Chapter 524 Extra: The Victim Girl Abandoned by Her Family
Lin Luoxi, sitting at the entrance of the front hall, frowned as she watched Chen Dong return alone.
"Uh, they might not have heard me clearly. I'll go out and check again..." Feeling the pressure from Lin Luoxi's gaze, Chen Dong turned around and ran out again.
The little girls and pregnant women in the yard all looked expectantly toward the entrance.
They were rescued by Princess Changping and hope their families will come and take them home.
Fifteen minutes later—
“Princess Changping…” Chen Dong returned alone, looking at Lin Luoxi with a troubled expression.
"No one has lost a girl in Beizhou City?" Lin Luoxi frowned as she looked at the empty space behind Chen Dong.
“Impossible, I am the daughter of the dessert shop in the west of the city…” Lin Luoxi had just finished speaking when a little girl standing in the courtyard immediately stepped forward and said.
"Princess, I just sent people to question the families whose children have gone missing, but they all deny having lost any children..."
Chen Dong glanced at the victims standing in the courtyard, waiting for their families to pick them up, and felt a pang of sadness.
"What's possible?" As soon as Chen Dong finished speaking, the little girl and the pregnant woman in the yard all showed a look of sorrow.
They had been locked up by the Gu family for so long, and just when they finally saw hope, they were told that they had been abandoned by their family.
"I don't believe it, I don't believe it..." The girls couldn't believe that their parents, who loved them so much, had abandoned them.
Before Lin Luoxi could speak, they all rushed towards the door, wanting to go back and ask their parents themselves.
“Princess, this…” Chen Dong looked at Lin Luoxi as the girls who had all run away suddenly disappeared.
"Send someone to follow them..." Luo Xi learned from Chen Dong's words that these victims had been abandoned by their families.
"Okay!" Chen Dong had also thought of it and immediately selected people to follow behind the girls to prevent any accidents from happening to them.
"Please, Princess Changping, give us a way to live..." The pregnant women were older than the girls, and they had more to think about. They also knew that even if the girls were rescued, they would not be able to survive.
Those girls were all abandoned, let alone women like them who were pregnant with the Gu family's bastard child.
"Don't you want to go home?" Lin Luoxi asked the pregnant women standing in the courtyard.
"Princess, look at our situation, where can we go home?" The women looked at Lin Luoxi with bitterness.
"But if you want to survive, you have to be able to endure hardship. Can you bear the hardship?" Lin Luoxi did not let them enjoy themselves just because they were pregnant, but instead made the unpleasant things clear upfront.
"Yes, as long as I can survive, I can endure any hardship..." The pregnant woman standing in the front row said firmly.
"Yes, Princess, we can too." Having finally escaped the dungeon, they wanted to live a good life.
"Alright, then get ready. I'll have someone take you to the estate, where the manager will assign you tasks..."
Lin Luoxi snapped her fingers, and a young-looking man emerged from the corner, leading the pregnant women away.
Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan sat in the front hall, watching the soldiers collect all of the Gu family's belongings.
They sorted out all the warm clothing and food they found, and put all the looted money in one room, where they assigned heavy guards to watch over it.
After raiding the Gu family's property, they began raiding the homes of those close to the Gu family one by one.
The task of delivering warmth to the military camps on the northern border could not be delayed, so Lin Luxi simply handed the task over to Xie Hanchuan, while she dealt with corrupt officials and confiscated property in Beizhou.
Lin Luoxi's movements in Beizhou were also relayed back to Xiao Jingchen via a flying eagle.
"My goodness! How come there are so many corrupt officials in our Crimson Flame Dynasty!"
After several days of flying, Lin Luoxi's eagle finally delivered the message to Xiao Jingchen.
"At the speed at which Luo Xi kills corrupt officials, I couldn't find that many talented people even if I conducted two scientific expeditions a year!"
When Xiao Jingchen saw the letter Lin Luoxi had given him, he frowned and looked troubled.
"Are you saying that Luo Xi was wrong to remove the corrupt officials from the court?" Lin Xinman, who was teasing Xiao Yize, immediately retorted with dissatisfaction when she heard Xiao Jingchen's words of being smug after getting the benefit.
"No, wife, you've misunderstood. I'm just worried that there's no one suitable to fill the position in Beizhou right now."
Xiao Jingchen could only lament that his father, the emperor, had allowed so many corrupt officials to run rampant during his reign, and now he had been left with such a huge mess.
He believed that in just a few years, all the talented people who had passed the exams had been assigned to other positions. Now that it was no longer the time for scientific research, there was absolutely no talent available.
"Don't forget, the talented people around Luo Xi, any one of them promoted is more powerful than those ministers in the court who only know how to talk big."
Seeing Xiao Jingchen's worried expression, Lin Xingman kindly offered him some advice.
"Yes, I didn't think of that!" He promoted the talented people around Lin Luoxi and gradually replaced the ministers in the court.
If he doesn't want to be emperor anymore in the future, he can hand the throne over to Lin Luoxi...
Xiao Jingchen glanced at his son, who had just learned to walk, and then thought about his own ideas. He wondered when his son would be allowed to succeed him, so he decided that his own ideas were more practical. He quickly ran off to draft the imperial edict.
"He's an emperor now, yet he's still so loud and boisterous all the time." Lin Xingman watched Xiao Jingchen run away, and shook her head with a helpless smile as she watched his departing figure.
Lin Luoxi caused such a stir in Beizhou that all the county magistrates and prefects who had dealings with the Gu family were terrified.
Every day, colleagues are arrested and their homes are ransacked by Lin Luoxi, and officials live in constant fear.
"Lord Mu, you'd better think of a way quickly! How can we stop this female demon..."
Inside a restaurant in Beizhou, several officials, dressed in plain clothes, gathered together, discussing how to kill Lin Luoxi or drive her out of Beizhou.
"Lord Zhao, that she-devil is completely unreasonable. What can I do? I have no idea." The man addressed as Lord Mu sat in his seat, looking worried.
He also had business dealings with the Gu family, and given Princess Changping's abilities, he certainly couldn't escape.
All he can think of now is transferring his assets to his mistress. Even if he goes to jail, there's still hope as long as his son is alive.
"How about we send a few handsome men to Princess Changping?" Princesses love keeping male concubines, and maybe if the princess is happy, they can avoid imprisonment.
Sitting in another private room, Lin Luoxi raised an eyebrow when she heard what these corrupt officials were saying. This idea seemed pretty good.
"Wife, you seem to really like it. What, is it because your husband hasn't tried hard enough..."
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