So Ge Chunru walked over quickly.

He took out the scroll and reached out to touch the bottom of the vase.

Feeling a folded paper, she took it out.

It was a piece of brown paper. When she opened it, she saw that it was indeed a map, very similar to the one the big man showed her.

I thought that this map must be very important, otherwise Xiao Yuanshi would not have placed it in this vase.

He once said that the most dangerous place is actually the safest place.

Indeed, if an outsider came in looking for the map, he would never have thought that he would throw such an important thing so blatantly into the vase where the scroll was placed.

The key point is that Xiao Yuanshi deliberately made a few secret compartments in the study. If others came to look for it, they would only think that there were still secret compartments that were not found.

She quickly stuffed the brown paper into her arms and put the scroll back.

Then she cried and smashed the study room. When Xiao Yuanshi's entourage came in, she glared at him a few times and ran away crying.

Seeing this, the attendant touched his nose, his eyes full of disgust.

This concubine Ge is becoming more and more unpresentable. No wonder her master demoted her to a concubine.

Seeing the messy study, he had no choice but to ask someone to come in and clean it up.

Ge Chunru ran back to the yard with her heart beating faster. She looked at the chrysanthemums that had been prepared in the room long ago. She pretended that she didn't like them and asked the maid to move them to the windowsill outside the room.

She washed her face to remove the traces of tears, put on her makeup again, and then walked out of the room.

Suddenly, a maid came in and took the initiative to support Ge Chunru.

She asked in a low voice, "Ge Shiqie, did you get the things?"

The maid following behind Ge Chunru's eyes flickered and she pricked up her ears to listen carefully.

Ge Chunru knew this maid. Although she was not a personal maid, she was a second-class maid who was often used.

I didn't expect it was the other party's person.

She felt a chill on her back, that man's identity was definitely not as simple as a gambling house manager.

She wondered whether she should postpone it until tomorrow, after all, tomorrow was the agreed final deadline.

The maid seemed to see through her and said, "Concubine Ge, I know you got it."

"Now, while the deputy governor hasn't noticed, send him away quickly to exchange for your brother. If you delay, your brother will have to suffer for another day."

Ge Chunru was extremely panicked. She realized that she had boarded a pirate ship and there was no way she could get off, unless she didn't care about her brother's life or death.

Otherwise these people would never let her brother go.

She took a deep breath and said, "Okay, but I'm going to go by myself."

The maid smiled and said, "Then I'll accompany you."

The maidservant who served her wanted to follow, but was refused by Ge Chunru, who only took the second-class maid who supported her.

She was really scared now and didn't want people around her to know that she had stolen the map.

Ever since the identity of this second-class maid was revealed, she no longer trusted the people who had been serving her.

So Ge Chunru took the maid and quickly left the Deputy Governor's Mansion.

After they left, the maid who had been serving Ge Chunru immediately went back to her room, wrote a note with special ink, tied it to the leg of a carrier pigeon, and released it.

The carrier pigeon quickly flew towards Heyang County.

The maid went to the kitchen again, gave a look to a kitchen helper, and made a few inconspicuous gestures.

After she left, the kitchen helper left the kitchen, saying he had a stomachache.

After returning to the room, he immediately changed his clothes and climbed over the wall to chase Ge Chunru's carriage.

On the other side, Ge Chunru and the maid arrived at the gambling house and were taken directly to the previous room.

There was only the big man in the room. The maid following Ge Chunru took the initiative to go out and closed the door.

Ge Chunru pursed her lips, "Where's my brother?"

The big man replied, "Don't worry, I verified that the map was real and I released your brother immediately."

"You've come here, are you still afraid that we'll run away?"

He comforted her again, "I don't want Vice Admiral Xiao to know about this, so I won't do anything to you and your sister."

Ge Chunru thought it made sense. After all, Xiao Yuanshi held a very high official position in Beicheng, and these people didn't dare to do anything to her.

So he took out the map from his pocket and handed it to the other party, "I hope you will keep your promise!"

The big man took the map and looked at it carefully, then laughed out loud, "Concubine Ge really knows Deputy Governor Xiao. She found the map so quickly."

They had all underestimated Ge Chunru before.

It seems that she knows Xiao Yuanshi's style and habits very well, otherwise she would not have found the map so quickly.

After all, they had sent a lot of people to secretly search Xiao Yuanshi's study and living room, and they found several secret compartments, but they didn't find the map.

Ge Chunru said anxiously, "It looks like this is the map you're looking for. Can you let my brother go now?"

The big man smiled and said, "No problem."

"By the way, how are you going to explain to Xiao Yuanshi when you bring your brother back?"

He narrowed his eyes and said, "He must know that you can't come up with 30,000 taels. I don't want him to find out that the map is missing so soon."

Ge Chunru was not stupid, so he had thought it through. "I would say, I have already agreed with you that my younger sister will pay you the money, and will give you double the interest."

"My younger sister is the second prince's concubine and will soon give birth to his child. You don't want to offend her, so you agreed."

This was the reason she had thought of before she came here, and she said it this way to intimidate the big man.

This means that in addition to Xiao Yuanshi, they, the siblings, also have the Second Prince as their backer.

The big man could see through her thoughts and chuckled, "Concubine Ge is very smart. This is a good idea. Our gambling house will also use this reason to release Ge Chunyi."

He felt amused in his heart. His master even dared to kill King Yi, so a second prince was nothing.

But he didn't show it, he opened the door and walked out.

Soon, someone brought Ge Chunyi and Niu over.

Seeing that his brother was fine, Ge Chunru breathed a sigh of relief.

Feeling a little distressed for his haggard appearance, she walked over to support him and said, "It's okay. I'll take you back."

Ge Chunyi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Sister, thank you for your hard work!"

Niu held his other side, thinking that Ge Chunru really had a way and could get them out even though they owed so much.

They have to ask Ge Chunyi to get some more money from Ge Chunru, otherwise they will have no money to live on.

But she looked very enthusiastic, calling her sister all the time. If you didn't know her, you would think Ge Chunru was really her biological sister.

He also felt so disgusted with Ge Chunru that he simply didn't bother to pay attention to her.

After sending the person back to the purchased courtyard, Ge Chunru took the maid back to the Deputy Governor's Mansion.

When Ge Chunru left the house, Xiao Yuanshi's people knew about it, and followed him to the gambling house, and also knew that Ge Chunyi had been released.

After asking around, I found out that Ge Chunru had moved out the second prince's concubine, and the people in the gambling house then temporarily released her.

And reported the matter to Xiao Yuanshi.

Xiao Yuanshi always felt that something was wrong, and then he saw the maid beside Liu Ru running over in a hurry.

"Deputy Governor, Madam, please come over as soon as possible."

Seeing the maid's appearance, Xiao Yuanshi thought that she must have something urgent, so he quickly went to Liu Ru's yard.

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