CHAPTER XXI

There is still half a day's journey from Xuzhou, so I carried the silver taels on my body and went out to find Lin Han. It's really not worry-free, why go out so early?

I looked for people one by one, but unfortunately they were all civilians, Lin Han should not go to a strange civilian's house, but an old man stopped me and said: "Girl, don't look at the people around here, but there are flower thieves!" ”

"Flower thief?"

"Yes, we hardly have any girls here, and we either fled in fright, or were taken captive by those men."

"So terrible? Isn't there a fast catch tube in this place? ”

"This is the place where people passing by rest, it used to be a desolate place, no one cared about it at all, it was only in recent years that someone built an inn, and a few families moved from elsewhere, so they were a little angry, and now almost all the rest are old men and old women, and there are no strong men to save those girls."

"Where do all those flower thieves live?"

"The mountain ahead. The girls they had taken were hidden in the mountain. ”

"Thanks for the reminder, I'll take a look."

"You're a girl's house, aren't you going to send it to your door!"

"Uncle, don't worry, even if there are a hundred flower thieves, I can deal with them."

"Don't go!"

I nodded, and ran to the mountain that the old man had pointed to.

The most conspicuous place in this area is the mountain, although it is not high, but it is already the most iconic thing that can be seen within a radius of 100 miles.

There was a small opening at the bottom of the mountain, which should be where they entered and exited, and there was no one guarding the area, so I observed that there was no mechanism and went in.

Cave cave, there is no decoration in it, there are only bare walls, gray stones, the hole is not deep, I didn't walk a few steps, I saw a few girls hanging on the cave wall.

There must have been some other exit from the cave, and I saw a stone door inside, but there was no one in this "hall" except the girls. It's just that among those girls, there is no Lin Han. They were all unconscious, as if they had been nailed to the wall, and I went over and loosened the ropes one by one, and laid them on the ground, and was about to go to the stone door, which opened from the inside.

The first man to come out was a man of five big and three thick, who was first astonished when he saw me, then ecstatic, and said to the people behind him: "Brothers, behold, there is a girl who has come to the door by herself! ”

The men laughed, and I said, "So, you're really a flower thief, shameless and ridiculous." ”

"Huh! How dare you scold me! The thief said, "Brothers, tie her up!" ”

The men rushed over, and I picked up the short knife at my waist and killed them neatly, blood spurting from their necks onto the wall, bringing a touch of "warmth" and color to the gray and cold cave.

"You!"

Although the leader of the thieves was angry, he did not dare to call anyone to do it again. He didn't have many men, only six people, and now I killed two, plus he had five left, he asked, "Who are you?!" ”

"It's none of your business, you just need to know that I'm here to rescue these girls."

"What a big breath! What do you have to do with the people I captured?! ”

"You're harmful, it's just not right, don't talk to me about this! Go to the city and turn yourself in, or I'll kill you! ”

One of his subordinates whispered to the thief leader: "Big brother, why don't we let these girls go, this girl is not easy to mess with, don't let us all die when the time comesβ€”β€”"

"Don't let go! We've been here for so many years, and no one has ever bothered me! You want to take these girls away when you come out with such a thing today? No way! Then he slashed at me with his knife.

The next scene was very bloody, the unconscious girl lying on the ground was splashed with blood drops on her face, woke up, screamed in shock, and all shrank into the corner, not daring to move. I knocked out the thief leader, and the rest of the younger brothers were killed by me, tied up, and even one came to help me tie up their boss.

"Are there any girls among you?"

"Yes...... A ......"

"Okay." I quickly tied them together, tied them in a dead knot, and walked through the stone door.

Lin Han was lying inside, his eyes closed, looking peaceful. But I knew she wasn't dead, it looked like she was just drugged or knocked unconscious. Fortunately, she was neatly dressed, not like she had been defiled, so I walked over, patted her, and shouted, "Miss Lin! ”

Lin Han woke up after a while, saw that it was me, was stunned for a moment, hugged me suddenly, and cried: "Meet the stars!" I'm sorry, I shouldn't have run out! You've been caught too! ”

"I've tied them all up, let's go."

"What? …… Okay, let's go! ”

Lin Han cried and cried and followed me out of the stone gate, and when he saw the blood everywhere and the three people tied together, he was frightened again and leaned against me tightly.

I hurried back to the village with the rest of the girls, and everyone was stunned, and even several people knelt down to thank me, but most of them did not react, saying that those girls had been taken away for several years, and the strong men they had sent had been killed, and they did not expect me to come back with them. I was a little flustered, the people in this place would remember me, and I was a fugitive, so I didn't stay any longer, just said that I was going to hurry, so I didn't say much, and the food that the villagers forced on me was also rejected by me, so I pulled Lin Han and hurried away.

When we arrived at the inn, Lin Han and I went upstairs to clean up our things and went to the stable, and when I led the horse, Lin Han said, "Yuxing, thank you." ”

"Nothing."

Lin Han saw that I was indifferent, and seemed to want to ask something, but he only moved his lips a few times, and stopped talking, and finally didn't ask anything.

Finally arrived in Xuzhou in the evening, I accompanied Lin Han to find the old man Jiang, and I could see that Lin Han still respected him very much, but the old man Jiang's attitude towards Lin Han was not very good, and it seemed that what he saw was not the daughter of a famous family, but an ordinary tea picker.

"I'm going to find the inn, if I don't come to you in two days, you can go back to the capital by yourself." I said.

"What? Why don't you come to me? ”

"It's hard to find medicinal herbs, and besides, I have to find other medicines, not just Bupleurum."

"I'll wait for you to come."

"Miss Lin, I'm not your husband, what's there to wait for? When the time comes, you can go back to the capital by yourself, and stay in an expensive inn along the way, so it is safer. ”

Lin Han stared at me for a while and said, "Yuxing, you always have something to hide from me." ”

"Miss Lin, we are not people of the same road, it is my honor to be able to come to Xuzhou with you, please take care of yourself."

After saying that, I quickly got on my horse and galloped away.