Anyway, the hero won't let anything happen to the heroine, otherwise how can the script go? Wouldn't that be a mess?
She had also considered it rationally. Anyway, the kidnappers' real target was not them.
Since Jiang Sui said so, Xia Wanning just gave in and lay down on the bed.
"Sui Sui, I have to be honest with you. My identity is not simple, and so is He Jing. We are from Kyoto. He is from the court, and I am the daughter of the loyal and brave mansion. I came to Jeju this time because I have some private matters to attend to. I just happened to go with He Jing. He came to investigate the corruption case and the disaster relief, and many people were brought down. I guess some people are desperate this time, so they resorted to this desperate measure, threatening to kidnap me and let He Jing let them go."
Jiang Sui knew all this, but he had to pretend not to know.
The current situation is that Xia Wanning took the initiative to reveal her identity in order to reassure Jiang Sui, letting her know that with their identities, they would never be left alone.
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Helian Jing had also received the letter from the kidnappers, saying that the guards had only suffered minor injuries, and the kidnappers had not caused any deaths, nor had they gone too far.
Upon hearing that Xia Wanning was kidnapped, along with an innocent Jiang Sui, Helian Jing's face became as gloomy as ice.
"Send someone to look for them. First, find their hiding place, then send someone to negotiate with them and ask them what they want. Then go to the Xiao family, inform Xiao Hechuan, and invite him over to discuss the matter. Don't disturb the rest of the Xiao family to avoid causing panic."
The Xiao family is a family of ordinary civilians. After all, it was because of him that Madam Jiang was kidnapped for no reason. He must give them an explanation no matter what.
At the same time, Xiao Hechuan waited for Jiang Sui to come back home for a long time, but he had already arrived at Feihua Tower and ran into the person who was going to tell him the news.
Xiao Hechuan came upstairs, and when Helian Jing saw him, he had a blank expression on his face.
Xiao Hechuan asked someone to tell the family that Jiang Sui and Xia Wanning had a good chat and would stay at Feihua Tower tonight. He would accompany them, so the family could rest assured.
"Brother Xiao, I'm really sorry for implicating your wife. I've already sent people to look for her. The kidnappers are coming for me, so they won't be in danger for now. Please rest assured that I will give you an explanation for this matter."
"Brother He, I know you are not ordinary. I didn't want to ask you too much, but now it concerns the safety of my wife. I hope you can take the initiative to speak up so that I can make some guesses. Don't worry, I will not reveal your identity to the outside world. I just want my wife to return safely."
Xiao Hechuan is a smart man and he doesn't beat around the bush. Helian Jing is happy to deal with him.
So, Helian Jing took the initiative to tell him that he came to Jeju to do business for the court, but he did not reveal his identity as a prince.
He told Xiao Hechuan all about his actions since coming to Jeju and the officials he had dealt with.
Xiao Hechuan immediately made a guess. He guessed that this action was probably committed by a gang. They were forced into a desperate situation, so they united as one and set their sights on Xia Wanning's identity, wanting to use her to threaten Helian Jing.
The status of the Loyal and Brave Marquis's Mansion is there. If something happens to their legitimate daughter, he will be in trouble when he returns to Beijing. It is related to the fight for the throne. Losing a helper means losing a few chances of reaching the top.
But they were not Beijing officials, so they didn't know. Xia Wanning had a bad relationship with her father, the kind that were incompatible with each other. No one cared about her life or death at all.
However, they hit the nail on the head. Helian Jing had special feelings for Xia Wanning because she had quietly lived in his heart. Otherwise, he would not have almost lost his composure and acted rashly after hearing that she was kidnapped.
Xiao Hechuan suggested that Helian Jing could temporarily agree to the other party's request for negotiation, and then secretly find someone to find out their hiding place to cut off the source of the problem.
He tried to delay the person while Xiao Hechuan went to look for evidence. He had been in the Dali Temple before and was more experienced in finding details. He also specially learned some tracking techniques.
On the official road outside the city, there are many indentations left by the passing of carriages. It has been snowing recently, and there is snow on the ground. The road is muddy and the soil is soft, so the indentations left by the carriages are particularly obvious.
Xia Wanning's carriage was pulled by two horses and ran very fast, so the wheel tracks left behind were relatively smooth, and there was a difference between the new and old tracks.
Helian Jing sent him a team of people, and he led them to patrol the official road outside Jizhou City. Finally, he identified a wheel track among many wheels of varying depths, and judged that it was left by Xia Wanning's carriage.
Walking west along this trail, when we reached a crossroads, we suddenly saw many horseshoe prints around, and it was estimated that there were no less than twenty people.
However, they seemed to have guessed that someone would find out about this, so at the intersection, there were horseshoe prints on all four roads in an attempt to confuse people.
In order to avoid being easily found, they even used other carriages to leave traces, which was very disorganized.
But they overlooked one point: Xia Wanning's carriage wheels were different from ordinary carriage wheels.
The width of her wheels and the threads on them are very particular, because they are from Kyoto, and everything in Kyoto is very particular. Even if it was intentional to confuse people, Xiao Hechuan still saw through it.
He finally determined a route and walked along it for twenty miles. Finally, his people found a remote villa hidden at the foot of the mountain and in the birch forest.
There are many people guarding the inside and outside of the villa. There are only a dozen of them, so they can't act rashly for the time being. They have to go back and talk to Helian Jing first.
Helian Jing didn't expect that Xiao Hechuan had found their hiding place in just half a day. His efficiency was too high.
But if he had not already investigated him thoroughly and knew that he was really just a poor student from an ordinary family, he would probably have really suspected whether he had another identity.
Because of this, Helian Jing felt more and more that he could not miss this talent and must win him over and make him his own.
After confirming the location of Xia Wanning and Jiang Sui, Helian Jing dispatched a large number of experts to rescue them. At the same time, he personally met the leader of the group.
As expected, those officials who were forced into a desperate situation by him, once they returned to Beijing with evidence to report to their father, would be faced with either property confiscation or exile, and they would also be beheaded.
Therefore, they banded together and came up with such a stupid idea to force Helian Jing to compromise, take the opportunity to hand in their letters of allegiance, board his boat, and put him in a difficult position, while also saving their own lives and those of their families.
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