Hearing the woman in purple say that she wanted to take herself to a place, although Liu Fan was reluctant to go, the current situation was not up to him, and he knew in his heart that if he dared to say the word "no" at this moment, the two people in front of him would definitely be directly strong.

So Liu Fan nodded: "I promise to be obedient, but you have also seen my situation, I am weak, weak, and can't walk far, so if you want to take me away, you can only wronged one of you to carry me." ”

"Senior brother, you carry him on your back." After the purple-clothed girl finished speaking, she found a pen and paper on the table, and wrote a line of words on the paper: "Liu Yuanwai, temporarily borrow the life of the second son, if you want to rescue Ling Lang, prepare 300,000 taels of silver." ”

At the end, the girl signed the Hongru meeting at the bottom of the paper.

After doing this, the girl glanced at the strong man, and then, the strong man carried Liu Fan, the two quietly walked to the door, looked around or so, the strong man lifted his breath, his body was vertical, and he jumped to the roof like a flying swallow......

The next day, Liu Baiyuan and his wife were resting in the bedroom, and suddenly, Xiaocui ran out of the door and shouted anxiously: "Master, madam, it's not good, the young master------ young master was kidnapped." ”

"What?" Hearing this, Liu Baiyuan and his wife were startled at first, and then the two hurriedly rushed out of the bedroom......

In the early morning, outside the prefect's yamen, the head catcher gathered more than 30 officials, intending to go to Liu's mansion to rob relatives, but just when they were about to leave, they suddenly saw Liu Yuanwai riding in a sedan chair, and rushed towards the prefect's yamen.

After seeing the head catcher, Liu Baiyuan took out the extortion letter left by the purple-clothed girl, and said to him with an anxious expression: "Li Zhutou, where is the prefect?" I want to report to the official, my son was robbed by the bandits of the Hongru Society, and those scholars are so poor and crazy that they actually hooked up with kidnapping people for extortion, and I ask the prefect to help me avenge my grievances......"

"What? Is there such a thing? ”

After taking the extortion letter handed over by Liu Baiyuan and looking at it, Li Zhutou sighed, and thought in his heart: "It seems that our young lady has no fate with that Second Young Master Liu, it seems that this kiss can't be robbed today." ”

With a whisper, Li Zhutou dismissed the surrounding officials, and then led Liu Baiyuan towards the back hall of the prefect's yamen.

Liu Fan and Liu Baiyuan didn't know that the actions of the girl in purple actually helped the Liu family resolve a crisis invisibly, if it wasn't for the girl in purple who kidnapped Liu Fan at night, after dawn, Liu Fan would face the prefect's yamen who went to rob his relatives.

On the other hand, at this time, Liu Fan was sitting on the back of the strong man, humming a little song leisurely, he saw that the power of the girl in purple was greater than that of the strong man, so on the way to be taken captive, Liu Fan sang to the girl in purple one by one, and listened to the girl in purple next to him as if she were fascinated.

Somewhere in the woods outside Yangzhou City, the girl was listening to the song and was getting up, suddenly, the strong man stopped his figure, and after putting Liu Fan on his back, the strong man squatted on the ground, panting and panting: "Senior ------ senior sister------ I ran all night------ I ------ I'm bored------- let's rest for a while?" ”

Seeing that the strong man was tired of looking like this, the girl in purple just wanted to agree, but at this moment, Liu Fan interjected: "What are you resting for?" How far has this gone? Not even two hundred miles of land, if my father went to the government to report to the official, it would not take an hour for the officers and soldiers to catch up here, for the sake of safety, let's hurry up. ”

"Who are you?" The strong man squatted on the ground and asked Liu Fan with a depressed face.

"Now I'm on your side." After answering, Liu Fan looked at the strong man with disdain: "What about the people who still practice martial arts, I am not too tired until now, but you are shouting to rest, and you are not afraid of the jokes of the Jianghu people?" ”

"Joke fart, if you hadn't let our horses go in the night, would I have been tired like this?" Scolding a foul word, the strong man complained with a look of grievance: Of course you are not tired, because I did all the work alone, I carried you all the way, you slept on my back in the first half of the night, and sang on my back in the second half of the night. ”

After listening to the strong man's complaints, the purple-clothed girl pondered for a moment, and then said softly: "This place is not far from our rudder, senior brother will work hard, and rest after arriving at the rudder." ”

Hearing the purple-clothed girl's order, the strong man glared at Liu Fan, picked up Liu Fan again, lifted his true breath, and continued to run forward......

Beiling Gang, located in a hundred miles outside Yangzhou City, different from the prosperity of Yangzhou City, Beiling Gang is very barren and barren, in fact, Beiling Gang was also a rich place before, but a few years ago there was a plague here, a large number of people died at that time, after the plague was stopped, the surviving people all fled from this place with their bags on their backs.

As soon as the people are gone, the place is lifeless, the original rich town here is gradually abandoned, except for dozens of old, weak, sick and disabled families still live here, the town is basically empty, the houses in the town are nine out of ten, the streets are deserted, it looks like a ghost town.

After leaving the woods, the purple-clothed girl covered the corners of Liu Fan's eyes with a cloth to prevent Liu Fan from seeing the road clearly, but this didn't bother him at all, before he was blindfolded, he had already remembered where the strong man was standing, Liu Fan used to be a detective fan, and he didn't read a lot of criminal investigation books when he was in school, so he knew how to deal with it.

When the strong man carried him forward, Liu Fan silently counted the steps from the bottom of his heart again, and sensed the direction of the big man again, "Go straight north for 3,400 steps, turn left and go west for 1,698 steps, turn right and go straight for 12 steps, and then turn left and go straight, the ground here is uneven, the march is slightly bumpy, and there is a dog barking on the left side when walking to the 871st step......"

The strong man carried Liu Fan and the purple-clothed girl on his back and ran into the Beiling Gang, after entering the town, the two of them turned east and west, walked between the various sandwich alleys, ran for about half an hour, the strong man came to the door of an ordinary family, the purple-clothed girl looked at the left and right cautiously, and then began to knock on the door, the frequency was one three one, a total of five knocks.

When her knocking on the door stopped, a deep voice came from inside: "Who." ”

"I, open the door." The girl in purple responded.

After hearing the voice of the purple-clothed girl, the people inside opened a door, and after putting the purple-clothed girl and the strong man inside, they closed the courtyard door again, and everything around them returned to calm.

After entering the courtyard, Liu Fan was put in the firewood room by the strong man, because Liu Fan was very cooperative along the way, so the strong man was not worried that he would escape, so he did not tie him up. Taking off Liu Fan's blindfold, the strong man took out a paper and pen, and looked at him with some prostration: "Write a letter to your father and ask him to prepare 350,000 taels of silver to ransom people, otherwise, we will tear up the ticket." ”

"Didn't you say 300,000 taels when you came to the road? Why did it become 350,000 taels in a blink of an eye? Your price has risen so fast," Liu Fan muttered.

"Nonsense, I carried you all the way, do you want me to carry it in vain, and the 50,000 taels added later are hard work." After saying this, the strong man urged Liu Fan to write a letter to Liu Baiyuan, people are under the eaves, how dare not bow their heads, take the pen and paper, Liu Fan had to write to Liu Baiyuan honestly according to the strong man's requirements.

Seeing Liu Fan know each other like this, the strong man was very satisfied, and when he finished writing the letter, the strong man warned Liu Fan not to run around, otherwise he would break his legs. After some frightening, the strong man put away the letter and left the firewood room.

After the strong man left, Liu Fan began to observe the surrounding environment, the firewood room was about forty square meters, it was dirty and messy, there was a firewood piled up on both sides, and there was a stove at the place where the door was rushed, and the stove was covered with dust, and it seemed that it had not been used for a long time.

When Liu Fan was looking at the firewood room, suddenly, there was a coughing sound behind him, and then, a weak voice sounded: "Ahem------ ahem----- you were also arrested by this group of people from the Hongru Society?" ”

Hearing the voice, Liu Fan hurriedly turned around, at this time, he saw the situation behind him clearly, only to see a figure curled up in the corner behind him, that person was a weak young man, about seventeen or eighteen years old, although he was very handsome, but his face was sickly, it seemed that his body was a little unwell.

The person in front of him is similar in age to Liu Fan, he looks thin and weak, giving people a feeling of bookishness, this person is dressed as a scholar, with a bun on his head, and his Confucian shirt is woven of brocade silk, with a golden belt around his waist, and a jade pendant on both sides of the gold belt, the color is round and transparent, and he knows that it is worth a lot at a glance.

After looking at the young man, Liu Fan secretly guessed that looking at this person's dress, he should be a noble scholar, but how could a noble son like him be taken captive by the people of the Hongru Society? Isn't this Confucian Society a society composed of literati? How can you do all the things of the rivers and lakes?

Although he had doubts in his heart, Liu Fan didn't show it, remembering the question just now, Liu Fan replied: "Yes, the people of the Hongru Society extorted 300,000 taels of silver from my father, but my father didn't agree, last night, they kidnapped me and asked my father to ransom me with silver, otherwise I would tear up the ticket, no, it just went up by 50,000 yuan." ”

After answering, Liu Fan asked the young man, "What's the matter with you?" Why was they taken captive too? ”

After hearing this, the young man sighed: "Our situation is similar, my name is Chu Minghui, and my father is Chu Xiongcai, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang County. Three months ago, Wen Taoliu, one of the two vice presidents of the Hung Confucian Society, persuaded his father to join the Hung Confucian Society.

At that time, Wen Taoliu promised his father the position of vice president, but his father had an upright and strong personality and disdained to be with the Nahong Confucian Society, but Wen Taoliu didn't know what to do, and he used the safety of my family to threaten my father, which annoyed my father.

I thought that the Hongru Society was just a society that cultivated Shizi Chinese Studies, but I didn't expect them to dare to threaten the governor of the county, and my father noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the Hongru Society, so he sent someone to arrest Wen Taoluo, wanting to find out the details of the Hongru Society from his mouth.

Unexpectedly, the day after his father arrested Wen Taoliu, Zhao Shengwu, another vice president of the Hongru Association, led a group of rivers and lakes to infiltrate the governor's yamen, intending to rescue Wen Taoliu.

However, due to the presence of garrisons outside the yamen, Zhao Shengwu's plan to rob people failed. Not only were all the nearly 100 Jianghu people who accompanied him arrested, but even Zhao Shengwu was injured and fled, and then he disappeared.

My father thought that Hongru would retreat because of the difficulties, so he relaxed a little in his heart. Two days ago, I went to Yangzhou to visit friends, but I didn't expect to be kidnapped by this group of people as soon as I entered the city. ”