Chapter 1604 Master Jiao

The flame of the burning torch swayed slightly, causing the shadow to twist.

"Was there a gust of wind just now?"

The guard holding the whistle looked at the torch and turned to ask his companion.

"What kind of wind is that? Are you dazzled?"

The other man said indifferently:

"Even if there is wind, it is blowing from inside. It is completely airtight. We brothers will suffocate to death."

Thinking about it, the man stopped talking and turned to continue watching the door.

And almost the moment he turned his head, a figure rushed towards him.

It was so fast that he didn't even have the chance to open his mouth to scream. Then he felt a pain in his neck and lost consciousness.

"Be gentle, don't beat him to death."

Qin Yan dragged another guard and slowly put him in the corner, lowering her voice and saying:

"Put him down gently, there might be someone else inside."

Qin Yan knocked the man down with acupuncture, and Yang Yiyi did the same. The difference was that Yang Yiyi had learned the Piercing Cloud Finger, so it was hard to say whether it was a finger that knocked the man unconscious, or the acupuncture that took effect...

Putting the guard quietly against the wall, Qin Yan took out the key from them and opened the iron gate behind him.

The entrance to the secret passage was a large vat. After taking out the debris in the vat, you could see a movable door panel under the vat. Following the door panel, there was a long passage going underground.

This should be a natural cave, which was later processed by someone.

Going through this door and continuing inside, the space was slightly wider. It should be a cave flushed out by water. The two could hear the sound of underground water flowing.

Looking up, the sun can be seen faintly above the head. There are some holes in the cave ceiling, but the holes are covered by vegetation. If you look from the outside, it is really difficult to find a cave below.

The torch on the wall is about to go out. The light is not clear, but it is more convenient for them to sneak in quietly.

Relying on the shadow, the two people moved close to the edge of the cave, and soon found that two more guards appeared in front.

The gatekeeper stood under the torch, which seemed safe at first glance, but in fact, the guards could not see what was in the darkness of the torch, but hiding in the shadow, the guards could see it very clearly.

Qin Yan commented that the professionalism was completely unsatisfactory.

The two people slowly approached, and when they felt that they were about to be discovered, they suddenly jumped up, one by one, and knocked down the guard again.

Use the guard's key to open another door, and there is a round stone chamber behind it.

This place should have been a secret warehouse for the Haishi Gang to store food and supplies. There are still many boxes and shriveled sacks on the ground.

But now, it seems to be used as a prison cell.

At the end of the stone room, there were several large iron doors that looked particularly solid. The two of them slowly approached and leaned over to the windows on the iron doors to check.

Excluding the two or three empty ones, they soon saw a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties behind the fourth door on the left.

With the only oil lamp in the room, they could see that this man seemed to have a good life. His clothes were not like those of ordinary people, and he was also white and fat. At first glance, he was the kind of person who lived a life of luxury.

He was sitting on a simple straw bed at this time, and seemed to be sighing.

This seemed very similar to the father described by Miss Jiao, so Qin Yan gently knocked on the fence on the window.

Hearing the sound, the man immediately stood up alertly, and when he turned around, he happened to look into Qin Yan's eyes.

"Are you Master Jiao?"

"It's me, the heroine is...?"

"I am Qin Yan from the Sixteenth Village, and I am here to find you at the request of Miss Jiao."

Upon hearing this, Master Jiao hurried to the door and saw that besides Qin Yan, there was only Yang Yiyi.

"You two ladies are taking risks. It's not easy to break into the Haishi Gang."

"Normally, we can get in easily."

Master Jiao immediately remembered that Qin Yan claimed to be from the Sixteenth Village. It was not difficult for this gang of thieves who came and went without a trace.

"Wait a minute, I'll find a way to unlock it."

Qin Yan lowered her head to study the lock on the door, pulled out the hairpin on her head and pushed it into the keyhole. The key to this thing was not on the guard.

Yang Yiyi asked:

"I heard from Miss Jiao that you have a good relationship with the Haishi Gang. How could you be detained?"

"Alas, I thought that the Haishi Gang was still under the leadership of Gang Leader Yang. He is a reasonable person. I thought that I could return my things to him by talking to him. I didn't expect to be deceived. I drank two cups of tea with drugs, and I was here when I woke up."

This Master Jiao had a good relationship with Gang Leader Yang of the Haishi Gang, not with the Haishi Gang. It just happened that someone under Gang Leader Yang usurped the throne, and he was caught when he came to the door.

"We heard that someone seems to have paid to detain you. Master Jiao, can you think of who it is?"

"Is this true?"

Master Jiao was also puzzled when he heard it:

"Although I can't say that I have a good reputation, I have never made enemies in my life. I really don't know who wants to harm me."

If it is not Master Jiao's enemy, then there is only one possibility that is most reliable.

Northland.

This Master Jiao's business should be very big, so big that even Tangfeng Company came to discuss medicinal materials. As long as he is eliminated, the business will naturally be in chaos for a while, delaying the supply of Central Plains to the Northland front.

This guess should be the most reliable, but the Haishi Gang does not want to cause big trouble. It is a case of taking money but not completely doing the job.

Whether it is true or not can be thought about later, let's find a way to get the person out first.

"Have the two ladies seen my family's carriage in the village?"

"Yes, it is in the yard outside."

Hearing this, Master Jiao said anxiously:

"There is a leather-wrapped white jade box on the carriage. Has the lady seen it?"

"This... we didn't notice it."

Master Jiao said anxiously:

"The jade box contains the golden dragon scales that I found in the Central Plains. My wife has been ill for a long time and relies on this thing to save her life. We must not lose it."

This golden dragon scale is not the scale of a golden dragon in the literal sense, but a special kind of Ganoderma lucidum.

This kind of Ganoderma lucidum is shaped like scales, with golden color all over the body. It absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon. It is said that it takes 500 years to mature. It is a magical medicine that only exists in books and very few people have seen.

If an ordinary person eats a bite, all the diseases will disappear. If a dying person eats a bite, his life will be extended by ten years. If a martial artist takes it and refines it with internal force, his skills will be greatly increased.

This thing has never been seen by the emperor. It is rarer than the Sky-supporting Stone. In order to find it, Master Jiao can be said to have exhausted all his connections and traveled all over the ten countries in the Central Plains before he found it in the hands of a drug dealer who didn't know the goods.

Mr. Jiao certainly couldn't tell anyone how precious this thing was. He only said that this Ganoderma lucidum looked strange, so he ordered a batch of goods from the drug dealer and added the Golden Dragon Scale to it.

It was supposed to arrive home a few days ago, but it was robbed by the Haishi Gang on the way.

Mr. Jiao was waiting for this thing to save his wife's life, so he was of course crazy when he heard about this.

So he is now locked up here.

"Don't worry, Mr. Jiao. When we came in, we saw that the goods in the carriage were still intact. The people in the Haishi Gang didn't know the goods, so they might not have touched them at all. Let's talk about it after we get out."

Not to mention knowing the Golden Dragon Scale, even the number of people who know that this thing exists is very small. If the thing is placed on the carriage, it should not be lost.

Yang Yiyi comforted Mr. Jiao and lowered her head to ask Qin Yan:

"Haven't you opened it yet?"

"This lock is not ordinary."

Qin Yan's nose was sweating. It stands to reason that there is almost no lock that she can't open, but this lock is unusually strong.

"Lady, you don't know that this lock was made by skilled craftsmen in the imperial court 20 years ago, and then somehow it fell into the hands of the Haishi Gang. Gang Leader Yang once showed it off to me."

In other words, this is not an ordinary lock, so it's normal that you can't open it.