Chapter 187 Boys
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The child looked at the candy and then at me, his eyes were full of hesitation, but after swallowing a few mouthfuls of saliva, he grabbed it with a painful determination, and filled the candy paper into his mouth without peeling it.
I felt sad for a while, and when he swallowed the candy paper, he asked softly again: "Tell my sister, what is your name and where you live, and my sister will find a way to rescue you and send you home." โ
The four words "send you home" made the boy's gray face show a hint of brilliance, moved his chapped lips, and said in a low voice: "My name is Tian Dazhuang, and I live in Beitianjiazhuang, Fengtian City. โ
"Why are you here?"
"I don't know." Tian Dazhuang's face showed a look of pain, "One day I went to the mountains with my partner to chop wood, and suddenly someone knocked me on the head, and when I woke up, I was here." โ
It was taken captive, "What about your partner?" Also here? โ
"It was there, but now it's gone...... Da Zhuang hung his head, "dead." โ
I was shocked for a while, and I didn't know how to speak, but I heard Shang Ke next to me ask, "But there is a child named Wang Wa who is also here?" โ
"Yes." Da Zhuang pointed to the entrance of the secret passage not far away, "The one who escaped just now." โ
The three of us looked at each other: it turned out that the boys who had been lost in Fengtianfu one after another had been taken captive here!
"How many children are here?"
"There are more than a dozen, and some of them can't stand it...... When they died, they brought in new ones. โ
Can't stand it...... My heart ached: how much pain could it take to kill these half-grown boys, "What do they want you to do?" โ
"Hauling stuff." Da Zhuang raised his finger and pointed to the wooden box beside him, "Drag from one end to the other, and then drag the things back over there." Some of the boxes are very heavy and heavy......" Da Zhuang licked his lips, "Dog baby...... His waist is broken...... They also beat ...... Killed ......"
I stretched out my hand to hold the trembling child in my arms, raised my eyes to look at the mouth of the dog's hole, and finally understood the secret of this secret passage:
The "they" in Da Zhuang's mouth dug this secret passage for some shady goods to enter and exit. For the sake of safety, the secret passage was dug so narrow that it was impossible for adults to pass through, so many half-grown boys were taken to act as porters, crawling like animals to haul the goods back and forth.
Looking at Da Zhuang's bloody legs and feet, a burst of anger rose from the bottom of my heart, and I unconsciously clenched my fists: "These beasts! No! It's just a beast! โ
Seeing that I was furious, the water leopard patted me on the back to soothe me, and continued to ask Da Zhuang, "Good boy, tell me, where does the end of the secret passage lead?" โ
Da Zhuang blinked, "I don't know where that is...... It was like a palace, very large, with a big stone gate, and two stone lions at the door, and high stone pillars in the door......" and then shook his head, "I don't know, they won't let us in." โ
Stone gates, stone lions, stone pillars...... I put these three things together and thought about it, but I couldn't think of a reason.
Da Zhuang looked up at the top of the cave, and a faint light came in, "You guys go quickly, it's dawn, they're coming." โ
I took a deep look at the kid and put my little finger on his muddy little finger, "Sister promises you that I will save you!" Tell your companions to be patient and wait to get home! โ
When I came out of the secret passage, it was dawn.
"Now that we have found the whereabouts of the things, the matter is serious, and we need to go back to Jinling as soon as possible to report to His Royal Highness the Prince."
Hearing what the Mishui Leopard said, Shang Ke and I both nodded in agreement. Shang Ke said: "I will send someone to keep an eye on Boss Xu's movements to ensure that nothing goes wrong." โ
"Okay." The Jishui leopard looked down at Miss Cao who was lying on the ground, and saw that her eyelashes moved slightly and she was about to wake up quickly, so he solemnly patted Shang Ke's shoulder, "Little junior brother, the girl's side will be handed over to you, you ...... Ask for more blessings! โ
"Huh?" Before Shang Ke could react, an unscrupulous leopard had pulled me away.
I glanced back in my busy schedule, and saw Shang Ke staring at his unscrupulous senior brother for a moment with the eyes of "I will break off friendship with you", and finally covered his "injured" waist and eyes, his body was crooked, and he "fainted" beside Miss Cao.
"Count this kid on wit." The leopard next to him lazily gave his junior brother a thumbs up.
"Brother Leopard, it's really good that you have been cheating your own junior brother again and again?"
"It doesn't matter. This is the case with our teacher tradition. โ
I'm ashamed, it's really wonderful.
When he returned to Jinling, the Jishui Leopard had to report that the group of Japanese people had not left and were still wandering in Jinling City for the past few days.
"That's amazing." The water leopard tapped his palm with his knuckles, "They are a bunch of fake envoys, since the goods have been sold, if they don't hurry up and retreat, they are not afraid of a long night?" โ
I also thought it was strange, and after thinking for a moment, it suddenly dawned on me: "There is only one possibility: they haven't gotten the money yet!" โ
The leopard raised his eyebrows and praised me: "Witty as you!" โ
I was a little proud, "Since the money hasn't arrived yet, it means they still need to meet with the buyer." As long as we keep an eye on the line of the Japanese people and follow the vine, we will not worry about not finding the behind-the-scenes buyers of those things! โ
"That is to say," said the brother of the Keishui Leopard, with a sad face, "but those Japanese are very cunning and very good at trickery. The brothers followed them for a few days, but apart from watching them go shopping all over the city, watch the theater and drink the flowers, they didn't find any useful clues......"
Before he could finish speaking, he had been slapped by the water leopard's reproachful eye knife flew over, and he was so frightened that he lowered his head and stopped making a sound.
"You can't blame them, these gangsters are used to smuggling business, so they naturally know how to attack the east and west and hide people's eyes." I tapped my fingertips on the table and thought about it, and suddenly it occurred to me, "Unless...... Be there for them. โ
I motioned for the Mishui Leopard to come over and say my idea like this, he first stared at a pair of round eyes, and shook his head decisively after listening: "No, no, no!" This method is too dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will be put in, how can I explain it to the old wolf? โ
I was immediately annoyed: "What do you mean by how to explain to him?" I said I had nothing to do with him! It doesn't matter if I'm dead or alive! โ
The leopard stared at me meaningfully for a while, and finally shook his head and sighed: "You two are really the same stubborn temper!" โ
I said I didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, and turned to leave: "Anyway, I'll go to the Sifang Pavilion to find the Japanese to report at night, you can do it!" โ
"Girl, how did you get this way?"
In the Sifang Pavilion, Oriyu-kun looked at my messy hair, bloody clothes, and frightened rabbit-like shivering, and there was a touch of pity in his always gloomy eyes, "Someone is doing it to you again?" โ
I nodded, my voice hoarse and weak: "I provoke right and wrong alone, and I don't want to affect my father and younger siblings...... Li Yi, I'm desperate now......"
"Don't be afraid." He got up and called a few of his men to guard the door, and asked someone to bring me hot soup, food, and a change of clothes, "Girl, tell me the truth, who is your enemy?" โ
I shook my head dejectedly, "It's better if you don't know, it's not good for you to know." I'm so grateful to Dade for taking me in for a few days. โ
"If you don't tell the truth, I won't be able to solve it for you." Weaving Yujun's eyes flashed, "If your enemy is big...... Hmph, it is the king of the Ming Dynasty, how can I be afraid of half a point? โ
When he said this, I knew that it would be easy to be suspicious if I concealed it, but if I said the grievances with the second prince, it would inevitably involve my relationship with the fat man; After thinking about it for a while, Fang cautiously said: "The one who wants to kill me is the third prince of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaosui." โ
As soon as these words came out, I saw Oriyu-kun's expression stiffen, and a flash of inexplicable surprise flashed.
I was a little suspicious of his reaction, but I didn't think about it, so I heard him ask faintly: "You are a little folk woman, what kind of relationship did you marry with the third prince?" โ
I recounted the past when I was imprisoned by the three princes because of a copy of "Journey to the West" and was tortured to death, but the final ending was replaced by me looking for a chance to escape by myself.
"Since then, the three princes have been annoyed with me to the bone and vowed to kill me completely."
"A dignified prince, he is so eye-catching, he will repay the small belly and chicken intestines." Oriyu-kun let out a sneer, "Don't be afraid, and stay by my side with peace of mind, and ensure that the three princes' subordinates can't touch you at all." โ
As he was talking, there was a knock on the door, and he saw an old man dressed in the uniform of a servant of the Sifang Pavilion, who came in with a lacquer plate, and smiled very honestly at Weaving Yujun.
Looking at Oriyu-kun's reaction, he was no stranger to this old servant, and let him put a few things on the table on the lacquer plate.
I caught a glimpse of one of the plates of osmanthus tea duck, and I had a plan in my heart.
Coming out of Oriha-kun's room, I always felt that something strange was in my heart, and it was not until I was placed in the guest room next to Oriwa-kun that I was habitually stunned for a long time by an oil lamp, and finally found inspiration.
Just now, when I mentioned the third prince Zhu Gaosui, Zhiyujun's look of "it's actually him......
The oil lamp in front of me "crackled" and burst out a spark, which also sparked in my mind.
It turns out that if I am as smart as I am, there are times when I am stupid to death.
Before, on the ship of the Japanese Kou, I overheard the words "prince" and "Zhu Gao......chi" mentioned by Oriyu-kun and others, and because of the relationship between the fat man, I took it for granted that they were talking about the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi.
Now that I think about it, what they said at the time could also be the second prince Zhu Gaoxu, or the third prince Zhu Gaosui!
Now the second prince is following the emperor Beiqi and is not in Jinling. Coupled with the inexplicable surprised reaction of Oriwa-kun when I mentioned the Three Princes today, it can almost be concluded that he is somewhat related to the Three Princes.
Then, the biggest possibility is that the third prince, Zhu Gaosui, is the buyer of his goods!
Thinking of this, I didn't feel a cold sweat on my back, and the bloodless face of the third prince with a sinister smile came to mind.
This unlucky child, who was punished to guard the filial piety mausoleum, is not honest, what does he want to do?