Chapter 67: Clue Found
The short-bearded peddler squatted down again and said to Li Tianqi: "Say, tell me your details." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"What if you don't?"
"It doesn't matter if you don't say it. Anyway, you can't escape tonight. Say it to give you a good time, and if you don't say it, you will naturally torture it slowly and then click. Anyway, all your possessions will be mine. ”
"Boss, why don't you find all those things on him first?" The pock-faced man suddenly spoke.
"You're worried that they'll fly, be careful, who knows what this kid is about? It's never too late to ask. The short-bearded peddler shouted angrily.
"The boss is wise." The pock-faced man quickly lowered his head.
"Don't say yes?" The short-bearded peddler pulled the short knife off the door panel, and was about to stab Li Tianqi in the body. Li Tianqi was about to break free of the rope when he suddenly saw his movements stop.
The short-bearded peddler asked, "I caught a glimpse of the gold-sealed badge on your waist during the day, what is the source?" ”
"Guess?" Li Tianqi was reminded by him, and almost forgot his identity as the owner of the Crocodile Bird Hall, and Zixia Mountain Villa must have a very high status in the green forest, otherwise the middle-aged man in Zi Nan Yuan would not be so afraid, this group of people must have heard of Zixia Mountain Villa.
The short-bearded peddler suddenly laughed: "Naughty, you are too naughty." ”
"Oh? How to say? Li Tianqi's internal force was running smoothly, and his arms were secretly exerting themselves.
"Boss, I can see if you can go down with a hammer." The square-headed man was holding a sledgehammer in his hand at some point.
The short-bearded peddler turned around and scolded, "You idiot, if his backer is a powerful character, then wouldn't we be finished?" ”
The square-headed man immediately lowered his head.
The short-bearded peddler said to Li Tianqi: "Master is impatient, and I don't want to play games with you, your gold medal, to say the least, is worth hundreds of taels of silver, enough for Ye to deal with for a few days." ”
"Zixia Villa." Li Tianqi said leisurely.
"What!" The short-bearded peddler was really shocked, thinking that this is broken, it is better to keep doing it...... turned to reveal a fierce look, "If you dare to pretend to be someone from Zixia Villa, then you are welcome." After speaking, he swung the knife and stabbed Li Tianqi's thigh fiercely.
Li Tianqi turned to the side, his arms struggled hard, the rope broke into several, and he raised his leg is a kick, how could the short-bearded peddler think that this foreign boy actually had such a skill, and he was caught off guard, and was immediately kicked in the jaw, and a few teeth were knocked out.
He screamed in pain, and the short knife in his hand fell to the ground.
The square-headed man swung a sledgehammer and rushed towards Li Tianqi, Li Tianqi hated these two people to the core, thinking that people should not be good-looking, but at this time, these two people let themselves misjudge twice, and when they saw him swinging a hammer over, they immediately dodged away, and luckily raised their fists and hit them with a heavy punch
On top of the man's weakness, the square-headed man screamed, threw away the sledgehammer, clutched the place where the two ribs had been broken, and screamed.
The pock-faced man punched, Li Tianqi jumped high, swept his foot, and kicked the man's bloody arrows flying out, looking for teeth all over the ground. There was a sudden noise in the room, all of which were the wails of the three people.
The short-bearded peddler endured the pain, picked up the short knife on the ground again, and stabbed him in the back of the heart when Li Tianqi flew to kick the pock-faced man. Li Tianqi Yuguang caught a glimpse of someone behind him, and immediately jumped away, dodging a dangerous blow.
Li Tianqi saw that this short-bearded peddler was so vicious, and he couldn't help but grow angry, he bounced up, dodged the hawker's short knife, and slammed his knee into this person's chin, "click", this person's mouth was full of broken silver, and his tongue was bitten off by his own teeth.
The short-bearded peddler was in pain, and he cried bitterly.
"It's your own fault!"
Li Tianqi found a rope to tie the three of them together, gagged their mouths with rotten cloths, and found three gold ingots in the house! Of course, their ill-gotten gains were in their pockets, and they found some candle ropes for going down the well.
He thought for a moment, found some pen and ink paper in the room, wrote some words on them, then straightened his clothes, turned and went out of the door, put a notice on the door, and left.
The notice reads: The house of salt thieves, please be rewarded by the official mansion.
Li Tianqi came to the dry well under the ginkgo tree, took off the stone lock and iron plate cover, tied the rope to the trunk of the ginkgo tree, and then followed the rope to the dry well.
The candle was lit, and sure enough, I saw a three-foot-high deep passage on the side of the well, and judging from the chisel marks on the wall of the passage, it should be the tunnel to the salt pan secretly dug by the short-bearded peddlers.
Before entering the tunnel, there was a smell of dampness, and the moss on the entrance of the passage still had traces of being trampled on not long ago.
After walking about a cup of tea, there was a boulder blocking the tunnel, Li Tianqi pushed it away, and the tunnel suddenly opened up, and he smelled the smell of salty seawater. We have reached the tunnel exit.
Li Tianqi came out of the tunnel, raised the candle, and found himself standing in a dark corridor. There are some transparent white angular "stones" scattered along the road, is this sea salt? Li Tianqi followed the route formed by the falling "stones", and soon found a hole blocked by an iron plate, and after removing the iron plate, the hole was still blocked by a wooden plank, and there was a pull ring behind the wooden board, which was obviously installed by the short-bearded hawkers to facilitate the closing of the wooden plank from the inside. Pushing open the planks and looking through the hole, it was obviously a large warehouse.
Li Tianqi blew out the candle and put on a masked scarf, he crawled out of the hole, and when he looked back, the front of the wooden board turned out to be a wooden cabinet with a broom, and he quietly entered the warehouse.
Through the moonlight falling from the roof, I could faintly see that many sacks of sea salt were stacked full.
Where to find clues? Li Tianqi walked around the warehouse for a while, but he had no clue. However, he saw that such a large warehouse would not have a problem cramming hundreds of people into it. He went to the window, and saw that outside there were large salt pans, and there were five or six more warehouses like this, which were connected to the sea, and that there was another sluice gate from the city wall, and that the ships had come in through the sluice gate. Some of the big ships had already left, and only three were still docked on the shore, swaying in the wind. There was a small room next to the boat that was still lit up, and it seemed that someone was on duty here.
Is there anything that records the whereabouts of these ships? Li Tianqi had a flash of inspiration, yes, I'm going to find such a book. The lighted room could have something like this.
On a night like this, there is no one patrolling the place, which is the opposite of the feeling of being in battle during the day. But he soon knew he was wrong.
It's not that there is no one on patrol, but that the patrol people are all falling to the ground, staggering to the ground.
Li Tianqi pushed open the door of the empty warehouse and found these soldiers lying on the ground. He found that these people were all awake, and they all looked at him with surprised expressions, they must have been pointed at by someone, so they could only lie here obediently.
Li Tianqi jumped straight to the lighted room and saw a petite figure under the lamp, as if he was checking something.
Is it the person on duty? Li Tianqi was about to quietly go to subdue the man, but he suddenly tripped over something, and the sound of falling to the ground made the petite figure turn around, it was actually a masked woman in purple! The masked woman's hand-held register fell to the ground and bounced into the room.
Li Tianqi saw clearly what was tripping his ankle, and it was actually two lying down sergeants! He didn't have time to think about it, but he got up and jumped to the hut.
Entering the hut, smelling the refreshing fragrance of the masked woman, Li Tianqi bent down to pick up the book, but he didn't want to feel a strong wind rushing to him, Li Tianqi had already taken precautions, he turned over to dodge, and entered the inner room, the inner room was obviously dimly lit, and the masked woman saw that the masked Li Tianqi actually avoided her own point, and she couldn't help but be shocked, she was worried that this person was the master who was secretly guarding here, for fear that Li Tianqi would call a large number of sergeants or masters, and she couldn't help but wave two palms at Li Tianqi in a hurry.
Li Tianqi didn't know who the other party was, so he attacked him without saying anything, and he didn't say anything at the moment, he waved his palm to meet him, and both of them shook their bodies, and each took a few steps back.
The purple-clothed masked woman snorted lightly and waved her palm again, Li Tianqi had no choice but to fight, the two fought each other in the house for more than ten rounds, Li Tianqi gradually fell a little behind, because he had not learned the palm technique, and he used his own palm technique to meet the purple-clothed masked woman at this time, of course, he was not someone's opponent.
The purple-clothed masked woman obviously also saw that although Li Tianqi had a certain amount of internal strength, his palm skills were very unbearable, so she accelerated her attack on him even more.
Li Tianqi thought that he was not this woman's opponent, so he had to change it to avoid, and he suddenly changed it to a throwing technique, although he could not subdue this woman, but he was comfortable between moving and dodging.
The purple-clothed masked woman had already gained the upper hand, but suddenly saw that the other party's body changed suddenly, and no longer attacked her, but she always dodged, and she couldn't help but be a little angry, thinking of a way to get out.
But seeing that she suddenly pulled out her hand and took out something, and then shook her hand and sprinkled a puff of powder at Li Tianqi!
A dark fragrance hits!
Not good! Li Tianqi had suffered from this ecstasy smoke many times, of course he didn't dare to be careless, he immediately held his breath and retreated to the wall, which is how the purple-clothed masked woman had already withdrawn from the house, and fled.
Li Tianqi covered his nose and rushed out, but he couldn't see the figure of the purple-clothed masked woman.
He turned back to the house, the smell still lingering in the air, he put down the hand covering his nose, and dared to try to smell it a few times, but nothing but the smell of powder. Presumably, the woman was in a hurry, and used the fat powder as a poison to deter the other party and create an opportunity for herself to escape.
Li Tianqi didn't think about her anymore, but picked up the book, and it was indeed a registration book. He quickly flipped through the records inside, it was indeed a record of the time, place and destination of the salt works' delivery, and the details were recorded in it, but unfortunately when he looked at the records from a month ago, he found that the pages had been torn off, leaving only some fragments in them, presumably the purple-clothed masked woman who was shocked and quietly tore them off.
Alas...... Who is that man? Why are you tearing up this register in front of me? Li Tianqi was annoyed.
"Zi Nan Yuan?" Li Tianqi's eyes were sharp, and he had already seen these words on the remaining page, and he was secretly happy, he went on to look at it, and also saw the words "ten ships transferred".
Zinanyuan? Ten ships, the size of which can hold about 200 people. Li Tianqi put down the notebook and hurriedly ran out of the salt field from the way he came......
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