Seeing that Ye Ruliu's room was empty, everyone quickly checked every corner of the room. Except for the futon on the bed, which was a little messy, all the items in the room were neatly arranged and intact, and there were no signs of a fight.

Even Ye Ruliu's backpack containing weapons hung quietly on the wall inside the bed. Shi Lang took off his backpack and opened it, and everything including the deadly rose thorn was intact.

Shi Lang walked to the window again to check, and the two wooden windows were inserted from the inside, and there was no sign of breaking.

"Shi Lang, you stay and continue to check to see if you can find any clues. The others immediately went to find me the innkeeper. Luo Shiyin commanded sharply.

Luo Shiyin came to the service desk on the first floor, asked a shopkeeper about the location of the room where the shopkeeper lived, and then led Shi Tianji, Li Ruzhu, and Xie Yuan to a relatively hidden room on the north side of the hall on the first floor.

When Luo Shiyin knocked on the door of the innkeeper and led his men into the door, the female shopkeeper with a pockmarked face in Chunxiangju was counting the money in the house.

Seeing Luo Shiyin and the four of them breaking into the house and closing the door violently, a trace of panic flashed on the face of the horse-faced female shopkeeper, she quickly put the silver on the table into a cowhide bag, and then squeezed out a sneer, and asked, "What are the guests looking for me?" ”

"Why is the female guest in room six on the second floor missing?" Luo Shiyin approached the female shopkeeper and asked straight to the point.

"Number Six...... Lady, didn't you have a good stay last night? Why is it gone? The shopkeeper asked rhetorically.

"Old fellow, be honest. Otherwise, it will kill you! Shi Tianji took out an iron shovel from his bag and slammed it on the table.

"Ahh The shopkeeper was so frightened that she shrank to the side.

"Say!" Li Ruzhu also scolded sharply.

"Ouch, a couple of guest officers. You early in the morning, will you let me say anything? This man is gone, and I don't know why. You just killed me, and I don't know! The shopkeeper said in an almost pleading tone.

At this moment, there was a knock at the door. Luo Shiyin motioned for the female shopkeeper to sit on the chair, Li Ruzhu stood behind him with a short dagger in his hand, quietly pressed the dagger against the back of the female shopkeeper and whispered to her: "Don't make a noise, otherwise, you will die!" ”

Shi Tianji and Xie Yuan walked to the door and hid behind the door, and then, Shi Tianji slammed the door open, raised the iron shovel in his hand and was about to smash it into the house.

It was Shi Lang who came in. Shi Tianji hurriedly put away the iron shovel.

"My lord, I found a secret passage under the bed." Shi Lang reported to Luo Shiyin after closing the door.

"Shopkeeper, I advise you to be honest. so that they may not suffer from flesh and skin. Luo Shiyin's eyes were like torches, and he said coldly.

"I really don't know what's going on!" The female shopkeeper is still playing tricks.

"Old pig dog, if you don't say anything, I'll cut you with a knife!" Shi Lang was anxious to know Ye Ruliu's whereabouts, he took out a short knife from his waist, rushed to the female shopkeeper, grabbed the female shopkeeper's collar with one hand and picked it up, and put the knife against the other party's face with the other.

"I ...... I don't dare to say it. Said they'd kill me! Seeing Shi Lang's face distorted by anger, the female shopkeeper's tone loosened.

"Old thing, don't say it, it's the same death!" Shi Lang put the knife against the neck of the female shopkeeper.

"Okay, I said. The secret passage of room 6 leads to Jiyangling, which is outside the eastern part of the city, and there is a temple called "Bamboo Forest Shinsha" on Jiyangling. The female guest on the sixth was snatched away by the monks in the temple......" the female shopkeeper said tremblingly.

"How many people in this store know about this?" Luo Shiyin interrupted the female shopkeeper and asked.

"I'm the only one who knows. Everyone else in the store was hired, and none of them knew the secret. The shopkeeper said.

"If you want to lie and play tricks, I will let you see Hades with a knife!" Shi Lang's wrist exerted force, and a red mark appeared on the neck of the female shopkeeper.

"I ...... I don't dare to play tricks, guest. What I say is true. There is also ......" The female shopkeeper's pockmarked face has been frightened and a little deformed.

"Okay, don't talk about anything else. You immediately rush with us along the secret passage to Jiyangling. For the rest, explain as you go. Remember, go out and don't alarm anyone. Do you understand? The female shopkeeper wanted to explain other situations, but Luo Shiyin interrupted her. At this critical moment, Luo Shiyin understands that time is life. Arriving at Jiyangling earlier, Ye Ruliu will have more hope of being rescued.

"Understand, everything is up to the guest officer." The female shopkeeper hurriedly agreed.

"Let's go!" Luo Shiyin gave an order, and all the people in the house followed out of the door and walked towards the second floor.

Before going out, Shi Tianji casually picked up the big bag of silver that the female shopkeeper put on the table and put it in his arms.

Shi Lang followed closely behind the female shopkeeper, and pressed the short knife against her waist in a very covert movement.

"The shopkeeper is good!" When passing by the hall on the first floor, an unknown shopkeeper took the initiative to greet the female shopkeeper.

"Oh, good. I'll go out and work hard. It delayed the business of the store. The female shopkeeper slapped a smile and said to the shopkeeper.

"Don't worry, shopkeeper." The shopkeeper said to the female shopkeeper flatteringly.

Several people came to room No. 6, where Ye Ruliu lived, and locked the door.

Shi Lang moved the bed away.

On the wooden floor under the bed, an imperceptible metal garden hat appeared, and Shi Lang pressed hard, and the wooden floor half a meter square automatically opened, revealing a dark passage with a black hole underneath.

Several people escorted the female shopkeeper down the wooden stairs in the secret passage to the cave in turn. Then, under the guidance of the female shopkeeper, he hurried to Jiyangling outside the city.

Along the way, according to the female shopkeeper's explanation, there are several rooms in Chunxiang's residence that are exclusively for female guests. Each of these rooms has a secret passage. Once you meet a female guest with a better posture, the female shopkeeper will fly a pigeon to pass the book and tell the monks in the bamboo forest real house.

At night, the monk would follow the secret passage to the room where the female guest lived, and the monk would first use a round hole in the wooden board of the secret passage to blow a special incense into the room. After a while, after the female guests are stunned by the incense, the monks who come will open the secret passage and snatch the person away.

For each vote, the female shopkeeper will receive a large sum of silver in return.

The female shopkeeper also confessed that Chunxiangju is the ancestral property of her ancestors who have been operating for decades. Her husband died a few years ago, and the two have no children, so she is the one who runs Chunxiangju hard.

The secret passages in the rooms in the store were originally dug by her ancestors to avoid the scourge of war. After the Japanese occupied Nanyuan last year, they learned of this secret from somewhere, so they colluded with the monks on Jiyangling and forced the female shopkeeper to use these rooms with secret passages for female guests, and secretly robbed those beautiful female guests.

As for what the Japanese people will do with these female guests after they are robbed to the Bamboo Forest True House, the female shopkeeper does not know the truth. She didn't dare to ask about these things. The Japanese threatened her not to tell anyone the secret, or else she would take her life.

Jiyangling is the lowest mountain peak on the Xiaobai Mountain Range in the east of Nanyuan City, from the bottom of the peak of Lingnan, a winding path spirals up, directly leading to the peak of Lingbei. Situated on the edge of a cliff halfway up the mountain, the Bamboo Forest House is separated from a small bamboo grove that winds its way up to the winding path, and a brick path connects the Bamboo Forest House to the winding path.

The secret passage of Chunxiangju is connected with the karst cave outside the Nanyuan Castle, and leads directly to the bamboo forest in front of the bamboo forest real house. The exit of the dark passage is located in a mess of rocks in the middle of a bamboo forest.

Luo Shiyin, Shi Lang and others escorted the female shopkeeper of Chunxiang and bowed out of the exit of the secret passage located in the shade of a large stone.

The warm sunlight shines through the bamboo forest, shining on the forest wetland full of withered bamboo leaves. A foraging hare is frightened by the sudden emergence of a team member from the hole and flees into the distance in panic.

Through the gap between the trees, you can clearly see the bamboo forest standing on the edge of the cliff on the south side of the Jiyang Mountains. The temple gate faces northwest along the mountain. Inside the door are three red tiled houses from low to high, and the three tiled houses are in a semicircle from front to back on the arc edge of the cliff.

"How many people are there in a normal time?" Luo Shiyin asked the female shopkeeper of Chunxiang in a low voice.

"Guest officer, they only put me in charge of finding targets and sending them messages throughout the whole matter, and I don't know about the rest." The shopkeeper replied cautiously.

"Look, my lord." Among the dead leaves in front of him, Shi Lang found the jade Guanyin pendant he had just bought for Ye Ruliu yesterday, and quickly picked it up.

"It seems that Miss Ye's was plundered here." Luo Shiyin looked at the bamboo forest on Jiyang Ridge and said.

"My lord, why don't I go up and have a look first?" Shi Lang saw that it was indeed difficult to get any information from the female shopkeeper, so he asked eagerly. He hated to rescue Ye Ruliu immediately.

"Well, stay safe. I led his people to quietly touch the rocks under the temple, and when they encountered danger, they immediately signaled. Luo Shiyin said.

Shi Lang promised, took off Ye Ruliu's backpack on his back and handed it to Xie Yuan, then got up and walked out of the bamboo forest, using the forest and mountain rocks as cover, and quietly rushed towards the temple on the peak.

After Shi Lang set off, Luo Shiyin made arrangements for the rest of the team: Xie Yuan stayed in place to take care of the female shopkeeper; The rest of the team members touched Jiyangling with him, and ambushed outside the Bamboo Forest Real House, answering Shi Lang at any time.

The afternoon sun warmly illuminates the red brick façade of the bamboo forest. On the ridge of the tiled house at the back of it, a few black crows curled up, enjoying the warmth of the sun.

Shi Lang rolled on the spot and hid his body under the walls of the temple. He first put his ear to the brick wall to listen carefully to the movement in the courtyard, and then moved sideways against the wall.

Shi Lang did not choose to enter through the temple gate, but leaned sideways against the cliff to the gable of the first brick house, and then took out two short daggers from his backpack, gently inserted the short daggers into the gaps in the gable, and climbed to the roof lightly.

Seeing someone climb up to the roof, several crows on top of the house were frightened, and immediately let out two exclamations, flapping their wings and flying into the distance.

Shi Lang walked lightly, carefully stepped on the roof tiles, and walked towards the skylight in the center of the roof. As soon as he approached the skylight, Shi Lang faintly heard the sound of a woman's struggle and the laughter of several men in the room under his feet.

Shi Lang leaned down and looked down through the skylight. The scene in the room made Shi Lang's muscles burst out, and he was dizzy in front of him, and he almost fell.

In the room, a young woman lay naked on a large wooden bed, her hands and feet tied to the bed, and a ball of cotton cloth stuffed into her mouth. A naked middle-aged man was hunched over the woman's body. On the west side of the wooden bed, several men standing looked at the scene on the bed in front of them, and from time to time let out a lewd smile.