At night, a horse-drawn carriage drove out of the city gates and headed out to the outskirts.

There is a big river flowing outside the city of Yiyang, an official road from south to north is lined with dense forests, the river is irrigated, in previous years, there are often rich families in the suburbs of the city to set up a yard, occupy the creek land, used as a cool in June, there are people who fall in the middle of the road, the family moves away, the yard is empty, it is dilapidated year by year, and it has become a habitat for homeless people and beggars.

The carriage crossed a wooded field, and into the depths, the occasional flutter of birds sounded, and the moon in the sky was faintly visible, but there was a fire in the road ahead.

"Drink-" The groom stopped in front of a ruined courtyard, and immediately two men came forward with torches in their hands to illuminate them, and they were actually two well-faced and neatly dressed young people, and two men jumped out of the car, one was tall and thin, and the other had a scar on his face.

"Senior brother, you're back, the master is losing his temper, why hasn't anyone got it yet?"

"It's in the car, I'll go see Master, and you guys get people in."

The scar-faced man gave an order, and hurried into the courtyard, and a young man with a torch lifted the curtain, and saw three people lying crookedly inside, and couldn't help but ask the tall and thin man strangely:

"Didn't Master ask you to find the boy born in the water dragon day, how did you bring back three?"

"Don't mention it, it's because I didn't do things carefully, and I was seen when I took people, so I brought more of them back. Anyway, it's all boys, look at the poor sour dress and know that it's a boy who hasn't opened meat, in case a long way of making a mistake and killing one or two of those children, can you still count it? ”

"Hmph, Master takes this Dharma very seriously, if you let him hear this, ten lives will not be enough."

"Hehe, don't be angry, little master, I'll just say it so casually, how could such a powerful character as the Taoist master miss, didn't it mean that he was waiting inside, let's go in quickly."

Several people fished out Yu Shu, Yu Xiaoxiu and Xue Wenzhe in the car, and carried them into the dilapidated courtyard.

***

Smelling an unpleasant stench, the wings of her nose moved, Yu Shu woke up from the coma slowly, and the dull pain from the back of her neck made her freeze her body, and she didn't move, but opened her eyes to a thin slit, looking at the environment she was in at the moment.

The line of sight was very dark, and the only light came through the window opposite, which was enough for Yu Shu to see clearly, and his heart was suddenly cold.

There were more than a dozen people lying in this dim room, all of them seemed to be in a coma, looking like they were still children, the door was closed, and a foul smell of feces and urine rushed into the air, obviously these people had been locked up for not a day or two, and they had not been treated well by the other party.

She suddenly remembered that Cao Zixin had mentioned a few days ago that many boys had been lost in Yiyang City recently, almost her age, and it seemed that she was unlucky to bump into this group of traffickers.

She turned her head and saw Yu Xiaoxiu lying next to her lap, reached out and touched his warm neck, calmed down a little, and then pricked up her ears to listen to the movement outside.

There was a voice outside the door, and it was clear in the quiet night:

"Well, it's another night, how long are we going to stay in this place?"

"It's not that the water dragon boy got it, he is preparing to open the altar later, maybe tomorrow our brothers and sisters will be able to go to Beijing together to eat fragrant and drink spicy food."

"Hey, what is the origin of the sword that you said Master asked us to grab, I don't even have a blade on that sword, do you really want to take that thing to pay homage to your birthday?"

"Shhh, you call it ignorant goods, I heard Brother Feng say, that sword is called pure or something, it is an ancient sword with thousands of years of history, because it has been hidden for a long time, and it looks ordinary because it has lost its spirituality, so the master has put so much effort into doing things to reopen this sword, it is really done, that sword is not worth a lot of money, there is nowhere to change it, and it has a lot of face when it is a birthday gift."

"That's amazing."

Yu Shu listened to their words, and was worried in his heart, this group of people is not human traffickers, it seems that they are not arresting people to sell, but to take them on the spot, and just tonight, isn't this even a chance to escape?

Water Dragon Boy, I'm talking about that Young Master Xue, by the way, and that kid, where are the people?

Yu Shu observed around the house again, and made sure that he didn't find Xue Wenzhe, and he couldn't care much at the moment, turned over and lay on the ground, approached the window behind lightly, knelt up, touched the window paper, stretched out his hand and poked a hole to look out, but it was terrible!

What's that doing?

The trees in the backyard were all cut down, bald, several men stood under the eaves with torches, there was an offering table in the courtyard, full of fresh fruits, and incense burners and candles, a man in a gray robe had his back to her, holding a peachwood long sword in his hand, and was breaking and reciting the burning talisman, one by one into the bowl, suddenly turned around, revealing a middle-aged face, his eyes were sunken, and his eyes were very gloomy, so frightened that Yu Shu shrank his head with a "whoosh", thinking that he had found it.

It was Yu Shu who was too shocked, and the middle-aged Taoist priest did not notice her, but turned around and used the sticky blood in the bowl to dip it with a wooden sword, and drew a formation diagram on a flat open space behind him.

"Go, pick seven people."

"Yes, Master."

As soon as this life was answered, it was very clearly transmitted into Yu Shu's ears, she didn't know that this Taoist priest wanted to pick seven people over, whether he wanted to die or live, but it was definitely not good.

Glancing at Yu Xiaoxiu, who was lying in the door, she thought for a while, and quickly touched his side, trying to pull him inside, so as not to be carried by someone entering the door first, but she couldn't drag him after dragging him twice, for fear of making too much movement, she had to cover his mouth with one hand, pinch his person with the other, and whispered in his ear:

"Minor repairs, small repairs, wake up, minor repairs?"

Yu Xiaoxiu was not drugged, but was only knocked unconscious, and was called by her like this, he woke up with a snort, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he just wanted to scream, but he was pinched by Yu Shu's ears and poured into the voice:

"Shhh

Yu Shu repeated repeatedly, Yu Xiaoxiu nodded in a panic, in the dark, he held down Yu Shu's hand, held it tightly, trembling slightly, he still remembered that he and Yu Shu sat on the stall eating wontons before, and then the money fell and ran into the alley, only to see someone inside, and before he could figure out what was going on, he was knocked unconscious.

"Get up, come with me and hide inside." Yu Shu pulled him and went to the house, tripped over a few pairs of legs and feet in the middle, and could detect that Yu Xiaoxiu's body was trembling badly, fear was contagious, and she was a little scared in her heart.

She just said that it was like that to appease Yu Xiaoxiu, in fact, she didn't even know what kind of place this was, there were so many people outside, it seemed that she could do martial arts, if she wanted to escape from Lu safely, relying on their two and a half old "children", it was simply a fool's dream, as a person who had taken the insurance calculation industry as her main job, she quickly analyzed the current situation, and under various probabilities, she had no choice but to conclude:

The safest thing to do now is to hope that these people will not kill people, and when the Narauszi Dharma is done, they will leave and let them live.

As soon as Yu Xiaoxiu was dragged to the corner, footsteps sounded outside the door, Yu Shu looked at the unkempt children around him, reached out and pulled Yu Xiaoxiu's hair rope, rubbing his hair like in the afternoon, but he was not in the mood to have fun at that moment.

The sister and brother lay on the ground side by side, Yu Shu grabbed his hair, shook Yu Xiaoxiu's hand vigorously, and said in a low voice: "Wait a minute, no matter what happens, don't make a sound first, pretend to faint, do you know the way?" ”

"Hmm." Yu Xiaoxiu gritted his teeth, smelling the stench in the room, and his eyes were sore.

Yu Shu was afraid that he would show his stuffing, so he hesitated, and he had already heard the sound of the door opening behind him, so he didn't hesitate any longer, raised his hand, and half-lay on Yu Xiaoxiu's back, just covering him under him.

"Sister—"

"Shhh

The next moment, the dimly lit hut was crowded with light.

"What sound does it see?"

"It's a rat, uh, it really stinks in here, hurry up, pick someone and leave."

"This, this, and this are all lifted out."

There was a sound of moving in the room, Yu Shu waited in fear, and counted the number of people they moved, just enough to seven, and was about to rejoice, but heard a bad news:

"Tsk, one of them died, what should I do?"

"Another one, well, the one over there."

Listening to the sound of footsteps approaching, Yu Shu squeezed her eyes, and repeatedly muttered in her heart, "Don't come, don't come, don't come" and "Look over there, look over there", but unfortunately the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and one of her arms on Yu Xiaoxiu's back was pulled up by brute force.

Your uncle, will you pick it! There are still a few of them lying over there!

Yu Shu scolded in his heart, but he was carried out as if he had no bones, and he didn't even dare to open his eyes to look at Yu Xiaoxiu, for fear that this stinky boy would suddenly go crazy and stand up.

But fortunately, until she was taken out and the door was closed again, nothing happened.

The room was dark, Yu Xiaoxiu trembled and got up, clenched his fists, staring directly at the closed door, in the dark, a pair of eyes flashed, not only fear, but also anger, and shame.

The seven children were carried or carried to the backyard, and the middle-aged Taoist priest had already drawn a formation on the ground, pointed to the position, and asked several apprentices to place the people in the correct position.

Yu Shu was thrown to the ground, her head tilted, she smelled a fishy smell, and recognized it as blood, as long as she thought that it might be human blood, she had a burst of pantothenic acid in her stomach, and she bit the tip of her tongue hard to stop vomiting.

"Open the altar!"

At this time, it was already late at night, lying on the cold ground, listening to those little Taoist priests shaking bells, middle-aged Taoists muttering obscure sentences, eerie and uncomfortable, Yu Shu's eyelids opened a thin slit, from her current angle, only his shoes and trouser legs could be seen.

Originally, she was a little scared, but this middle-aged Taoist chirped crookedly for a long time and didn't make any next move, which gradually made her impatient, her eyes moved, and several children around her were lying groggily, and she was the only one whose ears were about to suffer this kind of torture.

I'm so annoyed, hurry up and take the next step!

"Boom!"

A spring thunder exploded in the sky, and Yu Shu trembled, but fortunately, the attention of the people standing around was on that person, and they didn't notice her movement.

"In vain! Bring the water dragon boy up! Fast! ”

Yu Shu was uncomfortable by the thunder, his eyelids moved, and he saw someone diagonally opposite the Taoist entering and exiting a room in the backyard from the hem of the Taoist's trousers, and hugged a white man out.

What is the white flower?

Because the man had no clothes.

Yu Shu hurriedly closed his eyes, ignoring incivility, not ashamed, purely afraid of long needle eyes, besides, what is there to see about the white chicken.

During the period, there were two more thunders, she endured it, I don't know how long it took, before she opened her eyes again, this look didn't matter, it immediately made her dumbfounded, the middle-aged Taoist who was chatpy didn't know when he picked up a metal long sword, waved it twice, and in this thunderstorm, bravely pointed to the sky-

"Boom!"

was struck by thunder, Yu Shu squeezed his eyes and said secretly.