secretly let her out at night, do you dare?"
When the woman said this, she lowered her voice for fear that someone outside would hear her.
Hearing this, Ma Wenbing was very relieved, although this is a den of thieves, but these two people must be good people, with the help of these two good people, it seems that Liu Ling'er is more likely to be rescued.
Then the boy said, "Mother, of course I am willing to save that sister, she has been crying since she came, but how can I save it?"
Madame continued to say softly: "This mother has already thought of an idea, I will tell you quietly......"
Ma Wenbing didn't hear the following words clearly, because the woman was whispering close to the boy's ear, at this time Ma Wenbing was anxious like a monkey, and he wanted to know how to spare the woman, but the more anxious he was at this time, the more stable he was, since they could help, they must be more likely to succeed than to save them themselves.
Ma Wenbing didn't have the heart to listen to the latter words, because it was also insignificant, Ma Wenbing was not allowed to come down from the pillar, he thought about it carefully, and still felt that it was better to let them save him, he and Xiang didn't know the situation here, and if they couldn't save it, they would startle the snake.
Ma Wenbing found a place and slipped out again while no one had an idea, and walked towards Xiang.
At this time, the middle-aged man stopped him, he didn't find him for a long time just now, and he thought he had run away, and he couldn't ask the result when he asked Xiangxiang, so he peed.
"Hey, hey, hey, what about you, why have you been soaking in urine for so long?, don't you know that time is our life?" the middle-aged man grunted.
Ma Wenbing could only smile and say: "My lord, I'm sorry, I had a stomach trouble just now, and I solved a big one, I'll go to hang the lantern now, and I won't drag everyone back." ”
"Troubled stomach, when is it not good, but at this time it is troublesome, okay, you can go quickly." The middle-aged man pinched his nose and said in disgust.