"Sister Eagle, please help me check around this mountain to see if I can find any traces of other people."
[Little girl, I'll go help you look for it. You just hide there and don't move.]
The eagle changed direction, left the cave near the halfway point of the mountain, and flew towards the back of the mountain.
After the eagle flew away, Tao Yuwei's spiritual power continued to spread into the mountains.
She connected her consciousness with the nearby tree.
"Little girl, what are you doing here alone? Run! This mountain is dangerous."
Tao Yuwei's face became very serious after hearing this. She still didn't understand why the traffickers brought those children to this sparsely populated mountain.
Thank you for your concern, Mr. Tree. Could you please tell me why this mountain you mentioned is dangerous?
Tao Yuwei pricked up her ears and listened to the movements around her, but she could only hear the incessant chirping of crickets in the grass as night fell.
She needed to chat with this big tree that was connected to consciousness and get information about the mountain from it.
Who knows, she might get unexpected news this time.
[Girl, there are a large number of soldiers hiding in this mountain. For some unknown reason, they have been entrenched here all year round.]
Tao Yuwei continued to ask about this.
How many of them are there? How long have they been here?
The tree gently shook its branches a few times and said, "I don't know exactly how many people there are. I just remember they've been here for over three years. Every once in a while, they'd send a group in from outside."
What about the children who were brought in? How did they deal with them?
If this is the hiding place and training place of a certain prince's private soldiers, why were so many children brought here by human traffickers?
This is also what Tao Yuwei can't understand the most.
Aren't abducted children usually sold to families in need? How could they be brought to such a deserted place?
[Little girl, I don't know the answer to your question. I haven't seen any children come here.]
Tao Yuwei's heart was shocked.
Didn't see the child?
Where exactly were those people taken by the traffickers?
This was the thing she least wanted to see happen.
What was the connection between the private soldiers hiding in the mountains and these human traffickers? Why did the two guards in her house follow those traffickers and end up tied up and taken into the mountains?
There were several questions that Tao Yuwei didn't understand.
The tree couldn't answer the questions she asked.
By this time, the sky had completely darkened.
"Little girl, those people are hiding in a large valley behind this mountain. Be careful. I'm going to rest now."
After the tree reminded her, it became quiet and stopped talking to her without waiting for her to say thank you.
Tao Yuwei walked out from behind the tree.
The eagle that flew out to investigate the news flew back at this time.
[Little girl, I found that there are many tents set up in the valley behind the mountain. There are a large number of troops stationed there.]
The eagle was so hungry that it could hardly fly.
Tao Yuwei was very sure that the private soldiers of a certain important figure were hiding in this mountain.
"Sister Eagle, please find a place to rest first. I'll go hunt some game in the woods and come back. After we have a good meal, we'll go around to the back of the mountain to check on the situation."
The eagle responded to the cry, then chose a tall tree and landed on it.
Tao Yuwei rushed into the nearby woods in the dark to hunt.
Xiao Lichen and his group, who chose another route to the northwest, were also in the mountains.
The carriage that Xiao Lichen was riding in stopped beside a stream.
Qingzhu and two guards were squatting by the stream and slaughtering a few pheasants.
Xiao Lichen, sitting in a wheelchair, was alone under a big tree.
A cluster of firelight rising from the ground shone on his face. He pursed his angular lips, his expression cold, and sat there like a statue, not moving for most of the day.
The little girl followed her grandfather, General Weiyuan, and lived at the border for several years. She has experience staying in the wild, so she shouldn't encounter any danger, right?
Where is she at this moment?
Qingzhu and the others cleaned the pheasant, put it on the lit fire and started to burn it.
It was not until the aroma of barbecue came that Xiao Lichen came back to his senses.
Taking out his own plate, Qingzhu cut the roasted pheasant into pieces neatly with the dagger he carried with him, put the pieces into the plate, and placed it on a clean wool blanket under a big tree. He also washed a plate of wild fruits he had found and made a few pairs of chopsticks.
"Master, it's time to eat." Qingzhu pushed him to the blanket, helped him get out of the wheelchair, and sat on the blanket to eat the roast chicken.
Xiao Lichen nodded silently.
He sat on the woolen blanket, eating slowly, his mind elsewhere.
After eating the roast chicken, Xiao Lichen took the hot tea handed to him by Qingzhu and rinsed his mouth before asking, "When will our people arrive?"
Qingzhu replied, "We'll probably be here tomorrow night."
Xiao Lichen thought for a moment.
This place is still more than 300 miles away from Lingzhou. If we continue to chase, we will be discovered by the King of Junshan in Lingzhou.
"Let's not rush on our journey. Let's wait here for Princess Anle first. If Princess Anle hasn't arrived by noon tomorrow, you can go and greet her on horseback."
Qingzhu responded respectfully.
He didn't know yet that Tao Yuwei had chosen a random path and had gone the other way.
Within the capital city at that time.
At the Eighth Prince’s residence.
Prince Xin Xiao Chengyan was sitting in the book, discussing things with his aide Zhang Shanzheng.
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