Chapter 209 Departure
At noon the next day, the carriage stopped in a small town. Su Wenbin jumped off the carriage and said, "I'm going to buy some dry food."
He held the child, Chen Ya followed behind, and Feng Lan was waiting in the car, feeling a little uneasy, looking ahead silently.
"What's wrong, mother?" San Ya asked, with a look of confusion in her eyes.
"It's okay, I just feel like something's wrong."
Chen Kangbo looked outside and didn't see anything wrong. "It's quite quiet here."
“It’s too quiet.”
Feng Lan frowned, feeling particularly uneasy about the man in her heart. "A normal town shouldn't be like this."
After a while, Su Wenbin came back with a very serious expression. He looked around silently, completely different from before he left.
"What's wrong?" Chen Ya asked, her heart inexplicably knotted.
"It's okay, I just think this place is a little weird."
Su Wenbin quickly got into the car and left without thinking, "Let's go quickly."
The driver waved his whip and the carriage was back on the road, moving at an exceptionally fast and somewhat hurried pace.
"What happened?" Feng Lan asked.
Su Wenbin lowered his voice and spoke in a very serious tone, "When I was shopping just now, I heard someone talking about some horse bandits."
"Horse bandits?"
"Well, they say that things are not going well in this area lately."
Feng Lan felt even more uneasy, always feeling a little unsafe.
"Then let's take another route?"
"We're already halfway there. It's even more dangerous to change the route now. We'd better leave quickly."
Su Wenbin shook his head and immediately rejected the idea, even with a hint of helplessness in his words, "Let's stick to the original plan and go to the Guanyin Temple."
"Guanyin Temple?"
"Yes, I heard that place is very effective, and it is guarded by soldiers, so it is relatively safe."
The carriage continued to move forward, and soon it arrived. Everyone around breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's Guanyin Mountain." The driver pointed ahead. "The temple is on the mountain."
Feng Lan looked outside and found the surrounding scenery to be quite nice, especially the scenery looked quite nice.
"It looks good." Chen Kangbo also relaxed a little.
But when the carriage was still twenty miles away from the Guanyin Temple, it stopped.
"What's wrong?"
"The horse is tired, let's take a rest." said the driver. He didn't want to move anymore, so he just sat there quietly.
Su Wenbin jumped out of the car and thought for a moment. No one had eaten yet, so it would be better to leave quickly. "I'll go buy some dry food."
He took a few steps forward and suddenly stopped.
There were several people sitting in the pavilion, with strong builds and ferocious looks. One of them was wiping the blade of a knife.
Su Wenbin's heart tightened, and he quickly turned around and went back to the carriage without thinking too much.
"Let's go." He said in a low voice.
"What's wrong?" Chen Ya asked.
"Don't ask, just go."
The driver also sensed something was wrong and immediately urged the horses to move very quickly, but their actions attracted other people's attention.
As soon as the carriage left the pavilion, Feng Lan heard the sound of horse hooves behind her.
"not good!"
She looked back and saw a dozen men on horseback chasing her.
"It's horse bandits!" the driver shouted, waving his whip desperately.
"Stop!" the leading horse bandit shouted, and immediately surrounded them, surrounding the carriage and preventing them from making any moves.
"Come down!" The horse bandits surrounded them, each with a very serious expression, staring at them straight.
Su Wenbin stood in front of Chen Ya and the child, frowning slightly, "What do you want? I'll give you all the silver!"
"silver?"
The leading bandit sneered, "We want more than just silver. We want a lot more. What can you give us?"
He waved his hand, and several horse bandits came forward and tied up everyone.
"take away!"
After being escorted for an hour, they arrived in front of the Guanyin Temple.
Feng Lan looked up and saw that the temple was indeed not small, but it always felt a little weird. There were incense sticks, but not many pilgrims, and the people guarding the gate were not monks, but a few ferocious-looking men.
It seems that some other accidents must have happened here, otherwise these things would never have happened. Feng Lan lowered her head and said nothing.
"Go in!" the bandits pushed them.
"How many more have arrived?" asked one of the fake monks, looking at this batch and feeling that the quality seemed not good.
"Yes, freshly caught."
The leading bandit replied, silently watching them with a faint smile in his eyes, "It looks like there's a lot of money to be made."
Feng Lan finally understood that this was not some efficacious Guanyin Temple, but a hideout for horse bandits!
They were tricked here on purpose, it was completely intentional, in contrast to the previous times when everything was so difficult.
"Lock them up in the back." The fake monk waved his hand.
All the people were locked up in one place, both men and women, and everyone was gathered together in their own little place.
"Were you also captured?" asked a middle-aged man.
Su Wenbin nodded, "What's going on here?"
"well."
The man sighed, "We've all been deceived. The Guanyin Temple's efficacy is all a lie they made up."
"for what?"
"To attract people."
The man smiled bitterly, his face revealing a hint of helplessness as he couldn't help but sigh, "The more people come, the more they grab."
Feng Lan listened and felt a chill in her heart. It seemed that there was no way out and she could only wait patiently.
"Then what should we do?" Chen Kangbo asked, feeling somewhat helpless.
"What else can I do? Just wait to die."
The man's eyes were completely lifeless, and his tone of voice was also hopeless. He said, "It's been locked up for half a month. Every day someone is dragged out and never comes back."
The child in Chen Ya's arms began to cry very loudly. Everyone around heard it, and there was a hint of fear in everyone's eyes.
"The child is hungry," she said anxiously.
"Whose child is this? So noisy!"
Chen Ya hugged the child tightly and said, "Please, give us something to eat."
"Food?"
One of the bandits sneered, showing no emotion at all, and spoke in a very direct tone, "If you want to eat, follow us."
As he said this, he stepped forward and tried to snatch the child away.
"No!" Chen Ya defended herself desperately.
Su Wenbin wanted to step forward to stop them, but was kicked down by another horse bandit. He could not move at all and could only lie on the ground.
"Behave yourself!"
In the end, Chen Ya was taken away. Not long after, she stumbled back, her face was very pale, and her fingers were trembling.
"What's wrong?" Su Wenbin asked quickly.
Chen Ya was holding the child, trembling all over, as if she had seen some bad scene, and her whole body was shaking.
"I saw it."
"What did you see?"
"baby."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
