Catching a turtle in a jar
"Brother Zhuang, look at the price..." Zhao Dahu rubbed his fingers and smiled maliciously.
"Don't be so anxious." Zhuang Xianming was not so easily fooled. After all, he hadn't seen the goods yet. What if he lost money?
"That's not what I meant." Zhao Dahu put his arm around his shoulders, like a good brother, and lowered his voice deliberately, "I'm not afraid of my sister-in-law..."
Zhao Dahu didn't continue talking, for fear of offending his old customer. After all, he was the most generous among the group of people and spent the most lavishly.
"snort."
Having known this man for so many years, Zhuang Xianming certainly knew what he was planning. He was just afraid that his mother-in-law would withhold his monthly salary and affect his ability to make money in business.
He signaled with his eyes to Zhuang Wenqing behind him, who understood and took out a wooden box from his arms. Inside was a few gold bars. Zhao Dahu's eyes lit up and he touched it uncontrollably.
Just when they were about to touch each other, Zhuang Wenqing closed the wooden box. The crisp "click" sound of the lock made the money-obsessed Zhao Dahu's eyes clear a little.
"Hmm!" He made no secret of his desire for the gold bars. "Pah!" he pressed down hard on the wooden box, exerting a little force, competing with Zhuang Wenqing, but his eyes looked at Zhuang Xianming impudently: "It seems that you have gained a lot recently, Brother Zhuang. Sister-in-law is not as bad to you as you say."
As he spoke, he exerted force and moved the wooden box towards himself. The younger brothers behind him also came forward. The atmosphere was tense and war was about to break out.
At this moment, Zhuang Xianming suddenly smiled. In front of everyone, he pried Zhao Dahu's fingers off the wooden box one by one, and a sharp edge was faintly revealed on his gentle face.
"Brother Zhao, why are you so anxious? My father and I are already in your territory and can't escape." He dusted off the nonexistent wooden box and put it in his pocket. "How could we be untrustworthy?"
Zhao Dahu glared at him for a while, then smiled heartily: "Brother Zhuang, you think too much. I just want to help you see if this gold is real. After all..."
"There are too many bad people in a small place like ours." After saying that, she pinched his shoulder and said, "It's better to be cautious."
"Come on, I'll take you to the cellar."
Zhao Dahu led the Zhuang father and son through the dark corridor with a smile on his face, but a vicious light flashed in his eyes. Until he pushed open the wooden door of the cellar, his smile froze instantly.
The cellar was empty.
Only a few broken ropes were left on the straw pile, and iron chains were scattered all over the ground. All the women had disappeared!
"Mr. Chen!"
Zhao Dahu shouted, veins popping out on his forehead, "Where are the people?"
Mr. Chen rushed in, his face pale. "Boss, I clearly locked it!"
"Waste!" Zhao Dahu kicked him over and turned to Zhuang Xianming with an apologetic smile, "Don't worry, brother Zhuang, I'll just..."
"Zhao Dahu, what do you mean, huh?" Zhuang Wenqing was the first to lose his temper. He clenched his fists and hit these people.
"Iron fence!" Zhuang Wenqing suddenly pointed to the corner. The iron fence leading to the "inspection room" had been pried open, and the padlock was hanging crookedly on the side.
Zhao Dahu's eyes flashed with ferocity. They were really a bunch of troublemakers. "Chase them! They can't get far!"
In order to avoid being punished, Chen Sheng and his companions grabbed the torture instruments left in the cellar and rushed out, but they heard a "clang" sound -
The mechanism was activated.
Suddenly, a large net fell from above his head, covered with sharp iron hooks. It was the trap made by Ruan Yunsheng and his companions using the torture instruments in the cellar. Chen Sheng was unable to dodge and was scratched on the cheek by the hook, and blood was immediately dripping.
"There's an ambush!" Zhuang Wenqing stepped back in fear. Just as he shouted, the stone slab under his feet suddenly sank, revealing a deep pit. Zhao Dahu quickly grabbed him, but saw that the bottom of the pit was full of sharpened wood.
The few people who were in the front were not so lucky. They stepped into the deep pit and their feet were instantly pierced by the wood. The ground was covered with blood. They screamed in pain and held their feet and cried.
"Zhao Dahu, who are you looking for?"
Zhuang Xianming couldn't help but curse inwardly when he saw that his son almost followed in the footsteps of these people.
"Don't worry about it. The most important thing is to catch them. What if they escape into the city..." Zhuang Wenqing trembled with fear at the thought of being discovered by his mother. He was afraid that his good life would be ruined in the future.
"They can't run far." Zhao Dahu said with inexplicable confidence, "I put cartilage powder in their food every day."
Having said that, he still felt inexplicably uneasy in his heart. If they were really poisoned by the cartilage powder, how could they have the strength to create these mechanisms?
Obviously, he could not have imagined that his subordinate Xiao Shitou had already betrayed him and confiscated all the antidotes for the cartilage powder in the inn.
"Let's go separately!" Zhuang Xianming also understood the pros and cons of this, so he made a prompt decision and pulled his son into the corridor.
Zhao Dahu was about to catch up when his eyes blurred and an iron cage suddenly fell from above his head, covering him tightly.
"Where did this thing come from?" Zhao Dahu was so frightened by this scene that his face turned pale. Is this a ghost? He struggled to break free from the iron cage, but to no avail.
"What are you standing there for? Come here quickly!" Zhao Dahu roared.
The younger brothers also came to their senses after seeing this strange scene, and worked together to push the iron cage down, but after trying for a long time, it did not move at all. Apparently, they had forgotten that in order to lock the trapped woman tightly in this place, they specially invited the best blacksmith in the city and used the best materials to build it, making it impossible to break through.
On one side of the cellar, An Yue, who had done something bad, looked at the group of people coldly. After making sure that they would not interfere with the next plan, she floated out from the iron fence to find Ruan Yunsheng.
At this time, Zhuang Wenqing and his son followed the corridor to the backyard of the inn. A small house stood in the wilderness. This was the place where they took the woman here to inspect her.
"Dad, there is a light." Zhuang Wenqing looked at the faint candlelight in the house and was sure that these people must be hiding in the house.
"It seems that what Zhao Dahu said is right. They can't run far." Zhuang Xianming's eyes deepened slightly, and he walked towards the hut step by step carefully.
Zhuang Xianming kicked open the wooden door of the cabin. The flickering candlelight inside revealed Ruan Yunsheng's figure sitting alone by the bed. Her clothes were disheveled and her hair was slightly loose. When she looked up at them, tears filled her eyes, and she looked pitiful.
"Where are the others?" Zhuang Xianming was stunned by the stunning beauty at first but quickly came to his senses and asked in a cold voice.
Ruan Yunsheng shrank back and said in a weak voice, "I, I don't know..."
"Don't know?" Zhuang Xianming pressed on, the sharp dagger across his throat, threatening: "Those intimidating little gadgets in the cellar were made by you, right? Don't try to be so cunning."
As he spoke, he brought the dagger closer to her throat, and the sharp blade left a long bloody mark on her beautiful neck.
Ruan Yunsheng was so frightened that he closed his eyes tightly, but refused to say a word.
"Dad, this beauty doesn't buy your tricks, let me do it!"
Zhuang Wenqing could no longer contain himself. He ripped open his outer robe, revealing his lean upper body, and approached with a sinister grin, "My little beauty, since you won't tell me, then play with me and my son first."
"Don't come over here." Ruan Yunsheng covered his body in fear and looked for a place to hide in the house, but Zhuang Wenqing grabbed his ankle and threw him to the ground.
"Ouch." Zhuang Wenqing touched her knee tenderly and said softly, "Is it hurt? Can I rub it for you?" After that, his hand moved towards her private part.
"Bang!"
The door was suddenly kicked open!
"What are you doing!" a sharp shout rang out.
Zhuang Xianming froze and slowly turned around——
Shen Ru.
His wife was standing angrily at the door with a group of county officials and soldiers. She was dressed in gorgeous clothes, with her hair tied up high and her face was thickly powdered, but she couldn't hide her fiery eyes.
"mother!"
When Zhuang Wenqing saw her mother, she was so frightened that she instantly wilted. She hurriedly got up from the ground and put on her clothes in a panic.
Ruan Yunsheng seized the opportunity and rushed to Shen Ru's feet, crying bitterly: "Madam, help me! I am Yunsheng! They..."
She was crying and her messy clothes represented everything that had happened in the room, which made Shen Ru furious.
Shen Ru looked down at the beautiful woman. At this moment, she no longer cared why this fool suddenly became so beautiful or how she got here. All she could think about was the betrayal of her husband and son.
She looked up at her husband and son, their clothes disheveled, and her anger instantly burned to the top of her head: "Zhuang Xianming! You old bastard! How dare you play with women behind my back again? One last time wasn't enough, right?"
After saying that, she pulled out the hairpin on her head and stabbed him. Zhuang Xianming's face turned pale: "Listen to my explanation..."
"What the hell is that for explaining!" Shen Ru grabbed his ear, and in an instant the wooden box he had hidden fell out of his pocket. The lock broke, revealing the glittering gold bars inside.
The air suddenly became silent, leaving only Zhuang Xianming and the other man swallowing their saliva.
Shen Ru's eyes were bloodshot at this moment, and she cursed shrilly, "Well, you're stealing the money from home and using it to support these bitches, right?"
"He said he wanted money to pay off his gambling debts, but I'm afraid he's used it all for this matter."
Zhuang Wenqing wanted to step forward to help, but was slapped by Shen Ru in the face, making him stumble: "And you! You are so naughty at such a young age, following your father to learn these despicable things!"
The detectives in the county government looked at each other in confusion. The leading detective coughed and said, "Madam Zhuang, we are here to investigate a case..."
"Investigate! Investigate thoroughly!" Shen Ru pointed at Zhuang Xianming's nose. "This old man colluded with a black shop to kidnap and sell decent women. The evidence is solid!"
Zhuang Xianming finally couldn't stand it anymore: "Chen Ru! Are you crazy?!"
"Am I crazy?"
Shen Ru sneered, pulled out a stack of papers from her sleeve and threw them in his face. "These are the account books for your dealings with Zhao Dahu! Do you really think I don't know what you're doing out there?"
“Shen Ru, don’t forget, you’re not clean either!”
Zhuang Xianming saw that the truth had been revealed, so she stopped pretending. Who was afraid of whom? She had long disliked the crazy woman.
Ruan Yunsheng hid behind Shen Ru, with an almost invisible sneer on the corner of his lips.
It's a dog-eat-dog fight, it's really exciting.
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