"Brother, please believe me. I am really the daughter of Ningyuan Marquis Mansion. If you save me, I will definitely reward you!" A Yue continued to shout, with a hint of begging in her tone.
Seeing this, Qin Yi ignored A Yue's words and waved over here again.
"Hahaha, who would believe you, hahaha..." Several men laughed.
"drive!"
At Qin Yi's signal, Qin Dao stepped forward lightly on his horse's belly, and Lao Chen also started the carriage and followed closely behind.
Su Li in the carriage remained calm, half-closed the door, and when he was close to A Yue, he quickly jumped out of the carriage and kicked one of the men directly.
At the same time, the Qin Dao brothers also jumped off their horses and kicked the other two men one by one.
Old Chen opened his eyes wide with a look of horror. Didn’t he agree to mind other people’s business?
"Ouch!"
The three men fell to the ground at the same time, all holding their chests with painful expressions. They wanted to get up, but Su Li stepped on them again. Due to the opponent's overwhelming force, the three men dared not move again.
Su Li glanced at Qin Dao, feeling somewhat surprised. Seeing the attitude of Qin Dao and his brother just now, she thought they would not care about such matters. Unexpectedly, they thought the same as her.
The reason why she didn't tell them that she was going to save someone was because the two of them were just bodyguards she hired, not her subordinates. She certainly had no right to order them to do things that had nothing to do with their presence.
Of course, the two brothers were also surprised that Su Li would take action.
"Su Li! It's you!"
Seeing that the person who saved her was Su Li, Pei Mingyue was moved and surprised. She rushed up and hugged her tightly: "Thank you for saving me!"
At this point in the book, except for Pei Zhao and his sister who often hugged her like this, this was the first time she had such intimate physical contact with others. Su Li was not used to it and quickly pried her apart.
Asked: "Ayue, aren't you in Luocheng? Why are you here?"
Did she remember that she had just said that she was the third lady of the Marquis' Mansion in the capital?
How could the third daughter of a marquis's family go to Luocheng, thousands of miles away, to be a horse riding instructor?
Qin Dao and his companions had not expected that this girl actually knew Madam Su.
"I, I'm going back to the capital." She had been away for more than half a year, and her grandmother, who loved her the most, was about to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. She had actually gone back to celebrate her grandmother's birthday, but she had never expected...
"So what's going on with these three people?"
"They're human traffickers!" Pei Mingyue said angrily, looking at the three people on the ground. "They've captured several girls and are going to sell them to brothels! If I catch them, they're going to capture me and sell me to a brothel too!"
"It was in the village ahead. When I was passing by, I saw three men taking a few girls into the village. I quietly followed them until I was sure they were locked up in a house. Only then did I think of reporting it to the police. I never expected to be caught by these three men, and then they chased me all the way here...
The three men shouted, "Bullshit! Those women were sold by their own parents. We bought them. If we want to sell them to a brothel, we can sell them to a brothel. What's it to you?"
"Oh? Do you have the indentures of those girls?"
This was an ancient time when human trafficking was legal. If the other party really had a contract to sell her body, she naturally had no right to interfere.
"Of course!" One of the men immediately pulled out a dozen neatly folded papers from his chest. "These are the indentures of those women!"
Su Li had seen it, and it was indeed a contract of sale, but she couldn't tell if it was real. She glanced at Ah Yue and asked, "Then why did you arrest her? Do you have a contract of sale for her?"
"No," one of the men said, "We didn't really intend to arrest her. She was the one who meddled in other people's business and threatened to report us to the police. We just wanted to teach her a lesson..."
Su Li didn't quite believe this: "Since you have a contract to sell your body, it's legal. Why are you afraid of being reported to the authorities?"
"That's right!" Pei Mingyue said, "Are you just trying to teach me a lesson? You're clearly determined to arrest me, Su Li. Regardless of whether it's true or not, we must report it to the authorities. Who knows if they're hiding this trafficking of women under the guise of legal transactions?"
Those girls might have really been sold by their families, but what about her?
If she got caught and mixed in with those girls, even if she said she wasn't sold by her family, no one would believe her. This is what Dad always said, "selling dog meat under the guise of mutton." Uh, right? Is that what it means? It seems...
Su Li thought so too, but she didn't expect that A Yue, a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, could think so much.
Then he agreed and said, "Then let's hand them over to the authorities and let them investigate."
The men's expressions froze, and they quickly argued, "We didn't kidnap women, we're all legal..."
"Tsk, since you haven't done anything wrong, why are you afraid of seeing the authorities?" Su Li ignored them and looked at Qin Dao, "Qin Dao, what do you say?"
Qin Dao nodded: "I have no objection."
Anyway, Rongcheng is just ahead, so just take these three people with you. Judging from their reactions, they are probably right as the girl said, so just consider it a good deed.
"Okay then, we'll send these three people to the Rongcheng government office shortly."
Then Su Li introduced Qin Dao and the others to A Yue: "A Yue, these are Qin Dao and Qin Yi, the escort agents of the escort agency."
After all, the other person saved A Yue, so Su Li should let A Yue know the other person's name.
Pei Mingyue then realized that these two men were not Su Li's servants, but hired guards. She then bowed and thanked them: "My name is Pei Mingyue. Thank you both for your help just now!"
Pei Mingyue?
Why do I seem to have heard this name somewhere before?
Su Li frowned slightly, and when she saw that she really couldn't remember, she stopped thinking about it.
"Miss Pei, you're too polite..."
After greeting each other, they tied up the three men without delay and headed towards Rongcheng.
"Su Li, where are you going?"
Pei Mingyue asked in the carriage.
"My husband is a candidate for this year's spring examination. I am going to the capital."
"Oh, that's just in time. I'm going back to the capital too. Su Li, can I go with you?"
In Luocheng, Su Li had a good impression of her, so she nodded: "Of course!"
He then asked, "How could you, a young lady from a marquis's mansion, travel so far to come here, and now return to the capital alone? How can your family be at ease?"
Could it be that, like in the novels she read in her previous life, she ran away from marriage? Or was she an unloved lady, a concubine whom no one cared about?
Pei Mingyue smiled and said without disguising anything: "Actually, I ran away from home secretly. My parents wanted to arrange a marriage for me, but I didn't want to marry that person, so I ran away."
She couldn't bear the thought that her parents wanted her to marry Ji Tingyou, who was one year younger than her and whom she couldn't even beat.
He really ran away from marriage!
Su Li raised an eyebrow and smiled: "You are quite impressive, you can run so far away to escape from marriage."
Pei Mingyue's eyes lit up slightly: "Really, Su Li, don't you think that what I did was wrong, very unfilial, and very out of line?"
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