Sure enough, the little girl turned around and said, "I can't live anymore, what if...ah..." Before she finished her words, the candle in her hand was extinguished by the gold hairpin thrown by Chen Qiu, and the girl screamed in anger.
Chen Qiu kicked a stool out and broke the window in the cabin. The fire outside immediately shone in. Chen Qiu turned over, grabbed the little girl, and then waved the soft sword in his hand to cut the ropes that tied those people together. "Get up and run outside." After that, Chen Qiu pulled the little girl out of the cabin.
After leaving the cabin, Shen Qiu realized that the little girl seemed to have lost her soul. "Hey, little sister, little sister, what's wrong with you?"
The little girl turned her head and looked at Chen Qiu, her eyes slowly filled with anger, "Why are you here? Who told you to meddle in other people's business? What does the life and death of these people have to do with you? Since you want to die so much, then die with me." After that, she pulled Chen Qiu into the fire.
But she was thin and small, and just an ordinary person, so she was no match for Chen Qiu at all. Instead, she was pulled by Chen Qiu and jumped onto the boat with him.
"Qiu'er, Qiu'er!" Ye Chen got up but didn't see Chen Qiu. He had heard from the sailors that she had jumped onto the burning ship across the way, and he was so worried that he asked the guards to go look for her on that ship. Before they could even get there, he saw her jumping over with a little girl. He didn't care about anything else for a moment, and ran over to hug Chen Qiu tightly.
"I'm fine, I'm fine, husband." Chen Qiu only now realized that she was really reckless. It was really wrong to make her husband worry about her so much.
Ye Chen didn't let go until cries of "Help" came from the boat opposite.
"Let's go save them!" Lu Chenyuan and Xiao Mu exchanged a glance and were about to jump onto the opposite boat. Unexpectedly, they were pulled down as soon as they jumped. Looking back, they saw the little girl that Chen Qiu had brought with him. "None of you are allowed to go. Even if you are gods, you are not allowed to go and save them."
Two top-notch masters, neither of them expected that they would be brought down by a man who had no martial arts skills at all. They looked at each other with disbelief in their eyes.
However, she held onto these two, but she couldn't hold onto the other eight guards. The eight men jumped onto the kerosene-filled boat one after another, each carrying two people onto Ye Chen's boat.
"Ah... why? Why are you meddling in other people's business? No one spoke up for my sister when she was being bullied. These bastards were dying, yet you all went to save them. Do you know they deserve to die? They deserve to die!" The little girl suddenly began to pound the deck frantically, as if she wanted to chisel a hole in it.
Everyone looked at the little girl, wondering what kind of experiences she had. Shen Qiu once thought that she had really done something wrong, but faced with the situation at that time, she couldn't just stand by and watch.
"You lowly bastard, my Zhou family has been very kind to you, but you are simply an ungrateful bastard. I'm going to kill you." A woman in her late thirties rushed out from the group of people who had just been rescued, pointing at the little girl lying on the ground and cursing. If Ye Chen's guards hadn't stopped her, there was no doubt that she would have rushed over and beat the little girl.
Chen Qiu couldn't bear to see the little girl lying on the ground. She wanted to go over and check on her, but Ye Chen stopped her. "You're all wet. Go back and change your clothes."
"Zhu Da, guard these people and bring this little girl to see me alone later."
"Yes, sir." Zhu Da knew that Ye Chen was going to try the case on the boat, otherwise he would not have asked people to guard the rescued people for no reason.
After Ye Chen finished speaking, he hugged Chen Qiu and walked towards the cabin, then turned back and called Jingxin, "Miss Jingxin, please make some medicine to dispel the cold."
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"Sir? You just called him sir? He is an official?" The little girl stared at Zhu Da, with even more hatred in her eyes than before.
"Yes, he is the second-rank governor sent by the emperor to inspect the local area." Zhu Daxiang raised his hands and clasped his fists to show respect.
"Hmph, a second-rank governor? They are nothing but beasts who eat people without leaving any bones. Just like these profiteers, they shall not die a good death." The hatred in the little girl's eyes was not fake. Zhu Da was now a little curious about what kind of story this girl had, but it was definitely not a good thing.
Those people were still shouting and asking why they were being put away. The woman even took off her hairpins to give to the guards, but they were pushed back. In the end, she could only follow them into a room.
When Zhu Da and the others were locked up, all the masters and servants were pushed into a room. Only the little girl was kept by Zhu Da, waiting outside Ye Chen and Shen Qiu's cabin.
After Jingxin went in with the medicine bowl for a while, Ye Chen's voice came from inside, "Come in."
Ye Chen sat on the chair, Lu Chenyuan sat beside him to listen, and Xiao Muhe stood on both sides behind Ye Chen.
"Little girl, tell me, why is there such a big fuss?" Ye Chen sat there and spoke slowly.
Ye Chen recognized the head of the Zhou family. He had dealt with him not in this life, but in the previous life. The Zhou family was the money bag of that woman Fuxia. When he met Mr. Zhou in the previous life, he was with Fuxia. He didn't expect to meet him in advance in this way in this life. Maybe he could get some unexpected news from him.
"Is it useful to say it out? You will all die a miserable death if you collude with officials and businessmen!" The little girl just cursed indignantly.
Ye Chen was surprisingly patient this time. He continued, "How can I know if you have any grievances if you don't tell me? Now that you've burned all their money, I can't get any benefit from them. Since I can't benefit from either of you, why don't you tell me? Maybe I can make a decision for you. And you can even gain a reputation as a good official, right?"
The little girl was young after all, and she began to waver after being fooled by Ye Chen, the official, with his half-truths and half-falsehoods.
"Are you serious?"
"Of course. Otherwise I can just kill you and throw you into the river, and then ask them for a reward. You can't beat my guards, so your death would be in vain. Why not take a gamble? Maybe you can win. Anyway, you won't suffer any loss, right?" Ye Chen continued to persuade.
"Okay, I'll tell you, the opportunity I've been waiting for two years has been destroyed by you. It's just a matter of death. If you can't help me seek justice, I will go to the King of Hell to seek justice." The little girl made a great decision, took a deep breath, and then knelt in front of Ye Chen.
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