"In this case, Wenshan, you lead the way in front, we will go to your village to explore the dry road out of the village, and the others follow Brother Dahe, if you have any clues, quickly go to the dry road out of Wenshan Village to tell us, if we find the clues first, we will send someone back to inform you."

After Li Yangwu finished speaking, everyone went their separate ways, Li Yangwu's team walked like a fly towards the dry road intersection of Wenshan Village out of the village, this is a mountain road along the foot of the mountain, usually few people walk, everyone out of the village is by water, it takes time to go out of the village on the dry road, and it is convenient to have horses, cows, and donkeys.

The people walked a little further along the mountain road, and said, "Hey, you see, has the grass on the side of the road been bitten by some animal?" There are still some footprints along the way. Li Sun squatted down and pointed to the grass and footprints on the side of the road.

"I'll see." Li Sunshi gave up his position to Li Yangwu, Li Yangwu reached out and touched the grass, and then observed it carefully, "This grass is still very fresh, it should have been bitten yesterday, it must be an animal, this footprint looks like the footprints of an adult and a donkey, let's go a little further forward to see if there are any footprints of a donkey." ”

Li Yangqing ran forward for a while, turned his head and shouted to the people behind him: "Come and see, this road is full of donkey footprints, and the footprints are still very clear, it must be someone riding a donkey recently." ”

"Brother Yangwu, are you still there? I have news for you. ”

"Here, we're here, we've found it too, come on." Li Yangwu replied to Wen Dahe, who was shouting in the distance.

Wen Dahe heard the sound and ran to everyone, "Brother Yangwu, after the village chief heard about it, he summoned the people in the village to help find it, but he still didn't see Wen Shui, and the village chief asked if there was anything unusual in the village today or there were outsiders passing by, and it was also a coincidence, there was a playful little baby in the village when he was playing at the entrance of the village, and he saw an old man passing by with a tightly covered child on his back. ”

"That must be Wenshui, because we also found the footprints of an adult and a donkey on this mountain road, it seems that Wenshui must have been captured by this person, Uncle Dahe, you go back and tell the people in the village, and the rest of us follow the footprints to chase people." After Li Yangqing finished explaining Wen Dahe, he led the Li family to run forward along the footprints on the mountain road.

After walking for an hour, Li Yangwu made a new discovery, "Isn't this the way to town?" The last time I followed the king's landlord's family, this was the road, could it be that the king's landlord was making it bad? Some of him have donkeys and some have time to do such a thing, is the landlord Wang because he lost more money last time? Disgruntled, deliberately retaliated against the Wenshan family. Li Yangwu guessed.

"Second brother, your guess has this possibility, it is not ruled out that the landlord is bad, first for our stall, and then for the Wenshan family, if it is the landlord who catches Wenshui, he will definitely use Wenshui to make trouble and threaten us, but this direction is to go to the town, if it is not the landlord's house, then it takes so much effort to catch a little girl to go to the town, what is it for? Whether other people in the village have this motive for committing the crime, we still don't know, if it is a zizi, it is to kidnap the little girl to the town and sell it to people for money, then we have to hurry as soon as possible, I am afraid that Wenshui will be more auspicious if it is late! But why not kidnap the child who has no adults at the entrance of the village, and go so far to Wenshan's house to kidnap the ten-year-old Wenshui, this is a very risky thing, and this is another place with doubts. Li Yangming turned his head to the others around him and told him his analysis of the matter.

After listening to Li Yangming's analysis, Li Yangqing also felt that it was very reasonable, "I think that since we have a suspect and now we are on the way to the town, let's go to the town to inquire first, if we are abducted, we must hurry up and save people." ”

"If it was the landlord of the king's land, I would have fought hard with him, first killing my father and mother, and now I will harm my sister." Wen Shan listened to everyone's analysis, shouted through gritted teeth, wiped the sweat on his face, and sped up his pace to run forward.

"Wenshan, Wenshan, you calm down first and don't do stupid things impulsively, we will definitely help you find Wenshui." Li Yangqing caught up with Shangwen Shan and patted him on the shoulder.

After another hour, the people who walked and ran finally arrived in Hongxia Town, they couldn't stand it anymore, especially Li Yangqing, who was already young and a girl, and was exhausted from rushing all the way, and couldn't stand it and threw himself on the ground all of a sudden, and the others were so out of breath that they couldn't straighten their waists.

Seeing Li Yangqing fall to the ground, Li Yangwu was very distressed, and quickly pulled up his sister and put her on her back, while the others supported each other and walked to the slave market in the town, which specializes in buying and selling people.

Li Yangqing, who was lying on Li Yangwu's back, was very ashamed, it seemed that he must exercise longer after going back, the world is not peaceful, he runs for his life, and he must urge his family to exercise when he goes back.

After entering the north alley, he hurriedly ran to the slave market, and when he passed by the stall at home, he saw that Mr. Li was also there, Li Yangming explained a few words, and hurriedly took Mr. Li to the alley in front of the market.

Entering the alley, Old Man Li stopped a gray-clothed brother and asked, "Little brother, please stay, we are here to find someone, please take us to find the owner of this market, we are going to buy someone." After Mr. Li finished speaking, he stuffed ten cents and gave it to the little brother, the little brother pinched the money in his hand, and said politely with a smile: "Don't bother, I'll take you to find Brother Monkey, our owner's surname is Liu, known as Liu Ye, who has been in charge of this slave market for many years, you want him to buy people, and you can respect him later." ”

The little brother in gray took a group of people to the door of an independent house, knocked on the door, "creak", the door opened, and saw a group of people surrounding the door, "Who are you looking for, what are you doing?" ”

"Brother Monkey, these people are here to buy people from Master Liu." The little brother in gray said enthusiastically to a man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks behind the door.

"Yes, Master Monkey, we are here to buy people, looking for our relatives who have been abducted and trafficked, please introduce us to your Liu Dongjia, okay?" Old Man Li said politely.

"Alright, then come in! Wait in this courtyard, I'll go talk to Liu Ye! Turning sideways, let the group enter the house, Li Yangwu also entered the house after thanking the little brother,

The monkey entered the house to report, and after a while, he saw a young man in an apricot-colored silk coat and a graceful figure coming over, and he saw that this person had a handsome face, full of gentle and elegant bearing, like a reader who read poetry and books, but when his sharp and deep eyes looked at you, people had a sense of automatic vigilance, and the body was cold, and the appearance of warmth contained a cold soul, which was not an easy person to deal with at first glance, Li Yangqing lay on Li Yangwu's back and secretly looked at this Liu Ye.

Liu Ye sat on the chair brought by the next person, not in a hurry to speak, slowly took a sip of tea with the tea cup, and glanced at the people in the courtyard casually, "I heard about your situation just now, we have our rules here, if you have money, you can sell the goods you want, go, call out all the goods you have received recently, let them pass by, whether there is anything they want." "Liu Ye told the monkey to call people.

"Thank you Liu Ye for taking care of you, contemptible Li Tingyuan of Lijia Village." Old Man Li arched his hand.

"Old man Li doesn't have to be polite, we are here to buy and sell money and goods." Liu Ye casually touched the beads on his wrist.

"Hurry up, you guys go faster, don't delay the hour." The monkey and a few men with whips in their hands urged a group of slaves who had their hands and feet tied to the courtyard, all of them sniping, with dirty hair on their heads, wearing tattered clothes, some of their naked bodies covered with scars, and standing in line in the courtyard with trembling.

Everyone in the Li family searched in the crowd for a while, and saw a little girl at the end of the team who was relatively cleanly dressed and had a yellow flower pinned to her head, "Sister, that's my sister." Wen Shan excitedly pulled Old Man Li's finger to his sister, and ran quickly to the slaves, wanting to pull his sister out.

With a "bang", Wenshan was roughly pushed to the ground by the monkey, "I don't understand the rules, when I come to us, it is our goods, and I want to take the goods without giving money." ”

Old Man Li hurriedly stepped forward to help Wenshan up, and apologized: "I'm sorry, Master Monkey, please have a lot of forgiveness from your adults, the child is young and ignorant, and we are anxious when we see people, we must act in accordance with the rules." ”

"Alright, now that you guys have seen it, it's time to talk about the price! This little girl is the goods we received this morning, and she sold them to us for three taels, and she has been with us for so long a day, and the price must be long, five taels of silver. Liu Ye put down the teacup in his hand and raised one hand to gestur.

"Master Liu, this, this, it's too ......." Before Li Yangwu finished speaking, Li Yangqing raised his hand and quickly covered his mouth, and struggled to get off Li Yangwu's back.

"Master Liu, five taels, we bought five taels, but we are in a hurry today, can we ...... Can we send someone back to get the money first? Li Yangqing relied on his young age, and adults did not care about saying the wrong thing, and had the courage to intercede, Li Yangqing knew in his heart that bargaining with such a person who was in charge of this slave market at a young age would only suffer from his own family, and besides, people said that there was no room for negotiation, and such people had the means to deal with people, and if the conversation broke down and offended people, what should people do if they didn't let them go, and saving people was the primary purpose of the Li family.

"Huh! You little girl is bold, can you call the shots? ”

"Master Liu, it's just five taels, we have no objection." Old Man Li reacted quickly, and understood Li Yangqing's thoughts in his heart.

"Okay, for the sake of your understanding, I'll give you some time to go back and get the money, it's not this price tomorrow, the rest of the goods will be brought in first, and the little girl who will be bought will stay first." Liu Ye raised his hand to signal his subordinates, and Ren Yazi led the order to leave with a group of goods.

"Yang Ming, I'll go back to the village to raise money first, you go and get the money earned from the stall here first, and the others stay here first." Li Tingyuan thanked Liu Ye after arranging, and hurried outside with Li Yangming.

Li Tingyuan took a boat back to Lijia Village, and after knocking on the door, Li Wenqiu opened the door, "Grandpa, have you found Sister Shui?" ”

Li Tingyuan nodded hurriedly, strode to the house, found out the more than one or two silver left in the house, counted and counted the fifteen hundred wen, if you add the stall to earn almost two taels today, there is still a difference of three taels, it seems that you have to go to the village to borrow some, and go out of the house with the money, and see Li Wenqiu taking Li Chengqiang and the two brothers to string strings in the yard, "Wenshui was found, it was sold, now I want to raise five taels of silver to redeem people, you close the door at home, don't run around, wait for the adults in the family to come back, I will go first." Li Tingyuan was going to Li Zhongshun's house to borrow money from his younger brother.

After Li Zhongshun split his family, he set up four thatched houses with earthen walls, built a firewood shed, and planted a few fruit trees in the yard of his home.