Chapter 255: Did I Mistake Saving You?
The cave was spacious, and they used wooden fences to separate the cells as a place for people, and they loosened the ties of Mei Xiaoren and put her in one of them.
Mei Xiaoren looked around, there were candles lit all over the cave, there were many torture instruments hanging on the uneven walls, and there was a cross stake for the torture prisoner in one corner. It is furnished like a prison cell, and the sparrows are small and have all the organs.
There were also people in the cells around her, all men, all of whom had been severely tortured, and the blood on their clothes had dried up, but the people were lying on the ground dying.
Mei Xiaoren sat quietly in the cell, without the slightest fear in her heart, she hoped that this time she could settle accounts with these beasts of the Flowing Fire Gang!
"Why did you come in too?"
Mei Xiaoren looked in the direction where the voice came from, and it was the person from the next cell who spoke. He was severely punished, lying on the dead grass, unkempt, and his voice weak.
Mei Xiaoren got up and walked to the edge of the wooden fence, squatted down and asked him, "Do you know me?" ”
"You forgot, you were homesick when you split the rudder, and I took you for a walk." The corners of his bloodstained mouth lifted slightly.
Mei Xiaoren then remembered that he was the patrol leader who told her why the Drifting Fire Gang only kidnapped people and didn't recruit people.
She looked at the man and found that he was covered in wounds, which showed that they were not soft on their own people.
"Didn't you take the initiative to join the Ground Drifting Fire Gang, how could you be locked up here and tortured?"
"I joined the Drift Fire Gang because I hate the government, but I ......," the man coughed a few times and said weakly, "But I won't help them bully civilians and take advantage of the danger of the country to burn, kill and rob!" ”
The man's scarred hands clenched into fists, as if to vent his resentment.
"They asked you to rob it, but you didn't obey, so you were tortured like this?" Mei Xiaoren asked in a low voice again, "When you came in, you didn't know that they were bandits?" ”
"I thought that the Drifting Fire Gang was just a Jianghu person who used people's money to eliminate disasters for others, who knows...... Who knew that they were taking Xia Guo's money and helping Xia Guoren bully our Daning! ”
The man clenched his fists again, and with a single force, the scabbed wound on the back of his hand cracked open again, oozing a little bit of blood.
Mei Xiaoren respected him as a man with a conscience, so he took out a handkerchief, bandaged his wounds through the wooden fence, and slowly persuaded: "The matter has come to this, and it is important to save your life." ”
"Yes, I want to keep this life, if I can get out, I will use this life to fight Xia Guo!"
The man looked at the handkerchief on the back of his hand again, and looked up at Mei Xiaoren with difficulty, "I looked for you before, and they said that you were from the government, not to mention that you took the officers and soldiers to cut down the rudder, is it true?" ”
Mei Xiaoren nodded.
The man sighed: "Then I am afraid that you will fall into their hands this time." ”
As soon as his words fell, four red-clothed people came from outside the cave, walked straight to Mei Xiaoren's cell, unlocked it, and called her out.
Mei Xiaoren followed the four red-clothed men out of the cell, and when she passed by the man's cell, she heard the man say, "Take care, little brother." ”
She turned back and said, "Don't worry." ”
Mei Xiaoren calmly followed a few red-clothed people forward, interlocking his fingers as he walked, turning his wrists and moving his joints.
When she saw the high mountains and deep valleys around her, she realized that the Flowing Fire Gang was originally hiding in such a hidden mountain forest on the Daning border, no wonder the government couldn't find their whereabouts for a long time.
If this place is remote and difficult to walk, they have built a lot of houses among the mountains and mountains, and if they build high walls around it, it will be an out-and-out deep mansion.
When passing by a mountain spring, Mei Xiaoren reached out and poured a handful of water on her face to wash away the thick eyebrows and moles between her eyebrows that she would deliberately draw every morning.
The place they took her to was the largest and most imposing house here, in the middle of all the houses, which showed that this was the lobby of their old lair, where the helper stayed.
Mei Xiaoren walked up the steps, and his eyes gradually fell on the hall, although the light inside was dim, but it was wide enough.
The situation in the hall was similar to that of His Majesty in the court, on both sides stood the stewards of the Flowing Fire Gang who were similar to civil and military officials, and the person sitting on the high stairs in front of the hall was the golden-clothed masked man she had seen twice - the fourth master of the Flowing Fire Gang.
The man sat crookedly, and the masters of the helmsman hall on both sides also stood as they pleased, looking as if they were not a tiger.
But their ferocity Mei Xiaoren has seen it, and even the current Saint Shang and Gu Chuyu have not abused the power of life and death so much.
The red-clothed man who led the way took Mei Xiaoren to the hall, stood still and said, "Master, the person has brought, you can see if it is." ”
Mei Xiaoren generously let him stand, so that the person could see clearly, but he was afraid that he didn't know what the county magistrate of Qiushui County looked like, and only recognized her.
She said lightly: "It's too far away, the fourth master can't see clearly, why don't I get closer and show the fourth master?" ”
The helper raised his hand and beckoned.
Mei Xiaoren walked towards the front of the hall, her steps slowed down and steady, and she saw several flower-like women standing on the left and right sides of the helper, one of whom was the new hall master who betrayed Qingying.
Mei Xiaoren's gaze lingered on the woman's face for a moment, and then looked at the masked face. She slowly stepped up the steps and stood in front of him, staring indifferently at the two holes in her mask, from which her eyes could be seen.
Before long, she saw a look of surprise in those eyes, and then he stood up, but slowly.
After he stood up straight, Mei Xiaoren raised his eyes to the top of his head and roughly estimated his height.
He was taller than her, but half a head shorter than his cousin.
"Little ......"
Mei Xiaoren immediately took off his mask, raised his hand and slapped him in the face, and before he shouted all, he said angrily: "Did I save you by mistake in the first place!" ”
"Master ......" Everyone in the hall was stunned, as if they were stunned by this scene.
Several women next to him were also stunned, only the hall master said in a slur manner, "Big ...... Daring! ”
Mei Xiaoren's slap used all his strength, but Chu Zifeng was not angry at all, covering his red and swollen cheeks, and was very happy: "Xiao Mei'er, it's really you!" ”
"Fourth Master...... Leader of the Drifting Fire Gang...... I didn't see you in the first place! ”
Chu Zifeng still smiled at her as before: "Xiaomei'er, I'm all for you." ”
He was pushing the blood debt and life debt of the Flowing Fire Gang on her head, Mei Xiaoren was so angry that he slapped her again.
The sound of "snap" was extremely loud, waking up everyone in the hall.
At this time, someone said sharply: "Dare to beat the fourth master, come here, take her down and chop her into meat sauce!" ”
"Yes." Several men in red rushed up at the order.
Chu Zifeng glared, pointed at them and scolded: "Who dares!" ”
Mei Xiaoren raised his lips and smiled, smiling sarcastically. This leader of the Drifting Fire Gang who colluded with Xia Guo and acted for the tiger was actually the white-eyed wolf she rescued from under the Flowing Moon Sword back then!