Ye Lusheng never told anyone what he had experienced during the time he was kidnapped.

Even Cao Liangse saw the injuries on his body and thought that he was beaten, but Ye Lusheng would close his eyes every time, and then hugged Cao Liangse with a smile and said with a smile: "Don't think about it, I'm fine." , he knew that he was different from the previous self after all.

When he went down the mountain that day, he bought a few steamed buns at the tea shop on the side of the road to fill his stomach, and planned to go back to the town as soon as he arrived at the bottom of the mountain, but suddenly his eyes were dark, and he soon lost consciousness.

He woke up in a cabin with a foul stench, and he frowned and opened his eyes, only to see other inquiring faces with himself.

He asked someone who looked reasonably pleasing to the eye: "Do you know where this is?" ”

The man shook his head and recalled, "I was sold by my second mother." ”

An older one smiled wryly: "Human traffickers." ”

"What?" Ye Lusheng was surprised, and then smiled again: "The traffickers are now arresting adult men?" Figure what? ”

"Labor." The man said, then pointed to a door-like plank and said, "This is probably a merchant ship of a large family, and according to this situation, it should be heading south." ”

Ye Lusheng wanted to take a look, but the cabin had already been sealed tightly, and the light could not penetrate it, and he couldn't understand it day and night.

"Look at what you're wearing, you don't look like a helpless person who goes out, why was he also arrested?" The man took a closer look at Ye Lusheng's robe and asked.

Ye Lusheng could only say that he came out to enjoy the fun, and he didn't bring more servants to follow, and when he saw that they Ye didn't suspect it, he asked: "They are so blatant, aren't they afraid that the yamen will find out?" ”

"Yamen?" The man shook his head and sneered, "They are all mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect themselves. What else can I do? ”

"I don't believe it, there are so many of us here, just break out together." Ye Lusheng looked around, there were about twenty or thirty people, but all of them had dull expressions and insensitivity.

The man closed his eyes and said, "You've been asleep for two days, so I don't know, yesterday we tried to break out, but nothing changed except for a few brothers who were killed on the spot." ”

"Kill!" Where had Ye Lusheng seen these battles, and he was taken aback.

The man held out his thumb and forefinger and said, "They have a gun ......."

Ye Lusheng stepped back and said in front of the person who had just accosted him, "Really? ”

The man nodded, looking scared as well.

"Where are we going back?" Ye Lusheng turned his head sideways and asked. Someone answered him in the dark: "Purgatory." ”

Spending half a month in the dark cabin, at first Ye Lusheng was still yelling for people to let him out, and even moved out of the Ye family to talk, but the person who delivered the meal smiled coldly, poured a bowl of gruel on the ground, and said: "I don't care which young master you are, when you come here, you have to work hard for the boss here, you are arguing, I will let people throw you down to feed the fish." ”

Later, half a month later, Ye Lusheng and his party were taken to a bathhouse to take a bath, during which someone wanted to run, Ye Lusheng watched the person faint with a stick beaten by them.

"Zhiwen, did you see that?" Ye Lusheng asked tremblingly.

The person he looked pleasing to the eye was called Zhiwen, and it was only later that Ye Lusheng learned that he lived on the outskirts of Lianghe Town.

Zhiwen nodded and said, "It seems that it is not possible to break through." ”

Ye Lu was very scared after his death, and the person who took the lead came in and said viciously: "After cleaning up, I will rest, and I will go to work on the dock tomorrow." Don't even think about running, otherwise, that person just now will be your fate! ”

In the end, there were only eighteen people left, and everyone was crowded into a small room, and Ye Lusheng coughed in the middle of the night, and was kicked out by the others. Fortunately, it was not cold at night in the south at this time, and just as he was shrinking outside the door, a thin quilt was covered on him, and Zhiwen's voice sounded: "What is wrong with you?" ”

"I have pneumonia." Ye Lusheng moved and made room for Zhiwen to sit down.

Zhiwen was wearing only a single coat and asked, "Is it serious?" ”

Ye Lusheng shook his head and replied with a reluctant smile: "It should be that the surroundings have been too dirty in the past two days, and in addition, I guess the water and soil are not adaptable." ”

Zhiwen nodded, as if teasing: "It seems that you are really a big young master, and you can't endure hardship." ”

Ye Lusheng smiled bitterly: "Are you making fun of me, what are you going to do on the dock tomorrow?" ”

"What can there be? Move things. Zhiwen was very open, flicked the ash on his buttocks, and said, "I see that you don't cough much, let's go in." ”

Ye Lusheng nodded and followed, at that time, he handed over all his trust to Zhiwen.

Sure enough, when I arrived at the dock, I was helping to unload the goods.

There are really a lot of people waiting at the dock, and I heard from the people around me that some were tied up and some were deceived.

The one who took the lead divided the people into several groups, and Ye Lusheng and Zhiwen were divided together. The leader said: "You work obediently, and when this period of time passes, everyone will have money to take and return to their hometown." As he spoke, he ordered a few tall men to guard it.

Ye Lusheng was carrying a bag of flour-like things, and he couldn't walk fast, Zhiwen smiled behind him: "If you drag like this, be careful of eating whips." ”

Ye Lusheng complained: "These people have brain diseases, so they don't need to keep a few big men next to them, so they have to let us work hard!" ”

"Don't say it, we can't afford to mess with them now." Zhiwen saw that the people who supervised them saw them and hurriedly urged Ye Lusheng to leave quickly.

At the end of the day, everyone was exhausted, Ye Lusheng collapsed on the bed in the room, and Zhiwen asked him to get up: "If you don't come to eat again, you will be hungry later." ”

Ye Lusheng was helped out by Zhiwen.

After eating, because it rained at night, they didn't need to go out to carry it at night.

Zhiwen and Ye Lusheng didn't want to go to bed so early, so they sat on the threshold and talked again.

"Zhiwen." Ye Lusheng called him.

"How?" Zhiwen turned around.

Ye Lusheng said embarrassedly: "Have you been kidnapped before?" ”

"Where are you talking about that?" Zhiwen was surprised, and laughed again for a moment.

"Don't blame me for speaking too straight," Ye Lusheng also felt embarrassed, and explained: "I just see that you handle these things very well and look very experienced." ”

Zhiwen laughed twice, then lowered his head and said: "It's all the same, when I was very young, my mother died, and then my father married a house, and my father mainly worked outside, so most of the time in the family was me and Erniang, their mother and son, and I was fed up with Erniang's abuse since I was a child." ”

"You're pathetic too." Ye Lusheng shook his head with a sigh, but he heard Zhiwen laugh and said: "Actually, it's okay, my second mother sold me, and the family got some money, and I didn't have to stay in that place, I couldn't wear warm clothes and food." ”

"Is your family poor?" Ye Lusheng never knew that eating would also be a family problem.

Zhiwen looked at Ye Lusheng for a while, and said, "After all, not everyone is noble, and besides, my second mother prefers my little brother, why don't I want to live a life of fine clothes and food like you?" 'Clothes come to stretch out their hands, food comes to open their mouths'. ”

"How can there be such a ruthless mother?" Ye Lusheng shook his head, thinking that although Old Madam Ye often asked him to do things he didn't love, she never treated him badly. He assured Zhiwen: "When I go out, I will take you back to Ye Mansion and be my guest of Ye Lusheng, see who dares to bully you?" ”

Zhiwen smiled: "Then thank you Young Master Ye first." ”

The two talked until the rain stopped, yawned, and went back to the house to sleep.

I just didn't expect that to happen.

Ye Lusheng thought that when these full cargo ships were unloaded, these people would let everyone go, but when he went out for a little relief one night, he heard movement next door, Ye Lusheng didn't expect that this group of big men guarding them would still have the humor of talking at night, so he approached and listened carefully to what they said.

"Boss Liu really sent a boat to send these people back then?"

"Haha, go back? Then they have to have this life to go back! ”

"What are these words?"

"They are either sold or kidnapped, in short, they are all slaves with no background, and when the time comes, they will unload the goods, put some medicine in their meals, and throw them into the river to feed the fish."

Until the candle was extinguished, Ye Lusheng still didn't come back to his senses, he walked back slowly, found Zhiwen, shook him awake and said, "They said that they would kill us when the time comes!" ”

Zhiwen nodded and said, "I know, after all, they are actually mixed in a lot of contraband under the pretext of sending flour and rice." ”

"Contraband?"

"Opium or something." Zhiwen whispered: "Didn't you see it? Some of the things that were discovered, once they were detected, disappeared. ”

"Gone?"

Zhiwen pointed outside and said, "Throw it into the river." ”

Ye Lusheng was frightened, he was the eldest young master of the Ye family, when did he need to be frightened to be so scared, he curled up beside Zhiwen, trembling with fear: "I don't want to die...... I don't want to die yet......"

Zhiwen didn't say anything, turned around and went back to sleep.

After a few days, I heard that Mr. Liu was coming to inspect, so he took the lead in waking them up early in the morning, and they all packed up and went to the dock together.

The leader said: "I will perform well today, if Master Liu is satisfied, the workload today will be less." ”

On the side, there was an older one, snorting coldly and said, "How did everyone get here, they all know each other in their hearts, what kind of face kung fu are you doing?" ”

The one who took the lead looked over, whispered something to the two big men next to him, and the two of them came over to set up the man and left.

The leader didn't say anything more, waved his hand and said, "What should you do, why go." ”

When it was close to noon, Zhiwen patted Ye Lusheng on the shoulder and said, "The surname Liu is here." ”

Ye Lusheng raised his eyes and saw that not far away, an old man in a brown robe was talking to a young man and the leader.

Zhiwen whispered: "It turns out that this is a gang of helpers, specializing in selling labor to make money. ”

Ye Lusheng nodded and scolded: "When I go back, I won't be able to kill him!" ”

Just as the whip came down, the big man with a meaty face who was guarding the side scolded: "I'm lazy again, go and work for Lao Tzu, I'm tired of you two!" ”