Chapter 19: The Difficulty of Breaking the Temple
The silver-faced man took out a piece of hemp rope from the package, tied it tightly behind him, and then climbed the bricks protruding from the wall with both hands, and climbed up the wall like a gecko with both feet. At this time, the guards with torches in their hands also chased to the base of the wall, they shouted, and threw the torches in their hands like bricks at the two of them, and the silver-faced man quickly turned over and jumped out of the wall.
"They're running out, chase after them."
On a summer night, I vaguely heard that it seemed to be clamoring to climb over the wall to arrest people.
The silver-faced man whistled, and ran out of the carriage they had been riding in the darkness. The silver-faced man carried Summer Night into the car, but instead of getting into the car, he planned to turn around and leave.
"Where are you going?" Xia Ye grabbed his sleeve and asked weakly, she was very dependent on him at this time.
"I'll go and lure them away, and let Lao He take you away first." The silver-faced man pointed at the coachman with his head, and shook off the summer night's hand resolutely.
Xia Ye knew that he couldn't keep him, so he held his hand tighter, stared at the silver-faced man's eyes, and asked word by word: "I'll just say one word, tell me that you are An Hao?" ”
The silver-faced man's eyes shrank for a moment, and then he forcefully broke Summer Night's hand.
"Lao He, hurry up! She was poisoned by a snake and told Dr. Qu to treat it quickly. ”
"Drive!" Lao He snorted softly, and the carriage immediately rushed out.
Summer Night knew that the silver-faced man was going to lure away those who were chasing and killing the courtyard, and he had mixed feelings in his heart. Because of the snake venom on her body, she was groggy in the carriage, and she only felt that the journey was long.
When the carriage finally stopped, her instinct told her that this was not the Bunka-in, and she propped up the curtain of the car window and found herself in a small wood.
"Lao He, where is this?"
A dirty face suddenly appeared in front of the car window, startling her.
"Hehe, Lao He is still lying in the back alley of General Xiong's Mansion. Yezi, you don't keep your promises, I had to 'invite' you here. ”
"Uncle Qiang!" Summer Night's heart sank, and then she asked, "Where did you take me?" ”
"Remember when I told you I wanted your help? Tonight was a great opportunity, but unfortunately you let me go. I came in through the dog's hole, and when I saw you being taken away, I went out of the garden and got into the carriage, and followed you at a distance. Lao He I have already cleaned up, and after thinking about it, I will take you with me, so that I will not be able to find you when I need you in the future. As for this, it is the place where I live in peace now. Although Cen Qiang said that he had traveled into the body of the ancients and naturally followed the customs of the locals, he would still coldly come out with a few words that only modern people understand.
"You live in this woods?" Summer Night was a little incredulous.
Cen Qiang shook his head and said, "I'll just park the carriage here, you get out of the carriage, and I'll take you over." ”
Xia Ye supported and got out of the car, Cen Qiang had already blown a fire fold, and said to her: "I heard that you have been poisoned by snakes, where are the injuries, let me see, I am a good hand at treating this thing." ”
Hearing this, Xia Ye couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, and obediently pointed out the wound on his neck to Cen Qiang.
Cen Qiang held the fire fold and looked at her injuries carefully, and pressed it with his hand again, but he didn't speak for a long time, and his face was cloudy and unpredictable.
"Is it unsaved? Just say it, anyway, ......" Xia Ye said this, I couldn't help but choke a little, thinking that my life was really bitter, I had been cured by the peach blossom scorpion venom, and now I was hit by the snake venom, it seems that God thinks she died not fast enough.
Unexpectedly, Cen Qiang suddenly grinned and said, "Don't worry, you are lucky to meet me, you can't die." As he spoke, he took out a dirty oiled paper bag from his bosom, picked out a black ball, and stuffed it into her mouth before he could see it clearly on the summer night.
Xia Ye was caught off guard, and swallowed it with a 'coo', and there was a panic in his heart for no reason.
"Uncle Qiang......" She just wanted to ask the other party what she had eaten, but her face was suddenly wiped a few times, and a muddy smell immediately entered her nose.
"Don't talk, it's for your good." Cen Qiang interrupted her in a low voice, one hand still smearing dirt on Xia Ye's face.
Xia Ye had always been accustomed to listening to Cen Qiang's orders, and although she didn't understand his intentions, she had no choice but to follow him.
Soon Cen Qiang patted the soil on his hands, and pulled out of the small forest on a summer night, there was a house not far away, the windows showed a dim light, and when he got closer, he found that this was a dilapidated temple, like a temple that had been abandoned for a long time.
Cen Qiang pushed the door in, and the noise inside almost knocked Xia Ye down, and the sour smell that came to her nose almost suffocated her.
Inside, the fire was as bright as day, and a group of beggar-like people, laughing and dancing happily, seemed to be celebrating something, gulping wine and eating large pieces of meat, and running around the house.
"Where is this?" Xia Ye asked Cen Qiang softly uneasily.
"I want a nest of food." Cen Qiang turned his head and winked slyly at her.
Summer Night thought to herself, these people are really beggars.
At this time, there was a middle-aged beggar with a mouth full of rotten teeth, holding a fat chicken leg in his hand, and ran towards Cen Qiang with a grin.
"Snake boy, you kid will just come now, see how many good things we have begged for today, go and ask the Chai gang leader to say goodbye, you can have fat chickens to eat, and soju to drink, go quickly." This man swept into the summer night while talking, and asked, "Hey, is this brother from our Dragon Temple Gang?" ”
"Uncle Mazi, he was picked up by me on the road, and he was so hungry that he was dying, so he brought it back." As soon as Cen Qiang said casually, the man named Mazi immediately believed it, shook his head and came up to pull Xia Ye's hand, so frightened that Xia Ye dared to hide behind Cen Qiang.
Cen Qiang hurriedly picked up the summer night and walked forward, squeezing the pockmarks aside.
"I'm going to see the Chai Gang Leader."
Cen Qiang led the summer night to a corner of the room, where there was a tall seated statue of the dragon king, and on its knees lay a man half-lying, with a gray animal skin under him, and beside him two young women carefully serving him wine and meat.
When you get closer, you can see the summer night more clearly. The man was much cleaner than the other beggars, and he was in his forties, and his appearance was very different from that of the others, with deep eyebrows and a high nose, and most importantly a head of curly hair, which made him stand out from the crowd. Seeing his appearance, Xia Ye couldn't help but think of the group of exotic merchants who almost fought with the drunken half-immortals in the tavern that day.
"Helper." Cen Qiang saluted the man very respectfully.
However, the leader of the Chai Gang didn't even look at him, and said coldly: "Snake Guy, today is the day of the wedding of the three princes, and our Longmiao Gang has gone to the street to beg for money, and you are nowhere to be seen, what's the matter, I don't take my Chai Laosan in my eyes more and more." When he said that, the man was obviously displeased.
"Helper, you misunderstood, the small thing is temporary."
"What's the matter with you, kid? Can it be bigger than the things in the gang?! By the way, who is this person next to you? ”
"Oh, this is what the little one said, this man used to be a little brother with a different surname, but I didn't expect to be bullied on the street, I saw that it was very pitiful, so I sent those little gangsters for him, and thought that he had nowhere to live, so I brought him to the temple. Boss, let's help many younger brothers in the Dragon Temple, you won't be angry, right? ”
"Hmph, you're right, our Dragon Temple Gang was established by the brothers and sisters gathered in this Dragon King Temple because of these people who have no food to eat, and the so-called poor people help the poor people in order to survive. But," said this, Chai Laosan put his feet on the ground and stared at Cen Qiang with a gloomy face, "However, I see that something is wrong with you kid recently." ”
"What do you mean by that?" Cen Qiang looked at Chai Laosan with an innocent face.
Chai Laosan stared at Cen Qiang for a while but didn't speak, his eyes were slightly green, as if he could see through the other party's heart.
Suddenly, he narrowed his eyes and smiled, and said, "Hehe, there's no need to be so nervous, I just want to test your loyalty." ”
Cen Qiang also laughed dryly.
But suddenly, Chai Laosan stretched out five eagle claw-like fingers and quickly pulled Xia Ye into his arms, sniffed it with his nose exaggeratedly, and said, "Xiang, it's really fragrant, you said he was your brother?" As he spoke, he unsuspectingly tore half of the summer night's clothes.
Summer Night couldn't help but scream and struggled desperately.
Cen Qiang hurriedly said: "No." ”
"Can't? Why? ”
"Boss, look at her." Cen Qiang pointed to Xia Ye's neck and the erosive red on his chest and said, "She, she has flower willow disease, I'm afraid that the boss won't take her in, so I'll pretend to be a man, but this is not a fatal disease, and it will get better slowly." ”
As soon as he heard this, Chai Laosan suddenly retracted his hand as if he had been shocked, kicked Xia Ye into Cen Qiang's arms with a fierce kick, and said with disgust on his face: "Throw her out!" ”
"Boss, she'll die if she goes out." Cen Qiang thought that he had finally brought Xia Ye here, how could he let her go before the matter was done, so he didn't care about bumping into Chai Laosan.
"Good boy, you didn't listen to me for the sake of a filthy woman. Don't you want to stay here anymore? The green light in Chai Laosan's eyes was even worse, and he stared at Cen Qiang like a wolf.
"No, Boss!" Cen Qiang hurriedly waved his hand to deny it.
"Alright, you'll kill her." Chai Laosan squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, his eyes were cold, as if there was no room for maneuver.
Summer nights are almost desperate, what kind of world is this? I've been toying with her in the palm of my hand.
Cen Qiang gritted his teeth and asked, "Boss, do you really want to do this?" ”
"That's right! Kill her and show your loyalty to me. Snake boy, there are many brothers in the gang who have secretly reported to me, saying that you have been acting very strangely in the past month, which is very different from before. Chai Laosan said in a weird way.
The words are forced to this, if Cen Qiang doesn't kill Xia Ye, this Chai Laosan may kill him, but Cen Qiang needs Xia Ye to do more important things, and he can't kill her.
After a moment of confrontation, Cen Qiang suddenly clenched his fists and said in a low voice: "Helper, in fact, I won't tell you that this woman is the one who offered her ...... in Sword Shadow Villa that day."
"What do you say?! It's her! Chai Laosan suddenly interrupted Cen Qiang's words excitedly, and then waved his hand impatiently to the two female beggars beside him and said, "Go away, go away!" ”
"How did you find out about that day, aren't you in the Jiangxia Mansion prison?" After Chai Laosan saw the people walking away, he asked in a low voice.
Cen Qiang said: "There is one thing you may not know, this woman happened to be locked up next to the small cell that night, and the jailer interrogated her at that time, and the little one just heard it. Originally, I didn't take it seriously, but after coming out for a few days, I saw that the helper had caught the one-armed man, and I accidentally heard the words jade screen, so I took it upon myself to look for this woman on the street, wanting to share the worries of the helper. ”
Chai Laosan frowned and listened to Cen Qiang's eloquent words, and it was difficult to distinguish the truth for a while, and only after a while did he ask: "Then why did you deliberately hide her identity?" ”
"Helper, you misunderstood, just because there was someone next to you just now, and I was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble." Cen Qiang's reaction was quite fast.
"Hmm." Chai Laosan's eyes sank for a moment, and suddenly his eyes widened, and he looked at Cen Qiang and said, "Regarding the matter of the screen, you must not talk nonsense." ”
Cen Qiang immediately agreed softly: "The little one understands." ”
Chai Laosan's face tugged, and then he raised his head and shouted towards the center of the room, "Mazi! Come here! ”
"Hey, it's coming."
A beggar trotted up and said, "Helper, what do you command?" ”
Chai Laosan beckoned to him and said in a low voice, "Shut this girl up in the dry well." ”
"She, she's a woman?" Asako's eyes were about to pop out in shock, and she turned her head to look at the summer night in disbelief.
"Less nonsense, go quickly."
"Hey, hey, yes."
Summer Night was taken outside the house through the back door, and a ruin appeared in front of him, as if there had been a house here before. Not far away was a small hill, full of vegetation, which lay dimly in the moonlight, like a huge sleeping porcupine.
Mako brought the summer night to the foot of the mountain, and in a col surrounded by trees, a slender figure swayed.
"Bamboo poles, put ladders." Mazi shouted at the figure.
"What's the matter, you want to go down, is there an order from the helper?" The figure stepped forward and stood exactly in the moonlight, he really looked like a bamboo pole.
"Don't talk nonsense, I dare to come without the master's order, do you see this girl, the helper told her to go down the well."
"Okay, okay." The bamboo pole was stunned by the pockmark's roar, lifted a bamboo ladder from the ground, and stretched it into a hole, only to find out that this was the dry well in the summer night.
Mazi and bamboo poles one after the other, put Xia Ye in the middle, and the three of them went down the well one after another, and Xia Ye felt that the well was as deep as two floors.
Mazi, who was the first to the bottom of the well, suddenly drilled into the wall of the well and disappeared, and when she got to the bottom, she found that there was a horizontal hole at the bottom of the well for people to bend over.
Walking in parallel for more than ten steps, suddenly he was able to straighten his waist, Mazi had already lit a fire, and the two of them walked forward with Xia Ye left and right, Xia Ye could vaguely tell that this was a stone cave, damp, cold, and a gust of wind blowing from nowhere, swirling over her body.
Summer Night thought she had to go a long way, but she didn't expect that after only a few steps, she was pressed against the stone wall and tied her hands and feet.
"Alright, let's go."
"Strange, what are you doing with a little girl here?" Mazi said.
"You're tired of living, why do you care so much."
"Hey, I think there's something wrong with our helper these days."
"I think something is wrong with you, let's go, it's very cold here."
The two walked out of the cave as they spoke, and quickly crawled out of the dry well by the sound of footsteps, leaving Xia Ye like an abandoned child, with wide eyes, trying to see the scene in the cave.