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It's late at night and it's midnight.
On an inconspicuous hillside to the northwest of Pingcheng, everything was pitch black, with faint firelight coming from the houses that had not been inhabited for a long time.
There was a rotten roof, leaky windows, insects and ants crawling in and out of the rotten and musty wet straw. In a corner of the room, there was a person lying on his back on the straw.
Wan Datou was suddenly awakened, and there was a sharp pain in the back of his neck, which made his chaotic mind clear. He suddenly found that his hands and feet were tied, and he would have screamed if it hadn't been for something being stuffed in his mouth. Voice.
what happened?
Where am I?
I should be in a warm bed~~
Tamar's~
It's over, it's over.
Thinking of his last consciousness, Wan Datou was frightened and angry. He twisted slightly, trying to get rid of the restraint. Due to years of habit, he did not make any louder noise.
"Dong dong dong..." The sound in the distance lingered in my ears, like a desperate movement.
Wan Datou turned his head and looked at the only light, which was only separated by a broken stone wall. He could vaguely see a figure through the crack.
The figure swayed, followed by the sound of footsteps, perhaps caused by the slight noise he made before. Wan Datou broke into a cold sweat and did not dare to move in vain, maintaining the posture of lying on the corpse.
The footsteps slowly approached, and Wan Datou felt a pair of eyes watching him in the darkness, as if to make sure he was awake.
"Are you awake?" A slightly younger voice came from the door, and the thumping sound that Wan Datou heard before also stopped.
"It's not awake, it must be a mouse." Another voice was steady and powerful, and followed the footsteps away.
Then Wan Datou heard some more sounds, the squeaking of a loose chair, the sound of a wine bottle hitting the table, the sound of chewing...
Let Wan Datou confirm that they are two people and they are drinking. However, he does not know where they came from, but he must not be from the yamen, otherwise he should be in prison at the moment and not here.
Wan Datou thought about a way to escape, and listened intently to the conversation between the two people next door, and the voices slowly entered his ears.
"It'll be almost done if you dig a little longer, dig it up quickly and bury it."
Wan Datou:......
What does it mean?
What's going on? We need to bury him. So, the thumping sound he heard just now was the sound of digging?
Brother, we have something to say.
Wan Datou was extremely anxious, but something was stuffed in his mouth that made him unable to make a sound. When he was about to twist his body and make a louder noise to beg for mercy, the young voice sounded disdainfully again.
"Kill him to death immediately when he wakes up, and it will be over with one strike. The master said that he will not be able to see the sun tomorrow."
Wan Datou, who was begging for mercy: "..."
Not letting people live.
"I said our master was too careful. He could just kill him. He actually asked us to dig a hole in a mountain so far away and bury him. It's the middle of the night. What a waste of time..."
The young voice kept chattering, and the other one barely made any sound. It took a long time before he yelled: "Stop talking nonsense, we will do whatever the master tells us."
"Hey! Yes, yes, the master is the biggest. What is the master's command? Don't remind me here, I don't know." The young voice seemed to be disapproving, and the voice was louder: "Who in the whole Pingcheng has our master? Amazing, not only did he marry a girl from the Zhou family, he was also a famous person in Pingcheng. Everyone in Pingcheng didn’t know our master’s name. This time, we caught this criminal wanted by the court. Even the government couldn’t catch the criminal wanted by the court. It's in the hands of our master. If you ask me to give it to the official directly, I don't know what he thinks..."
"Let's dig a hole, it's almost dawn." Another voice shouted, putting the wine bottle on the table, and seemed to get up and walk away.
"Oh, wait for me." Then the sound of tables and chairs colliding sounded one after another.
"Tell me how much reward our master can give us this time. Last time we took back 130,000 taels from the second master, and it took the boss a lot of effort to give us 20 taels of reward. It was too stingy. I hope this time It can be more, after all, it is a matter of killing and taking lives..."
The sound gradually faded away, and the sound of digging was heard again. Compared with the last time, the sound this time was more intensive.
Wan Datou's face turned red, his eyes widened, and he was filled with anger. Wow, you actually dared to plot against me.
The two people outside dug a hole and returned to the house. Wan Datou was nowhere to be seen. Wan Datou took advantage of them to go out and broke the rope and escaped from the window. Of course, these two people deliberately left Wan Datou to fray. The rope took time.
From breaking the rope to escaping through the window, Wan Datou was watched secretly by the two men.
"Do you think this can be done? It's too simple." Xia Xiaoba asked. Wan Datou, who was escaping, should run as far away as possible at this time, instead of taking risks and returning for revenge.
Well, Xiao Ming's plan was too simple. If he had directly handed over Wan Datou to the government or buried him on the spot, how could he have used so many roundabout tactics.
It probably won’t work!
Xia Xiaoba is very sad. She is a girl after all. She has never seen blood and dare not go in with a white knife and come out with a red knife.
For this kind of matter, it would be more appropriate for the Crown Prince to come forward.
"I think so." Uncle Ming replied thoughtfully. He had stayed in Pingcheng, so he had naturally heard of Wan Datou's bad reputation. This man was determined to retaliate and had a narrow mind. He once heard that Wan Datou raped an old vegetable seller. The uncle's leg was abruptly broken because the other person's vegetable basket accidentally bumped into him.
"Let's go, follow." Uncle Ming didn't say much. He first looked for the direction in which Wan Datou escaped. There was only one way down the mountain.
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Pingcheng, Wangyuexuan Tea House.
In the private room on the second floor, two young girls were sitting opposite each other, drinking tea and admiring the street view downstairs.
"Why did you call me here?" Zhou Lianrong looked at the person opposite and frowned in confusion. In the past, she had visited him many times in person, but this guy had always stayed behind closed doors, but today he came to her door himself.
snort! Although we only met today, don’t think about how much good looks I gave you.
"It's nothing, I just came out to relieve my boredom. You are one of my few friends after all." Xiao Ming smiled and poured a cup of tea for Zhou Lianrong eagerly.
"Have a quick taste, this is the best bitter tea." Pingcheng also produces tea, but due to the terrain, the tea produced is small in quantity and tastes bitter, so no one wants to drink it.
Tall among the short ones, this bitter tea is also high-quality.
Zhou Lianrong::......
Who wants to drink bitter tea, but he feels disgusted in his heart and sips his mouth obediently.
Oh, the bitter taste made her delicate eyebrows knit together tightly, and a trace of impatience flashed in her eyes. The reason for calling her out was to give her bitter tea. She really wanted to suspect Xiao Ming of evil intentions. If it had been ten days ago, she would have lost her temper and left.
Today I held back.
What a wonderful word, friend.
Zhou Lianrong considers herself to have a lot of close friends among her friends. If she thinks about it carefully, most of these close friends are made to please her or because she needs to make friends.
But Xiao Ming is different.
It can be regarded as a life and death friendship.
