This queen is not too curly

Chapter 3 Bonfire
Yan Yuan was wrapped into a zongzi again, and was carried to a dilapidated temple hall.

A bonfire was lit in the center of the hall, men, women and children were sitting around the bonfire, men were drinking wine and singing songs, women were mending clothes by the bonfire, and several half-grown children were jokingly chasing and playing. Everything seems to be in harmony.

Yan Yuan was placed in the best position to enjoy the fire.

The warm flame brought a billowing heat wave, which made her eyelashes tremble slightly.

"Stop pretending." The kidnapper brother's voice sounded coldly.

Yan Yuan was silent for a moment, then slowly opened her eyes.

She turned her head to look at her eldest brother, curled up her neck again, and wrapped the quilt around her body tighter.

"I'm sick and could easily die."

"If you didn't tear up the ticket, I would be wronged if I died myself."

Her voice was very soft, as if she really put herself in their shoes and thought about them, soft and sincere:
"In order not to be taken advantage of, or let me go."

The firelight reflected her pupils, which were as wet as ink stones soaked by rain.

The big brother of the kidnapper was stunned for a moment, then immediately looked away, and said indifferently: "Dream."

"……Oh."

Yan Yuan responded, lowered her head, and focused on lighting up the fire.

The kidnapper elder brother drank, looked at the woman in front of the fire, and frowned.

The current situation is really a bit tricky for him, even though this daughter Qianjin seems to be indescribably weird.

Can't kill, can't afford to keep, letting go is a future trouble, keeping it is also a hidden danger.

Thinking of this, the kidnapper's eldest brother felt annoyed in his chest, and picked up a jar of wine and took a sip.

What a hassle.

……

Yan Yuan didn't know that she had been reduced from a "treasure sheep" to a "trouble".

Wrapped in a quilt, she was roasting by the fire, and finally felt a thin burst of sweat on her body, and her headache was relieved a lot, so she lifted the quilt a little, and exposed her head to the wind.

"……what?"

The children in the ruined temple were chasing each other, but they suddenly saw the big rice dumpling lifted the quilt, and it turned out to be a fair young lady, so they stopped curiously.

One of the little girls went around and slowly walked to Yan Yuan's side, squatting on the ground to look at Yan Yuan's face.

Yan Yuan faced her face to face, staring with big eyes.

"Cuckoo-"

Yan Yuan's stomach growled inappropriately.

The little girl looked at Yan Yuan and tilted her head: "My sister's stomach is crying."

Yan Yuan clutched her stomach and said softly, "Sister is hungry."

The little girl was stunned for a long time, and suddenly realized, she lowered her head and took out a palm-sized scone from her arms, and handed it to Yan Yuan reluctantly.

"Sister, eat cake."

Yan Yuan thought for a while, and took the scones from the little girl's hand.

She was really very hungry, so she ate up the scones in two or three mouthfuls.

But a small piece of scone was too little, and her stomach was still growling after eating a piece of scone.

The little girl pointed at Yan Yuan's stomach: "Sister, why is it still barking?"

Yan Yuan pondered for a moment and replied, "Probably because I really want to live longer."

So the little girl ran away again, and after a while she dragged a woman to Yan Yuan's side, pointed at Yan Yuan and said softly, "Grandma, it's this sister who can't get enough!"

Yan Yuan: "..."

Yan Yuan blushed, and took a huge scone from the woman's hand.

She squatted on the ground, resting on the scones with her knees, and ate the scones slowly.

The woman looked at her from the side, and said softly with apology: "I'm sorry girl, we, the heads of the family, have no other choice."

Yan Yuan raised her head and looked at the woman quietly.

"We are not doing it for money. The head of the family has disappeared. Someone told him that as long as he tied you up for a few days, he could help find out the news, so..." The woman felt guilty and thought for a while, "Don't worry, we will arrive When the time comes, I will definitely send you back intact, and I will never hurt you at all."

Are they still a bunch of kidnappers with a bottom line?

Yan Yuan slowly finished chewing the scones in her mouth, and glanced at the kidnapper brother from the corner of her eye.

"I originally wanted to go to Beijing to marry someone." Yan Yuan thought for a while before speaking.

"Ah?" The woman was stunned on the spot, not understanding the causal relationship.

Yan Yuan looked back at the woman again, and said softly: "My father works outside the customs, and I'm not in good health, so he spent a lot of effort to find me a husband's house in the imperial capital. "

The woman listened in a daze.

Under her surprised gaze, Yan Yuan sighed softly, trying to make her voice as bleak as possible:
"My husband's family is a big family in the capital, and their family status is higher than mine, so my father asked me to come to Beijing early, so that I can learn the rules first, so as not to be despised by my mother-in-law in the future."

The woman opened her mouth, dumbfounded: "Then now..."

Yan Yuan said quietly: "They should already know about my being kidnapped by now."

The woman finally understood completely.

She glanced back at the kidnapper brother, and when she looked at Yan Yuan again, her eyes were already full of sympathy.

The girl in front of her looks like she is only seventeen or eighteen years old, which is the age for marriage.Even rural folk like them would go to the village where the girl lives to inquire about the girl's character before they get married... and she was kidnapped on the way to get married. Was hijacked on the way to get married?

It wouldn't matter if they took her back unscathed.

It can be said that from the moment they snatched her from the inn, the rest of the girl's life was ruined.

What a sin.

The woman sighed and left.

Yan Yuan could finally eat that huge scone with peace of mind.

In this way, she ate scones, roasted the bonfire, and fell asleep again while eating.Fortunately, there was a quilt by her side, so she simply lay down, squinted her eyes and fell asleep next to the campfire.

With the fire against her thin face and the heat brushing her cheeks, she looked like a sleeping rabbit.

"Is this young lady's heart a pig? She eats and sleeps?"

Someone in the crowd whispered.

The kidnapper brother didn't speak, but just looked at her with a frown, not knowing what he was planning in his heart.

……

The bonfire burned like this all night.

In the early morning of the next day, the people who were sent to join the job rushed back to the ruined temple, and brought the latest bad news: the employer who was going to pick up still didn't show up. It's all fake...

In other words, they were completely cheated, tricked, and got their hands dirty.

The elder brother of the kidnapper was so angry that he swung his saber and chopped off three pillars of the temple, and then kicked open the door of Yan Yuan's room aggressively.

At that time, Yan Yuan had just finished her last bite of scones in the Little House, before she could swallow it, she picked it up by the collar: "Tell me what you know, who is that person?"

Yan Yuan moved uncomfortably, and asked confusedly, "Who is who?"

The kidnapper brother gritted his teeth: "Of course it's the employer! Why are you pretending to be confused? If you didn't have a grudge against your family, why would you destroy your innocence before you get married?"

It turned out to be for this.

Yan Yuan tried her best to twist her body, but found that her toes still couldn't land on the ground, so she simply gave up, hanging lazily on the kidnapper's elder brother's hand like a bug.

She whispered: "My father has a lot of enemies, it's... hard to say."

The kidnapper brother said coldly: "Then let's talk about the biggest enemies."

Yan Yuan took a breath and said, "...the neck hurts."

She really didn't lie, her neck was strangled by the collar, and her eyes were already red and painful.

The kidnapper brother stalemate with her for a while, and finally put her back on the bed.

He said coldly, "Now we can talk."

Yan Yuan looked up at him.

The kidnapper was probably in a hurry, but after a day, his eyelids were covered with bluish-gray marks, which looked like he had been sleepless for several nights.

Is it because you cut off the clues to your loved ones?
Yan Yuan thought for a while and said, "Actually, it doesn't need to be that troublesome."

The kidnapper brother asked, "What do you mean?"

Yan Yuan raised her head and looked at the kidnappers: "My family has not searched my whereabouts so far, which means that my robbery has not been leaked."

Brother Kidnapper: "So what?"

Yan Yuan said: "If the other party is trying to ruin my marriage, it's obviously not successful yet."

Someone didn't want her to enter the palace, so they hired kidnappers and kidnapped her on the way to Beijing, but obviously the news of her kidnapping didn't leak out.

So the employer chose to disappear without saying anything, in order to make the kidnappers tear up her ticket in anger, or turn to find out who her father is, so that she can find another buyer to blackmail her.And once the Black Mountain kidnappers knew the identity of her father, they would never have the guts to make a deal with him.They will choose to kill her to keep them safe.

This was originally a perfect strategy of interlocking hands without blood staining. Who would have thought that these kidnappers really have no interest in money?
They didn't go to a second buyer, so now it's an impasse.

"So you mean..."

Yan Yuan said softly: "They will find a way to make my kidnapping public as soon as possible."

……

Sitting on the sidelines, this is simply a fantasy.

None of the kidnappers believed Yan Yuan's words, and went drinking and punching themselves.

She is just a wealthy lady who is ignorant of the world and has a whimsical idea. I don't know if she read a few books on the stalls and really thinks that she is the reincarnation of Zhuge who has no plans?
However, that night, things suddenly ushered in a change.

At that time, the children had just fallen asleep, and the women were still mending by the campfire, when suddenly a young boy guarding the mountain stumbled into the ruined temple.

His body was covered with blood, and he fell heavily on the threshold of the hall: "Quick... run..."

Everyone rushed up, and the kidnapper brother kept asking: "What happened down the mountain?!"

The man opened his mouth, and spat out another mouthful of blood: "People from the government are at the foot of the mountain... blocking all the way down the mountain..."

Brother Kidnapper: "How many people?!"

That person: "Very, many...uncountable..."

The night is already deep.

The torches at the foot of the mountain are dotted, forming a line at the foot of the mountain, like a huge spider web, slowly encircling the mountain.

It doesn't matter how many people there are, this is obviously a dead end.

The women's faces were already pale with fright. They each picked up their children and turned around anxiously:
"Why is it someone from the government? We, we didn't do anything bad..."

"Although the head of the family has been a horse bandit before, that was more than ten years ago..."

"us……"

There was a panic in the ruined temple.

The kidnappers looked at each other, and they all saw despair on each other's faces: If they didn't go to take thirty or forty people, most of them were women and children, how could they escape under such a gunman Humvee?But if you don't escape... I'm afraid that women and children will be sent to the frontier, and the men will be killed. There is absolutely no chance of surviving.

In the blink of an eye, the kidnapper brother's knife was already on Yan Yuan's neck.

He stared at the blood-red eyes: "Is it you..."

Yan Yuan said lightly: "If it was my family, they wouldn't come to me with such a big fanfare."

Brother Kidnapper: "That's because of you too!"

Yan Yuan whispered, "But it's useless if you kill me now."

For a while, everything was silent.

Everyone knew that what she was telling was the truth, and it was meaningless to kill or not to kill.

Just when everyone is on the verge of despair.

Yan Yuan's voice sounded:
"Why don't you just let me go."

"I took the old and the weak, women and children with me. If unfortunately I was caught, I would say that I was robbed up the mountain together."

"Even if they encounter the worst situation, they can still save their lives."

(End of this chapter)