Chapter 123 Chapter 123 There was a bumpy feeling inside the cabin...
There was a bumpy feeling in the cabin and the ship started moving.
Zhou Wenqian whispered to comfort the three children while silently counting the time in her heart.
About ten minutes later, Zhou Wenqian suddenly leaned forward and the boat stopped.
Then, the cabin door opened, and a beam of white light shone into the dark cabin, hurting people's eyes.
The two who came in were the second and third brothers. They brought ropes and tied them up with great skill. The third brother warned, "Be quiet for a while. If anyone makes any noise and I hear them, I will come down and shoot you all!"
After saying this, he took the rope and tied it tightly around their mouths, making it impossible for them to make any sound.
After they had tied the man up, they went out again, and of course, the door was closed.
The boat still didn't start. Zhou Wen Qian guessed that something might have happened. She combed her ears and listened carefully to see if there was any movement.
The ship was intercepted by another ship, which was a troop ship.
The person who led the team to inspect the ship was Zhao Zhengliu. After he boarded the ship, he asked directly: "Where is the captain?"
The one-eyed man stepped forward and said, "I am the captain of this ship. Comrades from the People's Liberation Army, may I ask why you are blocking our ship?"
Zhao Zhengliu asked him: "Which unit do you work for? Do you have a work permit?"
The one-eyed man said, "We are from Lincheng Water Products Company."
He glanced at the second brother next to him, and the second brother understood and immediately took out his work permit from his pocket and handed it to Zhao Zhengliu.
"Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, please see, we are from the Fisheries Department of the Aquatic Products Company, and we have approved the procedures to come here to fish."
Zhao Zhengliu took the work permit, which was indeed stamped with the red seal of the fishery company. He raised his head and asked, "Some people reported that your ship was suspected of illegally transporting wild animals. Let us check it out."
The third brother stamped his feet anxiously and shouted, "Who? Who responded?"
Zhao Zhengliu looked at him and asked sternly, "Why, you want to ask who the informant is, do you want revenge?"
The third brother stiffened his neck and said, "I just want to know who is wrongly accusing us. Our boat is clearly here for fishing. How can there be any wild animals here? Comrades of the People's Liberation Army, you can't search the boat without evidence."
Zhao Zhengliu smiled, took a look inside the cabin, and said slowly, "I'll finish searching today."
"You..." The third brother was provoked by him and wanted to step forward.
"Third brother!" The one-eyed boss immediately shouted, "I am the captain, it is not your turn to make the decision on this ship."
He relaxed his expression and said to Zhao Zhengliu: "Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, you just saw the documents. We are a serious fishing boat. You can't just listen to others and ask for a boat."
Zhao Zhengliu's face darkened, and he said, "What nonsense! We have to search when we say so. This is the last time to inform you. Be obedient and cooperate with our ship. Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude."
As soon as he landed, the two non-commissioned officers on his left and right and the two soldiers following behind him all put their hands on their guns.
The light in the one-eyed boss's remaining eye changed, knowing that the man in front of him was not easy to talk to, so he had to search the ship today.
"Okay, we will fully cooperate with the PLA comrades in their work." He extended his hand to the cabin behind him and said, "Please."
Zhao Zhengliu signaled his men to go and check. The two soldiers behind him quickly entered the cabin, and the non-commissioned officers on both sides went to check on the deck.
After a while, the soldiers who checked the cabin came back.
"Report: There was only one female comrade in the cabin, and no suspicious items were found."
Soon, the two non-commissioned officers came back, and Captain Yan said, "Report, nothing unusual was found on the deck."
The third brother snorted: "Comrades of the People's Liberation Army, have you finished your investigation? We still have to get back to work."
Zhao Zhengliu stomped his feet and said calmly, "Where is the bottom cabin? Take us down to have a look."
The third brother was stunned and subconsciously turned around to look at the one-eyed boss.
"Why?" Zhao Zhengliu raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't tell me your ship has no bottom cabin."
The one-eyed leader gritted his teeth and said, "Comrades of the People's Liberation Army, you have just checked the cabin, and now you are checking the bottom of the cabin. What if you don't find anything?"
Zhao Zhengliu said with a smile: "If it hasn't been found out, it will be found out. What, do you still want us to compensate you for something?" As he said that, his face turned stern and he said in a stern voice: "Don't waste time, open the door quickly."
The third brother clenched his fists, stepped forward and said: "Why should we inspect it just because you say so..." Before he could finish his words, a gun barrel was pointed at his forehead.
Zhao Zhengliu held up the gun and said, "We are also conducting a routine inspection. Please do not delay our work."
The one-eyed boss then spoke up, "Second brother, open the cabin door and take them down to investigate."
Inside the cabin, Zhou Wen Qian didn't hear any movement from above, but the ship hadn't moved for such a long time, so something must have happened outside.
She struggled to free herself from the ropes, but her hands were tied too tightly and she couldn't move at all.
Peng!
The cabin door was opened, and the originally dark cabin became bright. Zhao Zhengliu took a look and frowned.
The cabin was empty.
The one-eyed boss laughed and said, "Comrades of the People's Liberation Army, is there what you are looking for here?"
The third brother raised his chin and said, "That's right, didn't we say we have something here? Where is it?"
Zhao Zhengliu ignored the strange expressions of the two men, turned his head and looked around the cabin carefully. After a moment, he paced back and forth in the cabin with his legs raised, seeming to be thinking about something.
Zhou Wen Qian, who was in the bottom of the cabin, suddenly heard a series of chaotic footsteps coming from the wooden board above her head, as if many people were walking on it.
Is anyone on board?
She quickly stopped pulling at the rope and listened to the movement above with holding her breath. The noisy footsteps stopped for a while, and then a rhythmic sound of footsteps came.
Ta-da! Boom!
There was a sound of stomping feet.
Zhou Wen Qian listened to the footsteps just now, and the movement of a person pacing back and forth while thinking emerged in her mind unconsciously.
This person...seems...
No matter who it is, this may be the only chance for him and his children to escape.
Zhou Wen Qian gritted her teeth, lay on her side on the ground, and rolled forward with all her strength. In the dark cabin, she came to the cabin door following her memory.
She slammed her head against the wooden board next to her, making a banging sound.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang…
Zhao Zhengliu in the cabin above suddenly stopped.
He listened for a while, a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes, and soon, he focused his eyes and looked to the corner on the right, following the faint and familiar rhythm of the collision sound.
He walked over quickly, squatted down, and made sure that the sound came from below.
"Open it!" he said loudly, knocking on the floor.
The one-eyed boss's face changed when Zhao Zhengliu walked past. When he heard that he wanted to open the floor, the third boss hurriedly said, "What do you want to open? There is just a piece of wood in there, and there is sea water underneath. If you open it, the boat will be able to pass!"
Zhao Zhengliu kept a straight face and repeated, "Open it!"
The third brother stuck his head out and said, "We can't open it. If we open it, the boat will be unblocked and broken. We can't take the responsibility for that."
Zhao Zhengliu stood up and said, "I will be responsible if anything goes wrong. Do you want to open it yourself or do we do it?"
Seeing his firm attitude, the third brother looked at the one-eyed boss.
The one-eyed boss spoke up: "This boat is the property of the fishery company. You can't destroy collective property without reason, even if you are in the military, right?"
Zhao Zhengliu didn't waste time talking to him and looked directly at Captain Yan.
Captain Yan nodded, turned around and walked out of the cabin, took two engineering shovels from his own ship, and pried open the floor with another young soldier.
The third brother wanted to step forward to stop them, but was pinned to the ground by the soldiers on the boat and could not move.
After the floor was pried open, no seawater came up. Captain Yan pointed down and said, "Report, there is another cabin here. There are people down there!"
It turned out that the ship had two bottom cabins, which most people would not be able to find if they were not paying attention. They had escaped inspections several times before because of this.
Zhao Zhengliu walked over and looked down into the cave entrance.
Just one glance and I was stunned.
Zhou Wenqian's forehead was already bruised and purple, and just as her headache was splitting, she heard a loud noise of wooden boards breaking above her head, followed by a blinding light.
She tilted her head back and closed her eyes subconsciously.
Two seconds later, she looked up with her eyes that had not yet adapted to the light, and a familiar face appeared in front of her.
Am I hallucinating?
Zhou Wen Qian blinked, the face was still there, with a dazed expression.
"Zhao, competing for the flow?" Zhou Wenqian asked softly.
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the man's face move, and she was hugged tightly. A familiar voice with a shiver came to her ears: "Qianqian, why, why are you here?"
Zhou Wenqian was very worried and said hurriedly, "Child, there are three children nearby, save them!"
Zhao Zhengliu turned his head to look at the cabin, and saw three children tied up at the back. He immediately looked up and said, "Hold them all for me, and send two more people down. There are three kidnapped children here."
When Captain Yan saw that there were people below, he informed Zhao Zhengliu, then drew his gun and controlled the One-Eyed Man and his two soldiers.
After hearing what Zhao Zhengliu said, Captain Yan asked two soldiers to control the people, and asked another captain to go to his own ship to send a few more people over, and then he jumped down.
Zhao Zhengliu quickly untied the ropes on Zhou Wenqian and asked anxiously, "Do you have a headache? Are you injured anywhere else?"
Zhou Wenqian said softly: "No, I just feel a little dizzy."
She turned her head and spoke loudly to Captain Yan who was untying the children: "The little boy in the middle has a leg injury. Be careful when you carry him up..."
As she spoke, her eyes went dark and she passed out.
Zhao Zhengliu quickly hugged her in his arms, his eyes full of heartache.
Zhou Wen Qian and the children were all rescued and sent directly back to the military hospital by the military ship.
A hunting rifle was also found in the hidden bottom cabin just below, which was obviously not something that a fishing company's fishing boat should be equipped with. Therefore, Zhao Zhengliu took a few people to stay on the ship and escorted the boat back to the troops.
Zhao Zhengliu looked at the people in the corner and said coldly: "Tie them all up." - There happened to be some ready-made ropes.
"Yes." Captain Yan took the rope out from the cabin below.
Zhao Zhengliu stretched out his hand and said, "Give me the rope, I will tie it myself."
Taking the rope, Zhao Zhengliu walked over with a sullen face.
There were four people, three men and one woman. The three men all looked ferocious, and the woman had been silent since she joined the army's captain's ship.
Zhao Zhengliu tied up the one-eyed man with a rope first. On both sides of him were soldiers with guns and live ammunition. The one-eyed man lowered his head and let himself be tied up. Even though his skin was rubbed and bleeding by the rope, he gritted his teeth and did not say a word.
Suddenly, the woman in the corner quietly put her hands behind her back and pulled out a gun from her waist.