Qin Official

"The house is right ahead."

When Pavilion Chief Heifu used his body as bait to hold back Li Zheng and Tian Dian, he was looking for people to talk to and chatted with, Ji Ying and Li Xian. Then he was ordered to patrol inside.

The patrol was fake, they actually wanted to take "Ju" to see the suspicious place Ji Ying found when he last came to blind mountain to deliver a letter...

Before entering Blind Mountain, Ji Ying told everyone about the strange thing he encountered.

"Didn't I come here in January to deliver a letter from Tian Zuoli? After eating, I was looking for a place to go to the toilet. As a result, I got lost in the middle. As I was walking, I passed by a ruined place in the north. Beside the hut..."

Ji Ying said that the house was really tight, with only a small window opening to the outside. The window was gray, and there seemed to be thin iron bars inside, just like a prison where suspects were held in a pavilion. He heard outside After his movement, there was a rustling sound in the house...

Ji Ying was a curious person, so he moved his face to take a look. Because it was bright outside and dark inside, it was very hard for him to look.

At this moment, a disheveled man rushed towards the window from the dark room! He jumped back in fright!

"The person with disheveled hair seemed to be a woman. When she saw me, she slapped her with her hands so hard that the wooden bars of the windows were shaking. She also said, 'Help me, help me.' Her voice was a little hoarse and I couldn't hear clearly. What did you say."

"I was so frightened that I stepped back. At this time, someone came to find me and asked me to follow and stop running around. Another person walked to that house and said something loudly in Benli dialect, and people immediately jumped inside the window. There was no movement..."

Afterwards, the people there also explained to Ji Ying that the concubine locked up there was someone's concubine who had gone crazy and had to be locked up, otherwise she would go around biting people like a mad dog and just tell him to ignore her.

Ji Ying was not suspicious at the time, but when the end point of the robbery and sale case pointed to Blind Mountain, he suddenly remembered it.

"Maybe the person locked inside is Ju's daughter!" The incident mentioned by Ji Ying was almost the only clue Heifu and the others had.

However, although Heifu had dragged out the Li Li and most of the people in the Li Zhong, Li Zheng was still worried and sent someone to follow Ji Ying and others. Just halfway through, Ji Ying held his stomach and said he had abdominal pain, and asked the man to take him to Hunxuan quickly. The man had no choice but to tell Li Xian and Ju to stand where they were and not move.

How could the two of them not move? As soon as the person watching them took off, the two of them hurried to the north. Ji Ying told them that the house last time was a single family, close to the inner wall, and there was a crooked jujube tree in front of the door, making it easy to find.

Not long after, they found the family Ji Ying mentioned. This family lived alone, a little far away from other neighbors. There was a crooked jujube tree planted in front of the door, and the yard was only surrounded by a simple fence and cow dung. The walls of the house are dark, and the roof is a simple thatch. At first glance, it looks like a poor family.

The hut Ji Ying was talking about was located next to the jujube tree.

Ju rushed forward anxiously, lying down at the window where Ji Ying had seen someone before, calling in a low voice...

"Yuanyuan? Yuanyuan?"

However, he shouted many times, but there was no movement inside.

Li Xian was afraid that his shouting would get louder and attract others, so he quickly pulled Ju back. He stood on tiptoes and looked into the house. After scanning around, he said, "There is no one inside."

"No one!?" Ju was extremely disappointed and stamped his feet on the spot: "Could it be that we made a mistake?"

"That's right, it's this family."

At this time, Ji Ying was also trotting over. He didn't know what method he used to get rid of the people who were watching them.

He also looked at the window and said that this was really strange. The last time he came, there were obviously people there.

"Could it have been moved away? Although this place is not big, there are more than twenty households. Do we have to look for them one by one?"

This is what Li Xian is worried about. If it is okay for that person to be inside, he is afraid that someone will see those suspicious women one after another, which will arouse the vigilance in Blind Mountain and move the women to the mountains and forests outside.

Li Xian asked Ju to calm down, and he started to wander around the house, but saw that the door was closed and there was no one in the yard, so the owner must not be at home.

There didn't seem to be anything suspicious in the yard. He waited until he had circled most of the way to the backyard before he suddenly stopped!

There was a pig pen in the backyard, which was surrounded by a wooden fence. It looked very small. Before Li Xian could even get to it, he could smell the strong odor inside, which made him very uncomfortable.

When he walked to the edge, he was stunned to find that the pigsty was empty, and the person sleeping next to the trough containing some water was not a pig, but a person!

A woman with disheveled hair and half-clothed body!

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"That's her! It was definitely her I saw last time!"

At this time, Ji Ying also came over and shouted immediately.

Ju also heard the sound and came over. He saw the woman curled up in a ball in the mud and straw in the pig pen. She seemed to be somewhat similar to his daughter. He immediately screamed in pain and was about to turn over to the yard.

Li Xian still hesitated: "Wait a minute, it is against the law to break into a house without the owner's permission."

Ji Ying said, "We are ordered to handle the case and we don't need to be punished!"

"What if this woman wasn't robbed and sold?"

"What time has it been? Do you still care about that?"

Ji Ying didn't care, he immediately jumped in, followed closely by Ju.

At this time, flies suddenly flew up from the body of the woman sleeping in the pigsty, and she was awakened. The woman was stunned for a moment, thinking it was a dream, but when she saw two strangers had already started to climb over the fence of the pigsty, She just started to scream.

Ji Ying arrived first. He endured the stench of the pig pen, squatted down, and helped the woman untie the hemp rope tied to her hands. The rope had been tied to her hands for who knows how long. Thick calluses formed on her wrists. Her exposed arms and thighs were also covered with bloody scars. She thought she had been beaten frequently.

"What a beast." Ji Ying couldn't help but cursed, even if she was really a concubine, she didn't have to be like this.

After the woman was untied from the rope on her wrist, she grabbed Ji Ying and cried out: "Help, help me..."

Ji Ying nodded and said, "We are soldiers sent by the county to rescue you. Are you a woman who was robbed and sold?"

The woman didn't know if she had been locked up for a long time, and she couldn't even explain her words, but she still nodded and said vaguely: "Plundered and sold, yes, I was raped and sold here. It has been many years. They Forcing me, beating me, and locking me here...save me, save me!"

As she spoke, tears flowed from her eyes, leaving two innocent traces on her dirty cheeks.

"Look, what I said is right!" Ji Ying was overjoyed and turned back to Li Xian, calling him to come in and help.

At this time, Ju also finally climbed over the pig pen. The old man's legs and feet were stiff and he fell down, but he got up immediately. He staggered over and knelt in front of the unkempt woman, holding her with trembling hands. shoulder, with a cry in his voice.

"My daughter, you have suffered!"

At this time, the woman raised her head, and Komaya lifted her dirty, knotted, straw-stained hair, revealing her face...

This is a young woman under the age of twenty, but because she has suffered too much in the past few years, she looks like she is in her thirties...

Looking at Ju who called her "daughter", the woman was a little confused.

"Who are you?"

Ju Ye took a closer look at the woman's face, exclaimed, and quickly stepped back, falling to the feet of Li Xian who had just entered the yard.

"What's wrong?" Li Xian felt something was wrong. This was not the way father and daughter met.

"She..." Ju raised his hand and pointed at the woman. Although he didn't want to admit it, he still murmured: "She is not my daughter, not my Yuan Yuan!"

"What!?"

Li Xian and Ji Ying were shocked.

Ji Ying didn't understand what was going on for a while, but Li Xian was thinking quickly in his mind.

"This woman claims to have been robbed and sold, but she is not Ju's daughter. Could it be that..."

His expression changed: "In this blind mountain, there is more than one woman who was robbed and sold!?"

At the same time, a loud shout came from outside the courtyard.

"What are you doing!?"

When everyone turned around, they saw three farmers who had just returned from the fields, holding farm tools and standing outside the yard.

Under the sun, their dark bodies were glistening with sweat, and their faces were dark, as if someone had violated their inhibitions. They looked at Ji Ying, Li Xian and others angrily...