It seemed as if the people of Echeng who broke into Huang Silang's house, a chair and a tablecloth of the Ma family were all targets of robbery.

Liu Zhiyi stopped several villagers and asked, but no one was willing to speak well. He was either busy snatching things, or he was too lazy to pay attention to him, or he ran away in a hurry when he heard Chu'er's name.

Seeing this, Liu Zhiyi judged that Chu'er could not be still in the Ma family, otherwise these people might not dare to come and rob.

But he continued to search, asked about the location of the Ma family's water prison, and searched for it.

The Ma family’s three-in-one courtyard is not quite grand in Xiajing, and it is even slightly worse than the Liu Zhiyi family. It can be placed in Liangshui Village, which is a continuous thatched hut. This is an absolute luxury house.

With the barrenness of Liangshui Village, the accumulation of the Ma family is absolutely abnormal. Liu Zhiyi heard that the Ma family was indeed full of evil. In the early years, he was also a refugee resettled by the imperial court, but the ancestors of the Ma family were smart. When other refugees tried every means to grow grain on the barren sand, the Ma family had already started to build ships and fish, turning from farming to fishing, and soon became rich families in the village, and the only rich families. In less than a generation, the Ma family became a rich man in the village. The second generation of the Ma family began to build a small fleet and started a business with the convenience of approaching the river. Those villagers who lived a difficult life became Yang Bailao of the Ma family, and most of them owed the Yama debt to the Ma family. The third generation of the Ma family even started to trade population, selling some poor children who could not afford to pay the money to the city as slaves, and more people worked as cows and horses in the Ma family.

Liu Zhiyi has seen many behaviors like the Ma family. In the agricultural society, accumulation is like this, as bloody as capitalism. The difference is that capital exploits a larger number of strangers, while bully landlords exploits are limited to acquaintances.

The water prison is in the back garden of Ma's family. There is a pond here, with iron cages erected in it, and there are cantilevers hanging cages on the shore, so that they can go up and down freely. There are still some people lying in the cage at this time, and no one can save them. They are weak and call for help from passing villagers from time to time, but no one pays attention to them and are busy snatching things.

When a person in a cage saw Liu Zhiyi, he also shouted weakly: "Help!"

Liu Zhiyi glanced at the cage made of iron rods with a thick arm, then looked at the mechanism on the shore, and immediately operated the mechanism. There was a huge roulette that pushed the cage back to the shore, and a shaking handle was used to control the lifting and lowering. The people in the cage were rescued.

He kowtowed a few times with gratitude.

"Who are you?"

"The youngest is Ji Ren, thank you for your kindness for saving your life. I dare to ask your kindness for your kindness, Gao's name!"

Asking for the name is to repay.

Liu Zhiyi doesn't want this.

He asked Ji Ren, "Why are you locked up here and owed money from the Ma family?"

Ji Ren shook his head: "I'm so unfair, I don't know the Ma family at all."

Don't know each other? Catch a stranger?

Liu Zhiyi frowned: "Tell me carefully, why are you locked up here?"

Ji Ren immediately said, "The young man was engaged in water trading with his boss. He loaded a boat of food and fur from Ji County. He passed by here and suffered storms. Only the villain relied on his good water quality and swam ashore, but was caught by the family. He said that the young man annoyed the river god and asked the young man to take the silver to atone for his sins. The villain did not carry the silver on his body, and wrote a letter to ask the family for it. Before the silver arrived, he was detained until now."

River God? The various schools of thought are the right way. Confucianism and Taoism respect God and distance themselves from it, and do not deny ghosts and gods. However, the Great Xia Dynasty never respects ghosts and gods, and there is not even a land temple. How can the River God come from?

"There is a river god in this river?"

Liu Zhiyi asked.

Ji Ren shook his head: "The young man has never heard of it. Maybe it was the Ma family's method of extorting money. It was just taking the money. If it weren't for the benefactor's rescue, the young man would probably not be able to escape death."

“Why?”

"I heard from the servants at the kids in the night that they would take us to feed the river god after they got the money."

The situation is even more strange. What is the River God? It's just a gimmick to pretend to be a god, or is there really a monster in the river?

Liu Zhiyi asked again: "You have been locked up here for so many days, but have you ever seen a girl Chu'er?"

Ji Ren nodded: "She was caught twice and ran out. This girl is beautiful and has some tricks."

Liu Zhiyi was very concerned about one question: "How did Chu'er run out?"

Ji Ren sighed: "If the villain knew about it, he wouldn't have been imprisoned for so long."

This is the truth.

At this time, other people in the cage also called for help loudly. Seeing Ji Ren being rescued, they came to hope.

Liu Zhiyi nodded: "Okay. Please help."

Everyone was rescued one by one, all from other places, most of them were merchant sailors on the water, and some soldiers. Even the navy officers and soldiers dared to be imprisoned. The Ma family was too brave.

After asking everyone, I didn't know how Chu'er escaped. There was only one navy chief who said that he saw Chu'er weak and boneless at night and squeezed out of the narrow gap in the cage. The chief who said, either he read it wrong, or Chu'er was a master of bone shrinkage.

Liu Zhiyi recognized his judgment.

After these people were released, they hurriedly escaped from the Ma family. The psychological shadow caused to them was too great, and they didn't dare to think about revenge, but just wanted to escape from the place quickly.

Liu Zhiyi walked around the Ma family and outside the most frequent large houses where the people entered and exited, he heard the cry of babies. He walked in and saw dead bodies on the ground. There were men and women.

After searching for several times, the baby's crying sound came from the ear room next to him. The ear room was decorated in a simple manner and there was nothing at this time. A woman lay on the ground. She looked at her clothes, but she didn't look like a servant, but she was not as gorgeous as some of the women in the big house. Liu Zhiyi guessed that it was a concubine or a girl in the same room, and the crying baby was the child of this concubine. She was lying beside the woman, and her voice was already hoarse, but no one took care of the child when the villagers who were robbing things. Only the woman who had died was keeping her body rushing forward, and perhaps she was still thinking about coaxing the child before she died.

Liu Zhiyi picked up the baby from the bed and shook it a few times. Maybe he was scared just now, or maybe he was tired of crying. At this time, he entered the warm embrace, felt safe, and fell asleep quickly.

I went out with the child in my arms and looked carefully. On the door frame, a blood-stained piece of cloth was found on a cracked wooden thorn. I reached out and took it down, and the true energy flowed in my hand.

It's Chu'er's clothes!

The blood on the clothes was condensed by the true energy of the Legalists, and it gathered into a red magic rope, which quickly moved on the ground.

Holding the child, following the rope, walked out of the village center, soon walked out of the village and to the shore.

After walking along the shore for a long time, I finally got into the water in a remote puddle.

Liu Zhiyi's heart was throbbing, and he stood on the shore, staring at the water surface tightly. Soon, a figure gushed out from the water surface not far away, and a figure came out.

The figure was hunched, his body covered with blood that could not be washed away by the river. His expression was dull, his eyes were blood red, and his mouth was murmured, and he walked out of the water.
Chapter completed!