Shangzhou is almost the most remote prefecture in Daqing.
Wuchuan is very large, with plains connected to mountains, rolling hills, extremely rich mineral resources, and numerous rivers with strong transportation capacity. It has always been the most important silver producing area in the Daqing Dynasty. Therefore, although Wuchuan is remote, it has some popularity. Although it is far inferior to the capital and Central Plains, a group of outsiders integrating into it will not attract any attention at all.
Su Ci and his party traveled quickly all the way, almost non-stop day and night, and it took them three days to finally arrive in Shangzhou.
When she got off the horse, she grimaced. It was so painful that the skin on her thighs was almost broken and she felt numb. The moment she staggered to the ground, it felt like thousands of ants were crawling on her waist. The feeling was so terrible that the stiffness in her shoulders, back and neck was nothing compared to this.
She looked at Yang Yanzong, who jumped off his horse and walked briskly in front of her. It turned out that not everyone can be a boss.
She hadn't finished complaining in her heart yet, when Yang Yanzhen beside her slowed down a little, reached out and pulled her: "Let's go!"
Su Ci hurried to catch up, jumping and skipping, because if she didn't keep up she would be left behind.
They came very quickly, almost moving at full speed, but the person who got there before them was no pushover either. He must have been the same person and probably arrived at the same time as them.
We hurried to get there at the last minute, and we couldn't let down the leader and let the man named Feng be snatched away by someone else.
Nervous for sure.
"But how can we find them? There are so many people?"
It was a place similar to a labor camp. Feng Shang was arrested and thrown into prison because he committed a crime. Of course, there was no reason for him to eat for free. Not long after, he was sentenced to prison and sent to a quarry for labor reform.
This quarry is huge. In addition to the prisoners, there are also hired laborers, said to be several thousand people in total. They are busy this morning. Looking around, there are only a lot of people. How can we find them in such a short time?
As soon as Yang Yanzong arrived at the place, he released his men. Su Ci and Yang Yanzhen were paired together, and they rushed towards the quarry in the direction assigned to them. A soldier holding a whip shouted and rushed over to intercept them, cursing: "Who are you? Do you know where this place is? Are you looking for death..."
Just as Yang Yanzhen was about to speak, Su Ci reached into his arms, took out two small ingots of silver and stuffed them into the man's hand. The man immediately stopped talking, and the entire team fell silent as well.
The two of them rushed directly into the quarry. Su Ci looked around with wide eyes. How could he find it?
"Keep an eye on it, if someone finds it they will send out a signal."
Yang Yanzhen said quickly, "We should keep an eye on the child. Feng Shang absconded with his daughter. After he was imprisoned, he took out all his money and bribed others. He took the child with him to the quarry."
"oh oh."
So that’s how it is. That’s much better.
Su Ci immediately opened her eyes wide and paid attention to the children in the quarry.
There are children among them as well. A small number of them are those whose families have committed crimes. According to Daqing law, boys over eight years old with particularly serious crimes will be exiled together. Others are mostly brought here by laborers, or have no one to take care of them at home, or are children of poor families who have to grow up early. If they can do some light work, the quarry will give them a copper coin or two at its discretion.
There were quite a few children, both boys and girls, which made their search much more difficult.
Of course, this also makes the search for another group of people more difficult.
Su Ci and Yang Yanzhen ran all the way, and they encountered each other's men along the way. It was obvious that the other party was also looking for them.
I don’t know about other places, but on Su Ci’s side, both sides confronted each other vigilantly for a while, but in the end no one took action and turned around to look for it.
Now it depends on who can find the needle in the haystack first!
Su Ci didn't know how long she had been searching. She ran all the way from the east end of the quarry to the west end. She didn't find it at the bottom, so the two of them climbed up the stone mountain where the quarry was located. She was very tired, but fortunately Yang Yanzhen didn't despise her and dragged her forward.
While running, Su Ci suddenly stopped and asked, "What's that sound?"
She had sharp ears and vaguely heard a short sharp metallic sound of "nail——"! It seemed like a clash of weapons.
She quickly waved, and the two of them turned a corner and rushed over!
Rushing over the boulders, man! The first person Su Ci saw was Yang Yanzong, and the second person she saw was a man in a dark purple round-necked robe facing them. He was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with clear features and a handsome face. It was none other than Ji Yuanhao, whom she had caught a glimpse of a few nights ago!
All the gentleness in the latter's eyes disappeared, replaced by a fierce and murderous look.
He and Yang Yanzong had both drawn their swords and started fighting. The focus of their dispute was obviously the gray-clothed man who had been lying on the ground and unable to get up for the first half of the day.
It was not known who came first and who came later, but it was obvious that the other side had more manpower. Not far from where Yang Yanzong and Ji Yuanhao were fighting hand-to-hand, the men of both sides were already fighting fiercely, but it was obvious that their side was at a disadvantage, with nearly half the number of men. Akang, Azhao and others were at a disadvantage and were already stretched to the limit!
Yang Yanzhen shouted, "Hide!"
He immediately drew his sword and rushed forward, blocking the sword that was stabbing at Azhao's back.
Su Ci quickly turned around and rushed forward, pulling out the special whistle from her bosom, and blew it as she ran. After turning around and running for about seven or eight hundred meters, she finally ran into two groups of her own people. She quickly waved and turned back.
Finally, our side did not suffer any loss, while the battle outside had become fierce. It turned out that Ji Yuanhao was a werewolf who had fought many battles to become famous. Although he looked gentle and graceful, his skills were extremely powerful, and it was hard to tell who was better between him and Yang Yanzong.
The two men's swords were extremely fierce. Not to mention Su Ci, even Akang and the others didn't dare to go over there. Su Ci didn't dare to show his head, so he hid behind a pile of irregular rubble and watched.
As she watched, she began to see some clues.
The man in gray was undoubtedly Feng Shang. He was wearing only the thin cloth that prisoners wear. Yang Yanzong and Ji Yuanhao were in a stalemate. The guy was passed from one hand to another, and no one could snatch the thing away for a while - but don't forget that he still had a secret key to the token on him. If they couldn't snatch it away for the time being, they could take the token first. So the two men tore off the man's clothes at the same time.
When Su Ci came back, the man was shirtless, and the ragged prison pants were torn apart with a "rip". Su Ci was not afraid of getting stye at all, and quickly looked at him with wide eyes. The disheveled hair could not hide anything, so the only thing left was the shoes. Su Ci stared at the man's feet for a long time, but after looking at them, she didn't think that the pair of ragged straw sandals could hide anything.
Her heart moved, she looked away and began to quickly scan the surroundings.
So she soon discovered that there was a child hiding in the crevice of a pile of rubble not far away.
Su Ci quietly stood up and moved over quickly. The little girl turned her dirty and frightened face. It was so dirty that her facial features could not be seen clearly, but the girl had a pair of big, black eyes.
She panted softly and kept backing away.
"Don't worry, it will fall out if you move any further." Su Ci looked at her hands and saw nothing in them. "Where is the thing your father asked you to hold?"
The little girl tensed up all of a sudden. She clenched her fists and stared at Su Ci. She said in a hoarse and childish voice after a while: "...I, I give it to you, can you save my dad?"
"I can't."
Su Ci didn't lie to her. She couldn't make up her mind about this: "But if your father is gone, I will try my best to find a good family to adopt you."
"I think your father brought you all the way here because he was hoping for the same."
"...I, I," the little girl panted violently, and finally trembled her lips: "Okay, I'll give it to you,..."
She moved her body and stretched out her little hand towards her back which had been pressed down. Su Ci was delighted and was about to reach out to take it, but something unexpected happened! !
The little girl, who had been trembling in panic and fear, suddenly became agile, with extraordinary strength and a very steady horse stance. She jumped up with incredible speed and pulled out a shining dagger with her hand behind her back! He jumped up and stabbed Su Ci's heart!
"Fuck!"
Su Ci cursed loudly, it turned out that children and nuns in the underworld were the ones who needed to be watched out for. Jin Dada was right! Fortunately, she never let down her guard, Su Ci quickly leaned back and kicked hard: "The token is in this kid's hands!!"
Su Ci had learned karate and fencing, and had been working hard to train since she came here. Now her body had finally caught up with the reaction, and she kicked the target right in the face. However, the child was of limited weight, and was kicked hard by her breastfeeding force, and rolled out.
Of course, Su Ci chose the direction behind Yang Yanzong, and this shout was for him to hear!
Yang Yanzong and Ji Yuanhao reacted extremely quickly, and they immediately turned around and flew over like hungry tigers!
At this moment, Feng Shang, who had been kicked half to death and vomited blood and could not move, saw the child being discovered and kicked away. He immediately came back to life from his half-dead state, flipped over and jumped up! Running straight towards the child! !
Fuck!
It turns out that this guy had been pretending to be dead so that Yang Yanzong and Ji Yuanhao would let down their guard. You know what, he pretended so well that with the enemy at hand, no one could even take a close look at him, he succeeded in pretending.
But unfortunately, he was facing Yang Yanzong and Ji Yuanhao, who turned around and kicked him hard! Feng Shang dodged quickly and barely dodged Ji Yuanhao but failed to dodge Yang Yanzong. He was kicked hard by the latter and flew backwards, pressing straight towards Yang Yanxin and A Zhao who were in the melee!
All this happened in just a moment. Facing the two people with murderous intent, the little girl couldn't help but reveal a real look of fear. She subconsciously reached out to cover the inner pocket behind her buttocks!
Ji Yuanhao was dodged by Feng Shang's kick. He caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye and immediately turned around. He was the first to arrive and with a lightning-fast thrust of the sword, he managed to pick up the little girl's inner pocket!
"nail--"
A dark green token flew out, Ji Yuanhao reached out to catch it, but had to retract his hand halfway to avoid Yang Yanzong's killing move!
Of course, he couldn't let Yang Yanzong copy the token, so he chopped it down with his backhand!
In a flash, Yang Yanzong did not stretch out his hand, but then he tilted his head back and used all his strength to pick up the token with the tip of his sword, and the tip just touched it. With a crisp "pop" sound, the token was picked out by him about seventeen or eighteen feet away, and with a "puff" it fell into the stone washing pool forty or fifty meters away.
He glanced at Su Ci.
The direction he flew was exactly where Su Ci was crouching, and the stone washing pool was about twenty meters behind her.
Su Ci is such a smart person, he understood it immediately and turned around and ran away!
This stone washing pool is very large and irregular. It is called a stone washing pool, but in fact it is an artificial pool formed by the overflow of groundwater after quarrying. It is dark green and covered with moss, and you can't tell how deep it is at a glance.
Su Ci screamed, damn it! She rushed to the pool cursing, but despite the cursing, she jumped in immediately.
Then she fished out the token.
They successfully retreated as quickly as possible under everyone's protection, and finally stuffed the token into Yang Yanzong's hand.
But unfortunately, due to Yang Yanxin's mistake, Feng Shang was snatched away by Ji Yuanhao's people.
Yang Yanzong was furious. He was almost certain to get both the person and the sign, but now he had lost half of them.
"Useless stuff!"
Taking a glance at Akang and the others who were bleeding, Yang Yanzong was furious, while Yang Yanxin lowered his head and dared not speak.
Su Ci trembled: "Can we chase him? Let's go!"
If not, get out of here quickly. I'm freezing to death.
Yang Yanzong exhaled a breath of foul air and said, "Retreat first!"
…
Humph, quite clever.
After finding a temporary residence, Su Ci hurriedly went to change clothes while shouting. Glancing at the girl's back as she stroked the moss on her bangs and complained as she walked, Yang Yanzong thought so.
Yang Yanzong stroked the token in his hand and snorted. He was too smart and had too many ideas. This might not be a good thing for an unmarried girl.
However, this is none of his business.
Their private interactions ended the moment she refused the marriage.
Yang Yanzong didn't like Su Ci very much, but he had to say that her performance was impeccable. She was smart, clever and quick-witted, and she didn't look like an ordinary girl at all. She was generous, humorous and dazzling. It had only been a short time since she arrived, but she had already become friends with his men. She was much better than his brother.
Thinking of Yang Yanxin, Yang Yanzong became annoyed again, but his brother could only go back and teach him slowly. Now was not the time to talk about this.
He stroked the token and frowned in thought. Su Ci changed her clothes and quietly leaned over. Yang Yanzong was too lazy to pay attention to her. Su Ci looked at it for a while but couldn't figure out what it was. "What's the name of this thing?"
She wrinkled her nose. Would all her hard work be in vain?
"Can we find the person?" But it's unlikely. "Then what about Brother Liu Ying?"
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