It's good to exchange marriages. My sister eats coarse food while I wear gold and silver.

"I can't tell others what to do, but as long as they are willing, they won't be criticized when they come here." Yuan Buwei said, sweeping across the simple faces present, "You are the same. If I find out and talk behind your back, you are not welcome here. You'd better leave as soon as possible."

"Doctor Yuan is right. Can innocence be more important than life? If you lose your life, you will lose everything. The world is so big, there is always a place for women to stay. Why can men have three wives and four concubines, but women must be faithful to one man? You look down on your own kind, and you are the accomplices of men!" Hong Gu put her hands on her hips and said with full energy, "I mean the same thing as Doctor Yuan. If any of you feel that you can't stay here, then go home as soon as possible."

"Doctor Yuan, Aunt Hong, that's not what we meant. We are just afraid of outsiders..."

"Any outsider who dares to gossip about us, I will slap him away with a shovel." Hong Gu's humorous words instantly diluted the originally tense atmosphere.

At this moment, there was a hurried knock on the door.

Everyone in the yard immediately became alert, huddled together, and stared at the gate.

"Who is it?"

Seeing the knocks on the door getting more and more urgent, Yuan Buwei, who was standing still, asked loudly: "The inn is closed. If you want to stay here, come back tomorrow."

"Madam, it's me, open the door quickly."

Yuan Buwei was stunned for a moment. Was this Yun Ling's voice?

"One of our own."

Yuan Buwei turned around and said something to everyone, then quickly walked to the front door. The moment she opened the door, Yun Ling hugged her tightly: "Madam, I knew you were okay. That's great, that's great."

"Yun Ling?"

Yuan Buwei pushed Yunling away and looked at her crying in grievance: "Why did you come to Cangxin Town? Shouldn't you stay with Xingzhou?"

"No, ever since you were kidnapped, Young Marquis Lu went to war, and I didn't follow him. I originally planned to go home with Senior Sister, but I felt uneasy, thinking something would happen to you, so I begged Senior Sister to stay at Wanning Marquis Mansion. Later, after Medicine King Valley received your pigeon letter, they sent me another one, but I didn't dare tell the Marquis and his wife, fearing that they would come out to look for you regardless of the consequences. So I found an excuse and said I had to go back to Medicine King Valley. It happened that Brother Song left me marks along the way before leaving the capital, and I walked and found that I had arrived at Cangxin Town."

"You are such a brave girl. There are enemy troops everywhere on this road. If something happens to you, how can I explain it to Xingzhou?" Yuan Buwei pulled Yunling in, touched her arms and looked her up and down, "Did you encounter any danger on the road? Are you injured?"

"I wasn't injured. There just happened to be a family coming to the border, and I spent a little money to ask them to take me back. This was all thanks to you always giving me various things. When I left, I cashed in all the money. That family was also very nice. Maybe it was also because I was lucky. As I walked, I really walked to Cangxin Town. When I came in, Brother Song and his men were already finishing up. When they saw it was me, they asked me to come to this inn immediately."

Yun Ling finished speaking and hugged Yuan Buwei again: "Madam, I miss you so much. Everyone misses you. You don't know how calm the Wanning Marquisate is when you and the young marquis are not here. The marquis and the lady sigh all day long. The situation in the court is not good. The emperor quarrels with the ministers every day. The queen mother is also sick. Princess Jinghe and the lady have moved to Shoukang Palace."

Yuan Buwei felt Yun Ling's body trembling. Although she briefly mentioned how she came to Cangxin Town, she knew that she must have suffered a lot on the way: "Silly Yun Ling, you shouldn't have come here. It's very dangerous here. The Xirong army can come in at any time."

"I'm not afraid. I promised the young marquis that if I meet the young lady, I will protect her." Yun Ling let go of Yuan Buwei and wiped away the tears on her face. "Besides, you must need someone to take care of you. With me here, I can help you share the burden, right? By the way, Chenxiang was supposed to come with you, but I think it's better for her to stay in Wanning Marquis's Mansion and take care of the marquis's wife. After all, the marquis's wife will feel more relieved when she sees her."

"You did the right thing." Yuan Buwei smiled and touched Yun Ling's thin face, "Are you hungry? I'll go make you a bowl of noodles."

"Young lady!"

"Third sister!"

At this moment, Song Rui and Qin Si appeared in Yuan Buwei's sight.

"You guys..." Yuan Buwei looked at the two people who came up with a surprised look on her face: "It's over so soon?"

"Thanks to the good planning and the cooperation of the people, we finally caught these two waves of cancer. However, there are fewer people coming today, so there should be some remnants staying in the village. We are here to send you a message and prepare to interrogate the two leaders overnight."

"By the way, when you interrogate them, ask them if there are any women in their village. If there are, remember to bring people to rescue them and bring them here."

"I understand." Song Rui clasped his fists and took the lead.

Qin Si said a few words to Qin Lian, then turned around and caught up with Song Rui: "Wait for me."

"That's great. Cangxin Town has been plagued by these bastards for so long, and they have finally been caught." Hong Gu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Yun Ling, "Ms. Yun Ling, right? Wait, I'll make you some hand-rolled noodles in the kitchen. Everyone who eats my hand-rolled noodles says they are delicious. Just follow them and call me Hong Gu."

Yun Ling glanced at Yuan Buwei and saw her nod. She immediately smiled and said, "Thank you very much, Hong Gu. I'm very strong. If you need any rough work, just let me do it."

"Okay, okay, but you still have to eat enough so that you have the strength to work."

The good news made everyone feel better.

Yuan Buwei turned her head and looked outside the dark door. Victory in the first battle was a good sign.

Noon the next day.

Song Rui and Qin Si walked into the inn with sullen faces.

"What's wrong with you two? Why are you both so sullen?" Yuan Buwei had lunch brought to them. "Did the interrogation go wrong?"

"Don't mention it. Those guys are nothing." Qin Si grabbed a chicken leg and bit it hard, as if biting the flesh of a bandit. "They did capture a lot of women, but they didn't keep them in the village. Instead, they captured them and sold them to the Xirong Army. A woman could be sold for five taels of silver. If she was good-looking or a virgin, the price would be even higher."

"What did you say?" Yuan Buwei frowned, "They are actually doing this kind of thing?"

"This gang of bandits and vagrants had been beaten by the Wolf King so much that they dared not come down the mountain. They came down the mountain to cause trouble this time. In fact, they were found by the Western Rong Army." Song Rui had a gloomy face, holding the teacup tightly in his right hand. "But I got some information from them."