Feng Ping cooperated by uttering an "Ai" and apologizing, "Miss, don't worry, I'll speed up right away."
Not far away, the armored guard withdrew his gaze, turned around and rode away.
Wei Yunlan breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "They are alert."
Then he asked, "Mr. Xiao, are we still going to follow?"
"Follow." Qi Xu nodded. "The guards just now have medicine powder on their bodies. We can abandon the carriage and go directly over."
It was still early before dark, and it was quite inconvenient to do the tracking work during the day.
However, no one knew how Feng Ping drove the carriage. They never encountered the carriage pulled by four white horses again, nor did they see the armored guards again. Instead, they successfully found a hidden but luxuriously decorated courtyard thirty miles southeast of Danyun City.
The carriage was hidden behind the small hill behind the yard.
At this time, there was no need to pay attention to the separation between men and women. Qi Xu and Feng Ping held the arms of Wei Yunlan and Suihe respectively, and each took one and climbed over the wall into the yard.
Immediately afterwards, the black cloud that had been following Wei Yunlan's feet also leaped in from the top of the wall.
Feng Ping, who was originally planning to "fly" out to meet it, was amazed.
This dog's agility is almost catching up with the shadow guards carefully trained by their Tianshu Pavilion. It's truly extraordinary!
No wonder the master agreed to bring Miss Wei along.
Obviously, whether from her reaction ability when encountering a critical situation before, or from the helpers and the magic dog following her, Miss Wei is not the one who holds back.
The place where the four people and one dog climbed over the wall was right behind a rockery, which was surrounded by green plants and a water system.
The scenery is so pleasant that it does not seem to be found in such a remote place in a desolate state. Instead, it has some of the charm of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River.
The sound of dripping water just covered up their voices. Wei Yunlan was about to speak when he saw Qi Xu raising his hand and making a "silence" gesture.
I held back what I wanted to say for the moment, and then I saw two maids, who were well-dressed and had their hair combed meticulously, tiptoeing into the garden and standing on the other side of the rockery, where my view was blocked.
One of them said impatiently, "When the master wakes up, we should start inspecting the goods. Why can't we wait until we're done with the work tonight?"
"Oh, my dear sister, it will be too late at night, take this!" The rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other and the sound of gold and silver colliding could be heard faintly.
Then the impatient voice from before was heard again.
Perhaps because he was stuffed with money, his attitude softened this time. "What are you doing?"
"It's my sister from my mother's family. I don't know where she heard that serving here is a good job, so she sent her twin daughters here as well."
"Well, it's okay that they are short-sighted, but I am their aunt after all, and I can't just watch them being sent to that kind of place... It's okay to send them to the Zhaiyue Tower in the city, but if they are sent to serve the barbarians, how can they survive?"
"Good sister, I know you have a good relationship with the steward in the mansion, so please help me and say a few good words to the master, so that my two poor nieces can stay in the mansion to serve the master!"
After saying these pitiful words, he was silent for a moment before waiting for a response.
"Got it. When the master sobers up, I'll arrange for your two nieces to serve him."
"As for whether they can be chosen and stay in the mansion, it depends on their own luck."
After the conversation, the two maids walked out of the rockery and hurriedly went out of the garden.
Behind the rockery, Wei Yunlan and others, who had heard their entire conversation, looked solemn.
This trip was not in vain...
Before I even saw the two people in the carriage today, I heard so much information from the two maids...
But this information is really shocking.
The situation was even more serious than Wei Yunlan had ever imagined.
That Lord Cao and Master Cao are so bold, not only do they recruit women for the flesh trade, they even dare to get involved with the barbarians!
Thinking of the masked men with accents from outside the Great Wall that Fourth Miss Bai had encountered before, as well as the abducted young women including First Miss Bai, Wei Yunlan didn't dare to think about it any further.
At this moment, she fully understood the indignation in "Guardian Xiao's" eyes yesterday.
As a woman, the shock this incident brought to her was even greater than the previous Lianzhou mine incident.
If she had a knife in her hand at this moment, she would also like to kill the corrupt official who murdered the women of Dayong and flattered the barbarians on the spot!
"Guard Xiao, we can't just sit back and watch this happen."
Wei Yunlan took a deep breath and said, "Even something as serious as the Dan River bursting its banks was able to be suppressed. This Lord Cao must have someone he can rely on in the capital."
"When the imperial court orders a thorough investigation, it will take too long. It is unknown what will happen in the meantime. During this time, countless women will be harmed."
In the short time she spent talking, she had already sorted out the connections she could use in her mind. "The Hanzhou Censor is my father's classmate and he is an upright person. I will write a letter and ask my father to explain this matter to him. Hanzhou and Huangzhou are adjacent to each other. If they send people here to investigate the disappearance of a Hanzhou woman, it is reasonable!"
"The Censor of Hanzhou, Lord Lin Yue?" Qi Xu originally wanted to take the responsibility of Tianshu Pavilion on this matter, but he did not expect there would be such an unexpected "pleasure".
What surprised him even more was that he did not expect that Miss Wei, who had lived in the rear house for a long time before being exiled, actually had such a comprehensive view of the overall situation.
Wei Yunlan didn't know that the surprise in Qi Xu's eyes had such a meaning.
She was not surprised that the person in front of her knew the name of Lord Lin. If Tianshu Pavilion belonged to the prince, then it was reasonable for them to know something about the court of Dayong and the main officials from various places.
He nodded slightly and replied, "It's the Lord Lin you mentioned."
Qi Xu also knew a little about Lin Yue, who was indeed a good official with integrity and noble character.
If he could really cooperate with this matter in his capacity as the Censor of Hanzhou, it would be equivalent to giving an official name to the punishment of Lord Cao, making everything more in line with the rules, and no one in the capital would be able to interfere.
But he couldn't put all the burden on Lord Lin.
After calming down, Qi Xu promised solemnly: "In this case, Tianshu Pavilion will collect all the evidence before the Hanzhou people come, and then we can directly convict these corrupt officials."
After a pause, he added in a slightly ruthless tone, "If Hanzhou is not in a position to intervene in this matter, we will also use our own methods to make these bastards lose their heads."
"No matter what, Tianshu Pavilion will never sit idly by and allow them to collude with the Northern Barbarians and persecute the women of Dayong!"
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