Chapter Twenty-Five: Kidnapped
Liu Fusu instructed Rujin to pack up his things, and went to a nearby inn with Rujin to find the cheapest room. When they entered the room, a strong smell of sweat came to their heads, and they quickly ran out and vomited for a long time.
"Fusu, I can't stay for a while!" Rujin vomited for a while before raising his head and saying, and then vomited several times with Liu Fusu.
"Rujin might as well go find a clean place to spend the night, but we don't have enough silver taels on our bodies. Let's just leave it at that. Liu Fusu looked at Rujin and followed her to suffer, and said with a very guilty look.
It was night, and from time to time there was the barking of dogs on the side of the empty street. Boom! Boom! On the second watch, the watchman banged the gong and shouted as he walked, "Close the doors and windows, be careful of the candles!" ”
Liu Fusu and Rujin approached each other to warm each other, and watched the husband come and walk over. Rujin was so engrossed that she couldn't hold it anymore. Liu Fusu's eyelids fell, she clenched her teeth tightly, reminding herself not to fall asleep, she looked up at the night sky with difficulty, and met a sea of stars. She hurriedly woke up Rujin, "Rujin, Rujin, look at the night sky!" ”
They looked at the high night sky, and there was a spoon-shaped star array at the north end of the starry glitter, and when they clicked it, it was seven stars, and this was the Big Dipper! Glowing in the night sky, it lights up the darkness of those who walk nowhere to go at night.
"Look! It's the Big Dipper! Shows the way to people in the dark! My mother once taught me to look at the Big Dipper, the bucket handle points to the east, and the world is spring; Bucket handle guide, the world is summer; The bucket handle points to the west, and the world is autumn; The bucket handle points to the north, and the world is winter. Liu Fusu excitedly pointed to the starry sky and said, as if her mother and father were around to teach her to identify the Big Dipper.
Rujin looked up at the starry sky and said to Liu Fusu hopefully, "Fusu, we will live in a very big house in the future, a house bigger than the Prime Minister's Mansion, and we will eat the delicacies of the world, okay?" Liu Fusu looked at Rujin's sparkling eyes, nodded cautiously, and gently flicked Rujin's innocent face with his right hand.
After a long night of questions and answers, Liu Fusu decided to look for a short-term job with Rujin to support himself. They walked down the street and saw a liquor store with customers, hesitated for a long time, but still mustered up the courage to walk in and ask, "Shopkeeper, do you want a buddy here?" ”
The account guy looked up at the thin bodies of Liu Fusu and the others, and said disgustedly, "Don't, don't stop us from doing business!" ”
Liu Fusu and Rujin walked out dejectedly, and a kind lady stepped forward and asked, "Two little brothers, wait!" Wait a minute! Liu Fusu asked vigilantly, "What's the matter?" ”
The eldest lady smiled and took Liu Fusu's hand and said, "The hand is so smooth and delicate, how good it would be if you were a girl!" I heard you're looking for a part-time job? Auntie, I just opened a new wine shop here, and I'm worried that I can't find a guy! ”
"Yes, we can do any rough work!" Rujin asked hopefully when she heard this. The eldest lady covered her mouth and smiled, and looked the two of them up and down for a few minutes, "If the two little brothers don't dislike it, then follow the eldest lady to the wine shop and sign a deed!" Not far away, just ahead. ”
Liu Fusu and Rujin followed the eldest lady, walked through the crowded streets and alleys, and walked forward for a stick of incense. Liu Fusu began to wonder in his heart, "Didn't you say it's very close, auntie?" Why did you walk for so long and still haven't arrived? ”
The eldest lady just blindly said, "Soon, soon!" "I pulled them as I walked. After rounding several alleys, I finally came to a wine shop with no customers.
"Come on! Come! Sit down and rest, two little brothers! The shop is on tea! As soon as the eldest lady entered the store, she shouted loudly, "Auntie, I will come when I go!" Liu Fusu and Rujin walked such a long way, tired and thirsty, and drank the teacup with a gurgling taste.
After Rujin drank a cup of tea, she fell to the ground, and Liu Fusu looked at her and shouted in surprise, "Rujin! And with that, he fell to the ground.
"Aunt Pan did a good job this time! took down two beautiful goods, and rushed to pack them up and lock them in the back room. A man with a scruffy beard said in a rough voice, "Get a bag of broken silver for Aunt Pan." ”
"Thank you, Mr. Ji!" The aunt took the silver with a smile and went away happily.
When Liu Fusu woke up, he found himself in a simple house, and there were also a few young women shrunk in the corner, shivering, crying softly. There were two big wolf dogs tied to the door, sticking out their long tongues and staring at them with blazing eyes, and no one dared to run away. Two men picked up the jar of wine, touched it from time to time, drank a lot, ate the remaining bones, and threw them to the two wolf dogs to eat.
Liu Fusu found that she was tied up by someone's teeth, and she quickly woke up Rujin beside her. "Rujin! Like brocade! We've been kidnapped! ”
When Rujin heard this, he was frightened, "What about Fusu?" Liu Fusu heard a noise outside the door, she motioned for Rujin to continue pretending to be asleep, and smeared both of their faces with dirt on the ground.
Sure enough, several men with weapons broke the door lock, waiting for the old man in brocade clothes to choose someone, and two of them were pulled out to trade. The two women cried and screamed, desperately clinging to the wall and struggling, but were eventually dragged out and sold.
Fortunately, Liu Fusu and Rujin had already smeared their faces with dirt ash to make them ugly, and they didn't look at the buyers. Liu Fusu had to figure out what was going on with the people who had captured them, so she waited for a moment for the guards to leave, and asked the girl next to her, "Little sister, who are they?" Where is this place? ”
The girl looked timidly and timidly before she said, "I don't know, I've been locked up here by them for more than a month." I was walking around the street, and then an aunt came and talked to me, and then I fainted, and I woke up to find myself locked up here! There are a total of 16 people locked up here with me, and it is impossible to escape, not to mention that there are two big men guarding us, and there are two fierce wolf dogs watching at the door, and there are new ones being locked in every day. ”
Rujin's eyes widened when she listened, she looked at Liu Fusu in horror, Liu Fusu took her hand and gently patted a few times to comfort, "Don't be afraid!" Unafraid! ”
Liu Fusu picked up the food brought by the man on guard, waited for them to leave, and quickly poured half of the food on his plate to the bowl of the two wolf dogs, and the two wolf dogs looked at Liu Fusu a few times and then lowered their heads and ate with relish.
In the days that followed, Liu Fusu poured half of every meal for the wolf dog to eat, Rujin didn't understand anything, obviously she couldn't eat enough, and she was hungry every day, but she knew that Liu Fusu must have her reason for doing this, so she poured half of every meal for the wolf dog to eat like Liu Fusu.
After eating a few meals from Liu Fusu, the two wolf dogs seemed to be more and more docile to Liu Fusu, and sometimes listened to some of Liu Fusu's commands, and they had been tamed by Liu Fusu.
One day, the sky was a little darker, and those people seemed to have made a big deal, so they let go to eat and drink, frolicking outside, guessing and gambling, and everyone was partying.
Liu Fusu discussed with a few bold women and waited for the opportunity to escape, Rujin and another woman were nervously cutting off the broken bowl piece by bit, and it took a long time to cut the rope that bound Liu Fusu. She quickly and quietly helped the other women to cut off, and so on, all of them cut the rope and broke free.
Liu Fusu beckoned to the two wolf dogs, and she whispered in the ear of one of them, and pointed to the man with the key. Renyazi was already drunk and dizzy, and the wolf dog walked into him casually, took the key from him in an uncaring manner, and quickly took it to Liu Fusu.
Liu Fusu took the key, quietly unlocked the door, and led a dozen women to quietly climb out of the room where they were held. The last woman was so nervous that she accidentally touched the chair and fell down. The sound caught the attention of the man, and he turned his head to look, and when he saw that the room was empty, he shouted, "Arrest him!" People ran away! ”
Hearing the sound, their head Ji turned over the table, and the table of food ping-pong sounded, and the room suddenly fell silent. Manager Ji ordered, "Everyone immediately go out to chase after them, if one of them escapes, you will be beaten with ten sticks." Everyone immediately took action and ran out to chase people.
Liu Fusu let Rujin lead the way in front, and after she broke off, she found that when the man behind her was chasing them quickly, she didn't have time to hide. A neck rope fell from the sky, lassing Liu Fusu, and suddenly a wolf dog pounced and bit off a piece of meat on the man's arm, and the man instantly fell to the ground and wailed, "Dabao and Erbao, who is your master?" Another wolf dog used all his strength to bite the rope and save Liu Fusu. The two wolf dogs protected Liu Fusu left and right, and followed her all the time.
All the women ran forward as best they could, and the pursuers behind caught up and captured a few women who couldn't run. Liu Fusu said loudly to the women, "Let's run to the yamen, and we will be saved!" After chasing after each other, they had exhausted all their strength, and they ran to the yamen of Chunhe City.
Seeing this group of embarrassed women, the catcher in front of the yamen stepped forward to stop them, and said majestically, "The yamen is heavy, and it is not allowed to be defiled!" ”
Liu Fusu stepped forward, and the two wolf dogs rushed forward, and when the catchers saw these two fierce wolf dogs, the bear got up. "A few masters, it's good! Help us! Several women came forward and knelt on the ground and pulled them, crying bitterly for help.
One of the leaders asked what was going on. Liu Fusu said anxiously, "The back is to catch our teeth, let us go into the yamen to hide." The leader of the arrester quickly signaled, quickly opened the yamen, and let the group of women in.
At this time, Liu Fusu breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Thank you for saving us, we were tied up by someone's teeth, and we escaped tonight when they were unprepared to steal the key." One of the officials said, "Head, it's no wonder that some young girls have been missing in our Chunhe City in recent months, and it seems that these people have done it." ”
The officials and the arrester searched according to the location they said by Liu Fusu, and sure enough, they found human teeth in a remote house on the outskirts of the city, rescued the missing girl, and arrested their leader, known as Mr. Ji. The arrest of Chunhe City quickly solved a major case, and in order to appease these women, the yamen paid ten taels of silver each.
The other women were rescued and returned to their original places, and Liu Fusu and Rujin rushed to the border city with these silver taels, and of course, the two faithful wolf dogs also followed.