The sky outside was gradually getting brighter. He remembered that he had to report to the Duwei Mansion today, so he did not dare to delay. He hurriedly changed into ordinary clothes and walked out of the room.

When the great elder saw him coming out, he quickly said, "Master, the child you brought back is too greedy. He has been eating since last night and has not stopped. The cooks are exhausted, so they had to let the cooks go to rest first. When the child saw that there was no food, he ran away on his own. We couldn't catch him no matter how hard we tried."

"He ran away?" Shu Xiyao thought that the other party regarded him as an adopted son, and stroked his forehead and said, "He should come back. You can just hire a few more cooks and prepare more meals."

"yes."

Shu Xiyao said no more and hurried to the Duwei Mansion.

When Captain Liu saw him coming, he snorted, "I thought you weren't coming."

Shu Xiyao saw that they were about to go out and asked, "Where are you going now?"

"We are going to catch a..." Captain Liu was not sure what he was going to catch: "A wild beast."

"Beast?" Shu Xiyao's eyes flashed with doubt: "What beast?"

"I don't know either." Captain Liu was particularly annoyed when he thought of this: "Anyway, any thief who stole food should be caught."

These words made Shu Xiyao inexplicably think of Taotie.

He glanced at the other Jinyiwei, but did not see Mu Nanjin: "Where are Mu Nanjin and Senior Wu?"

"One is still sleeping, and the other is not interested in this matter." Captain Liu did not want to mobilize two big Buddhas for such a small matter: "They said that if we can't catch them, we will look for them again."

When Shu Xiyao heard this, he didn't want to go anymore.

But he had just returned to the Jinyiwei and could not be so casual, so he could only go out for a walk with Captain Liu and the others.

Captain Liu divided the Jinyiwei into twenty teams, ten of which were responsible for patrolling the streets, and the other teams were responsible for the alleys. Once they saw something coming out from the ground, no matter what it was, they would catch it first.

It was early in the morning and the restaurants had not yet opened, so it was very quiet. Instead, angry curses could be heard coming from the breakfast stalls.

"That thing is here to steal food again."

"Everyone, catch him quickly."

"He's there, everyone, hurry up and put him in a bamboo basket."

"Ah, he has gone underground again."

Captain Liu heard the noise and hurried over with the Jinyiwei.

However, when they arrived, there was a small hole left next to several stalls.

Shu Xiyao looked at the small cave for a long time without saying a word.

Because the size of the cave is exactly the same as the cave dug by the little brat who claimed to be his godfather.

He was sure it was Taotie who did it.

If he did it, it would be difficult for the Jinyiwei to catch him.

"He must still be nearby. He hasn't run far." Captain Liu divided their team into five smaller teams: "Shu Xiyao, lead your men to patrol the nearby alleys."

"Yeah." Shu Xiyao and three Jinyiwei walked into the Xiaocangzi next to them.

The alley was only ten feet wide and paved with pebbles. Not many people came and went, so the five ferocious-looking men coming towards them were very eye-catching.

Shu Xiyao looked at them twice more.

The other party also glanced at them, and seeing that the people brought by Shu Xiyao were wearing flying fish robes, he stood aside to let them pass and then walked deeper into the alley on the other side. He stopped only when he came to the gate of a large courtyard, and the sound of noisy laughter of children could be heard from the house.

The leading man coughed seven times, and then, with a creaky sound, the gate of the yard was opened.

Wen Niang poked her head out and saw that it was a familiar customer. She immediately smiled widely and said, "Master Wei, you are here. Please come in."

Master Wei walked into the house with four of his men and looked at the children in the courtyard. He curled his lips and said, "I haven't been here for a year, and you have so many more children here, and they are all strangers. Have you sold all the previous children?"

"Thanks to Master Wei, they've all been sold."

Wen Niang poured tea and served cakes to Master Wei.

Mr. Wei took a sip of tea and said, "Old rules."

"I know." Wen Niang smiled and asked the children to line up in four rows.

The children huddled together in fear at the sight of the five fierce-looking men.

Wen Niang smiled and said, "Children, let me introduce him to you. His name is Master Wei, and he is here to adopt you. As long as he takes a liking to a child, he will have a life of luxury and wealth in the future."

Wen Niang quickly pulled them into four lines.

Master Wei looked at the children and asked, "Are they all here?"

There was an invisible trace of guilt in Wen Niang's eyes: "It's all here."

Lord Wei used his divine eyes to signal his four subordinates.

His four men walked up to the children and checked their bones. However, after checking them all, none of them satisfied them.

The four men returned to Master Wei and shook their heads.

Master Wei looked at Wen Niang and said, "Niang Wen, your children are not good enough."

Wen Niang was embarrassed: "Is there no one I like?"

"No."

Mr. Wei didn't want to waste time, so he stood up and prepared to leave, when he heard a child's tender voice coming from a room.

"Eh? Isn't that Master Wei coming to see us?"

Mr. Wei suddenly turned around and looked at the room opposite. The door of the room was closed tightly, intentionally preventing the people inside from coming out.

Wen Niang's face changed drastically.

Master Wei looked at Wen Niang with a gloomy face: "Didn't you say that all the children are here?"

Wen Niang said anxiously, "Master Wei, please listen to my explanation. The children inside were kidnapped from rich families. They are going to use the children to ask the rich for ransom, and they don't intend to sell them."

Mr. Wei didn't care about her reason and turned around to signal his men to open the door.

His men roughly kicked the door open, and he was stunned when he saw four beautiful children standing inside.

In all his years of life, this was the first time he saw a baby so beautiful that he didn't look like a human.

"Master Wei, there are four children here."

Master Wei was not interested in the children inside: "Take a look at their physiques."

"yes."

Wen Niang was extremely anxious and kept praying in her heart that Wei Ye's people would look down on the four children in the house.

Wei Ye's men touched the bodies of the four children. The more he touched, the more surprised he was, and a big smile unconsciously appeared on the corners of his mouth.

Baihu said proudly: "I am absolutely in good health."

Chaos followed up by saying, "Mine will surely be good too."

Bai Ze sighed slightly and was too lazy to talk to them anymore.

Master Wei's subordinates said happily: "Master Wei, the four children in the room are all good seedlings, good seedlings that are hard to come by in a century."

"Really?" Wei Ye's gloomy face finally showed a smile: "Bring them all back to me."

"Yes." The other three men walked into the room, pressed the child's mute point, and then each of them carried a child out.

Wen Niang asked anxiously, "Master Wei, can you leave me a child?"

Master Wei snorted coldly: "I'm not angry that you lied to me. I've already spared you some mercy because of our past relationship. Now you dare to ask me to keep the child. Are you looking for death?"

"It's not easy for me to make a living, so I hope you can leave me a child so that I can make a fortune."

"Is it difficult to sell kidnapped children for money?"

Master Wei had no pity for her at all. He took out five 100-liang silver notes and threw them in front of her: "Four hundred liang is for buying the child, and one hundred liang is for you."

"Thank you, Mr. Wei." Wen Niang saw that he had made up his mind and did not dare to stop him, otherwise death might be waiting for her.

Master Wei left with his men and the children.

Not far after they walked out of the compound, they met the Jinyiwei they had seen before again.

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