Chapter Eleven Exposure

  Xiao Er didn't even have time to thank the seemingly generous boss, as Xufei was already leading Xu Fei's small hand out of the inn and towards the outskirts of town.

  Fortunately, at this time those fake soldiers only checked the people entering the town and didn't care about those leaving. As soon as Xu Fei left the small town, they walked quickly towards another gathering place in the mountains, Hegou Town.

  Xu Fei and the others had just left the town, when the solitary temple in Gu Shan Town suddenly burst into flames. At this moment, more than a dozen yellow figures rushed to the front of the temple, but they were all at a loss for what to do as they stared blankly at the raging fire.

  A pseudo-military officer with a few lieutenant epaulets looked back at several people behind him with some anger and asked:

  "Has anyone of you seen Niu Da before?"

  Although this place is not great, it's still relatively comfortable for him to stay as a place where he can make money. However, once something happens to Niu Dasan and the others, his way of making money in Gu Shan Town will be gone. He also doesn't dare to openly traffic people, if discovered and exposed, even if he won't be despised to death by his own countrymen, the Japanese won't let him off easily either.

  A slovenly dressed soldier, with a brightly colored five-pointed star cap on his head, leaning to one side, planted the butt of his long rifle on the ground and said:

  "What a mess! I saw Niu Da and Gou San drinking at the inn earlier, I even joined them for two cups before leaving. Did these two kids get drunk and set the temple on fire?"

  The person who asked the question was Mo Sifen. He wasn't a simple-minded guy, he was the military advisor of a small mountain bandit den before the Japanese came. When the Japanese arrived, he didn't want to follow the old leader and fight against them, so one night he got the old leader drunk and sold the entire bandit den to the Japanese with his twenty or so trusted followers.

  He turned around and became a squad leader of the security forces under the Japanese devils, although he was no longer as free as when he was a bandit, but the way to make money had become much wider. Unexpectedly, the Japanese knew that he used to be a bandit, so they simply let him guard against bandits coming down the mountain with a group of Japanese devils.

  After his financial path was cut off, Mo Si's eyes were fixed on the relatively beautiful women in this town, so he pulled up Niu Da and three others to risk their lives for him, but he didn't believe that these three people would be burned by himself in the small temple.

  Mo Si said with a lowered head after thinking for a moment: "You say that only Niu Da and Zhou San got drunk from drinking, what about Zhu Er? He shouldn't be drunk, right?"

  He knew that after catching the woman, these three people would definitely leave one person to guard. So yesterday he ordered a few people to catch that little beauty they saw a few days ago. It seems they have succeeded. Zhu Er must be left behind to guard her, but how did this temple start burning? Where are Niu Da and the others with that girl?

  A fierce fire was left with only a few large beams still burning after several minutes without any other combustible materials, and Mo Si ordered people to wet their clothes and check. A pseudo-army soldier who was soaked from head to toe and still steaming ran out nervously to report:

  "Report from the scene! Inside, three charred corpses were found. Judging by their body shape, they are indeed the three men as big as cows. However, all three of them were stabbed to death and then burned. There was no discovery of any little girl as you mentioned."

  Mo Si's eyes turned cold, and his mind had already made several turns. He had seen that girl with his own eyes, her body was so thin that it seemed like a gust of wind could blow her down. That girl didn't have the possibility to kill three people, but who had the guts to kill three strong and sturdy men?

  "Go! Go to the inn and check, where was Niudashi's last appearance? Maybe we can find some clues there."

  Mo Sini led the team in a sprint, rushing into the street. After a flurry of commotion, more than a dozen yellow-skinned fake soldiers arrived at the entrance of the inn. Just as Mo Sini entered the inn, he heard the shopkeeper scolding the young servant:

  "You numbskull, the guest asked you to prepare dry rations, and you actually counted all the accommodation fees as dry rations and returned them to him. Don't you use your brain to think about it? At the very least, you should have deducted half a day's accommodation fee from him."

  Xiao Er was just about to argue a couple of sentences, when he saw Mo Si fei walking in with the shotgun, and immediately turned his head around with a fake smile and loudly shouted:

  "Oh! Isn't this Mo Pai Chang? Come have a drink today!"

  Mo Si was coldly gazing at Zhang Gui and Xiao Er after asking: "What were you two just saying about the guest and dry rations?"

  "Which guest are you talking about? He came here to find his sister, and he found her just this afternoon. Now he's asking me to prepare some dry rations for him and his sister to leave!"

  Isn't it that the moment he finished speaking, Xiao Er asked with gestures: "Which guest's sister has a melon-seed-shaped face, big eyes, straight nose bridge, small mouth, and is about this tall with an extremely slender figure?"

  "Hey! Does Old Second know the younger sister of which customer? That girl is really pretty, but unfortunately she's too thin."

  Mo Si asked hastily: "How long have they been gone?"

  The young apprentice said with a bitter face: "We've only just left for a while, and the shopkeeper is still scolding me!"

  Mo Si was furious and quickly rushed out of the inn, shouting loudly to his subordinates: "The people who killed Niu Da have been found! They just left the inn a short while ago and should not be far from the town. Gather all the troops and chase after them for me. I don't believe we can't catch them!"

  Mo wasn't with the group, and they were already heading out of town. Xu Fei was excitedly looking for his sister to hold her small hand as they hurried along the road. However, Xu Fei's slender body had only walked for a while before slowing down, and he saw that her small face was already covered in sweat. Xu Fei couldn't help but feel helpless, so he took her to a mountain ridge to sit down and rest.

  Just as they were about to continue on their way, Xu Fei glanced at the road and saw a group of Japanese soldiers approaching from less than 500 meters away. One of the soldiers, who had previously been a bandit, pointed at Xu Fei and his companion on the mountain top and shouted loudly:

  "Where? Where are they?"

  The fake soldiers saw Xu Fei and the two of them, which made Xu Fei feel a severe headache. He quickly put Xu Fei on his back and ran into the woods by the side of the road, heading deep into the forest.

  Xu Fei seemed not too tense, a pair of small hands gently wrapped around Xu Fei's neck, her body tightly attached to his back, a pair of slender legs steadily wrapped around Xu Fei's waist, a beautiful little face closed her eyes and stuck to Xu Fei's neck, looking very enjoyable.

  Mo Si was furious as he led his men up the mountain, seeing the two escape into the woods. He hadn't gotten a clear look at the man earlier, but judging by his age, he wasn't very old. However, he had cut off Mo Si's path to wealth, which was more important than taking his life.

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