As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Wang and Song Dahai were obviously a little tempted, and the two glanced at each other, and then said tentatively: "You will really promise us a condition?" ”

Rong Xiu bandaged Yan Xiaoyi's injured hand, his slender fingers moved slightly, neatly knotted the strip of cloth, and raised his eyebrows: "The big husband has made a word, and the horse is difficult to chase." When I say it, I will do it. But you must tell everything you know as it is, and return all the money you have swindled! ”

Song Dahai listened, and Huo Ran stood up from the chair on the side. Before Yan Xiaoyun came back to his senses, he saw his knees bent, and with a "click", a big man actually knelt on the ground all of a sudden! That's not all, he stretched out his hand and pulled Mrs. Wang Honghua beside him, and knelt down!

Yan Xiaowei was startled, and hurriedly stood up to help the two: "Oh, what are you doing here, get up quickly, you have something to say!" ”

But no matter how she helped, the two of them knelt as if they had eaten a scale, and they didn't think about it at all.

Song Dahai, a thirty or forty-year-old man, actually cried like a child, and he didn't know how to wipe it with two snots dripping under his nose, and he looked very pitiful to anyone who saw it.

He grinned, cried and said: "With the words of Rong Gongzi, I, Song Dahai, am pouring beans from a bamboo tube today, that is, it is no problem to tell you all the times I have known in the past thirty years, as long as Rong Gongzi you have time to listen!" I won't hide from you, I, Song Dahai, am six years old in Chinese New Year's Eve this year, and I don't even have the strength to say that my daughter-in-law is just for this sister next to me! Today I make a vow here, telling you everything that my sister and I know, just ask you to promise me Song Dahai a condition! ”

Rong Xiu also stood up from the chair and raised his hand to the two: "Just say it, no matter what the conditions are, as long as I Rong Xiu can do it, if I don't violate the principles, I will do my best!" ”

Song Dahai pursed his lips with his head half-lowered, and put his hands on his knees respectfully: "My mother had tuberculosis when Honghua was ten years old, but at that time, the family was poor, and my father was good at gambling, so he was delayed if he had no money to treat." After my mother died, no one cared about it, and my father became more and more addicted to gambling. Finally, he lost a lot of money once, not only lost all the silver taels, but also put the family deed, so the creditor still did not agree. Seeing that my father couldn't take out the money anymore, the creditor moved his mind and arrested my sister to pay off the debt! ”

Speaking of this, a big man burst into tears: "Before my mother died, she told me to take care of my sister, but at that time, I couldn't even take care of myself, how could I take care of her!" I tried to stop the creditor several times, but I couldn't stop the creditor, and Honghua was finally caught by them to pay off the debt! ”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly: "People are watching the sky, and soon after, the creditor committed an accident, and the whole family was arrested by the government, and Honghua also followed the creditor's family's large number of slaves and maidservants to the street to find the owner again." But I had no money, and once again I watched her being taken away. ”

He reached out and clenched his fist and knocked his thigh hard: "At that time, I thought she was taken away by a rich family, and I thought that I would redeem her when I had money, but who knows, the person who took her away was not an ordinary person at all, but a mysterious mountain villa!" ”

When he said this, Yan Xiaowei was a little confused, what does the mysterious mountain villa in his mouth have to do with what is happening now?

As if seeing Yan Xiaoyi's doubts, this time it was Song Honghua who opened her mouth.

"At that time, I thought that I was bought by a rich family to be a maid, but who knew that the person who bought me also bought many boys and girls who were about my age. Before I could say a word to my brother, they were taken away in a carriage. At that time, I was young, and I didn't know what road we were taking, but when we arrived, we found that the carriage was parked at the foot of a mountain, and an old high mountain village was built on the top of the mountain. According to our own situation, these dolls are arranged to learn this and that, not only piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also martial arts and juggling! Who would have thought that this study would be six years! ”

As if recalling the painful memories of the villa, her whole body shuddered. looks quite like a kitten who has been drenched in the rain and has become a chicken in the soup, and there is no longer the dignified and beautiful Mrs. Wang style in the Wang County Commander's Mansion on weekdays.

"At first, I thought it was a school, and I learned the craft and I could find my brother when I went down the mountain in the future, and I could live a good life with my craft! But it wasn't until I actually came down the mountain at the age of sixteen that I realized that this mountain village taught us these things not for our good at all, but for us to get close to the people they wanted us to get close to through these crafts, and to get what they wanted us to get! ”

So, she was bought by someone who specializes in cultivating spies, and after training, she went down the mountain to carry out the mission? Hearing this, Yan Xiaoyan couldn't help but ask: "What is the name of this mysterious mountain villa you said, where is it now, and what is the name of the owner of the villa?" ”

Song Honghua shook her head in embarrassment: "It's not that I don't want to say it, I really don't know." When I was in the villa, I saw the gentlemen who taught us every day, and they didn't say a word to us except to teach us the craft. It's just a housekeeper every day, and the real owner hasn't shown up once! ”

She wiped the sweat on her palms on her sleeves: "Who built such a mountain villa, where did all the money for us to eat and wear come from, and our children in the mountain villa are not uncurious." However, as soon as we asked, even quietly discussing with each other, the people who discussed it would disappear from the villa the next day. There were also people who were homesick and wanted to escape from the villa, but before they could get out of the villa, they were killed. These things are not alarmist, but they really speak out in the villa, and they happen to me, so even if I am curious, I don't ask about what I shouldn't know. ”

"So", she raised her head, her eyes were frank and unreserved, looking at Yan Xiaoyi: "I didn't deliberately hide anything, I really don't know who built the villa!" As for the location of the lodge......"

Speaking of this, she looked even more confused: "When I was sold to the villa, I was still young, and I didn't remember anything at all. When we were old enough to go down the mountain, the grandmother who was in charge of the work on the first night of the descent gave us a feast and saw us off, and when we woke up after eating, we were already lying in the carriage, and had been walking out of the carriage for several days. ”

After listening to Song Honghua's words, not only Yan Xiaoyi, but several people present felt that this villa was really too ethereal and mysterious. Is there really no clue to find the villa?

Yan Xiaowei couldn't help pursing her lips, and brought up the doubts in her mind: "I don't know the exact location of the villa, but I always have an impression, right?" For example, what is the climate of the villa, what clothes do you usually wear, and what are the emergency fruits and vegetables you eat. You said that the villa is at the foot of a mountain, what are the characteristics of the surrounding trees and flowers? ”

Hearing Yan Xiaowei say this, Song Honghua suddenly slapped her hands, as if she remembered something, her eyes lit up!

"Miss Yan, you are so smart, I have been coming down from the mountain for so long, why didn't I think to start with the climate and food! The mountain villa is surrounded by forests, and at the foot of the mountain are basically camphor trees, and the higher the terrain becomes, there are mostly spruce fir trees. When you reach the top of the mountain, it is basically covered with snow, and it does not melt all year round! ”

Seeing Yan Xiaowei frowning, she continued: "Although there is snow on the top of the mountain, the climate in the villa at the foot of the mountain is very pleasant all year round. However, there is a little bit of a bad thing, there is a lot of rain in spring, and sometimes it gets up all of a sudden, and it is dripping, and it doesn't stop for more than ten days! ”

Yan Xiaowei had read the geography of the Baili Dynasty, so she was very familiar with the environment here. Hearing her description, Yan Xiaowei sifted through possible places in her mind one by one.

There are high mountains, the four seasons below the mountain are warm like spring, the mountains are covered with snow, and there is a rainy season in spring, isn't it Nanling? So, that mysterious mountain villa is in Nanling?

As if confirming her conjecture, Song Honghua frowned and continued: "As for the food, it is basically transported from all over the mountain villa, so there is everything. ”

Originally, I wanted to further confirm my conjecture through fruits and vegetables. But hearing Song Honghua say this, Yan Xiaoyun was a little disappointed.

Just as she lowered her head slightly, revealing a somewhat discouraged look, Song Honghua suddenly clapped her hands again: "Oh, by the way, I remembered, there seems to be a kind of lychee near the villa!" I used to eat it when I was in the mountain village, but after I came down the mountain, I realized that this lychee is a rare thing in the north. In this way, the mountain villa should be in the south! ”

Hundreds of miles towards the Dragon River as the boundary, to the south are rich in lychees, among which the beauty of Nanling is even more famous! Yan Xiaowei couldn't help but turn her head to look at Rong Xiu when she thought of this, and met his thoughtful eyes, obviously, he also thought of what she analyzed.

Rong's slender eyelashes blinked, frowned slightly, and the peak of Junxiu's eyebrows narrowed slightly, like a small undulating mountain.

"Then where did you do something after you went down the mountain, and how did you get in touch with Brother Song?"

This sentence seemed to ask Song Honghua's sore spot, she was silent for a while, her hands that were originally covering her knees suddenly clenched into fists, trembling slightly, and the bones and green tendons on the back of her hands tightened.

Rong Xiu pursed his lips without a trace: "Did I ask something that shouldn't be asked?" ”

Song Honghua was silent for a while, then took a deep breath, shook her head for a long time, her eyes fell on Rong Xiu, and she hooked her lips and smiled bitterly.

"At this point, I'm ready to give a full account anyway, so there's nothing more I can't say."

She closed her eyes slightly, stabilized her mind a little, and then spoke: "After going down the mountain, I was arranged into a flower building." The bustard in the flower building seemed to have some connection with the villa, and after accepting me, he groomed me and forced me to meet guests. I was only sixteen years old at the time, and I had never seen anything like that, and I was so scared that I couldn't do it. tried their best to escape, but no matter how many times they ran out, they were all caught back. ”

Saying this, she choked up: "When the old bustard saw that I was disobedient, he sent one of the men...... Insulted me! ”

The memories touched her unbearable past, and here she said it was extremely difficult, and her whole body trembled.

Song Dahai next to him listened, and his already tearful face was even more embarrassed. As if resentful of his incompetence and feeling sorry for his sister, he suddenly raised his hand and slapped it in his face.

This time, his subordinates showed no mercy at all, and his face on one side quickly swollen to the old high!

His actions touched Song Honghua's nerves even more, and she cried even more miserably, even Yan Xiaoyan and Rong Xiu couldn't help but sigh when they saw it.

"Originally, I was really ready to die, but one of the drinkers who often came to the flower building was actually my father's original friend! He came to me with the bustard on his back and said that my brother had been looking for me for so many years! In order to find me, I walked and did chores, just to find my news as soon as possible! For six years, there has been no interruption! ”

Speaking of this, she couldn't bear it anymore, covered her face with her hands and cried: "When I think that my brother has traveled hundreds of miles to so many places for me and looked for me for so many years, I have suffered a great grievance, and I can't die." I'm dead, what can my brother do! ”

As she spoke, she sobbed: "Later, I hid from the bustard and they took off this person to give me a letter to my brother, and it took a long time to get in touch. However, when the two of us finally got along and were about to escape, they found out that they already knew about my contact with my brother behind my back! ”

Song Dahai gritted his teeth and took over the conversation: "The old bustard said that if you want to redeem yourself, you have to do what she said." She asked Honghua to approach Wang Jinsheng, otherwise she would use the killers in the villa to kill me, and said that she would kill my father in my hometown! The power of the villa is not ordinary at first glance, where can we resist. Even if we run, we will not be able to escape from their hands. Honghua didn't make a move, so she agreed. Who would have thought that staying by Wang Jinsheng's side would be ten years! ”

Yan Xiaoyu sighed lightly, these two people are also pitiful.

But I still couldn't help but ask: "What have you done beside Wang Jinsheng in the past ten years?" ”

Song Honghua pursed the corners of her lips, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "They asked me to find a way to get all the news about Yanggu County from Wang Jinsheng, once a month, write it and send it to a stone lion by the Linghe Bridge in Yanggu County, and someone will pick it up." In addition to the fixed day of the wire delivery, if you encounter anything particularly urgent, you must also take the initiative to write and send it over. Of course, if they have any additional requests, they will contact me in the same way. ”

Song Honghua bit her lip: "At the beginning, I followed Wang Jinsheng purely to steal news. However, after a long time, although he seems to be flamboyant, he is really good to me. I feel more and more sorry for him secretly carrying him like this. I once went to Hualou to look for the old bustard, and I wanted to tell her to quit. However, the flower building disappeared overnight and was replaced by a teahouse, and no one knew where they went. ”

Yan Xiaowei frowned: "Since the old bustard is gone, you don't need to continue to steal the news and send it to Linghe Bridge!" ”

Song Honghua wiped her nose and shook her head: "The old bustard is gone, but there are many people who are watching me secretly." ”

Rong Xiu's finger tapped on the table: "You have sent the news to the Linghe Bridge for nearly ten years, haven't you found out who took the news you wrote?" ”

Song Honghua blinked: "Of course I also want to know who took it, once I wrote what they wanted, and I still put it under the stone lion." Then the whole person stood at the inn opposite, looked down from the window, and stared at it for three days. The man who took the thing from under the stone lion didn't show up either! ”

"But", saying this, she suddenly shuddered, and her face suddenly turned pale: "Suddenly, the second child of the inn sent a box, saying that someone sent it." I opened it and looked, and guess what's inside? ”

Saying this, she suddenly cried and fell on Song Dahai's body. While crying, he whimpered and said indistinctly: "It's actually one of my brother's fingers!" ”

Yan Xiaowei was also shocked when she heard this, and she hurriedly fell into Song Dahai's hands, only to see that there were only four fingers left in her right hand, and her little thumb was broken!

She suddenly felt a chill rush up from the back of her spine, and her scalp was numb!

Song Honghua almost fainted on Song Dahai's shoulder: "They also wrote a letter, saying that I want to know too much." If I'm not honest, next time it won't be as simple as cutting off my brother's little thumb! They are so bloody and violent, I even have ten guts, and I don't dare! ”

Although I don't want to add to the past that the two of them can't look back on, there are some things that can't be done without asking clearly. Ask clearly, dig up this mysterious organization as soon as possible, this is to avenge the two of them.

After the two calmed down a little, Yan Xiaoyun opened her mouth and continued to ask: "Then why, do you want to cheat the county government of the money?" ”

Song Dahai reached out to grab his sister and patted her lightly on the shoulder, trying to help Song Honghua calm her emotions.

"Honghua has been doing things for those people not for a day or two, but for a whole decade. We tried to get in touch with her 'boss' and asked if we could redeem herself. After finally getting in touch, the man readily agreed, saying that Wang Jinsheng was getting older day by day, and he had no use value. However, if Honghua wanted to redeem herself, she had to raise two thousand taels of silver for them. How could we get so much silver, but we were really fed up with the life of being spies for them, so we had to resort to such a trick and cheated out two thousand taels of silver from the county office. ”