Chapter 7: Mysterious Whereabouts
The street is clear, and three or two lanterns fluttering in the cold wind under the roof beams along the street are like ghostly fire phosphorescence, and the frost of the wax moon has the intention of tearing people's faces apart. At that time, most people were already in the warm bed, dreaming boundlessly, who would have thought that at this moment, a group of sergeants with loaded guns and halberds were walking through the clear street. In addition, they also took the sheep and imprisoned five businessmen from all over the world and an economist who opened a dog meat factory.
They walked all the way to the left of the sergeants with their hands tied behind their backs, and the last one was Zhang Shan, the owner of the dog meat factory, followed by the five walnut sellers' horses. At this moment, the horses were also hungry, and the way they resisted hunger and thirst was to snort incessantly, and occasionally to trample in great restlessness, in order to relieve their unbearable depression.
However, how could these miserable businessmen and shopkeepers have imagined that the wise government, in order to eliminate the illegal acts of theft, robbery, and brawls in the capital, would order the patrol officers to distinguish the performance of their patrols by the number of prisoners captured every day and night;
Fortunately, these five businessmen were lucky to come to Zhangshan's dog meat shop -- they chose the right one; otherwise, they would have really lived to the end!
At this moment, the cat lying next door to a shop selling dumplings in the window hole, occasionally raising its head in astonishment, and pricking up its agile ears, saw four suspicious people in the street illuminated by the dim light, and they followed the escort team from a distance, gently, and quietly. One of them carried a ghost-headed sword, one with bare hands, one with a beautifully decorated long sword, and one with a black sheathed long sword. Their steps were so light that the alert old cat was ashamed of himself when he saw it!
Zhang Shan was not at all worried about the danger, because he knew the skills of his group of friends, and for this reason, he seemed to feel particularly interesting along the way! Just like a person who knows the answer to the riddle, he goes to participate in the game of other people's teachers and arranging them, in fact, he has long been unpredictable in every link!
However, to their surprise, these soldiers did not take them to the yamen of the capital for interrogation, nor did they take them to the capital prison for interrogation. They took him and five traders through the streets and alleys, and finally came to the valley north of the capital. And they were led into a deep dark cave, and the sergeants walked into it with torches in their hands.
It was only at this moment that Zhang Shan felt frightened! Because this was far beyond the scope of danger he had forethought, he couldn't understand what they were going to do with him and the five walnut sellers to this cold and terrible cave.
The unknown produces fear, and Zhang Shan's fear at the moment is like this.
Wu Shuang and the others did not realize that there was any defense at the entrance of the cave, so they also temporarily found some flammable dry pine wood from the woods on the side of the road and lit it as torches.
The cave, very deep, very high, very large, almost walking in a dark alley, and after nearly three hundred steps, they suddenly heard a clear voice from inside:
"Okay!
"What are you going to do?" suddenly came the yellow-bearded man's voice and asked in a loud voice. The sound surrounds in the cavern and is heard very clearly.
"Hmph! They heard the fat-faced man sneer, and said, "Leave you bastards in this cave forever!"
"You're going to kill someone!" they heard Zhang Shan's voice again, and suddenly asked in a frightened tone.
"Yes, that's exactly what I mean!" said the thin-faced man again.
"How can you do this!" Zhang Shan asked loudly, "What crime have we committed!"
The other party suddenly laughed, but did not answer.
At this time, Wang Biao and Wu Shuang whispered:
"Almost, it's time to make a move!"
Wu Shuang nodded, agreeing with his proposal. So they moved on.
Here there was a very open place in the cave, at least the size of a house, and the sergeants had put their torches in the slits of the stone wall, and dozens of torches lit it up as bright as day. They lined up along the stone wall of the cave in a semi-arc, held the steel knife in their hands, caught Zhang Shan in the middle, and posed as an executioner.
Seeing this, Zhang Shan knew that a catastrophe was coming, and he thought:
"Wu Shuang, how would they know that this group of people would actually bring him to this black rumbling cave, and he would still be secretly executed! Looking at this situation, he is in a catastrophe today!"
At this moment, an executioner with a machete came over, and he said to Luo Xiongjie, the commander of the left:
"My lord, the torture instruments for the prison beheading have been prepared, and they can be executed at any time!"
"Okay! Then let's kill Zhang Shan, the owner of the dog meat shop, first!"
"Wow!" said the executioner, turning around, and calling two sergeants to push Zhang Shan to the center of the stone cave, and shouted at Zhang Shan:
"Get on your knees!"
Where is Zhang Shan willing to obey, shouting loudly:
"I'm not guilty, you dumb officials, how can you kill innocents here!
"Hurry up and execute, don't let him call here," Luo Xiongjie, the commander of the left, said, "It's noisy!"
"Luo Xiongjie, you are so bold, you dare to kill innocents indiscriminately here!" Suddenly four people broke into the cave, they were, Wu Shuang, She Gang, Nanping and Wang Biao, and Wang Biao also pointed at Luo Xiongjie, the commander of the left, and shouted and asked.
Immediately, Luo Xiongjie laughed and said:
"You're really here!'s idea of 'Xiliang Wujie' is really good, it really lured you out!" he looked at the five businessmen approvingly.
When Wu Shuang and his three companions heard this, they were shocked, and they saw that the five businessmen who sold walnuts laughed together, and took off the rope on their bodies and said:
"Today, this secret cave will become your burial place!"
"Oh!" Wu Shuang and his three companions walked over step by step, and said with a sneer, "It turns out that this is all a game set up by you, and it is really painstaking! I can't understand why you don't do it there since you know that we are in Zhangshan's dog meat shop, and you have to go around in such a big circle, and stage such a bitter meat trick, just because you want to lead us to this cave, why bother?"
The white-faced and yellow-bearded man laughed and said:
"Because, the outdoors is too open, and we are worried that you thieves will escape without being beaten, and that will be a waste of thought. ”
"You mean that the cave is blocked now," Wang Biao said suddenly, "and no one will want to run out later?"
"That's right, you're smart!" said the other man, "the entrance to the cave is already guarded by sergeants, don't say it's a human, and don't even think of a ghost trying to escape!" )