After the three men climbed over the courtyard wall, the person sitting on the wall also climbed down the ladder.

The man in black in the yard entered the room, blew out the candle, closed the door, and climbed up the ladder swiftly. She sat on the wall and easily pulled up the stairs, shortened the ladder with a few movements of her hands, and carried the ladder down the stairs.

The two men in black waiting below saw her coming down and took away the ladders outside the courtyard wall. Two ladders, one of them holding one, walked behind the three people, with a man in black leading the way.

Ye Wanqing, Lu Mei, and Bai He held hands tightly and followed the man in black. It was too dark, and the three of them stumbled as they walked, gritting their teeth and not daring to make a sound, and followed closely behind.

More than ten minutes later, the six people came to a small door that was unattended. The man in black easily opened the door and let the five people out first. She locked the small door again. She walked back a few steps, ran up the wall, and flipped out in two steps.

Three men in black helped the three people walk in the alley, avoiding the night watchmen on the street, and walked into another alley, turning left and right and arriving at the riverside in the city.

The man in black opened his mouth and uttered a few cat-like sounds, and a black-sailed boat slid silently to the riverside.

Ye Wanqing was supported, and she boarded the black-sailed boat carefully, with her legs shaking and breathing heavily. Lumei and Baihe followed behind her, breathing heavily. After getting on the boat, the three of them hid in the boat shed and sat down.

Ye Wanqing leaned forward and asked in a low voice: "My sisters..."

Black Clothes: "Don't worry, you will be together soon."

The black-sailed boat rowed away. The three people on the shore watched the boat go away and immediately turned around and walked towards Li's mansion.

In the embroidery building, hearing the nightingale's call, Li Xiuwen lifted the thin quilt and patted Cuiguo who was sleeping on the footstool.

Cuiguo had not slept all the time, and she also heard the nightingale outside. The lady patted her, and she immediately got up, took out a tinder from her bosom to light the lantern, opened the window, held the lantern out for a while, then took it back and quickly extinguished it.

The person in black on the wall saw a lighted lantern outside the second-floor window, and she uttered three nightingale calls.

Li Xiuling in the room heard the noise and got up from the bed excitedly. She and Xiaoyue took a few deep breaths, opened the door quietly, and walked towards Li Xiuwen's room. They secretly oiled the wooden door of the room to prevent it from making noises.

Li Xiuwen had been waiting at the door and heard the light footsteps.

Li Xiuling gently poked the door three times, and Li Xiuwen gently opened a door to let her sister and Xiaoyue in. She also leaned out to take a look before gently closing the door.

Four people in black set up the ladder and climbed in one after another. They were still holding the ladder in their hands. When they came in, they opened and stretched the ladder and set it outside the embroidery building, so long that it reached the window on the second floor of the embroidery building.

One of the men, a woman in black, climbed up the stairs. Several people in the house heard the noise and came to the window.

Li Xiuwen and the man in black came face to face. The man in black was stunned for a moment, then went into the room and closed the window. She took out a faintly glowing object from her body and said in a low voice: "The spring eye silently cherishes the trickle, and the tree shadow shines on the water and loves the gentle sunshine."

The four people in the room were relieved when they heard the voice of a woman. They had never seen a man from outside their family, and they instinctively felt uncomfortable with the stranger who came to pick them up. If the person was a woman, they would relax a little and not be so nervous.

"The little lotus has just shown its pointed tip, and a dragonfly has already landed on it." Li Xiuling immediately replied in a low voice.

The man in black asked quietly, "What are your names?"

Li Xiuling said timidly: "My name is Li Xiuling."

"My name is Li Xiuwen," Li Xiuwen said in a low voice, and then pointed at Cuiguo and Xiaoyue and said, "Cuiguo, Xiaoyue."

"There is a ladder outside the window. Hold on to the stairs one by one and climb down slowly. Don't be afraid, there are people waiting for you below." The man in black said as he pulled Li Xiuling towards the window.

Li Xiuling was trembling as she was helped by the men in black to climb out of the window. She stood on the stairs, trembling and timid, not daring to move. There were two men in black standing below holding the stairs, and the other one had to climb up and slowly climb down with Li Xiuling.

The man in black in the room was about to help Li Xiuwen out of the window when there was a knock on the door, "Knock, knock, knock..."

The hearts of the people in the room tightened, and even their breathing became lighter in an instant.

Cuiguo took a few deep breaths, walked to the door, tried hard to control her trembling voice, and asked in a low voice: "Who is it at this time of night?"

It became quiet outside the door, and the man in black asked Li Xiuwen to climb down the ladder quickly.

Li Xiuwen felt her hands and feet were weak and she didn't know how she climbed down the stairs. Her feet stepped on the grass, but it felt like she was stepping on clouds.

Cuiguo bit her lip and tried to walk back to the window. A tiny female voice came from outside the door, "Where are you going?"

Cuiguo and Xiaoyue trembled, and a feeling of despair surged up in them.

The man in black told them to climb down quickly. Xiaoyue gritted her teeth and climbed out of the window, holding the cold ladder tightly, and climbed down with shaking legs, but her speed was not slow. The young ladies ran away, and they, as maids, did not run away with them, and the end was certain to be death.

The woman outside the door thought for a moment and continued, "Are you going to the country of He?"

Cuiguo could tell from the voice that it was Miss Seven who was speaking outside the door.

The man in black taught Cuiguo to reply. Cuiguo swallowed her saliva and pretended to talk to herself, whispering, "Miss Seven is talking in her sleep? Qiuju was sleeping so soundly that she didn't even know Miss Seven came out of her room." Then she raised her voice and said to the outside, "Miss Four is asleep, Miss Seven, you should go back to sleep!"

"We saw that someone is outside to pick you up. Answer me, are you going to Heguo? Otherwise, I will shout!" Miss Seven ignored Cuiguo's words and went straight to the point.

The wooden door creaked open, and dim light shone on the man in black. Miss Seven outside the door covered her mouth and took a few steps back in fear.

The man in black held up a finger, "Shh!"

The man in black looked at the skinny girl outside the door, her hair was messy, and his eyes were wide open. "You want to go too?"

Miss Seven swallowed and said, "Can we go?"

The man in black understood that she must have come to ask because she wanted to go, otherwise she would have screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Take your gold and silver and leave. I'll give you some time. If you're late, I won't wait for you." After the man in black finished speaking, a noise came from a room not far away.

The man in black entered the room but did not close the door. He walked to the window and said a few words to the people below.

She asked two men in black to escort the four people below out first. Li Xiuwen and the others climbed down the stairs, then climbed up the wall and then climbed down the wall again.

The two men in black simply carried Li Xiuwen and Li Xiuling on their backs. They had been raised in the embroidery building since they were young, so they moved very little and ate very little, so they had no strength. The two maids were more active than the two young ladies, and they could walk, so they followed closely behind them.

In the dark night, after walking for an unknown amount of time, they came to a small door. The man in black opened the door twice and stuck his head out to look outside.

The three returning men in black were waiting outside the Li residence, fearing that their companions would need help, so they kept waiting. When they saw them open the door, they meowed twice and walked over.

The two men watched the three people coming over, and one of them whispered to Li Xiuwen and the other three, "Follow them, we will follow soon." After she said that, she pushed the four people out, closed the small door, and quickly returned to the outside of the embroidery building courtyard.

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