Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Seller
Yang Guang stepped down from the carriage and looked into a small alley next to him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He could tell that the smell of Fang Shan actually continued into the depths of the alley, and this road was definitely not to the trading house.
Walking along the not very wide alley for a dozen steps, Yang Guang noticed that Fang Shan's smell was a little lighter than the outside, he walked back and forth to observe, and noticed that there were traces of dragging heavy objects wherever there was Fang Shan's smell on the ground, guessing that Fang Shan might have been put into a sack or something.
Yang Guang recalled Fang Shan's body shape, although he was a little thinner, but he was also a seven-foot man, a strong man who practiced martial arts should not have a hard time carrying him, but now Fang Shan was put into a sack and dragged away, could it be that the kidnapper turned out to be a teenager or a woman?
After passing through the alley, another street appeared in front of Yang Guang's eyes, and the smell of Fang Shan also disappeared here, and he should have been loaded into a carriage and taken away. Compared with the relatively secluded alleys, the streets are full of people, and even if there are any clues left, it is difficult to find them, after all, Yang Guang is not a professional forensic officer.
"Where do both sides lead?" Yang Guang asked Zhao Wu, who left the carriage and followed him. While he asked Zhao Wen to go to the business house to do things, he also let Zhao Wu be familiar with the streets and alleys of Yangzhou as much as possible, just in case.
"Young master, to the west is Qionghuaguan. In the play, Emperor Yang of Sui and Yangzhou Guanqionghua are here. To the east is Caiyi Street. Zhao Wu returned and said.
Yang Guang knew that in front of Qionghua Temple, large and small businesses gathered, and people came and went quite lively; Caiyi Street is mainly filled with shops dealing in bulk fabrics, silks, ready-to-wear, embroidery, etc.
If you extrapolate from common sense, the people who kidnapped Fang Shan would definitely not hide in Qionghuaguan, because there were too many people. On the other hand, if there is a stronghold on Caiyi Street, it is easy to load people in and out in the name of transporting goods.
Yang Guang decided to investigate from the place with the greatest probability first, he greeted Zhao Wu and walked towards Caiyi Street. After walking for a few minutes, Zhao Wu chased after another carriage, but he bought it directly for 10 silver on the street.
When he arrived at Caiyi Street, Yang Guang asked Zhao Wu to wait for him in the distance, he found a secluded place to change his appearance, and released a "summoning dragonfly" to hover in the sky, acting as his eyes and ears, and turned around the streets and alleys.
After walking for almost an hour, Yang Guang, who was slightly sweating on his forehead, finally noticed the faint smell of Fang Shan again, which was in the back alley of an embroidery shop, and the smell disappeared behind the closed courtyard gate.
Yang Guang didn't stop at all, and continued to walk as if he was just passing by, but the summoned dragonfly flew back and forth over the courtyard, monitoring the movement of this area for Yang Guang.
"Huh? It's her! Yang Guang actually saw a very familiar face in the backyard of the store through the vision of the summoned dragonfly, not long ago this woman was the little lady's personal maid, and now she has changed her simple clothes and combed her hair again, it should be a change of identity.
Yang Guang didn't know her true identity, so he simply called her "maid". He didn't think that there would be so many coincidences in reality, so there was a good chance that Fang Shan was this woman, which was in line with the clues that Yang Guang had detected before, that is, he didn't know if there were other accomplices around the maid.
When he traveled from modern time and space, Yang Guang had only memorized one "summon insect" spell, but fortunately he had copied a few scrolls of this spell before, so Yang Guang used two of them to summon a large swarm of ants to conduct an all-round reconnaissance of this courtyard.
Compared to the Sanjin Garden, which may have been in operation for many years, the courtyard of this embroidery shop was much worse in terms of size and layout, and Yang Guang found a cellar in the firewood house in the backyard with little effort, where he saw Fang Shan who was dying, and the little lady who was piercing his fingers with steel needles to extract confessions.
After discovering that Fang Shan was trembling in pain when he was punished, Yang Guang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, being able to feel the pain meant that his vitality was still there, as long as he was rescued and carefully recuperated, he should not have to worry about his life.
It's just that Yang Guang must not let the other party see that he is here to save Fang Shan, otherwise as long as there is still one of those people in the same party who does not die, it will bring endless troubles to Fang Shan.
"Bang Bang! Bang Bang! The sound of rattles came from the back alley, and a vendor carrying a burden shouted as he walked: "Beautiful beaded headdress, authentic rouge gouache ......"
The back door of the embroidery shop opened, and the maid poked her head out to look at the seller, and saw that the beads inserted in the load were round and lovely, so she beckoned and said, "Wait a minute, the seller!" ”
Seeing that there was business coming to the door, the seller put the burden on the ground and said with a smiling face: "Young grandma, what do you like, I have good goods here." ”
"Show me the beads." The maid pointed to the bead flower on the load of goods that served as a signboard and said.
"Okay!" The seller took off the beaded flower and handed it to the maid.
At the moment when the maid reached out to hold the beaded flower, the rope that had been tied to the flat pole suddenly flew out and wrapped around her shoulders and arms; A hidden black shadow under the load also popped up and went straight to the maid's feet; The palm of the hand that the seller handed out the beaded flower also touched forward and grabbed the maid's chest.
"Shameless!" The maid rebuked angrily, and with her shoulders and upper arms tied by ropes, she used only her forearms to use her small grappling hand, and fought back against the seller between inches, grabbing his fingers accurately.
Just when the maid was about to break off the fingers of the apprentice seller, and then asked what his intentions were, a strong electric current poured into her body in an instant, and the maid's fingers immediately became numb and no longer obeyed, and the current in her body was numb and painful everywhere it went, making her feel that life was worse than death, and the pain from her ankle was not obvious.
Yang Guang, disguised as a seller, succeeded in a sneak attack, but he did not relax in the slightest, but continued to chant the spell and cast a "magic missile" spell on the maid.
Two purple balls of light flew out of his fingertips at the same time, making different arcs in the air and striking at the maid's chest and ribs, knocking her body backwards a few steps and falling to the ground.
Seeing that he had absolutely controlled the situation, Yang Guang bypassed the cargo load and stood beside the maid, reciting the spell of "seducing humans" to her.
When the spell energy enveloped the maid's body, the resentful and frightened gaze she had originally looked at Yang Guang disappeared, replaced by deference and submission, as if no matter what kind of orders Yang Guang gave her, she would not hesitate to do it.
"Who the hell are you?" Yang Guang rushed to the maid who was charmed by himself, and asked a question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time.