Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 367 Flooding

Cui Bianxu took his men back to the Dali Temple, and right after that, Wang Leisheng, with a dark circle under his eyes and a proud look on his face, led his men straight to the God of Wealth Casino.

If he doesn't turn the God of Wealth Casino upside down today, he will write the three words "Wang Leisheng" upside down!

"Mr. Cui, among the people you brought back, some have already woken up. Do you want to bring them here now?" The little medicine boy beside Ning Yuye rushed over to ask immediately.

Today, Cui Bianxu came back in a dishevel, escorted by Chang'an County officials with nine unconscious people. For the first time, Ning Yuye's yard faced the same situation as Ding Yuan's - it was full.

"How many of them are awake?" Cui Bianxu had just finished changing his clothes and was chewing on a Hu pancake. Jian Ming, whose eyes were swollen from crying and whose face was bruised, stood behind him, drying his hair bit by bit.

"Five of them have woken up." The little medicine boy answered very quickly, his eyes full of hope - their small courtyard really couldn't accommodate so many people, so they should move to the Dali Temple prison as soon as possible!

Eating Hu Bing alone was really hard on the throat, so Xiao Cui chewed it slowly and asked, "How are the other four people?"

"Three of them are still unconscious, and one died shortly after being brought in. Coroner Ding has already taken him away for an autopsy."

The little medicine boy was very busy. At the beginning, Ding Yuan lent a hand to help him with the work. However, one of them died soon after. Ding Yuan was out of time. He had to hurry to open the body of the fresh corpse.

"Has your master found out why those three people are unconscious?"

Thinking of the person he brought out today, Cui Bianxu felt that his strong back muscles were heavy - in the physical sense.

Last night he stood by the wooden barrel and waited for a long time, but no one came to beat him up. Instead, he heard the sound of water splashing.

Wu Sanniang was a cruel person. I don't know if she found out that he had entered the dark room, or if she would behave like this whenever an outsider entered. In any case, not only did Wu Sanniang not show up, but she also brought in a lot of water from somewhere.

When Cui Bianxu heard the sound of flowing water, he realized something was wrong. He continued walking along the secret passage and found that the place was already deserted. There was only the body of a maid with her face scratched on the ground. Where was the trace of Wu Sanniang?

The exit at the end had long been blocked tightly by a huge stone slab, and a round hole about the width of a palm on the side wall was bubbling with water.

Although the darkroom is big enough, it cannot withstand the water leakage. Wu Sanniang is going to drown them all alive in this dark underground!

Underground, dark room, blocked at both ends, unknown, flooded...

Most people would have a mental breakdown in such a situation, but Cui Bianxu did not.

The reasons are as follows:

1. If the dead drifters in Yong’an Canal could get out, there is no way that Cui Yi could not find a way to escape.

2. His Qinghe Cui family had never had a son die in such a miserable way.

3. When he was born, his mother invited highly respected people from both Buddhism and Taoism to read his fortune. The fortune teller said that Cui Yi would live a long life and become rich and powerful.

He promised to live a hundred years, not a day less, otherwise his mother would definitely destroy the Taoist temple and the Buddhist temple!

With this triple confidence, the first thing Cui Bianxu did was to go back to the dark room and get everyone out of the small cave.

There were five people in the cave, including the one he had just thrown in. They were all men under forty years old. They were all awake, but rather weak.

The three people in the barrel still had their eyes closed, and it was unknown whether they were dead or alive. Cui Bianxu reached out and sniffed their breath, and found that they were still alive, so he wanted to reach out and pull them out. Just as his hand reached above one of them's shoulders, he suddenly remembered that those people had carefully stirred the barrel with their eyes.

One of the men he had pulled out of the small cave also spoke at this time. He was more energetic than the other four: "There's something strange in this barrel. You can't touch it directly with your hands."

Cui Bianxu glanced at him, and remembered the unlucky guy who was dragged out of the wooden barrel and was still lying on the ground, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. He followed suit and pulled the three people out by their hair.

The situation of these three people was no better than that of the unlucky guy before. With such a strong force dragging on their scalps, they would have screamed in pain under normal circumstances. However, these three people all had expressions of pain on their faces but still did not open their eyes.

Because they only had half of their tongue, the four of them couldn't even make a sound.

After pulling the man up, Cui Bianxu picked up the wooden stick that fell on the ground and stirred it in the wooden barrel. After stirring it for a while, he realized that something was wrong. There were bugs in the barrel!

This discovery made Cui Bianxu extremely excited. He suspected that this insect was the reason why Yan Yin turned into a monster!

I quickly checked the remaining three barrels and found that only two of them had bugs in them, and the bugs in both barrels had disappeared.

"This, this hero..."

"kindness?"

Cui Bianxu frowned and looked at the person who spoke: "I am Cui Yi, the Junior Secretary of the Dali Temple."

What's the point of talking about heroes or not? It just sounds like being a rough and uncouth guy.

"Yes, yes, Cui Shaoqing."

"Are you really the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple?!" The man who spoke first was extremely excited. He forced himself to stand up and tried to take a closer look at Cui Bianxu. After studying him for a long time, a flash of excitement suddenly flashed across his face: "Yes, yes, it's you, it really is Shaoqing Cui!"

"Do you know me?"

"I, I saw Shaoqing when I was begging in Chongrenfang. Shaoqing, please save us!" After confirming Cui Bianxu's identity, the man seemed to suddenly come to life, as if he had a last-ditch effort after sitting up in shock from a dying illness.

Tears streaming down her face, she tried to pull at the corner of Cui Bianxu's clothes: "Master Cui, these thieves have kidnapped me in the dead of night for five days!"

Five days!

These five days were even worse than when he was begging. When he was begging in Chongrenfang, he could still eat three or four meals a day!

He had to rely on a single meal to survive in this shabby place. He watched helplessly as people were tortured to death. He was so hungry and scared that he thought he was going to die too. But unexpectedly, help finally arrived!

"Chongrenfang?"

"Exactly! The food at Lexianlou is delicious. I often go there. When Chef Jiang was still around, you, Mr. Cui, often went there..."

"enough."

Cui Bianxu took a deep breath. There was no need to go into details about how he pursued his wife!

"Since you came here five days ago, did you know that someone escaped from here yesterday?"

"Shaoqing Cui..."

His face was filled with a look of "Are you kidding me?" "This place only allows people to come in, no one can leave. Even if someone can leave, they have to leave sideways. How can anyone escape..."

"One person escaped from here with one leg chopped off. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known that someone was doing such a strange thing here. Think about it carefully, the exit is now blocked..."

Cui Bian tapped his toes twice as he spoke. "Those thieves blocked the exit and tried to flood us in, trying to drown us. You've been here a long time. If you can't remember, we'll all die here today."