Chapter 229: Joining the Bandits' Den
Maybe it's because in their minds, they have some confidence in Zheng Quqi's ability to protect himself, and the situation around Fuxian County has always been under control......
But they didn't think that in the end, it wasn't any enemy they had envisioned that would go wrong, but among the people they thought were the safest.
Wei Yao kicked away the city guard, who was almost out of breath, and ordered him to be escorted away with his people, but instead of taking him to the county jail, he took him back to the camp.
"Zebang, who do you think will take Madame? Is she in danger now?"
Wei Yao stared at the alley darkly, and couldn't think of anyone else for a while.
"It shouldn't be possible for our people here." Wang Zebang also thought about this together: "But there shouldn't be too much danger, according to the city guard, Madame has a shooter in her hand, but she didn't attack the man, there are no traces of fighting and struggle in this alley, which means that Madame agreed to leave with the other party."
"Then what if Madame is subdued and has no strength to resist at all?" Wei Yao said that the worst possibility is true.
Of course, Wang Zebang has also thought about this possibility, but the more times like this, the more he can't panic and calm down.
He analyzed: "But the chasing officers and soldiers are already around here, even if she shouts, it will cause a movement and make the other party's movements be discovered, but Madame did not do anything to save herself, so I deduced that Madame was not in danger at that time."
Wei Yao was silent for a long time, as if to gauge the credibility of his words.
Wei Yao suddenly thought of something, he stared at Wang Zebang tightly, and said in a low voice, "You say, could it be someone from the Mo family?" Do you remember, not long ago, someone saw the Mo family's Gan Xin appear in Jindu, but soon the news disappeared."
Madame is entangled with the people of the Mo family, if someone from the Mo family appears to take her away, but she does not resist, it makes sense.
Gan Xin?
The Mo family's crazy knife Gan Xin, who is known as a knife that can level mountains and rivers and five continents?
Wang Zebang's face was like splashing ink, and he gradually became solemn: "The Mo family actually sent him, it seems that we are in trouble."
"Anyway, I'll send someone to check on his whereabouts now." Wei Yao said coldly.
Wang Zebang patted him on the shoulder: "This matter has to be handled by you personally, I will go to hunt down the road bandits with the people of the county government tomorrow morning, and go to investigate the clues of Princess Sheng An by the way."
"I'm afraid it's not easy to do this road bandit." Wei Yao reminded him.
Wang Zebang knew his worries: "No matter how simple it is, we have to investigate, these road bandits suddenly appeared near our Fu County, picking on travelers, I don't look like it's purely for money, it's more like it's for some other purpose."
"And what will they do?"
"It's hard to say, anyway, you go to look for clues first and find Madame's traces as soon as possible, and I'll go to the bandits to find out the situation first, and we'll go our separate ways...... By the way, has the soil been in Shimoda?"
"He hasn't heard from him yet."
Calculating the time, it's almost a day or two: "He has strong martial arts, and he has a Xuanjia elite soldier, there must be no problem."
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In the stone cave, Zheng Quqi, who was stared at by dozens of people, stammered and asked, "Are you road bandits?" She disagreed, "Do you have any proof?"
"Proof? How can a good person recognize himself as a bandit?" The man seemed to be amused by her even more.
Of course.
Like me.
Zheng Quqi said in her heart, she was obviously a good person, but after the next few seconds, she decided to tell a little lie to save her life.
"Now let's talk about it, why do those officers and soldiers think you're a bandit?"
When Zheng Quqi heard this, he immediately made up with righteous indignation: "I came to join your road bandits, I was originally just a little carpenter who repaired things, but who Cheng thought that he accidentally offended the city guard, he put small shoes on me everywhere, and wanted to arrest me and put me in prison for torture and interrogation, so I thought that I would just stop doing it, and just fall into the grass and forget it."
The implication is that
I'm not here to destroy you, I'm here to join you.
If you don't join, you can't do it, she knows where their base camp is, and she also saw the bandit leader who was said by Wang Zebang to be "the dragon sees the head but doesn't see the tail", she knows so many secrets, if she doesn't choose to join, what awaits her is definitely only to kill the mouth or close the black cage.
She didn't want to die, and she didn't want to lose her freedom and dignity to be locked up, so she could only join them if she couldn't beat them for the time being.
"You're a little carpenter? Female carpenter?" The man looked at her strangely.
She looked down at her village girl's dress, "yes, don't you believe it?"
Her eyes circled nearby, looking for something to prove herself.
It wasn't until she saw a small pile of broken wheels and crooked in the corner that she immediately walked over to it, then took out the dick on her body and divided it by two and made a "bang".
After a while, she stood up and motioned to them, "Come and see, I've got it done."
The road bandits were all curious to step forward, but they saw that the small pile of trucks that were in tatters before now looked like they were standing upright, the wheels were reinstalled, and the parts of the scattered shelves were also reloaded and built, although there was no way to restore the original new appearance, but at least it looked like it could still be used at this time?
They were all surprised, this thin-looking female lady still has such a craft?
There was a bandit who pulled up the small cart and pushed it forward, the wheel was rotating as usual, and he looked left and right on the car, and finally turned back in surprise and said: "She really repaired it, it was repaired so easily, Xiao Qi and I were busy for a long time yesterday, but it got worse and worse, now it's okay, we have a small cart again."
At this time, the gaze of these road bandits at Zheng Quqi has changed from ferociousness and vigilance at the beginning to waiting to be observed now.
It seems that she is not lying, a man's mouth will lie, but this skillful craft will not, she is really a carpenter.
"Do you really want to join us as a bandit?" Their questioning glances kept glancing over her.
A middle-aged man with a scar on his face said, "Xing'an, where did you bring the person back? Can you trust it?"
The man named Xing'an, who was probably the leader of this group of bandits, said, "When I met her, she was being pursued by the government, and a group of them chased a little girl, and they kept calling her a bandit, and I listened to her interestingly, and when I saw that she was cornered, I brought her back."
"Xing'an, you are too impulsive, these people from the government have been looking for our people everywhere recently, could she be an undercover agent sent by the government?" Someone warned.
When Zheng Quqi heard this, he hurriedly cleared himself and said, "That can't be, just like me, Wen can't mention Shiwu and can't punch and kick, how can I be an undercover agent?" Do you repair wood or carve wood?"
Although Zheng Quqi's appearance is very deceptive, these people are like rats in the dark ditch, everyone shouts and beats, and they have no sense of security, and they are naturally alert to any slight disturbances, so they don't fully trust her.
Zheng Quqi continued to defend: "I am really a carpenter, which undercover agent of the government will send a carpenter to do carpentry?"
The bandit only looked at her with pity, and did not say a word, but Xing'an asked her, "Since you are a carpenter, what will you do?"
Zheng Quqi subconsciously said: "I, I can do anything."
Xing'an was silent: "...... It's quite arrogant, so would you repair a crossbow machine or a deer antler wood, a grappling hook for pit killing?"
As soon as Zheng Quqi heard it, that's it?
But she showed some hesitation on the surface: "Well, this kind of thing belongs to the military class, I'm just an ordinary carpenter, not a big ......."
Xing'an said lightly: "No, just kill it."
Zheng Quqi made a sudden U-turn halfway and said decisively, "I will! I will do it all!"
This sounded like a lie, and the bandits didn't even believe a word.
Xing'an looked at Zheng Quqi deeply, and said to the bandits, "Since she can do it, it is better to hand over those broken appliances to her to repair."
"No, how can such a thing be left to an outsider?"
The bandits objected at this time, probably because they didn't trust her.
Not only her people, but also her craft.
"What about you? Who's going to fix it?" Xing'an asked.
Immediately, the noisy and noisy noise of dissatisfaction disappeared in an instant, and there was no sound.
"Besides, she is now like an ant in our hands, if she has a different heart, she can be pinched to death with one hand, do you still worry about the betrayal of an ant?" Xing'an laughed.
Zheng (ant) bent the ruler in his heart, call you crazy, call you proud, there are times when you regret it!
Zheng Quqi blinked a pair of big eyes that could speak, and said obediently: "I won't betray, I originally wanted to do it with you, I heard that you don't hurt the people, don't kill, only rob those rich travelers, when the robbers are like you, it can be regarded as admirable, I don't have any other ability, I will do whatever you tell me to do."
Xing'an stared at her with a smile and said loudly, "Little San Xiaoqi, you two take a good look at her, and if there is any abnormality, come and report to me immediately."
Xiao San Xiaoqi replied, "Yes."
"Tomorrow morning, you two will take her to the storehouse."
"We see."
After instructing them, Xing'an said to Zheng Quqi again, "Don't you want to join us? Then you can behave well, and if the results are satisfactory to us, you can join us."
Who's going to join you?
If you don't talk about salary, you will work first, which is simply a week.
Although she was insulted, she gratefully admitted, "Don't worry, I will definitely do a good job."
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The next day, Xiao San and Xiao Qi took Zheng Quqi to the depths of the cave, but instead of getting darker and darker, it gradually opened up and brightened, until she saw a sinkhole in front of her, and then she saw a scene that she hadn't thought of at all.
Her first reaction was-
It's over, they're definitely not going to leave her alive.
The second reaction was, are they going to rebel?! It's full of weapons.
All kinds of knives, swords, guns, halberds...... It's complete, but this kind of ordinary weapon obviously can't satisfy them, and some stone niches are still placed in all kinds of strange things that she can't understand for a while.
This is the "arsenal" of the road bandits? It's the size of a military depot.
But there are thousands of people in the army, where did they get these exaggerated things from a road bandit crime group of dozens of people?
She swallowed and stepped forward to pick up something in the shape of a slender bamboo tube.
As soon as she fiddled with it, Xiao San was anxious: "Hey, don't touch it, it's dangerous!" Put it down!"
Xiao San came over and wanted to push her away and grab something, but was easily stopped on the spot by Zheng Quqi with one hand.
She looked intently at the bamboo tube, then leaned in and sniffed the smell: "Oh, it smells of gunpowder, saltpeter, charcoal powder, sulfur, ......."
Xiao San was just a teenager, and he couldn't hide his surprise and said, "You—How do you know what's in here?!"
"What's it called?"
Without anyone else, Zheng Quqi's expression was no longer "innocent and simple", but a little oppressive.
Xiao San's wrist was pinched, and he shouted, "Screaming cannon, hey, let go of me, you are a woman, how can you be born so strongly, Xiao Qi, are you a fool?" Just looking at it won't help me."
Xiao Qi was shouted by Xiao San, and his stunned expression reacted, and he immediately went over to break Zheng Quqi's hand.
But before she met Zheng Quqi, she had already let go of Xiao San first.
Xiao San and Xiao Qi are twins, Xiao San is clever and lively, but Xiao Qi is much more dull and basically only obeys orders.
The twins are quite interesting.
Turning her head, Zheng Quqi saw an iron gourd again, and she put down the wood
Tube, picked up the iron gourd and shook it, and found that there was a sound of water shaking inside.
"What is this?"
"Oh, you don't care about this, you don't need it...... Ahh
As Xiao San's scream of surprise sounded, Zheng Quqi had already pulled out the stopper of the iron gourd, and she smelled the smell of fire oil in the iron gourd.
"Don't shake, don't shake, hold it steady, don't move your hands!" Xiao San was so anxious that he stomped his feet.
When Zheng Quqi heard this, she listened to his words, and was careful not to shake it, she looked at the plug she pulled out, and when she contacted the front and back, she understood at once: "This is a flint that makes a fire by rubbing...... The iron gourd contains fire oil, and if you shake the iron gourd hard and then pull the plug, it will ignite and spray, right?"
"How do you know?!"
These are all weapons that they have secretly developed, and others can't understand its purpose at all, but she just smells it, touches it, and understands it at once?
"It's all trivial."
Zheng Quqi wanted to continue, but before she could see it again, she was pulled away by Xiao San and Xiao Qi together.
"Don't look at it, don't look at it, you get to work!"
Let her read it again, isn't it that she has seen through all their secrets?
They took her to a natural crater, where there were piles of wooden wreckage, all damaged or broken by gravity, and some of them were shattered.
Seeing this déjà vu scene, she inexplicably remembered some of the past.
When she was in the camp, Yu Wensheng set up a bureau in order to draw out the secret enemy country, and she was stupid at the time, so she didn't know anything and stepped forward and pieced together all the equipment parts on the ground.
At that time, how did she know that Yu Wensheng had already begun to doubt her identity, and had pretended to be a drowning person to test her in advance.