The Song Dynasty was the king for thirteen years before he knew that he was Tianlong.

Chapter 66 I Want It All
Thirty strings of cash for a young man? Everyone was talking to each other. Although Wuyou Cave usually sold fewer men, it had never sold them for such a high price.

“Why is it so expensive?” someone asked.

The man in colorful clothes pointed at the young man and said, "He has martial arts skills. It took a lot of effort to catch him. The brothers in the cave are also injured. If we don't use some tricks, we really can't catch him. Naturally, the price will be higher."

"But if you have martial arts skills..." A pot-bellied man wearing a gentry scarf had a twinkling look in his eyes.

"Please rest assured, my lord. His acupuncture points have been destroyed and his martial arts have been abolished. Whoever buys it can use it as he pleases after taking it home."

The man in colorful clothes walked up to the women, looked at a pretty girl, stretched out his hand to tear her shoulder, and said, "No one has touched this batch of goods, it is guaranteed to be clean, dear people, don't hesitate, make an offer immediately!"

Everyone became noisy upon hearing this and began to scramble for the item and offer their price.

Zhao Ti calculated the time in his mind and tapped the handle of his fan gently on the table. Shang Qi beside him said loudly: "Don't pay anything. Each of you will get 1,000 strings of cash. My young master will take it all!"

The hall fell silent in an instant. The man in colorful clothes frowned and asked, "Are you kidding, sir?"

Shang Qi said: "You are kidding, not only do we want these, we also want everything else in your Wuyou Cave!"

The man in colorful clothes asked, "Did you bring so much money with you? Could it be that you are here to destroy my Wuyou Cave?"

Shang Qi laughed: "Money? Do I need money to buy things in your Wuyou Cave?"

When he said this, everyone in the room was shocked. The man in colorful clothes sneered: "Your Excellency, what you said is too..."

Before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly changed. He turned to look at the hall door, and heard a loud "bang". The door was slammed open and two corpses rushed in. They were actually the spies left outside.

Outside the door were all imperial guards holding crossbows. The leader was none other than Chong Pu, who looked into the hall and shouted, "Don't move. Anyone who dares to move will be shot to death!"

The door at the back was also smashed at this time, and some of the imperial guards surrounded it from the rear.

Everyone in the hall was silent as they watched the armored soldiers holding bows and crossbows, shuddering with fear; no one dared to move.

Zhao Ti stood up and walked towards the door, saying calmly: "Bring out the kidnapped person and the man in colorful clothes."

Zhou Tong and Shang Qi immediately stepped forward and subdued the man in colorful clothes first, and the imperial guards then led the men and women being sold out of the hall.

Seeing these people coming out, Zhong Pu whispered: "Your Highness, the people inside..."

Zhao Ti said expressionlessly: "No."

"Yes!" Zhong Pu immediately ordered the arrows to be shot. At this moment, several cold lights suddenly flashed in the hall, and the lights were actually extinguished.

The crossbow arrows had already been shot at this moment, and screams were heard in the hall. Suddenly, there was a loud "boom", a big hole appeared in the roof, and two figures soared into the sky.

The soldiers below immediately raised their bows and arrows to shoot, but it was not known whether they hit the target or not. The two figures flew across the sky like flying birds and disappeared.

Zhong Pu couldn't help sweating on his forehead and looked at Zhao Ti: "Your Highness, this..."

Zhao Ti narrowed his eyes and looked away from the roof: "You are not someone who can capture him, and he is not from Guifanlou either."

Zhong Pu breathed a sigh of relief, it was good that the person was not from Gui Fan Lou. If Gui Fan Lou had such a master, it would be difficult to completely wipe out the other party.

Arrows continued to rain for a while, and the soldiers started to light torches to clean up the mess.

Zhou Tong brought a chair for Zhao Ti to sit on, and Shang Qi escorted the man in colorful clothes over. The makeup on the man's face had been washed away by sweat, and his eyes were darting around.

Zhao Ti said calmly: "Little Butterfly Cui Chong?"

The man in colorful clothes said nothing. Shang Qi sneered and took out a sharp blade: "I heard that the people in Guifanlou are all desperate and fearless. I want to give it a try!"

The man in colorful clothes looked at the dagger and suddenly said in a sharp voice: "I am not a desperate person..."

"Oh, not on the run?" Zhao Ti nodded slightly: "Give him a trial."

After a while, Cui Chong confessed everything. He was not a native of Guifanlou, but was a member of a troupe from another place who came to Beijing to perform. He was abducted by Guifanlou and joined them.

Because he was eloquent and respectable, unlike the other people in the cave who were all ferocious and vicious, he won the favor of the owner of Wuyou Cave, who assigned him many tasks and even asked him to preside over the shopping party.

As for the situation underground, Cui Chong couldn't tell the whole story. He didn't know martial arts and didn't dare to go too deep. Besides the cave master, there were many complicated forces, big and small, and he couldn't recognize them all.

After hearing this, Zhao Ti ordered: "Go in and explore, use bows and crossbows to clear the way, and be careful of the traps."

Zhong Pu responded by leading a thousand soldiers and driving Cui Chong to lead the way, and they went underground along the eight-shaped water outlet not far away.

Zhao Ti then thought about the two figures that ran away from the house. Although he only saw their backs, he could confirm that they were the old man and the girl he met when he entered the street.

Although the girl was wearing a veil, he recognized her as the little maid he met in Prince Duan's mansion last time. At that time, he noticed that she seemed to have martial arts skills and thought she was a spy planted by some force in Tokyo. But now it seems that it is not that simple.

The old man next to her has a strong sense of the underworld. He is not like the gang members who work behind closed doors in the capital. He has the real spirit of the underworld, the kind that the four evil men have.

Who are these two people? Zhao Ti recalled the tone of the other party's voice last time. Although it was full of Tokyo flavor, it was still mixed with a slight accent, the tone of the Jiangnan Wuyue area.

He said calmly: "Bring the people kidnapped by Guifanlou here."

Zhou Tong took the order and soon led the soldiers to the front. These people were no longer stupid and allowed to be manipulated. They were in that state because of the special drug used in Guifanlou. Spraying their faces with clean water had removed the drug.

Shang Qi questioned them one by one. The women all had the same accent, at most a suburban tone, and the same was true for the little boy.

Finally, Zhao Ti looked at the young man. Cui Chong said that this young man was good at martial arts. It took a lot of effort to catch him, and later he damaged his acupoints and broke his martial arts.

Shang Qi looked at him and asked, "What's your name and where do you live?"

The young man knew he was saved, but he was not as happy as the girls. He smiled bitterly and said, "I am from Jiangnan and came to Beijing to seek refuge with my relatives. But before I could find them, I was captured and tortured by these villains."

Shang Qi said: "Now that you are saved, why are you not happy?"

The young man sighed and said, "I originally had some martial arts skills and practiced some basic internal skills, which allowed me to work as a guard or to work in a escort agency. But now my martial arts skills are gone and I am not as good as an ordinary person. How can I be happy?"

Shang Qi said: "Since you have martial arts skills, why were you caught so easily?"

The young man shook his head. "It was because I was a foreigner that the villains targeted me, and then took the opportunity to drug me and knock me out. It was not what the villains said they would do to capture me. With their limited skills, they could not catch me head-on."

Zhao Ti looked at him with narrowed eyes. This young man spoke with a Jiangnan Wu Yue accent. Could it be that the old man and the girl came here to look for him?

(End of this chapter)