Yu Xiaoxiao carried one sister in her left hand and two sisters in her right hand to the open space in front of the cornfield. She looked at Su Zhao, who was staring at her tyrant father, and asked, "What happened to you two?"

Xianzong looked at the people Yu Xiaoxiao was holding and asked, "Are they still alive?"

"Alive," Yu Xiaoxiao put the three women on the ground.

The three women lay on the ground and spit out some water, and then they were fine. However, they looked at Yu Xiaoxiao with a terrified expression. It was obvious that the three of them still remembered that Yu Xiaoxiao had thrown a big tree at people in front of them.

"Are you from Fenggu Manor?" Gu Xingnuo asked the three women.

When the three women heard Gu Xingnuo talking, they immediately huddled together, buried their heads in their arms, and looked frightened.

Yu Xiaoxiao squatted down, patted the heads of the three women one by one, and said, "Don't be afraid, isn't everything okay?"

After hearing what Yu Xiaoxiao said, the three women suddenly started crying again.

Yu Xiaoxiao..., what did she say?

Gu Xingnuo looked at the three women and said, "We are from the government. We have rescued the people in the manor, but they didn't tell us that there are still people in the manor. Who are you? Are you related to the destruction of the manor?"

"This is impossible!" the youngest of the three women shouted, but it was too late for the other two to stop her.

Gu Xingnuo smiled, pointed at the two older women, and ordered the soldiers around him: "Take them away."

Two burly soldiers came forward. There was no question of being gentle with women at this moment. Each of the two guys grabbed a woman's hair and dragged her away.

The two women were about to shout, but someone nearby kicked them directly in the face, leaving them half-fainted and unable to make a sound.

Yu Xiaoxiao saw what happened to the two women and frowned. In her opinion, the phrase "this is impossible" could have several meanings. It could mean that the three people knew that everyone in the village was dead, so the youngest girl shouted "impossible", or it could mean that the people in the village could not have forgotten them. Yu Xiaoxiao felt that it was not good to start a fight based on an ambiguous sentence, but this was the decision of her elder brother Gu, so Yu Xiaoxiao had different ideas in her mind, but she did not say anything.

Gu Xingnuo also half-knelt down at this time and asked the woman who was still in front of everyone: "What do you mean by impossible?"

The woman looked at Gu Xingnuo with fear.

Gu Xingnuo said: "Do you think the people of Fenggu Village will not accept help from our government?"

"You," the woman shuddered.

Gu Xingnuo looked at the woman and smiled, which looked very kind, and said, "Tell me the truth, it will be good for you."

The woman shook her head.

Gu Xingnuo raised two fingers and clamped the woman's chin, saying, "I know the details of your Fenggu Manor. Do you want me to have someone take you to see the bodies of the people in the manor? Let you accompany them to the underworld?"

Yu Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "Yes, everyone in your village is dead."

The woman wanted to shake her head, but her chin was clamped by Master Gu, so she couldn't, and she burst into tears.

Gu Xingyan chimed in at this time: "Why are you still nagging her? Just throw her into the water and let her drown."

"I'll give you one last chance," Gu Xingnuo looked at the woman and said, "Tell me everything you know."

"I don't know," the woman cried, "I married into Fenggu Village!"

Gu Xingnuo let go of his hand and said, "Go on."

"Six days ago," the woman cried, "my husband asked me to go back to my parents' home, saying that he would pick me up in three days. But I waited for him for three days and he didn't come to pick me up, so I came back to look for him. I didn't expect that Zhuangzi is gone now!"

Gu Xingnuo said: "Then who are those two women?"

The woman stopped crying and looked at Gu Xingnuo.

Gu Xingnuo smiled and said, "Don't tell me they are your sisters from your mother's family. You don't look like sisters at all."

The woman's face, which had turned red from crying, turned pale. It was obvious that Gu Xingnuo had hit the nail on the head.

"Speak!" Gu Xingyan shouted angrily, "Who are those two to you?"

"Yes, they are my husband's two sisters," the woman said with her head down and tears in her eyes.

"The banquet was two or three days ago," Yu Xiaoxiao told Gu Xingnuo.

Gu Xingnuo nodded and asked the woman, "Your husband's two sisters, are they not married?"

"No," the woman said, "The women of Fenggu Village never marry outside the family."

"Are they going back to your mother's home with you?" Gu Xingnuo asked again.

The woman nodded and said, "I'm pregnant, and my husband said he was worried that something might happen to me on the way, so he asked my two sisters to accompany me back to my parents' home."

Gu Xingnuo asked: "How many things did your husband bring back to your parents' home?"

The woman was stunned by Gu Xingnuo's question, but under Gu Xingnuo's gaze, which was smiling but cold, she answered honestly, "I brought ten taels of silver."

"Where are the two sisters?" Gu Xingnuo asked again.

The woman said, "My eldest and second sister brought some silver with them, saying it was for emergencies."

Gu Xingnuo stood up and whispered to Emperor Xianzong, "Your Majesty, it seems that this Fenggu Manor needs a thorough investigation."

Xianzong thought that since everyone in the village was dead, what was there to investigate? Gu Xinglang then whispered the family tree engraved on the wall and the characters in the family tree to Xianzong and his eldest brother.

Xianzong gasped. This shock was a bit frightening for his majesty. Fenggu Manor was just outside the capital. How could such a family, who remembered the hatred of losing their country and exterminating their clan, actually live under the noses of the Yu clan? And they have lived there for so many years?!

Jing Mo whispered at this time: "This villager's surname is Fu, which is the same as the Fu in Fuguo."

Gu Xingnuo glanced at the woman who was sitting on the ground and crying, and said, "This woman was pregnant. Before something happened in the village, she was sent out by her husband. This shows that the people in the village knew that they might die."

"Maybe he will die?" Xianzong asked, "Not sure he will die?"

Gu Xingnuo said: "The woman only brought ten taels of silver, and her husband said he would come to pick her up. This shows that the villagers are not sure that they will die, so the woman's husband still holds the hope that they can be reunited as a couple."

Gu Xingyan said: "Brother, those two women also have money on them."

"So what?" Young Master Gu whispered, "If they knew that the man from the village would die, they wouldn't have come back with this woman."

"Then what is their relationship with Mo Wen?" Gu Xingyan's mind was confused.

At this time, Gu Xinglang raised the head in his hand again.

Xianzong angrily said to his son-in-law: "How can I be in the mood to look at heads now?!"

Gu Xinglang turned the head towards Emperor Xianzong and whispered, "Your Majesty, I think he looks a lot like Mo Wen."

A note to readers:

The second update is here.

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