"Qin Chuan, this cell seems to be newly built, not the cell where Wanrou and I stayed before..." Su Qiqi walked to the cell door, looked through the crack in the door to see the minions outside walking away, and whispered to Qin Qiqi Chuan started talking.
After listening to her words, Qin Chuan carefully looked at every corner of the cell, nodded slightly and said: "It is indeed different from what I saw when I rescued you before, but it may just be rearranged..."
"Yeah, that's right. There was such a big fire last time, even if the original cell was not burned down, it would have been affected, and then it was renovated, so it looks a little strange..." Su Qiqi looked around silently, murmured.
Qin Chuan walked back and forth in the cell several times, but did not find any valuable clues. He simply stopped busy and found a cleaner corner to sit down. He was in a daze for a while, then raised his head and asked: " By the way, Su'er, what are your plans next?"
Su Qiqi was silent for a while and said, "I haven't thought about it yet. I'll sort out my thoughts first."
Qin Chuan nodded, sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes slightly, and meditated quietly.
Su Qiqi also tidied up the corner filled with debris and sat down against the wall to rest. Her eyes fell on the roof tiles above her head. The overlapping tiles vaguely reveal small gaps.
Su Qiqi suddenly thought of something, and her dim eyes suddenly lit up.
She gently raised her inner strength, flew up to the beam, and used her slender fingers to flip the tiles on the beam.
"Hey! I didn't expect this place to be sealed..." Su Qiqi looked at the gap she had made in surprise and proudly showed it to Qin Chuan.
Qin Chuan also regained his energy. He stood up from the ground and jumped onto the beam. Together with Su Qiqi, he moved the tiles above his head bit by bit.
The two of them carefully toiled for a long time, and finally cleared a passage that was large enough for one person to enter and exit. Qin Chuan couldn't restrain his inner excitement and climbed out of the gap first. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his upper body, he crawled back in disappointment and sighed to Su Qiqi: "Forget it, don't waste your efforts, the outside is sealed Already..."
Su Qiqi was a little stunned when she heard this. She asked Qin Chuan to step aside, and she climbed out of the gap to see what was going on. After a while, she climbed back to the roof beam in disgrace and complained angrily: "This Lin Quan is really cunning. He actually added a transparent fully enclosed isolation cover on the roof... I don't know what material it is made of." It can’t be broken even by beating, nor can it be cut open by cutting...it’s really a big head!”
Qin Chuan thought for a while and suggested, "How about trying fire attack?"
When Su Qiqi heard this, she rolled her eyes at him and said, "What a bad idea you have. If you can't figure it out, the two of us will have a barbecue..."
Qin Chuan chuckled, then tried to take out the dagger hidden in the sole of his shoe, and continued to stab the transparent barrier in vain.
Time passed little by little, and Qin Chuan finally gave up his fearless struggle, stuffed the dagger back under the insole, then got some grass as a pillow, and leaned against the wall in a daze.
Su Qiqi also felt indescribable fatigue. She curled up lazily in the corner, grabbed a few straws and wove them into the shape of small animals.
As the straw wrapped around her fingertips, Su Qiqi's heart gradually calmed down.
I don’t know what’s going on with Miao Miao, Ruo Yu, and Biao Shi Lu? Will they still be waiting for them to return in the reeds?
Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a noise outside the cell door. Su Qiqi stood up in excitement, crept close to the crack of the door, and looked out.
It turned out that the minions were dragging a young man in ragged clothes over.
"You...you bandits...do you have any laws for robbing in broad daylight?" The young man struggled hard while protesting loudly against the atrocities of the minions.
"Hahaha! What a nerd! He's still telling us about the king's laws..." One of the minions looked at the young man with evil intentions and sneered.
"That's it, nerd, hurry up and ask your family to send you the ransom, otherwise we will chop off your head and use it as a chamber pot in a few days..." Another gangster showed his rotten teeth and made a vulgar joke.
The scholar stared at them and said with a red face: "I... I am a student who came to Beijing to take the exam. It is because my family is poor and I have no money to hire a car, so I traveled alone over the mountains and ridges... Look at my makeup. Do you look like you can pay a ransom for your patched clothes? You might as well just kill me and stop harming my family..."
The minions listened to the scholar's indignant words and did not take them seriously at all, continuing to laugh and joke. The scholar was so angry that his face turned white and red, and he muttered as he walked past the cell where Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan were.
"This nerd is quite funny..." Qin Chuan's voice floated down from Su Qiqi's head.
Su Qiqi looked back at him and said with a smile, "Are you going to help him?"
Qin Chuan smiled noncommittally and said: "We have to get away first..."
Su Qiqi nodded and asked, "Have you come up with any ideas?"
Qin Chuan shook his head slightly and said, "I plan to... force my way in!"
Su Qiqi was stunned for a moment, then asked: "When?"
Qin Chuan pondered for a moment and whispered: "When they come to deliver food..."
Su Qiqi thought for a moment and nodded. She also felt that this was the only way for now. Lin Quan and the others had gone through what happened before and had tightened their security on the cell to prevent the minions from contacting them easily. They can only wait for the minions guarding them to deliver food before they have a chance to take action.
Thinking of this, Su Qiqi began to hope that the meal delivery time would come soon. So I can seize the opportunity and escape from this damn prison.
As dusk approached, Su Qiqi finally heard the familiar sound of unlocking the door. She sat upright excitedly and held the silver needle tightly between her fingers.
Qin Chuan secretly saw Su Qiqi's actions and couldn't help but cover his mouth and snicker, then he also tightened his grip on the locust pebbles in his pocket.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, the moment the door was pushed open, the silver needle and the locust stone ejected at the same time, accurately hitting the vital part of the food delivery man, and also stabbing the other person responsible for opening the door. Here we go. The two men died before they even had time to snort.
Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan smiled at each other and rushed out the door without hesitation. By the time the minions patrolling outside the door discovered them, Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan had already dragged the down-and-out scholar out of the last gate of the cottage.
"Are you all useless? It doesn't matter if you can't stand the two masters. How come you can't stand the weak scholar..." A small leader under Lin Quan angrily scolded the row of people in front of him. There are dozens of minions in charge.
"I...we never thought they were in a group, let alone that the two men who had been stabbed a thousand times would sneak attack while delivering food..." Someone among the minions muttered unconvincedly.
The little boss glared fiercely and continued to scold: "You bastards, if you have the ability, go and chase them back for me, otherwise you will be spoiled for choice... The boss just made a statement. I will reward you with 100 taels for chasing those three young men back." If you cannot recover the silver, I will send you to the Beast Soul Palace of Qilian Mountain to offer sacrifices..."
Before he finished speaking, the minions below began to commotion, with extremely frightened expressions on their faces. They knelt on the ground, kowtowed and begged: "Brother Kui, please help me in front of the master." Please give me a few kind words and spare your life. We will never forget Brother Kui’s great kindness... We will follow Brother Kui wholeheartedly..."
The little leader, who was called Brother Kui, smiled with satisfaction after hearing the compliments of the gangsters, and said: "I will intercede with the boss. You don't dare to be careless anymore. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you still have to pay for it." I'll find those three people..."
"Yes -" all the minions agreed in unison, and then they split up to search for traces of Su Qiqi and others.
Flowing firelight flickers everywhere on Feiyun Mountain, illuminating the night in the mountain with all kinds of weirdness.
On a certain path on the mountainside, Su Qiqi, Qin Chuan and the scholar used the cover of the trees to carefully avoid the pursuit and encirclement of the murderers.
With great difficulty, the three of them got out of danger and prepared to go their separate ways.
Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan walked a few feet away, looked back and found that the scholar was still standing there in a daze, looking like he was hesitant to speak.
Su Qiqi couldn't help but feel compassion, and asked softly: "Master Ouyang, why don't you leave? Do you have anything else to tell us?
Scholar Ouyang Qi rubbed his hands, showed a troubled expression, and said hesitantly: "I...my baggage...that..."
Qin Chuan saw that he hadn't explained the reason clearly after talking for a long time, and said in a dumbfounded way: "Bookworm, just tell me if you have anything to say! There are only three or four months left before the Chunwei exam. If you wait any longer, you will miss the opportunity to be named on the gold list. …”
Ouyang Qi then said anxiously: "They took away my luggage, and now I am penniless. Let alone go to the capital, I can't even eat sesame cakes..."
Su Qiqi smiled slightly when he heard this and said: "I see, I still have a little silver here, you can use it as payment..." After that, he took off a small purse from his waist and poured out a dozen taels of silver. The silver was handed into Ouyang Qi's hands.
Ouyang Qi held the handful of broken silver and said a little embarrassedly: "What, how can this be so embarrassing?"
Qin Chuan stepped forward and patted his shoulder, and said with a hearty smile: "Brother, just accept it... If you continue to delay, you will be in trouble if the thieves from Feiyun Village catch up..."
Ouyang Qi then tore off a piece of clothing, wrapped the money, put it into his arms, and then said goodbye to Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan. Just after taking a few steps, he turned back and shouted at the backs of Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan: "Thank you two heroes for saving your life. I will definitely thank you for your life-saving grace and gift of silver! See you soon!"
Hearing this, Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan hurriedly turned around with a smile and waved back: "I know, take care of yourself!" It wasn't until the scholar Ouyang Qi's figure completely disappeared at the end of the road that they turned around and headed towards the reeds at the foot of Feiyun Mountain. Dang flew away.
