There are only 10 places, and they are also worried that others will want to get involved if the news gets out, so they keep it strictly secret from their families, saying that they need to leave home for a few days to find a job.

When Jiang Liang heard this, he could understand why the family members of those people would not know anything, and even if there was someone who could tell what they were doing, they could not tell where they were working.

Thinking of this, Jiang Liang couldn't help but sigh secretly, a little speechless.

Zhang Qingting on the side did not have such sentimental emotions as her, but directly opened his mouth to ask.

"Have you seen that old Taoist priest? What does he want you to do? ”

Zhang Qingting's question was also what Jiang Liang wanted to ask, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but hold his breath and look at Lu Zongping intently, for fear of missing any important details.

Lu Zongping couldn't help but sigh softly when he heard this.

"The first few days were fine, the old Taoist chief told us to just go into the mountains to collect medicine, eat three meals a day in that Taoist temple, and rest in the Taoist temple at night. Not to mention, the food these days is really good, there are meat and vegetarian food, and there is even wine. Everyone is secretly saying that it seems that this old Taoist is also concerned about Hongchen. ”

"It's just that after a few days, things have become wrong, and several companions have fallen ill one after another, weak, and have a high fever that does not go away."

Lu Zongping's face was solemn when he talked about this, and it seemed that he was recalling bad things.

Everyone was in a hurry, so they wanted to go into the city to find a doctor for treatment, but the old Taoist priest was not allowed, saying that this was overwork, and he knew how to take care of them. He also threatened us that if we left without permission, we would not be paid for the work we had done before. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Liang and Zhang Qingting couldn't help but glance at each other, and saw him nodding.

"It is estimated that at this time, they began to use poison to control their actions, but the amount of medicine is not much, so they don't feel much."

Jiang Liang couldn't help but sigh when he heard Zhang Qingting's explanation, it seems that this old Taoist priest is indeed scheming, doing things step by step, and not leaking.

Even those who want to go to the city to find a doctor for treatment, weighing the pros and cons, will tend to be on their beneficial.

What's more, the old Taoist priest also calmed their emotions and lied that he would save people, so there was nothing to hesitate about this time.

As everyone knows, they missed the best opportunity to escape because of a few taels of silver.

"Brother Lu, you go on, what's next?"

Jiang Liang shook his head, shook off these chaotic thoughts, and continued to ask Lu Zongping.

She was really getting more and more curious about this old Taoist priest, and she didn't know what he did after that.

After that, everyone went into the mountains to collect medicine as usual, but soon everyone fell ill. Everyone was arguing, saying that the old Taoist was planning to kill us, but at this time everyone found that they had no strength to resist. Several strong men became weak and could only be at the mercy of the old Taoist leader. ”

"At this time, the old Taoist also showed his true colors, and I don't know where a group of people came out of nowhere to directly arrest us and lock us up in the cellar of the Taoist temple."

Lu Zongping couldn't help but tremble when he recalled this paragraph, thinking that the experience in the cellar was an indelible pain for him.

"The cellar was so big that it was divided into ten single rooms, and I was locked up in one of them."

"Lao Dao was willing to send us a little food at first, but there were so few things that he couldn't fill his stomach at all. There were so many people in the cellar, eating, drinking, and lazing together, and hungry crazy rats would come out and bite. Soon someone broke down. ”

"They told the old Taoist that they could do whatever they wanted, as long as they could let them out of the cellar, they would want their lives."

When Lu Zongping mentioned this, he suddenly laughed briefly, which made Jiang Li's heart tremble.

Just listening to Lu Zongping's description, she felt how terrifying all this was, and the people in it didn't know what it was like.

Jiang Liang began to be unbearable at this time, and let Lu Zongping continue to recall.

She didn't expect that the old Taoist priest was really full of tricks to torture people.

Lu Zongping didn't know Jiang Liang's thoughts, he took a deep breath, slowly exhaled the depression that had accumulated in his heart, and then continued: "Seeing those people say this, the old Taoist told them that as long as they help him test the medicine, they can leave the cellar. Actually, I'm one of them......"

When Lu Zongping said this, he glanced at Jiang Liang uneasily, as if he was worried that she would look down on him.

Jiang Liang was slightly stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect Lu Zongping to agree to the old Taoist's request in this situation.

But she didn't mean to look down on him, but felt that he was excusable for doing so, and even very courageous.

It was his desire for freedom, for the light, that prompted him to make this choice.

"However, I don't understand why this old Taoist priest has to go to great lengths to force Brother Lu to agree to test the medicine. Have you ever heard that old Taoist priest mention anything? ”

Although he knew what had happened, Jiang Liang felt that the old Taoist priest's approach was a little strange.

You must know that they had become prisoners of the old Taoist priest at that time, and after being controlled by drugs, their bodies were not under their control.

The old Taoist priest has someone around him who can be used to control them, so he doesn't have to worry about Lu Zongping and them escaping.

But why did he go around in a big circle and use such tortuous means.

"It's nothing, that old Taoist priest is a pervert."

Zhang Qingting gave Jiang Liang an explanation, and when he heard her question, he answered it directly. "I think he just likes to see people's painful expressions and wants others to beg him for mercy."

Jiang Liang was not sure if Zhang Qingting's guess was correct, and hurriedly looked at Lu Zongping next to him, and saw that he nodded in agreement directly after hearing this.

"Indeed, what this old Taoist chief is most willing to do, apart from alchemy, is to torture us. If we hadn't begged for mercy at the time, we would have been drugged and poisoned by him, just like the others. ”

Speaking of this, a trace of happiness flashed in Lu Zongping's eyes, but more guilt.

He felt guilty that he was alone, that he had not been able to save those people.

"I was a coward, but in the end it was a coward like me who survived."

"No, Brother Lu, you're not a coward!"

When Jiang Liang heard that Lu Zongping actually looked at him like this, he immediately frowned dissatisfied.

"You were the victim of this matter, if you hadn't saved your life, we wouldn't have been able to know about these things, do you think it's better to let these wicked people go unpunished?"

Hearing Jiang Liang say this, Lu Zongping couldn't help but be stunned, and saw her eyes looking at him firmly.

He hurriedly shook his head and defended in a loud voice: "Naturally, I don't want to. ”

Seeing him say something, Jiang Liang chuckled lightly and nodded with satisfaction.

"That's pretty much it! Remember, we wouldn't know the truth without your judgment! It's all thanks to you. ”