The Flourishing Era of Female Merchants

In the darkness, Liu Zhan returned and frantically searched around for a while. Before long, the entire village was engulfed in flames...

Looking at his masterpiece, Liu Zhan laughed wildly, "Let's see where you, Flourishing Flame, are going to conjure up embroidery pieces these days."

The fire burned down the village, destroying all the embroidered items that had been completed but hadn't yet been sent to the city. This was undoubtedly another heavy blow to the blazing flames of prosperity. Now, even just thinking about how Miss Yan would beg him, he felt an unusual excitement in his heart.

All of this happened without anyone noticing. At this moment, he was unaware that outside the raging fire, another pair of eyes had witnessed the entire scene...

When Anmi received the message, it was already late at night.

An Mi looked at Bai Yi in the room, remained silent for a long time, and then spoke coldly, "Your Highness, this is not the time for jokes."

Widows' Village? She had just been to Widows' Village today, and everything was fine. How could it have been burned down in just a few hours?

Bai Yi frowned, knowing An Mi's feelings at this moment, but some facts could not be ignored. "An Mi, this is a message from Cheng Ying. She couldn't enter the An residence to find you, so she came to me and asked me to come find you. An Mi, now, come out with me!"

An Mi frowned, her body swaying slightly as she tried to calm herself down. "Thank you for your trouble, Your Highness."

After saying that, he turned and walked out of his room. The two of them quietly left the An residence, got into the carriage, and headed straight out of the city. The atmosphere in the carriage was extremely heavy. Bai Yi sat opposite An Mi, quietly watching An Mi's tightly furrowed brows, while his own brows could not be relaxed either.

Reaching out, he grasped An Mi's tightly clenched hand, as if offering comfort. Thinking of Cheng Ying's description, Bai Yi's expression grew even more grave; he wondered what An Mi would witness...

"Enough, let me handle this..." Bai Yi said in a deep voice, unwilling to let An Mi face the matter personally.

However, before he could finish speaking, An Mi interrupted him coldly, "No need!"

What exactly is happening in Widow Village? She wants to see for herself! Clenching her hands tightly, An Mi seemed to be trying hard to suppress something. Before long, the carriage stopped, and low sobs could be heard in the air. Hearing this, An Mi felt a pang of pain in her heart.

Bai Yi lifted the carriage curtain and got off first, followed by An Mi. As soon as they got off the carriage, they saw smoke billowing ahead, and several houses were still engulfed in flames.

An Mi's eyes narrowed, and she bit her lip tightly. She walked along the road she had walked many times before, heading towards the entrance of the village. The further she went, the stronger the pungent smell of blood became, making An Mi's blood boil.

In the village, Cheng Ying, who had arrived earlier, wiped away her tears upon seeing An Mi and went to greet her, "Girl, all the sisters..."

In the end, Cheng Ying could only sob. Although she had only been in the village for a short time, the villagers had taken exceptional care of her. It wasn't until the recent opening of Shengshi Lieyan that she and her daughter moved in directly with the village. But she never expected that the village would become like this.

An Mi gritted her teeth, staring at the corpses laid out on the ground. Her hands were clenched so tightly that her nails almost dug into her flesh. All the anger she had been suppressing surged up completely. "Who is it? Who on earth is it?!"

Who could be so cruel? Most of them are women and children!

Her gaze fell on the knife marks on the corpses, and Anmi's eyes were filled with resentment.

“Miss…Miss…” the boy’s voice rang out, and he suddenly knelt down in front of An Mi, his face filled with self-reproach. “Miss, I watched them…watched her…killed them…I…I was afraid…I dared not make a sound, it’s all my fault…I couldn’t save them…I couldn’t save them…ah…”

The boy repeatedly kowtowed to the ground, as if punishing himself. Today, his mother had sent him hunting in the mountains. When he returned, he saw the entire village being controlled by those men. He watched from afar, watching the first woman be killed by those men, watching the boy be bitten to death by that woman, and then…

The scene flashed through the boy's mind, and he frantically banged his forehead against the ground, crying, "It's me... I can't save... Mother... They're all dead, all dead..."

"Who is it?" An Mi's eyes narrowed, her voice filled with a chilling sharpness.

The boy paused, then raised his blood-soaked head, his eyes filled with a mixture of fear and hatred. "A man, his face was covered with a cloth, so I couldn't see his face, but his eyes were terrifying..." Even from a distance, he could feel the sharp killing intent in those eyes.

The boy paused, then continued, "There was another woman, it was her... she killed everyone, and that man took her away..."

An Mi's eyes narrowed, and the group of people she had encountered on the road earlier that day subconsciously came to mind. Some things connected in her mind, and her intuition told her that the man and the person she had met earlier that day were very likely the same person!

“Tell me about that woman,” An Mi’s voice rang out coldly.

The boy flinched, his fear deepening. "That woman looked very disheveled..."

The boy described everything he had just seen to An Mi. An Mi listened quietly, her eyes filled with even more hatred. "If you see those people again, will you be able to recognize them at a glance?"

"Yes!" The boy nodded hurriedly. What had just happened was etched into his mind, and he feared he would never be able to erase it for the rest of his life.

An Mi frowned slightly, her gaze sweeping over the corpses laid out on the ground once more. Suddenly, Bai Yi beside her seemed to sense something. He strode forward, stopped beside a chair, squatted down, and picked up something.

An Mi realized something and immediately stepped forward. She saw that Bai Yi had a jade pendant in his hand. Its translucent color indicated that it was of superior quality. In particular, the character "Feng" engraved on it was especially eye-catching to the two of them.

Both of them were startled, exchanged a glance, and understood each other perfectly.

"The Feng family!" The two words were almost spat out from between An Mi's teeth. The Feng family was a prominent family in the Great Jin Dynasty. The current leader of the Feng family was particularly fond of jade. It is said that every descendant of the Feng family would have a jade pendant engraved with their surname, which represented their status and position as members of the Feng family.

Bai Yi's eyes narrowed. Yes, it was the Feng family, and he had naturally seen this jade pendant before.

Recalling Empress Feng's pursuit of Qinglan, the shrewd Bai Yi could easily guess some things. After a moment of contemplation, he said in a low voice, "It seems that the Feng family has personally taken action."

But which member of the Feng family is it that came this time?