Chapter 63: The Pit
Xiao Liu was worried on the side, "Lord Wang, those assassins just now succeeded, they will definitely continue to hunt us down, it's too dangerous to rest here."
When a few people were hesitating to go in and eat something to rest for a while, a person with a face covering his face and a horizontal knife stuck in his waist walked into the store, and Shen Muzhou and the others quickly hid behind the menu sign when they saw this, and did not attract the attention of that person.
"Five steamed buns, two servings of mutton, three pots of wine, the old rules, ready to send to us." He finished throwing a sign from his bosom.
The stall owner picked up the sign and said, "Official, this shop is too busy to leave."
The masked man didn't think much and said, "Then let that little girl in your shop bring it."
The stall owner looked embarrassed, gritted his teeth, and said boldly: "Master, oops, the people from this pit prison come back, go back on credit, this has not been settled for several months, my shop is small, where can I afford to hire a man, otherwise the official you can do well, just reward some broken silver to settle the account."
Shen Muzhou and the others hid behind a big sign, and they heard the conversation inside clearly, it turned out that the masked man came from the prison.
The masked man waved his hand and said impatiently: "Boom, don't talk so much nonsense, hurry up and send it to the master, otherwise the master will lead someone to smash your shop and arrest you to work in the prison!"
After he finished speaking, he left angrily, and the stall owner had no choice but to put away a sign, and scolded a few words in his mouth.
"It seems that the stall owner knows the people in the pit, let's go get something to eat and find out the situation." Shen Muzhou said in a deep voice.
After a few people sat down, the stall owner beckoned a few people to order some food.
Three bowls of steaming noodle soup, two steamed buns, and two plates of simple side dishes.
And a plate of sweet jam fruit.
Obviously, Lin Yanxi was more interested in the sweet sauce fruit with a red lustre, she took one with her chopsticks, took a small bite, and her pale little face also recovered a little complexion.
Seeing that she liked it, Shen Muzhou put a red fruit on her plate and gave it to her. qs
When the business in the shop was quiet, Shen Yu called the stall owner over and asked, "The stall owner, was that man from the prison just now?"
The stall owner's smile stiffened, and his hand rubbed the white shirt tied around his waist slightly cramped, and said, "This, yes, why are you asking this?"
Shen Yu didn't answer his words, and continued to ask, "I'm just a little curious about that place."
Shen Muzhou saw Lin Yanxi take the last bite of the red fruit, and used his chopsticks to pick up another red fruit with sugar and put it on the plate in front of her, and then took the other sweet sauce fruits farther away.
Lin Yanxi frowned, looked at the plate of fruit with blank eyes, and glared at him again.
Shen Muzhou laughed, but he didn't expect that this plate of sauce and fruit would make her angry, and coaxed her to say gently, "It's too sweet, you just recovered and eat less."
Shen Yu had never seen Shen Muzhou do this to anyone, and he was shocked.
The stall owner glanced left and right a few times, and after making sure that there was no one around, he whispered to them, "Don't lie to me. There are people in that place who go and don't come back, and those people in the pit and prison eat people without spitting out bones, and everyone has to hide away when they see it, who will take the initiative to ask?"
Lin Yanxi began to sobb quietly while eating the red fruits, her facial features were delicate and bright, and her bloodless little face was particularly cute when there were teardrops, "Brother stall owner, my mother was killed, and after several inquiries, I learned that she was locked up in a place called a pit, and her mother was not in good health, so she couldn't do any heavy work at all."
"The two of them are my brothers, we are here to save my mother and go home, as long as we can save my mother, we are willing to spend as much money as we want."
When she said this, she really thought of her mother, but unfortunately her mother couldn't be saved.
This little girl was so aggrieved that she wiped her tears, and anyone who saw it softened a lot, but he was a small stall owner, where could he afford to provoke those people in prison, so he still pursed his lips and didn't speak with an embarrassed face.
Lin Yanxi's watery eyes were filled with tears, and he said pitifully: "Brother stall owner, you can help us, my mother is weak, she owes a lot of money to treat me, we have money now, we can pay it back, but these people don't give up."
, I arrested my mother, and robbed me of all the money."
The stall owner was convinced of this, and said indignantly: "This group of people, who eat and drink in the ghost market every day, do not say anything, and bully such a poor little girl to this part!"
When Lin Yanxi heard this, her tears fell even more fiercely, and she looked aggrieved.
Shen Yu choked on the bun and coughed a few times, poor little girl?
She is the only talisman master in Yueyou, and she is a little girl who calmly says "death is innocent" in the face of corpses in one place!
Shen Yu asked strangely, "You called them officials just now?" Are they from the government?"
The stall owner shook his head and said, "What kind of government are they, but their status is similar to the government in the ghost market, and everyone is afraid of them, so they call them officials."
Shen Muzhou said at the right time: "Stallholder, don't worry, we won't let you help in vain, how much money those people owe you in the pit, we will pay it back."
The stall owner said with joy and some hesitation: "It's not about money, don't you know, this pit prison was originally a prison in the ghost market, used to imprison and punish people who did not abide by the rules of the ghost market and made mistakes, but recently, for some reason, the guards of the pit prison go to the ground every day to arrest a large number of people."
"I've heard that there are many people who have been arrested for no reason without making a mistake, and if you are able to find out about this, most of them will be counted as mysteriously missing, and it will be over. That's why there are so many people in the prison now, even if you go in, it's hard to find them, let alone rescue them."
Shen Muzhou said, "You don't need to worry about this, as long as you can help us get in and find out...... After the position of the mother, we will leave and will never make trouble for you, and how to rescue the mother-in-law in the future is our business, and we will not involve you."
He paused as he said his mother, a look of unnaturalness on his face.
The stall owner looked at Lin Yanxi's crying little appearance, his heart was crossed, and he took out the waist card and said, "I have a little guy here, and I am also a little girl of your size, everyone in the ghost market is masked, and she can't see her face clearly, you can pretend to be her and take the waist card to deliver food."
Without waiting for the stall owner to finish speaking, Shen Muzhou was the first to object: "No!"
"It's too dangerous."
Shen Yu also agreed with Shen Muzhou's words, "That's right, this method doesn't work, otherwise I'll send it?"
The stall owner took back the sign and said, "That's not good, you and my guy are too different, and it will definitely be leaked."
Lin Yanxi got up from the small chair, spread it out and said, "Give it to me, I can do it."
The stall owner hesitated and placed the sign in the palm of her hand.
Lin Yanxi's palms are small, his complexion is cold and white, and when he holds this waist card, the waist card is much bigger than his palm.
According to the stall owner's explanation, dressed as a young man Chunhua, with a small blue scarf around her face, her kitten-like strength, laboriously carrying two large foods in front.
Shen Muzhou frowned, followed her, and only stopped when Shen Yu couldn't go any further, he looked at her back worriedly, and walked towards the pit prison with a few steps.
Shen Yu comforted, "Don't worry, she is a talisman master, even if she is exposed, she can run out."
Soon an eye knife flew and immediately stopped him.
"Where's the little girl?" Two tall guards stopped her.
Lin Yanxi obediently put down the food box, took out the waist card from his sleeve and handed it to the guard, "I am from the bun shop, and I am here to deliver food."
The guard took a look, touched the texture of the waist card, and returned it to her without any problems, "Release!"
Lin Yanxi walked in a few steps and paused.
In front of him, there was an extremely open terrain, which was concave downward, forming a huge pit, and in the pit were dozens of people dressed in rags.
They walked heavily, dragging dozens of pounds of iron balls on the ground, and every time they walked, the iron balls would make a "dang" sound on the ground, and almost everyone's ankles were ground out with a circle of blood.
Boxes of stones, tree trunks, iron, and cinders were dragged in his hands.
What do you do with these?
"Hurry up
! What are you rubbing on?" One of the guards raised his whip and dropped without hesitation.
The old man staggered and fell forward, falling to the ground, his hair was gray, dry and rickety, he was frightened and blocked his head with his hands, and the whip was whipped on his arm, and the flesh instantly bloomed with blood.
The guard whipped down again, and the people around him buried their heads and worked harder to do the work in their hands, and from time to time someone looked at the old man, but he only glanced at him and immediately moved away.
No one dared to speak much, for fear that the whip would fall on him.
The old man struggled to get up from the ground, but as soon as he straightened up, he fell to the ground again.
"Sir, I haven't eaten for a few days."
The guard looked at him impatiently, wrapped the whip around his hand, clenched his fists, punched the old man in the face, and said, "Eat? Just do this little work, I'll let you eat!"
Just as he was about to drop another punch, a beautiful and delicate voice sounded, "Official."
The guard turned his head angrily and saw that it was a petite little girl, her hands and feet were not tied to heavy iron balls, and although she covered half of her face with a face toil, her exposed skin was very white.
Apparently she is not a prisoner in this pit.
"Where did this little girl come from?"
Lin Yanxi took out the waist card, pointed to the food box and said, "I'm from the bun shop to deliver food."
Another guard walked towards the food box, he was the masked man who had just gone to the bun shop, "I asked them to send it, quickly call a few brothers to eat."
One of the two guards walked into the distance with a food box hooked on his shoulder, and after taking two steps, one of them turned his eyes back and said, "You, the little girl said you, go back quickly after delivering the food!" These are all prisoners, don't linger here long!"
Lin Yanxi nodded, he saw that this girl was very well-behaved, he didn't have any suspicions, and continued to beckon the other guards to walk out of the pit.
Seeing that the two of them were walking farther away, she took out a bun from her cuff and stuffed it into the old man's hand.
He looked at her in horror, only stunned for a moment, then stuffed the bun into his mouth as if he was dying, stuffed his mouth to the brim, and was choked and coughed a few times.
Other people with shot put balls tied to their feet also knelt on the ground and begged Lin Yanxi for a little food.