Milan was so angry she almost gritted her teeth. She regretted not shooting that brat dead earlier, so she wouldn't have to cause trouble for herself.
"I really don't understand. How can someone from an ordinary family be so heartless?"
Jiang Qiao sat on the ground, facing Milan with a bloodthirsty smile. "The child has no mother. It's a long story. If you want to hear it, how about we make a trade?"
Milan snorted and turned her head away, not wanting to talk to Jiang Qiao anymore. She had realized that she couldn't get anything good out of this brat.
The gunfire down the mountain had stopped. "Joe—Joe—"
Hearing the shout, Jiang Qiao smiled and said, "I'm here, come down—"
After shouting several times, the people above quickly ran down. Luckily, Milan escaped; otherwise, it would have been quite a struggle for Gu Zhengkai and his team to get here. They only managed to deal with two people and safely rescue all the hostages. Now that his son was alright, he thought of his niece and wondered how Jiang Qiao was doing.
Hearing Jiang Qiao's reply, Gu Zhengkai finally understood why his father and son said Jiang Qiao was amazing.
When the people who rushed down saw Jiang Qiao, Gu Zhengkai immediately pulled his niece into his arms and asked, "Girl, are you alright?"
"I'm fine, Uncle. Look, I even caught one of your female spies."
Gu Zhixuan and the others surrounded Jiang Qiao and questioned her for a while. Then, these young men rushed over to Milan and kicked her several times in anger.
"Children, children, stop hitting her! Don't kill her! Come on, carry her downstairs."
With four young men around, Jiang Qiao and his companions didn't have to exert themselves. However, not knowing what the situation was down below, they kept a close eye on the situation.
"Jiang Qiao—"
The soldiers below had already cleaned up the battlefield. Those who needed to be captured were captured, and the dead were all carried together and laid out along the way. In Jiang Qiao's opinion, the number of people was not large.
She just couldn't understand how Milan could be so stupid. With so few people, she dared to set up an ambush. Did she really think they were idiots?
Seeing that she was surrounded by People's Liberation Army soldiers, Milan closed her eyes in despair, knowing that one wrong step would lead to another.
Jiang Qiao urged everyone to get into the car quickly, as there were still their men outside. He wondered how they were doing. Apart from two men who sustained minor injuries, the rest of their men were fine after the battle.
Jiang Qiao was in charge of bandaging them up, while Milan shouted from the side, "I want to be bandaged up too! Isn't this supposed to be a lenient treatment for prisoners of war?"
Jiang Qiao snorted, "Are you a prisoner? Look at the things in my bag, none of them look like something a prisoner would wear. If I hadn't been watching you, I'd probably be the one dead by now. But since you say you're a prisoner, I'll reluctantly bandage you up."
Jiang Qiao's grip was not as gentle as before, and Milan screamed in pain.
"With your abilities, you still dare to act as an enemy agent? Those people really can't find you. Let me tell you, I can bandage you up, but when you get back you have to give me a proper explanation. Don't think you can get away with it. It won't work here. Don't force me to take care of you every day."
Seeing Gu Zhixuan leaning close to her, Jiang Qiao immediately flew into a rage and slapped Milan's charming face four times in quick succession.
"you--"
Milan felt nothing but anger in the face of Jiang Qiao, but she dared not say anything more. She couldn't gain the upper hand with words, and if this little madwoman made another move, she would be the one to suffer.
"Hmph, what do you mean 'you'? You dare to touch my brother? Don't you even know your place?"
Jiang Qiao ignored Milan; she was already tied up, so she couldn't run away.
Ahead, their men were waving to the people in the car. Jiang Qiao glanced at them by the headlights and was surprised to see Song Zhi and Zhao Jian.
This guy, leaning on a cane, actually ran over, but because of the loud gunfire ahead, the people here didn't let them pass.
"Zhengkai, are you all alright? Where are the children? Where is Qiao'er?"
"Uncle, we're here, we're fine, don't worry."
Jiang Qiao stood up from the carriage and pulled Gu Zhixuan and the others off the train.
Seeing that everyone was safe and sound, Song Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief. "So, did you catch them?"
Gu Zhengkai nodded with a smile, "That's right, it was a close call. Those bastards almost hurt Jiang Qiao, but thankfully she's alright. What should we do now?"
Song Zhi quickly said, "Go back and interrogate them tonight."
Upon learning that Milan was injured, the order was given: "Go to the hospital for questioning. Isn't there another one? Take them all back."
Of the soldiers who came to help, Jiang Qiao left a few to escort the personnel back, while she drove Gu Zhixuan and the others back to school.
On the way, Jiang Qiao finally had time to ask Gu Zhixuan what exactly happened.
"Weren't we told not to have any contact with that woman? Why would she arrest you?"
Before Gu Zhixuan could even explain, Pan Yunqiang complained, "It's all because of his recklessness. His parents gave him the wrong name. He's too reckless. You repeatedly told us not to approach that woman."
But today, when we were practicing sparring, that reckless guy saw that woman carrying a suitcase out, and he insisted on going over to ask her something. And that's how trouble started. We tried to help, but we got beaten up in no time. Zhixuan went to help, but the woman grabbed him, which led to what happened next.”
Jiang Qiao nodded. She was a little confused. Hadn't Song Shutian arranged for someone to keep an eye on this woman? How could such a basic mistake happen at this time?
"Alright, go home and get some rest and sleep. Tomorrow, go to class if you need to. If anyone asks, just say you don't know anything. The police will handle some things."
Jiang Qiao was exhausted after a long day. After dropping off the people, she went straight to the police station to pick up her grandfather. Gu Zhengkai went back first. Gu Hanting also knew that his grandson and granddaughter were safe and sound. As for what to do next, that was a matter for the adults. Jiang Qiao didn't have the energy to care about it. She was too tired. There was no rest at all during the day.
Jiang Qiao was so tired that she collapsed onto the bed. She said she would wash up tomorrow.
Qiao Jie and Gu Hanting, the two old men, whispered to each other in the room for a long time before the old man finally understood what was going on.
"Oh no, how could this happen? Do you think this girl's birth time is wrong? How could something like this happen to her? It's terrifying to hear about..."
Listening to Qiao Jie's constant sighs, Gu Hanting thought to himself, "This child's birth time is just wrong. Who gives birth in the dead of winter and expects a withered tree to sprout new leaves?"
He didn't know what this thing represented, but it seemed that his granddaughter's growth hadn't been smooth sailing. He could only conclude that Heaven was going to place a great responsibility on her; otherwise, he couldn't even imagine the consequences.
"Brother Qiao, please don't scare me anymore. This is enough. From now on, let the child focus on her studies. She's just a child, and we shouldn't let her worry about too many things."
Qiao Jie agreed, "That's right. We need to keep an eye on her a bit. She needs to focus her main energy on her studies; exams are coming up soon—"
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