Chapter 109 Wei Qingyan was arrested
Wei Qingyan's wrists were tied behind his back and he was trapped on a simple wooden board.
This is a dark room with a cold and damp environment. Wei Qingyan guessed that it should be underground.
The dark room was simply furnished, with four beds placed in the four corners of east, south, west and north. In the center of the room stood a large iron pillar with four thick iron chains extending from it.
The other end of one of the chains was on Wei Qingyan's right ankle, and the other three were thrown casually on the ground.
It should be used to lock up the people on the three beds, but now the three beds are empty.
But Wei Qingyan guessed that someone would come to those three beds soon, because she heard messy footsteps coming this way.
She glanced at her ankles, closed her eyes and leaned back on the bed.
The door opened, and a burly man walked in first. He glanced at Wei Qingyan and said to the person behind him, "Why haven't you woken up yet? Did you give him too much medicine?"
The second person to come in was an old woman. She replied, "No, it's just the usual dosage. The master was anxious for good stuff, and I finally came across a good one. How dare I use more medicine and ruin the master's business."
Although he said this, he felt a little uncertain in his heart. He walked towards Wei Qingyan and muttered, "Is he pretending to faint?"
While speaking, he was about to reach out to lift Wei Qingyan's eyelids.
Wei Qingyan didn't want to be touched by her and opened his eyes. "Who are you? Why did you arrest me?"
The old woman was startled by her and glared at her fiercely, "I told you that you were just pretending, little bitch, you dare to play tricks on me, I will not forgive you later."
"Okay, lock the goods first. When the time comes, are you afraid that you won't be able to deal with her?" The strong man spoke to stop the old woman, looking at Wei Qingyan with lustful eyes.
Wei Qingyan pretended to be afraid, lowered his eyes, and shrank back, "Who are you?"
But out of the corner of his eye he was looking at the three people following the burly man.
One woman and two men.
Their wrists were tied like hers.
The three men looked to be no more than seventeen or eighteen years old. They let a short man hold the ropes on their wrists with dull expressions, as if they were leading animals.
After hearing what the strong man said, the old woman took the rope that tied the woman from the short man with an unhappy look on her face.
He pulled the person to the bed, forced the woman to lie on the bed, and then locked the iron chain on the ground around the woman's ankles.
The strong man and the short man did the same, locking the two men on the bed.
Then the three of them left the house.
Before Wei Qingyan had time to ask the three people, footsteps were heard again. It was the same old woman from before, but this time she was carrying a wooden bucket.
The wooden barrel is full of clear water.
The old woman pointed at the wooden barrel and said, "Drink this barrel of water before midnight tonight, or don't blame us for being rude to you."
"Why do I want to drink water? I want to eat?" Wei Qingyan protested, "No matter what you want to do, give me a full meal first. I haven't eaten for two days."
That day when he was searching for Yan Qing in the mountains, he made a deal with the earthbound spirit Shi Chengze.
It found Yan Qing for her, and she avenged it.
The person who harmed him was his stepmother, Princess Yu.
Afterwards, Prince Rong ordered his men to keep an eye on Prince Yu's mansion and discovered that Princess Yu would come to this manor every ten days or half a month.
But he told others that he was going to the temple to worship Buddha.
As luck would have it, Du Xueyi's men were keeping an eye on the Liu Mansion and discovered that the Liu Mansion also had a farm, which was right next to Princess Yu's farm, and Liu He's brother and sister-in-law also came to the farm from time to time.
The secret guards of Prince Rong's Mansion and Marquis Anyuan's Mansion searched the two manors thoroughly but found nothing unusual.
Wei Qingyan then pretended to come to the capital from another place to visit his relatives. On the way, he was robbed of his money and was very hungry. He passed by Princess Yu's farm and wanted to ask for food.
The one who received her was the old woman in front of her.
At that time, she handed Wei Qingyan a bowl of noodles, and said with a kind look, "Poor thing, I don't know how much suffering you have endured. Come and eat."
Wei Qingyan had just taken a bite when he was knocked unconscious by the medicine in the noodles and came here.
At this moment, the old woman looked at Wei Qingyan's extremely hungry appearance and sneered, "Drink when I tell you to. If you want to eat, you can have it in your dreams."
Recalling something, he warned, "This water is very precious. If you dare to waste it, you will be eaten alive by wild dogs."
"I drank too much water, what should I do if I need to go to the toilet?" Wei Qingyan replied again.
The old woman looked at her as if she were a fool, and walked out of the house with her chin held high.
Wei Qingyan waited for a moment, and when no one came over, he looked at the woman on the bed opposite him, "Are you okay?"
No one answered.
She asked again, "Where is this? What do they want us for? How can we escape?"
Still no one said anything.
Wei Qingyan raised his right foot and pulled the chain. The sound of the chain rattling spread out, but no one came in.
"Hey, is anyone there? Let me out! My relative is a high-ranking official in Beijing. If you dare to arrest me, he might kill you..."
The three people from before never showed up again, not even one to scold them.
Perhaps because he thought she was being too noisy, the man across from her finally moved and replied, "Stop shouting, it's useless."
"Why?" Wei Qingyan looked at him.
The man tilted his head and looked at her. "This is underground. To be more precise, under the mountain. No matter how high-ranking your relatives are, no one will find you."
Wei Qingyan continued to look at him.
The man knew she wanted to ask why, so he smiled bitterly and said, "I've been captured here for a month, and my people haven't been found yet."
The people he brought with him were all well-trained top masters, but they were unable to come to rescue him during the month he was missing.
It can be seen that this place is very hidden, or it has been tampered with, and ordinary people cannot find it at all.
Wei Qingyan understood what he meant.
Then he put his fingers together, used his lips to blow a whistle through the gaps between his fingers, and used his internal force to blow out a whistle.
The whistle is very subtle and only someone with good internal strength can detect it.
This was the signal she and Auntie agreed upon. If Auntie followed, she would definitely respond when she heard her whistle.
She listened intently, and after a moment, the same whistle sounded back to her ears and also to the ears of the man across from her.
His expression lit up, "You...you brought someone with you?"
Wei Qingyan didn't answer him directly, but pointed at the bucket of water and asked, "What kind of water is this?"
The man must have seen hope in Wei Qingyan, and his response became much more positive, "They call it the Water of Tianshan Mountain.
There is a clear spring on the top of this mountain. The mouth of the spring is only the size of a bowl, but the water inside is inexhaustible. Once you scoop it out, spring water will soon emerge again.
It’s just that getting water is not easy. I heard it takes more than two hours to go back and forth, so they don’t like us to waste it.
If you drink too much of this water, your internal strength and martial arts skills will gradually deplete."
When he was first captured, he refused to cooperate and knocked over the bucket of water. He was starved for three or four days. Amidst the cursing of those people, he finally learned the source of the water.
"Why do you want us to drink this water?" Wei Qingyan was puzzled.
"Get rid of the turbidity." The woman who had not spoken before suddenly spoke.
Remove turbidity?
Wei Qingyan thought of the strong man calling them goods before, and seemed to understand something in his heart, and his eyes darkened.
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