"Where are you taking him?" Wei Yunlan's heart suddenly tightened.
The two girls looked at each other, fear in their eyes at the same time, obviously thinking of something extremely terrible.
Wei Yunlan's expression froze. He raised one hand and pointed to the north of the house. "Could it be..."
The two girls nodded with difficulty and answered in a low voice: "It is just as you thought. She was chosen by the envoy and brought back to the Northern Barbarians."
The room was silent for a moment.
Every woman who came out of Cao's villa knew what fate would await her if she did not escape.
The best chance was to be chosen by Master Cao and stay in Cao's mansion to serve him alone. The next best chance was to be sent to the Moon-Picking Tower and become Master Cao's tool to win over the rich and powerful in Huangzhou, being trampled on and ridden by thousands of people. The next best chance was to be chosen by the barbarians and taken back to the Northern Barbarians.
The brutality of the barbarians has long been deeply rooted in people's minds. Although no one has seen it with their own eyes, there are faint rumors in the Zhaiyue Tower that the women who were taken to the Northern Barbarians live a life worse than slaves. At the very least, they are humiliated, and at the worst, they may not even be able to save their lives...
"When was she taken away?" Wei Yunlan's face looked very ugly.
The two girls frowned and thought for a moment, then answered, "About four or five days."
Wei Yunlan's heart skipped a beat. If it was only a day or two, it might still be in time to send a letter to the border and send people to stop it.
But after four or five days, the other party might have crossed the border between the two countries and returned to Beiman. It would be a pipe dream to stop them in Dayong.
Turning around and meeting Fourth Miss Bai's still confused eyes, Wei Yunlan sighed softly.
At this moment, she was somewhat thankful that Fourth Miss Bai had not regained consciousness. Otherwise, she would have been tormented to hear these words.
"Let's send Fourth Miss Bai back to rest first." After leaving the back room, Wei Yunlan instructed Tingxue.
At the side, Ningshuang advised with concern: "Miss, you should also go to bed soon. I heard from Suihe that you have hardly slept for the past two days."
"No hurry, I'll write a letter to my father first." Miss Bai's matter still needs to be reported to Beiguan as soon as possible. Even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance, we must try to find her.
Otherwise, at one moment at night, it could be a matter of life and death.
Seeing Wei Yunlan's anxious eyes, Ningshuang stopped trying to persuade her. She walked quietly to the table and rolled up her sleeves. "Miss, I will grind ink for you."
…
At night, just as Wei Yunlan finally fell asleep on the bed.
A hundred miles away, Qi Xu and others had just shaken off the pursuers sent by Lin Yan.
It is said that the most dangerous place is often the safest place. Qi Xu deliberately created the illusion that he wanted to escape to Dan Lake, but in fact he rushed back to Danyun City.
Ying Wu and his companions, who had already settled in a small town near the river in the southwest of Danyun City, came out to meet them.
"Master, in the past two days, the Danyun Guard Command has successively sent six hundred-household troops to the south."
The Anbu guard following Qi Xu smacked his lips and said, "Including those sent out earlier, they actually mobilized nearly 40% of the troops in a garrison?"
You know, Huangzhou is located in a remote area, facing a mountain on one side and a lake on the other. It is more easily ignored by the court than Xingzhou and Qingzhou. The entire Huangzhou has only one garrison with troops.
And now, Lin Jian, the commander-in-chief of the military forces in Huangzhou, dared to privately use nearly half of the defense force of the entire state without any order from the court.
All the subordinates around Qi Xu sighed, "This Lord Lin is really brave!"
"Then let's see who gave him the courage." Qi Xu said in a deep voice.
There is no doubt that Lin Jian dared to do this because he was sure that Huangzhou was his territory. Both the Huangzhou Provincial Government and the Provincial Inspection Commissioner were in cahoots with him and would not reveal his actions. And he must have a backer in the capital, ensuring that even if the Huangzhou incident was exposed to the capital, it would be successfully stopped and would not be presented to the emperor.
Otherwise, he would never be so confident.
If we want to thoroughly investigate Lin Yan and completely eradicate the chain of interests in Huangzhou territory that is tied together by Lin Yan, we must first find out his backers in Beijing and completely cut off his escape route.
"Master, we don't have many people left in the capital. If Lord Luo were to take action again, it would inevitably arouse suspicion from others."
It would be fine if other people had doubts, but if the one sitting on the dragon throne really found out that the old minister in the court whom he trusted had actually already defected to his son, whom he feared the most, the consequences would be disastrous.
"Lord Luo is not needed for this matter." Qi Xu lowered his eyes. He had been worried before about how to mobilize the people in the capital to ensure that the matter of Huangzhou's collusion with the Northern Barbarians would be smoothly reported to the emperor and attract the attention of the court.
Later, it was Miss Wei who gave him a new idea.
"An Yi, ask the Anbu to check where is Lord Song, the governor of the three states in the northern region who has just been entrusted with an important task?"
"Sir Song..." An was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "You mean Prince Duan's son-in-law, Song Changke, Sir Song?"
"That's right." Qi Xu nodded.
Song Changke was a wonderful man. Born in a peasant family, he was not well educated, but he had a handsome face and a good mouth. He persuaded Princess Daning, the legitimate daughter of Prince Duan, who was supposed to marry into the Duke Xu's mansion and become the Crown Prince's consort, to marry him. Prince Duan had only one daughter, and he loved her like the apple of his eye. He was forced to no choice but to discuss with Duke Xu to cancel the engagement and accepted the marriage with a pinch of his nose.
From then on, Song Changke relied on the Prince Duan's Mansion to "fly up the ladder". Even though he had no achievements in politics, he was still promoted from a seventh-rank official to a third-rank official. Now he has been appointed as the governor of the three states, and has been promoted by half a level. Looking at the entire Xing, Qing, and Huang states, there is no one higher than him.
Song Changke is definitely the first person in the Yong Dynasty to have achieved this status by marrying a wife.
Whether it was clan members or court officials, they always spoke of him in private with a bit of disdain.
Qi Xu had never taken him seriously before, and even when he was promoted to the governor of three states, Qi Xu regarded it as the Prince Duan's mansion paving the way for him, and he was just going through the motions in the three states of the north. After all, the court had already sent the second son of Marquis Wu Ding to investigate the remnants of the previous dynasty in Xingzhou. Song Changke's coming here at this time was just to pick ready-made peaches.
If it weren't for Miss Wei's quick thinking and pretending to be Song Changke's daughter, Qi Xu wouldn't have remembered this person at all...
After calming down, he ordered, "Find out where Governor Song is now, and have those people sent by Danyunwei confront them."
"Send the news back to the capital that Governor Song had an accident in Huangzhou and his female companions were abducted."
If it was just Song Changke, it would be fine, but if something happened to Princess Daning, who had always been inseparable from him, Prince Duan would definitely make it so that Emperor Xiaoming would never have peace in his ears again!
As expected, there are no useless people in the world, it all depends on how you use them.
Song Changke happens to be the most suitable "chess piece" at this time.
The sky of Huangzhou is destined to turn upside down!
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