I dare not

Gu Qiao woke up in severe pain.

What I saw when I opened my eyes was the black roof soaked with water, and large areas of mold marks like rotten flowers.

He tried to move his body, but he heard someone calling him, "Gu Qiao, Gu Qiao, are you awake?" It was the voice of a little fool.

He only remembered the fire that filled the sky before he passed out, and the dense smoke choked him so much that he couldn't breathe.

"The gate is locked from the outside! Someone is trying to burn us!"

"Help! Help!"

"The water is out!"

"what--"

Crying and screams filled the eardrums, Gu Qiao's head was swollen and painful, and his limbs and bones seemed to be run over by a giant wheel.

The little fool stretched his face to his, and looked at him carefully, "Are you okay?"

Gu Qiao blinked and asked hoarsely, "Where is this?"

"I don't know." The little fool said, "Huang Qi brought us here."

Enduring the pain, Gu Qiao propped up half of her body and looked around, only to find that she was lying in a prison cell.The cell was facing a staircase, and there was some light coming in from the entrance of the staircase, and the voices of people talking could be heard from above, which was far away and could not be heard clearly.

Is this locked up?What happened to the people in the temple?

"How long have I passed out?"

"last night."

It means that since last night, I have been in a coma until now.

A person came out of the light at the stairs, and against the light, only his short and thin figure could be seen.

"Wake up," Huang Qi walked down the stairs, "Yesterday, Lord Inspector led troops to suppress the bandits. Fortunately, our Duke Du saved you."

"Suppression of bandits?" Gu Qiao stood up from the ground, and walked forward step by step, "You clearly know that there are innocent people in the temple."

Huang Qi rolled his eyes, "What does the assassination of the bandits have to do with me?"

"Huang Zhengxian and you wear a pair of pants, do you think I don't know?" Gu Qiao asked in a hoarse voice, "You set fire to Shaocheng Temple, and hundreds of people were locked in it and burned alive. What are you talking about suppressing bandits?!"

Huang Qi didn't want to say more, he was just ordered to deliver Duke Du's instructions, "Our Duke Du said, if you tell me the secret of psychic art, your life will be spared."

When are you still thinking about that shit psychic art?Gu Qiao laughed back angrily, "Okay! You call Huang Zhengxian and Du, and I'll tell them face to face!"

"Du Gong doesn't have time to talk nonsense with you. You'd better be sensible and don't be confused about your situation." When Huang Qi spoke, he followed Du Gong's teachings and didn't look Gu Qiao directly in the eyes.

They thought it was Gu Qiao's slightly upturned peach blossom eyes that were beguiling people's hearts.Take this fool as an example, he just spent a whole day and night with this person the day he escaped, and he was so dependent on him.

Last night when their men sneaked into the fire and found these two, Gu Qiao was already fainted by the thick smoke.The fool didn't care that the fire was about to burn his clothes, he just hugged the person and didn't move, he didn't run away, he looked like he was going to die with him.

The fool refused to let go all the way to bring them to the dungeon of the state capital. Mr. Du originally asked for the two to be separated and detained, but the fool hugged Gu Qiao tightly and no one could separate them.Huang Qi didn't dare to be violent and hurt the two of them, so he had to lock them together.

How did he know that the fool was a snail fruit attack and he was about to go crazy, and Gu Qiao who was hugging him was his life-saving straw. The crazy person's hands were much stronger than ordinary people, how could he let go.

Gu Qiao lowered her eyes slightly to look at the little fool who was looking at him earnestly, thinking that since they care so much about psychics, they should continue to lie and delay for a while, "You better understand your own situation, The third child is now my man. Spiritualism is my trump card, do you think I am stupid? Why would I hand over the method to you. "

Huang Qi pulled out the saber from his waist, "Then I'll kill you right away!"

"Okay!" Gu Qiao raised her head and showed her slender neck, "You can try it!"

The idiot seemed to smell the danger, he rushed to the front, blocked Gu Qiao behind him, and shot Huang Qi like lightning.

Huang Qi knew that Du Gong had used needles on him, and the idiot couldn't use his skills now, but he was still shocked by his momentum.He slowly put the knife back into the scabbard, "Okay, since you are so eager to seek death, I will help you."

Huang Qi turned around and left. Gu Qiao watched him walk up the stairs slowly, feeling an ominous premonition in his heart.

The jailer who delivered the food came down the stairs with a wooden bowl in one hand, medicine in one bowl, and two steamed buns in the other.After being a jailer for so many years, it was the first time for him to deliver medicine to prisoners, but since it was the governor's order, he didn't ask too much.In particular, the dungeon with iron bars is used for serious criminals, and it has not been used for many years.

This time the suppressing bandits captured more than a dozen mountain bandits and only put these two in the dungeon. They must be the bandit leaders.He lowered his head and placed the bowl on the ground one step outside the cell, so that the people inside could reach it without getting too close.

Gu Qiao saw that he was wearing a gray cloth prison uniform with red piping, and realized that this was actually a prison cell in the state capital.

The jailer seemed to have been ordered not to look into Gu Qiao's eyes, put the bowl down, and left with his head down.

Gu Qiao knew that there must be someone on the other side of the stairs watching the movement below all the time, so he reached out and brought in the two bowls, and handed the medicine to the little fool.

The little fool understood what he meant, turned around and made a gesture of drinking medicine.Gu Qiao stood aside so that the higher-ups could not see that he had poured out the medicinal soup.

Everyone in Ningcheng knew that Governor Huang had recently wiped out Shaocheng Temple, the largest bandit stronghold on Luoxian Mountain, and more than a hundred bandits were on the spot. The news of the success was posted on the notice board at the gate of the government office for three days.

Chang Ling and Chang Huan stood and watched from a distance for a while.

Chang Ling was so angry that he cried, "Why? Why is it a bandit? It's obviously..."

Chang Huan hurriedly covered her mouth, "Don't say it here!"

"Why can't you say it?" Chang Ling slapped his hand away, sobbing, "There's also Gu Qiao, and that idiot the third child, they're not bandits!"

When he saw Shaocheng Temple on fire, Fazhang took them up the mountain overnight.The mountain road looks close, but it is far away when walking. It takes half a day to walk during the day, let alone at night.When they arrived at Shaocheng Temple, they saw officers and soldiers carrying charred corpses out one by one.

Many people have been burned black, it is impossible to tell who is who.

Fazhang looked over one by one, and finally told them, "Gu Qiao and that boy are not inside."

Chang Ling didn't know how Master recognized it.

She had never seen so many dead people. Although she was a practitioner, these extremely tragic corpses still had a huge impact on her young heart.She hadn't realized it when she was at the scene, and she was busy helping Master to save the undead until dawn.I started crying after I came down from Shaocheng Temple, and I have been crying until now.

Chang Huan also felt very uncomfortable, thinking of those burnt corpses in different shapes, he couldn't eat for three days.

Fazhang asked them to come out to inquire about the whereabouts of Gu Qiao and the young man. The two of them squatted at the gate of the government office all morning, but found nothing.

Chang Ling raised his sleeve and wiped his eyes, "It would be great if the elder brother was here, he must have a way."

"We can't rely on the big brother for everything." Chang Huan became stronger after this incident, "We have to be like the big brother!"

He is fifteen years old this year, not much older than Chang Ling, but he is very conscious of being a senior brother, he takes the senior brother as an example in everything, and strives to be a good assistant to the master.

Chang Ling finally stopped crying, "Then shall we go back now?"

"No, it's still early. Let's go to the West Market. There are many people in the West Market. Let's see if we can get any news."

The West Market in Ningcheng is the largest commodity distribution center in the entire Lianzhou. In normal years, people who do business and buy goods are bustling with each other.Now that the economy is in recession, more than half of the merchants in the market have disappeared.

There is a long queue at the gate of the food store. In the past, it cost 20 cents a bucket of rice, but now it costs 200 cents a bucket. It is still limited, and only 500 buckets are sold every day.Many people lined up before dawn to buy rice.

As soon as Chang Huan said Amitabha, he heard noises coming from across the street.

It was a pharmacy, and there were several people around the door, and the pharmacist was surrounded in the middle and hurried around.

"Oh, we are also waiting for the money to come back! It's useless for you to force me now!"

Those people made a fuss, "It was agreed to pay us the bill on the [-]th of this month, and it was postponed until today. We came today and said no!"

"You want so many snails, but we paid for it ourselves. Now you're reneging on your debts and making so many of us drink Northwest Wind!"

Chang Huan and Chang Ling looked at each other when they heard this, and Chang Huan lowered his voice and said: "We are waiting for the man who bought the snail fruit here, maybe we can find Gu Qiao and the others."

"Yeah." Chang Ling nodded, and stood with Chang Huan in the shadow of the corner across the street.

Although there were a lot fewer people in the market, it was still lively.The street was full of hungry people begging for food, and the two bald heads standing on the street corner were not too conspicuous.

The few people who asked for the bill didn't get the money, and they all sat on the threshold of the pharmacy and waited.People who were going to buy things in the pharmacy didn't dare to go in when they saw the battle, and the clerks in the pharmacy saw it and didn't dare to show their anger.

Waiting until the sun was in the west, a black and thin man entered the pharmacy, and then the pharmacy clerk took the money and sent away the person who had to pay the bill.

Chang Ling tightly grabbed his brother's arm, "It's him! It's him!"

Chang Huan was pulled so painfully, he hurriedly rescued his arm, pulled her back and left, "We follow him!"

They knew that Huang Qi was good at martial arts, so they didn't dare to get close to him.Fortunately, the two of them had excellent eyesight, and they did not lose track even when they fell far away.

In the end, I saw Huang Qi enter the governor's mansion!