She married a dying prince and she won three babies.

Qingfeng handed over a piece of black cloth.

Yu Yuanzheng took the cloth and examined it carefully: "This is high-quality cotton cloth, not something ordinary people can wear."

"This is very similar to what the men following the priest on the street today were wearing."

Yu Yuanzheng was not a local and did not have much respect for the priests, so she watched them pass by boldly.

"Temple?" Shangguan Ziqi and Emperor Qiming said in unison.

In other words, the four Chunhua sisters were most likely abducted by people from the temple.

But they had never had any contact with the people in the temple, so why did they abduct Chunhua and the other three?

I can't figure it out for a moment.

Yu Yuanzheng thought of the expression of the high priest of the temple when he walked past them during the day. The high priest did take a special look at Chunhua and the other three sisters.

It was also very strange why a high priest would bring people through the street and go into the store they were visiting.

As a result, the shop owner had to give the high priest the spices he liked for free.

Although the shop owner respectfully gave the spices to the high priest at that time, Yu Yuanzheng saw clearly the shop owner's reluctant expression when the high priest left with his men.

Just then, Rajiv and Ajay rush to the inn.

When this happened, the guide immediately informed the two people.

Seeing everyone's serious expressions, Rajiv gestured and asked, "What happened? We heard you were looking for someone?"

Shangguan Ziqi made a simple gesture to explain the situation, and Rajiv's face turned pale instantly.

He glanced at the crowd and indeed, the four women following them were nowhere to be seen.

Being noticed by the high priest is a bit troublesome.

He and Ajay exchanged a few quick words in Shindo, then began to gesture with difficulty.

"Do you know that three days from now is our most important sacrificial day?"

"What does this have to do with the disappearance of our people?" Emperor Qiming asked sternly.

Rajiv didn't understand what Emperor Qiming said, but he was so shocked by his aura that he trembled, swallowed his saliva, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

Shangguan Ziqi patiently demonstrated to him so that he could understand.

After two days of contact, Shangguan Ziqi has developed his own set of gestures to make the other party understand what he means.

"Since High Priest Qasim took office, the rules of the priests have been changed. Sacrifices to the gods require pure women as sacrifices." Rajiv gestured with difficulty to make his meaning clear.

And he is also a servant of God, or rather, all the people of Shenduo are servants of God.

Although he did not agree with the use of women as sacrifices, he had changed his mind and used women as sacrifices since Cassim became the high priest, and this had been going on for more than ten years, every three years.

Any woman who is chosen cannot escape.

There was a dead silence in the courtyard, and everyone was shocked by the information.

Yu Yuanzheng's hands tightly grasped her husband's arms, her nails almost digging into his muscles.

"You mean to say," Shangguan Ziqi asked word by word, his voice as cold as ice, "that our four maids were abducted by the temple people and intended for sacrifice?"

Shangguan Ziqi gestured with endless anger.

Seeing him getting angry, Ajay gestured anxiously and kept talking.

“Ten years ago, there were indeed rumors of women from other places disappearing on the eve of the festival, but no one dared to publicly question the temple.”

At that time Ajay was not in the position he is now.

Emperor Qiming flew into a rage and slammed his palm on the table: "Outrageous! Barbaric! Ridiculous!"

Everyone knows what sacrifice means, and the ultimate result is death.

He turned to Shangguan Ziqi and said, "Immediately mobilize the soldiers on board. I will personally go to that temple to retrieve the people and then destroy them!"

The old prince quickly tried to dissuade him, "Your Majesty, calm down. Attacking the temple by force will only make matters worse. We need to take a long-term view and first confirm whether the person is really there."

Yu Yuanzheng thought about the four girls she brought up. During their time on the ship, everyone got along very well. The four girls studied very hard and took the initiative to serve her and help her take care of the children.

If anything really happened to them, she would feel guilty, and the villagers of Haiyue Island were waiting for the four sisters to go back and report to them what they had seen and heard.

Thinking of this, she fought back tears, her voice firm: "Rajiv, Ajay, can you help us? If it is really the temple that did it, we need inside information from the temple."

Yu Yuanzheng gestured a lot, not knowing whether the other party understood.

Rajiv understood and looked troubled: "In Shenduo Kingdom, opposing the temple is a capital crime. But..."

He looked at Ajay, and the two seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding.

"We will do our best to help. Ajay has a brother who used to work at the temple and may be able to provide some information."

Shangguan Ziqi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

"Alright, let's split up. Qingfeng, lead the team to continue searching the surrounding area to see if we can find more clues. We'll try to confirm that it was someone from the temple who did this."

Just as everyone was about to leave, Yu Yuanzheng suddenly remembered something: "Wait, Rajiv just said the sacrifice will be in three days?"

"To be precise, it was two days later, and it's already early morning," Shangguan Ziqi emphasized.

"That means their lives are not in danger for the time being.

We need to use this time to develop a thorough rescue plan.

Instead of acting rashly, after all, we are in a foreign country.

We can't have any grudges against the temple here. We just need to rescue the people and find out who the mastermind is. We just need to teach the mastermind a lesson.

The people here have a respect and worship for the gods that we cannot imagine, so it is best not to do anything that would offend the gods.

That would incur public outrage and hinder our ability to continue shipping goods here for trade in the future," Yu Yuanzheng explained.

If they incurred public anger, no matter how capable they were, they would not be able to defeat the believers in the entire city.

Although Emperor Qiming was still angry, he realized after hearing Yu Yuanzheng's words that a strong attack was not the best strategy.

"Alright, I'll give you one day to gather information. If you still don't have any definitive news by this time tomorrow, don't blame me for resorting to force."

Emperor Qiming had been high and mighty all his life, so how could he care about a temple, especially one that was not the highest temple in the capital of Shenduo Kingdom?

It was already daybreak.

Qingfeng took four guards and searched the forest again.

I found some powder on the leaves of some plants not far from where the lanterns were hung last night.

I immediately got some and showed it to Yu Yuanzheng.

Yu Yuanzheng knew it was a drug that was spreading in the air as soon as she smelled it.

"Chunhua and the others were drugged and abducted."

Not long after, Yuanshan also came back.

"Your Highness, Princess, we followed the footprints, but lost them on the cobblestone road. The carriage tracks are hard to see on the cobblestone road."

In other words, they could not judge which direction the carriage finally went. They only knew that the person was knocked unconscious and taken on the carriage towards the city.

The inn they stayed in was right on the edge of the city.

Otherwise there would be no forest behind.