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Hua Lianyue glanced around the cave she was in by looking up in the dim light, and the first thing she saw was the female corpse that tripped over her. Thirteen or fourteen years old, with a delicate and soft face, can be regarded as a beauty embryo.

It's a pity that at this moment, her arms are tied behind her back, and her clothes are scattered. His cloudy eyes were still wide open, staring into the unknown darkness above.

Her jaw was covered in dried blood, and there was a large dark red blood stain on the placket of her chest. Hua Liyue still remembers the feeling of touching it. Moist, sticky, with a sweet smell.

It was obvious that this girl had committed suicide by biting her tongue, and such a tragic death made Hua Lianyue's heart tremble violently and she looked away. Soon, she found that there were seven or eight people tied to the innermost part of the cave.

Like themselves, they are clinging to the mountain wall, lying or sitting together. The youngest is five or six years old, and the oldest is only thirteen or fourteen years old.

Among them was a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, whose clothes were so dirty that they could no longer be seen in their original color, but they could be seen to be of exquisite and luxurious texture.

The others were either numb or sobbing secretly. Only the boy was staring at himself with that glimmer of light. The eyes were bright and bright, deep as a wolf. The little face is blue and purple, similar to a flower-faced cat.

Hua Liyue only glanced at it, and then she heard the footsteps outside the cave getting closer and closer. She hurriedly withdrew her gaze. Pick up the cloth ball on the ground as quickly as you can and stuff it into your mouth. Then put the hemp rope on the wrist and carry it behind the back, making it look like it was still bound.

The person who came was a middle-aged man. He carried an oil lamp in one hand and a wooden bucket with some leftovers in the other. Judging by the situation, it should be that they ate the leftovers, poured them into the bucket and brought them over.

When he came to the entrance of the cave, he raised the oil lamp in his hand and looked in vigilantly through the wooden fence. Everything seems to be calm, even Hua Liyue is honestly resting against the mountain wall.

When he saw the girl's corpse, he finally changed his face, spat on it, and said hatefully: "It's really unlucky, another one died." ”

He put down the oil lamp, pulled out a bunch of keys, and unlocked the fence. He put the bucket of leftovers on the ground and shouted, "It's time to eat." ”

Hua Lianyue wondered in her heart, the children in the cave all had their hands tied tightly, how to eat the food in the wooden barrel!

Soon she knew.

It turned out that those children did not use their hands to grab rice, but directly stretched their necks and poked their heads into the barrel, and ate directly with their mouths like dogs.

A hint of intense anger flashed in Hua Liyue's eyes. These thieves kidnap people, but they still treat these children like dogs, which is really cruel and hateful.

After dropping the bucket of food, the middle-aged man locked the fence again, swaggered away with the oil lamp.

Once again, the surroundings were plunged into deathly darkness, and Hua Lianyue let out a long sigh of relief, and she let go of her hand and removed the cloth from her mouth.

Listen to the constant sound of chewing in the darkness, and the faint sound of small sobs. She frowned and began to think of a way to get out.

Suddenly, she felt someone cautiously approaching her, and then a boy's voice rang out, "Hey, I saw you untie it before! ”

The boy was obviously very vigilant, and he spoke in a very small voice, like a mosquito, almost next to Hua Liyue's ear. A warm breath hit her cold cheeks.

"Stinky boy, his eyes are quite pointed. Hua Liyue in the dark rolled her eyes helplessly, and she reached out and fumbled to untie the hemp rope behind the boy's back.

Finally free, the boy grumbled as he rubbed his wrist. "I was bound for three days, and my hands were about to break. ”

Hua Lianyue didn't seem to be from Meiling County when she heard his accent, so she couldn't help but be secretly surprised. She knew that Shen Xu had a black heart, and she didn't know how many people were ruined by his wealth-gathering gambling shop, and they needed to sell their sons and daughters to pay off their debts, so he still had a lot of money in his hands.

But looking at the strange situation in the cave, it seems that it is not as simple as human teeth.

After thinking about it, Hua Lianyue whispered to the boy and asked, "Where did they kidnap you?"

Maybe it was close, Hua Lianyue vaguely saw the boy's thief's bright eyes flickering. I heard him lower his voice and say, "Don't mention it, it's really unlucky." Originally, I went to visit my grandfather's house in Jinling with my mother, but it was late when I passed through Xiushui County, so I found an inn to rest.

At night, I went out alone to eat a bowl of shredded chicken noodles because I was hungry. As a result, before the noodles were finished, the person fainted and woke up in this dark cave. They also took all the accessories from me, and I guess I went to my mother to ask for ransom. ”

Listening to the boy's methodical speech, clear thinking, and unflustered knew that he must be well-educated. Such a boy, in a big family, must be cultivated as the future pillar of the family.

"What's your name?" asked Hua Lianyue.

The boy said, "My surname is Zhang Yuanyang. After a pause, he asked rhetorically, "Sister, what is your name?" ”

Hua Lianyue herself is also confused now, and she doesn't know why she was arrested, after all, she feels that the grudge with Shen Xu is not deep enough for him to take risks.

"My surname is Hua, and I am the catcher of this county. Hua Lianyue scratched her head and said, "I used to sleep well on the bed in the inn, but for some reason, when I woke up, I found that I had been taken to this cave. ”

Although it was in the dark, Hua Liyue couldn't see it at all. Zhang Yuanyang still tried to widen his eyes, and said with a look of surprise: "Sister Hua, you are actually catching fast? Aren't you catching thieves specifically? Why were you caught by these thieves instead?"

"Horses stumble, men stumble. Hua Lianyue was a little embarrassed.

"Alas!" Zhang Yuanyang sighed like a little adult, and said, "If the catchers in the yamen are as confused as Sister Hua, then what hope do we have!"

"You!" In the dark, Hua Lianyue secretly grinded her teeth for a while. Little boy, she thought he was a teenager and an old man. After just a few words, she found that the old little boy was not cute.

"But, Sister Flower. Zhang Yuanyang's mouth is quite sweet, and he has a flower sister in one mouthful, and Hua Lianyue is quite useful when he shouts. I heard him curious: "You are a fast catcher, you are a person in the public family, what are they doing to arrest you?"

"I don't quite understand it either. ”

There must be demons when it is abnormal, Hua Lianyue began to secretly reflect on whether she had done anything that violated Shen Xu's interests in the past few days.

Suddenly, her heart moved, and she remembered the faint, familiar Du Ruoxiang she smelled in the dizziness last night.

A bewitching and charming figure suddenly broke into her mind, and she wanted that face that was obviously the first time she had seen it, but it felt inexplicably familiar. Could it be that she caught herself......

I didn't seem to have offended her! Thinking about it a little deeper, it was as if a bolt of lightning had suddenly struck her chaotic mind, splitting the fog in it.

Hua Lianyue secretly clenched her fists, she really didn't expect that Boss Shen would actually collude with the scum of the rivers and lakes, doing the business of secretly abducting and selling people, kidnapping and extortion. It's no wonder that he also takes care of the buying and selling of human teeth, and this identity is simply used to cover up his criminal deeds.

The foxy woman she met at the Xuanyun Inn was clearly a female abductor who calmly escaped from the prison.

Liu Shou was full of nonsense, and there were few words of truth at all. The female thief's goal was not the entire inn, she was alone from beginning to end. It seems that she offended this woman, and she deliberately came to the door to take revenge.

This female thief is not only vindictive, but also a master of disguise. passed by face-to-face like this, and he didn't even see the flaw.

Thinking of this, Hua Lianyue clenched her fist in annoyance and beat her head hard.

"Sister Hua, Sister Hua!"

Hua Lianyue suddenly came back to her senses and said, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Yuanyang lowered his voice and said in her ear like a mosquito: "Since you are a fast catcher, is there a way to escape?"

A cold whirlwind blew in the cave, and Hua Liyue shivered involuntarily, and she hugged her arms tightly.

Yes, there is no big double, the little double is by her side, how can she escape alone......

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"Second Young Master!" Yan Jiu gave Huo Lianjue a fist salute, and then attached himself to his ear and repeated the words that Liu Shou had explained.

Huo Lianjue's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Have you really seen a female thief appear in Yue'er's room and intend to commit murder against her?"

Since discovering that Hua Lianyue was missing, Huo Lianjue's spirit has been in a tense state, and he didn't have a few words with Liu Shou at all, and he naturally didn't know about this episode.

Yan Jiu scratched his head and said with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "There are thieves, but I was too light with Yan Ba that night, and I was knocked unconscious by the sweat medicine spilled by the thief before I entered the house, so I don't know whether the thief is a man or a woman." For the specific situation, the second young master is afraid that he still has to ask Yan San. He had fought the thief, and he should know better than his lowly position. ”

"Go and call Yan San over. ”

Huo Lianjue's mind was in turmoil at the moment, and the apparent composure was just an illusion that he had worked hard to maintain. Originally, he believed that the culprit was Shen Xu, so he decided to lure the snake out of the hole, and single-mindedly forced Shen Xu to reveal his flaws.

Now Liu Shou jumped out again, gave him another target of suspicion, and said it right. Huo Lianjue was also at a loss all of a sudden, could it be that all his previous judgments were wrong, Shen Xu was not the mastermind behind the abduction of Hua Lianyue, the female thief who appeared inexplicably was?

They had already delayed Shen Xu for most of the day, and if the female thief wanted to take revenge, she would take someone away directly. Last night and most of today, the foot is fast, and you can almost leave the scope of Meiling County.

If you care, it's messy!

Thinking of this, his body couldn't help but shake slightly, and his chest hurt sharply, and he was nauseated. A sweet liquid gushed up his throat, but he forced it back.

"Second Young Master. Yan San rushed over and couldn't help but be surprised to see that his eyes were closed, his face was like gold paper, and a trace of unswallowed blood was overflowing from his thin lips.

Huo Lianjue This is a manifestation of anger attacking the heart and damaging the heart. If you can't adjust it in time, I'm afraid that it will leave a curse in the future.

He hurriedly slapped his palm on the big acupoint on Huo Lianjue's chest, forcibly instilled internal force into it, and began to comb his body for him.

Fortunately, Yan San made a timely move, and the feeling of boredom in Huo Lianjue's chest gradually subsided. He slowly opened his eyes, and his forehead was already dripping with cold sweat.

Yan San retracted his internal force and breathed a long sigh of relief. "Second Young Master, are you alright?" Yan San reached out to probe Huo Lianjue's wrist.

Huo Lianjue waved his hand and rejected his kindness. Wiping the blood from his lips with the back of his hand, Huo Lianjue said in a deep voice: "I don't care. Describe to me the appearance of the thief you saw at the Xuanyun Inn the night before. ”

Yan San thought for a while and said: "The moon was dark that night, and the lights in the corridor were also extinguished by his subordinates, and the thief covered his face with a black scarf, and his subordinates really couldn't see the appearance of the thief, only knowing that she was a woman with an excellent figure." ”

"Are you sure it's a woman?" Yan San's previous sentence made Huo Lianjue quite disappointed, but the latter sentence made his eyes widen suddenly.

"Pretty sure. Yan San nodded and said, "Men and women are born with differences in bones, even if they are masked or disguised, except for a very small number of disguise masters who can change their bones. It is easy for ordinary people to distinguish. The subordinates are very sure that the thief is a woman in the outright, and she is still a woman with excellent appearance and good temperament. ”

"Yan San. Huo Lianjue grabbed his next door and asked eagerly, "How many people escaped from the Jucai Gambling House?"

"Three!" Yan San said without thinking.

"Are there any women among the three?" asked Huo Lianjue cautiously.

Yan San thought about it for a moment, shook his head and said, "No." ”

"No!" Huo Lianjue was in a trance, and his voice was a little strangely empty. He froze and asked eagerly again, "How many people were arrested in the casino?"

Yan San shook his head helplessly and said, "My subordinates have turned the Fortune Gambling House upside down, and arrested thirty-one people on the spot, all of whom are extremely vicious and stubbornly resistant. It's a pity that they are all big men who are fake, and none of them are women. ”

Could it be that his thinking, his judgment, and his decision-making were all wrong? The female thief who kidnapped Hua Lianyue had nothing to do with Shen Xu at all?

Huo Lianjue suddenly felt a burst of breath, cold sweat broke out all over his body, and his chest seemed to be hollowed out. He was scared, really scared.

Although Ye led people to block the waterways and land routes that went out. But it's all just visible official roads and waterways. Meiling County is not far from the Meiling Mountains. I don't know how many nearby villagers cut firewood and hunt in the mountain range. As long as you want to hide, there will definitely be a chance.

What's more, there was a lot of delay in the middle, and the more Huo Lianjue thought about it, the more scared he became.

"Your Excellency. Xie Yuanda came in a hurry, he hugged Huo Lianjue and said, "Shen Xu has been locked up in the yamen, when will the lord go to interrogate?"

"Already locked up in the yamen?" Huo Lianjue's pupils shrank suddenly, and he said, "Didn't anyone rescue him all the way?"

Xie Yuanda shook his head and said, "This journey is safe and sound, and no one has any intention of rescuing him." ”

"Poof!" Huo Lianjue finally couldn't hold back the boredom in his chest, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

"Second Young Master!"

"Your Excellency!"