As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Xin felt someone untie the sack for her. She immediately put on a brave face, pretending to be scared but having to be strong because her younger brother was there.
"Big, big brother, do you want money? My family is very rich. Can you send us back? My parents will definitely give you a generous reward." Gu Xin's beautiful eyes were filled with tears, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.
"Wow, looking closer, she really is a great beauty!" The kidnapper was stunned by Gu Xin's appearance.
"What are you doing? Don't bully my sister! Don't bully my sister!" Gu Ren was still waving his hands and feet inside the sack.
"Little brother!" Gu Xin crawled to Gu Ren's side.
They hadn't been tied up yet.
"Pockmarked man, tie him up as soon as he wakes up! He's making a racket and is a nuisance! Tie him up and take him to the cellar!" Suddenly, a burly man appeared in the room, frowning as he looked at the situation.
“Okay, big brother. Look, big brother, this is a little beauty. If we take her to Jiangnan, she’ll be worth at least this much!” The man called Pockmarked held up five fingers.
The burly man glanced at Gu Xin, nodded in satisfaction, and then looked around at his underlings: "Don't get any funny ideas. Gag her and take her to the cellar! We'll set off as soon as Wu'er and the others return. Qi Hu, go ride your horse and check why Wu'er and the others haven't come back yet."
Gu Xin and Gu Ren were tied up and then taken to the cellar.
There was only one oil lamp in the cellar, which was cold and damp. The ground was covered with straw. Besides the siblings, there were ten other people who had been abducted.
After Ma Zi and the others left the cellar, Gu Xin took a look around. The youngest of the ten people was younger than Gu Ren, and the oldest should be thirteen years old. There were two boys younger than Gu Ren, and the rest were all girls.
Some of them were awake, while others were still unconscious. The little girls who had woken up were all sobbing.
Gu Xin moved closer to Gu Ren, turned to the side, and used her hands to untie the ropes for Gu Ren. Gu Ren, now untied, then untied the ropes for Gu Xin.
The two removed the gags from their mouths and exhaled a few breaths.
Gu Ren asked excitedly, "Third Sister, what do we do next?"
Gu Xin whispered, "Wait, wait until the rest of them arrive, then I'll take them all down. But since the two of us didn't show up, Yuan Yuan and the others must have found out. They might lock down the city, and we don't even know if their accomplices will be able to come back."
Gu Ren thought so too. He looked at the few girls who had woken up and were stunned, tears still clinging to their eyes. Suddenly, he spotted someone he knew, walked over, and removed the gag from her mouth: "Tsk, Miss Ying? How did you get arrested too? Oh, I know, you must have found your maids and servants annoying and ran away, and then someone started watching you!"
This person is the youngest daughter of General Ying, who guards Jiangnan. She is ten years old. Gu Ren had seen her at the New Year's Eve banquet and thought she was quite cute with her chubby face, but she had a bad temper. He never expected that she would also be arrested.
"Princess Xin Xin, it's so good to have you here!" Miss Ying ignored Gu Ren and struggled to get up, but failed. Then she rolled her round body to Gu Xin's feet.
She had heard countless stories of Gu Xin's heroic deeds; a woman who could make it in the West was her idol!
The panic she felt when she woke up vanished the moment she saw Gu Xin. She was completely confident that with Gu Xin there, she could go back and give those thugs a good beating!
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