A knife in love

Chapter 1481

Li Kuijiu said: "The leader of those four people is named Liu Sheng Yilu. He has a lot of friendship with the villain. He just chatted with the villain casually and didn't say anything important."

Li Qiufeng said: "Didn't that guy ask where all your dozen or so companions have gone?"

Li Kuijiu shook his head, and said: "The old master and Master Liu Shengdan Ma Shou have set the rules for us. When we go out to do business, we can only report to the leader, and the rest are not allowed to inquire. Anyone who violates the law will be killed without mercy. Liu Sheng Yilu can be regarded as a close descendant of the Liusheng family, but he absolutely dare not violate the rules set by the old master, otherwise his end will be very miserable."

Li Qiufeng saw Li Kuijiu's cautious appearance, he didn't seem to be lying, so he didn't ask any more questions.They walked all the way to the north, and after about a mile or so, Zhang Shi quickly walked up to Li Qiufeng, and said, "Brother Zhu, don't you think it's a bit strange?"

Li Qiufeng was taken aback, and said, "What advice does Mr. Zhang have?"

While looking around, Zhang Shi said to Li Qiufeng: "It has been a while since we arrived in Dongliao County. Although this is a despicable place outside the customs, the city is still lively, and the streets are full of people. , but there are people coming and going. But why is there no one on the street right now?"

When Zhang Shi said this, he spread his hands and his face was full of surprise.Li Qiufeng's heart trembled, and he looked forward, backward, left, and right, only to realize that it was indeed as Zhang Shi said, except for his own group, there was not even a single person in the front, rear, left, left, right.The entire street was empty, and the shops on both sides of the street were also closed. It seemed that the people in the entire county had disappeared.

Since leaving the Yamen, Li Qiufeng has been keeping a close eye on Li Kuijiu, for fear that he has other plans.While concentrating on it, he didn't pay attention to the situation on the street.At this time, after Zhang Shi reminded him, he also noticed that the situation was different. He stopped immediately and shouted to Li Kuijiu: "What's going on? Are you hiding something from us?!"

At this moment, Li Zhisheng, Master Pan and the others also noticed that the situation was different, and when they were in astonishment, they all trembled when they heard Li Qiufeng pressuring Li Kuijiu.Owner Ma said with a sneer: "All of you said that this vicious Fusang dog can't make troubles, but look at the bare street in front of you, isn't the matter already clear?! This bastard has just revealed his words to his accomplices. After the Fusang people heard the news that we had escaped from the dungeon, they drove all the people on the street back to their homes, and they lay in ambush on both sides of the street, just waiting for us to fall into the trap."

Zhuangzhu Ma said this, turned his head to look at Dongshou, and said in his mouth: "Since the Fusang people know that we are going to the north of the city, they will ambush heavy troops on both sides of the main street going to the north of the city, and the guards in other places must be empty. In my opinion, we might as well turn to the east, go out of the city from the east gate, and take refuge in my Majiazhuang. Even if there are a few Fusang people's eyeliners in Majiazhuang, I have a way to find them one by one!"

Everyone listened to Ma Zhuangzhu's words, and felt that it was quite reasonable, but they wanted to change their original plan, and everyone was a little bit surprised, so they couldn't help but look at Li Qiufeng.At this time, Li Qiufeng was also a little undecided. Seeing everyone looking at him, he couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.It's just that when he was about to speak, he heard Li Kuijiu say: "Masters may be mistaken. When the villain went to Dongsheng Inn to ask Uncle Xiao to go out, there was no one on the street."

When he said this, he glanced at Xiao Dong, Zhang Shi and others, and then said: "Uncle Xiao, you might as well think about it, when the villain offended Hu Wei in the morning and invited everyone from the Dongsheng Inn to the magistrate's yamen, whether there were people on the street Is there anyone?"

Xiao Dong, Zhang Shi, Shopkeeper Hu and others looked at each other in blank dismay, recalling what happened in the morning.Shopkeeper Hu, Shopkeeper Luo and others were so frightened that they didn't pay attention to the situation on the street at all.But Xiao Dong, Zhang Shi, and Qin Laowu fell into the enemy's hands, although they were terrified, they did not mess up their position.Thinking about it carefully at this time, at that time, there were no other people on the street except Li Kuijiu and a dozen Fusang warriors escorting his party.I'm afraid that this matter really wronged Li Kuijiu. It's not because he was playing tricks, but because of other reasons.

Thinking of this, Xiao Dong nodded, and said in his mouth: "He is right. We walked from Dongsheng Inn to the magistrate's yamen in the morning, and we did not see any pedestrians along the way. It's just that there were few people going out in the morning. I don't think it's weird. Thinking about it now, I'm afraid there's something else wrong with this matter."

Zhang Shi and Qin Laowu also echoed, saying that they saw no one on the road in the morning.Seeing this situation for a long time, Li Kuijiu breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Before the villain came out to do business this time, I heard people say that the old master and Master Liu Shengdan and Ma Shou made a plan to build a building on Motianling as soon as possible." Build the city to stop the government troops going south. The situation is urgent now, and there are not enough manpower to build the city. We must gather all the men in the city and drive them to Motianling to help us build the city as soon as possible. The villain heard The old master has already installed our people in the yamen. From today onwards, in the name of the yamen, we will drive all the men in the city to build a city on Motianling. Looking at the situation in front of us, maybe the men in the city were killed After the confiscation, the old and weak women and children who stayed at home did not dare to go out, so there were no people on the street."

Li Qiufeng heard that what Li Kuijiu said was quite reasonable, and he believed it seventy percent of the time.Xiao Dong, Zhang Shi, Qin Lao Wu and others also nodded.Owner Ma was dissatisfied and yelled, "Damn it, would you rather believe in a vicious Fusang dog than me?"

Since leaving the magistrate's office, Yu Yuanwai has been silent.At this time, he said, "It's not difficult to find out if this is true or not. If all the men in the city were driven to build a city on Motianling, there must be wives and children in their homes. We just need to call out a few households at random. People, check to see if there is anyone in the house, and you will know if this Fusang man is deceiving us."

After Yu Yuanwai finished speaking, the owner of Ma Zhuang slapped his thigh and said, "Damn it, you are still smarter than you!"

After he finished speaking, without waiting for orders from Xiao Dong and Li Zhisheng, he strode to the door of a silver jewelry shop on the left, and pushed the door open with his hand.It's just that after a push, the door didn't open, and it was obviously locked by someone inside.Ma Zhuangzi punched hard on the door a few times, and said loudly, "Is there anyone in the room who can breathe? If someone is there, open the door quickly. Otherwise, I will kick the door over and knock it over, and everyone's faces will be ugly!"

After Ma Zhuangzhu finished speaking, after a while, there was only a "squeak", and the door of the house was opened inward by someone.Immediately afterwards, a white-haired old woman poked her head out from the house tremblingly, and said in a trembling voice, "You, who are you looking for?"

The owner of Ma Zhuang said aggressively: "Where are all the men in your family?!"

The old woman saw that the owner of Ma Zhuang had a fierce face, and there were more than a dozen people standing not far behind, two of whom were still covering their faces, the situation was quite strange.She was afraid in her heart and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, their father and son were found by the yamen early in the morning, and I was the only one left to look after the house. If you want to buy silver jewelry, you have to wait for their father and son to come back."

(End of this chapter)