antique masters in modern times

It was a low rocky cliff, quite a distance from the village, on which stood a small solitary shack.The white waves hit the bottom of the cliff, giving people a feeling of crumbling.

A sampan was buckled upside down outside the house, and a man in only shorts was climbing on it and busy repairing it.He seems to go to the sea often, and he doesn't care about taking care of it. The sea salt on his half-length hair is like frost, and he looks like an old man from a distance.

The cliff is at least a hundred meters above sea level. How did this man drag the boat up?

The village head glanced at it, and then said impatiently: "The man's surname is Bai, we all call him Bai Sheng, he is a bachelor. He is the laziest and poorest in the village, and he will never do any investigation for you. You should look elsewhere." Let's see."

laziest?I'm afraid not necessarily.Either the village head was dark under the lights and didn't notice all the abnormalities.Or, also a participant?

Yan You's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at Master Qin's expression again, trying to see if he could find something from his expression.

Unexpectedly, the latter was also staring at him eagerly. Seeing him turn around, he leaned over mysteriously: "Comrade Xiaoyan, I found out that this village must be doing ulterior motives. Look at their wharf. , Several fishing nets have accumulated thick sand, obviously they don’t fish. Think about it, what else can a fisherman do if he doesn’t fish?”

Yan You raised his hand slightly, interrupting Master Qin who was still trying to show off: "I can see that it is closer to Hong Kong Island to go to sea from them, and they must be doing smuggling business."

Guangzhou is almost one step away from Hong Kong Island, and there have been no smugglers since liberation.At first, most of these people were local fishermen who were unwilling to live a hard life and wanted to find gold in another place.Later, the reputation gradually spread, and many people who had relatives and friends on Hong Kong Island and who were unsatisfactory in the Mainland tried to come here to smuggle.

Some local villagers who were unwilling to leave their hometowns and were quick-witted took advantage of the situation to start "extradition".The smugglers were also freed from the original method of tying up pig urine and soaking in water, and they would be finished if their calves cramped, and they were given the treatment of being picked up by special boats on the best route.Both parties are happy.

During the period from the late 60s to the early 80s, as long as mainlanders set foot on Hong Kong Island, they could obtain local legal status.Later, the rules became stricter, and black households had to live in Hong Kong Island for seven years, have a legal job, and have at least three Hong Kong residents as guarantors before they could settle down.Later, it was a fool's dream for stowaways to try to get their identity.

As a result, fewer and fewer people think of starting over on Hong Kong Island.But at the same time, some people on Hong Kong Island have launched a "new business": using Hong Kong Island as a springboard, first go to the island, and then transfer to Western countries.Of course, the cost is relatively much higher.

At the same time, the western national conditions gradually spread to China, and people were surprised to find that the people of the capitalist countries did not live in dire straits, but were much more nourished than them.In addition, all kinds of rumors that gold is everywhere in foreign countries and that you can become a ten-thousand-dollar household by washing dishes have incited people's brains. Many people inquired about the way, and they all chose to fight hard and start again in a foreign country.

Although relevant departments investigate and deal with it every year, stowaways are still repeatedly banned.The villagers who rely on this industry for food come with light and rich money. No wonder Sanyang Village is much richer than other places.

All these situations were told by Murong Hui to Yan You on the way to Guangzhou.

At that moment, Master Qin saw that Yan You knew everything well, immediately put away his showy thoughts, smiled dryly, and said: "I'm afraid they have been in this business for 30 or [-] years. It would be strange if they said they have no relationship with Anxiangmen. "Comrade Xiaoyan, I think we have found the right place. It's a pity that we don't have enough manpower right now. Why don't we force the village chief to confess when Master Murong comes over?"

Yan You didn't know how far the two villages were, so he asked, "How long will it take for him to come here?"

"One or two hours!" Master Qin blurted out, and then realized that he had missed his words, and hurried back to make up for it: "Of course, this is the time it takes to walk. We are much faster on three wheels. When Master Murong came, he got a car , it will definitely be faster, and it will arrive in about two or three 10 minutes."

Cars tend to move slower than cattle in places that are all sandy and have no decent roads.However, these lies that were intended to be concealed made Yanyou see through Master Qin's intentions: he was trying to use Sanyang Village to trip everyone here.

However, thinking about Murong Hui's previous investigation of the three caves of Qi Feng's cunning rabbit, and the practice of changing places every time he went to sea, this Sanyang Village probably really has contacts with Anxiangmen, but this time it just happened to not participate in the action, but the village must still be there. There are their people.

For some reason, Anxiangmen acted ahead of time, and now there is not much time left.If we can find out the waterline in Sanyang Village and confront Master Qin and force them to tell the truth, there may be a turning point.But, who would this person be?

First of all, the village head and Master Qin don't know each other, and Master Qin has always put the suspicion on the village head, which can be ruled out.

But along the way, Master Qin did not hide anything, which is a bit strange.Yan You believed that his actions were completely impulsive, he could not have prepared in advance, let alone notify his accomplices.Generally speaking, shouldn't you worry about leaking from your uninformed accomplices?

Unless, he is confident that the accomplice will not see him.But Sanyang Village only has more than 100 households, and they can't see each other when they look up. Now they have gone around the village again, how can they guarantee that they won't run into each other?Does that guy still go to bed at a fixed time every day?

——By the way, there is a person, they can see him, but he can't see them clearly!

Realizing this, Yan You immediately ran to the reception room without saying a word.

"Comrade Xiaoyan? Comrade Xiaoyan?!"

Master Qin was startled and wanted to stop him.But no matter how much he shouted, Yan You never looked back.

At this time, everyone drank enough water in the room, and stretched out again as if the wilting leaves had absorbed enough nutrients.Some people standing at the door looking around saw Yanyou running back in a hurry, and greeted them warmly: "Comrade Xiaoyan, drink some water and rest for a while."

Yan You waved to him, and said loudly: "I found a clue, please come with me and take that man down!"

Master Qin, who ran in behind closely, heard this and was so startled that his heart beat wildly: "Here, where do we have evidence? Didn't we say that we can wait for Master Murong to come over and talk about it? If you act rashly on other people's territory, you won't suffer a big loss." No wonder. Young people are impatient, don’t—”

"Shut up! You're going to take the responsibility for something that went wrong? Or is it that you're with them and that's why you dragged us around but couldn't find any clues?"

Yanyou's long eyebrows and Yixuan, usually a delicate and gentle person, suddenly felt oppressive, and Master Qin dared not answer for a while.

He knew that Master Qin was not clean, but because he didn't have anyone to suppress him, he deliberately dispelled his doubts, and instead forced him to dare not act rashly for a while——Master Qin knew that he hadn't been exposed from these words, so he couldn't help but take a chance, and I want to keep this "useful body" and wait for an opportunity to destroy it secretly.

One sentence stopped Master Qin, Yanyou turned his head and said to the others: "Let's go!"

The few people responded coquettishly, and immediately ran out with Master Qin in their arms.

At this time, the village head who was full of doubts followed.Seeing this group of people gearing up to make trouble, they were shocked.

But no matter how loudly he shouted, he couldn't get a response.After stomping their feet, they quickly gathered a dozen young men to follow, and prepared to teach this group of ignorant rebels a lesson.

Bai Sheng felt that he lived up to his name and was born in this world of flamboyance in vain. He never enjoyed a day of happiness since he was a child.

However, times have changed, and recently he finally caught a good opportunity. As long as he has more courage, he can earn a lot of money without hard work.After working for a few more years, I believe he will be able to build the most magnificent bungalow in the village, marry a village beauty, give birth to a few big fat boys, and continue to work for the boss when he grows up, earning a lot of money.

Speaking of women, he couldn't help but think of the woman sent here yesterday.In the past six months, he has handled dozens of women, but he has never seen such a beautiful one.The one with the small waist and slender face, the one with the tender face, the one with the small appearance, not even the female stars in the big pictorials of the movie theaters in the city are so good-looking.

It's a pity that the superiors have explained that this woman can't be touched, and she has to be sent away in two days.

He didn't dare to disobey the words of his superiors, otherwise he would lose his fortune.So, I can only stare and drool, and secretly have sex dreams when I have free time.

After mending the sampan, he didn't bother to tidy it up, and went back to the house and fell directly on the bedding that was so dark that he couldn't see his true color.Before closing his eyes, he heard chaotic footsteps outside the door.

Before he could react, a few unfamiliar faces rushed in and pressed firmly in the blink of an eye.

His eyes, nose and mouth were crushed and deformed on the smelly bed, Bai Sheng was so startled that his hands and feet twitched.He suddenly heard a familiar voice, and regardless of how bad this person usually treated him, he struggled and shouted from the bottom of his heart, "Village Chief, save me!"

After all, Yan You and his party were outsiders, although they had the advantage of most of them having martial arts background and climbed up the cliff first, but the villagers who were familiar with the terrain immediately caught up.

Seeing that this group of outsiders actually captured Bai Sheng, even though this brat was the most incompetent and didn't even bother to do the most labor-saving work of helping people smuggle people across the country, he was from the same village anyway, and the village chief had to stand up for him: "Didn't you read People from the university, what is the reason for bullying people unreasonably? If you don't let him go immediately, don't even think about leaving this village today!"

Saying that, a group of villagers with wooden sticks and harpoons took a step forward, staring at Yan You and his party with malicious intent.In their view, it is absolutely easy for a dozen people to besiege a few unarmed people.In fact, if he hadn't been concerned about Yanyou's status as a college student and feared causing trouble, the village head would have ordered him to rob him.

The small room was filled to the brim with two groups of vigorous men, like a grenade with its fuse opened, with sparks flying everywhere, ready to explode at any moment.

Master Qin, who hadn't seized the opportunity, hurriedly took advantage of the situation to help, seemingly trying to persuade him, but actually suppressing his own morale: "Comrade Xiaoyan, I told you not to be reckless. If you are impulsive, everyone will suffer accordingly. Why don't you let me go?" Now that the matter has spread out, the village chief is not an unreasonable person, I believe he will be able to—”

With every word and every word, he directed the misfortune to Yanyou, trying to stir up internal strife.But Yanyou gave him a wink, and said directly to the village chief, "Someone in your village is hiding and abducting women. I'm here to investigate this matter. It's just a cover to salvage the sunken ship."

"What? Smuggling?" The village chief, who already had ghosts in his heart, thought that someone mistakenly investigated smuggling as a kidnapping case—there were also women among the stowaways, and when they disappeared, their family members often lied about their disappearance.In the eyes of others, isn't it just being trafficked?

He was still thinking about how to deal with it, but he heard Yan You say again: "It's not one or two, but a group of women. Nearly a hundred of them were sold abroad in just half a year. Village chief, open the skylight and speak honestly, I know What kind of side business is your village doing, and you can probably guess what you are thinking now. But please think about it carefully, has your village received so many female guests? Haven’t you heard of anyone’s daughter getting lost among relatives and friends recently? ?”

The village head was startled when he made such a direct point, but after hearing it, he couldn't help thinking: Smuggling is not simply going out to seek a living, but starting from scratch in a country that is completely unfamiliar from language to environment. The psychological pressure is greater.

For various reasons, it is mostly men who have the courage to put all their eggs in one basket.Sanyang Village has seen only twenty or thirty female guests over the years.Either they went with her husband, or they were really desperate, and the amount was far less than what Yan You said.Could it be that this is not a misunderstanding, that someone is actually abducting and trafficking women?

Before finishing thinking about it, someone in the village suddenly shouted: "My uncle's little girl suddenly disappeared a few months ago. Could it be that she was abducted?"

Hearing his yelling, everyone's eyes fell on Bai Sheng who had been ignored all this time.

Seeing that Bai Sheng, who thought he was coming to the "backer" and kept writhing and screaming for injustice, suddenly froze and closed his mouth like a dead fish, everyone guessed what it was.

The villager who spoke before even pierced Bai Sheng's waist with a spear, almost poking his ass: "Tell the truth! Why don't I ruin your life!"

Bai Sheng suddenly seemed to be suffering from malaria, and kept waggling: "Yes, if you have something to say, please say it. I haven't married a wife yet... I was wronged. It's all that brat's nonsense."

"I x your mother!"

The villagers' eyes turned red when they thought of their relatives being abducted and sold by this wolf-hearted beast.Just as he picked up the fork and was about to stab Bai Sheng, he was immediately stopped by a group of people, afraid that he would do something illegal on the spur of the moment.

Although he did not "win the bid", Bai Sheng was so frightened that he started crying and howling.But with a bit of fluke, he still kept calling for injustice.It's just that his previous reaction can't deceive people. Although the villagers didn't tell the truth, no one would believe his defense.

Yanyou deliberately let the angry villagers go up the cliff together, in order to win them over to his side.

Master Qin kept saying that he was afraid of arousing the anger of the villagers, but in his eyes, it was not a problem at all: the village head did not collude with Anxiangmen, and it was only a few people who committed the crime, and the victims may also be relatives and friends of the villagers.Adding up these points, if he couldn't win over the people from Sanyang Village by virtue of the situation, then he would have failed too.

Seeing that Bai Sheng was still dead, Yan You didn't force him to ask any more questions, but only told everyone the doubts he found.

Hearing him point out the question of why there is a boat on the cliff, the man who lost his relative almost hated himself: What an obvious clue, why didn't I find it before?

The village chief was also full of remorse, and at the same time felt ashamed: "I should have thought that it must be strange for this lazy bone to live in the old house, but he came to this mountain to repair the house. The undercurrent in it leads directly to the sea, and he must have used this undercurrent to do that outrageous thing!"

When the undercurrent was mentioned, Bai Sheng's convulsions became more severe, as if someone had strangled his neck, his voice suddenly became extremely low, and he didn't dare to cry for grievances anymore, he just kept begging for mercy: "I'm just a handyman... It's not my instigation, it's just like you helping people smuggle people, I'm just doing a favor to make some money... The woman sent this time has not been sent away, she is locked up in the cliff cave, Can it be regarded as my meritorious deeds?"

Yan You originally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue him and ask where he was smuggled tonight.But after hearing Bai Sheng say that another woman was imprisoned, he immediately sensed something was wrong: "There is only one woman? You are lying, there are more than twenty of them!"

When he was asked, Bai Sheng quickly swore: "I'm not lying, if there is half a false word, I will be struck by lightning! Other women are waiting to be transported away in the nearby Zhu Village, and I really only have one woman imprisoned here! I don't know why the superiors brought her here alone."

Only then did Yan You suddenly realize: If Master Qin hadn't urged them to investigate Sanyang Village, they should have gone to Zhu Village.No wonder he wants to trip everyone here, that's why!

Realizing this, Yan You, who was about to make trouble at first, was no longer polite, and said to the village chief: "Someone on my side is also involved in abduction and trafficking, please help the village chief, tie up this person and look after him, and wait until he is rescued and kidnapped." woman, we will interrogate them slowly."

The most important thing for Chinese people is face.Seeing Yanyou revealing his shortcomings, the village chief couldn't help but feel a little comforted in his heart. The little grudges he had towards him because he felt that his face was shameful disappeared.

With a big wave of his hand, Master Qin was immediately subdued by several strong villagers, who tied them into big rice dumplings with fishing nets.Although he knew martial arts, but the room was too small and crowded with people, he couldn't use it, he only parried for two or three rounds before he was captured.

This time an accident happened, Master Qin, who thought he had covered it up very well, hurriedly yelled for injustice, but he didn't realize that his words were exactly the same as Bai Sheng's.

Yan You didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, he just explained the abnormalities and doubts of his journey to the astonished and inexplicable companions.Only then did the few people suddenly realize that when they looked at Master Qin again, they were no longer respectful, but contemptuous.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Master Qin silently silenced in despair, so as not to incur more ridicule.

At this time, the village chief asked: "Comrade Xiaoyan, you have to report to Zhu Village now?"

Unknowingly, he no longer had the pretentiousness he had when he first met him, and he showed admiration for Yan You both inside and outside his words.

"Well, please ask the village chief to send a few people—no, it's best to explain it in person and help with the search, so as to show the importance of the matter." Yan You had thought of this a long time ago, but he didn't plan to go there together: " I'm going to stay and find the woman and ask her a few things."

Just now, when Bai Sheng said that the woman was sent alone, he became alert: perhaps this person was the key to making Anxiangmen rush so that Lian Qifeng acted in advance before he came back.But to teach An Xiangmen to be so flustered, her identity, or the people or things behind her, is worth finding out.Murong Hui said that there are elders in the family who are involved in this matter, maybe it happened to this woman.

With the village head of Sanyang Village coming forward, I believe that Zhu Village will not be indifferent.He can free up his hands a little bit, and ask to clarify first.

As an outsider, the village chief neither knew nor thought about it so much, he only thought that Yanyou was going to save people to the end.After exhorting a few words and leaving a few people to help, he hurried down the mountain with the others to Zhu Village.

Because caves collapsed in other villages before, few villagers entered the cave.At present, about a dozen people went into the cave with torches, only to find that the inside has been corroded by sea water into a maze after a long period of time.

Seeing this, everyone had to go to bet Baisheng to lead the way again.

While waiting, Yan You looked around, and suddenly found that the gravel on a certain path seemed to be freshly fallen, and there was still fresh dust in the stubble.He greeted his companions, and the two went forward to investigate together, and found that the fracture was on the side stone wall.

Some of the stone bars were sharp and fragile, as if someone had knocked them off as they passed by.

Could it be that this road is leading to the place where the woman was imprisoned?

After walking a few steps inside, without thinking about it, suddenly a gust of wind blew by, the torch flickered, and then went out immediately.

A huge shadow was cast, and Yan You realized that they had walked too deep just now, and the stone wall happened to block them from everyone's sight.

He was just about to call his companions to leave together, but he heard a muffled groan, and something fell limply.But as if being helped by someone, the sound was so subtle that there was almost no sound.

Immediately, someone covered his mouth: "Are you also here to take advantage of the fire?"