My Lord, my wife said she doesn't have time to talk to you.

Seeing how miserable he was, the other people cursed him and hurriedly dragged him out without even bothering to check.

Huaying and Qinghe breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.

After the sound of their footsteps completely disappeared, the two of them climbed down from the beam quietly.

"Let's go, we have to find other people quickly."

The master and servant tidied themselves up a little, then quietly opened the door and knocked on the doors of Yuexing and Yuelang's rooms next door in the moonlight.

Huaying listened carefully and found that there was no movement inside, so she turned around and knocked on Fu Shiyan's door, but no sound came out.

Suddenly, an embroidered handkerchief appeared in front of her eyes and quickly covered her mouth and nose. A pungent smell instantly rushed into her nose. Huaying had no time to react. She felt her eyes go black and then she lost consciousness.

When I woke up again, I found that my eyes were covered with a black cloth, and my hands and feet were tied tightly, so tightly that it hurt.

The air was filled with a strong smell of dust, mixed with a faint hint of floral scent.

Huaying tried to calm herself down and listened carefully to the sounds around her. There was no sound in the room except her own breathing.

This means that the kidnappers only kidnapped her, and Qinghe should be safe for now.

I heard a slight snoring sound coming from outside the door, probably because the person in charge of watching over her had fallen asleep.

Huaying felt around on the ground, hoping to find something to untie the rope.

Suddenly, she touched a hairpin on the ground and remembered that it was the hairpin that Fu Shiyan gave her last night. Before going out to find Yuexing, Huaying deliberately stuffed it into her sleeve.

She twisted the peach blossom on the hairpin, then pulled it out and began to cut the rope that bound her with all her strength.

After a long time, until I was tired and sweating, I finally cut the rope!

Huaying immediately broke free and took off the black cloth covering her eyes. With the faint moonlight coming through the window, she looked around and found herself in a temple.

Huaying stood up, walked to the window, pushed it open and prepared to escape secretly.

However, at this moment, a burst of orderly and powerful footsteps suddenly came from the originally quiet temple courtyard.

Huaying carefully pushed open the window and saw Fu Shiyan leading a group of yamen runners who were also escorting several people in black. They seemed to see A Nian's shadow in the crowd and they ran towards them quickly.

The man who was dozing off at the door was awakened and immediately ran away, but was quickly recaptured by the yamen runners with quick eyes and hands.

With a loud "bang", Fu Shiyan kicked the door open, stepped into the room and looked around for Huaying.

Huaying saw the anxiety and concern in his eyes, and she couldn't help feeling touched.

"Are you okay?" Fu Shiyan walked quickly up to her and looked around at Huaying.

Huaying asked, "What's going on? Is Qinghe okay?"

"When I came back from Tongxin Hall last night, I found Qinghe lying in the corridor. I knew something had happened to you, so I asked Anian to report to the authorities and I went to look for your whereabouts." Fu Shiyan plucked the piece of dry grass off Huaying's head and looked at her with pity and self-blame in his eyes.

"Fortunately I arrived in time. I promised not to let you get hurt..."

Huaying comforted him, "It's okay, it was just a false alarm."

At this time, a yamen runner came over to look at Huaying and asked, "Glad, you are fine. These local tyrants often rob people and do many evil things. This time they even dared to kidnap them. The county magistrate will not forgive them when they go back."

Then he said to Fu Shiyan, "Boss, let's take our men back to report first. It's getting late today, so let the young lady go back and have a rest. You two can go to the county government office tomorrow." Seeing Fu Shiyan nod slightly, the officer said goodbye and took his men away.

The three of them came to Zuijiangyue and entered through the back door. In the hall, Fu Yi was giving acupuncture to Yuexing and Yuelang. Huaying hurried over and asked, "How is it going?"

Fu Yi stood up and said, "It's nothing serious, just inhaled too much smoke, it will be fine after the injection."

The next day, Huaying and Fu Shiyan went to the county government office together.

When they stepped into the lobby of the county government, they saw Li Yuan, Zhao Ke and others kneeling on the ground.

As soon as Li Yuan saw Fu Shiyan, he hurriedly shouted, "Brother Fu! Please explain to the county magistrate that this is all a misunderstanding! We have no ill intentions, we were just joking!"

Fu Shiyan glanced at him coldly, then slowly took out the chimney that he found from Zui Jiangyue, the rope that tied Huaying, and the testimony of the gatekeeper kneeling beside him.

He presented the evidence to the magistrate and said in a serious tone, "Mr. Magistrate, Li Yuan and others came to our store last night to kidnap and murder people. The evidence is irrefutable. This is definitely not a misunderstanding!"

The magistrate examined the evidence in front of him and his expression gradually became serious.

He stared at Li Yuan and the others sharply and asked sternly, "What do you have to say?"

Li Yuan and others panicked and tried to explain...