Besides... judging from how skilled those two flower sellers were, they must be veterans. How could I, a mere woman, possibly rescue someone from the clutches of two burly men? I wouldn't want to get myself caught up in their mess.

Thinking this way, she felt even more at ease and happy as she clapped her hands and went home.

Han Shuang chased into the alley next door, but the thief had already disappeared from sight. She was so anxious that she paced around in circles. She quickly squeezed back into the crowd and bumped into Nan Zhuo, who was just coming out. She quickly pulled him back and knelt down in front of Wen Yuanbai with a thud. "Young...Young Master, the...Miss, she and Miss Youran were kidnapped!"

Jiang Youchen was also startled, "What happened?"

Han Shuang cried as she spoke, "Just now, the princess was holding the young lady's hand and walking forward, and I was following behind. But suddenly a group of people came and separated me from the two young ladies. When I tried to push forward again, I saw that the two young ladies seemed to be being carried away..."

Wen Yuanbai's face was icy cold. "Nan Zhuo, summon the secret guards to search!"

Nan Zhuo dared not delay. He instructed Han Shuang to push his master back to Qingfeng Inn, and then quickly left, summoning his guards to search for him.

Yu Shi and Jiang Youchen looked anxiously at Wen Yuanbai and Han Shuang, "What happened? Are you saying that Xiao Youran was also arrested?"

Han Shuang nodded through her teary eyes, "The two young ladies were holding hands when they were swept to the roadside by the crowd, and then they were drugged and carried away... Waaah, I deserve to die..."

"Why would they walk out?" Wen Yuanbai asked in a deep voice.

Han Shuang glanced around and pointed to a small stall nearby, saying, "It seems that Miss saw someone wearing that mask, thought it was interesting, and followed them..."

...

On the other side, when Xiao Youran woke up in the swaying carriage, half of her body was pinned down.

She turned her head and saw that it was Sister Yueyue, whom she had just met, leaning against her with her eyes closed.

Several other little girls were also squeezed together nearby, all fast asleep.

Looking at her, she was actually the first one to wake up?

She moved slightly, her hands bound behind her back.

A figure sat beside the curtain, breathing heavily.

She sighed and took out her notebook.

It feels like it's been ages since I used this little notebook.

Everything's been going so well lately that I haven't even had a chance to use this all-purpose wishing notebook.

The little notebook floating in front of her flashed with golden light, as if it were accusing her of forgetting its existence.

She rolled her eyes, wondering whether to overturn the carriage or send the human traffickers outside to their deaths.

Overturning a vehicle could easily result in injury to the driver and cause the people outside to die. Wouldn't that frighten the children on the vehicle?

Hmm... how about we create some resistance first?

Maybe Senior Brother Da Bai's men are already chasing after us?

So she made a wish: that an obstacle would appear on the road ahead.

Soon, she heard a loud bang from ahead.

With a loud rumble, and then a moment later, another loud rumble, it felt as if the ground itself shook.

The two men outside stared wide-eyed, trying to see if anything had happened on the dark road ahead.

The rough-looking man in the car couldn't help but lift the curtain and ask, "What happened?"

The man rushing to catch the carriage shook his head, "I can't see clearly, I don't know."

As he spoke, he slowed the carriage down, pulled the reins one last time, and with a whoosh, brought it to a stop.

Another man jumped off the carriage, took two steps forward, spat, and cursed, "Damn it!"

The man in the carriage also lifted the curtain and got out, and together with the driver, they stared in astonishment at the large tree that had inexplicably appeared across the road in front of them.

The driver walked around to the tree stump and said in surprise, "How could this big tree have fallen? Could it have been struck by the lightning we just saw?"

Xiao You Ran, inside the car, listened in silence: ...

Why does your little accounting notebook always seem to drop a bombshell out of nowhere?

She hadn't dared to move because the man had been in the car. Now, she shifted her numb body and found she couldn't muster any strength.

The handkerchief must have been heavily coated with anesthetic.

Raising her hands, which were bound behind her back, she realized that the rope on her hands and Yueyue's hands seemed to be tied together.

The three men outside the car also looked up at the bright, starry night sky, their faces full of doubt.

One of them asked, "This road is impassable, is there another way?"

The driver checked the direction and said, "There's a fork in the road to the west on the way here that should have been a detour, but it would be more than ten miles longer, and I don't think we'll have enough time."

The man who had been sitting outside had a short mustache. After a moment's thought, he looked towards the carriage and said to the bearded man, "You're strong, carry that girl over first! Climb over this tree, and we'll transport the rest slowly. The important thing today is that girl. I don't know who instructed Granny Wang to insist on buying her for such a high price. As long as we deliver the girl to Granny Wang on time, today's work won't be in vain!"

Without a moment's hesitation, the man nodded in agreement, "It's not far from here anyway, I'll carry it there first!"

After saying that, he strode towards the carriage, rudely shoving Xiao Youran aside, and prepared to untie their hands that were tied together.

Xiao Youran overheard their conversation and felt a growing anxiety; she and Yueyue absolutely could not be separated.

So he summoned his notebook again and made the knot in his hand even tighter.

Sure enough, after a short while, the man looked impatient and shouted, "Damn it, where's the knife?!"

The people outside just threw a sack in, saying, "Put it in, it won't be so conspicuous if you carry it on your back!"

The man's eyes darted around, and he simply shoved the sack over Xiao Youran and Yueyue's heads. He figured if he couldn't untie it, he wouldn't bother. After all, the little girl looked no more than four or five years old and couldn't weigh much.

Xiao Youran felt herself being dragged out the next moment, then the world spun around her, and she was thrown headfirst into a bag.

She felt like she was internally bleeding.

Instead, we can't act rashly. If we're not careful, we'll fall headfirst into the rocks, which would be a huge loss.

But this posture, with blood rushing to the forehead, is really uncomfortable!

The man carried the sack and walked quickly, soon climbing over the tree that blocked the road and heading to the other side.

Xiao Youran was so shaken that she felt like she was going to throw up. Hearing that there were no other sounds outside, she quietly took out her notebook and placed a soft water pillow at the bottom of the sack.

Soon the weight of the sack increased to two hundred pounds.

Sure enough, the man angrily put the two of them down a short while later. Luckily, she had a water bag under her head, so she didn't feel like her head was going to be cracked open.

The man cursed and bent over, panting, "Damn it, why am I suddenly so tired? I don't weigh much..."

Xiao Youran had an idea and wrote a line in her notebook: "Make his stomach hurt!"

The next moment, the man clutched his stomach and disappeared into the bushes.