"Hasn't the person been found yet?"
In the Zhaiyue Tower, an elegant man in a moon-white robe with a smile on his face asked in a calm voice.
In front of him, the subordinate knelt on one knee, buried his head even lower, and stared at his toes, not daring to look up and look directly at the man's smiling face.
"Um?"
"Sir, calm down."
The subordinate shuddered and reported back, "We were almost able to find Prince Mo's whereabouts, but for some reason, Wolf Howl and Wolf Cry suddenly became uncontrollable and started wandering around. Now we are unable to determine Prince Mo's exact location..."
"oh?"
The elegant man raised his eyebrows and said with interest: "This is interesting."
Wolf Howl and Wolf Cry are both the most outstanding northern barbarian wolfhounds, controlled by the royal family of the Huyan clan, the largest tribe of the northern barbarians. Apart from other abilities, their sense of smell is extremely sharp, especially for the smell of the royal blood of the Huyan clan, which is the most sensitive. Even if they are 100 to 180 miles apart, they can find people smoothly.
It has been less than two days since Hu Yanmo was captured.
Even if the people who kidnapped him traveled day and night and had already left the deserted state, they would have left their scent along the way, allowing the wolves to howl and cry and find them.
Originally, the howls and cries of wolves had begun to follow the scent, but suddenly they started running around like headless flies, unable to tell the direction. The only possibility was the scent left by Huyan Mo along the way and the scent of his own blood, but they all suddenly disappeared.
The former is not a big deal. It would not be difficult to accomplish if the people who kidnapped Hu Yanmo were careful enough.
But the latter...
Under what circumstances would a person's body odor completely disappear?
I'm afraid this will only happen after death.
Prince Mo, the most outrageous and unruly prince of the Huyan royal family, is now in great danger!
…
Qi Xu didn't know that by decisively killing Huyan Mo, he accidentally saved himself from a big trouble.
At this time, he was reading the confession he had extracted from Master Cao. At first, Master Cao insisted that he knew nothing and would not say anything, but when the head that had been removed from Hu Yanmo's neck was presented to him, he confessed everything he had been involved in, like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.
The confession filled five full pages.
The more he looked down, the darker Qi Xu's face became.
By the end, his face was so gloomy that it could be described as the bottom of a pot.
Since the Cao family came to Huangzhou and settled in Danyun City, they have collected nearly a hundred women from the vicinity of Danyun City and trained them to become the first batch of tools for them to win over the powerful and the results are quite gratifying. Lord Lin even introduced them to a nobleman from the north.
With the help of noble people, the power of Cao family expanded rapidly. The eye-catching Zhaiyue Tower was built in a short period of time, which brought in a large amount of money and accumulated a large number of connections for the Cao family.
Seventy percent of this money was given to Lord Lin and several other powerful families in Huangzhou, but even if only 30% was left, it was still a very astonishing figure.
Relying on Lord Lin and the nobleman from the north, the Cao family made a fortune, and Lord Cao's position as an official was particularly secure. Even if he caused a huge mess, he did not pay much price.
Although Mr. Cao is a merchant, he has the support of the powerful and no one dares to offend him in this desolate state.
Taking advantage of these conveniences, the Cao family collected thousands of women for their nobles.
Almost every half a month, a group of women would be sent to the north.
At first they would use silver to buy, but later the famine became severe, the number of refugees increased, and the local population management was far less strict than before, so the Cao family had no scruples when doing things.
In the end, they even cooperated with the people brought by the nobles to kidnap people directly on the street...
In their eyes, these abducted women were not human beings, but just commodities being resold.
Qi Xu tightly grasped the stack of papers in his hand, emotions surging in his eyes.
The barbarians are certainly hateful, but those villains who are driven by the barbarians to harm their own people are even more deserving of death!
"The man surnamed Cao asked us when we can release him." Ying Wu had an indescribable look on his face when he came to report.
Mr. Cao is dreaming if he still wants to be released at this time.
"Master, do you want us to take action?" Such a person deserves death.
Qi Xu shook his head and said, "Keep him alive."
What Mr. Cao fears most now is that he will end up like Hu Yanmo, with his head hanging on his neck.
The more he feared death, the more Qi Xu wanted to save his life.
It would be too easy for him to die like this.
He wanted him to live in fear every day, which was more tormenting and painful than death.
"Yes, Master."
The secret guard beside Qi Xu stepped forward to report, "Commander Feng has sent a message saying that Miss Wei is looking for the whereabouts of the eldest daughter of the Bai family. The message has been sent to the North Gate."
"Miss Bai was taken to the Northern Barbarians?" Qi Xu's brows, which had just relaxed, twisted together again.
"Continue to interrogate the barbarian we brought back and find out the route they took to send the people back to Beiguan."
General Bai and his brother died on the battlefield, their bodies wrapped in their horsehides.
Emperor Xiao Ming may not remember this great cause, but Qi Xu did not want to disappoint his loyal ministers.
They died for Dayong, and Dayong had the obligation to protect their wives and daughters.
"Let's have our people at the border join us in the search. We must find Miss Bai's whereabouts!"
…
There is an undercurrent in the Desolate State.
In Lihe Village in the north of Huangzhou, the Wei family is busy with work.
Since they had decided to use this place as their secret base in the north, Gao began to make drastic changes to reorganize the affairs of the manor.
In addition to the farmers who originally stayed and the servants serving in the yard, she bought five additional families to fill the shortage of manpower.
In addition, the male members of these farmers' families were selected to form two patrol teams, which were to patrol the surroundings of the farm twice a day during the slack season.
In addition to these, Gao also ordered people to connect a row of small courtyards near the foot of the mountain and transform them into a new "workshop."
The girls brought back by Wei Yunlan were also assigned new tasks.
Most of them were selected by Cheng Yue'e and brought into the new workshop that was about to be renovated. Together with several dexterous farm women, they prepared the hand warmers, incense baskets and other items that needed to be made next.
Some of those who were more thoughtful and considerate stayed with Gao for the time being to help her deal with other affairs on the farm.
But within one day, everything in Zhuangzi seemed to be on the right track.
While his mother and sister-in-law were busy at Lihe Manor, Wei Yunlan took Wei Mingxuan with him, got on a carriage and went to inspect Tianwang Manor, which was more than 20 miles away.
At this time, she didn't know that the "Mr. Xiao" she had been worried about was hiding in an inconspicuous town near Tianwangzhuang.
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