Chapter 131
The ragtag boss reached out to the park, pointed to the passage next to it and said, "Come this way."
This is a long dark corridor. Paradise reminded me of another corridor. The carpet in the corridor is made of dark red velvet. It is like stepping on the surface of a soft cloud that has accidentally fallen on the ground. After who knows how much time has passed, the cloud has grown red-leafed grass with sharp thorns. Every step made people feel anxious.
He glanced around, and the shadow was still there. It smiled at Le Yuan and whispered, "They can't see me, can't hear me, and don't know anything. You can treat them all as fools, but they can't do anything to me anyway. Why should I be polite to them?"
Leyuan nodded in his heart but turned his head away. Nussen tried hard not to laugh so as not to make it look too weird. He could only think that if people knew about this, they might not think that he was secretly regarded as a fool. They would only think that he was ignorant and found such an unstable partner to discuss important matters. Even if it was not important, it would not work because something bad would happen.
We haven't seen the sick Ajia yet, so it would be bad to reveal anything now. It would be even worse to reveal something that might make the other party change his mind.
Leyuan thought of this, straightened his back, acted as if nothing had happened, and laughed wildly in his heart.
The black shadow blinked and laughed, but it sometimes floated up and sometimes walked and jumped. It didn't need to hide it at all and looked much happier than the paradise.
The ragtag boss pushed open a door, which was the door of a room. Inside was countless cages. Leyuan saw one of the cages, which was covered with a red cloth. Inside was a person, bent over, and seemed to be very sick and about to die. His whole body was red, including his face, neck, and skin. His body was frighteningly thin.
Paradise stopped walking, and the ragtag boss took a look at the cage and asked in confusion: "Oh, you are here to look for him? No one has ever said they knew him before, and I thought he was something no one knew. If you want it, I can give it to you, but how much do you want to pay?"
Leyuan came back to his senses and said with a smile: "I do want him, but I didn't come here to find him. You may have thought wrongly. He is not the person I am looking for. If the person I am looking for is here, he must be in another cage. You said that no one knows him. If you are willing to sell him to me, that would be great, but I won't pay you a lot of money.
If you are willing to take this as a bonus when I take my man back, I don't mind taking him away. It's a waste of time for him to stay with you, isn't it? You still need to find someone to spend money to take care of his body and food. Even if you don't care if he dies of illness, a living person is more useful than a dead person, right?
Even after his death, his body can be bought and sold, and his internal organs can be opened, but it takes skill to open the internal organs. If you are not careful, something bad will happen. By then, offending a corpse is no big deal, but if you offend high-ranking officials, you may not be able to rest easy. If you just sell him as a corpse and arrange a ghost marriage for others, it is not impossible, but who would want him in such a sickly state?
I'm afraid there won't be many buyers.
No one wants him now, and even less will he be wanted after he dies. When he rots and becomes useless, you will still suffer the loss. If you don't mind, give him to me and I can take him away. But if you want to ask me for his money, to be honest, I don't think his price is high, so I can only give him a little. Do you want to take a little or just give it to me?"
The ragtag boss sneered, "You have a good idea, but it's not impossible. He has been here for a while, and it really costs us a lot. If you want it, we can give it to you, but we still need to think about how to deal with him for a while. Don't worry, I will definitely think of it and tell you before you leave here, okay?"
Paradise said, “Yes.”
The ragtag boss laughed and said, "Okay, then what's the name of the person you're looking for? What does he look like? Look for him here. If he's not here, then he's next door. He must be in this corridor. As for the rest, I don't know."
Paradise said, "Let me see."
He started looking and actually found the unconscious sick Ajia in a small cage. He pointed at the cage and asked, "Why is he like this?"
The ragtag boss took a look and laughed, "Oh, I didn't expect that he is your man? This guy is so annoying. He promised to do something for us, but he couldn't do it well. He also had to quarrel with us. We were so angry that stuff we arrested him. Who knew that after locking him up, he still wanted to escape. This is really too annoying. We have no choice but to tie him up, gag him, and him in here.
The most important thing is that he was yelling and making others unable to sleep, so we chose the latter between cutting off his tongue and beating him unconscious. The main reason is that we knew that he had worked for a wealthy family before coming to us. People like him can definitely be sold for a good price. Don't think we don't know. If you just want to give us a little money to fool us, we won't recognize it. "
Leyuan was anxious to take the man away, frowned, and said to the ragtag boss: "It's not that I don't want to give you money, but I don't have much money with me. How about this, I'll leave this with you, and I'll take him away, and you can keep the gift. I'll send money out from under the wall of the yard over there every week, and you can send someone to pick it up at a fixed time and place, and I promise to pay you as soon as possible."
"That won't do."
The ragtag boss shook his head: "Here we only pay for goods. Otherwise, what if you default on our debt? What if you don't pay us? What if you cheat us? What if you run away? We need money to survive. If we can't survive, we can do anything! Don't treat us as fools. How can we be so easily fooled?
If we were all like you, we wouldn't have to live."
Leyuan frowned and said hesitantly, "Then you can take part of the money and use other things to pay off the debt for the rest?"
The shabby boss frowned and looked around the park and asked, "Do you have anything valuable that can be used to pay off the debt?"
Leyuan rummaged through his clothes and said, "It's not that I don't have any."
He took out a piece of jade and said, "This should be worth a lot of money."
The ragtag boss wanted to see it, but Leyuan took his hand back: "You can see it, but you can't take it. Otherwise, if you break it, I will lose it. You will definitely not compensate me. If you take it away and claim it is yours, I can't do anything about it! I won't give it to you. You can see it here. It's not like you can't see it."
As he spoke, he placed the jade on the cage beside him. Coincidentally, there was a wooden board on the top of the cage, and a piece of cloth covering the board, so it was completely spacious enough to hold things.
The broken boss saw it and laughed, "Aren't you afraid that this thing will fall accidentally? Are you afraid that I will break it for you? This thing is valuable. If it is really valuable, how could I break it? If it is not valuable, it will be fine if it breaks. Why do you have to be sad? You should thank me. I stepped into a pit for you and prevented a disaster! Hahaha."
Leyuan felt a headache after hearing this and said, "Just watch it. If it works, use it first. If it doesn't work, I'll find a way."
The ragtag boss walked over to take a look, bent over, put his hands behind his back, glanced at the park and asked: "So, you have no money, but you still want two? You have made up your mind to take them all away? This is not a place for charity. You can come here, but it's not so easy to leave. Besides, you don't look like you have no money in your clothes. You spend money here like this, can you afford it?
Your family won't give you any trouble? They gave you so much money? Tell me, if we caught you here and sold you, would your family find a way to come to you and give us money for you? It doesn't matter if you have no money. If you sell all your things, you will only have that much money. But your family seems to be rich and powerful, so you can get a lot of money.
We still like the long-term trade very much.”
He stretched out his hand with a smile, ready to take the jade away while Paradise's attention was not here.
Leyuan pulled the jade back in one go, held it in his hand, and said to him, "Since you are not sincere, let's put this matter aside for now. It is impossible to stop it. If you catch me, you can try it. Let's see, is it you who dies here, or me? Do you want others to give you money for me? No way! I don't want to do that."
The rag-and-bone boss stood up and said with a smile, "That's funny. Are you happy about it? Don't do that. We don't dare to mess with a big Buddha like you, but we are not afraid of trouble. Otherwise, why do you think you have been living under the imperial city for so many years? We have something delicious here that will make you feel like you are floating in the air. It's black and tastes sweet and sour.
You know what we call it? Sour plum paste.
We usually live here, and sometimes we go out to work. We carry this sour plum paste with us, and eat it ourselves, or share it with others, or crush it and put it into dough to make cakes or soup noodles for others to eat, or wrap it up as a gift and give it to those dignitaries as a gift. Hehe, do you know how many people have eaten our things?
Do you know how many people in this land are ours, how many are like us?"
Leyuan sneered, "What does it have to do with me? I'm the one who ate it anyway. What do I have to be afraid of?"
The ragtag boss laughed and said, "Yes, you have nothing to be afraid of, but don't you think about it carefully? They don't know what happened here today, but if you make trouble here today, they will definitely not let you go. Do you think it's a good thing? Or do you think the people behind you can protect you? At that point, everyone would want to abandon the soldiers and guards.
What's more, do you think you are a pawn? I'm afraid you are not even a pawn. So what can I do? You don't want to know. Because you are living a good life now, you can't imagine the real pain. You can't even feel the pain they feel, how can you know the deeper things? "
Leyuan frowned.
The shadow whispered in Paradise's ear, "He's scolding us."
Le Yuan sneered, "You call me stupid? If I can't kill others, I can still kill you. Do you want to die?"
The ragtag boss smiled and said, "Can you kill me?"
Leyuan took out a razor blade from his sleeve and threw it at the neck of the ragtag boss. The ragtag boss dodged and said with a smile: "Hey, you didn't hit me!"
Leyuan took two steps over, strangled him, and slammed him against the wall. His face gradually turned a subtle, light pink like he had drunk alcohol, while the rest of his face turned pale and expressionless. The smile on his face had not yet fallen, but a pale, slightly tipsy, and pink mask of half-smile was formed. His body fell limply to the ground like a giant doll that had lost its support.
Both of his legs were straight down, his feet were dragging on the ground, and Leyuan blocked him in front of him and said to the others, "Don't come over, or I will be rude to you."
The people on the opposite side looked at each other and were about to pull the person out of the cage. Leyuan shouted, "If you get him out, I will kill this person. Anyway, you don't care. I will deal with you when I have my hands free. You see who dies first!"
They restrained themselves somewhat, but were unwilling to give up. They frowned and shouted to Leyuan, "If we tell the outside world now, you'll be done. Put him down as soon as possible."
Leyuan let go of his hand, and the man fell to the ground with a thud. Leyuan kicked him, but he didn't react. Leyuan said to others, "It's not my fault. I let him go."
Before he finished speaking, the two people on the opposite side shouted: "Hurry up! The troublemakers are coming! Hurry up and help us!"
Leyuan rushed over, knocked the man unconscious, and without caring if he was injured, he kicked open the cage, picked up the man, and said to the servant, "Go!"
The servant hurriedly stretched out his hand, almost holding on to the wall like a blind man, and asked tremblingly, "Ah? Where should I go? Where can I go?"
As the door was about to be opened, he was still sweating and didn't know where to go.
Leyuan said: "Then you should hide in the cage first."
As he spoke, he opened the window and crawled out. Outside was neither a tall building nor the ground, but underground. It was pitch black and he couldn't find a way out. But there was no one there and it was very quiet, so quiet that he could hear his own breathing. Le Yuan groped in the dark underground and heard someone talking outside. It was vague and he heard those people say, "Hurry up and look for him. He must be here. He can't get out."
Leyuan turned around and was about to go back. He went to the window and listened outside. It seemed that no one was outside. He tilted his head and looked through the gap secretly. He saw someone guarding outside. He could only hope that the servant who was hiding would be fine. If he couldn't be saved, he would die. However, the servant was controlled from the beginning and everyone outside saw it. He was probably fine.
They should not do anything to a servant who was like a prisoner without the ability to resist. Leyuan heard the servant say, "I don't know, I don't know anything. When I came in, someone said something bad, and I turned around and wanted to leak the secret. I don't know what happened, and I don't know how it happened. I was knocked unconscious. I don't know who beat me.
I can't run away. They dragged me here all the way. Everyone saw it. I'm not lying, so how can I be blamed? I can't do anything. I was unconscious and didn't know anything. What do they have to do with me? I just feel sorry for them."
I just don’t know whether it’s a pity that they didn’t die, or that they were knocked unconscious.
Someone outside snorted coldly: "When the people wake up, they will naturally make a decision. There is no need for you to explain here. However, whether you explain or not, the situation is the same. Don't worry, we will not lose out when you die."
The servant burst into tears: "Wuwuwu, how can you blame me? It's none of my business!"
Someone nearby sneered and ignored him.
He was tired of crying and gradually fell asleep without making a sound.
After waiting for a while, Leyuan looked outside again and suddenly heard someone outside say, "Check again, maybe he got out from here. Also, drag this man out and torture him. If nothing comes out of him, keep him here. Don't we have a torture chamber? Give him a set of newcomer meals first, he will know the benefits after eating it. Humph, you still want to deny it? Dream on."
After saying that, the man opened the door and went out.
The man standing by the window bent down and looked over. Leyuan quickly hid backwards. The man didn't notice him. He felt that he would be discovered if he continued like this, so he didn't care about anything else. He suddenly jumped out and knocked the man unconscious. He looked up and saw that people around were checking. Leyuan rushed over and knocked each of them unconscious, then changed into a set of their own clothes.
After heaving a sigh of relief, Le Yuan shook the servant awake and said, "Someone just said that they are going to take you out and beat you up. When the time comes, whether you know or not, you will definitely tell the truth. In my opinion, if they really beat you up, even if you didn't have it, you can still say that you did. I don't want you to stay here any longer. Go out from this way. If you can't get out, don't run around. Leave a mark for me so that I can know where you went."
The servant nodded repeatedly, rubbed his eyes, and quickly climbed in through the window. He reached a dark place, and didn't know which direction was. He just picked a passage and crawled through. Leyuan pretended to be chasing him, and went in. The door was not open. Maybe there was no one outside, or maybe the people outside didn't care to be here right now. Either way, it was fine.
Leyuan looked around in the corridor but couldn't find the exit. Suddenly, he heard someone talking in a room. He went over to listen and heard someone say, "This piece of sour plum paste is for you. Take it and eat it."
Leyuan frowned. The door opened and closed again. The room became quiet. It seemed that no one was inside. Leyuan went to the gap to look and saw a person reading a book. He didn't know what he was reading. He was a little anxious. He thought, why doesn't he read at any other time? Why does he have to read at this time? Really, I am anxious if you are not anxious! What are you going to finish?
After a long time, the man put down what he was holding and went out.
Leyuan searched the room openly and saw a picture on the wall. It seemed to be hung up. After thinking about it, Leyuan suddenly felt that the picture was familiar, like the situation outside the interconnected windows beside him.
Leyuan looked closely and saw four red dots on the map, at the edge, which seemed like they could leave.
The amusement park tried to find a way out according to the description on the map. He found a red dot and picked up a red button. Then he found three other red dots and picked up three switch-like things. He randomly found a place and pressed it. Suddenly, all around him became bright.
Le Yuan was horrified, but with the light he saw the servant not far away with his eyes squinting and tears streaming down his face, and the sick Aga who had woken up somewhere and was groping with his hands out in confusion. He went over and pulled both of them up, saying to them, "Hurry up and leave before anyone comes to check. With such a big commotion here, they must have known about it. It will be too late if we don't run now."
They both nodded randomly and ran away.
Leyuan ran for a while and then hid. He looked back and saw someone running out from there. He checked all around and found traces of someone crawling. He looked outside along the changing direction of the traces and found who it was. Leyuan held his breath and hid. After they had found who it was, he came out again and breathed a sigh of relief. He looked all around and found the door. He ran out. There were two guards at the door who were unaware of the situation.
One of the guards was sitting on the ground, while the other was lying on the ground, squinting their eyes and almost snoring. They looked very sleepy and bored. Paradise got rid of them one by one and made them lie on the ground unconscious, unable to make a sound for a while. They waved to the back, and the sick Aga and the lame-legged servant followed and ran out very quickly.
They walked all the way back to their residence and knocked on the door, then they relaxed a little. They were sweating all over, their clothes were soaked and dirty, and their hair was messy. Fortunately, their shoes were very stable, otherwise they would not be able to run. Before they sat down, they were called in front of Wu Rizhao. Wu Rizhao looked at them, frowned and asked, "What did you do last night?"
Leyuan knelt down in front of Wu Rizhao, and the servants started crying first: "You don't know! It's too dangerous! We can hardly get out to meet you, and you can hardly see even a strand of our hair! Wuwuwuwu——"
Wu Rizhao asked: "What? What happened? Tell the truth!"
The servant said, "The young master's personal attendant suddenly disappeared. The young master looked for him everywhere but couldn't find him. He originally wanted to find him before going home for dinner, but who knew that he just got home today and didn't even have a drink of water. The young master saw me on the road, and I said I seemed to have seen him before. The young master asked me to follow him to look for him. We found the person and left. After leaving, I don't know where we went.
After we got lost, we finally found ourselves, but were discovered by a group of people. They were not police officers, but they had bad intentions. They first caught me and beat me. It hurt so much. They broke my leg! They also wanted to lock the young master in a cage, feed us addictive sour plum paste, and make us live with them forever and make money for them. They also wanted to separate us.
Of course I won't do it.
But they didn't listen to me.
The young master was nearly killed by them.
We finally found the young master's attendant. He was insane and locked in a cage, even worse than us. It's so pitiful. There are many people like this there, locked up, messy, dirty, smelly. They don't clean up, and don't let the locked people deal with it themselves. If we were locked up for a longer time, you might not recognize us.
How miserable! How miserable!
We tried to escape, but they kept chasing us, so we had to hide. We finally waited until they left before we dared to come out. Fortunately, we were not discovered by them. We didn't dare to see anyone along the way, and we didn't talk to anyone. We only took small paths that were very remote. Fortunately, there was no one among us who could inform them, so we were not chased back, otherwise we don't know what would have happened.
Maybe it has been chopped into pieces now.
How pitiful. Master, master, please make the decision for us!"
Wu Rizhao turned his eyes to the paradise with doubt, looked at him and asked: "Is it really as the servant said?"
It's pretty much the same, except for the servant's legs.
But Leyuan certainly couldn't say it wasn't the case now, so he could only nod and said sadly: "Yes, we were in a terrible situation, and we almost couldn't come back. Fortunately, we were not caught by them, otherwise, we would not be able to come back and see anyone."
Wu Rizhao slammed the table, already a little angry, and looked at the sick Ajia behind them and asked: "Are you still in touch with your past people? I remember I told you when I bought you! Don't go to see those people from the past casually. Let the past go, you are no longer the same person as them, and you are no longer walking on the same path with them!
Why don't you understand?
Why did you go out? You didn't report it to me. When did I ever allow you to go out without permission? "
He slammed the table again, looked at the amusement park angrily and asked: "When did I allow you to go out casually? Nothing happened to you this time. What if something happened to you? What should I do? What if you can't get out? Have you thought about it? You just go out like that, you don't care about your safety at all, right? Are you sick? I have such a big family, can't I cure your brain?"
Le Yuan bowed his head and said, "I know I was wrong. It's all my fault. If I had disciplined my servants, this wouldn't have happened. If I had informed you in advance and not gone out on my own, I wouldn't have been in danger. If I had remembered to pay attention to the servant, he wouldn't have lost his leg. It's all my fault. I know I was wrong and I am willing to be punished. Please don't be angry about this.
If my brother gets sick because of my affairs, then I am guilty of something unforgivable. I hope my brother will consider my faults and not make me more guilty.
Wu Rizhao was angry and wanted to laugh. He pointed at him and said, "Humph, now you know I'm angry? What did you do earlier?"
He rolled up his sleeves, shook his head, and sighed, "Forget it. Who told you that you are already a member of my family? I can't send my closest friend into an irretrievable situation. You are really my enemy in my previous life. Forget it. Get up. I didn't let you go out before because I was worried that you would be in danger. Now that you have gone out and come back on your own, I think people outside can't do anything to you.
I won't care about you any more, lest you run out like a rabbit from a cage, grabbing your ears and kicking your legs, wishing you could grow wings and fly. If you want to go out, go out. I won't care about you anymore. As long as you are safe, it doesn't matter. Besides, other people's children who are younger than you also go out frequently, and they haven't been in any trouble. This time, I won't hold you accountable."
He sneered, "But the same cannot be said for others."
Paradise shuddered.
Wu Rizhao sneered, "Oh, you are scared now? When you sneaked out, I didn't see you were that scared. So you didn't consider me at all before? Well, if that's the case, you might as well get out earlier and stop being an eyesore here, making me upset. I have to spend money to ask you to do things. If you don't know, you would think I owe you money."
These words were spoken not only to the sick Aga and the servants, but also to Paradise. They all heard them and felt ashamed and guilty. Their faces turned red and they lowered their heads, wishing they could stuff themselves into the crack in the ground. It seemed that dying like this would be happier than having to listen to all the words here.
Some things are either too slow or too late. The problem is not with the outside world, but with oneself. If one does not care, then it does not matter. If one cares, even one word is enough to make people die of shame. One can only be thankful that they are not such fragile people, otherwise, they would have died countless times. Otherwise, their bodies would have been rotten by now.
Wu Rizhao said a few words, vented his anger, and smiled gently. However, when it came to the punishment, his words were not as gentle as his expression: "Since you can make your own decisions, you have caused such a big incident and implicated others. I don't care about my dignity anymore. If we want to talk about the culprit, it's still Bing Ajia. In this case, Bing Ajia will be beaten to death.
Poor protection and incompetence are another matter.
Get out now, and don't come back again."
The sick Ajia's face was very pale. He didn't say anything, but just kowtowed as a confession.
The servant was horrified and shouted to the paradise: "Save me! Save me! Don't chase me away! If I run away like this, where can I go? It's still a dead end! It's better to kill me here, maybe I can still have a reputation, which is worse than dying outside, like a lonely ghost! Don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face; don't look at the merits, look at the hard work! Save me!"
Wu Rizhao looked towards the paradise with an inexplicable expression, as if waiting for him to speak.
Le Yuan knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Wu Rizhao and said, "Please forgive them once and spare their death penalty."
Wu Rizhao sneered, "Why should I forgive them? They are my relatives and friends too. If that's the case, I'm really becoming less and less picky. Isn't it enough to have a mischievous elf like you? I want as many as you can give me! If you keep going on like this, I'm afraid you'll die of anger sooner or later. Are you thinking this way? Do you think I can do whatever you want?"
Leyuan kowtowed three times and said, "I don't dare!"
Wu Rizhao smiled and said, "I think you are very brave.
I haven't even started to investigate your crime when you come rushing over. Okay, let's settle things. Even if you live with me, I won't ask for your rent. You eat at my place, and I won't ask for your food expenses. You wear the clothes and shoes I give you and use the money I give you as a gift. You use it as pocket money to buy snacks. It's nothing.
You ran away this time, you didn't listen to me, you deserve to be beaten. You dared to deny it after I punished the servant, you deserve to be scolded! By the way, you promised me before that you would not disobey me easily, what are you doing this time? You are adding sin to sin, you brought it upon yourself, and you still don't admit it? It's an even more serious crime! It's your fault, you should admit it, if you don't even admit such a big mistake, I will die.
I can let them off the hook for now, but you can't. You are of a different status, age, and generation than them. If you are like this today and you will be like this tomorrow, what should I do? I'm afraid I won't live to see the day I grow old.
Why don't you just accept the punishment now? If you can take the punishment for them, I can be lenient and let them escape this crime. Tell me, how should you be punished for your mistake this time?"
Leyuan lowered his eyes and said, "Whatever my brother says, I will do it. I will listen to my brother."
Wu Rizhao sneered, "If you had listened to me, you wouldn't have ended up like this. If I'm lenient with you today, what should I do if others want me to be lenient with them tomorrow? Wouldn't I just be waiting to die? How can you tolerate such insolence? You have a special status, so I wanted to let you go. People who don't know would think I'm a horse ranch owner! You just can't keep quiet and don't admit it, so that's your problem.
If you want to ask me, okay, I have something to say. I thought to myself, I have been too indulgent towards you. Why not start from today and give you a whip every month? The whip is used as a family discipline. It is said that my ancestors heard about it from a sunny place when they went out to sea. It requires a long whip, dipped in chili water and hot oil, and then sprinkled with salt. I originally wanted to beat you once a week, but I was afraid you would die.
If you die, they will be buried with you. If you don't die, don't they still have hope of survival? Besides, it was you who begged me to let them live. It's not like I really don't care about anything. How can I be so kind? When a person dies, it's like a light goes out. All the agreements are naturally null and void. Isn't that normal?"
Leyuan took a deep breath and said, "Okay."
Wu Rizhao paused and asked, "Do you really agree? This is not an easy matter. I can spare their lives, but they will definitely not accept any punishment. Do you know that?"
Paradise said, “I know.”
Wu Rizhao sneered, "I'm glad you know. I thought you were crazy. Are you still not going to change your mind?"
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