Chapter 43: Burning the Black Shop
The fat shopkeeper smiled and replied, "There is a dark alley on West Street where there are two brokers who buy and sell people. I heard that the one with the surname Wang is a bit unreliable. He accepts anyone and dares to sell anyone.

Two households away there was a matchmaker named Lin, who usually took in children from poor families who had no food to eat.

Although the rules are a little off, the servants I bought are clean and not messy."

After listening to this, Gu Hua thanked the shopkeeper and turned to walk towards the room on the second floor. She thought that it would be the end of the year in more than a month, and if she shipped all these furs back to Jiangzhou, it would be difficult to sell them all in a short time.

Next, Gu Hua planned to pass by those prosperous cities and counties and sell part of the furs to local shops that needed them. By then, she would be very busy and it would be difficult for Xia He and Mu Xue to take care of the four children.

That's why she asked about the purchase of the person.

However, before Gu Hua went to buy someone, she was awakened by a gentle knock on the door at midnight.

After getting dressed and walking out the door, I saw the tall and strong Korler standing at the door, "Qi...Brother, please ask the head of the Gu family to come over."

Gu Hua: "Well, let's go."

Walking into the guest room reserved for Qi Yan, Gu Hua saw a beaten and bruised woman lying on the bed. He looked at Qi Yan in surprise, "What's going on?"

A hint of murderous aura flashed across Qi Yan's angular and stern face, but her tone was calm: "When we went back, she had been beaten like this by a middle-aged man full of banditry.

After the man left with his men, Korler and I sneaked in and led him out."

Gu Hua probably had guessed why this scarred and bloody woman in front of him was beaten.

If they had not been rudely driven away by her and forced to live in the inn, they would have either been drugged with the sleeping pills in the food and become fat sheep, or with so much cargo and four children, it would have been difficult for them to escape even if they found something wrong with the inn.

Gu Hua walked over and looked quietly with his dark eyes at the woman on the bed. Even after entering the bandit's lair, she still had a trace of kindness and conscience.

He turned to Korle and said, "Go call Xia He, she knows medical skills.

The medicinal materials we brought with us are quite complete, including medicine for treating external injuries, so let her bring them along as well."

Gu Hua walked out of the room and Qi Yan followed her.

The two men went downstairs and gave the night duty boy one penny of silver, asking him to boil some hot water, which they would bring up later for Xia He to use to clean the woman's wound.

Gu Hua's eyes were cold, he raised his lips, and said with a smile: "Do you still have the energy to accompany me to shut down that shady shop?"

Qi Yan: "Why not?"

Facing the wind and snow, two horses ran on the gray road.

More than an hour later, in a large, desolate workshop in the mountains, a scream of bones being crushed was heard.

"If you don't tell me the whereabouts of the group behind you, I will crush your leg bones for free. How about that?"

Gu Hua looked coldly at the waiter at Qi Yan's feet who had warmly welcomed them into the store. Don't think that she didn't notice that the woman brought back by Qi Yan and his men had signs of having been violated.

Judging from the situation at the time, the big boss was very angry at the woman for driving away their group of fat sheep, and after she was beaten so badly by him, he might not be interested in doing anything to the woman anymore.

And the woman had been violated, so it was most likely done by some of the guys here.

Gu Hua did not ask whether they were the ones who did what happened to the woman, because it had already happened and it didn't matter whether he asked or not.

Since this is a black shop opened here, it must have harmed many businessmen and tourists. Just look at how cruel the boss was in beating women. It would be a lie to say that these people have not killed anyone.

Just as Qi Yan put his foot in a black leather boot on the other leg of the waiter, preparing to give him another comminuted fracture, the waiter could not bear it anymore. He cried out in tears: "I said... I said..."

The two guys nearby, who were kicked to the ground by Gu Hua and Qi Yan and had not been able to get up for a long time, huddled in the corner trembling, wanting to stop it but not daring to make a sound.

"Our boss is from the Caoqing Gang and doesn't usually live here."

"Caoqing Gang." Qi Yan was not from Daxuan and didn't know what the Caoqing Gang was, so he looked at Gu Hua.

Gu Hua narrowed her eyes slightly. She vaguely remembered that she had heard of this gang. It seemed to be a water transport gang. How could this black shop be related to the Caoqing Gang?

Since the person is not here, it is impossible for Gu Hua and Qi Yan to go around the world looking for the boss.

No, after using some special means of interrogation, it was discovered that none of the guys were good.

Not to mention how many innocent merchants and travelers they killed for their money, even the women who fell into their hands were often killed or raped. No one had ever escaped from here intact.

Soon, the two horses galloped away in the darkness as they had come, leaving behind only a flame rising into the sky and the screams of the clerks in the black shop, which were burned to ashes in the snowy night.

.........

The next day.

When Xu Xiangling woke up, she learned from Xia He, who was helping her treat her injuries, that she had been rescued from the devil's cave that had trapped her for three years. She cried out in ecstasy.

When he saw Gu Hua coming to visit her room, he got off the bed, regardless of his injuries, and knelt in front of her, knocking his head heavily on the ground.

Gu Hua glanced at Xia He beside him.

Xia He walked over and tried to help her up, but was rejected by Xu Xiangling, who then told her about her experience.

"I am from Luzhou Prefecture. Three years ago, I followed my husband to the capital to take the imperial examination and passed by here. I planned to have a cup of tea and rest for a while before leaving.

When a classmate who had some medical skills discovered that there was something wrong with the tea served by the waiter, those people hurriedly got on the carriage and left with their families, even my husband.

And the slave who was taking her one-year-old son out to relieve herself was left there by that group of people. "

Gu Hua looked at the woman in front of him who no longer had that charming aura and had become sad, and asked, "Where is your son?"

When the woman heard Gu Hua asking about her child, she raised her hands to cover her face and cried, "That beast... was snatched away from me by those beasts... I don't know where they took it.

If they hadn't often used my slave children to blackmail me, I would have killed myself long ago. How could I be willing to be humiliated by them and work for them in that black shop?

It was you who saved me from that place where I was controlled and humiliated. I have nothing to repay you with except my own filthy body.

If my lady doesn't mind, I am willing to work like a cow or a horse for the rest of my life to repay you."

"You don't need to repay me." Gu Hua said sincerely: "Everything that happened today is because you have a guilty conscience. You saved yourself out of kindness yesterday."

It was obvious that Gu Hua had no intention of her repaying him for saving her life, and she still had a child to find, and she had not yet avenged the unfaithful man who had abandoned her and her child.

Xu Xiangling kowtowed three times to Gu Hua sincerely, "I will remember this favor. As long as I am alive, I will definitely repay you for this favor if I have the chance."

(End of this chapter)

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