He roughly patched up the hole in Fang's house, then erased the traces of tampering in the house, and finally stuffed the pillow into the quilt, creating the illusion that Lou Xiyue was still sleeping.

After doing all that, Zhou Yang locked the door of the room and called the guard: "The young lady was frightened and she was already asleep. The maid Qingshuang could not protect the young lady. Unfortunately, she was caught by the thief. The young lady specially ordered him to rescue her."

"

He looked at everyone and asked: "How many people do we have available?"

One of the guards replied: "Ten people were injured, and there are 45 available."

Zhou Yang nodded: "Out of the forty-five people, twenty people will be assigned to follow him to rescue Miss Qingshuang. The remaining twenty-three people will stay at the inn to protect the young lady. The other two people will immediately choose two fast horses and take the master's leg order to the mausoleum.

If the county asks for help, just say they encountered bandits and call the police."

"No, I'll do it then, little man!"

*

Lou Xiyue walked nimbly and lightly in the night. She climbed to a high place to look for traces of the men in black. After a while, she finally spotted a few figures galloping on horses on the west avenue.

If the moonlight wasn't bright tomorrow night, she might not be able to find those men in black.

Lou Xiyue stepped on the flying leaf and immediately used Qinggong to catch up.

After a while, the men drove their horses into the deep forest path.

Lou Xiyue followed quietly and saw that there was a cottage hidden behind the forest. The lights outside the cottage were brightly lit, and several strong men guarded the exit, patrolling back and forth.

When the man in black came outside the cottage, he immediately turned to Dongma. The patrolling guard opened the door, and the man in black entered with the unconscious Qingshuang.

Lou Xiyue looked further and found that the only place where the firelight shone in the village was that the entrance gate was not guarded at all levels. It would not be difficult to sneak in from other places.

She thought for a moment, then walked around the door and came to the darkest place.

As she expected, the guards there were the loosest, and there was a young man walking at the bottom of the wall and taking a nap.

Lou Xiyue picked up a stone and originally wanted to touch the acupuncture point on the wrong side from the air, but after thinking about it carefully, she quietly walked forward and sealed the wrong side's consciousness with her fingers, making him fall asleep.

Then, she searched along the bright spot of the fire. Lou Xiyue originally wanted to find a place where prisoners were held in a cottage, but unexpectedly came outside the meeting hall.

She looked through the window pane and saw several middle-aged men discussing something outside.

Lou Xiyue was not interested in chatting with several men at night, and was about to leave, but was stopped by a faint "Ban Xiyu" from inside.

She paused, then turned over and jumped to the roof, carefully uncovering a tile. At the same time, the outline of the conversation in the hall was also heard:

"Lao San, the woman I brought back tomorrow is really Ban Xiyu? She doesn't look like it. Didn't she say that the Ban family's daughter was born extremely beautiful? She is a peerless beauty. That one looks just like that, barely.

She's a little beauty, but she's not stunning in any way. Could it be that I caught the wrong person?"

"She is wearing a bridal gown, how could there be anything wrong? He thinks that 80% of the rumors outside are wrong. If Ban Xiyu was really beautiful, how could the emperor give her to King Xuanping and not enjoy it himself? Third child, I said

No?"

The "third child" in their mouth was playing with the wine glass in his lap: "Are those Xiyu true or false? Are you asking again? None of them has seen her, so they can't tell. Similarly, King Xuanping can't be sure whether she is true or not.

No bride.

"Actually, it doesn't matter whether she likes Ban Xiyu or not. Just ask her to wear that kind of clothes, and then she will like Ban Xiyu. Just ask for 'Ban Xiyu' to be in our legs. So what about Prince Daxuan?

Are you at your mercy?"

Hearing this, the other two people's expressions changed at the same time:

"Third brother, what do I mean by that? He told me not to do anything stupid. Did we abduct Ban Xiyu there under the order of the old man from the prefect?"

"That's right. When the time comes, they have to send her to the old man's house, otherwise they won't get the other half of the reward."

"What are we afraid of? Now that the hostage is in their lap, of course they have no final say. It doesn't matter whether he is the prefect of Pingjiang or not. I don't want to ask him for help? They can just ask for help. If he doesn't obey,

Let's tell Fu Guan about that, and the old man will be finished by then."

"If I tell Fu Guan the truth, they will be finished too!"

"Eldest brother, second brother, we have been working together for so long, don't we know very little about his patience? He will certainly have his own way of making mistakes when paying the old man the prefect, so let's just trust him."

"That……"

"Oh, that's all, he just believes in me again!"

"It's done, don't talk so much. He's been living for so long without even taking a bite of the hot meal. I asked someone to prepare the meal, but he's starving to death..."

"I have the nerve to say it. He had already given me the signal to retreat, but I wouldn't leave. The third child had already taken the people away, and I really wanted to steal their dowry. Wouldn't it be unnecessary? If not, he would remind me again and again.

, I was fighting with others a lot at that time."

"Isn't that unnecessary? The more the better! There must be a lot of valuable things in the dowry. Wouldn't it be good for the village if he brought back one or two items? Who knew those guards were so powerful? Honghong made her brothers suffer, tsk.

"

"Okay, stop arguing. Do you want to ask for food?" The third child suddenly stood up and said, "He's going to ask someone to prepare it."

…

Lou Xiyue returned the tiles to their original positions and thought to herself: That's it.

From the very beginning, the purpose of the group of robbers was not to steal wealth and dowry.

And the reason why those people did that was because they had reached a deal with the prefect of Pingjiang and asked to use her to threaten Fu Guan.

Pingjiang Magistrate...

Fu Guan had previously handled official business in Pingjiang Mansion. Could it be that those matters were related to the official business he handled?

She saw the "third master" who had kidnapped Qingshuang striding out of the hall, and a plan took shape in her mind...

The next two chapters are about my sister Ban Xiyu
Chapter completed!