"What was that sound just now?" Qiu Hanqing saw their frightened expressions and asked curiously.
The fifth sister-in-law quickly laughed and said, "My daughter is sitting in the donkey cart. She fell asleep due to heatstroke earlier. I'm afraid she has woken up."
"I see. Then I'll take my leave now." Qiu Hanqing bowed again and turned to leave.
The noise inside the donkey cart grew louder and louder, and Qiu Yinong deliberately said, "What...is this place..."
The voice sounded a little weak, and the fifth sister-in-law looked at Qiu Hanqing's back in panic, but saw that he didn't hear it.
He quickly closed the door and yelled at the three men, "Forget about it. Send them to the cellar first. This place is probably no longer safe. Let's retreat quickly."
"Sister, do you suspect that there is something wrong with that man?" The man with a fat face asked as he ran towards the main room without slow movements.
"That man gives me a sense of oppression. He must be a martial artist."
The man with a face full of flesh ran straight to the main room, carried Qing Yuan on his shoulders, and no longer had any intention of teasing her.
The other man carried Qiu Yinong on his shoulders and hurried to the backyard.
There was a secret entrance in the corner of a small house in the backyard. After moving things away and opening the cellar, the man with a fat face jumped in from the entrance.
It looks like an ordinary cellar with a lot of grain stored in it. After moving the grain away, there is a half-sized hole. You have to bend down to enter the hole.
There was a winding tunnel inside. After walking about thirty meters, an exit appeared.
When I walked out, the view suddenly opened up and I realized that this was an underground space.
Four men and two women were sitting there drinking and chatting when they saw a man with a fat face come in.
One of them smiled and greeted, "Yang Chao, why did you come down?"
"Send someone over, Li Yue, hurry up, we might be exposed here." Yang Chao's words made several people frown.
"What's going on?" asked the man who had been sitting.
Yang Chao briefly explained what happened, and the man said, "There's no rush. Li Yue, go up and help your sister-in-law, pretending to be her daughter."
"Yes." Li Yue nodded and ran towards the exit.
The man continued, "Yang Chao, you should also hurry up and check the situation. Tell your sister not to panic for now and stay calm."
"Okay." Yang Chao nodded and put Qing Yuan down.
The woman walked forward, pinched Qing Yuan's chin and took a look: "Oh, what a superb little beauty."
"Sixth sister-in-law, this one is more beautiful." Another man came over and pointed at Qiu Yinong on his shoulder.
The sixth sister-in-law came over curiously, lifted Qiu Yinong's chin, and her eyes were full of amazement: "Fifth sister-in-law, it's great. Where did you get such a beautiful girl?"
"She got separated from her family, and she's a girl from Beijing. As expected of someone who grew up in Beijing, she's so pretty."
"We happened to see it, so my fifth sister-in-law coaxed her and asked her some questions, and then brought her back." The man gave a brief introduction.
The man who had been sitting there was the Fifth Sister-in-law's husband, the Fifth Brother. A look of joy appeared on the Fifth Brother's face: "It seems that we have a good harvest today, but such good stuff also means trouble. Let's hold on for now."
"Gouzi, Yang Chao, you go up first. Sixth sister-in-law, you take them to the room inside first." The fifth brother said.
The Sixth Sister-in-law nodded quickly. She was a big and strong woman, so she took Qiu Yinong and carried her on her shoulders to the room where the girl was imprisoned.
Yang Chao had just climbed up and was waiting to climb out of the ditch when he heard some faint sounds.
"Gouzi, hurry up." Yang Chao urged.
Gouzi quickly climbed up. Yang Chao locked the door and put the sundries away. "You lock the door later. I'll go check the situation first."
"Okay." Gouzi responded quickly, and Yang Chao ran directly to the front yard.
"Sister, what's going on?" Yang Chao ran to the front yard and saw his fifth sister-in-law standing in the yard, looking at the gate with a worried look on her face.
He walked up to his fifth sister-in-law and asked in a low voice.
The fifth sister-in-law shook her head: "I don't know, but it sounds like a yamen runner. I don't know which of these two girls has such a big background that it alarmed the yamen."
The fifth sister-in-law began to regret that such a good product was indeed the source of trouble.
Soon, the sound was getting closer.
Li Yue deliberately leaned in the arms of her fifth sister-in-law, with makeup on her face, looking sick.
"Open the door, the bailiffs are investigating a case." There was a knock on the door.
Yang Chao walked forward and opened the door, forcing a smile, which looked incongruous with his fat face.
"My lords, what's going on?" Yang Chao stood aside with a wry smile on his face.
"Several girls and children have disappeared in the county today. One is the niece of a member of the Imperial Academy of Divination in the capital, and another is the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the capital."
"It's just a routine inspection. Please cooperate." One of the yamen runners said with a serious expression.
Yang Chao's heart skipped a beat. The daughter of an official in Beijing had also disappeared. Could it be the girl who asked for water later?
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Qiu Hanqing again, and he became even more certain.
"Hey, aren't you the uncle who came to ask questions just now?" Yang Chao looked at Qiu Hanqing with pretended curiosity.
Qiu Hanqing glanced at him and didn't answer.
Yang Chao was very nervous, but he didn't dare to say much, for fear that he would make more mistakes.
The fifth sister-in-law also helped Li Yue to come forward and said: "Oh, my dear, why is there such a scene? It's really scary."
"We can't help it. The niece of the Imperial Secretary of the Imperial Academy was personally appointed by the Emperor as the Princess of Changping County. Now the Princess is missing in our Dongping County. Do you think this is serious?"
When the yamen runner said this, Fifth Sister-in-law and Li Yue were both stunned, and then a sense of fear rose from the bottom of their hearts.
It's over. Among the two girls today, one must be the Princess of Changping County.
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