The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

"The house is just ahead."

While Heifu, the head of the village, used himself as bait to hold the head of the village and Tian Dian, and pointed around and talked to people everywhere, attracting most of the villagers who were watching the fun, Ji Ying and Li Xian were ordered to patrol the village.

The patrol was fake, they actually wanted to take "Ju" to the suspicious place that Ji Ying found when he delivered a letter in Blind Mountain last time...

Long before entering Blind Mountain, Ji Ying told everyone about the strange thing he encountered.

"Didn't I come to deliver Tian Zuoli's letter in January? After dinner, I was looking for a toilet and got lost. As I was walking, I passed by a dilapidated hut in the north of the village..."

Ji Ying said that the house was really tight, with only a small window facing outward. The window was gray and there seemed to be thin iron bars inside, just like a prison for suspects. After hearing his movements outside, there was a rustling sound inside the house...

Ji Ying was a curious person, so he leaned over to see, because it was bright outside and dark inside, and it was very difficult for him to see.

At this moment, a dishevelled man suddenly rushed towards the window from the dark room! He jumped back in fright!

"The disheveled person seemed to be a woman. When she saw me, she clapped her hands desperately, shaking the wooden bars of the window, and she kept saying 'save me, save me'. Her voice was a little hoarse, and I couldn't hear what she said later."

"I was scared and retreated. At this time, someone came to find me and told me to follow and not to run around. Another person walked to that family and said something loudly in the local dialect. There was no movement inside the window immediately..."

Afterwards, the local people explained to Ji Ying that the person imprisoned inside was a slave concubine of a certain family. She was crazy and had to be locked up, otherwise she would bite people like a mad dog everywhere, and he was told to ignore her.

Ji Ying didn't doubt it at the time. When the end point of the robbery and sale case pointed to Blind Mountain, he suddenly remembered this.

"Maybe the person imprisoned inside is Ju's daughter!" The incident mentioned by Ji Ying was almost the only clue for Hei Fu and others.

However, although Hei Fu had dragged out the village officials and most of the people in the village, the village head was still worried and sent someone to follow Ji Ying and others. But halfway through the journey, Ji Ying covered his stomach and said that he had a stomachache, and asked the man to take him to the toilet quickly. The man had no choice but to ask Li Xian and Ju to stand still.

How could the two not move? As soon as the person who was monitoring them left, the two hurried to the north. Ji Ying told them that the family last time lived alone, close to the inner wall, with a crooked jujube tree in front of the door, which was easy to find.

Not long after, they found the family that Ji Ying mentioned. This family lived alone, a little far away from other neighbors, with a crooked jujube tree planted in front of the door, and the yard was surrounded by a simple fence. The walls of the house were black with cow dung, and the roof was a simple thatched roof. It was a poor family at first glance.

The small house that Ji Ying mentioned was located next to the jujube tree.

Ju rushed forward anxiously, lying on the window where Ji Ying had seen someone, and called out softly...

"Yuanyuan? Yuanyuan?"

However, he called out many times, but there was no movement inside.

Li Xian was afraid that he would shout louder and louder and attract others, so he quickly pulled Ju back. He stood on tiptoe and looked into the house. After a glance, he said, "No one is inside."

"No one!?" Ju was very disappointed and stamped his feet on the spot and said, "Could it be that we have found the wrong family?"

"Yes, it is this family."

At this time, Ji Ying also trotted over. He didn't know what method he used to get rid of the people who were watching them.

He also looked at the window and said that this was really strange. There was someone there last time.

"Could it have been moved away? Although this place is not big, there are more than 20 households. Do we have to look for them one by one?"

This is exactly what Li Xian was worried about. If the person was in the village, it would be fine. But he was afraid that if someone saw those suspicious women one after another, it would arouse the vigilance of the blind mountain and move the women to the forest inside and outside.

Li Xian asked Ju to be patient, and he walked around the family, but saw that the door was closed and the yard was empty without a single person. It must be that the owner was not at home.

There didn't seem to be anything suspicious in the yard. He didn't stop until he walked around most of the way and got to the backyard!

There was a pigpen in the backyard, surrounded by a wooden fence. It looked very small. Before Li Xian walked up to it, he smelled a strong stench inside, which made people very uncomfortable.

When he walked to the side, he was stunned to find that the pigsty was empty. The person sleeping beside the trough filled with water was not a pig, but a person!

A woman with disheveled hair and no clothes to cover her body!

…

"It's her! It was definitely her that I saw last time!"

At this time, Ji Ying also followed and shouted immediately.

Ju also came over after hearing the sound. He saw the woman curled up in the mud and straw in the pigsty. She seemed to be somewhat similar to his daughter. He cried out in pain and was about to turn over the yard.

Li Xian was still a little hesitant: "Wait, it is illegal to break into a private house without the owner's permission."

Ji Ying said: "We are ordered to investigate the case, and we don't have to be punished!"

"What if this woman was not abducted and sold?"

"It's time, why do you still care about that?"

Ji Ying didn't care about anything and immediately turned over, and Ju followed closely behind.

At this time, the flies on the woman sleeping in the pigsty suddenly flew up, and she was awakened. The woman was stunned for a moment, thinking she was dreaming, but when she saw two strangers had begun to climb over the fence of the pigsty, she began to scream.

Ji Ying arrived first. He endured the stench in the pigsty, squatted down, and helped the woman untie the hemp rope tied to her hands. I don't know how long the rope has been tied on her hands, and her wrists have been worn out with thick calluses. Her exposed arms and thighs are also covered with blood scars. I think she has been beaten a lot.

"What a beastly act." Ji Ying couldn't help but curse. Even if she was really a slave, she didn't have to do this.

After the rope on the woman's wrist was untied, she suddenly grabbed Ji Ying and cried, "Help, save me..."

Ji Ying nodded and said, "We are the guards sent by the county to save you. Are you a woman who was abducted and sold?"

The woman didn't know if she had been locked up for too long, and even her words were a little unclear, but she kept nodding and said vaguely, "Abducted, yes, I was abducted and sold here for many years. They forced me, beat me, and locked me up here... Save me, save me!"

As she spoke, tears flowed from her eyes, leaving two traces of innocence on her dirty cheeks.

"See, I was right!" Ji Ying was overjoyed, turned around and said to Li Xian, calling him to come in and help quickly.

At this time, Ju finally climbed over the pigsty. The old man's legs were stiff and he fell, but he got up immediately. He staggered over and knelt in front of the disheveled woman. He held her shoulders with trembling hands and cried in his voice.

"My daughter, you have suffered so much!"

At this time, the woman raised her head, and Ju also lifted her dirty, tangled hair covered with straw and mud, revealing her face...

This was a young woman under 20 years old, but because she suffered so much in the past few years, she looked like she was in her 30s...

Looking at Ju who called her "daughter", the woman was a little puzzled.

"Who are you?"

Ju also looked at the woman's face carefully, exclaimed, and quickly stepped back, falling down at the feet of Li Xian who had just entered the yard.

"What's wrong?" Li Xian felt something was wrong. This was not the look of a father and daughter meeting.

"She..." Ju raised his hand and pointed at the woman. Although he was unwilling to admit it, he still murmured: "She is not my daughter, not my Yuanyuan!"

"What!?"

Li Xian and Ji Ying were shocked.

Ji Ying did not understand what was going on for a while, but Li Xian was thinking quickly in his mind.

"This woman claimed that she was abducted and sold, but she is not Ju's daughter. Could it be that..."

His face changed: "There are more than one abducted and sold women in this blind mountain!?"

At the same time, a loud shout came from outside the yard.

"What are you doing!?"

Everyone turned around and saw three farmers who had just returned from the fields holding farm tools and standing outside the yard.

In the sun, their dark bodies were covered with shiny sweat and their faces were black, as if someone had touched their forbidden food. They looked at Ji Ying, Li Xian and others with some anger...

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