Chapter 248 Have we been scammed by loan sharks?
At this moment, in an abandoned residential building in Guangzhou.
Qin Suisui slowly opened her eyes. When she was being held up with her mouth and nose covered, she realized there was a sleeping potion and instinctively closed her mouth and nose. So she only inhaled a small amount and was unconscious for less than twenty minutes before getting up.
She turned to look at Jia Zhenzhen, who was lying unconscious beside her. She must have been drugged and hadn't reacted in time.
Qin Suisui turned her head and looked around. This should be an abandoned room. There was a broken wooden bed, and there were marks of a wardrobe on the floor. The windows were sealed with thick oilcloth, and the door should be locked from the outside.
She listened carefully for a while, and after confirming that no one was coming from outside, she entered the space with her mind.
Inside the space, Big Black and Big Yellow were soaking in the stream and eating bananas. When they saw Qin Suisui suddenly enter, bound like a dumpling, they immediately jumped out of the stream. Big Black was strong and wanted to violently tear off the ropes, but he was worried about hurting Qin Suisui.
Big Yellow pushed it aside, and with a gentle bite of its sharp teeth, it easily tore the rope apart.
Qin Suisui was untied and gently patted the two little ones: "Well done! When I get to Yunnan Province, there are many mountains there, and I'll let you out to have some fresh air!"
Big Yellow and Big Black immediately jumped up and down happily.
After giving them a brief explanation, Qin Suisui left the space with her dagger.
There was still no sound of footsteps outside the door. Jia Zhenzhen was still unconscious. Qin Suisui cut the ropes binding her with a dagger, then took out a small porcelain bottle and gently applied a little to her philtrum. Jia Zhenzhen woke up almost immediately.
The moment she woke up, she jumped up as if by reflex and shouted, "Sui Sui, run!"
Qin Suisui quickly pressed her down and gestured for her to be quiet: "Zhenzhen, don't be afraid, we are safe for now."
Jia Zhenzhen finally came to her senses. She quickly squatted down and lowered her voice, "Sui Sui, have we been scammed by loan sharks?"
Qin Suisui nodded: "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be. But I can hear no one moving around outside right now, so we might be able to escape."
As the two men were talking, a large wooden door creaked open not far away. Then, the two men's voices, deliberately lowered, came through: "Qiangzi, send those four women over there. We've only exchanged them for this little bit of stuff. Aren't we losing out? There's one really good-looking one in there!"
The man called Qiangzi replied, "What use is one? That Zhu Hansan is really cunning! But it's alright, the two we just kidnapped last night are quite good-looking, and the two we tied up this morning are not bad either. We need to go and see if these women are awake yet, because we need to use them to exchange for another batch of goods tonight! Without this batch of goods, how can our newly opened business compete with Liang Qi's establishment?"
Just then, a third voice came from outside the door: "Qiangzi, Shitou, a ship has docked. It came from the port city and has a lot of good cargo! Let's go!"
"But shouldn't we go check on them first? What if..."
"Oh no, what if? That's a sleeping potion from Myanmar!"
Soon, a series of hurried footsteps could be heard, followed by the sound of the large iron gate being closed.
Qin Suisui raised an eyebrow. Jia Zhenzhen hadn't heard what was being said outside, but she was nourished by the stream in her space every day, so she could hear it clearly. If nothing unexpected happened, this matter had even involved the struggle between the black markets.
She had heard Liang Qi say before that his sphere of influence covered almost half of China, but not all the black markets in every city, such as Qiongtan Island, were under his control. In places like Guangzhou, where all sorts of people vie for territory, there are multiple forces fighting each other.
So this time she and Jia Zhenzhen were kidnapped by Liang Qi's competitors? And these people kidnapped them to exchange them for goods?
We really can't let them succeed!
Jia Zhenzhen didn't hear what the people outside were saying. After seeing them leave through the crack in the window, she quickly pulled Qin Suisui and said, "Suisui, they're gone, let's go quickly too!"
Qin Suisui quickly grabbed her hand: "Zhenzhen, don't worry. I just heard them say that they didn't just kidnap the two of us, but also other women. They've gone out to kidnap more people and won't be back for a while. Let's go look for them and rescue them all!"
When Jia Zhenzhen heard that this group had also kidnapped other people, she was immediately enraged: "These beasts! They only know how to bully the old, weak, women and children!"
Jia Zhenzhen was strong and pushed open the door to their room with her bare hands. When the two of them walked out, it was already completely dark, but it was a sunny day with good visibility, so they could roughly see that it was an abandoned courtyard with quite a few main rooms, side rooms, wood sheds, and storage rooms. It must have been a wealthy family that lived there before.
Jia Zhenzhen went left, and Qin Suisui went right; the two split up.
After Qin Suisui and Jia Zhenzhen entered the house, they went straight to the place where the two people had pushed the cart.
When I got to the door, I found that there was a large iron padlock hanging on it.
Qin Suisui thought for a moment, then took out a bottle of solution and poured it onto the lock ring of the iron chain. The lock ring immediately made a slight "sizzling" sound, followed by white smoke, and then it slowly dissolved!
Qin Suisui's lips curled slightly. During her research on various antidotes, she had made some unexpected discoveries, such as this bottle of "all-purpose solution." This was the name Qin Suisui gave it. As the name suggests, it can dissolve almost everything in the world, including steel!
A small section of the lock ring was melted away, and the latch slipped off. Qin Suisui pushed open the door and went inside. The room was surprisingly large. It must have been a converted large warehouse, with several side rooms connected together, and it was filled with a lot of goods.
Qin Suisui glanced around and saw that, apart from some common daily necessities, including sugar, canned goods, alcohol, cigarettes, cloth, yarn and other daily necessities, food, and some antibiotics, these were indeed items commonly sold on the black market.
Among the most eye-catching items were rice, cassava, corn, and sugarcane from Descartes, as well as exotic leather products such as crocodile and ostrich skins, and coffee, palm oil, pepper, coconut oil, and copra from other Southeast Asian countries. Qin Suisui also spotted antique items such as Buddha statues, silverware, and wood carvings among the pile of things.
Qin Suisui knew that Liang Qi had people in Hong Kong and Macau, so his black market often had goods from Hong Kong and Macau. So, was Qiangzi's black market importing these things from Southeast Asia to differentiate itself from the competition?
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