Chapter 1604 Master Jiao
The flames of the burning torch swayed slightly, causing the shadows to twist.
"Was there a gust of wind just now?"
The guard holding the whistle stick looked at the torch and turned to ask his companion.
"What's the wind? Are you dazzled?"
Another person said indifferently:
"Even if there is wind, it is coming from inside. It is completely airtight, and we two brothers will be suffocated to death."
It was right to think about it, and then the man stopped talking and turned around to continue looking at the door.
And almost the moment he turned his head, a figure came towards him.
The speed was so fast that he didn't even have the chance to open his mouth and scream. Then he felt a pain in his neck and lost consciousness.
"Be gentle, don't kill me."
Qin Yan dragged another guard and slowly placed him in the corner, lowering his voice and saying:
"Put it down gently, there might be someone inside."
Qin Yan relied on acupuncture skills to knock people down, and Yang Yiyi did the same. The difference was that Yang Yiyi had learned Cloud Crossing Finger. It was hard to say whether he knocked the person out with one finger or whether the acupoints had taken effect...
Putting the guards quietly against the wall, Qin Yan took out the keys from them and opened the iron gate behind her.
The entrance to the secret passage is a large tank. If you take out the debris in the tank, you will see a movable door panel under the large tank. Follow the door panel and you will find a long underground passage.
This should be a natural cave that was briefly processed later.
After passing through this door and continuing to walk in, the space is slightly wider. It should be a cave washed out by water. The two of them can hear the sound of underground water flowing.
Looking up, there is faint sunlight shining through the top of the head. There are some holes on the top of the cave, but the holes are covered by vegetation. If you look from the outside, it is really difficult to find that there is a cave below.
The torch on the wall was about to go out, and the light was not clear, but it was easier for them to sneak in quietly.
Relying on the shadow, the two moved close to the edge of the cave, and soon found two more guards in front of them.
The guard stood under the torch, which seemed safe at first glance. In fact, the guard could not see what was in the darkness of the torch. Hiding in the shadows, the guards could see very clearly.
Qin Yan commented that the professionalism was not good at all.
The two of them slowly approached, and when they felt they were about to be discovered, they suddenly burst into action. One by one, they knocked down the guard again.
Use the guard's key to open another door, and there is a circular stone room behind it.
This place was supposed to be a secret warehouse used by the Haishi Gang to store grain and supplies. There were still many boxes and shriveled sacks left on the ground.
But now, it seems to be used as a prison cell.
At the end of the stone room, there were several large iron doors that looked particularly strong. The two of them slowly approached and looked through the windows on the iron doors.
After excluding two or three empty ones, they soon saw a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties behind the fourth door on the left.
With the only oil lamp in the room, we can see that this person seems to have a good life. His clothes do not look like those of ordinary people, but he is also white and fat. You can tell at a glance that he is the kind of person who is pampered and well-off.
He was sitting on a simple straw bed and seemed to be sighing.
This seemed to be very similar to what Miss Jiao described about her father, so Qin Yan lightly knocked on the fence on the window.
Hearing the sound, the man immediately stood up alertly and turned around to look at Qin Yan.
"Are you Mr. Jiao?"
"It's the old man, the heroine is...?"
"I am Qin Yan from the Sixteenth Village. I have been sent to look for you by Miss Jiao."
Upon hearing this, Mr. Jiao hurried to the door and saw that besides Qin Yan, Yang Yiyi was the only one.
"The two heroines rushed in. The Haishi Gang is not easy to break into."
"Generally, we got in easily."
Mr. Jiao immediately remembered that Qin Yan claimed to be from the Sixteenth Village, which was indeed not difficult for this group of thieves who came and went without a trace.
"Wait a minute, I'm going to find a way to unlock the door right now." Qin Yan lowered her head to study the lock on the door, pulled out the hairpin on her head and thrust it into the keyhole. The key to this thing was not on the guard's body.
Yang Yiyi asked:
"I heard from Miss Jiao that you have a good relationship with the Haishi Gang. How come you were detained?"
"Oh, I thought that Gang Leader Yang was still in charge of the Haishi Gang. He is a sensible person. I thought he would return the things to me if I came to talk to him, but I didn't expect that I was tricked. I drank two cups of drugged tea. Already here when you wake up.”
This Mr. Jiao had a good relationship with Gang Leader Yang of the Haishi Gang, not the Haishi Gang. Just in time, someone under Gang Leader Yang usurped the throne, and he happened to be picked on.
"We heard that someone was paying to detain you. Mr. Jiao, can you think of who it is?"
"Is this happening?"
Mr. Jiao was also puzzled when he heard this:
"Although I don't have a good reputation, I have never made enemies with anyone in my life. I really don't know who wants to harm me."
If they are not Master Jiao's enemies, then there is only one possibility left that is the most reliable.
Northland.
Mr. Jiao's business should be so big that even Tang Feng's company would come to discuss medicinal materials. As long as he is eliminated, the business will naturally be in chaos for a while, delaying the supply of the Central Plains to the Northland front line.
This is probably the most reliable guess, but the Haishi Gang didn't want to get into big trouble. They took the money, but they didn't completely get it done.
You can think about it later, and think about how to get the person out first.
"Have you two heroines ever seen my carriage in the village?"
"I've seen it before, just outside in the yard."
Hearing this, Mr. Jiao said anxiously:
"There is a white jade box wrapped in leather on the carriage. Has the heroine seen it?"
"This... we didn't pay attention to."
Mr. Jiao said anxiously:
"In that jade box is a golden dragon scale that I found throughout the Central Plains. My wife has been ill for a long time, so I rely on this thing to save her life. I must not miss it."
These golden dragon scales are not literally the scales of a golden dragon, but a special kind of Ganoderma lucidum.
This kind of Ganoderma is shaped like scales and is covered in gold. It absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon. It is said that it takes five hundred years to mature. It is an elixir that only exists in books and very few people have seen.
If an ordinary person takes one bite, his illness will be gone. If a dying person takes one bite, his life will be extended by ten years. If a person who practices martial arts takes it and refines it with internal energy, his power will be greatly increased.
Even the emperor had never seen this thing before. It was even rarer than the Sky Stone. In order to find it, Mr. Jiao had exhausted all his contacts and traveled all over the ten countries of the Central Plains before he found it in the hands of an ignorant medicine dealer.
Mr. Jiao certainly couldn't tell anyone how precious this thing was. He only said that the Ganoderma lucidum looked weird, so he ordered a batch from the drug store and added golden dragon scales to it.
I was supposed to arrive home a few days ago, but unexpectedly I was robbed by the Haishi Gang on the way.
Mr. Jiao was waiting for this thing to save his wife's life. Of course he went crazy when he heard about it.
So he is locked up here now.
"Mr. Jiao, don't worry. When we came in, we saw that the carriage's cargo was still in good condition. The people in the Haishi Gang don't know the cargo, so they may not have moved it at all. We'll talk about it when we get out."
Not to mention knowing the Golden Dragon Scale, there are very few people who know the existence of this thing. It should not be lost if the thing is placed on the carriage.
Yang Yiyi comforted Mr. Jiao, lowered her head and asked Qin Yan:
"Haven't you opened it yet?"
"This lock is extraordinary."
Qin Yan's nose was already sweating. Logically speaking, there were almost no locks that she couldn't open, but this lock was extremely strong.
"What the female hero doesn't know is that this lock was made by the imperial court looking for skilled craftsmen twenty years ago. Then it fell into the hands of the Haishi Gang for some reason. Gang Leader Yang showed off to me at the beginning."
In other words, this is no ordinary lock, and it's normal that you can't open it.
(End of chapter)