In the courtyard, two men and one woman had their hands tied behind their backs.
The three of them knelt at Chen Tang's feet, shaking like sieves.
"Who just said he was God?"
Shen Tang lifted a man's jaw with the stick in his hand.
He asked with a smile, "Is that you?"
The people who were named shook their heads like rattles, and kept dodging backwards, trying to avoid Chen Tang's stick but afraid that she would get angry. They didn't know why things turned out like this, and they were stunned by the beating.
Shen Tang used the stick to lift up the other man's jaw.
"That's you?"
The person named was the Lai Tou who tricked Chen Tang into coming here.
"Not too fine, not too fine—"
His voice was tearful and there was a lisp in his speech. He was so scared that tears were about to come out.
No wonder he's so scared.
He didn't even feel the pain from Chen Tang's wall-kicking kick. Four or five of his upper and lower teeth were knocked out, and the rest were also crumbling. The blood from his gums covered half of his face.
What happened next was like a dream, as the three adults were subdued by a little girl.
No ability to resist!
Hence the current scene.
"It's not you either?" Chen Tang smiled, and picked up the third person, the only woman among the three, with his long stick. "That's you?"
The woman betrayed Laitou without hesitation, and screamed in a sharp voice: "I didn't say that, I really didn't say that! Laitou said that!"
Chen Tang's gaze fell on Lai Tou, his eyelids slightly closed.
"You lie when you are about to die, your crime is even more serious!"
When he heard the word "die", Lai Tou was so frightened that tears and snot flowed down his face. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Chen Tang for mercy. After he kowtowed three times, she stopped him with the clothes-drying stick. She said indifferently: "Since you still have some remorse, I can give you a chance to make meritorious deeds to atone for your sins. Tell me - besides me, where did all the innocent women you deceived by this method go?"
She checked and found no other abducted persons in the yard.
If she had known this, why would she have gone to so much trouble
"All, all, all sold..."
Lai Tou was so afraid that his tongue could not be controlled and he stuttered when he spoke.
"Sold? Where were they sold to? How many people were they sold to? How much money were they sold for in total? Tell me everything!" Chen Tang sat on a small stool with his left foot relaxed and his right foot bent so that the hand holding the stick could rest on his knee.
Her series of interrogations made the three Lai Tou feel so miserable that they could not even cry.
How do they answer this question
If you don't answer, you will die. If you answer, you will die faster.
The two men had no idea what to do, fearing that they would be hit on the head by Chen Tang if they gave a wrong answer. But the woman had a guess in her mind - she thought Chen Tang had read too many street stories and yearned for the days of wandering around the world with swords, so he came out to uphold justice before his hair even grew fully grown.
There is a way to deal with this kind of young man.
She was about to cry: "Young lady, you misunderstood us. We only made two or three mistakes. We really didn't do anything else that was against the law."
Chen Tang sneered: "Two or three times? I even got lucky once. If you have this kind of luck, why don't you buy a lottery ticket?"
The woman stuck to this story.
"We did sell a lot of goods... but we did this to save people." She carefully watched Chen Tang's expression with her peripheral vision, and continued when she saw that she was not angry, "We sold goods that were bought honestly, and their parents paid for them. In this world, people only spend a few cents to buy people. We just made a big mistake because we were blinded by greed. We will never cheat again!"
Chen Tang smiled when he heard it: "Save people?"
Seeing that Chen Tang could make sense, the woman immediately felt hopeful and argued, "The war has been tough for everyone these past few years. Families with many children have so many mouths to feed, how can we raise them? If we don't buy or sell, those children will either starve to death or be sold to other families to eat. If they are sold, at least they have a place to go and food to eat."
Chen Tang was amused by this confusing statement.
With the stick against their throats, he sneered and gave them an ultimatum: "Stop quibbling and tell me what's going on! Otherwise, I'll shove you in with this stick. You know how strong I am. I'll make sure this stick goes from front to back, and then I'll string all three of you onto one stick."
She used only a little force and left a dark blue mark on the woman's Adam's apple, causing her to scream in pain.
"I'll give it to you! I'll give it to you!"
"Please spare my life, brave man!"
Only then was Chen Tang slightly satisfied.
The butcher looked at the sun outside from time to time. The more he looked, the more anxious he became. He rubbed his hands nervously and sighed.
"Old man, is what you said true or not?"
Unexpectedly, the customer picked up the packed lotus leaves with a smile, pointed to the end of the street, and said with a smile: "I won this round."
The butcher stuck his head out and squinted in that direction for a long time - because of his work, he started slaughtering before dawn, and the long time had damaged his eyes, so things a little further away were blurry - he squinted until his eyes were about to cramp, but he still couldn't see it.
I only noticed the commotion of the crowd in that direction.
It wasn't until Shen Tang came closer that he could see what was happening.
I saw the pretty young lady... no, young man, riding on the back of the beautiful mule, chewing something in his mouth, and swaying slowly back.
She held a rope, which strung two men and a woman together—
All three were beaten black and blue and walked with a limp.
However, for those who often do business in this area, these three damn evildoers can be recognized even if they are turned into ashes.
Chen Tang returned to the wine shop and continued to sit on the small stool to wait for others. He snapped his fingers and three flat round green plum pits that were gnawed off were chopped off. The three of them fell to the ground with their knees.
The dull sound made everyone's scalps numb and their knees ache.
Chen Tang pointed at the three people, full of murderous intent: "Kneel down, everyone."
The three of them huddled together and swallowed their cries of pain, not daring to disobey in the slightest.
guest:"… "
There seemed to be a hint of surprise in his eyes.
He thought Shen Tang would kill the thugs with bad intentions.
What is going on
"Why don't you just kill them?"
The onlookers came over to watch the excitement and gradually dispersed. The guests came forward to talk to Chen Tang. Chen Tang was eating green plums out of boredom, complaining about why Qi Shan hadn't come yet. When he heard this, he turned his head and looked at the person who came.
Pointing at himself: "...You call me Little Langjun?"
Customer: “What’s wrong?”
His eyes paused for a second at the Wen Xin seal on Chen Tang's waist before moving away.
Chen Tang: "No, that's right, brother, you have a good eye!"
He's good in every way, except that he's as blind as Qishan!
As for his previous question—
"Why didn't you kill those three people? Of course, it's because murder is against the law. How could I, a law-abiding citizen and a painter who can barely tie a chicken, do such a bloody thing? No matter how deserving they are of death, they should be handed over to the Xiaocheng government office for handling..."
The real reason is—
That yard was too remote and uninhabited. If these three people were killed there, their bodies would be exposed and left unattended, and would rot and breed maggots, which would have a great impact on the urban appearance of Xiaocheng.
Furthermore, it would not be a good idea for an artist to kill people all the time.
So she decided to cultivate her character and abide by the law.
The guest could barely understand Chen Tang's complaints and said, "If they are handed over to the government office, they will be free soon."
Chen Tang paused while chewing the green plums and said hesitantly, "Then - I'll drag them outside the city and kill them later?"