104. The thief's den meets the thief again
Huzi glanced at me and walked with Ah Niu until he came to a stop. [I tilt my head slightly and don't get up, still leaning against the tree, meeting the eyes of the two.] After a confrontation, Ah Niu spoke: "All my sins will be recovered from him." ”
I thought to myself, you should go and find it, it's your ability to find it. In the past, I might have been worried, but now I don't want to say that Ah Ping is not at home, even if I am at home, there is nothing to worry about. With Uncle Mu, a master, guarding him openly, and someone secretly guarding the head and end of the village, it is impossible for Huzi and his gang to be their opponents.
Mindfulness turned and suddenly felt a strong wind hit my head, and I instinctively dodged to the side, only to feel a throbbing pain in my arm and even the fabric cracked. I looked up in astonishment, and saw that Ah Niu had taken a branch more than a meter long in his hand at some point, and the scars on my arm were obviously its masterpieces. At this time, Ah Niu's face was furious like I had never seen before, and his eyes glared at me viciously and asked, "Why didn't you speak when you saw me?" Is it that now that I am lame, you don't even want to talk to me? ”
Suddenly sad, this person also grew up from a teenager, he used to be a somewhat straightforward person, but later became more and more paranoid, until today, he finally became something I don't know anymore. And back to the root, it's because of me.
I asked, "What do you want me to say?" ”
"You saw me that day, why didn't you save me?"
Knowing what day he was talking about, I found him tied up like a dumpling in Uncle Mu's house, and he didn't see me pleading with Uncle Mu at that time. But at this point, there is no point in discernment, I can only say, "I'm sorry." ”
I didn't think that my apology ignited Ah Niu's anger even more, he raised the branch and waved it at me, I could only hold my head to protect my face, thinking that the pain did not come. I let go of my hand and found that Ah Niu was glaring at me fiercely and panting, but the branch in my hand was gone.
After a quick glance back, the branch fell behind me, and just threw it over my head?
However, at the moment when I turned my head again, Huzi suddenly let go of his hand, making Ah Niu stand unsteadily and fall towards me, at this time there was no reason not to help, but at the same time as he stretched out his hand, he heard an exclamation from the side: "Who are you?" ”
I held up Ah Niu, but his weight was not enough for me to support, and in the end both of them fell to the ground. We got up in embarrassment only to find that the atmosphere around us was wrong, and a group of people quietly appeared on the periphery to slowly surround us. If Huzi brought five people to arrest me before, he could immediately judge that he was not a rogue bandit, then looking at this group of people at this moment, I immediately judged that I am afraid that I am really going to run into a bandit today.
These people look like bandits, whether they are imposing or in fancy clothes.
Huzi's momentum was obviously weak, and they even shrank together with frightened faces, and Huzi pretended to be calm and asked again: "Who are you?" I saw that the group of people looked contemptuous, and I only heard a heavy snort from a beard, and then waved his hand and said, "Up! ”
As soon as those people came out, all the people rushed up, and Huzi's brothers were thrown to the ground before they could react, and finally Huzi didn't lose his righteousness, and rushed up to scuffle with people without thinking about it.
This time, I didn't look at it anymore, and I didn't see Ah Niu, who was still lying on the side, get up from the ground and run out of the woods. At this time, a little bit of woman's kindness or foresight will only cause irreparable consequences, and I can rest assured in the face of Huzi that their nature is not bad, and they will not really hurt me; But this group of bandits hiding in the depths of the mountains and forests will not be so kind, especially since I am still a woman, and the fate of a woman in such a situation can be imagined.
At first, no one noticed this, but when I ran out of the way, I heard Ah Niu shouting: "Xu Lan! My heart sank, this time I must have been discovered, and sure enough, I immediately heard someone shouting that the woman had run away, chase after her.
I had no choice but to run wildly with my legs outstretched, and my destination was the hot spring pool at the foot of the mountain ahead.
Sometimes people can bring out their potential when they are desperate, and the people who were chasing me not only did not catch up with me, but were left far behind, and I managed to reach the hot spring pool. I was able to breathe in the white mist, and my heart and lungs felt like they were about to tear apart when I ran just now, and it hurt very much when I inhaled. But I can't sit here forever, or they'll come back soon.
The water is also not suitable, if it is discovered, it is a turtle caught in the urn, and there is nowhere to escape, and the group of people want to enter the water when they see the hot spring pool. After thinking about it, he finally gritted his teeth and walked in the direction of the cave, no matter how to avoid the pursuit first, the most important thing was to avoid the pursuit first.
Picking open the bushes and seeing that the cave was empty, he breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately dodge inside, cover up the bushes, and think that this place should be so hidden that this disaster can be avoided, and it is better that those people give up and come to arrest me.
But apparently God did not hear my prayers, and within half an hour there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the cave, and my heart immediately tightened and I held my breath. As I approached the bushes outside the cave, I felt my heart beat out, my palms were sweaty, and my mind was dull to wonder if I had covered up just now, and what if I showed any traces.
As the movement swept over the cave and moved forward, I finally let out a long breath. A wipe of the forehead, a cold sweat on the head, including the back is also a cold, it is really thrilling and scary.
Now they've searched elsewhere, and I'm not sure if they'll be around the corner, and I'm going to stay out until dark, even all night, until tomorrow morning. But just as I was about to do so, suddenly the bushes at the entrance of the cave trembled, and a dark shadow suddenly came in, and I froze in place.
"Two masters? Did you find it? ”
In the deathly silence, a deep voice was heard: "The man has been found." ”
I was shocked, and my eyes widened in disbelief.
In the end, I was still caught in the thieves' den, along with Ah Niu and Huzi, and only one person was put back to report the news, and let the family take the silver to ransom people.
If it weren't for this bad luck, who would have thought that there would be a thief's den hidden behind the mountain, and it would be built in a tent. The thieves in it were not all men, but there were also female thieves, and we prisoners were all imprisoned as soon as we entered the cottage. The place of detention was a cage made of wooden stakes nailed to the ground, and the middle was separated by iron bars, and when we found that we were not the only prisoners, and that there were already several people in one room.
Maybe because I'm a woman, I'm locked up alone in the leftmost room, and Ah Niu and Huzi are locked up elsewhere. But because I was a woman, I was pressed in with a pair of eyes looking at me, some of them were unkempt, some were sloppy in clothes.
Reclining into the corner and sitting, holding his hands on his knees and lowering his eyes from looking at anyone, but his mind was difficult to calm down.
As night fell, the thieves' den began to resound one after another, which also made people uneasy. There is a feeling that the fish is placed on the chopping board, and I don't know when the knife will fall.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of tapping from the side, and I looked up and saw a man with long hair covering his face at the other end of the iron bar, knocking on the iron rod on this side. I was not aware of the man's behavior, and I was suddenly stunned when I saw him lift his hair and show his face. Even though it was night, the moonlight was bright overhead, and there was a bonfire next to it, so the light was enough for me to see the face clearly. For some reason, I felt that this person looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it.
I saw him make a gesture for me to pass, and I was indifferent. Suddenly, I heard him speak in a low voice: "Big girl, it's me." ”
I was stunned, I couldn't remember what I looked like, but I remembered this voice, wasn't it Chen Ergou, a thief who came to the house twice and was caught twice? A while ago, when I learned that he slipped away from Uncle Mu's hands, I was still impressed, and thought that he must have escaped 108,000 miles, how could he appear in this den of thieves?
After hesitating, I got up and walked over, and now I saw clearly that the silhouette of this person was indeed Chen Ergou.
When I got closer, Chen Ergou asked in a sneaky manner, "Big girl, why are you also caught here?" ”
I thought for a moment, and instead of answering, I asked, "Why are you here?" ”
"Well, don't mention it, it's a little bit back." Chen Ergou should just see an acquaintance who wants to talk and talk, although I have a two-sided relationship with him, it is still in the dark winter. He said, "Don't you know, I finally escaped from next door to your house, and I want to hide in the mountains for a while before going out, what ......?"
Hearing this, I thought to myself, he was really a little bit back, and he met a "peer" when he entered the mountain, and he was still a thief, much higher than a tomb robber like him.
But the story he told next was beyond my expectations, we were caught, but he sent it to the door by himself, in his words, he went into the mountains and noticed that there was a person, so the occupational disease wanted to sneak in and steal something, but he missed.
"You can actually see this feng shui." I said something unexpectedly, and when I saw Chen Ergou, I was stunned for a moment, and then my eyes rolled twice and said, "Big girl, how can I know what feng shui." ”
"Okay, don't pretend, you know what you're doing." In such a situation, I didn't even have the heart to deal with it, so I simply provoked the negotiation bluntly: "Since your nickname is 'Drill Gopher', can you rescue me before you act, don't worry, I will pay you." ”
Chen Ergou was dumbfounded, and after a while, he hesitated and asked in a low voice: "Big girl, do you really know what I do?" ”
"Probably, anyway, don't fight our family's idea in the future, there is nothing you want underground."
Chen Ergou looked at me with complicated eyes, and he stopped talking.
I didn't have the heart to guess, so I asked in a volume that only the two of us could hear, "What time are you going to do?" ”
He hesitated and compared his palm with me, which means five watches. Sure enough, I expected that this kind of humble cell could not hold a person with such special skills as him, and the reason why he stayed here must be something else.
When the fifth watch is the end of the day, it is the darkest time before dawn, and it is convenient to work secretly.