Only after being reborn did I realize that I was the white moonlight of a powerful minister.

Yunzhi and Ye Chengle have been gone for an hour. Ye Wanning and Chunxi have searched the surrounding area, but still haven't found them.

"How could this happen?" Ye Wanning had already asked the innkeepers to help search.

The waiter suggested, "Madam, you should report this to the authorities. There are many kidnappers in the city; your son might have been taken away by one. Your son is so delicate and pretty; he's definitely been taken away."

Then someone else said, "What's the use of reporting to the authorities? The county magistrate is in cahoots with those kidnappers. They've taken bribes, and regardless of right or wrong, they'll have the person who reported to the authorities beaten twenty times. With your frail body, what can you possibly do?"

Let alone twenty strokes, even five strokes would be too much for Ye Wanning.

But at this point, if we don't report it to the authorities, who else can we turn to for help?

If we hadn't been in such a hurry to move, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened.

Ye Wanning clutched the jade pendant in her hand. Was it really going to come to this?

Chunxi cried anxiously, "Madam, let's report this to the authorities! I'll accept the twenty strokes of the cane. Otherwise, we have no one else to help us!"

Ye Wanning took a deep breath. Now that things had come to this, there was no way she could hide it anymore. "Chunxi, come with me to the money exchange."

When Princess Longyu gave her the jade pendant, she said that if there was anything she couldn't do, she should go to Yunfeng Money Shop.

At this point, the safety of Le Ge'er and Yunzhi was the most important thing, so Ye Wanning could only take the jade pendant and go to Yunfeng Money Shop.

She rushed to the money exchange, found the manager, and took out the jade pendant. The manager only glanced at it before asking her what trouble she had encountered.

“That man is right. The local magistrate is a corrupt official who is rich but heartless. If you report him to the authorities, you will only lose everything.” The shopkeeper had already received the news that as long as he saw the jade pendant, he should not ask who the person was, but just listen to what the person said and help them achieve their goals. “Don’t worry, it’s not long now. The person must be in the city. I will send someone to find the slave trader in the city right away.”

They run a money exchange in the city and have connections with both the legitimate and criminal worlds. The kidnappers kidnap people for money, and they'll just give them a little more.

The shopkeeper told Ye Wanning to calm down, "Don't worry, the human traffickers here wouldn't dare to turn against us."

Ye Wanning asked, "Who exactly is protecting them? This kind of thing is commonplace. How can the people live and work in peace and contentment?"

"This matter is very complicated. The local magistrate has dealings with Prince Hui, as you should know, but Prince Hui has been restless these past few years. After all, Prince Hui is the emperor's son, and the officials in the surrounding area have to give him some face. Even if this is true, everyone will suppress it." The shopkeeper sighed. "To achieve great things, you need money. In the past three years, the people in this area have indeed suffered terribly."

"He's really gone too far!" Ye Wanning thought back to her days in the capital. Prince Hui was also very arrogant, which is why he raised such a spoiled daughter as Zhaoyun.

She now only hopes that Yunzhi and Lege are alright, otherwise she will definitely not let those slave traders off the hook.

"Manager, let me ask you, if you were to face those human traffickers, would you have a chance of winning?" Ye Wanning asked with a stern face.

The shopkeeper's eyes darted around. "If we put all our strength into this money exchange, taking them down is a piece of cake. But..." After a moment's thought, the shopkeeper remembered his master's instructions. "However, whatever you want to do, we will fully cooperate. You don't need to consider the consequences."

They might win in a head-on confrontation, but their money exchange would be exposed. Planting spies in someone else's territory is no easy task.

Ye Wanning took a deep breath, "I'm sorry about this. I hope it won't escalate to the point of mutual destruction."

Meanwhile, the slave trader learned that the people from Yunfeng Money House had been kidnapped and were demanding exorbitant prices, asking for five hundred taels of silver per person.

Li Ermao looked at the people from Yunfeng Money Shop with a provocative smile, "You guys are all in the money shop business, a thousand taels of silver should be easy for you, right?"

The money exchange clerk said it was fine, saving lives was the priority, a thousand taels it was.

As a result, seeing that the other party readily agreed, Li Ermao raised the price on the spot, saying, "I've changed my mind, I want two thousand taels."

“Li Ermao, I can give you these two thousand taels, but you need to think carefully about whether you want to raise the price. You have people protecting you, but do you really want to go against us? We all believe in making money through harmony. We still need to make a living in the same area in the future. I'm still speaking nicely now because of the power behind you. Let's not make things too ugly.”

Anyone who can run a money exchange in a place like this for so long must have some skills. Li Ermao thought for a moment, "Two thousand it is, cash on delivery!"

"Alright, here's the bank note. Please bring the person out." The bank clerk handed over the bank note.

Li Ermao counted them and sent someone to find someone. After a while, the person he sent rushed back in a panic and said that the woman had hit a beam!

"What are you doing? How could this happen?" Li Ermao didn't want to lose the silver notes he had in his hands. After hearing the servant whisper a few words in his ear, he slapped him. "Who told you to touch women? If you can't control your crotches, I'll cut them off for you!"

"Brother, we didn't make a move. She's too fierce! We really didn't make a move; we just thought she was pretty."

Li Ermao glared at him, then went to check on the person himself. Fortunately, the person was still alive, so he couldn't possibly refund the money. He told the money shop clerk to just take the person back with him. "Here he is, take him or leave him."

Saving lives was the most important thing at this moment, so the men didn't dare to delay. They carried the girl onto the carriage and decided to go back first. As for settling accounts, they would first have to ask a doctor to examine the girl.