In the small courtyard, Zhou Yuanqing sat comfortably on the reclining chair in the courtyard. Next to him was a man who had been tied up by his men, his clothes had been stripped away, revealing his upper body covered in fat and covered with bruises and purple whip marks. The hair was loose, covering the part of the cheeks. Xiao Ba only glanced at it and looked away, knelt on the ground and respectfully informed Zhou Yuanqing of the things along the way.

"This man has been handed over to you, and he will be brought down for trial. Now our whereabouts are kept secret, and since this person can keep up, it can't be that someone in the court is suspicious of me. Be careful not to miss anything. After speaking, Zhou Yuanqing got up and entered the house.

"Yes, my subordinates understand." Hachi still knelt on the ground and replied respectfully. It wasn't until Zhou Yuanqing's figure disappeared behind the curtain that Xiao Ba straightened up, looked at the man with a cloak like a dead man, and then made a gesture and two other people dressed like him quietly appeared on both sides of the man, picked up the man and ran to the backyard.

In the dark, damp basement, the two men threw the man to the ground and turned to go out.

Hachi slowly took out a tongs from the red-hot coals, held it up in front of the man's eyes and shook it. The heat of the tongs hit his face, and the man was gagged with a rag, his eyes wide open in horror, and his body retreated vigorously.

"As long as you tell who your master is and where you got the news of the king of Dongping, I will let you go. Otherwise, I'll give you the same things here. See if it's your hard mouth or your life! ”

The man whimpered and cried, his body trembling with fear, and in a few moments the smell of urine spread in the small basement.

Xiao Hachi seemed to have a mask on his face, without the slightest fluctuation, just quietly playing with the fire tongs in his hand.

The man knelt down two steps, lay on the ground and kowtowed to Hachi, whimpering and trying to say something.

Xiao Hachi raised his eyebrows slightly, and then helped the man brush his hair, revealing a face full of bruises that he could no longer see clearly. Hachi patted him on the face and said, "As long as you say the information I want, your little life can be saved." Answer me after thinking clearly. ”

The man listened to Hachi's words and nodded desperately. Hachi then took off the rag in his mouth, and his hand had been replaced by a leather whip full of barbs, and said softly: "Say it." ”

"I say, I say, I say everything. Adults spare their lives, spare their lives. I really don't know any Dongping King, I'm following the woman named Mu Qing, the adult spares his life......" Before he finished speaking, Xiao Ba's leather whip had already whipped on his body, and the person who was pumping screamed in pain and fainted.

Xiaoba calmly picked up a bucket of ice water placed in the corner of the wall, and poured it all on the man's body with a bang. Seeing the man moaning and waking up, Hachi said, "I advise you to be smarter, the master's patience is limited." If you talk nonsense about what you don't have, it won't be a whip on you next time. ”

The man knelt on the ground and kowtowed, crying and shouting: "Adult, the little one is telling the truth, and the little one is a villager in Tianjia Village, where do you know the king of Dongping." Adults spare their lives, adults spare their lives. ”

Xiao Ba frowned slightly, and the red-hot tongs in his hand were directly branded on the man's chest. Under the high heat, a smell of burnt skin and flesh spread in the air, and the man couldn't stand the pain and fainted again.

Xiao Ba stretched out his hand and groped in the man's mouth, but he didn't find what he was looking for, so he stuffed the rag back into the man's mouth, turned around and went out of the basement to report to Zhou Yuanqing.

"You said that person was following Mu Qing?" Zhou Yuanqing raised his eyebrows, a little girl's family, without any special background, would be followed, which is interesting.

"For now, what the man said should be true. Master, should we continue to take care of this matter? "For the identity of the dead, they have their own set of survival rules. When it really falls into the hands of the enemy one day, it will be a death. But Hachi didn't find the poison that the dead man always had on that person, which was also a reason for him to be convinced of that person's identity.

"You have to take care of it. Let's deal with it directly, it's clean. Anyway, we must leave Tianshui Town tomorrow. In addition, tell Uncle He that the yard here can be sold, and it will probably not be used here in the future. When the yard is sold, let him go back on his own. Zhou Yuanqing thought about it and quickly made a decision. In his current position, he has to think about it a lot. Even though many things were not what he wanted, he still gave one order after another. Even if the man was just a village man, he couldn't take the slightest risk, the mouth of a living person could not be trusted, only a dead person would really not say anything.

With a wave of his hand, Hachi got up and silently retreated to deal with the man in the basement.

Zhou Yuanqing's body swayed gently with the rocking chair, looking at the starless night outside the window, he laughed at the corners of his mouth. As for what is self-deprecating, only he knows.

The next day, when the sky was slightly bright, Zhou Yuanqing hurriedly left Tianshui Town in a carriage. Just like when he came, without alarming anyone.

Mu Qing only learned the news that Zhou Yuanqing had left when he came to the door again. Thinking that although he said that he invited him to drink that night, it was Zhou Yuanqing who paid in the end, Mu Qing always felt that he owed Zhou Yuanqing a drink. I wanted to see if he was free here for two days and invited him to drink again, but I didn't think that others had already left.

"Uncle He, do you know when Zhou Yuanqing will come again?" Mu Qing already knew that the janitor was called Uncle He, a kind old man, and his hometown was in this town. It's just that he has no children and no daughters all his life, and his wife and son also went early, leaving him to live a difficult life by himself. Later, Zhou Yuanqing arranged for the work of guarding the house.

He Bo shook his head and stretched out his hand to close the door, but Mu Qing couldn't help it, so he had to retreat and go to the processing workshop in frustration.

The two hundred glass bottles in the early stage have all been used up, and now they are waiting for Zhou Yuanqing's second batch of goods. But now that Zhou Yuanqing is gone, for a while, Mu Qing doesn't know who to contact.

"What's wrong? Didn't you say the other day that the man had promised to sell us all the glass bottles he had? It's something to celebrate, why are you still sad. As soon as he entered the processing workshop, Tian Shunsheng greeted him. Since talking to Mu Qing, the two have gotten along more harmoniously than before. Tian Shunsheng was also much more natural when he treated her. Now that I see Mu Qing again, the Hetian lady in the Tian showcase will not pick a bone in the egg. This made Mu Qing really relieved. She originally regarded Tian Shunsheng as a friend, and if she had a stiff relationship with him, it would be bad for her and him.

With her, lost a partner.

With him, there was a loss of a large amount of wealth.

Therefore, peaceful coexistence between friends is the most suitable way for them to get along.

In front of both a friend and a partner, Mu Qing did not hide it, and directly expressed her troubles. At the end, she sighed and sighed: "If only we could burn the glass bottle ourselves......

With Mu Qing, this is just a sigh of emotion, but in Tian Shunsheng's ears, his business mind turned quickly, and the small abacus snapped in his mind.

This glass bottle is now not only needed to make cans, but also in the shop. Because after many people learned that the canned yellow peaches had a packaging of fresh gadgets, there were many people in the shop who asked about this glass bottle. But in the end, they were all prevaricated by the guys in the store. But these days, people keep asking about glass bottles. There are even people who are willing to pay more than a bottle of canned food, just for this glass bottle.

It was the first time Mu Qing had heard about this, she only knew that canned yellow peaches in glass bottles were in demand, but she didn't know that there was such a thing inside. This is Mu Qing's way of looking at glass bottles with modern thinking. In modern times, glass bottles are too common, so Mu Qing subconsciously didn't regard it as something rare. But she had apparently forgotten that this was no longer the modern age she was familiar with, but an ancient world, an ancient world with no glass bottles, no televisions, and no modern facilities.

What Tian Shunsheng could think of, Mu Qing understood after a turn in his mind. Just as Tian Shunsheng thought, Mu Qing's mind quickly turned a series of ideas. But now they have a very real problem in front of them, which is that they do not have the technology and workers to produce glass bottles!

Both of them fell silent for a while, and Mu Qing thought in his mind about the possibility of stealing a teacher from Zhou Yuanqing. provided her with two hundred glass bottles at a time, and after that, when he said that he wanted to order again, Zhou Yuanqing also agreed. This made Mu Qing have to wonder if he had a capable person in his hand who could make and produce glass bottles. With Zhou Yuanqing's secrecy of his identity, as well as the guards he carried, as well as his clothing and bearing, Mu Qing had no doubt that he should have some power in his hands.

"We have a long-term supply of clay pots in our shop, and their clay pots are an inheritance left by their ancestors, and they have been passed down from generation to generation for many years. If they want to say that they have the skill of making jars, they just don't know if they can fire glass bottles. Tian Shunsheng pulled the people he knew in his mind, and suddenly thought of the Li family, who supplied clay pots to the shop. Speaking of which, the kind of small jar that Mu Qing used to hold canned food at the beginning was theirs.

"Whether you can or not, I'll go with you another day, bring a glass bottle and ask directly. It's also a province, and the two of us laymen scratched our ears and cheeks here, and we couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time. After hearing this, Mu Qing quickly made a decision. Mu Qing's idea is very simple, whether it works or not, you have to try it to find out. Also, on Zhou Yuanqing's side, she can't give up. Now that Zhou Yuanqing is not in Tianshui Town, he can only have a good relationship with He Bo and see if he can find out something from him.

"Okay, it's better to hit the day than to choose a day, I think let's just go to Lijiaji tomorrow to settle this matter. If not, we'll die of this heart. Tian Shunsheng is also a cheerful person, and when he heard that Mu Qing had made a decision, he simply set a day for tomorrow.

Mu Qing didn't think much about it when she heard Li Jiaji, but suddenly she thought of the people she met when she got lost with Xiao Wu on the mountain that day. If she remembers correctly, that family seems to be making clay pots?

"Are you talking about the Li family? The boss is tall and strong, and he looks a little wooden when he looks at people. The place where their family fires clay pots is on a hill in Lijiaji. ”

"Hey, that's it, how do you know?" Tian Shunsheng's eyes widened in surprise, a little incredulous. He still inquired about Mu Qing's identity, after all, he was a business partner to cooperate with for a long time. He knew that Mu Qing's husband's family was in Tianjia Village, and he also knew that she was Chong Xiniang bought back by the Tian family, but the man was weak and went directly to see the king of Hades before he could reach the cave room. But Li Jiaji, whether it is Hetianjia Village or Mu Qing's maiden family, has no intersection at all, and he really doesn't know how Mu Qing knows about the Li family.

Tian Shunsheng's surprise made Mu Qing laugh. She laughed and told the story of how she and Xiao Wu got lost in the mountains and then met the Li family.

After listening to Mu Qing's story, Tian Shunsheng looked like he suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "It seems that this Li family is still the life-saving benefactor of you and Xiao Wu." If you run into the Li family, I guess you won't be able to get out of the mountain even during the day. ”

"Not really. A few days ago, I prepared a gift and said that I would go to Li Jiaji to visit them. But you decided to go tomorrow, but it saved me the cost of another trip. Thinking of that incident, Mu Qing still has palpitations. The town of Tianshui is surrounded by rolling mountains, surrounded by mountains. If she hadn't happened to run into Li Da that night, it would have been hard to say about the safety of her and Xiao Wu's lives. If you don't get it right, you will die in the mountains and forests if you are not careful.

"You girl, you have to calculate even this cheapness. Why wouldn't you just be reluctant to pay for that idea, so you kept dragging it out to visit your savior? I think the Li family also wasted their efforts and saved two white-eyed wolves. After getting acquainted, the two can often joke with each other. After listening to Mu Qing's words at this moment, Tian Shunsheng smiled and amused.

Mu Qing glanced at him obliquely, knowing that he was kidding himself, so he didn't bother with him, but thought about how to get a little information from He Bo in his mind.