These women are not captured civilians at all; they are clearly part of a gang of bandits.
Pei Xuanqing had this suspicion because he noticed that they walked very lightly. Unexpectedly, he found out the truth after a test.
When the women realized their identities were exposed, they did not surrender, but instead drew their daggers and fought with the soldiers.
In order to train his troops, Pei Xuanqing did not rush to let the Yulin Guards take action.
But these women were very agile and better than the new recruits who underestimated the enemy. Soon, several of them were injured.
"Are you all useless?" Pei Xuanqing shouted at the sidelines upon seeing this situation. "You can't even beat a few women!" He added, "If that's the case, when you return from here, go back to where you came from!"
The new recruits perked up when they heard this, and instead of fighting alone, they began to attack together. It took a while before they finally captured all the women.
"Who are you?" Pei Xuanqing asked one of them coldly with a frosty look on his face.
The woman said nothing. When Pei Xuanqing pressed her again, she bit the poison hidden in her teeth and committed suicide.
The Yulin Guards were quick-witted and quick-handed. Before the other women could imitate them, they stepped forward and removed their jaws.
"Take these women away and interrogate them slowly first." If one wanted to extract information from these women, one had to resort to some special means.
Pei Xuanqing sneered inwardly. These weren't ordinary civilians, not even ordinary guards or soldiers. They were clearly a group of death squads. Who could have done this? It seemed the Dark Forest Guards were busy again.
Before the people who went to investigate came back to report, Baiji was brought here before them.
"Sir!" Bai Ji, who was originally a little nervous, finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Shen Yu.
"Baiji? Where is Xueying?" Shen Yu hurriedly stepped forward and asked.
"My young lady followed those thieves." Baiji replied.
"Following a thief?" Shen Yu was furious with Wan Xueying for the first time upon hearing this. "Why would she follow a thief if she didn't protect herself?" Wasn't she afraid of danger herself? Didn't she know how worried he was?
"That's because the bandits captured many women, including several young ladies. They hid some of the women in one place and then took some of the young ladies to another. My young lady was afraid that the soldiers would miss the best opportunity to rescue them, so she sent me to find the soldiers and tell them where the women were first hidden. And because she was afraid that the soldiers wouldn't be able to find the young ladies, my young lady followed the bandits to see where they hid them."
"Isn't she afraid of exposing her whereabouts and getting caught?" Although he knew Wan Xueying had good intentions, Shen Yu became even angrier.
"My young lady said that she has the ability to save her life, so she will be fine. That's why I came here to find the soldiers as instructed by the young lady." The reason why Baiji came directly here was because Wan Xueying calculated that if Shunzi found the soldiers, he would definitely let them come here to arrest people.
Shen Yu took a deep breath to calm himself down, then asked, "Did you two encounter any danger in the woods?"
"No," Baiji shook his head. "The young lady is very capable. Every time she encounters danger, she takes me and her servants away. Not only that, the young lady also tamed two horses." After being tamed, the two horses were very docile and allowed them to ride.
What Baiji didn't know was that Wan Xueying had used up all her life force to tame the two horses. Wan Xueying had just given it a try, but she hadn't expected it to actually work.
"How did Xueying know that the women in Ningyang County were arrested? And how did she know that several young ladies were among them?" To protect the reputations of those young ladies, they kept the news secret. Shen Yu was not the only one who felt puzzled, but Pei Xuanqing, who was standing beside him, felt the same way.
"When my young lady and I were hiding everywhere, we saw a team of carriages passing by. I thought we were saved and no longer had to hide, but my young lady saw several women holding children sitting on the shafts of the carriages and stopped me..."
Thinking of the strangeness from before, Wan Xueying suddenly realized that these women were not ordinary women. The strangeness came from the fact that although these women were dressed in rags, they were very agile. They walked with their children in their arms, each of them walking briskly and breathing evenly.
It was just that she didn't think in a bad way at the time, so she missed this information.
After he figured it out when he saw the women holding their children again, he immediately stopped Baiji and continued to hide in the dark.
Not long after, a carriage passing by the master and servant heard a banging sound, and then a hairpin fell out of the carriage window.
After the carriages had departed, Wan Xueying picked up the hairpin and examined it, recognizing it as the large phoenix hairpin made of oriental pearls that Ji Rongshan had worn a few days ago. She had already recognized it, but was simply confirming it.
If the person in the car just now was really Ji Rongshan, then things had far exceeded her imagination.
After Wan Xueying and the other thieves who were chasing them left with the carriages, Bai Ji quietly followed them, but always kept a great distance from them.
Just when Baiji thought they might have lost the gang of thieves, Wan Xueying stopped with Baiji.
It was at this time that Baiji noticed that there was a stronghold there, where the group of bandits had stopped.
Afterwards, I saw some women with their mouths gagged and their hands tied behind their backs being taken into the mountain stronghold. Several women in gorgeous clothes were stuffed back into the carriages. I wonder where they were taken to?
Wan Xueying asked Baiji to remember this place and come back to report to the officers and soldiers, while she continued to follow secretly.
The reason why Wan Xueying made this decision was not Ji Rongshan, nor was it Qian Youyun, but mainly Xue Lingyue.
She was Pei Xuanqing's fiancée. If something went wrong, Pei Xuanqing would not be able to marry into the Xue family, and the situation in Northern Xinjiang would become very complicated. Shen Yu was now practically tied to Pei Xuanqing, so she had to help Xue Lingyue.
"Okay, your young lady is really capable." A skilled person is also bold, right? After hearing the whole story, Shen Yu didn't know what to say. He could only look at Pei Xuanqing standing aside and ask, "Should we split into two teams? One team to rescue the women Bai Ji knows the location of, and the other team to rescue those young ladies."
"It can only be this way." After hearing what Bai Ji said, Pei Xuanqing felt that things were increasingly beyond his previous predictions.
He originally thought that those who did this were just a group of brave bandits, but he didn't expect that they were a group of thieves with unknown origins and were particularly cunning.
But what were these people doing by arresting so many women? And why were they only arresting the daughters of a few families? Aren't they afraid of offending the powerful and influential people in the entire Northern Frontier and getting into trouble?
Or was it intentional? To completely muddy the waters of Northern Xinjiang?
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