Chapter 3, Ning Qiang Gambling House (2)
When Chen Yuan and Gu Ming finally landed on the wall of Ning Qiang's gambling house, Dai Er had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time, changed seven or eight sitting postures, and played two sets of boxing techniques, and finally saw the figures of the two.
"Why are you so slow, let's go." Daiji urged the two of them to come down.
Gu Ming led Chen Yuan into the tunnel where he was about to enter the gambling house, and heard Dai Er shouting: "This way, this way." The two looked at Daiji, who pointed to the room. Seeing Gu Ming's puzzled gaze, Dai Er was quite complacent, and said, "All the rescues are all in the house." ”
Gu Ming said: "Didn't you wait for us to come and go in together?" ”
"Hey! The guards inside have all swept you up, what can you do? Daiji disagreed.
"You ......" Gu Ming was speechless for a while, "If you want them to come out, won't I find a few carriages like you and pull them all to Houjiachuan?" ”
Dai Er wanted to say something, Chen Yuan said: "It's okay, I'll go in and have a look." After saying that, he flashed into the tunnel, Gu Ming followed, leaving only Dai Er scratching his head in place, wanting to follow up, but he didn't go.
Chen Yuan and Gu Ming walked in the dim tunnel, the tunnel was long and narrow, but there were no branches, only one. A dozen caves were dug out on the left and right sides to serve as houses, and thick wood was intertwined horizontally and vertically to seal the holes, and iron chains were hung, no different from ordinary prison cells. At the edge of each cell, there was a torch, some of which were still lit. There were a few rooms on the right that were not as shabby, with square-cut openings, larger than the others, and a door that had been opened. The inside of the door was not like the rest of the cells, only a layer of wheat straw was spread on the floor, even if it was a bed, and these rooms had decent beds, and the bedding was quite soft, but most of them were stained with blood. It seems that some of them are guarded by Yixiaotang, and some are the places where Yanqi and their sins are suffered. In the middle of the tunnel is a large circular clearing, with no room around it, and a stone table in the middle. The table was empty, and a layer of wheat straw was spread not far from the table, and two jars of wine were placed on the ground. There were not only debris and debris on the ground, but also seven or eight people lying on their stomachs. It seems that not long ago, these guards were drinking and having fun, so they were sent away by Gu Ming.
Chen Yuan looked at each room very carefully, and a few of them also picked up the wheat straw on the ground, but they didn't find anything. Said to Gu Ming: "It's an ordinary dungeon." Gu Ming also nodded when he heard this.
"There's only one thing I don't quite understand." Chen Yuan said again.
"What's wrong?" Gu Ming asked
"How do they go to the toilet?" Chen Yuan asked, "There is not a single corner of this dungeon that is a thatched house. Chen Yuan said next.
"Maybe there's a dung bucket." Gu Ming said.
"I can't find half a barrel, and I can't even smell the stench." Tatsu Yuandao.
"The people who are locked up here are inferior to animals in their eyes, how can they give them and urine." Chen Yuan said again.
"That is, the hut is not in this dungeon, it is outside." Gu Ming said.
"That's too much trouble, there are a lot of people with disabilities here, and they can't move. Who will get them outside to go to the toilet three times a day. Chen Yuan said again.
"Go out and ask the kids in the house, and you'll know." Gu Ming said.
Chen Yuan nodded, and said: "There are screams and wails here day and night, will anyone ever hear the sound from the ground." ”
"Probably not, the roof of this dungeon is more than a foot above the ground, the soil layer is still very thick, and the only entrance and exit in that house is the house." Gu Ming said.
"Yizhang, that's really hard to fly." Chen Yuan said that a finger of sword qi hit the top obliquely, and a black hole two fingers wide appeared on the top, but the light did not shine through. Chen Yuan said again: "You see, with my internal strength, I can't break through. Even if this place is left unattended overnight, with these children or girls, who can run away by punching holes. ”
The two of them went out of the tunnel and saw Dai Er outside the courtyard squatting there and looking on the ground.
"What's wrong with the second child, the waist has fallen off and you are looking for it?" Gu Ming laughed.
Dai Er glanced at the two people who came out and said, "Come and see, this brick cracked by itself for no reason." Dai Er gestured, "Really, snapped." Gu Ming and Dai Er smiled, didn't say anything, and walked straight to the room where Dai Er placed the children.
If there was anything else in this world that could make Chen Yuan afraid, he would definitely be afraid to push open this door; If there is anything in this world that Chen Yuan is afraid to see, then he must be afraid of the scene inside the door. Although Chen Yuan had seen the appearance of the children who had been mutilated and was prepared, he still inevitably trembled, and his heart throbbed violently twice.
All the torture imaginable by the world seems to have appeared in this room. There were nearly twenty children in the house, but the only ones in good health were two little girls of about thirteen or fourteen, whose clothes were bright but tattered, torn, with wounds on their faces and tattered clothes, whip marks, and knife wounds. Most of the rest are boys, and those who lack arms and legs are the most common, only a simple wrap on the wound and put some medicine, and only wait for the growth to be dragged out to beg. There was a man whose face and scalp were gone, and he was drenched in blood, but his heaving chest told others that he was still alive. One of the people had his whole body gone, and he was resting on a wooden plank with four small wheels. There was a girl, who was not as good as an ordinary person, and her limbs were cut off and put into a wine jar, with only one head exposed, and two long braids on either side of the jar. Another child......
Chen Yuan couldn't stand it anymore, went out, and asked Dai Er, "Why are they all asleep?" ”
Dai Er lowered his head: "After I came in, it was full of screams and wails, which made me feel uncomfortable, and I saw that they were also in pain, so I sealed their big hole." ”
Chen Yuan nodded and said, "It's okay, at least they don't feel pain." ”
"These dogs chew crumbs, torture these children like this!" Dai Er gritted his teeth.
"They found that people with missing arms and legs were used to seeing it, and they didn't need much money, so they made a worse appearance." Chen Yuan sighed.
"No one cares?" Generations of the second way.
"In the past, there was a lot of fighting here, and after the war, no country actually managed it much. There are all kinds of people here, and sometimes you can run into a wanted criminal in a few steps. There are many gangs in the surrounding area, and mountain bandits are rampant everywhere. It's a bit disabled, it's normal, and if you don't say it, you think it's a war. "Chen Yuandao.
"! And there is no royal law! Dai Er scolded.
"Yes, there is the law of our Nanqi on the surface. Secretly, whoever has a hard fist is the king, as long as it doesn't come to the surface. Chen Yuan said, "If the person with the hardest fist is a great good person, it is the blessing of all the flat-headed people here, and if the person with the hardest fist is Ji Tongcheng Yixiao Hall or something, then isn't that the case?" ”
"Then there's really no cure." Daiji sighed.
"Why is it not cured, now no one cares about it on the surface." Chen Yuan said, "The county master is dead. ”
"It's okay to be dead, I don't care about anything, I'm alive and dead." Daiji is still angry.
Chen Yuan smiled and said, "It's good to be dead, at least now the secret fist family is dominant." ”
"Who?" Generations of the second way.
"Xiao Ming." Chen Yuan smiled, looked at Xiao Ming, who was frowning, and then said: "The biggest fist in the local area was destroyed by you, and you are naturally the biggest fist." ”
Daiji stood up excitedly and said, "That's right! Nobody cares, we do! The poor child cannot be allowed to suffer this sin anymore. ”
"But there is a treaty between the two countries, and no one can control this place and interfere with the free trade here." Gu Ming said.
"He can't control the forces of the rivers and lakes, and it's not the army." Chen Yuan said, and asked again: "Do you know Peng Taiping?" ”
"Of course I know." Gu Ming replied, "The Governor of Martial Arts doesn't know who doesn't know. Gu Ming smiled after speaking.
"Haha, he has been competing with your father for 20 years, and he always wants to win against your father and merge with Gufeng. You don't like him as it should be. Chen Yuan said with a smile.
"It's not for this, it's that the old man who is always full of chivalry for the country and the people, has always persuaded my father to set up the mountain gate in Guyan Town, and guard the border for the imperial court. My dad didn't agree, so he kept trying to defeat him, annexed Lone Peak, and then assigned us to go to Lone Smoke Town. It's been a few times to just pick up the mountain gate, but fortunately it didn't work. Gu Ming said angrily.
"But it's strange to say, your dad is tied with anyone." Chen Yuan said with a smile, "Look at Bai Cang of Lingyun Palace, how many years he has been fighting, no matter what progress he has, it has always been a tie. After speaking, he glanced at Daiji.
Dai Er and Gu Ming didn't speak, and Chen Yuan said again: "Then Peng Taiping is not, the forces of the rivers and lakes have entered Qinggang City, and they may not release a fart from the Western Regions." ”
"Yes, let's learn from him too, and take care of it! I don't know what is for the country and the people, but in short, there can be no more villains doing evil here. Dai Er said, "Let's also set up a gang, take care of it!" "Daiji is getting more and more determined.
"It's all for later, let's clear up the matter at hand first." Tatsu Yuandao.
"What else is going on right now? Those who should be saved are saved, and those who should be killed are killed. "Dai Erdao.
"There are a lot of things I still don't understand, I want to ask these children." Chen Yuan said, and after speaking, he whispered something in Gu Ming's ear, just for a moment, Dai Er wanted to spread his head over and listen, Chen Yuan had already finished speaking and went into the house.
"What did he tell you?" Dai Er asked Gu Ming.
"If you want to know, why whisper." Gu Ming smiled, "You go in and ask yourself." ”
"Hmph, two big men are like thieves and long-tongued women for a day, fluttering, fluttering." Dai Er snorted coldly and followed Chen Yuan into the door.
There were only two awake children in the room, the two able-bodied women. The two girls huddled together, one shivering, the other glazed over, staring vacantly ahead, without blinking. Chen Yuan walked over slowly, squatted down, and slowly touched the girl's head with his hand, the girl closed her eyes and shrank violently, screaming, shaking even more. Chen Yuandao's hand froze in the air, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, we are here to save you." Don't be afraid, it's okay. The girl opened her eyes and looked at him, and looked at the beautiful men who were still full of tenderness in front of her, and trembled even more, and what happened to them made them not believe that their eyes could tell whether it was a man or an evil spirit.
"Don't be afraid, whatever he asks, you can just say anything, maybe you can find your parents!" Daiji followed the door and said to the two.
When the girl saw Daiji come in, her body slowly stopped shaking and stopped shrinking into a ball. The man smashed open all the doors of the dungeon and brought them out, with a gentle movement. There was a man with a sawed leg who was chained, covered with abscesses, and he was not dirty, and he was wrapped in grass and carried out, back and forth more than a dozen times, and he was not a bad person.
"How did you get caught...... Chen Yuan asked a lot of questions, and the two girls couldn't say why, and put away the scarf regretfully.
"Then let me ask you, where did you go to the toilet when you were locked up in the dungeon?" Chen Yuan suddenly asked without a word.
The girl stopped crying, but when she heard this, she covered her face and began to sobble again.
"What are you asking for?" Dai Er stiffened his neck and asked, "How can you ask the girl to ask this!" Look scary! "It's easy for Dai Er to seize the opportunity to reprimand Chenyuan, but he is angry.
Chen Yuan was about to explain something, when an emotionless voice came to his ears.
"On the table, we are dogs, we are animals. We are toys, we are pets, we will live if the owner wants us to live, and if the owner wants us to die, we will die. Being tied to the neck by the owner and leading to the table to pee, we pee, and the pet is watched by the owner to pee, what is there to be ashamed of. The woman next to her, who had been staring blankly and not saying a word, said. When she said this, her eyes were still staring blankly ahead.
Chen Yuan didn't say a word after hearing this, lowered his head and thought about something, and muttered to himself: "It turned out to be there." ”
This is Gu Ming also coming in the door, Chen Yuan asked, "So soon, is it over?" ”
"It's over, what's so difficult about that, those who have practiced iron sand palms for two days are casual." Gu Ming said.
"Did it go well?" Chen Yuan asked again.
Gu Ming nodded and said, "God doesn't know, ghosts don't know." ”
"What are you two talking about?" Dai Er's hand reached into the placket and rustled his chest hair.
"Go, you'll know right away." Chen Yuan said with a smile.
"What are you going to do?" Dai Er asked.
"Visit the hut." Chen Yuan said, after speaking, he had already gone out with Gu Ming and walked towards the room at the entrance of the tunnel.
Dai Er was not lightly angry, and said that there was nothing to visit in the thatched house, this person was in the clouds and fog all day, and the whole thing was a madman. Gu Ming was originally normal, but now he has become a little madman with a big madman. I can't go with them, I have so many children to take care of, I have to keep a normal person.
"Come on, second brother, this matter can't be done without you." Chen Yuan shouted at Dai Er at the entrance of the cave.
"I'm not going! You two were robbed of the house by the, I'm normal. "Dai Erdao.
"Don't talk nonsense, you'll come if you want to come." Gu Ming scolded.
Daiji didn't know what to mutter, and slowly walked towards the two, looking at the room next to him uneasily.
"Don't worry, this Ningqiang gambling house opens the latest and closes the earliest. It opened at noon, and it was already closed in the evening, when business was supposed to be at its best. No one will come here, and you can't lose it. Chen Yuan said.
Dai Er walked forward at this time, ignored the two of them, and jumped down first.