The two of them hurried towards the direction of the smoke, and the closer they got closer, the choking smell of the smoke rushed straight to Chu Huai's façade, and he hurriedly held his breath, half-bent over, and quickly shuttled between the dead trees.

"What are you doing?" Shu Shan stopped first, looking at the man not far away who was burning a pile of branches in front of a small wooden house.

The man raised his confused face and looked at the place where Shu Shan came out, and his expression turned to surprise: "Village master? Why are you here? ”

"Don't you know that fire is forbidden in the dead woods?" Shu Shan was holding back the anger in his heart, trying to make his voice sound calmer, but his face had already turned cold at this moment, and this was the second time that Chu Huai had seen Shu Shan show such an expression overnight.

"This ...... That...... I...... I just want to roast some game. The man looked at the fire in a panic, and then at the hut behind him, picked up the string of roasted hares that had been erected with a twig, and shook them wildly.

"What if you set fire to all these dead trees left behind by this Gu God?"

"Right...... I'm sorry, I'm going to kill it immediately! ”

The light of the fire instantly illuminated the man's face as he was about to put out the fire with his coat.

Chu Huai, who was standing behind Shu Shan, saw clearly that the person was clearly the shopkeeper he saw that day.

"Where did you hide the mandarin duck?" Chu Huai flashed in front of the shopkeeper, grabbed his collar, and glared at him viciously.

"What mandarin ducks, what are you hiding, what are you talking about, why can't I understand anything?" The shopkeeper dodged Chu Huai's eyes, and then put his eyes on Shu Shan who was not far away for help, "The owner of the village, look at him, he rushed over to grab my clothes indiscriminately, you can't wronged me because I roasted game in the dead woods, the owner of the village, you have to take care of him and make me the master!" ”

"You're the second child?"

"It's me...... But how did you know my name? ”

"That's it, you kidnapped the Mandarin Duck girl?"

"Owner of the village, how can you even ...... I was really wronged! ”

"You'd better not be found by me." Chu Huai pulled the collar of the shopkeeper higher, then picked him up and threw him aside. He walked to the cabin on his own.

"Ahem." The shopkeeper got up from the ground, saw that Shushan was not far from him, and hurriedly knelt down and walked to his side, hugged his thigh, and cried, "The owner of the village, you have to make the decision for me, I was really wronged, I was just a shopkeeper, I really don't know anything." ”

Shu Shan kicked his legs, but he still couldn't peel the shopkeeper off his legs, and finally gave up the struggle and said to him: "I only look at the evidence and speak, what I do is what I do, what dare I not admit?" ”

Chu Huai kicked open the door of the cabin, there was only a table by the window and a bed against the wall, he lifted the mattress, and the silver ticket pressed under it was rolled up in the air with his movements, he knocked on the bed board, it sounded solid, it was unlikely that there was another secret passage under the bed, he overturned the table, searched every corner of the whole room, and did not see any entrance that looked like a basement.

"Tsk, it's not hidden like this." Chu Huai felt an inexplicable fire in his heart, walked out of the cabin, walked to Shu Shan's side, picked up the placket of the shopkeeper's clothes, and punched him directly in the face, "Hurry up, where did you lock the mandarin duck?" ”

"I really don't know what you're talking about!" Two reds flowed from the shopkeeper's nose, and he was crying with a face.

"Don't pretend I don't know." Chu Huai punched him in the face again.

The shopkeeper's face instantly turned blue, and he trembled his fingers and pointed in a direction not far from the cabin, "Just ...... Right there...... There is a little dark room. ”

"It would have been nice to say no sooner." Chu Huai threw the shopkeeper on the ground heavily, turned around and walked in the direction that the shopkeeper was pointing to.

"It's really not me, I really don't know anything." The shopkeeper knelt on the ground, motionless looking at the direction Chu Huai left, tears mixed with nosebleeds dripping on the ground, "It's miserable, it's miserable, it's all over." ”

Chu Huai walked in the direction pointed by the shopkeeper, and sure enough, in the dead woods not far from the small wooden house, he saw a dilapidated wooden house, which should be the little black house that the shopkeeper said.

The door of the small black room was locked, Chu Huai pulled hard a few times and failed to open the door, he was upset, and kicked the door down directly, at first he was worried that the wooden door that fell inside would not smash on the mandarin duck's body, but in fact, he thought too much, at this moment the mandarin duck was curled up in a small corner in the back of this small black room, her hair was messy, her face was also covered with dust, her eyes were closed, her brows were also wrinkled, and she looked very painful.

"Mandarin duck!" Chu Huai stepped on the wooden door, walked quickly to the mandarin duck's side, squatted down, and patted her shoulder.

The eyebrows tightened a little tighter, and Chu Huai could see that her hands and feet were tied so that she couldn't move, and he took out the dagger he carried with him, cut the hemp rope that tied the mandarin duck's hands and feet, and pulled the rag out of her mouth.

"Ahem, ahem." The mandarin duck subconsciously covered his throat and began to cough, and slowly opened his eyes after feeling that there was no burden on his body.

"Master?"

"Mandarin duck, are you alright?" Chu Huai helped the mandarin duck and slowly sat up from the ground.

The mandarin duck shook his head slightly: "I'm fine, but how did you find here, Master?" ”

"It's a long story, but in the end, Master Shu brought me here."

"Good thing you're here, I almost thought I was going to die here."

"It's all right." Chu Huai's gaze suddenly fell on the mandarin duck's neck, he turned the dagger, and picked up the black cloth strip on the mandarin duck's neck, "Could it be that this is what the shopkeeper used to blindfold you?" ”

"This?" The mandarin duck lowered her head, and Chu Huai quickly withdrew the dagger, for fear that it would stab her, "I don't know what the reason is, this thing blindfolded me, but soon it slipped off on its own, obviously I could feel that he was tied very tightly, but it would loosen itself, maybe because his binding technique was not quite correct." ”

"Alright, let's hurry out, Master Shu is still waiting for us outside."

Saying that, Chu Huai helped the mandarin duck up, but the moment she stood up, her stomach suddenly began to throb, making her a little unsteady and squatting down again.

"What's wrong?" Chu Huai felt the force of the mandarin duck pulling his clothes downward, and also squatted down, looking at her worriedly.

"I haven't eaten for too long, and my stomach hurts terribly."

"How could it hurt so suddenly?"

"In the past, I fell ill, and as long as I didn't eat on time, it would hurt badly."

"Come on, I'll carry you."

The mandarin duck looked at Chu Huai's broad shoulders and wanted to refuse, but the throbbing pain from her stomach made her unable to stand up at all, so she had to lie on Chu Huai's back and let him carry herself.

"Thank You, Master."

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