517 It's a big deal
A quarter of an hour later, Ping'an's heart began to pound as a carriage rattled over.
Lin Feng pretended to feed the horses as if nothing had happened, thinking to himself, could it really be that group of people?
The carriage stopped right beside them.
"Young man, it's already the middle of the afternoon, and you're still hiding in the shade?"
Ping An stared blankly. The voice didn't sound like a foreigner's. Could he have guessed wrong?
"I've been delivering goods for the whole morning. Even the horse is tired."
Lin Feng pursed his lips, it was a bit difficult for him to hold back. The young master's voice was usually very pleasant, but now it sounded so muffled and unpleasant.
The horse driver jumped off the cart. He was a sturdy man in his thirties, with a simple and honest look.
"Young man, I want to ask you something. Have you seen a tall and thin boy about twelve or thirteen years old?"
Ping'an shook his head and said nothing.
Another person got out of the car. He looked to be in his twenties and was very strong, but his face was gloomy.
The man said nothing, just stared at them quietly.
This is a truly amazing person.
Lin Feng glanced at the man and calmly changed to the most advantageous position.
The man frowned and said, "I really didn't see it. This shouldn't be the case, brother. That child is a runaway slave of our boss. If you saw him, you'd better tell me."
Ping An still said in a muffled voice, "If you didn't see it, then you didn't see it. Ah Feng, let's go back to the city."
The person coming down from behind spoke up.
"I didn't say leave, so who can leave?"
Ping An's tone was awkward, and he frowned: "Who do you think you are? How does our walking bother you? Ah Feng, let's go."
"But you can't leave. You have to leave your horses behind, and your lives too."
The honest man was shocked: "Fifth Master, let's just keep the horse, but not our lives, right?"
Having said that, the man still took out the dagger in his arms.
"I'm sorry, little brother."
Lin Feng rushed to Ping An and said in a deep voice, "You two want to kill someone in broad daylight?"
The man coming down from behind said sarcastically, "Not bad, not bad. You should know some skills. Unfortunately, you are too old to keep me. Laizi, since there is no one around now, let's go and find the kid. He shouldn't be able to get far."
Ping An felt amused, as if this man was sure to kill them.
He and Lin Feng suddenly moved with extremely strange steps. Before the two men could react, one of them was hit by an iron fist and fell straight down.
But as the gloomy man fell down, he still threw the dagger in his hand towards Ping An.
Lin Feng pulled his master over, but inevitably got a little cut on his skin by the dagger.
Ping An stabbed the gloomy man with a silver needle, and then lightly slashed him twice with the dagger, breaking the tendons in both of his hands.
Lin Feng also punched the man on the back, and the man spat out a mouthful of blood.
Soon, Ping An and Lin Feng pulled out the two men's belts and tied up their hands and feet, then stripped off their summer shirts and stuffed them into their mouths.
The gloomy man had fainted. Although Ping An had pinched his tendons, he tore off his sleeves and bandaged the wound. It was not a good sight to see blood everywhere.
Lin Feng looked towards the carriage and said, "Master, there is no one in the carriage. Oh no, my arm is numb. The dagger may be poisonous."
Ping An quickly rolled up Lin Feng's sleeves. Only a shallow skin was broken, but the wound began to turn black.
He hurriedly stuffed a top-quality detoxifying pill into Lin Feng's mouth, then ran to the carriage, opened his medical box, and took out alcohol to disinfect Lin Feng.
After a while, the wound began to improve visibly.
He bandaged Lin Feng skillfully: "This bastard, if we don't have good medicine, this poison will be difficult to cure."
"Young Master, other people have a hard time, but it's different for us." Lin Feng grinned, as long as the master is okay.
Ping An picked up the gloomy man and threw him into the car, then fed him a pill. For an hour, the man couldn't wake up.
"You'll be much better behaved after bleeding a little. I'll give you some too." He walked towards the man.
The man shook his head desperately, his eyes full of horror, looking at the honest young man, wondering how could he be so cruel?
Lin Feng used his feet to get some dirt to cover the blood on the ground.
The movement was so fast that there were almost no other traces on the ground.
Ping An took the sleeve out of the man's mouth and said, "Aren't you going to kill me? Are you scared? I really shouldn't have just cut your tendons. I should have cut your tendons as well, and then cut off your ears. I can also cut off your lips, so that they are as flat as your face."
The man trembled. The voice was pleasant, why was it so muffled just now? Could it be a perverted killer who was waiting to kill?
"Have mercy, sir, spare me, wuwuwu, wuwuwu."
Ping An looked him up and down: "I see you still have a lot of extra space on your body, you have an extra hand, you can have one less foot, and there is also this."
Ping An stepped on his crotch, but without much force. The man's face turned pale.
"No, no, I'll tell you whatever you want to ask. You can't cut that place, and you can't cut other places, wuwuwu, wuwuwu."
"Lin Feng, lift the car up."
The two men carried it into the car like a pig.
Then they drove both cars to a remote location.
Ping An quickly set up a hidden formation and a trap formation outside the carriage.
"Lin Feng, keep an eye on the outside. I'll go up and ask."
Ping An jumped into the car and stared at the man with a gloomy face.
"I have a bad temper. I don't want to cut off a part of your body just because I ask you a question several times or you lie once."
The man nodded desperately. He already regretted following these people here very much. If you do too many bad things, the retribution will come quickly. What A Niang said was right.
Woo woo woo, it used to be good to be a gangster in town.
"Let me ask you, how many people are in the car?"
The man's eyes suddenly opened wide: "Do you know someone?"
"Say, if you tell a lie, you'll stomp your hand."
"I'll tell you, when Wu Ye found out that Dalin wasn't in the car, he hid the others in a bush. They were all drugged and their hands and feet were tied up so they couldn't wake up until midnight."
“Are you from the Qiang tribe?”
"He is not me. I am just a Youzhou City native. They brought me here. They only said that I would accompany them for a trip and they would give me 200 taels of silver. Who knew they would not let me go for more than two years?"
"What are they doing in Da Zhou? Why are they buying so many children?"
"Sir, they seemed to be investigating someone in Da Zhou, but they didn't find anyone. As for these children, I know that they lost a lot of people in the previous war, and then they suffered from the plague, and many more died. They bought these people back, and the men worked and the women gave birth to children. They have sent more than a hundred people away."
"Why don't you buy people at the border? Instead, go to a distant place?"
"Sir, there aren't many good young girls in the border brokerages. They are not as prosperous as those in the provinces. People can pick the best ones, and the prices are not expensive. Fifteen taels of silver is enough for a teenager, and you don't need to pay more if you buy more."
“Are there people doing this elsewhere?”
The man nodded. "It seems that there are many places like this, but they just buy people and leave, unlike us, who stayed here for two and a half years. By the way, they said that if they can't find the person, they will kill all those who may have participated in the past. Sir, I won't do this, and I don't know what they are talking about."
He forgot that he was about to kill him and Lin Feng just now.
"How far is Zhuangzi from here? How many of your people are there? How many children are there?"
The man didn't want to say anything.
Ping An stabbed the dagger into the man's hand just a little bit away, frightening him so much that he screamed.
"If you yell again, my hand will no longer be yours.
The man stopped crying immediately, and his whole body began to tremble like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind.
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