The journey of the only child of a peasant family to take the imperial examination

Chapter 725 Saved



Chapter 725 Saved

The Zhang family was bustling with activity, but on the other side, Wu Ya was in misery.

Tan Yaoqi set out with his men early in the morning and did not even attend the homecoming banquet.

When Ma and his men arrived at the hilltop of Matougang without stopping, it was already past midnight.

The mountain is covered with red rock formations, so no crops can be grown there. However, thorns and weeds grow wildly and lushly in the cracks.

The human traffickers had originally traded with the old man and his son here, but the human traffickers had no idea where the old man lived in the mountains.

We can only rely on manpower to conduct a carpet search.

However, Tan Yaoqi had read a lot of geography when he was studying. There are several important factors that determine where mountain people usually settle down. Combined with the analysis of the county map, he had a general idea after a little thought.

It's not easy to find it just by running around like a headless fly.

The mountain road was slow to walk, and by the time Tan Yaoqi and his group finally found the old man's house after asking for directions, it was already 3 p.m. and the sun was slowly setting.

The old man's family was frightened at first by the large group of people who suddenly broke into the yard, and then wanted to run away. You know, in ancient times, if a mountain dweller was caught, there would be no good end.

Seeing that they couldn't escape, everyone knelt down and begged for mercy.

Without even looking at him, Tan Yaoqi directly ordered his men to search everywhere, and the most important thing was to find the person.

After searching around, they didn't find any woman who looked like Wu Ya.

"Where did they go?" Tan Yaoqi asked coldly.

"No...no...I don't know!" The old woman kowtowed in fear, "Please, sir, spare my life, spare my life!"

"Whether I spare your life or not depends on whether we can find that person," Tan Yaoqi smiled and described Wu Ya's appearance again.

The old woman still wanted to quibble and refused to admit it. Tan Yaoqi was too lazy to say any more and just gave a wink to the person next to him.

As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people, and these people often don't cry until they see the coffin.

When they saw the old woman's neck being slashed and blood splattered on the spot, the middle-aged woman next to her hurriedly said, "I'll tell you, I know where the old woman sent the person. Don't kill us!"

After asking in detail, Tan Yaoqi found out that on the night Wu Ya was sold, when the man wanted to force her into the bridal chamber, she resisted and stabbed the man with a hairpin, injuring the man's vitals.

The situation was urgent at the time and it was difficult to find a doctor in the mountains, so they just used some ash from the bottom of the pot to stop the bleeding. But because the injury was too severe, the man could no longer be a humane person.

This was even more serious than stabbing someone to death. That night, the old man hung Wu Ya on the beam of the house and beat her half to death with a rattan stick.

The old man was tired of beating her, so the old woman and other people in the family took turns taking over. By the time it was over, Wu Ya was covered in blood, breathing more than breathing in, and a large stream of blood was dripping on the ground.

The next day, the old man looked at San'er's red and swollen wound. Although he was still not satisfied, he still wanted to stop the loss in time.

He ordered the old woman at home to wash Wu Ya and change her into a clean set of coarse linen clothes, preparing to sell her to an old bachelor in the mountains to get some money back.

"Is this okay?" The old woman hesitated. "He's half dead, and the others are not blind."

"Feed her some porridge and some radix strychnifolia or radix aconiti kusnezoffii. She'll be fine for a while. You won't notice any damage. As long as the price is low, there will always be someone to take it. Any profit is a profit." The old man thought for a moment and said, feeling upset. "It's really unlucky. If we weren't mountain dwellers with no status and were far away, I would have sold her to a brothel and let her be a whore to be ridden by thousands of men. Ugh!"

"Yes, why didn't I think of that?" The old woman slapped her thigh hard after hearing this, with an expression of sudden enlightenment on her face.

The so-called Datura stramonium is actually the current Datura, which is very common all over the country and can be found in the wilderness. Mountain people are naturally more likely to come into contact with it. Sometimes livestock will become very excited if they accidentally ingest it, but will soon fall into a coma or even die.

The same goes for Aconitum kusnezoffii, which is a highly toxic herb in traditional Chinese medicine. When used for the first time, you will feel numbness in your mouth and tongue, accelerated heartbeat, fever all over your body, and you will seem to be more energetic.

But what follows is severe arrhythmia, respiratory failure and even death, which is also one of the raw materials of the famous "curare" of this era.

If Wu Ya ate this, it would be tantamount to taking her life given her weak physical condition.

But the old man doesn't care, he only worries about how to make his money back.

In this way, Wu Ya was sold to a family in the mountains.

She was indeed a little more energetic at the beginning, but then she started foaming at the mouth and rolling her eyes, looking like she was about to die.

The bachelor was scared to death and very angry: "It turns out that cheap things don't come at the same time. How dare that old thief cheat me?"

He is over 30 years old and still has no wife to carry on the family line. He finally bought one but it turned out to be dying. It’s so unfair!

But on second thought, he felt that he could not delay any longer. He would probably not get any good results if he went to find the old man's family, as the other family had more people and more power.

He also had to make his money back, and after thinking it over in his mind, he came up with a bad idea.

After stuffing Wu Ya's mouth, they carried her to a house on a nearby hill, preparing to resell her again.

Wu Ya was having difficulty breathing and feeling very uncomfortable at this time, but she was conscious and remembered everything that had happened. As tears flowed down her face, she was filled with complete despair.

She knew that she would be beaten to death if she fell among these people, so when the old bachelor was resting at the ditch on the top of the mountain, she used all her strength to run forward a few steps and jumped off the mountain.

Just want to find relief.

At this time, she was convinced that she would die.

But unexpectedly, there was a ray of hope and she was rescued by someone by accident.

"Grandma, someone fell here!!" The bald-headed man ran out of the toilet with his pants in his hand and shouted.

He watched helplessly as the man fell from above and hit the simple roof, then broke through the roof and fell straight into the pit, splashing a huge amount of shit with a "bang".


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