"Master, what do we do now?" Hongye's hands and feet were bound, and she looked at Li Tiao, whose hands and feet were also bound.

"Let's wait and see."

"Master, are you alright?" Hongye asked worriedly. "It's all my fault. If I hadn't urged you to go out for a stroll, you probably wouldn't have run into those bad guys, and if you hadn't run into them, you wouldn't have been kidnapped..."

“Hongye, this has nothing to do with you.” Li Tiao interrupted Hongye’s self-blame and comforted her: “It doesn’t seem like the people who kidnapped us acted on a whim, so this could have happened regardless of whether you encouraged me to go out for a walk or not.”

"My lord, who could it be? It can't be the thirteenth prince, can it? He has always had many grievances against you..."

Li Tiao wasn't sure who it could be, but she felt it probably wasn't the Thirteenth Prince: "If it were the Thirteenth Prince, he could have just killed me and no one would have known. There's no need for all this trouble."

As she spoke, the jolting made Li Tiao feel nauseous.

After regaining her composure, Li Tiao asked, "Where do you think we are right now?"

"Your Majesty, I don't know, but it felt like I was in a carriage, but the carriage seemed to have been nailed shut."

Indeed, the carriage was so bumpy, probably because they were afraid that Li Tiao and Hongye would sneak away, so they sealed the back of the carriage tightly, leaving only a small hole for breathing.

What Li Tiao is worried about now is finding out who kidnapped her. Only by knowing who it is can she find a way to escape.

If it wasn't someone from the Thirteenth Prince's faction, then who could it be?

Actually, Li Tiao wouldn't be so afraid of villains who only want money; what she fears is that they might be the Crown Prince's men.

After being tossed and turned for an unknown amount of time, Li Tiao was completely exhausted. After all, she had been knocked unconscious with incense before being abducted, so she was in a daze and didn't know whether she had fallen asleep again or had fainted again.

When she woke up again, the carriage had stopped shaking and bumping, it must have stopped. Li Tiao glanced at Hongye next to her, nudged her with her shoulder to wake her up.

"master……"

Li Tiao said, "We need to find a way to get out, otherwise we'll be trapped here without food or water and starve to death."

How do we get out?

Li Tiao said, "The carriage is only so big. Let's try to bump into each other and see if the people outside will pay attention to us after hearing the noise."

It's better to save yourself than to wait for death.

Although Li Tiao and Hongye were bound hand and foot, it was still easy for them to make some noise in the cramped space.

The people outside heard the noise and opened the door, but it was pitch black.

"What's all the fuss about?"

I'm hungry.

"You really think you're some big shot? And you're hungry? Just bear with it!"

The thug was very rude. Seeing that he was about to close the door, Li Tiao quickly spoke up: "I don't know where I offended this big brother. If you can remind me, I can apologize to you."

Li Tiao didn't know if the man had realized she wasn't actually a man, so she continued to identify herself as one. After all, when traveling, especially in a situation where she had been kidnapped, being a man was safer than being a woman.

“You haven’t offended me, but you have offended others. I’m just doing this for money. Once I send you to Ningguta, you will be free.”

Li Tiao narrowed her eyes. "Sent to Ningguta, doesn't sound like the Crown Prince?"

If it were the crown prince, wouldn't he just kill himself?

"Ningguta... the journey is still quite long, isn't it? If you don't give me some food and drink, I'll probably starve to death before I even reach Ningguta. It's not a pity if I die, but it would be bad luck if I starved to death on your carriage."

"This is the job I do. I'm not afraid of bad luck. Besides, the guy who paid me said that if I can't get to Ningguta, it's fine if I die on the way."

Li Tiao paused for a moment, thinking that it seemed her master didn't intend to let her return to the capital; he was aiming to kill her, but he had gone to great lengths to do so.

Judging from her actions, Li Tiao didn't seem like a prince at all.

After a moment's thought, Li Tiao asked, "May I ask, brother, whose money are you taking to avert disaster for someone?"

The villain's gaze suddenly sharpened: "Our business isn't exactly aboveboard, but we won't casually reveal it to our master."

“Brother, you’ve misunderstood. I didn’t mean for you to reveal information about the master’s family. I just wanted to give you another chance to make money,” Li Tiao said. “Whatever silver they gave you, I’ll give you double.”

The villain paused in his eating and drinking, and slowly looked at Li Tiao.

"What? Brother, you don't believe me? Didn't you ask me anything before you kidnapped me? I'm a man with some money."

"It's really strange. How can someone like you, who's neither male nor female, make women feel this way about you..."

Realizing he had said too much, the villain swallowed his words.

Li Tiao was inwardly rolling her eyes, thinking, "You're the one who's neither male nor female," but then she missed the point in the other person's words: "Woman? Is your master a woman?"

After tentatively asking the question, and seeing that the other party did not speak, Li Tiao continued, "This must be some high-ranking official who didn't handle the affairs of his female relatives properly. Alas... I'm just unlucky. I opened a shop just to bring some fun to everyone, how did I get into trouble? It's so unfair! You know, all the girls in my shop are singers..."

"The person you've offended doesn't seem like the type to go to your shop to listen to music. Do you think they know you're androgynous? If they don't, what are they afraid of? You're a man, what? But if they know you're a woman... you..."

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