In the silent night, the sound of horse hooves could be heard clearly even from a distance. Yan Liqiang did not follow too closely, but listened to the sound of the carriage, watching it from a distance as it shuttled through the alleys of Pingxi City.
The carriage seemed to be deliberately taking a detour. Several times, Yan Liqiang noticed that the carriage made two small circles, as if it wanted to see if there was anyone following the carriage, but no one noticed Yan Liqiang following it. This sneaky behavior aroused Yan Liqiang's curiosity even more.
After more than twenty minutes, the carriage turned into an alley behind a main street and stopped at the back door of a courtyard.
This is the wealthy area in Pingxi City. It is surrounded by mansions and gardens of wealthy families, with red gates and high walls, which is obviously different from other places.
The yard was very big, and the two front yards faced the street in front. There was a shop on the side of the street. Judging from the sign, it seemed to be a high-end clothing store in Pingxi City. However, at this time, the clothing store was also closed.
It was dark in the box.
Yan Liqiang, who came here with the carriage, came to the corner of the alley, looked around, and found a yard next to it, but there was no light in the yard, and no sound of human voice. He leaped up, stepped one foot on a wall in the alley, hooked the more than two-meter-high wall with one hand, and then exerted force with his hand, and the whole person flipped over the wall. He walked a few steps along the wall and came to the roof of that house. He ran a few steps on the roof with his waist lowered like a cat, and after climbing from the roof on this side to the roof on the other side, he lay on the tiles behind the roof ridge, revealing his head, and quietly looked at the situation in the alley.
The carriage was just eleven o'clock in front of him, only thirty meters away from where Yan Liqiang was lying. On the roof, the angle chosen by Yan Liqiang allowed him to see the scene in the alley below clearly.
The Shatu man who drove the carriage here had most of his face covered by his hat, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. After stopping the car, he got out and looked around, appearing to be very cautious. After finding that there was no one in the alley, he came to a back door in the backyard and knocked on the door with the doorknob.
The Shatu man knocked on the door in a very regular pattern, two short knocks and two long knocks, as if it was a secret code.
After knocking on the door, the Shatu man was waiting at the door.
Just over ten seconds later, a lantern lit up in the backyard, and a man in his thirties holding a lantern came out from a room not far away with two servants. They came to the small door in the backyard, opened the door a crack, looked outside, and after seeing the Shatu man, they opened the gate and walked out.
The shopkeeper who came out of the clothing store and the Shatu man put their heads together and said something, but their voices were too soft and Yan Liqiang was too far away to hear what they said.
Only after the two men said a few words did Shatu open the door of the horse-drawn carriage. The shopkeeper waved his hand, and one of the two assistants who followed him jumped onto the carriage, dragged out a large roll of animal skin from the carriage, and then he and the other assistant carried the roll of animal skin to a room in the yard of the cloth shop.
The two servants came out again and carried another large roll of animal skins off the carriage and took it to a room in the yard.
Then the Shatu man closed the door of the carriage and drove away without stopping. The man who looked like the shopkeeper looked around and then entered the yard and closed the back of the yard.
At first glance, the Shatu man seemed to be just here to deliver goods to the garment store. It was a normal business transaction and there was nothing strange about it, but Yan Liqiang still felt something was wrong.
First of all, both parties were too sneaky and didn't seem to be doing anything good. Secondly, he always felt that the Shatu man was not a kind person and would not come to earn the money as a coachman. Moreover, the man who looked like a shopkeeper didn't give him any money when he left just now. Finally, when the two guys in the garment shop carried the two large bundles of furs to the cloth shop, Yan Liqiang always felt that there was something wrong with the two bundles of furs.
Under normal circumstances, if it was ordinary furs, the two guys could go in by carrying one bundle each. But just now, when the two guys were carrying the two bundles of furs in, they had to carry them together. Looking from above, it seemed that there was emptiness in the middle of the two bundles of furs, and the furs were rolled out. Judging from the weight, something was wrong. Moreover, the two guys seemed to be very cautious when carrying those rough furs, which did not seem like the style of carrying furs at all.
The Shatu man drove the carriage away from the alley below Yan Liqiang. The carriage was empty. Yan Liqiang thought about it and did not leave with the carriage, but stayed. After the carriage had gone far away, Yan Liqiang slowly slid down from the eaves, stepped on the courtyard wall again, came to the alley, and quickly ran to the wall of the courtyard behind the clothing store.
Yan Liqiang straightened the hat on his head and pulled up his scarf to completely cover his face. Then he exerted force with his feet, stepped on the wall twice, and instantly climbed to the top of the wall. Then he hooked his hands on the wall and gently landed in the yard. The "Nine Palaces Wind Shadow Step" body movement secret book that Qian Su gave to Yan Liqiang came in handy at this time.
The light in the room not far away was still on. The shopkeeper and his two assistants, as well as the two bundles of furs that were delivered, were all in that room.
Yan Liqiang tiptoed to a window outside the house, and just like a plot often seen in movies and TV dramas, he stretched out a finger, dipped it in his saliva, and then gently poked a small hole in the tissue paper on the window in the bottom grid of the window, then put his head over and looked at the situation in the room.
This room seemed to be filled with furs. There were a lot of tiger skins, bear skins, leopard skins, fox skins and some mink skins in the room. All the furs were placed on the shelves.
What the Shatu man just brought seemed to be two large rolls of antelope skins. The shopkeeper was standing aside, and the two bundles of antelope skins were placed on the ground. The shopkeeper was directing the two assistants to cut the ropes outside the two bundles of antelope skins and open the skins.
The bundle of furs suddenly fell apart, but Yan Liqiang felt his heart suddenly shrink.
What he saw was a young woman about seventeen or eighteen years old, tied up with those furs. When the furs were opened, the woman lay on the ground.
The woman was unconscious and her hair was a little messy, but judging by her clothes, she should be a Chinese woman from Pingxi City, and she had a pretty face.
When another bundle of furs was opened, a girl of about fourteen or fifteen years old, also a Chinese woman, was revealed. Both women were unconscious.
One of the guys swallowed his saliva, pinched the face of the fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, and laughed, "Boss, the stuff those Shatu people sent this time is pretty good, much better than the last one. They all look like virgins. The last one, the young master was not very satisfied with, and he only played with it for one day before killing it. I think he can play with these two for a few more days..."
"If you want to live, put away your claws and stop talking nonsense. You can't play with a woman like this. If even a hair of her is missing, you will be in trouble. Send it to me quickly. The young master is waiting..." The shopkeeper said, and he pushed a rack with tiger skin hanging on it next to him, and a hole appeared on the ground.
“Okay, okay…” The guy who was laughing just now stood up, and then he and a guy next to him took two big wooden boxes, put the two women into the two boxes respectively, covered them, and then the two of them carried a box at the same time and walked into the exposed entrance of the tunnel.
After seeing the two people go in, the shopkeeper opened another box himself, stared at the woman in the box with greedy eyes, and put his hand to touch the girl's body for a while, for four or five minutes. When he heard footsteps in the tunnel, the shopkeeper swallowed, sighed, and whispered to himself, "What a pity, beauty has a tragic life..." After saying this, the shopkeeper retracted his hand and closed the box again.
Two men came out of the cave and carried the box back into the tunnel.
Hearing this, Yan Liqiang clenched his fists tightly, and the surging murderous intent had already boiled in his heart. In his previous life, he hated human traffickers the most, and felt that human traffickers were more harmful than drug dealers. He didn't expect that this time, he would encounter such a thing. Just now, from the tone of the shopkeeper and the clerk, the woman sent in would probably end up in danger...
Thinking of this, Yan Liqiang's heart suddenly dropped...
(End of this chapter)