"Did you find it over there?"

“Go and take a look!”

"quick……"

In the streets and alleys, the officers and soldiers of the prefectural government were moving quickly, running, and searching, while the common people were watching and discussing something:

“Run away…”

"No way, could it be that the prefect doesn't want to marry his daughter off and wants to cheat?"

"If an official as high as the prefect goes back on his word and breaks his promise..."

"What the hell is this..."

Three of them gathered together, five of them stood together, talking one after another. Everyone was talking happily and didn't notice a slender figure running quickly at the alley behind them.

She is a thin woman.

She wore a cloak that hid her face and pulled her head very low.

He hurriedly moved among the crowd without attracting any attention.

Sudden--

Snap!

She accidentally kicked a ceramic jar on the side of the road, and it rolled to the middle of the road. The crisp sound of it breaking made many people turn their heads to look.

"Miss there!"

An officer saw it with sharp eyes.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen officers and soldiers chased after them quickly.

When the woman saw this, she quickly turned around and ran away.

They walked in a hurry and stumbled, tripping over many people and knocking over several stalls. However, men are naturally stronger than women due to their physical strength, and they are about to catch up.

When turning the corner, a slender little hand suddenly pulled the woman into the darkness.

"who……"

"Shh!"

Qin Ye held her shoulders, hid behind a tattered bamboo basket, and watched a group of soldiers running past in a panic from the alley entrance.

He waited until the footsteps faded away before letting go of the woman.

"It's safe."

The woman slumped on the ground, clutching her cloak tightly with both hands, gasping for breath, her eyes becoming red and misty.

Tears fell silently, and I murmured absentmindedly:

"I can hide for a while, but I can't hide forever... As long as I'm alive, I can't escape..."

Qin Ye frowned.

It is not difficult to guess that this fifteen or sixteen-year-old, pretty and fair-skinned girl in front of him is the prefect's daughter. Judging from the way she cried and ran away, it seems that she is not willing to get married.

"Did the prefect force you?" she asked, "You are the prefect's only daughter. If you really don't want to get married, would he force you?"

The woman seemed to have heard a huge joke.

A thousand gold?

The apple of your eye?

Yes, in the eyes of the common people, she was the daughter of a prefect of noble status, and had lived a life of luxury since childhood, never having to touch a woman's body. But how could she know...

She slowly bent her legs and hugged herself desperately:

"You don't know, you don't know..."

Choking and crying:

"In order to maintain his reputation for being honest, he adopted the method of throwing a ball of embroidery to get engaged, proving that in his eyes, officials and common people were treated equally, without distinction of high and low, and won the hearts and minds of the people, gaining their recognition and support;

In fact, he has already decided on the candidate! "

"He wants to marry me to the governor of Xiangnan!"

The last sentence was almost shouted.

She doesn't want to get married.

She didn't want her own happiness to become a sacrifice to her father's career.

"The governor is a ruthless man who doesn't go back on his word. If you do something wrong, he will skin you alive, pull out your tendons, and torture you. He even tortures his servants for fun. He also forces my father to pay tribute to him. If he doesn't give me benefits, he will remove my father from his position!"

"In the entire southern Hunan, four counties, and more than a dozen counties, he has the final say..."

The woman held her face and cried in pain:

"If I were to marry that vicious, terrible man, I would rather die, I would rather die..."