Cheng Qian was stunned for a moment, then said excitedly, "Your Highness, that's the voice of that brave little girl! ...Oh, Your Highness, I'm getting more and more curious. Please, let me go and see what's going on!"

Xin Yibei said coldly, "Since you're so curious and gossipy, you should go to the Ministry of Justice's prison and see if you can help them solve some old cases."

Cheng Qian scratched his head: "Well, it's not that it's not possible?"

Xin Yibei looked at Cheng Qian expressionlessly.

"roll."

Cheng Qian replied promptly, "Alright, I'll be off right away!"

With that, Cheng Qian rolled towards the courtyard where several abducted girls were being housed.

Xin Yibei: "..."

He stood there, coldly watching Cheng Qian's gleeful "roll away" figure for a while, before finally lifting his leg and walking in the direction Cheng Qian had "rolled away."

……

Meanwhile, in the courtyard, because Song Pan'er's screams for help were so pitiful, one or two girls whose families had not yet come looking for her quietly opened the door and looked over.

Song Yanyan scolded Song Pan'er: "Don't shout!"

Only then did he open the door and look at the old woman across the threshold.

Outside the door, the old woman said helplessly, "Young lady, what's all this noise coming from your room..."

Before she could finish speaking, Song Pan'er came rolling and crawling from the ground, crying, and grabbed the old woman's leg: "Granny, help me! This heartless mother and daughter are going to beat me to death!"

The old woman said helplessly, "Young lady, please get up and talk things out..."

Song Pan'er's cries grew even louder: "No, Granny, you must have these heartless mother and daughter arrested! They're so arrogant even in government offices; if they leave, they might beat me to death!"

Cheng Qian ran incredibly fast. Before he even entered the yard, he shouted, "Wait, why would anyone hit you for no reason?"

Everyone was taken aback.

Then a man dressed in a smart blue shirt strode into the courtyard, his eyes burning.

Song Yanyan was stunned for a moment.

Surprisingly, she seemed to vaguely recognize this man.

It seems to be the one who pulled her out of the crate that day?

Song Pan'er was dumbfounded. She was unconscious when she was rescued, so she had never seen this man before, let alone knew where he came from.

The person who arrived was Cheng Qian, who had rushed over to see what was going on.

Cheng Qian urged, "Tell me, why did she hit you for no reason?"

Song Pan'er was somewhat embarrassed and angry: "Who are you!"

Song Yanyan turned to Tian Denghua and said, "Mother, this is the one who rescued us from the kidnappers that day."

Song Pan'er was stunned for a moment.

Upon hearing this, Tian Denghua stepped forward and knelt down before Cheng Qian with a thud, bowing deeply and saying, "Thank you, benefactor."

Cheng Qian's eyelids twitched heavily.

He was about to rush to help the woman up when he saw Song Yanyan also step forward, and it seemed she was about to kneel before him as well.

Cheng Qian grabbed Song Yanyan's arm as she was about to kneel down, saying, "No, no, no, I only helped with the physical labor; someone else saved you."

As he spoke, he supported Song Yanyan with one hand and easily lifted Tian Denghua off the ground with the other.

Tian Denghua looked somewhat bewildered: "Who is the benefactor talking about?"

Cheng Qian thought for a moment. His Highness had never liked to show his face in public, nor did he like to be thanked like this. He simply said, "Anyway, you know it wasn't me. Besides, if we're really talking about it, they were able to be rescued thanks to your daughter."

Thinking of this, Cheng Qian looked at Song Pan'er again. Her cheeks were swollen, and there were shoe prints on her body from being kicked.

Cheng Qian glanced at Song Pan'er and deduced from the size of the handprint on her cheek and the shoe print on her body that the person who hit and kicked her must have been her mother, who had knelt down and performed a grand salute to him as soon as she came up.

Oops.

Cheng Qian was filled with awe.

That's quite a strong grip!

"You still haven't told me why they wanted to kill you, since you kept screaming for help?" Cheng Qian couldn't contain his curiosity and asked Song Pan'er again.

Song Pan'er stammered and couldn't say anything.

At this moment, several gazes in the courtyard fell on Song Pan'er.

Xin Yibei has also arrived.

He was indeed as Cheng Qian said, and he didn't like to show his face in public.

He didn't enter the courtyard, but stood behind the gate, coldly watching Cheng Qian go crazy.

"What's wrong? Tell me," Cheng Qian urged again when he saw Song Pan'er stammering.

Song Pan'er changed the subject, covering her face: "Look at all these injuries on my body, they beat me up. I barely escaped from human traffickers, and I almost died at the hands of this vicious mother and daughter..."

Song Yanyan sneered, "Alright, I was just too busy before to argue with you. Did you really think I didn't have a mouth and wouldn't tell you what you were doing?"

Upon hearing Song Yanyan's words, Cheng Qian immediately looked over.

He hadn't really looked at the girl closely before. His impression of Song Yanyan was that of a girl with messy hair and a deathly pale face, who could be so ruthless as to almost cut her own hands to pieces.

Looking at her now, I noticed that the little girl, with her hair neatly combed and her face looking healthier, is truly beautiful.

Her eyes were round, big, and very bright. They were probably red from crying for a long time. But the redness actually made her skin look less pale and her complexion much better than yesterday.

“Then you tell me,” Cheng Qian said immediately.

Song Yanyan curtsied to Cheng Qian.

She knew perfectly well that even though Cheng Qian wasn't the mastermind, he had still genuinely rescued her from human traffickers.

This is my benefactor!

“Well, her name is Song Pan’er, and she’s my cousin.” Song Yanyan’s tongue injury hadn’t healed, and her voice was slightly hoarse from being forced to take medicine and being given injections. “She ran away from home and was kidnapped. Not wanting to be the only one kidnapped, she ‘recommended’ me to the kidnappers. Then, I was kidnapped. My mother and I were furious, so we beat her up.”

A fire burned in Song Yanyan's eyes, "Shouldn't she have been beaten up!"

The girls who have been abducted all know what tragic fate awaits them once they are taken away by traffickers.

They deeply sympathized with Tian Denghua and Song Yanyan's anger.

They all abandoned any sympathy they had for Song Pan'er and spat in her direction!

Cheng Qian, however, said seriously, "I think what you did was wrong."

Song Yanyan didn't say anything.

Song Pan'er looked over with surprise and delight, as if she had grasped a lifeline.

After all, the man in front of her, dressed like a martial arts expert, was probably the only one in the entire room who spoke up for her.

“My benefactor…” Song Pan’er was moved to tears.

Cheng Qian said in a serious tone, "Conspiring with human traffickers to abduct women and children is considered accomplice under the law, and should be punished by beheading. You only beat her up, which is too lenient. Even if you directly killed her, she would be exempt from punishment under the law."

Upon hearing Cheng Qian's words, Song Pan'er turned pale and staggered back several steps!

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