After being reborn, I locked up all the scumbags and bitches in one nest.

"You really saw that girl from the Leng family?"

Huang Jiabao asked his subordinates.

The subordinate replied, "Yes, we saw her on the street. We were even drugged by her. The officers saw her and tried to arrest her, but she escaped."

Huang Jiabao thought for a moment. If she were a maid in a household in Qingcheng County, he would definitely know where she was. "How could she be on the street?"

The subordinates racked their brains for a moment, then replied, "We don't know."

Huang Jiabao cursed, "Useless! Aren't you going to ask her anything?"

Suddenly someone said, "Young master, a few days ago was the Double Ninth Festival. She should have gone back to the mountain to pay respects to her family."

Upon hearing this, Huang Jiabao thought it was possible, and said, "Then go and check tomorrow to see if her family's graves have been swept."

The subordinates immediately agreed.

Huang Jiabao didn't take the matter to heart and went off to have fun with his new mistress.

Meanwhile, Mo Dong led his men to secretly investigate the back mountain of Qingshan Village, but Huang Jiabao did not bring any goods up the mountain today.

Mo Dong and his group spent the whole morning waiting in vain at the fork in the road leading into the mountains.

After traveling all night and staking out all morning, his men were starving.

Someone couldn't hold back any longer, "Brother Dong, we've been guarding this place all morning and no one has come up the mountain. What are we guarding?"

Mo Dong looked around and found that no one was coming this way, so he beckoned to one of his men, "Xiao Si, you and Eleven go to the village and buy some food while you're at it."

Xiao Si and Shi Yi left as ordered.

Mo Dong reassured the remaining people, "Don't worry, this matter may not be simple."

Upon hearing Mo Dong's words, his men immediately focused on their surroundings, looking for any suspicious individuals.

Sure enough, not long after, two men dressed in identical clothes were seen entering the mountain. The two men chatted while eating snacks as they walked, "Why did the young master take a fancy to that little girl? He hasn't forgotten her after all this time. There are plenty of girls prettier than her."

The other person replied, "Young master is just after the novelty. He hasn't gotten his hands on it yet, so naturally he's thinking about it all the time. Once he gets it, the novelty will wear off, and he won't care about it anymore."

The two joked around about some more suggestive topics before slowly walking towards one side of the mountain.

Mo Dong's men had been watching the two men ever since they appeared. Hearing their words, Mo Dong waved for his two subordinates to follow them and see what they were up to. This was because they were heading in a different direction than Shuang Ling had indicated.

Xiao Si and his companion arrived in the village and found a decent-looking family to buy some dry food.

The old woman from the house, seeing that the two were strangers, asked somewhat warily, "Why have you two young men come to our village?"

Xiao Si glanced casually at the people in the room and replied, "We're here to take care of something."

The old woman noticed, glanced into the house, and suddenly leaned close to the two men and whispered, "Are you two here to look at and pick up some goods?"

Upon hearing the old woman's words, Xiao Si looked at her and nodded, "I don't know, Auntie..."

The old woman glanced warily into the house and whispered, "How much do you think we should give to that little girl inside?"

Xiao Si and Shi Yi exchanged a glance, then held up their hands to indicate a number.

Then she whispered, "If it's a boy, it'll be this number."

After saying that, he gestured another number.

When the old woman heard that she wanted a boy, she said, "A boy in the belly won't do. If it's a girl, you can add a little more and we'll consider it. The two people who offered you yesterday offered more."

Xiao Si and the other person thought for a moment and shook their heads, "Times have changed."

Seeing that they were unwilling to pay more, the old lady didn't say anything more and packed some steamed buns and pancakes for them.

Xiao Si took the silver and gave her a small piece of silver. "Thanks, let's go look around somewhere else."

When the old woman saw her son helping his wife out, she dared not say anything more.

Xiao Si and Shi Yi were walking along, munching on steamed buns as they went, and they were walking in a rather nonchalant manner.

After walking for a while and seeing that there was no one around, we immediately headed towards the road leading into the mountains.

Upon seeing Mo Dong, immediately inform him of the news.

Mo Dong's expression turned very serious after hearing this. He told them to calm down, as everyone in the village knew that someone was behind this, and they needed to report back to the young master before making a decision.

They were originally waiting here for the person Shuangling mentioned, intending to follow them into the mountains. Unexpectedly, they didn't see them today.

After the two people who went into the mountains came down, the people who had been following them returned and said that the two had only gone into the mountains for a short while before coming down.

The two people who were following them initially thought they had been discovered, but the expressions on the two people's faces did not suggest that they had been discovered.

Mo Dong asked for some more details, and based on the two men's complaints, it seemed they hadn't been discovered.

Finally, Mo Dong led his men into the mountains, heading in the opposite direction from the two men.

After waiting for two days, Murong Xiao, who was in the city, saw that Mo Dong had not returned to report the situation for so long, and worried that something had happened to them, so he sent Mo Xi to check.

However, Moxi saw someone return as soon as he went out.

Moxi quickly led the person to Murong Xiao.

Xiao Si, who had returned, told Murong Xiao about the situation in the village, and also told him what he had seen on the mountain. "Your Highness, Dong Ge went up to investigate last night, but he couldn't enter the cave because there was a formation inside. We could only observe from the entrance. We waited for two days before someone came up the mountain carrying a child."

Murong Xiao asked, "Who is that person carrying the child up the mountain?"

Xiao Si replied, "It's Huang Jiabao, the young master of the Huang family in Huangjia Town, Qingcheng County. I checked and the Huang family is the local tyrant of Huangjia Town. Everyone there is afraid of the Huang family, especially Huang Jiabao. He does all sorts of evil and is a major bully in Huangjia Town."

Moxi asked, "Do the officials know?"

Murong Xiao frowned slightly, then instructed Mo Xi, "Go and find out who the magistrate of Qingcheng County is, and his superiors and subordinates. Don't make a fuss. They can conduct transactions so openly, so the government must have someone protecting them, and it may even involve people in the imperial court."

Moxi's face was extremely serious. "Yes."

Then Murong Xiao instructed Xiao Si, "Go tell Mo Dong to keep watch and not to alert the enemy. I will report to the Emperor and send people to deal with it."

That very day, Murong Xiao secretly went to the palace and told the emperor about it.

The emperor was furious upon hearing this; how could such a thing happen right under the walls of the imperial city?

Just as he was about to send someone to summon the Crown Prince and the Ministry of Justice to the palace to deal with the matter together.

However, Murong Xiao stopped him, saying, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is about to get married. Why not have the Ministry of Justice take people to handle this matter directly?"

Murong Xiao had a premonition that the situation on the mountain was definitely not simple, and the Crown Prince could not be injured at this time.

The Emperor thought for a moment and agreed, "Then let the second prince go."

Murong Xiao had no objection.

When Murong Xiao returned to the palace, he saw Qin Wanyou sitting in the courtyard. He went up to her and asked, "Is Your Highness waiting for me?"

Qin Wanyou stood up and curtsied. "Your Highness, you've had a long day. These are some snacks prepared for you. Please, Your Highness."

Murong Xiao knew that Qin Wanyou must have something to say to him, so he sat down and said, "It smells nice."

Qin Wanyou also sat down, "Then Your Highness, please eat more."

Murong Xiao ate two pieces. "Speak, what is it?"