When the smell of gunpowder and dust gradually dispersed, Ye Chengcai slowly stood up, and Zhong Qing, who was under his protection, also slowly raised his head, and his mouth was still mixed with the smell of dust. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It turns out that this is Liu Huai'e's final purpose, he wants to trap us all here. Ye Cheng said to Zhong Qing.

Zhong Qing couldn't help but feel sad in her heart: "Brother Ye, if you don't come to me, you will be safe, but now you are going to be trapped and die in this hole with me, it is I who have dragged you down." ”

Ye Cheng held Zhong Qing's hand and said, "Don't say this kind of thing in the future, if you don't have you, what's the point of me living alone?"

"Later...... In the future, do you say we will have a future?" Zhong Qing looked around and couldn't help but sigh.

Ye Cheng untied the rope on Zhong Qing's body, patted off the dust scattered on her body for her, and then walked in front of the children, although the entrance to the cave has been blocked now, but the stones do not fit completely, so the sunlight still passes into the faint light through the gap.

"Even if people outside are talking now, I'm afraid we won't be able to hear it, that vicious woman must be laughing at us, don't you say, Brother Ye?"

Ye Cheng didn't care if the other party laughed at him, what he was thinking about now was how to escape in this desperate situation, and over the years, only this time was the most dangerous.

However, due to the distance between the enemy and his own boulder, this gave Ye Cheng the opportunity to take a closer look at these captive children.

But the children all looked horrified at their current situation, but perhaps because they had been imprisoned for so long, no one shouted or stood up and walked around.

"Which of you is the oldest?" Ye Cheng knew that these children had been frightened too much, and they were too young, if they asked blindly, they would definitely not have a satisfactory answer, so he wanted to find an older one to ask alone.

I saw that these children's eyes widened one by one, and at first they just looked at Ye Cheng in a daze and didn't speak, but when Ye Cheng asked twice, these children's immature eyes slowly looked behind them.

Ye Cheng followed their gaze and saw a girl next to the stone wall, who was about eleven or twelve years old, and sure enough, she was a little older among the many children.

I saw that the kid also moved his gaze to Ye Cheng, and his eyes revealed defense. Seeing this, Ye Cheng smiled slightly and said, "Little girl, don't be afraid, if I want to harm you, I won't be trapped here by them." ”

Immediately, Ye Cheng said as he separated the children, walked to the little girl's side and asked softly, "Little girl, where is your home, what is your surname?"

This little girl was wearing a red shirt, which was already torn, and when she saw Ye Cheng asking her, she just shook her head and didn't speak.

Ye Cheng reluctantly turned his head to Zhong Qing and motioned for Zhong Qing to come over to help. Zhong Qing understood, so she stood up and walked to the little girl's side, leaned down and patted the dust on her body first, and then asked, "Little sister, my sister was locked up here with you, and she was whipped, have you ever seen it?"

The little girl nodded.

"Then you say, is my sister a good person or a bad person?" Zhong Qing continued to ask.

"It's a good guy. The little girl finally spoke, but her voice was so small that it could hardly be heard except in the silent cave.

"Yes, my sister is a good person, and my sister is also a good person, so do you think we good people should help good people?" Zhong Qing said.

The little girl nodded again.

Ye Cheng said in his heart, this little girl really cherishes words like gold. But after thinking about it, she must have been frightened too much when she came to Sanfo Island, thousands of miles away, so she felt infinite pity. He had carefully observed these children at the moment, but he didn't find Youling's figure from the middle, and he couldn't help but be very worried.

"My sister is from Chang'an, where are you from?" asked Zhong Qing.

"Pingyang Mansion ......," the little girl Nuo said.

Zhong Qing and Ye Cheng glanced at each other, and said in their hearts that this Pingyang Mansion is connected to the party in the east, the Yellow River in the west, Bian, Luo in the south, and Jinyang in the north, it is really an important place in the Central Plains, but I didn't expect Chen Zuyi's claws to go deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, which is really hateful and terrible.

"Pingyang Mansion is a good place, my sister passed by there with my father three years ago, and I picked walnuts in Guxian County to eat, my sister remembers that the walnuts there are really thin skins and big kernels, and they taste slightly bitter with a hint of sweetness, which is really the best in the world, and the wooden New Year paintings are also excellent, and my father also brought a few paintings of the Great Martial Arts God before leaving. Zhong Qing spoke eloquently at this time, as if she was in the scene.

Ye Cheng couldn't help but sigh to himself: "Qing'er really reads thousands of books, travels thousands of miles, and has been to more places than me, which is really amazing." This is the right moment to come in handy, so I can see that I should always pay attention to the places I have been to in the future, and remember more about the local customs. ”

The little girl saw Zhong Qing smiling, without a trace of malice, and seeing that she was talking about the customs of her hometown so clearly, she was even more close, less guarded, and even smiled involuntarily.

Zhong Qing was secretly happy in her heart, and hurriedly asked, "Little sister, now you should tell me what your name is, right?"

"My name is Li Xuanji, and my father is Li Fengyang, the chief dart head of the Crescent Dart Bureau in Pingyang Prefecture. The little girl said, her voice much louder than before.

"This Wei Chong, Chen Zuyi and others are really thieves, and even the daughter of the head of the dart bureau should be taken captive. Ye Chengdao.

Zhong Qing didn't pick up Ye Cheng's words, but continued to ask, "Sister Xuanji, how did you get here?"

"My father has been running a dart bureau for more than ten years, and his efforts are all on it, but recently there have been wars, bandits are rampant, and many dart cars have been robbed and lost. My father is also a very trustworthy person, and he would rather go bankrupt than lose a penny of others, and all the savings of the dart game over the years have almost been exhausted. The dart master also fell apart, walked away, scattered, helpless many darts can only be escorted by my father himself, I am often left at home, except for a few servants, inseparable, very lonely. Chen Xuanji said slowly, although the words were very light, but they were well organized.

While listening to Zhong Qing, she felt that this girl was worthy of everyone's background, and it seemed that his father Li Fengyang had put a lot of effort into his daughter, so that she could talk well today.

At that moment, I only heard Li Xuanji continue: "One day I couldn't hold it back, so I begged an old servant of my family, Uncle Zhao, to take me out to the temple fair. There were a lot of people that day, and I didn't know why I got separated while walking, and when I was in a hurry, I suddenly got something in my mouth, and I only felt wet at the time, and then my body was weak and weak, and then I didn't know what happened later. By the time I woke up, I was in a wagon, and I was transported to many strange places, and finally I got here by boat. ”

Zhong Qing heard this and looked up at Ye Cheng beside him, Ye Cheng nodded and said, "It seems that this is Wei Chong's work again, and Hong Youtian must also be involved." ”

"Yes, but someone is soft-hearted and lets go of that wicked man for the sake of a young lady. Zhong Qing pretended to sigh.

Ye Cheng knew that Zhong Qing was referring to Wei Chong's daughter Wei Rou, so he couldn't help but blush, and hurriedly defended: "Qing'er, you must not misunderstand, I am not ......"

"It's nothing, people who have ghosts in their hearts will be busy explaining, anyway, in this way, the eldest lady must be grateful, maybe in the end there will be no retribution, with a personal promise. Zhong Qing deliberately made things difficult for Ye Cheng.

Ye Cheng was anxious and scared for a while, he didn't know how to deal with Zhong Qing, and he couldn't help but cry out in his heart: "Qing'er is good anywhere, it's this eccentric temper that is really unpredictable, even if you are more careful, I don't know when it will make her unhappy." ”

Of course, Zhong Qing was not really angry with Ye Cheng, and immediately turned around and asked Li Xuanji: "Sister Xuanji, then you have been here for some time, have you been locked up here?"

Li Xuanji shook his head and said: "A few days after I came, I was escorted to another place by several vicious people, and what I saw there was now these younger brothers and sisters, those people have whips in their hands, they are particularly fierce, let us go to work, or laundry and cooking, or chopping wood and carrying water, and some younger brothers and sisters were actually escorted to work in the mines in the deep mountains in the wilderness. If we work slowly on weekdays, we will be scolded at the least, or the leather whip will be added to the body, and I still have several scars on my body. ”

Ye Cheng and Zhong Qing listened, and saw that there were really a few red marks on the neck under Li Xuanji's immature face, and they couldn't help but feel very distressed.

At that moment, Li Xuanji continued: "Until a few days ago, for some reason, many people came, all armed with spears and knives, and they didn't let us work, but took me to this cave and locked me up. ”

Ye Cheng and Zhong Qing understood when they heard this, this was Chen Zuyi, Wang Ce and others in order to cover up their crime of abducting children, and they were afraid that someone from the imperial court would find out, so they deliberately hid these children on this Fengming Mountain first.

Zhong Qing asked a few more words, Li Xuanji said some more about what she knew and what she suffered, and seeing that she couldn't ask anything anymore, she turned to Ye Cheng and said: "Brother Ye, it seems that this is the situation here, now that Liu Huai'e has blocked the front and back holes, she doesn't have to do anything, we will starve to death here in a few days." ”

Ye Cheng nodded, bowed his head and pondered silently, but he was thinking of countermeasures in his heart.

"This Liu Huai'e's life experience is also pitiful, but just let go of the right path and don't go, otherwise I really have the heart to help her. Zhong Qing muttered to herself.

Ye Cheng listened to Zhong Qing's words while thinking about it, and suddenly seemed to remember something.

Qing'er, your words reminded me that we haven't completely lost the opportunity yet!" Ye Cheng held Zhong Qing's hand and said loudly.