AWB Chapter 77
Chapter 77
The color of his eyes changed slightly, could it be that these pirates wanted to dig a secret passage from here to where?
"Alas...Actually, we wouldn't live in this place for long..."
"Why do you say that?"
"The fish around our village are getting less and less, and the water seems to be cursed by them, if you drink it, you will die!" Xiaohuo said with a terrified expression.
Zhao Shu didn't think it was a curse, like the sound of digging a stone wall, but also water and fish, and it was more likely that it was polluted by something they mined.
This cargo ship has to be registered with the government when it goes out to sea and leaves the state capital. If it disappears for no reason, it will definitely attract the attention of the government. Since these people have other plans, they still pretend to be villagers. Then they definitely don't want the government to notice anything abnormal, and the safety of the people on board is still assured.
Most of these people helped repair the ship out of sincerity. Sending the outsiders away earlier also reduces the risk of being discovered.
Sure enough, as Zhao Shu expected, these people in the village were more eager to send them away than the supervisor of the cargo ship. They hurriedly helped to repair the ship, and then argued with the supervisor of the cargo ship for a long time about inviting these craftsmen to go. It was not easy to send the boat away from the shore.
It was night, a few bubbles popped out of a still water near the village, and a boy in black broke through the water. It was Zhao Shu who came, and they had to leave to find some clues.
Before Zhao Shu got ashore, he noticed movement around him, and subconsciously slashed at him with a knife, but he heard Brother Changyu.
"I used to be a member of the government. Even without you, I would never just be so perfunctory. What are the children doing here?"
He has been fleeing in this extremely dangerous place for so long, Zhao Shu finally designed him to go with the cargo ship, but he secretly followed him.
"Brother Changyu! I won't make trouble! I can swim, I can't beat people but I can escape quickly."
Zhao Shu smiled and reached out to help him wipe the water off his face, "Isn't it because you were trained to be naughty by your family?"
Xiao Huo rubbed his head in embarrassment, who knew that the things he used to avoid his mother's scolding when he was naughty when he was a child would eventually become his own life-saving talisman?
"Okay, follow along, I'm not very familiar with this place, and I have to rely on Xiaohuo to help me find my way."
The child nodded with sparkling eyes, and those eyes were so clean, "If I take you to northern Xinjiang, my master and the others will definitely like you."
"Really?" The child said with a look of surprise, "Mother said that people in northern Xinjiang are all great heroes! Can I go there in the future? But we don't have a household registration here."
Zhao Shu patted his head, "As long as you have a protective heart."
"Brother Changyu, you can't lie to me!" The child thought for a while and stretched out his hand, "Pull the hook!"
Zhao Shu only felt that this child was extremely cute, and stretched out his hand to hook him. The child's whole body was filled with joy.
Speaking of which, he hasn't seen Yi'er for nearly four years. Although he secretly sent letters to Yi'er and asked him to help write the copybooks, but... no, but if Yi'er is outside now, maybe she will By which calculation.
Xiaohuo is very familiar with this fishing village, and after a while, he took Zhao Shu to the place where he had heard the strange sound before. As expected, there was a muffled sound coming from the mountain. Get through the general.
Zhao Shu looked around. He had played with those wavers before and knew a little bit about site selection for the construction of a port. This place is indeed a good place to stop.
"You said earlier that the fish can't drink the water even if they are dead. Where did this situation start?"
"It started in a well in the village!"
Zhao Shu frowned and followed Xiaohuo to the edge of the so-called well. Just as he was about to turn over and get down, he thought for a while and took out a signal flare wrapped in oil paper from his arms, "Find a place to hide first, just like you before." If you find anything unusual, just ignite the flare, and the officers and soldiers near the village will come over soon."
Zhao Shu looked at the child's disappointed eyes, and said with a smile, "It's not that only those who charge forward are useful, and you dare not go on an adventure without a full backup, right? Changyu's life is in your hands .”
Zhao Shu smiled at him, turned over and went down the well.
The water in this well will never become undrinkable for no reason. Besides, I just checked and found that several water sources on the side of the well are still intact, which means that those dirty things definitely did not enter the well water through the soil below. , it is very likely that an underground river was built underneath for drainage. If it is expected to be correct, the other end of the underground river is the ocean outside. Life, these dirty things enter the sea, can they live alone in the place where they originally lived?
Really only look at the present and not the future.
With the help of the faint light, Zhao Shu observed the stone wall. The traces of the past water level on the wall of the well were much higher than the current one. Presumably it was because of the dark river. Zhao Shu went all the way down, and there was darkness in front of him. Fortunately, his hearing was excellent, and he soon heard the sound of water flowing. Following the water flow, he found a dark river.
Fortunately, the opening of the underground river was quite large when it was built, and Zhao Shu was walking hard against the top of the wall. The smell in the water became stronger as he walked in, and the sounds he heard outside gradually gradually faded away. It got bigger, and the air inside got hotter and hotter.
After groping in the dark for a long time, I finally saw a little light in front of my eyes, and I heard the sound of jingling and beating. Fortunately, the opening of this place is quite large, and no one would have thought that someone would light this drain. Anhe crawled in, and Zhao Shu dodged and hid behind a pile of rubbish.
This place is actually used for iron smelting. It should be known that these ores are heavy weapons and are strictly controlled by the court. If they are found out and smelted in private, the crime is no less than treason, not to mention the people in the village outside. Also involved Japanese pirates.
Zhao Shu was exploring this place while using these sundries to hide his figure, when suddenly there was the sound of conversation from the top of his head, is the entrance actually above?
The left and right are talking about when this place will be built. Since he discovered it, is there any reason for it to be built?
Hearing the footsteps leaving above his head, Zhao Shu finally waited until the workers had a rest, and Zhao Shu turned over and landed on the wooden railing above.
Originally, I could arrest a worker for questioning, but just now I heard that they are all people who speak the Japanese dialect, and there are strict registrations for entering and exiting, so it is better not to take this risk.
Zhao Shu didn't know whether he should laugh at them for being too confident in this place, even though there wasn't even a guard, Zhao Shu shuttled here with ease.
It's just that the passages in this place are too complicated, twists and turns, making people have no idea, just thinking about where to go, suddenly there is a sound of heavy objects falling to the ground above the head, could it be that they have fallen out?
Zhao Shu searched for a long time, but only found some discarded pieces of paper recording some records about the income and expenditure of this place. He was about to turn back and search again when he heard a clear voice of conversation getting closer and closer to him. The place is narrow, so Zhao Shu had to go up first, and he didn't know which entrance he had reached. He was relieved when he stepped on the dirt outside.
This place is roughly a cellar, with some food on display, and the sound of shopkeepers soliciting business can be heard overhead. Fortunately, it is dark now, and Zhao Shu crawled out in the dark to find that this place is actually a cloth shop. He has already walked so far Have you reached the other side of the small fishing village?
38. Yuzhou
"What happened over there again? I was carried out when I saw that my head was covered in blood."
"Hey! It's not like you don't know what's under that place, it's a gambling house!"
"How much did you lose to be beaten like this?"
"I heard that it's not just a question of how much you lost. It's said that the table was flipped over while playing. I don't know how the big solid wood table was lifted up. Is it thunder?"
"Hey, our place is still the hometown of the general, and there are still such pickled things."
Zhao Shu's eyes lit up, the general's hometown?This is the southern border, and he knows the origins of several generals in the southern border.
The generals in these populations are probably the generals of Yuzhou Mansion.
Could it be that the sound of flipping the table just now was the one he heard in the tunnel?So those people who suddenly ran out were going to deal with what happened on the top?
But I heard the people outside say, "Our general and eldest lady have passed away for many years, and the second lady has not been raised in the army since she was a child, and she only comes back to visit a few times a year. These shops in our place still rely on the second lady for their success." The blessing of the government!"
The general and the eldest lady have passed away for many years, the general is Yue Ming, the eldest lady should be Yue Yan, and the second lady is getting older.
This matter is really more and more interesting, it involves the Yue family, the government, and through Yueshan, it can be connected to the Liang family.
Zhao Shu sneered, no wonder Yueshan's pretentiousness in the Liang Mansion earlier could force such a vicious person like Liang Yuan to flee to Ningdu City to take refuge in Ningdu City to hide from marriage, and Liang Xiao was pushed out by Liang Yuan and Liang Wan to make up for her crimes. Was it because of this relationship that he returned to the Liang Mansion safe and sound?
It's really sad and deplorable for the general's daughter to be reduced to a lackey of thieves, and it insults the honorable names of the two Yue generals.
Sure enough, when we arrived in the town, we could see the stone statue of General Yueming when we looked up.
"Why is there another person here this late at night?"
Zhao Shu was taken aback for a moment, looking at the kind-hearted old woman in front of her,