The silver needle suddenly pierced Xiaodi's arm. Xiaodi trembled and her almond-shaped eyes suddenly opened wide. She didn't expect that the thin silver needle piercing her body would be so painful.
Liu Xu pinched the tail of the needle with a sneer at the corner of his mouth. Looking at her expression, he twisted his fingers vigorously.
"Woo..."
Blood gurgled out, quickly penetrated into the sleeves, and fell to the ground in drops. The umbrella-shaped silver needle crushed her subcutaneous muscles, and the silver needle turned, shook, turned, swung, and rubbed...
..., repeatedly destroying every inch of muscle that can be touched, Xiaodi's whole body trembled violently, and the muscles on his face also twisted and twitched.
It hurts! It really hurts!
Blood continued to flow out, and the unspeakable pain continued to impact her. Even a strong-willed warrior could not bear this kind of pain, let alone an underage girl.
"Recruit or not? As long as you nod, I will let you go and tell you what you know. You are just a servant of the Yang family. What will happen if you die? Who will remember you? Yang Wenxuan will care about you.
Life or death? Don't be stupid, just nod..."
Xiaodi's eyes widened, and her vision went black. Colorful spots of light danced in front of her eyes. The pain made her almost fall into coma, but the wave of continuous pain kept her awake.
She bit her silver teeth tightly, almost biting through the cloth, but her tense heartstrings only echoed a voice: "He is a bad person, and what he asked the young master must be right."
I can't say what evil intentions the young master has, and I can't say anything. Talking nonsense will harm the young master."
Her body was shaking violently, and her body was twisted in pain, but her neck was stiff and straight, as if even if a rock weighing a thousand kilograms fell, her young body could withstand it, and she would never hurt this young master.
The great villain lowered his head.
"You don't want to say that? I can't see that you, a little girl, are very tolerant!"
Liu Xu pulled out the needle with a grin. Xiaodi's body softened. Just after he breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly tightened up again. His toes were also raised together desperately, tightly clasping the ground. Due to the force, the binding rope was deeply
It cut into her skin. The barbed silver needle in Liu Xu's hand mercilessly pierced her other arm, and the pain came again.
Liu Xu had been in prison for many years. He knew that no matter how severe the pain, a strong-willed person could withstand it, but he also knew that no matter how strong-willed a person was, he could not withstand continuous pain. Human willpower
There is a limit, and as long as he can let it go, there will always be a moment when the pain will destroy that limit and make the person who is being tortured completely collapse.
At that time, he will obey your instructions obediently and tell all his secrets. Even if it is fabricated evidence, he will bite his colleagues, slander his friends, and drag his relatives into trouble. Every major case will be deeply implicated.
If these people are unwilling to "confess," how will thousands of people be implicated? They may not be afraid of death, but when death is not possible, they will give in in order to avoid pain that is worse than death.
In the hands of Liu Xu, there were countless tough guys who eventually became weaker than a slug and as good as a dog. There are only two types of people who can survive the most brutal punishment and refuse to tell the truth. One is them
There was no need to ask for any confession, nor did they need this person's confession. The instruction they received was to torture this person with the pain of endless hell. No matter whether this person could bear it or not, he could only endure it as if he was in the endless hell.
Hell; the other type is those who die before the torture is completed.
He, Liu Xu, had never seen anyone who could endure all the torture and still refuse to give in. So many civil servants and generals who claimed to be strong-willed had succumbed. He didn't believe that a little girl could endure it.
The bright red blood splashed on the uppers of his shoes drop by drop, as bright as peach blossoms. Xiaodi's eyes were blurred with tears, and her pretty face was twisted in pain. She still endured it and refused to bow her head.
The night is still very long, Liu Xu has enough patience...
After a long night, Xia Xun and Manager Xiao returned home exhausted. As soon as they returned home, the Xiao family's wife, who had been up all night, hurriedly greeted her. When she heard that there was no news about her daughter, she couldn't help but burst into tears again.
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Official Zhao also brought people here. He was really annoyed. People were targeting the Yang family time and time again, assassinating and abducting people. Various cases were emerging one after another. If this continued, the black gauze hat on his head would no longer be able to be worn securely, so this
The person who intends to harm Yang Wenxuan is no longer just an arrest target for him, he is simply an enemy who will destroy his future, and he will live and die together.
He gritted his teeth and asked about the situation, but did not get any useful information, so he had to rush back to the government office like a trapped animal, and vented his anger on the head inspectors, constantly putting pressure on them, forcing them to no avail.
There must be some way to get the person back, and the entire Qingzhou government office was in a state of uproar.
Xia Xun was mentally and physically exhausted. He drank half of a bowl of porridge and couldn't drink it anymore. Pushing away the rice bowl, he kept convincing himself: "Don't panic, don't panic. People are being kidnapped. What's the worst thing to avoid is rushing around like a headless fly.
Nothing can be done, you have to calm down, you must calm down."
Although he was comforting himself in this way, his heart was like a mess, twisting and turning. He was used to the little sparrow chirping in his ears all day long as soon as he returned to the house. He was used to getting up together every day.
She fell asleep with her eyes open, yawning lazily, and combing his hair while half asleep. Her existence was as natural as the air, and she never felt precious and indispensable, but waiting for her
He was really gone, but there was an emptiness in his heart, a suffocating feeling that made him unable to breathe.
How could she have disappeared? Could it be that some evil spirit kidnapped her like in Putai County? Impossible! This is Qingzhou, not the small Putai County. There are many yamen at the feet of the lord, but no one is there.
Dare to take such a big risk, this has never happened before.
Abducting women and selling them into a land of fireworks? It was even more impossible. Only at this time did he know that any talk of forcing good-born women to jump into a pit of fire was nonsense. There were enough sources of voluntary women in brothels, so it was impossible to risk it.
At the risk of being shut down, a brothel accepts a woman of unknown origin. Once someone is reported, the house will be shut down and arrested. At least in the peaceful era, the government will maintain the basic order of society, and there is no need for the brothel to take this risk.
But apart from the beauty and wealth of a daughter, what else could Xiaodi be coveted for? Why should she be abducted? If it was for human trafficking, then why didn't her abductor abduct those little girls together?
?It was already dark at that time, and they were in a secluded alley with few people. Could it be that the captors specifically targeted the Yang family?
Xia Xun would rather this person was targeted, because if Xiaodi was just kidnapped and sold as a gangster, then the hope of retrieving her would be completely impossible. Even in modern times, searching and rescuing a trafficked person would be impossible.
It was extremely difficult for a girl, let alone in that era. But if it wasn't...
Xia Xun stood up in a hurry, and Manager Xiao rushed to greet him: "Young Master!"
Xia Xun waved his hand: "Uncle Xiao, please stay in the mansion to avoid being too late to respond if there is news."
"Master, where are you going?"
"I went to Shengchundang Pharmacy and a few other friends to ask them for help."
Xia Xun walked to the entrance of the hall and suddenly turned around and said: "By the way, I'll post notices all over the city. Anyone who can provide clues about Xiaodi that can be confirmed will be rewarded with one thousand guan. Anyone who follows the clues to rescue Xiaodi will be rewarded."
Another thousand guan will be rewarded! Whoever can rescue Xiaodi will be rewarded with 5,000 guan!"
Manager Xiao was stunned: "Five thousand strings?"
When the young master redeemed Miss Hong's Tingxiang from Taizhou's Exile Garden, it only cost him two hundred guan. To give birthday gifts to his boss behind the scenes, the current King of Qi, he only spent 1,500 guan or 5,000 guan! Xiao Guanshi thought
I can't even imagine that this is one-tenth of Xia Xun's entire property.
Even with the young master's wealth, this amount of money has reached an astonishing level, and such a large amount of cash is usually impossible to collect in a short time. It is also a loss now because he wants to move back to Jiangnan.
, and also had to go to Peiping to buy a large amount of fur goods for King Qi, so he sold some properties and recovered some funds. But if such a huge sum of money was spent on his daughter, how would the young master explain it to King Qi?
The wife of the Xiao family rushed forward with surprise: "Master, Master Snapshot said, post the reward list, and my daughter will be sent back."
"shut up!"
Manager Xiao threw the woman away, his cheeks twitched a few times, and he suppressed his grief and said: "I... I will borrow two hundred gu from the young master, and use the 150 gu that our family has accumulated to provide information.
The one who rescues Xiaodi will be given fifty guan, and the person who rescues Xiaodi will be given 150 guan. If someone can send Xiaodi back, we will add the 200 guan borrowed from the young master and give him 350 guan!"
He shook off his mother-in-law and went to write the reward list. Three hundred and fifty guan, which is the salary of a county magistrate for eight years. If there is a possibility of saving his daughter, this money is enough to impress people. At this time, Peng Ziqi was busy with work.
She broke in through the door. She went to ask some masters from the martial arts school last night to send all the disciples out of the martial arts school, and then rushed back to Pengjiazhuang.
The second master of the Peng family heard from his niece that he wanted to search and rescue a maid from the Yang family. Although he didn't agree, he still agreed. However, when Peng Ziqi wanted to rush back, the city gate was already closed, so he had no choice but to stay at home for one night. Today
Came back early in the morning.
"Manager Xiao, there is no news about Xiaodi yet, right?"
"Oh, Mr. Peng, there is no news yet. I am just going to write a reward list to get more people to help find him."
"Okay, my second uncle has already released the news. The Peng family's car and boat shops, footwear and other businesses, as well as the rogue idlers in Qingzhou Prefecture, have all been mobilized. Don't worry, they can't do anything else but look for people to spy on.
No one is better at information than them. If someone really kidnaps Xiaodi and wants to sell her to other places, it will be impossible to escape their eyes and ears."
Manager Xiao said gratefully: "Thank you, Mr. Peng."
"You're welcome, Xiaodi is so cute, and I don't want anything to happen to her. Where is Yang Wenxuan?"
"My young master went to Shengchun Hall and said he was asking for help from Geng Yuan, and mobilized his men to find out Xiaodi's whereabouts."
"Sheng Chun Tang?"
Peng Ziqi was furious: "Shengchuntang can check the news. This is not about finding the whereabouts of the injured criminals. We need to pay attention to the customers who buy medicine and see the doctor. This heartless bastard, at this time, he still has to go with his lover."
A tryst?"
Peng Ziqi tightened the sword on his waist, turned around and left.