Chapter Twenty-Six: The Robbery
The person behind chuckled, stepped forward and kicked Xiao Zhuang's arm, and clicked.
Xiao Zhuang's screams of pain were not like humans, and the other people were trembling with fright, but they couldn't run.
Because the next moment it will be their turn.
Several people were picked off and their tendons and tendons were broken, and they were drugged, although the rope on Liniang's body was untied, there was no strength in the whole body.
"What are you going to do?"
She was scared.
But in a quarter of an hour, the four men covered in blood crawled towards her.
Her eyes were scarlet, and she was chilling all over her body, looking at them in disbelief.
"Get out of here." The people were blood-red under them, as if they didn't feel pain, and they stretched out their hands towards her.
It's scary.
If it weren't for the situation, she would have wanted to faint directly.
Looking at the only man in black who was left to watch them, Li Niang was desperate.
"This is what our Guanghan Palace does, even the emperor of the Celestial Empire has not forbade it, what if he is a child, even if he is a relative of the emperor? I didn't break the law. ”
"Our palace master can't find anyone, he will definitely withdraw the investigation of this matter, and the person behind you will definitely pay the price."
Li Niang was scared, she knew that this person would not let her go.
Became hysterical.
Lao Wu They have long lost their minds at this moment, and the discomfort on their bodies makes them just want to grasp the antidote in front of them, Liniang can't move, and can only watch the flesh and blood blur people grab her feet, and then her legs.
She was cold.
The man in black stood on top of her head, squatted down, and whispered: "If it weren't for the fact that your palace master treated the Queen Mother well, Guanghan Palace would have been removed from the world last night." ”
"Too, the Queen Mother......"
Li Niang can hold the front yard, naturally very human, she instantly knew that the Queen Mother in this person's mouth was Qiu Jue.
Well, that little boy is......
"Ah......h
A terrible cry came from the ruined temple, accompanied by the boundless fire, and gradually disappeared in this nameless early morning.
said that Qiu Jue was sleeping soundly here, and suddenly heard a shout.
Then there was a tremor, and as soon as they were dressed, before they had even stepped out of the cabin, they entered, a group of fierce and vicious people.
"Damn, there are only a few stinking children on a big boat." Someone looked at Qiu Jue and they were not happy, so they turned around and asked:
"Big brother, what should we do then? To rob or not to rob? ”
"Fuck it, let's rob it first, we can't let our brothers run away in vain."
The big man who took the lead spoke in a gangster, and his appearance was also fierce.
Before Qiu Jue and the others could react, the people were rushed to another ship.
She hurriedly pulled Xiaocao and Moshi to her side.
"Miss, they're water bandits."
Without waiting for Qiu Jue to ask her, Xiaocao said it herself, she was very familiar with this area from Huai'an.
Qiu Jue felt that it should be God who felt that Bai gave her a chance to be reborn and gave her so many tribulations.
Last night, I thought that my journey was twists and turns enough, and I shouldn't encounter any problems, plus people have arrived at the coast of Huai'an.
Who would have thought that Bai Yu had just left, and he hadn't slept for two hours. I met a water bandit.
"Are there often bandits in this area? Don't the people in the government care? ”
Although it is said that many local officials and bandits are one family, this is too blatant.
Xiaocao explained that these water bandits don't often come out to rob, but they will come out a few times a month, and the people of the government will send officers and soldiers to exterminate them, but the water nature is not as good as them, and every time it is gone.
Fortunately, these bandits never robbed ordinary people, but only looked for luxurious ships, basically only robbed gold and silver without harming people's lives.
"And where will we be taken?"
Hearing this, Qiu Jue was relieved, as long as there was no life safety, she was not afraid.
However, Xiaocao told her that according to the previous custom, these bandits would send them to an isolated island near Huai'an City, and let their families send corresponding rewards, otherwise they would tear up the tickets.
This is something that everyone in Huai'an and nearby knows about.
Xiaocao is not afraid, because these water bandits never hurt the people, and they are even grateful to them.
Sure enough, the passengers were just caught up on the boat, and then the boat slowly rowed, and no one came to embarrass them.
As a result, many people put their minds at ease and began to close their eyes and recuperate.
Qiu Jue was sleepy, pulled the ink stone and the grass to the side, and began to sleep.
When she woke up, she heard someone talking about it.
"Well, it's strange, why didn't anyone come to us?"
"Yes, according to their rules, this is long overdue for us to write home."
"Could it be that they just wanted to send us home when they found out in their conscience?"
Some people joked, of course, this is just to adjust the atmosphere, and they all feel that something is wrong.
Qiu Jue looked at it and found that most of the people on the boat were men, and they were actually young and strong, only a few women sat on the side, and there were basically no young people like her.
While they were chattering, at last someone came up at noon and lifted the curtain to let them out.
"The mouth of the embankment, why did you send us here?"
Before Qiu Jue went out, he heard someone shouting loudly.
"We don't want to stay here, we want to go back to Huai'an City."
Yet despite their struggles, they were thrown off the boat and left on the empty shore.
As far as the eye can see, the high levees have long been washed away by the water, and the water level has dropped, but the water still keeps pouring in.
There were a lot of people standing in the lower river, and they were trying their best to fix it.
After a while, a man walked from a distance, followed by dozens of people.
They all have big sticks in their hands.
The people who came swept around the forty or fifty of them, and suddenly frowned when they saw Qiu Jue and them.
"Damn, why are you still sending the child here?"
However, the boat had already sailed, and he only said a word, and then looked at the men and said loudly.
"This prince invited you to come this time, I want everyone to contribute, as a wealthy gentry and nobles in Huai'an, you should contribute to the stability of Huai'an City, I think everyone should have no opinions, right?"
"Let us go back, we can pay." These people resisted fiercely and said loudly.
"Yes, who doesn't know that many people died in Huai'an this time, and now the repair personnel can't continue for a while, don't you just want money? What you have is money, let us go back. ”
Qiu Jue was secretly annoyed, these people obviously hadn't seen the situation clearly.
Sure enough, a sneer appeared at the corner of the man's mouth.
"My son is in a good mood today, I will give you two choices, the first is to give you your life, and the second is to give me all the work to do."
He held a folding fan in his hand, and he looked polite, but the words he said were so terrifying.
"Who are you? People from the government? Even if the prefect of Huai'an sees us, he is polite, what are you? ”
"Yes, we didn't break the law, we are not criminals, why should we stay here to do things."
"Who doesn't know that there are too many people who died this time, and there are not many laborers left to arrest, if you have the ability, you let all the officers and soldiers go up, what kind of ability is it to harm us little people?"
A group of people who say nothing you say to me are very resistant to staying here.
"Alas, my son's favorite thing is you guys. Cheap. Goods. ”
The scholar-like man sighed and shook his head and sighed and said this, and then the fan waved slightly, and he turned around and walked backwards, and the dozen or so men with big sticks behind him hurriedly stepped forward to beat people when they saw them.
For a while, there were wails everywhere, and when Qiu Jue saw the man's face change, he had already pulled Xiaocao and Moshi away from him for the first time and hid to the side.
Despite this, she received a kick in the back.
Inkstone nervously took her hand.
"How are you?"
Qiu Jue shook his head and pressed his head tightly into his arms, for fear of being beaten.
After a while, the one-sided beating stopped.
The rolling gourd on the ground, wailing everywhere, because it was those who said hard words just now who were beaten the worst, they were already out of breath and less in breath.
At this moment, the man stepped forward with a grin.
"Now, who else has an opinion?"
No one dared to say anything.
"It seems that everyone really needs to teach the rules before they can go to work, and if they continue to learn the rules, then take them down to rest for a day, and go to work on the embankment tomorrow."
The corners of his mouth showed disdain, and he commanded the person behind him.
Someone pointed to Qiu Jue and the women, plus the two children Moshi and Xiaocao.
"What about a few of them?"
The man's eyes were glancing up and down, staring at the few of them.
Qiu Jue slandered in his heart, did they dare to kill people and kill their mouths?
The man walked up to them, and it was clear that the gang was just laboring and not going to kill.
"How many of you can cook?"
The other women had already shrunk into a ball, and when they saw that there was still a chance to live, they nodded immediately, they were all women, and they naturally knew how to cook.
Only Qiu Jue's head is full of black lines, she was carefree in her previous life, she had a nanny and a mother at home, not to mention cooking, and she basically never even went into the kitchen.
It's not her turn to do anything.
Not to mention the original owner, who was reincarnated into the richest Qiu family in Shikoku, and then entered the palace as a concubine.
Then sat directly down to the Queen Mother, how could I have the opportunity to learn what to cook?
What's more, she doesn't like it herself.
Just when she was thinking about what to say to escape this fate, Xiaocao next to her pulled her clothes.
"I will, I will do anything, I can replace my young lady."
Xiaocao looked like he was eight or nine years old, the man was skeptical, Xiaocao stretched out his hand and said.
"My mother is a cook in Mofu, I have been with my mother since I was a child, and I can cook anything."
"Mofu? Which Mofu? The man looked stunned, and his eyes were a little uncertain when he looked at Qiu Jue.
Xiaocao said crisply: "It's the one you think."
"Then they ......" The man looked at Qiu Jue and Moshi, thinking about it in his heart.
"They are relatives of my family." Xiaocao explained.
Maybe the other party really didn't want to hurt people, or maybe what Xiaocao said had an effect, and the man finally left them.
They were placed in a row of thatched huts, with nothing but straw mats.