Time is slow

   Chapter 457 Ugly

  Hu Da was speechless when asked by Qiao Zhao.

  The person who asked the question was a girl. He was afraid that the aunt would immediately order him to be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

   "Our patience is limited." Qiao Zhao reminded lightly.

   Meeting the girl's calm eyes, Hu Da's scalp went numb.

   He knew that this aunt would definitely live up to her word.

   That's all, not to mention that it will definitely be thrown into the sea to feed the fish, and frankly, there may be a chance of survival, so let's be honest.

   "Those women... we grabbed some, and some—"

   "I'll throw you out the window again!" Yang Houcheng threatened.

   Hu Da's heart trembled, and he closed his eyes and said, "I bought some more!"

   "Bought it? Where did you buy it?" Qiao Zhao asked again.

   Hu's big eyes rolled, glanced at everyone, and asked, "Aren't you from here?"

   "Don't talk nonsense!" Chi Can said impatiently.

   "I, I'm just afraid of—"

  Chi Can interrupted him and sneered: "You may be fed fish at any time, so what are you afraid of? Let's make it clear, if we are happy, maybe we will save you a dog's life."

   Hu's eyes lit up: "You really don't kill me?"

  Yang Houcheng slapped a dagger in front of Hu Da: "If you talk more, you will be killed."

   "Okay, okay, I said, I'll say it. The women we usually get are mainly kidnapped. If there are not enough people, we will buy a few from a Liu Erqiao in Baiyu Town to make up the number."

   "Liu Erqiao in Baiyu Town? Where did he get so many young women?" Qiao Zhao asked.

Hu Da was delighted: "Why not? Liu Erqiao is just a local rich man in Baiyu Town on the bright side, but behind him is the government. The old man regularly asks those towns to hand over young women, and some of them are used to deal with the Japanese pirates. What should I do? Is it possible to go back?"

Speaking of this, Hu Da's face flashed a ruthless sneer and said with a sneer: "There is no reason for those officials to spit out what they eat in their mouths? So I found some people like Liu Erqiao to stand on the bright side and take these young people. If a woman sells it, it's better to get some money, right?"

   Hu Da's remarks made everyone feel chills in their hearts, and their anger went up.

   "How can the government here be so evil?" Yang Houcheng pressed his hands together, making a clucking sound.

  Chi Can's thin lips pursed tightly, and his lazy expression gradually turned cold and severe.

Hu Da hehe smiled: "The brave men are really from other places. What is it for the officials and gentlemen to sell a few young women, as long as they have money to make money, what can they do? Everyone think that Hu Da was born to do this kind of wickedness. Are you buying and selling? No, in the early years, we were also serious people, specializing in raising silkworms and selling silk, but the world has changed, and people are not allowed to live honestly."

   "How to say?" Shao Mingyuan asked calmly.

   Hu Da glanced at Shao Mingyuan.

   He had already quietly noticed this taciturn young man. Judging from his many years of experience in murder and arson, this young man should be the one who can really make the call except for the girl.

   "We can't do anything about it. Those sea merchants don't want to spend the money to buy things that we have worked so hard to toss, let alone high prices. People don't want to buy them at low prices. How good is it to grab it directly, without capital and huge profits!"

   "Does the government care?" Yang Houcheng asked with a frown.

Hu Da sneered: "What do you care? The government is the one who supports those maritime merchants. The maritime merchants stole our goods and made money, and the official master took the big money. Do you really think there are so many Japanese pirates along the southern coast? That's not the case. Son, many Japanese pirates are actually those sea merchants in the early years!"

   "Is this true?" Yang Houcheng was taken aback and looked at Chi Can and Shao Mingyuan.

   Shao Mingyuan couldn't see, didn't show the slightest sign on his face, just listened silently.

   Chi Can wondered: "The coastal chaos is so far, why is there no news to the capital?"

  The Jinlin Guards are all over the north and south of the river. Could it be that the Jinlin Guards along the southern coast are all blind and deaf?

   After listening to Chi Can's question, Hu Da did not answer.

   With his level, he naturally couldn't think of this.

   "In that case, the young women you brought were not sold to Japanese pirates, but to marine merchants?" Qiao Zhao asked.

   "What kind of maritime merchants, we all call those rogues now. Some of those robbers are all from Daliang, and some are from Daliang mixed with real Japanese. The officials are called Japanese pirates to the outside world."

   "How many women are there in this batch?"

   "Ten, twelve—"

  Qiao Zhaoxiu frowned.

   Hu Da subconsciously shuddered and blurted out, "It's not twelve, it's ten!"

   "Why are there two less?"

   Hu Zhan looked at a few people tremblingly, then lowered his head and said, "There are two who are not optimistic, jumped into the sea and died..."

  Yang Houcheng raised his hand and slapped Hu Dayi in the face, and said angrily, "It's you **** who really deserve to be damned!"

   Hu Da covered his face and begged: "Stop your anger, the strong man, we were forced to live no longer, so we embarked on this road."

  Qiao Zhao gave Hu Da a cold look and asked, "If that's the case, how did you end up like this?"

   "Have you been hacked?" Chi Can asked with a smile.

  Hu Da said dejectedly: "In this batch of goods... No, there is a particularly outstanding woman in this batch of women, so we increased the price, but unexpectedly the other party turned his face..."

   "Are you going to trade on the other side's island?" Shao Mingyuan suddenly asked.

   "No, but the place to trade is not far from the island where those people settled."

   "How many people are there on the other side, and where are they based?"

   "I don't know how many people there are in total, but every time they trade at sea, there are 20 or 30 people on their side. Their base is on Mingfeng Island, an island they occupied a few months ago."

   "Yeluo, take the chart and let him point it."

  Ye Luo quickly took out a sea chart and unfolded it in front of Hu Da. He pointed out a place and said, "We are probably at this position now, which direction is Mingfeng Island?"

   Hu Da opened his eyes wide and looked at the sea chart for a long time. He pointed to one place uncertainly and said, "Maybe it is this island? I, I can't understand this."

   The leaves fell silent.

   "Chenguang, ask him about the details. Shixi and Chongshan, let's go out first."

   Shao Mingyuan turned around and walked out of the house first, and Ye Luo followed quietly.

   Several people entered another room.

   "Ye Luo, where did Hu Da pointed just now?" Shao Mingyuan asked.

   Ye Luo's tone didn't fluctuate in the slightest: "Reporting to General, Mingfeng Island that Hu Da was referring to was the island where Li Shenyi settled down when he was collecting medicine. At that time, it was still an isolated island."

"So, aren't we destined to meet that group of people?" Yang Houcheng shook his head, "This trip to collect herbs is really not smooth, we only have so many people, how many people do not know the other party? ."

   "Xi Xi, Chong Shan, I have something to tell you."

  Chi Can and the two looked at Shao Mingyuan together.

   Shao Mingyuan wrote lightly: "I am blind."

   It is raining heavily in Wuhan again. I just hope that there will be no power outages or the like, so I can't code words. . . .

   (end of this chapter)