Chapter 490 I won’t go back
When the kidnappers were eating in the main room, a head popped out from the earthen wall.
The head looked at his Majesty and asked whether he should get rid of the big fool.
They have been out for most of the day, and if they don't return to the palace, there will be chaos.
Xixi looked at the head and made a gesture. The shadow guard saw the gesture and shrank back with a sad face.
It would be better to write a letter to His Royal Highness the Regent. The older His Majesty gets, the more ideas he has. They can’t persuade him, they can’t coax him, and they can’t use force.
"What are you doing out there?"
The kidnapper asked when he saw Xixi waving outside.
"To keep away mosquitoes."
"oh."
The kidnapper didn't doubt it. After finishing his meal and cleaning his broken bowl, he said to Xixi, "You sleep there tonight."
Xixi looked at the straw stack that the kidnapper pointed at and blinked a little in disbelief.
Although she was prepared to suffer under the current conditions, at least she had a bed. What kind of situation was it to have the sky as a blanket and the ground as a mat?
"I sleep here, where are you going to sleep?"
The kidnapper replied as a matter of course: "I sleep inside. It's cold outside at night and there are bugs."
Xixi: “……???”
He is really not stupid!
"You know it's cold and there are bugs, so why do you let me sleep outside?" Xixi walked straight into the main room and said to the kidnapper, "I am your fifty taels of silver. If you don't take good care of me, you won't get the fifty taels of silver!"
In less than half an hour, Xixi had already accepted that she was only worth fifty taels of silver, and even used her fifty taels of silver to threaten the kidnappers.
The kidnapper thought about what Xixi said and said reluctantly, "Okay."
"Where is your mother?" The kidnapper had mentioned his mother before, so Xixi asked casually.
"He's getting treatment in the city."
Xixi raised her eyes and asked, "Are you sick?"
"Well, she was hit by a carriage while going to the city to sell vegetables. She vomited blood and died without treatment."
"You kidnapped me to make money so you can pay for your mother's medical treatment?"
"That's right." The kidnapper said as a matter of course, "There aren't many jobs like this. If you can find one, you have to hurry up."
"Do you know what happens to kidnappers?"
The kidnapper nodded, "I know, but I run fast, so usually no one can catch me."
Otherwise he wouldn't dare take this job that makes money quickly.
"Do you know who you are going to kidnap today?"
"I know." The kidnapper said to Xixi, "A boy dressed in silk and satin, about six or seven years old, handsome and noble, isn't that you?"
Xixi looked at the kidnapper speechlessly, "Am I a boy?"
"yes."
"I'm a girl!"
As Xixi finished speaking, the kidnapper jumped up in disbelief and rushed to Xixi, "Are you a woman?"
Xixi looked at the kidnapper with disgust.
"But you're dressed like a boy!"
Xixi: “…”
Xixi turned her back. She didn't want to talk to this stubborn person in front of her.
"Are you really a girl?"
Xixi didn't want to pay attention to him, but the kidnapper didn't want to let her go. "Is your family rich?"
Since they've been kidnapped, if you have money, it's not impossible to ask someone else for the ransom.
"You must be rich since you are dressed so well." The kidnapper said as he looked at Xixi.
"You still want to tie me up?"
"Of course I do!" the kidnapper said to Xixi, "I'm a kidnapper. It doesn't matter if I kidnap someone by mistake. As long as I can get some money, that's fine."
Xixi looked at the kidnapper in front of her silently. There was nothing wrong with what he said.
Kidnappers, don’t they kidnap people to make money?
"Give me your home address and I'll have someone write a ransom letter to your family. As long as they pay me, I'll let you go."
Xixi looked at the kidnapper squatting in front of her and asked, "How much money do you want?"
The kidnapper moved his mouth a few times and said to Xixi, "How much do you think you are worth?"
Xixi looked at the kidnapper, was silent for a long time, and said, "Fifty taels."
"good!"
Seeing that Xixi didn't bargain, the kidnapper said enthusiastically: "You go sleep inside, I'll sleep outside!"
"Don't worry, no one will bully you with me here!"
Xixi: “…”
The kidnapper fell asleep in the middle of the night and was knocked unconscious by a shadow guard who jumped in.
The shadow guard took out the dinner prepared for Xixi and persuaded Xixi: "Your Majesty, let's go back to the palace tomorrow."
"I don't want to go back."
"But if you don't go back, the sky will fall." The shadow guard looked at Xixi in front of him, with pleading in his voice.
"It won't collapse."
"His Majesty."
Xixi looked at the secret guards kneeling on the ground and did not change her decision because of their actions.
Shouldn't the emperor be the person with the greatest decision-making power in the world?
Why do so many people around me want me to be obedient and listen to them?
She doesn't want to obey.
"I'm going to Haizhou, to Yuncheng, to find my mother."
Xixi stood up and looked at the secret guards kneeling on the ground and said, "Tell them that I will not return to the palace."
The secret guard kneeling on the ground hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Yes, Your Majesty."
…
When the kidnapper woke up the next morning, he felt severe pain in the back of his neck.
Not only did the back of his neck hurt, he could also faintly smell a hint of meat in the house.
He pursed his lips and swallowed his saliva. Perhaps he was hallucinating because he hadn't eaten meat for a long time.
After a quick wash with cold water, he went to the bedroom door and knocked, "Are you awake?"
Xixi opened her eyes, looked at the knock on the door, and slowly stood up.
Xixi wrapped up all the valuables on her body with rags. She planned to wait for the kidnapper to take her to a nearby county town, find an opportunity to give him the ransom, and then trick him into going to Haizhou with her.
The reason why the shadow guard is called a shadow guard is that he cannot show up casually. If a little girl like her goes on the road alone, she will soon become a prey of human traffickers, so she needs an adult to follow her.
The kidnapper in front of her was quite good, and Xixi felt that she could trick him into obeying her.
As Xixi walked out with the wrapped rags on her back, she looked at the always silly kidnapper and asked, "What's your name?"
"Zhu Zi, everyone calls me Sha Zhu."
Xixi: “…”
Everyone calls him a fool, but he still says he is not stupid.
"How do we get there?"
Sha Zhu looked at Xixi, who didn't look as pretty as yesterday, and said, "Walk with your legs."
Xixi looked up at Shazhu, who had nothing. "If there's no horse-drawn carriage, then there's no donkey or ox cart either?"
"No."
Xixi looked at the man in front of her helplessly, then turned her gaze to the only relatively straight stool in their house.
Xixi definitely couldn't walk that long, so in the end she asked Shazhu to tie their stool to her back with a rope, and Xixi sat on the stool.
The two of them rushed to the county town.
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