A remote small courtyard in Baozhilin was originally a place for patients to cultivate their body and mind, but now it has become a place for Liu Ruyan and others. The purchase of the house is simple, but outside the house there is a small courtyard of more than 20 square meters, with a set of
There are stone tables and benches, and some medicinal flowers and herbs are planted around them. When you first enter, you can smell a faint medicinal fragrance, which makes this simple environment look fresh and pleasant.
Several people needed to make a careful calculation on how to rescue the girl kidnapped by the White-clothed Sect. However, Xia Shang found that along the way from the back door to the small courtyard, he met many servants, but they all seemed indifferent.
Qin Sang saw Xia Shang's doubts, and after sitting down at the stone table in the small courtyard, he said: "This Yu Ji has always been dishonest. Although she obeys Chunfang Division on the surface, she has other plans behind her back. This time
When we came to Suzhou, we were told that the Chief of the Chunfang Division had ordered her to cooperate with our actions. On the surface, she agreed and gave us a place to stay, but she did not like us at all. On the contrary, she should be very disgusted, so these times
Ri did not pay any attention to us."
Xia Shang thought for a while: "That's good, so as not to cause trouble. Now let's talk about the White Clothes Sect. You said those girls are all in the hands of the White Clothes Sect. Is the news reliable?"
"Chunjiao inquired about this matter. Chunjiao should explain it to the young master in detail."
On the side, Chunjiao raised her chin and said seriously: "The news is reliable. I came to Suzhou earlier than Qin Sang, and I have been paying attention to Suzhou for a while. Suzhou does not need to be Yangzhou. This is a mixed area, and all the political forces are involved.
The underground forces are very chaotic. The White Clothes Sect is the largest one among them. And my subordinates found out that the White Clothes Sect’s followers are not very clean, especially in Suzhou. This is a cult that will do anything to expand."
"A cult? Is it that serious?"
"The White Clothes Sect originated in Hangzhou, and Suzhou is the closest to Hangzhou, so the White Clothes Sect in Hangzhou is very powerful. However, because of the chaos in Suzhou's Jianghu, the White Clothes Sect wants to develop and simply win over people from the Jianghu. It is no longer enough, so they target ordinary people.
They began to brainwash ordinary people, saying that if you believe in white clothes and wear white clothes, you will be protected by the gods, join the White Clothes Sect, and pay tribute to the White Clothes Sect, you will live forever."
Xia Shang couldn't help frowning after hearing this. Historically, sects that rely on bewitching the people to develop are bound to attract wrath and resentment. Judging from the behavior of the Baiyi Sect in Yangzhou, Xia Shang has discovered such signs. A sect who will do whatever it takes to expand.
Only in this way can an organization develop and grow as quickly as possible.
Silently, Xia Shang's disgust for the Baiyi Sect rose to another level: "What about the girls we brought?"
Chunjiao added: "I also inquired that the Baiyi Sect recently planned to train a group of women and teach them the art of foxy charm, specifically to seduce the rich people in Suzhou and prepare to control the wealthy families in Suzhou through women. The subordinates saw Baiyi
The church brought back a group of women from abroad, and our people were among them. But my subordinates didn’t find out where they kept the women.”
"Then what do we do now?"
"We currently have only a few people. It may take a while to find out where our people are trapped. But to rescue them all from the hands of the White Clothes Cult... This matter is very difficult. According to what my subordinates see, it is not as good as
…It’s better to give up…”
"Give up?!" These two words were harsh, which made Xia Shang feel very uncomfortable. But what Chunjiao said was true. It would be too difficult for them to rescue more than a dozen people from the Baiyi Sect with just a few of them.
The target is also too big.
"Sir, you don't know something. Anyone who has been brainwashed in the White Clothes Sect is as if they are possessed by evil spirits. They are willing to dedicate everything to the White Clothes Sect. They go crazy all day long and act like ghosts. They look very scary. I am worried about this.
The only thing is, if we put all the effort into rescuing them, they end up looking like that..."
After Chunjiao finished speaking, she looked at Xia Shang without hesitating to speak.
She knew that this man never suffered losses, so it would be difficult for him to take the initiative to admit his defeat.
But what Xia Shang hesitated about was not the question of whether to admit defeat or not, but the question of these dozen lives. Should we just let them suffer in the pit of fire?
After thinking for a long time, Xia Shang said: "This matter can be discussed later. I have to go see someone."
After that, Xia Shang got up, left Baozhilin, and went to the restaurant where he had stayed before.
The person Xia Shang wanted to see was Xian'er.
From Xia Shang's understanding of Xian'er, she must have a high status in the Baiyi Sect. If he wanted to find out where those girls were, he had to look at her face.
A quarter of an hour later, Xia Shang took a ride to the restaurant where he had stayed before, but Xian'er disappeared.
However, Xian'er left a message to the restaurant owner, saying that if anyone was looking for her, she would ask the person looking for her to go to Zhuhai outside the West City to look for her.
Outside West City?
Bamboo sea?
Xia Shang had never been to Suzhou, so he naturally didn't know where the Bamboo Sea was, so he took a taxi out of the city.
But it took a full three hours to take a taxi, and there were endless hills outside the west city. There were no flat official roads, only intricate and uneven roads. The bumps along the way made Xia Shang very uncomfortable. Several times
Xia and Shang all thought they had met a black coachman.
By the time we arrived at the Bamboo Sea, it was almost midnight, and all we could see were patches of green bamboo in front of us, and the sound of rustling bamboo leaves in the wind could be heard everywhere.
As autumn approaches, the wind blows down the bamboo leaves like snow all over the sky, and it is even harder to see the way forward in the dark bamboo forest.
The coachman said that the Bamboo Sea is a vast bamboo forest, with the most green bamboos in the Jiangnan area. Because the Bamboo Sea is intricate and complicated, outsiders can easily get lost when entering, so he did not dare to go too deep. And there is only one elegant family in this Bamboo Sea.
He claims to live in a place with clear sky and blue sea.
It is said that the owner of Sunny Sky and Blue Sea is a romantic scholar. He is often visited by literati, knights, and even some celebrities and talented women from Suzhou and Hangzhou. If you want to enter Sunny Sky and Blue Sea, you must be guided by the Sunny Sky and Blue Sea doorman, otherwise it is illegal for outsiders to enter without permission.
Can't be found.
Fortunately, the doorman who led the way was always waiting for someone, and the coachman happened to find him, which saved Xia Shang from having to go into the dark at night.
Normally, there would be no doorman waiting at this hour.
Today's doorman was ordered to keep watch all night, but he was still complaining: "It's so late, how can anyone come?"
Just as he was talking, he saw the carriage Xia Shang was riding in slowly approaching.
The doorman was overjoyed and hurriedly came over to greet him: "Is this Mr. Xia inside?"
Xia Shang was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then he lifted up the car curtain and looked at the slim-looking child in front of him: "Do you recognize me?"
"My master has been waiting for you for a long time. Please come with me, sir."
"Xian'er Nizi is so powerful now? How could she have predicted that I would arrive at this moment?"
Confused, Xia Shang got out of the car.
The child held a lantern and walked toward the depths of the bamboo forest, while Xia Shang became more and more curious about the sunny sky and blue sea. (To be continued)