Thanks to Qin Qin's clear mind and articulate words, she can express the ins and outs very clearly, otherwise a five-year-old girl, in such a frightened state, may not be able to explain the matter.

Girls at this age naturally have no male and female defenses, and the family is not strict every day, let go out and play crazy with a group of children, and on this day, a familiar friend asked her to see new things, together for so long, Qin Qin will not doubt, and followed happily, never thought about turning two streets, and was gagged when she arrived in a secluded place, before being stuffed into the basket, she saw that the little friend who shouted her was trampled on the ground, frozen, and then she was tied up and stuffed into the basket, and she didn't see the light of day in the basket, drowsy, I don't know how long it has been, until just now.

When she talked about it, the girl still couldn't help crying, after all, she was a five-year-old child, and she was so frightened and saw so much blood that day, it was impossible not to be afraid.

"You're guts." Zhu Da praised it, and then fell into deep thought, abducting a child is to ask for ransom or even bad abuse, but the thieves have worked too hard for this girl, judging from these things just now, they must have observed it in advance before they started, and then they had to be transported to their lair.

Think about it from the perspective of thieves, Zheng Jiaji is full of people, and it is very likely that it will be discovered, and it is still a talented daughter with an identity who has been caught, and there is entanglement afterwards, and it takes great effort to bring it back to the nest, look at this Qin Qin wearing patched clothes, there may not be much money at home, how much money can be extorted with such great effort, why?

At this time, Zhou Qingyun came over with a pickaxe and a shovel, and he was carrying a small burden, these two tools were not light, and he came to the river with a little panting: "I borrowed it from the Li family, thanks to the two boys of the Li family who are busy doing work, otherwise they have to come over." ”

After saying this, he untied his burden, there were two pieces of bread in it, and handed the gourd filled with water to the little girl, who was probably hungry until she was caught.

The girl Qin Qin stared at the tools in Zhou Qingyun and Zhu Da's hands, her eyes were red and she was about to cry, she didn't dare to take food and water, and said desperately there: "I won't say anything, don't bury me, don't bury me!" ”

"What did your dad teach you?" Zhu Da said a little impatiently, what does this Xiucai family usually do to their daughters, how can this five-year-old child understand everything.

But after saying this, Zhu Da looked at the girl again, although his face was calm, but Qin Qin was shrunk by this look, revealing a pitiful look, Zhu Da did think just now that the most perfect way is to kill this girl too, so as not to be targeted by the thieves, but this thought is just a flash, he himself scolded himself for being a beast, and he actually had murderous intentions for such a big child.

"I'll dig first, and then you will do it for me, you don't have to dig too deep a pit, whether to burn or bury it has to wait for Berna's decision." Zhu Da picked up the pickaxe and began to plow the ground, thinking while working, this is indeed an era of personal cannibalism, but he can't lose his humanity too much, he is not detached from anything, and he is also living in this place in this era.

Although the weather has become colder, it has not yet reached the time of freezing, the soil by the river is soft, and it is easier to plan, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun took turns to move their hands, and soon the shallow pit was made out, of course, the two of them were inevitably sweating profusely.

After getting the body in, bury it, and cover up the general traces, even if it is simply disposed of, the girl Qin Qin was very hungry, and the multigrain cakes were quickly eaten, and after eating, the girl also fell silent, looking at Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun with a worried expression, not knowing what to do with herself.

Zhu Da pondered for a moment, but grabbed the fishing rod again, Zhou Qingyun glared, and said in a rough voice: "Do you still have the heart to catch fish?" Let's go back! ”

"If we don't eat fish, we can't keep up with our physical strength, and now there are so many bastards, God knows if we can come fishing every day!" Zhu Da asked back unceremoniously, the sense of urgency in his heart became bigger and bigger, Zhou Qingyun didn't refute this, just picked up the stick, and after picking it up, he shook it in disgust, and washed the blood stains on it before he could take it well.

Under Qin Qin's curious gaze, Zhu Da caught three big fish again, this time he didn't clean up by the river, he skewered the reeds together, and looked left and right after getting these Zhu Da, but couldn't help but scold, "I can't lose anything!" ”

Helplessly, he washed the thief's big basket in the river to wash the blood, motioned for the girl to climb in, and then threw the knife into it, and after getting the fish in, he covered it again with the cloth, and carried it with difficulty.

Although this basket is eye-catching, there is also this kind of basket in the village, if it is seen to go back with the girl, it will make a lot of right and wrong after being known by someone with a heart, Zhu Da feels that he has a little headache, even if he has rarely considered it so comprehensively in his life for more than 20 years, and now it is so tossed.

The weight of tools and big baskets is not light, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun took turns to change shifts and returned to the village, and when they entered the courtyard of Xiang's house, they were tired and panting, but this girl was very sensible, and it was very quiet along the way, and the villagers saw this basket, which was similar to what Zhu Da thought, no one paid attention to it, and no one remembered that there was no such basket when the two of them left the village.

"It smells terrible." When the girl crawled out of the basket, her face was full of disgusting and disgusting, and the people here couldn't stand the heavy fishy smell.

By now, the girl Qin Qin was no longer very afraid, and took the initiative to ask: "Two brothers, when will you send me home, my father must be in a hurry." ”

"Isn't your mother in a hurry?" Zhu Da joked casually.

"My mother remarried a few years ago......" Qin Qin said with an unsightly face.

Zhu Da shook his head and said: "You rest first, the two of us are not very old, I'm afraid we will have to wait for the adults to come back and let the adults send you, don't go out of this courtyard, maybe the bad guys are still looking for you." ”

Hearing this, the girl shrank in fright, and immediately didn't dare to speak, Zhu Da smiled, and began to get busy, he put the fish aside first, and used the captured knife to break the big basket, and then let Zhou Qingyun throw it into the stove and burn it, and then removed the wrapped cloth of the knife and burned it, wiped it carefully, and put it on the weapon rack, and then began to process the catch.

Habitually wanted to use a dagger, but thinking that the dagger was stained with human blood, he washed it with boiling water, and then continued to be busy, Zhu Da was busy here, Zhou Qingyun followed to help, and also took out the bow and arrow and put it in his hand, after the incident by the river, neither of them dared to be careless.

The girl Qin Qin didn't sleep, and watched them busy curiously in the yard, always very uncomfortable with the smell of the fish, and asked, "Can this fish be eaten?" I heard my dad tell me that this fish is a rare delicacy, but no one on our side knows how to make it. ”

"You'll know if it's delicious for dinner!" replied casually, Zhu Da and they had no mind in the afternoon, and they had no strength to practice martial arts, and when they were almost cleaned up, they saw that the little girl had fallen asleep against the wall, and they were so frightened that they tossed for a long time, and they should be tired by now.

Zhu Da rubbed his cheeks, stepped forward and picked up the girl, Qin Qin's weight was very light, but it didn't take much effort, but Zhu Da's blood stains and fishy smell were mixed, and the smell was very bad, Qin Qin struggled in Zhu Da's arms, and said in a muffled voice: "It smells so bad." Then he fell asleep again.

Only then did he put this Qin Qin on the kang, but when he heard the sound of the courtyard door outside, Zhu Da subconsciously became nervous, and took out the dagger casually.

"Open the door, it's me!" Hearing that it was Xiang Bo's voice, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

When Xiang Bo left, he carried twenty catties of salt, but when he came back, he was more than this amount, and his baggage was filled with miscellaneous things, including grain, eggs, and a few feet of cloth.

"It's not good luck this time, everyone in the village wants to buy salt, and this time I can ask for more prices, but who would have thought that someone from the big cabinet would have sent someone here, and I didn't bring more salt this time, otherwise it would have been seen strange from above." Xiang Bo separated the things in the baggage, and muttered that he was very happy to be able to come out.

"What's on the big cupboard?" Although this is not the most important thing now, Juda's curiosity prevails.

"The salt goods of Huairen County and Datong Zuowei are all approved in one place, there is a salt stack on the official side, the name is Shengping Stack, the official salt and private salt are sold, there is a big cabinet over there, and there are merchants in each thousand households and towns to take salt, and we are the ......ones who take salt on the second counter."

Speaking of which, Xiang Bo finally noticed that something was wrong, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun were not like usual, and after noticing, they could see other details.

"You two are so dirty, what's the matter with that knife, we don't have this knife at home, what happened, why do you look so scared?"

"Master......" Zhu Da suddenly felt a lot more relaxed about these questions, he still had something to rely on, and Master was there.

Xiang Bo didn't look at the girl sleeping in the back room, listened carefully to Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun's description, these days Xiang Bo has been used to listening to Zhu Da talk alone, but this time he asked Zhou Qingyun from time to time, in order to understand comprehensively, after listening to the question, he was silent for a long time, and after a while, he said in a muffled voice: "Wait another hour, we will go to the river to dispose of the corpse, what are these thieves going to do, do you know?" The reason why the big cabinet came down to check was because this group of thieves had washed four hundred households of salt sellers, and originally thought that this group of thieves was just to rob money, but now I look at it, it is not good that the salt sellers do it, and the hundred households are all handy. ”

"Master, what does Qin Xiucai have to do with salt?"

"Shengping Salt Stack has a branch in Zhengjiaji, if you want to say what the connection is, this is it, I haven't heard of Qin Xiucai, besides, how can a noble character like a scholar have anything to do with private salt!"