#69 - Kidnapping
"What the hell?!"
"Chen Jie? The General Who Pacifies the North?"
"Shunlong Gambling House? Someone from the Wei family was arrested??"
After a stick of incense's time, Wei Changtian looked at the man reporting the news, his face full of question marks.
He could barely accept that Xiao Feng wasn't dead, but what was this about someone being arrested?
"Who was arrested?" he quickly asked.
"This lowly one doesn't know."
The man opposite him shook his head: "Master has already gone ahead, Young Master, you..."
"I'm going too!" Wei Changtian didn't hesitate.
"This lowly one will go prepare the horses."
The man glanced at Yang Liushi and turned to head down the mountain.
After he had gone a distance, Yang Liushi, who had returned to normal, smiled with a hint of schadenfreude: "Hehe, it seems Young Master's plan has failed."
"Ah, yes."
Wei Changtian sighed helplessly, then glanced askance at her: "But I really don't understand what you have to be happy about."
"Xiao Feng isn't dead, do you think he'll let you go?"
"I..."
Yang Liushi suddenly realized, and the smile on her face froze.
However, Wei Changtian didn't have time to mock her at this moment, and said while walking down the mountain: "Quickly go back to Phoenix栖Pavilion and pack your things, tomorrow go to Chun Shen Bookstore to find someone named Li Yang."
"You hide with him for a while, then I'll tell you what to do."
"Young Master, I believe you too."
...
...
Shidao Lane, Shunlong Gambling House.
The sweltering air was mixed with the smell of sweat and copper coins, and several long tables were covered with scattered silver.
Although there were no sexy bunny girls and free wine and cigarettes like in the casinos of his previous life, the small dice alone were enough to drive every gambler crazy.
"Big, big, big, small, small, small..."
"God bless me, I must win! This is the money for me to marry a wife..."
"Young Master Zhang, this land deed can be mortgaged for three hundred taels..."
"Yo, Manager Liu has even brought his wife's jewelry..."
The chaotic sounds echoed throughout the room, and unless two people were talking face to face, it was difficult to hear what the other was saying.
However, when these noises passed through several wooden doors and finally entered a secret room, they became almost inaudible.
"Boss, the identities of these women seem to be very unusual..."
In the small room, a scarred man's expression was somewhat apprehensive.
And the people whose hands and feet were tied opposite him were Lu Jingyao, Qiuyun, Wei Qiaoling, and a dead black dog.
"What do you care about their identities!"
The bandit leader spat on the ground, and said disdainfully: "We only care about taking money and doing things, and when we get the money we'll just fly away, even if they are relatives of the imperial family, what can they do to us?"
"Boss is right!"
The scarred face immediately felt relieved, and his eyes looking at Lu Jingyao also had some lustful intent.
But before he could say anything, he was slapped hard on the head.
"Old Third, don't be such a lecher!"
"Boss, but this woman is really beautiful!"
"Can being beautiful be worth our lives? Let's wait for Old Second to come back before we talk!"
"Oh..."
The scarred face didn't dare to act presumptuously, and leaned against the wall to doze off out of boredom.
In the secret room that had become quiet again, Lu Jingyao and Qiuyun, whose mouths were stuffed, looked at each other, their eyes filled with fear.
They were suddenly intercepted on the way back to the Wei residence from Chun Shen Bookstore.
Since the opening of Chun Shen Bookstore, Lu Jingyao had finally found a way to help Wei Changtian share his worries, so she went to the bookstore almost every day to help, sometimes returning even later than Wei Changtian.
Today was the same, the two women went to the bookstore after lunch, and only set off to return to the mansion at night.
The only difference from usual may be that they couldn't resist Wei Qiaoling's entreaties, and brought this little aunt along for the first time.
But who knew...
The two women turned their heads to look at Wei Qiaoling, only to see the little girl motionless, her big eyes staring straight at the big black dog that was casually thrown in the corner, and the light in her eyes was gone.
When they were kidnapped, Da Gui was kicked to death by the scarred man with a casual kick in order to save them...
It was just an ordinary dog,
Although Da Gui didn't fulfill Wei Qiaoling's eager expectations of it until the end—to suddenly become a god like the Monkey King.
But it also fulfilled all the responsibilities of a dog—to die before its master.
Lu Jingyao and Qiuyun didn't know how uncomfortable Wei Qiaoling was now, and they didn't know what fate awaited them.
Was it to die in this small room like Da Gui? Or, something more terrible...
"Creak~"
The door of the secret room was suddenly slowly pushed open, and several bandits raised their knives vigilantly, but quickly relaxed.
"Old Second! How was it? Did you see the employer?"
"Yeah, damn him."
The man who came in closed the door behind him, muttering: "Boss! We've been tricked! These three women are from the Wei family!"
"The Wei family, which Wei family?"
"The Wei family of the Suspending Mirror Division!"
"What?!"
A group of burly men stood up instantly, their faces full of horror.
Although they had just said "We're not afraid of even the imperial family" just now, that was just to embolden themselves.
The more desperate people are, the more they know who they can't mess with.
A burst of curses suddenly sounded in the room, only the bandit leader was still calm, thought for a while, and then shouted:
"Shut up!"
"Old Second, where did you get this news from? The employer said it?"
"How could he tell the truth."
The man with a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks curled his lips: "The outside is now full of people from the Wei family, all looking for these three women."
"Then did they settle the remaining money?"
"They did, and they gave an extra thousand taels."
"Did they say how to deal with them?"
"Kill the two big ones, and let the little one go."
"Okay..."
After asking the question, the bandit leader was silent for a while, and then said in a deep voice:
"Brothers, the deed is done! Now, even if we let them go, the Wei family will never spare us!"
"In that case, it's better to do things according to the rules!"
"What do you think?"
"..."
The secret room was quiet for a few seconds, and then a chorus of agreement sounded.
"Okay! Everyone agrees with Boss!"
"What can the Suspending Mirror Division do if we leave the capital?"
"Boss is right!"
"Hurry up and do it!"
"..."
Everyone knew that the more they delayed, the more dangerous it would be, and even the scarred face couldn't care about coveting Lu Jingyao's body, and kept shouting to kill people quickly.
"Okay!"
The bandit leader didn't hesitate, and immediately got up and walked to Lu Jingyao, preparing to start with her first.
"Girl, you've heard what we just said."
"Taking people's money to eliminate disasters... I'm sorry!"
After he said these two sentences, he raised his fist high and punched Lu Jingyao's abdomen without mercy.
There was a rule in this business—the ticket must be torn with one punch.
This was to minimize the pain of the hostage while keeping a complete body.
It was clearly a business of killing people and plundering goods, but there were such rules... it really made people not know what to say.
"Bang!!"
In the blink of an eye, a punch with unparalleled ferocity landed as scheduled.
After a huge muffled sound, the woman's delicate body slowly collapsed.
But the one who fell was not Lu Jingyao, but...
"Ugh! Ugh ugh!!"
Lu Jingyao struggled frantically, staring wide-eyed in disbelief at Qiuyun who had fallen into her arms, and tears instantly filled her eyes.
But Qiuyun could no longer respond, blood had stained all the white cloth stuffed in her mouth red, and then continued to flow down along the corner of the cloth, until it soaked her clothes.
"Why did you have to block it for her."
On the other side, the bandit leader was only slightly stunned, and then raised his fist again.
"It's just making her later..."
"Bang! Crash!!"
Before he could finish his sentence, the wooden door of the secret room suddenly exploded with a loud noise, and then shattered.
The bandit leader wanted to turn his head back to look in horror.
But before he could see who was coming, his head burst into a cloud of blood mist like a punctured balloon.
