Jingzhu didn't expect that someone would see through the truth, and nodded softly, "That's right."
Hongmei hadn't expected the truth behind the magic trick to be this real. When she saw it before, she thought it was a real magic trick. Now that it was revealed, she felt a chill run down her spine.
Her face turned pale. "Then...then those that were popular in the capital before, too?"
Jing Zhu said in a heavy tone, "Those are also the high officials. They always like this kind of subtle bloodiness."
Zhang You felt a chill in her heart when she heard this. She thought those people didn't know about it, but she didn't expect that they were helping the evil and doing it on purpose.
"Then Sister Jingzhu, you?" Cui Liu asked anxiously, not knowing what she was thinking about.
"I was lucky. After being sold to an old magician by my parents, I suffered for a few days. During another performance by the magician, the princess discovered something and saved me. The princess was kind-hearted and always hated such things. She severely punished the magician, and the rest of us stayed in the palace.
Only a few children who went in with me didn't make it and died."
No wonder she is so loyal to the princess, it turns out she has such a past.
What’s the difference between this and human traffickers?
Under the guise of recruiting disciples to perform magic tricks, they deceived and kidnapped people.
Zhang You now looked at the people in Caiguang Town and felt that they were all the same evil people. "Then if we come here, will they still help us?"
Jingzhu recalled what Qiao Si had once told her: no one wanted to live such a miserable life; they were simply forced to take this path. Caiguang Town was surrounded by numerous mountains. If they could overcome the barrier of Wuhu Mountain, Caiguang Town could mine and trade. Then, there wouldn't be so many deceitful magicians.
Qiao Si, like her mother, treats ordinary people like them with sincerity and equality and considers them for their own benefit.
Qiao Si wanted to open up the trade here, so she was naturally willing to do her best, play her role well, and help her make it happen.
"Yes, we will." Whatever Qiao Si wants to do, they will do it for her.
Zhang You looked at Jingzhu's determined eyes, which seemed to indicate something was going on, and felt a bit of anticipation.
After they entered the town, they found only one inn. Trade between Tuozhou and Dingzhou was so rare that almost no caravans would choose to settle in Caiguang Town, so even inns were pitifully few.
Jingzhu captured Qiao Si's demeanor very well, being arrogant and noble, and never refusing to laugh or smile.
She just needed to stand there proudly, and Cui Liu and the others would negotiate with the innkeeper.
The innkeeper was a man in his forties or fifties with round eyes and a medium height. When he heard Cui Liu say that they were going to stay for a long time, he looked at them with a smile on his face, and he wanted to treat them with the best food immediately.
His inn had been losing money for the past few years, with few people coming to stay. He had been planning to close it in a few days, but who would have thought that a wealthy customer would suddenly show up! He even generously gave him a bag full of silver!
The news of their arrival soon reached the ears of the mayor of Caiguang Town. Most people in Caiguang Town were surnamed Zhao. Mayor Zhao was nearly sixty years old. After learning that Princess Dingjia had come to his Caiguang Town in person, he immediately brought people to the inn to ask for a meeting.
Many people who loved to watch the fun followed behind and looked at it from afar.
Jing Zhu even imitated Qiao Si's voice almost perfectly. Her cold questioning voice made people think that Qiao Si was really here.
It’s just that Qiao Si might take more direct action.
Rather than talking and pushing things around all the time, Qiao Si seems to prefer taking action and making fewer arguments, and she is also decisive in her actions.
Qiao Si, played by Jingzhu, pretended to refuse the mayor before telling him that someone had maliciously led her into the mountains in the fog and that there was an assassin.
The mayor heard this and stood aside, crouching down and sweating profusely.
As a minor official, he had a lot of free time. Most of the magicians in Caiguang Town had gone out to perform, so he only needed to take care of the farmers and ensure they delivered their grain. He never imagined that one day he would have to deal with the assassination of the princess in his place.
How could he handle this well?
He even turned a blind eye to the cheating magicians in the town and was too lazy to deal with them. Now that a big case had suddenly come up, which might even involve his boss, he didn't dare to deal with it.
However, he didn't dare to offend the person in front of him.
This person even dared to kill the son of Prefect Yang. If he refused, there was no guarantee that she would not act on impulse and kill him for dereliction of duty.
Then, this little old man could only agree tremblingly.
After Mayor Zhao left, they went back to their room to rest for a while before starting their afternoon "scene".
After all, with Qiao Si's personality, it is absolutely impossible for her to stay quietly in her small inn, so they have to "tour Caiguang Town" in a big way.
Caiguang Town wasn't big, but it was still too big to explore in a day. While they were ostensibly sightseeing, they were actually documenting the lives of the people in Caiguang Town. These were all Qiao Si's instructions; they only needed to record them in detail. Qiao Si would send someone to do the rest.
After a tiring day of traveling, they returned to the inn early after they had finished their shopping.
Most of the rooms in the inn are double or single rooms. Among the three of Zhang You, Chunhua went to live in a room with Hongmei, and Qiuyue lived with Zhang You.
Maybe because he was too tired these days, Zhang You fell asleep as soon as he got on the bed after washing up.
Qiuyue, who had been planning to chat with her, smiled helplessly, blew out the candle and went to sleep.
At night, Zhang You had a bizarre dream.
She dreamed that she was lost in the mountains and couldn't find Qiuyue and Chunhua no matter how hard she tried. The mountains were foggy and the occasional tiger roars kept her on edge.
But the next second, she saw thousands of lights again, and she seemed to be floating above the modern city, watching the figures moving in the buildings below, and seemed to hear the sounds of their playfulness.
In the next second, she began to fall madly, and the lights of thousands of houses turned into blood-red lights. She saw many people jumping from the upper floors, falling like her. However, those people were faster than her, and each one of them smashed into a bloody mist below.
In a trance, she seemed to see Yang Chi'an's head with his eyes open after death. His eyes suddenly turned and looked at her.
Zhang You was frightened awake.
Looking at the unfamiliar room in front of her, it took her a long time to remember that she was in an inn in Caiguang Town.
It was a very quiet night with clear moonlight pouring into the room. She was startled awake and still a little scared.
Perhaps her recent experience had given her too much of a shock. She had originally thought that watching Yang Chian being beheaded would have no effect on her. After all, she hadn't had any dreams in those nights. But now she started having nightmares again.
Perhaps she also understood subconsciously that they were now blatant baits, and Yang Li would definitely send people to attack them again. However, now that they had appeared in Caiguang Town with such fanfare, Yang Li would not be stupid enough to assassinate them again.
But it's really uncomfortable to have someone worry about your life all the time.
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