Peach Blossom.

How could she perform her magic in front of so many people?

She had already been labeled a "monster" in Jiankang. She couldn't possibly get another reputation as a "monster" as soon as she arrived in Yongchang, right?

As the saying goes, "Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles." She will definitely have to continue staying in Yongchang in the near future, and work with Wang Jing to find a way to save Wang Yi. Being treated as a "monster" by a group of people will definitely do more harm than good!

Fang Qing, who was standing outside the bedroom, saw Tao Ye coming out and hurriedly came over to greet her: "Miss, what can I do for you?"

"I... I'm too full and want to go out for a walk." Tao Ye pointed at the gate, a little nervous.

"Miss, please take a walk in the yard. Our yard is not that small!"

Although Fang Qing's attitude was respectful, Tao Ye felt very uncomfortable.

"I just want to go out for a walk!" Tao Ye was a little angry, but she just showed the demeanor of a hostess and walked towards the gate of the courtyard while speaking.

Unexpectedly, Fang Qing calmly stood in front of Tao Ye and said, "Manager Ma has instructed that the young lady cannot leave this courtyard before the young master comes back."

Tao Ye felt very angry. She only came here to divert Ma Da and have a meal. How could she be placed under house arrest like this?

"Really? Tell Mada to come over here!"

Fang Qing could see that Tao Ye was angry, so she didn't dare to disobey and quickly called Ma Da to Tao Ye's room.

Tao Ye sat in a rocking chair and asked Ma Da seriously, "Why did you imprison me? Was this Chen Ji's idea?"

Ma Da stood by and answered with his hands clasped, "Sir, you don't know that the young lady is here. It was my idea."

Tao Ye heard this and became even more annoyed: "What qualifications do you have to lock me up?"

Ma Da said: "Yongchang is located in a remote area, and most of the residents are descendants of the criminals who were exiled. They are very restless. I am concerned about the safety of the girl, so I don't let her go out."

Tao Ye smiled coldly. Since she could come here safely, why would she need these people's "protection"? This was clearly an excuse!

"You'd better tell me the truth, otherwise I will go on a hunger strike and die here! I want to see how Chen Ji will deal with you when he comes back!" Tao Ye crossed her arms over her chest, raised her thighs over her legs, and put on a look that looked like she was not easy to bully.

Ma Da waved to Fang Qing and Fang Qing stepped back.

Tao Ye and Mada were the only ones left in the room. Mada said, "The people in this courtyard are either people you knew when you were young, or people who followed the old county lord in the past. They don't recognize you, let alone your relationship with you. In fact, when you went out this time, I asked him where he was going, and he said he was going to see you. I don't know if he really wanted to see you, or if it was just an excuse. But now he hasn't come back yet, but you've arrived first, which makes me worry about his safety. So, I have to keep you here for a while."

"He went to see me?" Tao Ye widened her eyes and spoke word by word. She felt that this statement was a bit outrageous.

Mada nodded.

Tao Ye remembered what Wang Jing said, that Chen Ji was most likely the murderer of Mantangjiao. She also remembered that Chen Ji had tricked her into pretending to be Mantangjiao to steal Wang family secrets, and then lost contact with her since then. Now he told Mada to visit her... This was obviously a lie!

She should have understood that Chen Ji rarely spoke the truth, but she didn't expect that even his most trusted figure, Ma Da, would be kept in the dark. This showed that Chen Ji must have done something even more shameful this time.

Before she could figure out what it might be, she saw Mada walk out the door.

As soon as Mada walked out of the door, he locked it from the outside.

Tao Ye was startled when she heard the sound of chains, and she quickly stood up to pull the door, but it could not be opened.

She slammed the door angrily: "Let me out! Hey! Let me out!"

Mada acted as if he didn't hear Taoye's call and just left.

Tao Ye went to push the window again, only to find that it had been locked.

As the sky gradually darkened, she remembered Wang Jing's instructions to "meet there before dark" and felt anxious.

She was locked here, unable to go back to see Wang Jing. Would Wang Jing look for her everywhere? Would she be separated from Wang Jing?

But if she relies on the "demon's" method to leave, will it bring unnecessary trouble to her and Wang Jing's subsequent journey?

Tao Ye sat in the room, looking at the gradually falling dusk outside and the candlelight lit in the house, and suddenly thought of a way to escape without using any magic.

She still remembered the night she helped Chen Ji escape from Chen's house. She almost burned herself to death in the fire she set... But it was because she was almost burned to death that Chen Xi believed that Chen Ji was burned to death, so Chen Ji had a chance to escape...

She could now use the same old trick to give someone a taste of their own medicine.

She now has magical powers, so even if no one comes to rescue her, it is impossible for her to burn herself to death.

There was only one candle in the room, so she picked up the candle and used it to light the doors and windows. The wood of the doors and windows was not that flammable, and after burning for a long time, the door frame just turned black.

She was a little anxious, imagining a possible solution, and dripped a drop of blood on the wood, and ordered: "Start a fire outside!"

Sure enough, the outside of the door frame suddenly caught fire.

She did the same with the window, and fire started outside it as well.

Fang Qing and the guards in the yard were shocked when they saw the doors and windows on fire. They shouted to each other to fetch water to put out the fire.

Tao Ye gave orders to the wooden doors and windows in the room, making it difficult to put out the fire. The flames then spread to the roof, and the wall on this side was surrounded by flames.

Wang Jing returned to the place where he and Tao Ye separated. He did not see Tao Ye return for a long time, so he thought that things might not be going well. So he went to look for her in the direction where Ma Da and Tao Ye left. He asked several farmers along the way, but could not get any information. Suddenly, he saw a fire over there.

The fire was very eye-catching at night, and the neighbors living nearby came to watch, but they didn't dare to get too close. They just looked at this side and pointed.

Wang Jing walked past the neighbors who were standing in groups of three or four and saw the courtyard house that was on fire.

Since all the guards in the yard were fighting the fire and there was no one guarding the gate, Wang Jing just walked in with crutches.

He saw at a glance that one of the people putting out the fire was Ma Da, and the house on fire was chained. He was certain that Tao Ye must be in this room.

Wang Jing didn't know that Tao Ye was using magic to control the fire in the room. He was afraid that Tao Ye might meet with an accident, so he dropped the big wooden box in his hand, walked quickly to the outside of the burning house, and knocked on the door with his walking stick.

The door had been burned for so long that it had turned into a pile of rotten wood. It could not withstand Wang Jing's collision and turned into pieces on the ground.

Ma Da, who was putting out the fire, saw Wang Jing and was very surprised: "Is it the second son of the Wang family?"

When the other guards who were fighting the fire heard this, they all asked, "Which Second Young Master Wang? Is it the Second Young Master Wang who always competes with our Young Master for his wife?"

After hearing these two sentences, Tao Ye knew that Wang Jing had come and had been recognized. She was afraid that these people would do something bad to Wang Jing, so she walked out of the room in a panic. She accidentally stepped on the broken pieces of the wooden door scattered on the ground. Her feet felt hot and she almost fell down!

Wang Jing hurriedly helped Tao Ye and pulled her away from the hot charcoal into his arms. He then drew the sword from his waist, put it on Tao Ye's neck, and shouted, "If I had known it was you, I would not have saved you!"

Tao Ye was confused. She hadn't figured out what Wang Jing was doing.

The guards standing opposite stared at Wang Jing with eager eyes.

Only Ma Da looked a little worried: "Master Wang, please show some mercy. I wonder how Miss Tao offended you?"

Wang Jing sneered, "What a superfluous question! Your master ordered her to pretend to be my wife, steal my family secrets, and try to harm my father. Do you think I don't know?"

Tao Ye seemed to understand Wang Jing's intention. She immediately acted cowardly and shouted to Ma Da: "Hurry up and save me! I don't want to die yet!"

Ma Da hurriedly explained to Wang Jing: "Young Master Wang may have misunderstood. My young master has never harmed Wang Situ!"

"Oh?" Wang Jing glanced at Ma Da and smiled faintly: "Then where is my father now?"

Mada replied: "I'm not sure."

The tip of Wang Jing's sword was one inch closer to Tao Ye's neck. Tao Ye screamed in fright. At such a close distance, she was really a little scared!

Ma Da quickly added to his answer: "We only met him once, but that was a long, long time ago. I really didn't lie to you!"

"Then tell me, how did you meet that time?"

"It was in front of the Ning Palace. My son and I saw him from afar entering the palace with a group of people. The Ning Palace was built by the Ning Prince of the previous dynasty in Ailao. It had been abandoned in this dynasty until the Yongchang Prince came here and turned it into a shelter. Over the past ten years, it has been homeless refugees and frail exiles. My son had always thought that Wang Situ was in the capital, so he suspected that he had recognized the wrong person. Because Miss Tao happened to be staying at the Wang family at the time, he asked Miss Tao to find out some information. That's all. We have never done anything bad to Wang Situ."

Wang Jing thought to himself that what Mada said did not sound like a lie, but it might not be complete.

Ma Da said again: "I have told you everything I know, please let Miss Tao go."

Wang Jing looked up at Ma Da, Fang Qing, and all the guards, and sneered, "Let her go? If I let her go now, all of you will chop me into pieces in an instant, right?"

Before Mada could say anything, a thin young guard behind him became impatient and asked, "Brother, why are you talking so much to him?"

Ma Da shook his head: "No! Miss Tao can't make any mistakes, otherwise the young master will definitely not forgive us."

Ma Da asked Wang Jing again: "What do you want?"

Wang Jing said, "Go and get me a horse."

Mada ordered a guard to fetch a horse.

Wang Jing said again, "Put my box up there and lead the horse outside the gate."

The motor did the same.

Wang Jing continued to demand: "All of you step back!"

Mada and everyone else retreated a long way.

Wang Jing held a cane in one hand and pointed a sword at Tao Ye in the other: "Go out the door!"

Tao Ye's neck was always on the edge of the sword. She walked out of the courtyard gate carefully and went to the side of the horse.

Mada and others tentatively took a few steps closer to the gate.

Wang Jing shouted again: "Don't come over here! Otherwise I will kill her immediately!"

Everyone in the yard had no choice but to return to their original positions.

Wang Jing still pointed his sword at Tao Ye and ordered Tao Ye to mount his horse.

Ma Da watched Tao Ye getting on the horse, and said worriedly: "Master Wang, I have done what you said. You should keep your word and keep Miss Tao!"

"That depends on whether she is willing to stay." Wang Jing had already mounted his horse. He smiled faintly, said this, and immediately whipped the whip and rode away.

Several guards shouted, "Brother, they are in the same group!"