Chapter 45 The missing matter is not simple

In late autumn, the scorched yellow leaves swirled and fell slowly.

Xie Anci looked at the man in front of him with a simple smile. The man shaved off his beard and looked much younger.

The man always smiled when facing Xie Anci. His facial features were not bad. Although he was not as handsome as Li Jinchen, he was still pleasing to the eye.

Xie Anci looked into the distance. If he was just an ordinary person, would he not be involved in the vortex of power?

It would be great to spend his life like an ordinary person guarding a loved one.

What a pity...

there is no if.

Cao Da stared at Xie Anci blankly. His beautiful face was filled with a pair of distant and empty eyes. This man seemed to have been through a lot, which made Cao Da feel distressed.

"Wife..." Cao Da murmured.

"Who are you calling?" Xie Anci turned around and glared at him in dissatisfaction.

"You." Cao Da lowered his head in grievance.

"Don't call me that. If you dare to call me that again, I will twist your head off." Xie Anci said unhappily.

"Oh..." Cao Da's tall and strong body curled up in grievance, he was so rough, I liked it so much...

"You have all the skills, why do you want to be a bandit in the Zhishan gully? Why don't you join the army?" Xie Anci glanced at him, feeling sorry for the big fool in front of him.

He was being used as a gun and didn't even know it. He

was really stupid.

"I don't know how to get there, and they are pretty good to me."

"You mean your 'good brothers'?"

"Yeah!" Cao Da nodded fiercely.

Xie Anci: "..."

They are really good, good enough to send him to jail.

Xie Anci tapped the armrest of the recliner with his bony fingers. His body still needed a few days to recover, so it was not appropriate to confront him head-on.

Fortunately, the big fool in front of him could be used.

"You didn't do anything to the women you captured, did you?"

"No, they're still locked up." Cao Da shook his head.

"Take me to see them." Xie Anci ordered. He was used to making calls, and he could do it easily with Cao Da.

"..." Cao Da raised his eyelids but didn't move.

"Why? I can't go?" Xie Anci narrowed his eyes.

"No, you don't want to let them go, do you?" Cao Da shook his head and expressed his doubts.

"No, and don't you have so many people watching you? The mountain roads here are so difficult to walk on. Even if I let them go, they probably won't be able to get out of the mountain."

"That's right." Cao Da nodded and said with a smile, "Then I'll take you there."

Xie Anci got up and followed Cao Da to the room where the women were locked up.

The imprisoned women huddled together when they heard the sound, and breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Xie Anci was fine.

"Young Master..." The woman who had scolded Chen Qian before stood up.

"I have something to ask them, please stay aside for a while." Xie Anci wanted to send Cao Da away, but Cao Da looked as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"You won't run away, will you?" Cao Da didn't dare to let Xie Anci out of his sight.

Xie Anci turned her head, with a smile on her beautiful face, but the smile did not reach her eyes.

"Do you think I can run away? Do I know the way? If you are worried, just go to a farther place and watch."

Seeing Xie Anci's unhappy face, Cao Da nodded quickly and ran to stand under a tree a few feet away. He stared at Xie Anci's figure with his eyes, fearing that he would run away.

"Sir, I'm glad you're okay." The woman relaxed a little when she saw Cao Da was gone.

"Did you know Doctor Chen before?" Xie Anci asked.

"Not only me, but most of us know him. He is the only doctor in several villages near us. When people are sick, they can only go to him."

"Has there been a case of a woman going missing in this place before? Do you know?" Xie Anci always felt that this village was weird.

Moreover, they said that they kidnapped the woman just to get married, which was too ridiculous.

Xie Anci thought that some people might have this reason, and some might have deeper reasons, and that only a small number of people in this mountain village knew about it.

"Yes, people have been missing one after another since the New Year." The woman thought for a while and said.

"How many people are there?"

"I don't know, one disappears every once in a while, so no one dares to go out alone."

"Did you report it to the authorities?"

"We did, but the county magistrate here didn't do anything. He just said he was investigating, and there has been no follow-up."

"..."

Xie Anci frowned, "Is the woman who disappeared before also here?"

"I didn't see anyone I know." Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.

Xie Anci frowned even more when

he heard this. He didn't see many women in this mountain village, and most of them were around 30 years old, so they didn't seem to be imprisoned here. "Don't act rashly here. I will try my best to ensure your safety, and then I will find a way to help you escape." Xie Anci warned.

"Thank you, sir." The woman nodded repeatedly, not knowing why she trusted the strange man in front of her so much.

Xie Anci left the room, and the door was locked again.

Not knowing whether Gu Lingyu had sent someone to check, Xie Anci felt dizzy and felt like he was floating in the clouds when he walked.

Xie Anci left the room but didn't see Cao Da. The person who was standing under the tree had disappeared.

A familiar figure passed by stealthily.

"Doctor Chen!" Xie Anci shouted loudly.

Chen Qian turned around angrily, looking guilty.

"Why don't you dare look at me, Doctor Chen?" Xie Anci asked knowingly.

"Sir, I'm really sorry." Chen Qian's eyes sparkled.

"Come with me." Xie Anci took Chen Qian back to Cao Da's residence. He felt better when he lay on the recliner. His body was no longer so heavy.

"Tell me, why did you do this?" Xie Anci rubbed his temples to relieve the pain.

"Sir, I had no choice. They threatened me with my mother. I didn't know there was a secret passage there before."

"They asked me to stun those women. They said they would let my mother go if I helped them do the job." Chen Qian's eyes were red.

His mother gave birth to him in her old age. If he hadn't been threatened by them, how could he, as a scholar, do such a heartless thing.

"Where is your mother? Do you know where she is?" Xie Anci had never thought that such a thing could happen.

This mountain bandit's nest is really not simple, it is really tyrannical, like the local emperor here.

"I heard that it is in this mountain village, but I haven't found it yet." Chen Qian shook his head. He has been secretly looking for it recently, but he hasn't found it yet.

"Forget it, make me a bowl of soup first, I feel dizzy." Xie Anci waved his hand, looking like he was about to fall asleep.

Chen Qian felt his pulse and knew that he had not recovered from the cold, so he responded and left.