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"What...... Sakura, Sakura-sama? Jiang Shipin was stupid and said confusedly: "How do I know? ”
Looking for Sister Sakura, how did you find him here?
You've found the wrong door!
And at a glance, the Buddha in front of him is a master who is not easy to mess with, could it be that Sister Sakura has something big to do?
Jiang Shipin's mind went through all possibilities over and over again, and at the end he added: "You two may not know, although I am this girl's own uncle, but this girl just took us to court a few days ago, and my third brother and I have been busy raising money to pay the fine these days, plus there is an order from the government, we really don't have the courage to go to her again-"
This is to clear the relationship, for fear of being 'affected' by Jiang Ying......
Jin Qi took a deep breath and resisted the urge to slam his fist away.
What a family!
As soon as I opened my mouth, people were angry when I heard it, what the hell was talking about!
The young man couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth in his heart, and was about to ask one last time, but Shi Qing grabbed the front and spoke, "Don't go around in circles with us here, we all heard what you said just now, if I heard correctly, you should be blaming your third brother for coming back late, and asked him if the matter was done - do you dare to say that the 'thing' you said has nothing to do with the fact that Miss Jiang Ying was held hostage?" ”
"What? Sister Sakura...... Kidnapped?! Jiang Shipin was shocked and hurriedly asked, "When did this happen?" ”
Seeing his reaction, Shi Qing's eyes moved slightly, and then said, "It's just this morning and noon—"
"My ......" Jiang Shipin's expression was shocked, and he muttered, "I really don't know about this......"
Jin Qi frowned, thought for a few moments in his eyes, and asked again, "Where did the other person go?" ”
It's the same question I just asked when I entered the door.
"My third brother, he just went out to raise money!" Jiang Shipin finally figured out the meaning of Jin Qi and Shi Qing.
It turned out that he was looking for someone to come!
Suspicion of their brother is coming!
"When you go out to raise money, you have to avoid official errands?" Jin Qi's eyes were cold and aggressive.
Jiang Shipin shuddered for no reason, shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, he only said that the identity of the person who borrowed the money is not ordinary, and he can't let others know...... That's why it avoided the eyes and ears of the officials. ”
"Not ordinary?" Shi Qing's eyes changed, and then he sneered and asked: "Even if you borrow usury from the gambling house, the government will never care about it, your statement is inevitably a little unreasonable!" ”
Jiang Shipin only shook his head, but he couldn't say why.
His face changed for a long time, and he snorted: "In short, it is impossible for us to take Sister Sakura to risk everything...... Anyway, she's my eldest brother's biological daughter......"
The further back he spoke, the lower and lower his voice unconsciously became.
Before he could open his mouth again to defend himself and Jiang Shiyou, he felt that his throat suddenly tightened, and after he reacted, he was tightly choked by a hand with clear bones but green muscles at the moment.
The panicked Jiang Shipin just wanted to struggle, but he felt that the strength of the confinement was suddenly much greater, and he could even feel that if the other party used a little more force, his neck would be twisted off!
Jiang Shipin didn't dare to move anymore, and looked at the eyes that had gradually turned dark blue, and pleaded bitterly with his eyes.
"One last time, where did the other person go?" Jin Qi's tone carried the patience that had been exhausted.
"I ......" Jiang Shipin wanted to speak, but he could only spit out intermittent and vague words with difficulty, and he could only shake his head to show that he really didn't know.
The strength in Jin Qi's hand tightened a little.
He was sure this man knew something!
He didn't have much time to go around in circles with him-
Jiang Shipin's face had turned a terrifying purple, and looking at the handsome but murderous face in front of him, he could even clearly feel that his life was being lost little by little in the hands of this young man.
For the first time in his life, Jiang Shipin tried the fear of facing death. This fear made him have no time to think about anything else, there was only one thought in his mind, he didn't want to die, he wanted to live!
"I ...... I said........." Jiang Shipin used up his last strength to spit out these words.
Although he is not sure, it is also a clue, and now it is not only the life and death of Sister Sakura, but also his own life!
When he was in prison, he met such a king of Yama, God knows what kind of shit luck he had......
Jin Qi suddenly let go of his hands, Jiang Shipin was taken a few steps back by his strong force, until he hit the wall separating the east room and stabilized his figure, opened his mouth wide and breathed desperately, and the cold sweat on his forehead fell all over his face in an instant.
"Don't say it yet!" Shi Qing urged anxiously.
I really know!
Jiang Shipin took a few deep breaths, and only then could he barely pass this breath, but his breathing was still heavy and rapid, and he said, "I said, I said...... Two spare their lives......"
……
The sun is skewed, and the time is at the end.
Two brown horses led the way, followed by a blue-cloth carriage galloping out of the city, and a thick cloud of earthy yellow dust and smoke rose from the place, which drifted through the air with the wind, as if dyeing the surroundings in a dusk twilight.
Ten miles away from the capital, on the west side of the straight north-south official road, is a dense forest full of pine and cypress trees.
Further into the dense forest is the well-known cemetery in the western suburbs - this name is good, but in fact, it is often called mass graves.
Buried here, most of them are nameless white character tablets, there are beggars who froze to death on the streets, there are refugees who came from other places or died of illness or hunger, there are also poor ghosts and bullies who died due to fights and brawls, and no one at home is willing to collect the corpses, etc., or the maids and maids of rich families who were beaten to death by their masters because of their mistakes, and those who are troublesome are thrown here.
There has always been a yamen in the yamen to deal with these corpses, which are called 'burial heads' by the locals, but these 'burial heads' who do the work of the dead are not very conscientious, and when they want to move their hands and feet, or when there is a special explanation from above, the corpses that are pulled over can be dug and buried properly. And some even threw it into the stinky ditch on the spot, let it rot, and be eaten by wild beasts, and after many years, the cemetery can be described as full of white bones.
A mass grave was also confirmed.
At this moment, at the entrance of the cemetery in the western suburbs, on the 'Zhenmen Stone' engraved with runes, there was a tall man wearing a heavy ragged jacket and a yellow fox hat to keep out the cold. Beside him, there were more than a dozen people, all men with fierce faces, ranging in age from their early twenties to their fifties.
"Big brother, why hasn't the family come to pay the ransom yet, can't they afford to pay the money...... I'm not going to have a girl! A short, but sturdy man spoke up.
Another man spat on the ground and said, "Recently, I haven't been lucky enough to walk shit, and my brothers haven't opened meat for a month!" ”
The man who was squatting on the stone at the town gate glanced at the two of them, and said with a strange smile: "Don't get angry, if this family doesn't come to pay the ransom, this little girl will be rewarded to the brothers for disposal, whatever you want - in short, it will not make the brothers empty of money and money." ”
"Big brother is wise!" There was someone below flattering with a smile on his face.
"Didn't this little girl and eldest brother 'test' at noon, how does she look, and what is going well?" A group of people gathered around and laughed.
The one who was called a big brother licked his chapped and peeled lips, and said with a smile, "If the fuck doesn't look good, Lao Tzu won't be happy to go on it!" Over the years, have you ever seen Lao Tzu touch an ugly woman? ”
"That's that, big brother's vision can't be wrong!"
As the group laughed and talked coarsely, the leader suddenly frowned, raised his right index finger and made a silent gesture to his lips.
Immediately the people fell silent, pricked up their ears to listen, and heard the faint sound of horses' hooves and the rolling of wheels approaching the place.
"The fuck is here!" A man looked at the leader and said, "It doesn't seem to be a person, shouldn't it be an official?" ”
"They don't have the guts to report to the official!" The leader sneered, then stood up and jumped off the boulder, pulling out the scimitar behind his back with a "poof".
Seeing this, the rest of the people took out their weapons one after another, looked at the only bluestone walkway in the dense forest in front of them, leaned forward slightly, and made a defensive state of attack at any time.
The sound of horses' hooves approached.
Two young men on horseback came into view.
Immediately after, another teenager drove the carriage behind.
Even though there were still a hundred steps away, a cold murderous aura came from the surface clearly.
A group of people are all people who have been on the road for some years, and after looking at each other for a while, they are almost instantly sure that the people who come are not easy to mess with.
In such a situation, the best way is to collect the ransom and return the hostages obediently -- no matter how arrogant the other party is, for the sake of their large numbers, they will not dare to ignore the promotion and insist on fighting hard.
The leader also had a plan in his heart, swept the heavy scimitar in his hand, raised it in the direction of the passer, and shouted: "Only one person is allowed to come!" Bring the ransom over! Otherwise, this girl's life is in danger, and I dare not guarantee it! ”
"That's right, come alone! The others are waiting in the back! The man in the back echoed.
"I'll go!" Song Chunfeng, who was driving the car, suddenly reined in his horse, and then jumped down from the driver's seat with an arrow step, and was about to rush forward in a big stride.
But Jin Qi, who was sitting on a horse in front of him, took his sword scabbard across his chest, blocking the way.
"I'll go over—" Jin Qi said, staring ahead.
"Why!" Song Chunfeng looked at the scabbard blocking his chest and frowned unhappily.
Why does this kind of heroic saving of beauty always fall on his head.
Sakura should be saved by him!
Seeing that Jin Qili didn't pay attention to himself, he had already withdrawn his sword scabbard and drove forward, Song Chunfeng was angry and wanted to step forward together, but he was afraid that the other party would see that they would not keep their promises and thus be unfavorable to Jiang Ying, so he could only shout urgently: "My light skills are better than yours!" ”
"If there is an accident later, you will take her first." Jin Qi dropped this sentence, clamped the horse's belly, and quickly approached.
Song Chunfeng was stunned when he heard this.
Shi Qing looked worriedly at Jin Qi's back which was getting farther and farther away.
The leader of the other party saw the young man on the horse getting closer and closer, and for no reason he had an unspeakable fear.
It's just one person!
There are so many of their brothers, any one of them has drunk blood on the tip of the knife, and I'm afraid he won't succeed!
The leader was doing psychological counseling for himself, but when he saw that the young man on horseback had come to a distance of ten paces and showed no sign of stopping, he hurriedly shouted, "Stop me!" ”
As soon as these words came out, I felt that I couldn't hold my face.
What the hell is he afraid of!
It must have hit the evil spirit!
Jin Qi Lerma overlooked the group of people in front of him.
"Put down the sword in your hand!" The leader shouted again, trying to straighten his strong and sturdy chest as much as possible, and his face was full of gangsterism, to show that he was full of confidence.
Jin Qi raised his hand and threw his sword out.
There was a bang, and the scabbard of the carved dragon motif inlaid with obsidian smashed at the feet of everyone.
The leader bent down and picked it up, gripped the hilt of his sword and drew it an inch, his eyes suddenly blinded by the bright light of the sword.
…… Good sword!
This sword alone is worth a lot!
It seems that they underestimated the family this time, and the price was too low!
The man's eyes were full of greed, and he wondered if he would temporarily double the price.
"Where are the people?" Jin Qi asked coldly.
"Don't worry, we will naturally hand over the money when we see it, how insincere is it to sit on the horse and talk?" The man said with a ruffian smile on his face.
Jin Qi turned over and jumped off the horse.
Temporary cooperation is inevitable until you meet people.
"Did you bring the silver?" The leader asked.
"The money is in the wagon." Jin Qi replied while listening attentively to the movements around him, and said, "I want to see people first." ”
As if he hadn't heard Jin Qi's request, the man looked like a bandit, and said: "You can come half a cup of tea later than the appointed hour, let our brothers wait in this cold mass grave, don't mean that you will give your brothers a warm body money to eat hot wine and drink hot soup, but I'm afraid that my brothers will not agree——"
"That's for sure!"
"That's what Big Brother said!"
"How can you see your sincerity without showing filial piety?"
The crowd stirred up.
The voices of these people were extremely high, and their tone was arrogant, even Song Chunfeng in the distance could hear it clearly, and they couldn't help but be angry for a while, and couldn't bear to say: "You have to inch in!" ”
Seeing that he had the urge to rush up, Shi Qing hurriedly stopped the person and said, "Just bear with it...... At present, the safety of the girl is the first priority. ”
Jin Qi held on to what little patience he had left, and looked at the tall leader.
When the man saw him so 'on the road' and was led by his nose, he couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous, and said arrogantly: "Prepare another five thousand taels!" ”
Everyone couldn't help but gasp when they heard this.
The boss really dares to ask for a price! R1152