He was hacked to death! Reborn and married to the Grand Secretary, his family wept with regret.

At Yan Juzhi's command, the soldiers dared not delay any longer and made a move to arrest Luo Qingfan.

Luo Qingfan shook her head, her smile strangely dazzling. She stared at Yan Juzhi's face, the corners of her mouth curling up, and said loudly, "It's useless, you can't catch me!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a barrage of arrows came hurtling through the air, revealing that an ambush had been set up all around them.

It seems that the opponent is slightly stronger than I expected.

Yan Juzhi hurriedly retreated, not forgetting to shield An Wuyang with his body, pulling her into his robe to protect her from the arrows coming from all sides.

Fortunately, the enemy did not linger in the fight; after exhausting their arrows, they did not launch a second attack.

But when they came to their senses, they found that Luo Qingfan had disappeared without a trace.

Luo Qingfan fled, but did not take Li Huai Ren with him.

Yan Juzhi walked slowly to Yan Juzhi's side and stepped on his face without any mercy.

"waste!"

Seeing Li Huai Ren trembling in pain, he looked at An Wu Yang with a pleading expression, but An Wu Yang ignored him.

Wen Jingnian, on the other hand, seemed lost in thought as he gazed in the direction Luo Qingfan had left.

"Lord Yan, have our men caught up?"

After a long while, Wen Jingnian's gentle yet elegant voice rang out. His eyes shone with a hint of excitement, and there was no trace of the previous feeling of secretly competing with Yan Juzhi.

"Is Lord Wen still worried?"

Yan Juzhi clenched his fist and stood side by side with Wen Jingnian.

Now, the two of them no longer looked as tense as before.

After all, the open and covert struggles they had just engaged in in front of Luo Qingfan were partly an act.

Luo Qingfan is extremely arrogant and vain. She often uses the affection the men around her have for her to belittle other women.

If Luo Qingfan were to see a man ignoring her while showing special treatment to An Wuyang, she would surely be enraged and lose her temper.

If she were to take a self-destructive action, the forces lurking in the shadows would surely intervene decisively to prevent Luo Qingfan from acting recklessly.

In this way, Yan Juzhi's people could find clues.

As expected, everything went exactly as they predicted, and Luo Qingfan took the bait.

The siege of Ning County tonight is not something that only the remnants of the Python King could accomplish; it is likely that Luo Xiang's forces were also involved.

Next, An Wuyang and the others had to wait for news.

At this moment, An Wuyang had changed her previous awkward position between the two men. She stepped to Li Huai Ren's side and kicked him in the lower back.

Li Huai-ren felt the pain again, but could only groan silently.

"What are you all standing there for? Take him away!"

At Yan Juzhi's command, the soldiers dragged Li Huai Ren by the back of his legs, like a dead dog, toward the water prison.

"I'm alright... my dear..."

The nearly dying Li Huai-ren sensed danger. He reached out to touch An Wu-yang, his eyes filled with pleading.

"Save me...help me..."

An Wuyang turned his head away. Everything that had happened was Li Huai Ren's own fault. An Wuyang thought to himself that he had already put the greater good first by not killing him in the chaos, and that he was thinking of the court and the country.

Otherwise, given An Wuyang's hatred for Li Huai Ren, not killing him would be considered merciful.

After dealing with Li Huai-ren, the group found a room to rest.

A servant poured An Wuyang a cup of rosehip tea, but An Wuyang only took a few sips and didn't have much time to savor it.

A moment later, someone knocked on the door.

A man in black knelt down and reported: "Reporting to the city lord, reporting to the lord, there are traces of Luo Xiang's people in the courtyard of a farmhouse in the north of the city."

found it!

An Wuyang's heart skipped a beat. She wanted to capture Luo Xiang's men alive and interrogate them herself to find out the whereabouts of her mother!

……

After being rescued by several masked men, Luo Qingfan was quickly carried to a farm.

The door opened, and a middle-aged man, dressed in coarse cloth but still with a robust build, stood with his back to him.

Hearing the door open, the man said in a deep voice, "You wicked child, kneel down!"

Luo Qingfan's eyes instantly filled with tears, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.

"Father!"

Luo Qingfan murmured, as if she had suffered countless grievances, her voice trembling with tears.

"You wicked girl, how dare you cry?"

"Look at the mess you've made! The people of Ning County are furious. We don't even have enough troops to begin with. How are we going to take Ning County?"

The man slowly turned around, revealing a face that exuded authority without anger.

He stared directly at Luo Qingfan and shouted again, "You still dare not kneel?"

Luo Qingfan's body trembled slightly. Although she always prided herself on kneeling to heaven, earth, and her parents, she couldn't help but kneel down in the face of Luo Xiang's powerful pressure.

In that one encounter, Luo Qingfan understood her situation; Luo Xiang had no maternal affection for her.

In this way, Luo Qingfan showed his shrewdness.

"Father, please calm down, I have another plan."

"If it succeeds, Father will not only gain the support of all the people in Ning County, but he will also find out the whereabouts of the thief. Then we..."

Luo Qingfan made a throat-slitting gesture!