Volume 1 Chapter 46: The Secret Parrot Sounds
Lu Man's voice came from the next room: "Brother, don't panic, I'm right next to you, and my second brother is still in my room. Alas, we are all locked up!"
But Bai Zongping's voice came from farther away, mixed with indignation: "If it weren't for him, how could we be locked up here! Bah! What he did is worse than that wild shop!"
Lin Jianlan opened his mouth to argue, but he didn't know what to say. It was true that the three of them were trapped here. A thousand-mile dam can be destroyed by an ant hole. Uncle Qing's Kuangyi Gang has undergone great changes in recent years and people's hearts have been scattered. Now something has happened in the Jinzhou branch again. He had to suppress his worries and apologized, "It's all my fault for being careless. I thought I would be fine once I got to the branch. I caused Sister Man and Brother Bai to suffer with me. But now I still have to see how to escape."
Lu Man said sadly, "Why didn't I try? I woke up earlier than you and checked all four walls. They were all very solid stone walls. Even the iron gate and railings would be useless if I didn't have any sharp weapons. The weapons of the three of us were searched away by others a long time ago."
Lin Jianlan slowly stood up with the help of the wall, and felt around. As Lu Man said, although he touched the iron grid on the back wall, the outside was made of bricks, and there was no gap at all. He smiled bitterly and said, "This prison is like iron. It's really a flattery for us. We are afraid that we will be locked up until death. We don't know how we have offended Master Wan and his wife."
But a faint sigh was heard from the side, saying: "Mr. Lin, you...you wronged me." It was Wan Jianhong who spoke. The three of them were shocked when they heard it. Lin Jianlan said: "Uncle Wan, why are you also imprisoned here?"
Wan Jianhong smiled and said, "Why am I also locked up here? Of course I was locked up with you! Hehe, there's no difference!" His tone sounded very annoyed.
Lin Jianlan said hurriedly: "I just said it unintentionally, please don't blame me. It's just..."
Wan Jianhong sighed and said, "Forget it. Why should I blame you? Alas, she and I have been married for more than 20 years, and she actually did this to me!"
Just as he finished speaking, he heard a burst of sneer from outside: "If I don't poison you together, you will try to obstruct me again." It was Madam Wan's voice.
The three of them didn't know where Madam Wan was standing and talking. The secret room was pitch black and they couldn't see anything. They could only hold their breath and listen quietly. Then they heard Madam Wan's tone of slightly apologetic voice: "Jianhong, you... please don't blame me."
Wan Jianhong said, "How can I not blame you? Gang Leader Lin and I have been friends for decades. How could you do such a cruel thing to Master Lin? Do you want me to be an unkind and unjust person?"
Madam Wan said sternly, "I don't care! You want to use Xiu'er's life to fulfill your righteousness? I hate people like you who talk about righteousness and morality the most! Over the years, you have been running around for the gang, and I was the only one who took Xiu'er to seek medical treatment. Now you are stuck in the middle and can't do anything. You can't even save your own daughter. Don't you want me to do it? If they don't hand over the things, they will starve to death here!"
All I heard was Wan Jianhong rushing to the iron gate, shaking it and shouting, "Ruoying! Ruoying!" But there was no other movement.
The three of them were silent for a while, and then they heard Bai Zongping shouting outside: "Madam Wan! Madam Wan! Let me out, the thing you want is here with me, I'll give it to you! Please let me go!" But there was still silence. After a while, Lu Man chuckled and said: "Second Brother, you know what to do, but it's a pity that the thing is no longer with you!"
Lin Jianlan said, "Brother Bai, since we are in their hands, I am afraid they have searched us from head to toe. If they have already found us, they will not trouble us anymore."
Lu Man smiled and said, "If she had asked kindly, I might have given it to her. But now that she has treated us like this, even if I die here, I will drag her daughter down with me!" Then she shouted, "Senior Wan, did you hear me? Ask your wife to let us out and treat us well, otherwise don't expect to get the location of that thing from me!"
Wan Jianhong sighed, "My wife has always been strong-willed. She will never give in. If you are willing to give me this clam to heal my daughter, I will persuade her to let you go."
Lu Man said, "Senior Wan is also imprisoned here, how can he inform Madam Wan?"
Wan Jianhong said, "The people guarding the gate outside are my men. If I shout loudly inside, they will definitely inform my wife immediately."
Bai Zongping said anxiously, "Junior sister, Junior sister, did you hide that thing? Give it to her. It's not worth it for us to die for it. Junior sister, Second Brother begs you!"
Lu Man was silent for a moment and said, "You don't have to persuade me. Just get more sleep and conserve your energy. The more you talk, the hungrier you'll get." After that, there was no more movement.
How could Lin Jianlan fall asleep? But what Lu Man said made sense, so he closed his eyes and sat against the wall, secretly practicing his internal skills over and over again. This was extremely physically demanding, and he was soon extremely tired. Moreover, the cell was airtight, and he was sweating profusely. He felt a little hungry.
After being hungry for a few days, it was okay to have no food to eat, but there was not a drop of water. They were extremely thirsty. In addition, the air in the room was stuffy and the smell was even worse. Several people had already fainted several times. Lin Jianlan woke up again and called the three people in a low voice several times, but no one answered. He was anxious and worried about Lu Man's safety. Just as he was about to answer, he felt something soft under his head and a faint smell of medicine came. He hurriedly opened his arms and groped around, only to hear a low "Aiya". The voice was gentle and beautiful, but it was the voice of a young girl. Lin Jianlan blushed in the dark. It turned out that he was resting his head on her lap. He hurriedly asked, "Sister Man?"
The girl said softly, "Sister Man, is that the girl over there? I've seen her before, she's really pretty." But the voice was unfamiliar. Lin Jianlan knew he had recognized the wrong person, and was about to struggle, but she gently held him down. One hand gently groped Lin Jianlan's face for a while, and finally stopped on his lips. Suddenly, he felt something cold coming up and pressing against his mouth. Lin Jianlan was very uneasy, and hurriedly closed his lips. Suddenly, a few strands of cold water flowed down his cheeks. The girl hurriedly wiped his mouth with her hand and said, "It's on the ground..."
Lin Jianlan realized that the girl was holding a water bag and was very thirsty. He stopped refusing and sucked the bag. The girl seemed to be afraid that he would choke, so she raised her legs, patted Lin Jianlan's back and said, "Drink slowly, there is a bag full of water."
Lin Jianlan didn't drink much, but after drinking the water, he seemed to have more strength, so he supported himself with his hands, left the girl's knees and said, "Thank you, young lady. Can you give me the water bag so I can give it to them to drink?"
The girl said "Oh" and said softly: "I forgot, the cells are not connected, you can't give it to them, I will give them the drink when I go out later, okay?"
Lin Jianlan nodded, then suddenly remembered that the other party couldn't see his gesture in the darkness, so he said, "Thank you for your care, young lady."
The girl moved and said, "You don't have to thank me..." But Lu Man said, "Of course he doesn't have to thank you. We are in this situation today because your mother wanted to rob us of our things to treat your illness, right?"
The girl asked in surprise: "Sister Man, are you awake? How did you know?"
Although Lu Man was already dying, she still said angrily: "You don't have to try to get close to me. Apart from the daughter of Wan Jianhong and his wife, who else can come and go freely in this dungeon? Your mother can even ignore the bond between husband and wife. We have experienced her methods. Alas, I only regret that I was too stubborn and didn't give the things to her. As a result, my second senior brother and younger brother were implicated."
Lin Jianlan said, "Uncle Wan has been silent. I'm afraid he has fainted from hunger and thirst. Miss Wan, you should go and see how your father is doing first."
The girl was silent for a while before she said, "My father has been gone for a long time. Sister Man, it's a good thing that you didn't give the thing to my mother. She, she and my father had discussed it. If you had bowed your head at that time, or revealed where the thing was in the prison, they would have taken it, but they still wouldn't let you out."
Lu Man exclaimed, "But if we don't tell you and you die here, then there will be no medicine to cure you, right?"
The girl said, "Originally, I wanted to let you go after you got the things. After all, Master Lin has a close relationship with the gang leader, and I didn't want to offend him too much. But then someone came to see my mother, and I hid in the inner room to eavesdrop on their conversation. The person had his back to me, so I couldn't see his face. He said, 'If you don't let Master Lin go, my master will give you elixirs and send a famous doctor to treat your daughter.' After the person left, my mother let Dad out. Dad said, 'Even so, you can't trust me completely. It would be better if you could get the golden crown clam.' My mother said, 'If they don't agree, I'll be sorry for them. If I can get it, I'll cook a good meal myself and give them a good time. It won't be considered a breach of trust if they die of fullness.'"
When she mentioned the remarks of these three people, she changed into three different voices, and unexpectedly imitated the tones of Wan Jianhong and his wife vividly. Especially when she imitated Madam Wan, her tone was cold and vicious, which made Lin Jianlan shudder.
Lu Man said, "That's it. That person didn't ask your parents to kill Master Lin, but there is no such thing as a wall that is impenetrable. If you lock him up for a long time, the news will leak out. If Gang Leader Lin finds out, it will be very bad. So it's better to send out a killer so that no one can track him down. Is that right?"
At this time, Bai Zongping had already woken up for a long time. After hearing what the girl said, he said bitterly: "These are your father and mother. They are so famous in the martial arts world, but they are so shameless behind their backs."
When the girl heard what Bai Zongping said, her tone was not so gentle, and she said, "You are Sister Man's second brother, right? There are more sinister and vicious people in the world than just my father and mother. They are trying to cure their own daughter. How can you say that there are still people who repay kindness with enmity?"
Bai Zongping said, "Humph, we are locked up here by you. No matter what you say, we have done nothing wrong."
The girl said softly, "Really?" and said no more.
After a while, Bai Zongping was heard saying in the darkness: "Junior sister, I think it will be difficult to escape this time. I have an idea." Then Lu Man was heard saying: "What can you do?" Bai Zongping laughed and said: "It depends on whether Junior sister is cruel enough. If it were me, I would cut off the boy's tongue, press the acupuncture points and throw him here, and then we escape from here. When the people from the Yukousi see him, they will have to interrogate him. He can't tell us which direction we should escape to. Then the people from the Yukousi will search him all over, which will take half an hour. By then, with the skills of the two of us, we would have disappeared long ago." Then there was a silence. Lu Man was probably thinking. Bai Zongping said again: "Good Junior sister, you have been much colder to me since you met him along the way. You know everything in your heart. Junior sister... I just like you very much..." As he spoke, he gasped.
Bai Zongping's tone was extremely cruel and sinister at first, and then frivolous and obscene. Lin Jianlan was already dumbfounded, but then he heard the girl say lightly: "Do you want me to learn more about what you said in the woods that day?"
In the pitch-black silence, he suddenly heard his own voice speaking, but he himself was not speaking. This feeling was extremely terrifying. Bai Zongping exclaimed in horror: "How did you hear it? There is no one in that woods! You are not a human, you are a ghost! You are not a human!" His voice was extremely shrill, and because he had no water to drink for several days, it gradually became hoarse and low.
Lin Jianlan felt a wave of disappointment welling up in his chest. He was too lazy to ask anything anymore. He lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "Miss Wan, go and give them the water bags."
The girl heard his desolate tone, sighed, put her fingers in her mouth and whistled softly, then footsteps were heard opening the iron door, the girl groped her way out, came to Lu Man again, gently held Lu Man's head and fed her some water, finally walked to Bai Zongping, put the water bag on the ground, turned around and walked to Lin Jianlan and said, "I can't bring more things down, drink some water and accumulate some energy, I will take you out later."
Bai Zongping hurriedly took the water bag and took a few big gulps, then took a few deep breaths and said, "It seems the guards here are very strict. Miss Wan, how about taking us out later?" His tone was very polite. It seemed that when he heard that the girl could let him go, he didn't mind being humiliated by the girl's imitation just now.
The girl said, "I will take you out the same way I came in." After that, she stood up and said, "Okay? Don't talk for a while, just follow me." Then she walked to the exit and knocked on the door. The door opened in response, and the three of them felt a faint light coming out from the upper side. After a while of getting used to it, they saw that the girl in front of them was wrapped in black cloth, and even her face was covered tightly with black veil, not revealing it.
Outside, some minions had already come to greet them, but they heard Madam Wan's voice saying, "These people won't say anything, we have to teach them a lesson!"
