Chapter 252: Saving Someone
After getting off the official ship, they got a few boxes and pretended to be dart silver, and everyone changed their clothes, all of them pretended to be darts escorts, and wrapped the backyard of the small inn, and everyone stayed to rest.
This stay is four or five days, when there is nothing to do, a group of people in the yard boxing and sword practice, every day in the yard is not lively, the store knows that this group of people is a kung fu person, but not surprised, just listen to the order not to go to the backyard!
Seeing that Liang Shao's body was getting better day by day, and his face was gradually returning to normal, Wei Wu planned to stay for another two days before setting off.
On this night, at the time of the third watch, there was some faint movement outside, Wei Wu woke up from his sleep, and immediately opened his eyes and turned over and sat up, and asked in a deep voice,
"What's the matter?"
Outside, there was a sentry that kept vigil, and came to the door to report,
"The boss is fine, but the convoy that delivered to the dock has broken the axle in front of the inn and is repairing ......"
Zhenjiang water transport is developed, the wharf by the river is very busy, there are ships in and out day and night, Wei Wu they are looking for an inn near the wharf, every day is also used to see the convoy coming and going, it is not surprising.
Wei Wu didn't care at first, but he slept a little more in the past few days, and he couldn't sleep after being woken up, so he turned over, put on his shoes and walked outside, opened the door of the small courtyard, and the road leading to the dock was outside, and he borrowed the lantern on the door of the small courtyard to look forward, and sure enough, he saw a team of carriages parked here, and two large boxes were placed on each carriage, which were obviously goods to be transported, one of which was crooked in the middle of the road, blocking the road before and after, and three people were repairing around the car.
Wei Wuxin walked over, but after taking a few steps, he heard someone on the other side ask vigilantly,
"Who? Who are you? ”
Seeing this, Wei Wu hurriedly stopped, and said with a smile,
"I take the liberty of staying in this inn, and seeing that the carriage is broken down here, I want to come and ask if I need someone to help me or need tools or something?"
He was kind enough to help, but the other party didn't appreciate it, and said coldly when he heard it,
"Thank you for your kindness, no need!"
Wei Wu snorted when he heard this, and then slowly retreated without moving forward.
When he returned to the small courtyard, the next person said to Wei Wudao,
"Boss, look at these people looking nervous, I'm afraid that the contents of that box are a little strange!"
Wei Wu nodded in response,
"Our errands are important, and it is not appropriate to make extraneous branches...... Leave him alone! ”
As he spoke, he was about to go back to the room, and at this moment, there was a sudden banging sound from the carriage outside, and in the open space of the middle of the night, a little sound was about to come out of the distance, Wei Wu's expression was grim, and he turned around to look through the crack in the door, and the sound in the box came out, and the people outside were also startled.
Someone cursed secretly, jumped into the carriage with the box, took the key to open the big box, and did not know what to do, but heard a vague voice inside, as if someone was making a sound, and there was a struggle and writhing, and the sound of the body rubbing against the box.
The movement was loud, and the people outside looked around for fear of being seen, and someone was bowing his head and saying,
"Xu Laosi, hurry up!"
The fourth Xu snorted, and he didn't know how to move, and after a while, there was no movement in the box, and he jumped down and said softly,
"No way! Cover it up! ”
The other was shocked and then scolded,
"How did you kill it, this lamb is a pair, if you kill one, the other one will be worthless!"
That Xu Lao Si said in a deep voice,
"Somehow the medicine didn't work, and when I woke up, I got the movement......"
"Alas! That's it...... Get out of here! ”
They had a conversation outside, and Wei Wu heard it clearly inside, and secretly said in his heart,
"Look like this...... It seems to have killed someone? ”
I didn't care about idle things, I reached out and stroked my chin and thought about it secretly, and ordered a few good skills at the moment.
"Let's go over and see!"
Several people followed the convoy to the riverside, stopped in front of a cargo ship, the tall lantern on the mast had three big characters on the head of the lantern "Shun and Ji", Wei Wu watched from a distance that the carriage arrived in front of the cargo ship of Shun and Kee, there were waiting dock coolies, and the four of them lifted the big wooden box on the car and sent it to the ship.
At this time the men who came down from the ship were talking to the people in the convoy, and some of them pointed to the box that had been opened in front of them, and when the coolie carried the big wooden box to the ship, it was not sent into the bottom cabin, but to the aft deck, and someone opened the box, and the two of them carried out a man from it, and saw that the figure was as small as a woman, and they grabbed the man by the head and the foot, and shook it in the air a few times, and threw it high into the river.
"Puff ......"
The water splashed on the surface of the river, but this place was far away from the dock, and in the backlit shadow, if it weren't for someone like Wei Wu, he wouldn't have noticed!
The man on the boat threw the person and left, and it was also because of Wei Wu's sharp eyes that he saw the woman who was thrown into the river and should have been a dead body in such a difficult state of vision, and struggled twice and sank again.
"No one is dead yet?"
Wei Wu turned his head abruptly,
"Which of you is good at water?"
And one of them came out and said,
"Chief, the lowly man has grown up by the river since he was a child!"
"Quietly go over and get people back!"
"Yes!"
The man took the order, and went into the water quietly from the river, and everyone saw the ripples on the river, four or five feet away, but poked his head out to change his breath, and then dived down, and when he poked his head out again, he had come to the point where the man had fallen into the water, and one turned over and plunged down, and in a short time two heads surfaced.
The people were quietly brought back to the shore, and the people on the boat came and went to carry large wooden boxes, but no one found them.
"Boss, there's still gas!"
The rescuer wiped his face and reported, Wei Wu nodded,
"Well done! Get the people back first! ”
But there were two people left to stare on the shore, and a few people got the man back to the inn, and under the light, he saw that this was a very thin little girl, who was only seven or eight years old, with a pale face, and although he still had breath, he was only out of breath and less in breath.
"Go get a doctor!"
At that moment, someone went to ask for a doctor, and when the doctor came to see the bruises on his neck, he said that he had let people pinch his neck, thinking that he had held his breath for a while, and then woke up in the river water, and now he choked on water in his lungs, and he needed to turn people over and spit out water.
That is, she stopped talking nonsense, turned the person over and slapped it on her stomach, and then slapped it on her back, and the little girl immediately wowed, and vomited.
"Vomit ......"
This compartment spit out a large pool of clear water, choking on tears and snot, although it was a little embarrassed, but finally rescued the person, the doctor said,
"It's fine to spit out the water, but because of the water in the lungs, I'm afraid I'll have to cough these days, so I'll be good at it!"
After sending the doctor out, Wei Wu wanted to ask this little girl, but he didn't know what kind of torture she had suffered, and when he saw the strong man in this room, he was so frightened that his body trembled, and he hid his head in the corner of the bed, and anyone who used to scream and struggle.
Wei Wu had no choice but to say,
"Let her stay here for now, and find an older woman tomorrow!"
Wei Wu has vaguely guessed something in his heart, he has been mixing on the ground of the capital for a long time, how many dirty things have not been seen, most of this is the abduction of women and children, it seems that such an old and delicate-looking girl was bought or abducted or stolen or robbed far away from her own home, and sent to the Qinglou Chu Pavilion for two years of training, and then she can pick up customers and earn money!
Although the Daqing Dynasty strictly prohibits human trafficking, the more forbidden things the government, the greater the profits of this business, so there are people who cut off their heads and secretly do this business, and I think this little girl is one of them!
So he waited until dawn, Wei Wu first asked someone to go out to inquire about Nashun and Ji, and then asked the innkeeper to find an old woman, changed the little girl's clothes, and served her food, which made her no longer afraid, Wei Wu went to ask her name, age, where she lived, and who else was in the family!
But it turned out that this little girl was a pair of twin sisters, home in Jiaxing, playing with her sister in front of the house, was covered by her mouth and nose and unconscious, dragged to the carriage, all the way to be fed by the drug, drowsy and I don't know where to go, she woke up for some reason, and when she heard the movement outside, she kept kicking the wooden box with her feet, so that Wei Wu saw that scene.
She woke up and struggled and screamed and was covered by a strong man, and fainted with a tight breath for a while, the man only thought that she was dead, and reported to the steward on the boat, and the steward was afraid that the dead person would stink in the cabin, so he simply threw her into the river at night, and let the fish and shrimp eat her.
What she said was similar to what Wei Wu had guessed, and soon she came back from outside to report,
"Chief, that Shun Hutchison ship is leaving!"
Wei Wu nodded, and Ma Yuntian asked,
"Chief, are we going to stop the ship?"
Wei Wu thought about it and shook his head,
"A business that can do such a business must have a big backer behind it, and it is time-consuming and laborious to investigate, and we came out with an errand this time, so it is not appropriate to insert a bar, it seems that it is ...... to contact the local government."
Not long afterward, the people who had been sent out to inquire returned.
"Boss, I have already heard that the Shun Hutchison General Store is in Nanchang Mansion, and the business is very large, and it is a branch in Zhenjiang!"
Hearing this, Wei Wu nodded, took out the token of his brocade guard, and said to Wang Xing and Zhong Shun,
"You take this little girl to the Yamen of Zhenjiang Mansion to report the matter to the officials here, and ask them to check the details of Nashun Hutchi......"
The two of them nodded and led the little girl away.