Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the amiable woman, with a smile on her face, kept talking as if she were nagging her own child.
"I just said a few words to you, how come you ran away? I and your father have to find you. We bought mooncakes at home, let's go home and eat them together..."
The woman embraced Jiang Wei as she spoke. The man with her wiped his sweat, his face still showing anxiety. He pulled Liu Ye'er over and said, "I don't know where these two girls got such generosity from. When we get back, you have to have a good talk with them, mother..."
"Yes, yes, I understand."
As the two were talking, they were about to squeeze to the outside of the crowd. People nearby heard what the couple said, and then looked at Jiang Wei and Liu Ye'er who were following them obediently with their heads down. They immediately realized that their family members must be worried, so they gave way to them without asking any questions.
In front of the lantern stall, Shen Huaixu saw Jiang Sanlang squeeze in again. Seeing that Jiang Wei and Liu Ye'er were not with him, he asked Chaohua if he had noticed.
Chaohua's attention was always focused on the stall owner, so he naturally didn't pay attention to where the two people went.
His vision was blocked, and the surroundings were noisy. Shouting was useless. Shen Huaixu glanced at the stall owner who was still complaining about his difficult life and said, "Can you lend me the table?"
She pushed herself up with both hands and jumped directly onto the table where the paper and pen were placed. Amidst everyone's shocked gazes, she turned around and looked down at the crowd.
Liu Ye'er was wearing a sky-blue skirt, while Jiang Wei's was goose yellow. Not long after, Shen Huaixu saw the two of them being embraced by a man and a woman.
Her eyes turned cold, and she was about to take action, but suddenly she remembered something, paused, jumped off the table, grabbed Chaohua and Jiang Sanlang, and rushed into the crowd.
Before leaving, he shouted, "This stall owner doesn't keep his word. He guessed all the answers but still won't give up the glass lamp! You're lucky this time. I have other things to do. If I see you again, we'll meet at the government office!"
Amid the onlookers' accusations against the stall owner, the three men squeezed out of the crowd.
"Where are cousin Ye'er and sister Wei?" Jiang Sanlang wanted to look back, but his youngest sister kept pulling him and walking quickly in one direction.
Chen Huaixu almost jogged: "I just saw a man and a woman taking them away. They might be human traffickers. They were heading in this direction. I can still catch up with them if I chase them now. You two..."
"Let's go together!" Chao Hua said. Perhaps knowing that Shen Huaixu would not agree, she repeated, "Let's go together. I even have a whip!"
Jiang Sanlang had already run ahead, "What are you talking about? Hurry up and chase him!"
Chen Huaixu continued to pull Chaohua and followed Jiang Sanlang to chase the people. Perhaps because the man and woman were carrying two unconscious people and were slow, they were soon caught up by the three men.
"Wait!" Chen Huaixu held onto Chaohua and Jiang Sanlang, whispering as they walked, "Since they are human traffickers, they can't just take two people back."
Her eyes rolled and she had an idea.
"Third brother, you can go on a walk by yourself first. You don't have to follow us. Chaohua and I will find a chance to infiltrate their ranks."
Jiang Sanlang was not happy, "Why don't you let Third Brother go with you? What if there are more of them? How are you girls going to escape?"
Shen Huaixu stared at the front, his gaze shifting to Jiang Sanlang for a moment, then quickly shifting away without a word.
"They may not want a boy like you. I heard that some human traffickers only want girls of similar age." Chao Hua didn't understand the exchange of glances between the two and explained seriously.
Jiang Sanlang understood this look, which meant - can I escape with you?
It hurts, little sister!
He resisted the urge to cover his chest, "I understand. You and the princess, be careful, stay safe, and have a safe trip..."
After leaving the main force, Jiang Sanlang still felt uneasy. Thinking of his youngest sister's skills and the secret guards guarding the princess, he felt relieved.
He stood on the street with nothing to do, looking at the sky in silence. He was depressed for a while, but suddenly he thought of the glass lamp that he had not yet got, and his fighting spirit was immediately ignited.
He took out a stack of notes from his pocket and said, "Huh, he may not be good at fighting, but he is good at intelligence."
On the other side, the two followed the traffickers into another street and hid in the corner to watch them stop in front of a carriage.
Not far to the east of this street is Donghua Gate, the entrance and exit of the city. There are not many people on the street at this time. There are no lanterns where the carriage is parked, and it is blocked by the shadows cast by the houses on the roadside, making it very inconspicuous.
The woman helped Jiang Wei and Liu Ye'er into the carriage and asked the man, "We finally got here at this time, and we only have these two people to take care of..."
The man's buck teeth flashed as he spoke, "What can we do? We have to follow that man's orders first. If he's not satisfied, who knows what kind of trouble will happen..."
"Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense. I don't know how many people have been captured over there, let's quickly join them!"
Shen Huaixu immediately became suspicious after hearing this. What did "that person's order" mean? Jiang Wei and Liu Ye'er had only been in the capital for less than a month. Who could they have offended?
...Or maybe it's directed at her?
Chaohua couldn't hear the conversation between the people, but his eyesight was still good enough to vaguely see the two people about to drive away.
"They are leaving, what should we do?" She poked Shen Huaixu with her elbow.
"They want to meet up with their companions, but we'll just deliver them to their door." Shen Huaixu stuffed a pill into Chaohua's mouth.
As soon as it entered his mouth, Chaohua felt so bitter that he wanted to vomit.
"This is the pill to stay awake, don't spit it out." Shen Huaixu said.
Chaohua immediately stopped moving.
The two ran to the carriage and said, "Uncle, excuse me, could you please show me the way?"
The bucktoothed man let out a "whoosh" when he heard the sound, turned his head to look at the two people, and his eyes lit up when they approached.
He also felt that their attire seemed familiar, but the lighting was dim, so he didn't think too much about it for the moment.
Shen Huaixu's tone was a little anxious. "My two sisters had just arrived in the capital with our family. We got separated from the servants while enjoying the lanterns and couldn't find our way back..."
The woman inside the car was afraid that someone might see what was happening inside, so she didn't dare to open the car curtain. She just asked, "What happened?"
The man immediately said, "Two young ladies are lost. Why don't we give them a ride?"
The woman was silent for a moment, then said with a smile, "Alright, alright. I wonder where the two young ladies are going?"
Shen Huaixu casually mentioned a place and thanked him repeatedly.
After hearing what Shen Huaixu said about the place being populated by merchants, the two men relaxed even more. The two men inside and outside the carriage worked together to knock the two young ladies unconscious while they were getting in. The carriage started to move.
Chaohua's tightly closed eyes moved, and she felt someone touching her clothes.
The light inside the carriage was dim. She bravely opened one eye a little, looked to the left, and saw Shen Huaixu's clothes.
She secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately poked Shen Huaixu's waist with her pressed left hand.
The woman was looking at the clothes of the tall girl who had just got on, then she looked at the tall girl and then the short girl. As the carriage moved to a place with more lanterns, she saw it clearly and remembered it.
The other two young ladies among the five people they had been following were dressed like this.
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