I, seal everything

Chapter 187 284~285 Bo Yun is treacherous and vicious

After a moment.

A group of three people in casual clothes came to the so-called Yulin Street.

Yulin Street is located in the bustling area of ​​the inner city, not too far from Wu City.

As Deshantang was famous during this period, Chen Zheng found out its specific address after casually inquiring about it.

There were people coming and going on the street, and at the end of this market, a hall door was wide open, and there was a large open space in front of the door.

In the open space, a few teenagers with disheveled faces were working together, either cleaning, starching and drying clothes, or weaving bamboo baskets, all in full swing;
In addition, there were also grown-up guys who yelled out bags of grain from the main room, then pushed them onto carts, and sent them to unknown destinations.

Seeing Chen Zheng showing suspicion, Chang Qing explained:

"My lord, it is said that Deshantang distributes porridge to various places in the outer city every day. These grains should be used for porridge."

Chen Zheng nodded, and after observing for a while:

"Go around and ask around. This philanthropic hall has been here for more than two months, and these neighbors in the surrounding area should have a lot of contact. Go find them and find out about the situation."

"Yes!"

Changqing, Chai and Tiefeng didn't say a word, they split up along the street to look for targets, and began to inquire.

Chen Zheng was not idle either, he walked for a while, came to a stall selling sugar cakes on the street, bought a sugar cake, and chatted along the way.

"My lord, are you asking Deshantang?"

The vendor was a rather talkative old man, and after Chen Zheng's inquiry, he immediately opened up the chatterbox:

"Hey, if you want to talk about this Deshantang, it's amazing. The owner of Baiyulou is really a kind person with a bodhisattva heart. The kindness hall he opened has porridge in the outer city once a day, but he has survived the lives of many beggars." .

You also know that in this world, rich men only want to scrape money from poor ghosts, so it is as rare as living Buddhas to give out food for relief in a serious way."

Under the old man's chatter, Chen Zheng soon had a general understanding of this Deshantang, and couldn't help asking:

"Who is the boss of Baiyulou?"

The old man smiled and said:

"The boss of Baiyulou has been here several times, and the old man was lucky enough to meet him once. The boss is a woman with a beautiful appearance, and she can be called a woman, and I don't know whose ancestral grave can emit green smoke, and can be compared with this kind of person. The strange woman married."

woman
Ji Xunyi also mentioned this information, and Chen Zheng asked a few more questions, but what the other party knew was general, and there was no special information.

After a while, Chang Qing and others went back and forth, and Chen Zheng stepped aside and listened to the reports of the two:
"My lord, this Deshantang is indeed opened by the boss of Baiyulou."

"The owner of Baiyulou is called Bai Ruyan. He has been operating Baiyulou in the north of the city for several years. In the past two months, this Deshantang has spent hundreds of catties of grain every day to distribute porridge in different places in the outer city. Bai Ruyan Yan also often comes out to give relief in person, and now it seems to be at the shed in the west of the city."

"Furthermore, it is said that a few clever beggars and refugees will be left behind to work in charity halls, so now in the slums of the outer city, this Bai Ruyan has become a Bodhisattva-like existence."

It sounds like there is no problem, Chen Zheng frowned slightly, and then saw a few teenagers at the entrance of the Shantang not far away, finishing their work and starting to follow and fight, and said immediately:
"The ones at the door should be the helpers that Deshantang recruited from the beggars and refugees? Go and call two of them and ask about the situation."

Although Chang Qing didn't know why, he followed suit, stepped forward quickly, and waved to the two big and small guys who rushed to the street to follow:

"Little devil, are you from Deshantang?"

When the two teenagers saw a stranger asking questions, they were taken aback for a moment, and nodded with vigilance and vigilance on their faces.

Chang Qing pretended to be kind, and took out a few copper bahts from his bosom:
"Come here, I have something to ask you, if you answer well, I will buy meat for you with this money."

Even if they work in Shantang, eating meat is a luxury. The eyes of the two teenagers who were only twelve or thirteen years old brightened and said hesitantly:
"What does the master want to ask?"

Chang Qing gestured, and led the sweeping boy to Chen Zheng at the corner of the street: "Brother Chen, boss, you can ask."

The clothes of the two teenagers were barely neat, they were covered with patches, and there were still many unhealed chilblains on their hands. Looking at themselves and the others timidly, Chen Zhengping asked calmly:
"What's your name?"

Maybe it was the temptation to eat meat, the two teenagers boldly said:
"My name is Tiger."

"My name is Gouwa."

"Are you the newly recruited helpers of Deshantang?"

"Yes, Sister Bai is a very kind person. After my mother left, I could only beg on the street. Last month, when Sister Bai was giving out porridge, she saw that I was pitiful, so she brought me here. "

"Who is Sister Bai?"

"Eh, Sister Bai is Sister Bai, she seems to be the owner of all the good halls."

"Do you know how many helpers like you are recruited in this charity hall?"

Huzi obviously had never learned arithmetic, so he pinched his fingers and counted for a long time before saying, "Maybe there are thirty or forty?"

But Gou Wa said: "It's not just forty, there may be sixty or seventy in total."

"so much?"

Chen Zheng frowned:
"They're all the same as you, were you a beggar before?"

Huzi scratched his head:
"It's about the same. There are a few adults. Anyway, there are beggars in every block. I know a few of them. Master, why are you asking these?"

"A boy my friend knew was also recruited to the shantang, but he disappeared inexplicably when he was off work, so I came to help find out."

Ji Xunyi had already told the name and even the physical characteristics of the missing beggar, and Chen Zheng said:
"There is one named Ah Lai, who is neither tall nor short, with a missing front tooth and a piece of scalp missing here, do you two know each other?"

Gouwa immediately said:
"I know, I know, I know him, and I've spoken to him a few times!"

"But since a few days ago, I haven't seen him again, and I don't know what's going on."

Chen Zheng narrowed his eyes:

"Such a situation where someone suddenly stops coming, is there still in the shantang?"

The two teenagers looked at each other, uncertain:
"Like, no."

Those who grow up to such a big size by begging on the streets are often very quick-witted and precocious. They felt something was wrong from Chen Zheng's questioning, and they were suddenly worried.

The knowledge of the two teenagers was really limited. Chen Zheng made a gesture and asked Chang Qing to hand over the few copper bahts to the two, and he gave some silver bahts, and then instructed:
"You guys keep the money yourself. Just pretend that what I asked you just now didn't happen. Don't reveal it to anyone after you return to Shantang, understand?"

Got so much money at once.The two teenagers were both surprised and terrified:

"Thank you sir, thank you sir."

"We will never speak out!"

After collecting the money, the two ran away in a hurry and returned to the shantang.

Chang Qing could hear it now:

"My lord, do you suspect that there is something tricky in this shantang?"

"Whether it's tricky or not, we still need to check."

Chen Zheng pondered for a moment:
"You said, that Bai Ruyan might be serving porridge outside today?"

Chai Tiefeng nodded:

"I heard it is, do you want to see it, sir?"

"of course."

Chen Zheng's eyes sparkled:

"Always check to see if this person is a human or a ghost"

Nothing else.

After setting the itinerary, Chang Qing and the two immediately inquired about it, and then went straight to the Shed Street in the west of the city.

The so-called huts are actually slums in the outer city.

The roads here are dilapidated, the sewage flows across the river, and there are yellow and emaciated people everywhere, even beggars and refugees, and there are even occasional emaciated corpses on the side of the road.

Lingqiu County has a population of nearly one million, and only a small part of them can afford food and clothing. A large number of poor people in the outer city have no land to farm. .

In such a situation, one cannot even fill one's belly, let alone read, write, and practice martial arts to change one's destiny.

The inner city and the outer city are completely two worlds.

And when Chen Zheng and the three of them inquired all the way and found the place where Deshantang gave out porridge, it was already crowded with people and nothing could get through.

The porridge stand is located in a simple open space, and a simple porridge shed has been set up, surrounded by hundreds of poor people and even beggars, waving the broken bowls in their hands excitedly.

The din was loud, and there were a few powerful men maintaining order in front of the porridge shop. In the shop, there was a woman in white, who was directing and serving bowls of porridge to the people in line.

Every commoner who received the porridge was thankful and grateful.

Even though there was a distance of more than ten feet, Chen Zheng could tell that the woman was about thirty years old and quite beautiful, so he frowned immediately:
"That is the boss of Baiyulou, Bai Ruyan?"

Chang Qing and Chai Tiefeng haven't seen each other before, so they are not sure:
"probably?"

"So young, it seems that he still has martial arts."

After the crowd, Chen Zheng stared:
"In this world, it is impossible for an ordinary woman to run such a large restaurant without being coveted. It is only natural that she has some skills. The key is whether she has any other background."

Chang Qing said very knowingly: "My lord, give us two days, and we will definitely find out the details of this person!"

Chen Zheng nodded:

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. Besides, check for me how many people have been recruited into the shantang, and whether any of these people have disappeared for no reason, but remember not to startle them."

Chang Qing and the two immediately agreed in unison:

"Yes!"

It was night in a blink of an eye.

Silent night.

There are several Datong shops in the shantang, and most of the homeless beggars called to help sleep here.

Amidst the snoring, in a room full of nearly a dozen people, Huzi and Gouwa were lying in a corner, one was fast asleep, and the other was tossing and turning.

Seeming to have finally made up his mind, Gou Wa, who had been rolling and not falling asleep, suddenly opened his eyes, and then nudged Hu Zi beside him.

After shaking for a while, Huzi woke up. Gouwa immediately made a silent gesture, then tiptoely put on his clothes and jumped out of bed.

Huzi thought that Gouwa woke him up to pee together, so he could only grumble a few words reluctantly, then put on his clothes and left the house, heading towards the hut.

The night wind in early spring was still chilly, and the tiger who came out was shocked and complained:

"Goofy, you are usually so courageous, you have to call me to pee in a hurry?"

"Be quiet!"

However, Gouwa was different from before, covering Huzi's mouth very nervously, and at the same time took out a small package from nowhere and put it on his back:

"Don't talk nonsense, I've packed all your things for you, let's get out of here tonight!"

"what!?"

Huzi was taken aback:
"Are you crazy? You stay here well, there is work to do, there is food to eat, and maybe you can get the appreciation of Sister Bai and Uncle Hai, and practice martial arts. Why are you leaving? Just because of the three people of unknown origin in the morning. Questions from people?"

Gouwa showed a look of uneasiness on his immature but weather-beaten face:
"That's right. Those three people are obviously masters from the government, can't you see it?

I came over a month earlier than you, and I saw a lot of helpers coming and going.I thought about it carefully, and there are quite a few beggars like us who seem to have never appeared again recently.

Uncle Hai said before that they went to the restaurant to help, and I didn't care, but I went to the restaurant secretly to check this evening, and there were no such people at all!You said, where did they go? "

Huzi is also smart, with panic on his face:
"Could it be that this kind hall is actually a den for human teeth?"

"I don't know, but I always feel that it is dangerous to continue to stay."

Gouwa anxiously said:

"Okay, now is not the time to talk nonsense, let's leave here first!"

Huzi nodded in panic, and the two half-grown teenagers looked around silently, then ran out of the big house and went straight to the gate.

At this time, a low voice suddenly sounded: "You two, where are you going?"

A tall shadow appeared on their only way like a ghost, looking at them with indifferent eyes.

"Hai, Uncle Hai."

Facing the sudden appearance of the figure, the faces of the two teenagers turned pale, and Huwa was quick to wit, saying:

"Actually, it's nothing, it's just that the two of us can't fall asleep, so we want to come out and look at the moon!"

The weird man called Uncle Hai sneered:
"You are so courageous that you dare to lie in front of me?"

Before the words fell, there was a whoop!
He made a sudden move, grabbed the necks of the two teenagers with the momentum of thunder, and pinched them unconscious.

At this time, two men rushed over after hearing the news, and asked in surprise, "My lord?"

"These two little things don't know what they found, but they want to run away."

Xue Ruhai, the protector of the Blood Soul Dao, said lightly:

"Notify Bailong and ask her to come to the backyard immediately."

Afterwards, he carried the two teenagers to the backyard where no one else was allowed to enter at will, and then through the secret passage in the woodshed, he came to an underground secret room.

After a while, the white dragon hurried over, saw the two tied teenagers at the first moment, frowned and said, "Guardian Xue, what's going on?"

"These two boys seem to have discovered something and want to escape."

Xue Ruhai licked his lips, showing a vicious smile:

"Tell me, did you cut them alive, or use this shriveled flesh and blood to make alchemy now?"

(End of this chapter)