After Qing'er went inside, she slowly took off her clothes, got into the bathtub, and took a comfortable bath. The steam from the hot water blurred Qing'er's vision, so she didn't notice that someone had sneaked in and released sleeping gas.
Xiao Jian was originally guarding outside, but there was trouble downstairs that the shopkeeper couldn't handle, so he had to ask Xiao Jian to deal with it.
Xiao Jian had others guard outside, but these others, naturally, did not have Xiao Jian's abilities and could not notice the movements inside.
"This girl really has a great figure..."
"What a pity, we've offended our master..." The two masked women took Qing'er out of the bathtub, dressed her, and then quietly left with her.
After Xiao Jian finished dealing with things downstairs, he calculated that it was about time and called out from outside, "Qing'er, are you done?"
"Qing'er..." Xiao Jian called out several times, but received no response from Qing'er, and immediately sensed something was wrong.
He quickly pushed open the door and went inside, only to find the room empty.
"Was there any noise inside just now?" Xiao Jian's eyes sharpened as he looked at the people guarding Qing'er outside. "If Qing'er is missing, we're doomed!"
"Master, we brothers have been keeping watch outside, but we haven't heard any movement inside..."
Xiao Jian carefully searched the room, trying to find any trace of Qing'er's departure. However, the floor was cleaned very well, so there were no footprints left inside.
"Investigate, seal off Biyun Pavilion, search every room, but don't expose Qing'er's identity!"
"Yes!" Xiao Bin responded and left, leading his men to seal off Biyun Pavilion.
"That farce downstairs just now must have been a diversionary tactic. Qing'er must have disappeared around that time!" Xiao Jian recalled the incident downstairs where someone deliberately caused trouble, and knew that it must have been premeditated.
But how did they take Qing'er away?
"General, what should we do now? Could something really have happened to the princess?" Shuangxi was so anxious that she was almost crying.
"Shuangxi, go to the Scholar's Residence right now and find Erkang and the others. Ask them to help search for her privately." Even though Xiao Jian was anxious, he couldn't lose his composure, otherwise Qing'er would be in even greater danger.
"Okay, I'll go right now." Shuangxi immediately ran downstairs and headed towards the scholar's residence.
Xiao Jian searched everywhere in Biyun Pavilion, desperately hoping that Qing'er was still hidden there, otherwise, she would be in real danger.
Half an hour later, Xiao Jian and his men had searched the entire Biyun Pavilion, but still could not find any trace of Qing'er.
Upon receiving the news, Fu Erkang and Fu Ertai immediately went to Biyunxuan to ask Xiao Jian what had happened.
Fortress looked at Xiao Jian with concern, "Xiao Jian, we can't do this openly, or Qing'er's reputation will be ruined."
Fu Erkang frowned as he looked at Xiao Jian. "Xiao Jian, what do you plan to do about the Empress Dowager?"
Losing the Empress Dowager's most precious Qing'er is no laughing matter!
After considering for a while, Xiao Jian said, "The Empress Dowager is getting old and can't handle this kind of shock, so this news must be kept from us for now."
"Erkang, I'll trouble you to secretly search for Qing'er's whereabouts outside. I'll personally go to the palace to tell the Empress Dowager that Xiao Yanzi and Qing'er were having a lot of fun and playing outside today, and they're so tired that they've decided to sleep outside..."
Fu Ertai was terrified as he listened, "But will the Empress Dowager believe it?"
"Whether you believe it or not, you still have to go in and tell her."
Fu Erkang suddenly spoke up: "Ertai, go into the palace with Xiao Jian and send a message to Consort Ling. Tell her that the two princesses were too tired from their outings and are resting at the Scholar's Residence today. Your mother will take good care of them."
“Alright, let’s do it that way.” Xiao Jian looked at Fu Ertai, “Ertai, I’ll go first.”
"Alright, you go in first. I'll go back to the manor to tell my mother, and then go to the palace to see Consort Ling."
Everyone acted swiftly. Although they wanted to search discreetly, the people still noticed something was wrong in the capital. "What's going on?"
"With so many people rushing around, could they be arresting someone?"
"It can't be that they've lost something and are frantically looking for it..."
"The Biyun Pavilion was suddenly sealed off just now. Could it be that some important person has gone missing?"
Even if they wanted to keep it a secret, how could such news be kept from Emperor Qianlong in the palace? To prevent the Empress Dowager from worrying, Qianlong naturally kept the news under wraps and didn't let anyone gossip about it to the Empress Dowager.
He also arranged for people to meet up with Fu Erkang and the others to search for Qing'er's whereabouts together.
Xiao Yanzi and Yongqi naturally received the news and rushed out to look for her. However, Qing'er was taken away silently and without a trace. Finding someone like that was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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"Look at that face, so round and plump, it makes you want to take a bite." The speaker was a short, fat man with scars on his face.
Standing next to him was a tall, thin man. "What a pity, we can only look and feast our eyes."
Qing'er was placed on the bed, her left and right hands were tied above her head, and her feet were also tied apart.
"Judging by the time, it should be about time she wakes up, right?"
"When you wake up and see your ugly face, won't you be scared to tears?" the tall, thin man teased the short, fat man.
The short, chubby man said with a smile, "If a little girl like this were to cry from fright, her voice would definitely be very beautiful."
Qing'er slowly woke up from her coma. When she opened her eyes, she found herself tied up and in such a shameful position. She turned her head and looked at the two men sitting at the table. "Who are you?"
The tall, thin man smiled and took a few steps forward to the bedside. He reached out to touch Qing'er's face, but Qing'er turned her head away, not wanting him to touch her. However, with her hands and feet bound and her body treated with muscle relaxants, how could Qing'er refuse him?
The tall, thin man's rough hand stroked Qing'er's cheek. "Little beauty, don't be afraid. You just need to stay here for one night, and tomorrow we'll send you back to your young master..."
"Who are you? Why did you capture me?" Qing'er felt even more terrified when she realized she had no strength left. "If you don't want to die, you'd better release me now!"
The tall, thin man looked at her with a smile, and his hand moved from her cheek to her collar. Qing'er was so frightened that tears streamed down her face.
The short, stout man quickly stepped forward and pulled the tall, thin man away. "Get up! Look at this little beauty, she's so pitiful, how can you bear to bully her?"
But the short, fat man's groping hands began to undress Qing'er, who cried out anxiously, "Let me go! Let me go!"
However, Qing'er's cries did not evoke any pity in the short, fat man and the tall, thin man; instead, they aroused their lust.
Her outer garment had already been unbuttoned, and soon her inner garment would be unbuttoned as well, revealing her bodice underneath. Qing'er cried out in her heart, "Xiao Jian, Xiao Jian, where are you? Come save me..."
Qing'er looked at the two men in front of her in fear. Just as her clothes were about to be ripped off, someone burst in. "What are you doing?"
Upon seeing the newcomer, the two men immediately left the bedside and stood respectfully beside her, saying, "Mama Hua."
The woman referred to as "Mama Flower" was a woman who looked to be in her forties or fifties, with a mole on the right corner of her mouth. She glanced coldly at the two of them and said, "Have you both forgotten what our master said?"
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