Chapter 657 It turns out Zhouzhou was kidnapped
The matchmaker was so frightened that she fell to the ground. "I...I'm not lying, she really is crazy!"
Mianmian took out a dagger and untied the bride's ropes.
The bride pointed at her and said, "Why don't we go to Qingzhou Prefecture now and see the prefect, and see who is lying!"
The matchmaker immediately panicked and secretly took two steps back, trying to run away.
Mianmian quickly called out to Aruo, "Quick, don't let her get away!"
Aruo leaped forward, kicking the matchmaker to the ground, and then slapped each of the men who had carried the sedan chair.
They all collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain.
Seeing them all fall down, the bride breathed a sigh of relief and turned to thank Mianmian, saying, "I really have to thank Mianmian today, otherwise I would have been tied up and forced to marry that old rich man."
Mianmian asked her, "Sister, didn't you go to Xuzhou with Manager Bo and the others? Why are you in Qingzhou Prefecture?"
The bride was the second daughter of Manager Bo and Madam Wei, named Bo Wenjun. She was older than Mianmian and had already reached marriageable age.
Her appearance has changed drastically; even Du Wanchun might not recognize her.
A few years ago, Manager Bo and the Wei family opened an incense shop in Xuzhou. Later, as their business in Xuzhou gradually stabilized, they came to Cheng'an County to help Du Wanchun and Zhou Feng take over the rice shop business there.
Bo Wenjun explained to her, "I have been in Cheng'an County with my parents for three years. A few days ago, Zhouzhou and I went to a neighboring county, but unfortunately we were kidnapped by a group of people on the way."
"They dressed me in a red wedding gown, intending to marry me off as a concubine to Master Kao. Just now, I heard your name in the sedan chair and wondered if it was you, so I deliberately shook the sedan chair."
"I didn't expect it to be true."
As Bo Wenjun spoke, her eyes reddened and she was about to cry.
Mianmian immediately asked, "You just said that you and Zhouzhou were tied up together, so where is Zhouzhou? Where is she?"
Bo Wenjun looked at the matchmaker beside her, "If you want to ask them, Zhouzhou is still young and they don't know where she was taken!"
Zhouzhou is the apple of Aunt Zhou and the Third Prince's eye, and she also has an emperor brother. How dare these people do this?
Mianmian was furious and turned to the matchmaker, asking, "Where's Zhouzhou?"
The matchmaker was still feigning ignorance, asking, "Who is Zhouzhou?"
These roughnecks from the village had no idea whose daughters the two girls they had tied up belonged to; they just tied them up because they were pretty.
Aruo kicked her, "Speak up!"
The matchmaker trembled with pain, but still stubbornly insisted, "I really don't know what you're talking about. I'm just a matchmaker here to escort the bride. I don't know anything. They say she's crazy, so I just thought she was crazy. It has nothing to do with me."
Bo Wenjun walked over and angrily rebuked, "You're talking nonsense! You were right there when those people tied me up, how could it be unrelated to you!"
The matchmaker kept her head down and didn't say a word.
Mianmian and Aruo exchanged a glance.
Aruo, holding a longsword, pointed the sharp tip at her throat and said, "Tell me, where is the other girl you kidnapped?"
The matchmaker trembled, staring at the tip of the sword, cold sweat pouring down her face.
Mianmian walked to her side and said with a smile, "Granny, look carefully. This sword is extremely sharp. As long as it cuts your throat, you will die."
The matchmaker quickly begged her for mercy, saying, "Miss, please forgive me. This matter really has nothing to do with me. I was just following orders."
With her back to her, Mianmian raised her voice and said, "As long as you tell the truth, we won't kill you."
A glimmer of hope appeared in the matchmaker's eyes, and she quickly said, "I'll talk, young lady, I'll talk."
Mianmian told Aruo to put away her sword.
The matchmaker knelt down and said, "I am just a matchmaker from a neighboring county. I usually kidnap people to arrange marriages. There is a wealthy man named Luo in Luo Family Village who gave my husband a large sum of money, wanting him to find him a good family. However, this wealthy man Luo is old, and good families will naturally not send their daughters to suffer."
"Later, Master Luo came up with a plan, which was to have us kidnap two girls on the road and marry them off to him. We happened to run into these two girls on our way back to Lin County, so we tied them up."
Upon hearing this, Mianmian immediately asked, "What about the other girl?"
The matchmaker slowly said, "Master Luo said this girl is too young, so he will keep her at home to be his foolish son's child bride!"
To make the emperor's sister a child bride for a simple-minded boy, Master Luo really had a lot of guts.
Mianmian sneered and said, "Do you know who the girl you kidnapped is?"
The matchmaker lowered her head, not daring to speak.
Mianmian bent down and whispered in her ear, "Her father is the Third Prince. Even if you had ten heads, it wouldn't be enough to chop them off."
The matchmaker stood there stunned, her mouth agape, as if her soul had been ripped away.
Mianmian turned her head to look at the bridal sedan chair and said slowly, "I'm giving you a chance to live today. Continue carrying this bridal sedan chair and take us to the Luo family."
The matchmaker quickly replied, "Okay, okay, we'll definitely listen!"
Mianmian thought for a moment, then had the matchmaker put on Bo Wenjun's clothes, and Mianmian pretended to be the matchmaker's niece. Then they carried the bridal sedan chair on their way.
Aruo and Bo Wenjun followed behind them in a carriage.
As the bridal sedan chair continued its journey, they soon arrived at the gate of Master Luo's house.
This Mr. Luo was a minor official in the capital in his early years, but later he resigned and returned to his hometown to live as a wealthy man.
Luo Family Village was originally a small village, but this little rich man became the local tyrant, having married seven or eight concubines.
Because Qingzhou Prefecture was far away, no one could control him.
Master Luo never expected that by tying someone up, he would end up tying up a very important person.
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