frightfiction Chapter 634: Saving People from the Oil Pan
Chapter 634: Saving People from the Oil Pan
That means there is a lot of metal in this room.
Ji Yuntang pushed the door but it didn't open. Then she realized there was a big lock on the door and even every window was locked.
Ji Yuntang sneered in his heart, did he think he could stop her like this?
How naive!
She found a piece of wire in the space, inserted it into the lock core, and twisted it a few times.
Then the lock on the door opened.
The room was pitch black, and Ji Yuntang took out a small flashlight from the space.
The moment the lights came on, her eyes widened.
I saw that the room was neatly piled with iron ore.
The iron ore is black and is packed in wooden boxes, some of which have black soil visible on them.
That means it was mined not long ago.
Now she finally understood why the common people were so poor that they could not afford to eat, but Jiang Wangbei could still enjoy delicious food.
This has something to do with the iron ore in the house.
As far as Ji Yuntang knew, the amount of iron ore in Dongchen Kingdom was extremely scarce, and all that could be found had been mined by the troops sent by Emperor Jingyang.
This is because these iron ores are the best raw materials for making weapons.
If ordinary people fail to report iron ore and privately mine and sell it, their entire family will be exterminated once discovered.
But the profits from this thing are huge, so there are still people who take risks and mine it privately.
Ji Yuntang was sure that Jiang Wangbei's mining of iron ore had definitely not been reported to the imperial court.
This is also why he was very afraid of the court sending people to come.
There had been drought in Liangzhoukou for such a long time, but he was reluctant to report it and did not allow the people to seek help from outside.
To put it bluntly, he was afraid that the imperial court would discover the iron ores.
It was a small matter that they took away the iron ore, but the big matter was that Jiang Wangbei lost his life.
In this way, it seems that many things can be explained.
When Ji Yuntang thought of this, he couldn't help but feel curious. Where did Jiang Wangbei sell the iron ore?
Who else is secretly buying these things?
Just like privately mining iron ore, privately purchasing iron ore is also a capital crime punishable by extermination of nine generations of the family.
It’s because Emperor Jingyang is a very suspicious person.
If someone purchased iron ore privately, he would think that the other party was secretly making weapons for rebellion.
Previously, there was a person from Beijing who secretly bought iron ore, only about 50 or 60 kilograms.
After being discovered by Emperor Jingyang, both the buyer and the seller were exterminated along with their entire clan.
The reasons he gave were that the sellers were seeking profit with evil intentions, and the buyers were seeking to raise weapons and rebel.
The little bit of iron ore that the other party had was nothing compared to what was found in Jiang Wangbei's house.
However, since she had already been discovered by Ji Yuntang, she didn't intend to let him off easily.
She waved her hand, and all the iron ore in the room disappeared.
Ji Yuntang put the boxes in place, locked the outside again, and then left.
In the other rooms, she found no iron ore.
Just when she was about to meet up with Luo Junhe, she saw a black shadow flying towards her.
Ji Yuntang recognized him at a glance. The person who came was none other than Luo Junhe.
She was about to tell the other party that she had found a large amount of iron ore in the room, but she unexpectedly discovered that Luo Junhe's face looked very ugly.
Ji Yuntang hurriedly asked: "Ah He, what's wrong? Did you find anything over there?"
The corners of Luo Junhe's lips were stretched into a straight line. He glanced at Ji Yuntang and took the initiative to hold her hand.
"Ah Tang, follow me and go over there and you'll know."
Ji Yuntang's intuition told him that Luo Junhe must have seen something incredible, which was why he looked so solemn.
His curiosity was aroused, and Ji Yuntang did not ask any more questions, but followed Luo Junhe to the room he found.
It was a pitch-black room that looked ordinary from the outside, but Ji Yuntang could faintly smell a hint of lime powder.
She followed Luo Junhe inside and saw Luo Junhe knocking on the wall, which made a hollow sound.
If you knock it to the side again, it will become solid again.
That means there must be something inside this wall.
In all likelihood, there is a secret passage here.
Just when Ji Yuntang was trying to find out if there was any mechanism, he faintly heard a woman's cry for help.
"Help...someone please save me..."
The sound is very light, very small and very weak.
Ji Yuntang thought he had misheard and wanted to put his ear closer, then he saw Luo Junhe found a pillar.
He pushed the pattern of the pillar inwards, and the wall suddenly made a flipping sound.
There was light coming out from inside, and Ji Yuntang hurried over.
When she saw the scene clearly, she felt like she was struck by lightning.
I saw that there were two young girls imprisoned in this room.
Their hands and feet were hung in the air by hemp ropes, and below them was a boiling oil pan.
The hot oil in the wok was still boiling upwards, as if it could swallow up the woman at any time.
The two women were wearing thin white dresses and had delicate makeup on their faces, but their exposed skin was covered with dense red whip marks.
When they saw Ji Yuntang and Luo Junhe, they both thought they had seen their savior.
They all looked sideways and called for help to Ji Yuntang and Luo Junhe.
"Please, save us, we were captured by them."
The woman's face was pale, her eyes were full of tears, and she looked pitiful.
Ji Yuntang frowned, and a surge of anger surged in his heart for no reason.
She could see that the two women must have been hung for a long time and had suffered great shock and torture both physically and mentally.
She took a few steps forward and said, "Don't be afraid, I will rescue you right away."
The woman's body was hanging above the oil pan, less than an arm's length away from it.
If you are not careful, it will fall into the oil pan.
Luo Junhe lowered his eyes, his face darkened slightly, and he said, "Atang, I'll go pull up the rope, you find a way to catch them."
The rope was tied to the woman's hands and feet, and the other end was hung on a pillar.
Pulling the rope at one end of the pole will cause the rope at the other end to rise or fall.
Apart from this, the only solution is to move the oil pan away.
But the oil pan had been burning for several hours and was full of boiling hot oil.
Not to mention moving it away, even touching it is impossible.
Ji Yuntang also knew that this was the only way they could save people.
She nodded and said, "Don't worry, Ah He, leave this to me."
The couple worked together. Luo Junhe pulled up the rope, and Ji Yuntang immediately flew over and cut the rope with a knife.
The woman was falling, her face showing fear. She caught the woman and put her on the ground.
Another woman caught the person and put him on the ground in the same way.