Rokuro looked at the woman coldly and asked, "Are you abducting and selling women and children?" ”

The woman cowered in the corner, her legs kicking the ground and back, and she said in a trembling voice, "No, it's not what I'm going to do!" It's what Zhang San wants to do! He said that he could sell women to the Qinglou in Donglin! A woman can sell for five taels, and a child can sell for two taels of silver! He did it! He did it!! ”

He Mai glared at the woman angrily: "You are also an accomplice!" I don't know how many women and children have been harmed! Something that has lost its conscience! How many people have you harmed here? ”

The woman said in a trembling voice: "He has already made a lot of orders himself, I can't count how many women's children he caught a while ago...... It's been a long time since I've eaten or drunk...... I'm afraid they're going to starve to death and die of thirst......"

He Mai was shocked when he heard this, and Liulang beside him had already made a move, holding an arrow in his hand that had reached the woman's neck, and asked in a cold voice, "Where are they now?" Take us there! ”

The woman was carried by He Mai and got up from the ground, but when she was about to go out, He Mai remembered the child who was still on the bed in the house, and she couldn't bear to keep him here.

When she returned to the house, she saw that the child was crying with his eyes closed, so she picked it up and coaxed it, and took the child on the road.

Thinking about this child, it is also the "bait" left by this woman in order to lure women into being fooled!

He Mai felt a little more pity in his heart, seeing that the child was not very old, but he had been separated from his parents, if he replaced her, he was afraid that he would die of sadness.

Rokuro forced the woman to walk in front, and the woman's steps were a little slow, and she looked back at them tremblingly, and said flatteringly: "Actually, these women and children all ran out of their hometowns, and they ran to our territory by themselves, and we, we didn't do anything......"

He Mai sneered: "Then you are also doing evil yourself, and you deserve to fall into our hands!" Without further ado, lead the way! ”

The woman was pushed and shut her mouth in mockery.

The courtyard that the woman was talking about was in the southeast corner of their rented house, and it was a very simple and dirty courtyard.

Except for a few clear palm prints, the gate was completely covered with a layer of gray, and the door could no longer distinguish the color.

The lock was securely locked, and the woman trembled twice and said, "The key is in his hand, and I have no ...... in hand."

Without hesitation, Rokuro pulled out a dagger from his bosom and inserted his backhand into the keyhole, pinning the lock open.

The door of the courtyard was opened, and the center of the courtyard was empty.

He Mai re-entered the courtyard and kicked open the crumbling wooden doors of the three rooms, only to see that there was not even a single mosquito inside, let alone a gasping man.

He Mai beware of the woman being cheating, his voice was three points fierce, and he asked sharply, "Where is the person?" ”

The woman trembled and pointed to a cellar door in the corner of the courtyard, "There it is." ”

The boards in the cellar were thick, and Hemai and Rokuro worked together to lift the boards and toss them aside.

In the cellar, a foul air instantly rushed up to the face.

The cellar was deep, and from the depths came the cries of some women and children, and the sound sounded very faint.

Looking inside, the smell of the black rumbling cellar was so muffled that it was hard to breathe just at the door.

There are wooden ladders on both sides of the cellar hole, but the wooden ladder has been artificially destroyed, and Rokuro tried it, and when he stepped on it, the wooden ladder would make a creaking sound, and it was already overwhelmed.

The woman looked at He Mai tremblingly, and when she saw that He Mai's eyes showed a sharp look again, she shuddered, and hurriedly explained: "I don't know how to go down, they destroyed the wooden ladder in order to prevent those women and children from escaping, and every time someone came, Zhang San took the children and women down and locked them inside." ”

Liulang handed the Mu He in his arms to He Mai, picked up a rope on the ground, and went down to the cellar.

The cellar was very deep, and when Rokuro had already descended into the cellar, he lit a fire fold, and He Mai looked at the mouth of the cave, and only a faint light could be seen.

After waiting for a long time, Rokuro climbed up again along the rope and patted the soil in his hand, and He Mai saw that his face was very solemn.

"What's going on?" She asked.

"There are a dozen women and children down there, and two women have been hungry for so long that they can't do it anymore. They all wore shackles and shackles on their feet, and they were tightly locked. I need the keys. ”

He Mai's heart tightened, thinking that these captured women and children would not only have to starve and suffer hardships, but also be stuffed in the cellar with shackles and shackles, afraid that there would be no hope of life.

He Mai's gaze fell back on the woman and asked, "Where is the key?" ”

The woman trembled with fear, her head shook like a rattle, "Zhang San doesn't have a key either...... We're only responsible for bringing people in, putting them in the cellar and locking them up...... The key is in the hands of another person, and each time he contacts the seller, he will bring the key to take the woman or child away. ”

Is there another person?

He Mai frowned, then turned his face and asked Rokuro, "Is it possible to break the lock bar with an axe?" ”

Rokuro groaned for a moment, then turned his head and picked up a rusty machete from the corner of the house.

One by one, the women and children were brought up from under the cellar by the wheat, and every woman and child who came up was skinny and yellow-skinned.

Several of the children had their eyes closed, already fainting from hunger.

After wrapping the bodies of the two women in straw mats and pulling them up, Rokuro climbed up from underneath with a fainted woman in his arms.

He Mai hurriedly picked up the person, "Why is there one more?" ”

Rokuro shook his head and said, "This one is under a wooden board in the innermost part of the cellar, and there is no sound at all, and I didn't notice her at first. I don't know what her identity is, she is locked up so hidden. ”

The woman who was tied up by the wheat in the corner pouted, "She almost escaped from this place twice, and Zhang San was afraid, so he locked her up a little tighter." ”

He Mai glared at her fiercely, "Brute!"

The rescued women and children, greedily breathing in the cool breath of the night, and when they were a little more conscious, they begged Hemai to save them and give them and the children something to eat.

Because their hands and feet have been locked in shackles and shackles for a long time, their arms have become bruised and numb and unable to move, and at this moment, even if they are released, they have no strength at all.

He Mai held Mu He in his arms, turned his head and said to Liulang: "I'll go back to my father and mother for help, you watch them here, I'll come over in a while!" Look at this woman, I'll have something to ask later! ”

When he returned to the room he had rented, Zhong Xiangsi was the only one in the house, and Yan Xing didn't know where he was.