imperial psychologist

Chapter 665 The reason

Chapter 665 The reason
The time for two cups of tea passed slowly during the conversation between Bo Ling and Lao Xu.

Lao Xu, who was lying on the ground, changed his expression from resigned to disbelieving—the expected explosion did not happen.

No matter how long the outer lead wire is laid, it will not burn for so long, and it has not yet burned to the position it should reach.

...Mucheng succeeded?

Old Xu struggled to get up, while the third child on the other side kept screaming, trying to free his hands and feet from the knot tied by Boling.

Bo Ling dragged the third child with both hands, dragged him to a corner of the warehouse, and tied him to the wooden box.

Then she did the same thing, removed the hemp rope from the wooden box, and trapped Old Xu in the corner of the warehouse.

"I suggest you not to move around." Bo Ling said while tying the knot, "Whether you want to run by yourself or the third child takes you to run, you will probably die here first due to excessive blood loss."

Old Xu smiled with a complicated expression.

"Of course, when the government comes tomorrow, the lives of both of you may not be saved." Bo Ling patted his right shoulder lightly, "You can do it yourself."

"Wait..." Seeing Bai Ling getting up to leave, Old Xu suddenly called out, "You three... who the hell are you?"

Bo Ling glanced back, "The two of them don't know, anyway, I'm a commoner, an ordinary person."

Bo Ling jumped out along the crack of the door that Mu Cheng had knocked open earlier.

……

In the twilight of the morning sun, the three of them walked together on the bare rock on the ridge—Li Yiru was still lying on Bo Ling's back with a pale face.

"There is a tree in front, let's go there and have a rest?" Mu Cheng suggested, "I still have the last bit of dry food on me, let's share it."

"Go." Bo Ling nodded.

The three of them sat down quickly, and Mu Cheng broke apart the dry food in his hand—his black fingerprints were printed on each piece of dry food, but Li Yiru and Bo Ling still took it as usual and chewed it.

After the fight last night, Mu Cheng and Bo Ling's faces were covered with ashes, only Li Yiru was still as white as before, but he was also coughing constantly.

"Why did you come here last night?" Mu Cheng looked at Li Yiru.

"Their second child came back first with the child," Li Yiru swallowed the hard pancake with difficulty, "then looking at the person who looked at me, he asked the second child, 'Why didn't the third child come back together'."

Bo Ling smiled, "Then you heard everything?"

"Yeah, they walked away on purpose to avoid me," Li Yiru raised his eyebrows slightly, "then I heard them say that you stayed down the well, as if you were planning to trouble Lao Xu, so the third child followed Go down, just in case..."

"It's also thanks to your ears." Mu Cheng leaned on the tree trunk wearily, "At the last moment, if I was alone, I really couldn't find where the fuze burned."

"Then shall we report to the officials, now?" Li Yiru looked at Mu Cheng.

Mu Cheng half-closed his eyes, as if he was about to fall asleep, he whispered, "There is no pen and paper right now, when we get to the next town—"

"I brought it!" Li Yiru took out a pen from his boot, and then took out a stack of crumpled white paper from his sleeve, "You say, I'll write it?"

Both Mucheng and Bo Ling were a little surprised, "You still carry a pen and paper with you?"

Li Yiru laughed dryly, then glanced at his hands with some embarrassment, "Yes."

"Then Songqing, tell me, it's best to write all the things that Lao Xu told you last night in the letter." Mu Cheng closed his eyes, "I can't do it... I'll sleep for a while."

Burling nodded.

"let me see……"

……

"I have something to ask you." In the dark warehouse, Bai Ling knelt down and looked at Lao Xu.

"Looks like I'm going to die here today." Old Xu held his wound and sneered, "Ask, it's a help to me anyway...I'll let you know when you die."

"You have worked underground before, Master Xu." Bai Ling asked again.

"Is this important? You always stare and ask..." Old Xu coughed a few times, "Yes, coal is produced in Qingzhou, and several of our villages have mines, both public and private."

"The children also often go down the well with you?"

"That's right." Old Xu said softly, "As I said before, there are some places in the underground well, you can't dig too wide, and the dolls are more suitable."

"You said earlier that these children are here to visit relatives, is that true?"

"..." Old Xu coughed, but didn't answer right away.

"Just now I thought it was strange. If the adults captured here may not be able to live here for five years, how did those children survive the three years here?" Bo Ling said softly, "Six children, One is not bad, either because they are taken care of here, or because they are sensible and know how to avoid danger."

Old Xu's face turned ugly.

"...Yes, we sent the children away at the beginning, but we didn't want to send them here."

"How to say?"

"Earlier, the government office of Qingzhou posted a notice saying that there are some important people in the official kilns that make porcelain in Huizhou. The place...is right between Qingzhou and Huizhou, not far away..." Old Xu said softly, " The few of us just discussed, sent the child to learn a craft, thinking...it's better than staying underground all the time."

"Yeah." Bo Ling nodded.

"It's weird to talk about the notice, we didn't see anything famous at the beginning," Old Xu said softly, "It's not for the only seedling in the family, and it's not for the brothers who have died of anti-gold... The conditions are still good. pick very...

"As a result, the dolls were sent here after leaving home. At that time, the government even paid us a sum of money, saying that the car overturned on the road, and the children were not alive or dead..." Old Xu looked at the other side of the warehouse The third child glanced at him, "The third child loves the children, and has been raising them at home to go to school, thinking how to provide a scholar to come out, so he didn't go with our children...

"I was lucky at the time, but when I came to Huizhou to visit relatives, the baby was gone.

"He just looked for it, and the few of us felt that things were weird, so we ran over and looked for them together." Old Xu whispered.

"Finally found here?" Bo Ling asked.

Old Xu nodded.

"Why do you think it was done by someone from the government?" Bai Ling asked, "It is also possible that it was robbed by human traffickers halfway?"

Old Xu sneered, "I can't tell you... I can't explain it clearly."

"...Master Xu, tell me."

Old Xu raised his head and glanced at Bai Ling, "We didn't understand what the yamen had to do in the past years, so there was no need to keep it. People from the government directly went to the chiefs of the villages to ask for people and food. ...why bother with this kind of twists and turns.

"We also... just understood not long ago..."

"why?"

"Because a few years ago...the imperial court issued a death order," Lao Xu smiled, "It is said that...the local government is not allowed to levy additional taxes..."

(End of this chapter)

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