Chapter 67: Just out of the tiger's den, into the wolf's mouth
The sun shone through the sack on Yan's face, and the noise and hawkers around her, the sound of babbling axles turning, made her realize that she was in a carriage that was traveling through the city. With his hands and feet tied and a piece of cloth stuffed in his mouth, Yan could only whine in the hope of getting a response. She twisted her body vigorously, as if there was someone next to her, thinking that it might be Mei'er, so she desperately moved closer to that side, hitting her with her body, but she didn't respond. Yan was worried that his daughter had been poisoned, and his heart was even calmer.
"Don't argue, your daughter didn't die, she just fainted." A strange man's words came from outside, Yan was startled at first, and then he breathed a deep sigh of relief as if a big stone in his heart had fallen to the ground. Whoever abducted them was, it doesn't appear to be life-threatening. Looking through the hole in the sack, Yan found that the carriage they were in had only two windows for light, and a man sitting outside the curtain at the front was driving the horse forward, talking something from time to time. The carriage should have passed through a river because Yan heard the sound of running water. There are a total of nine gates of various sizes in the capital, as well as four water gates. The Yutang River, which originates from Yuquan Mountain outside the city, runs through the capital, and one river enters and three rivers exits, forming the upper Yu River, the lower Yu River and the Xiaotang River respectively, which is the most important water source in the capital. No matter which one the Yan clan passed, it showed that they were getting farther and farther away from the Qiu Mansion.
The carriage turned into an alley, stopped, and then several people muttered a few words to the charioteer, and the carriage moved again. Through the sack and curtain, Yan couldn't see it very clearly, as if there was a person wearing a black official uniform. Suddenly, Yan felt the sack around him move, and then there was an even stronger commotion. The whining sound showed that Qiu Mei was also gagged, and the little girl must have been scared to death in this environment. Yan couldn't do anything but try to get closer to the sack containing Qiu Mei, she wanted to use her own actions to tell her daughter not to be afraid, her mother was here.
With a "bang", Yan felt that the door was opened, and then someone lifted them out of the carriage, and during this time, neither of them struggled anymore. I don't know why, Yan's heart no longer has the initial fear, maybe she lied to herself, she actually had the idea that these people were here to save them.
Finally, the sack containing the Yan clan was untied, and the first thing that caught the eye was the exquisite room. Yan was carried by some people to a delicately and elegantly furnished room, and a few servants around her loosened her ties, took off the gag cloth and went out. Looking around the house, but only his daughter was missing, Yan was a little anxious, and hurriedly shouted to the little servants to ask about her daughter's whereabouts, but these people ignored her as if they hadn't heard. She wanted to rush out, but two big men with knives outside the door blocked the way, and Yan asked them, but they didn't answer, and forced her back into the house and locked the door.
"Mei'erγ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ» Mei'er, where are you?" Yan's search for a woman is anxious, and now she is trapped in the house, and the last thing she can do is to open her throat and shout. I didn't respond to the shouting for a long time, and gradually I got tired of shouting, and my strength was exhausted. Qiu Mei's situation made Yan very worried, and there was also the whereabouts of the book Qiu Mei was carrying, and she couldn't do anything at the moment.
When Shang Wei and the people of Wuyu Mansion turned the Qiu Mansion upside down, the two most important people, Qiu Sheng's wife Yan and their daughter Qiu Mei, were nowhere to be found. Looking at the people of the Qiu Mansion who were driven to the courtyard, Shang Wei frowned and asked the people around him, "Are all the people here?" β
"Yes, Senho-sama." The man replied.
With a snap, a firm slap was slapped on the man's face.
"Bastard, where are Qiu Sheng's wife and daughter? The most important people were not found. Shang Wei pointed to the people in the courtyard and asked. The man was slapped, covered his face with his hands, and watched the people all over the yard squeak and whimper.
"Look for it again. Also, did you find anything suspicious in the house? "The purpose of this raid on the Qiu Mansion is to find what the regent was looking for.
Shang Wei looked at the people in the courtyard, huddled together resignedly, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and his heart was angry and funny. In the past, he was just a master of Prince Qian's mansion, and if the regent lost power, he would just end up like this. When you want to be so unbearable, your fate will be tied to these masters. He Shangwei saw this clearly, and only then decided to break out of his own world, no longer have to tie his life to others, his life is his own, and no one can take it. The more he looked at these subordinates of the hated mansion, the more angry Shang Wei became, turned his face and waved his hand, signaling the captains to take them back to the mansion.
A series of hurried footsteps came from the end of the corridor not far away, and the lieutenants in charge of raiding the Qiu Mansion ran over to report an important clue, and found a secret compartment in the study of the mansion. Shang Wei was overjoyed, and the captain who ordered the report to lead the way and walked quickly to check.
The baffle on the hidden compartment was ajar, and when I took it by hand, it was empty. Shang Wei saw it in his eyes, and asked the captain who found the secret grid: "When you found this dark grid, there was something in it. β
"When I went back to Lord Qianhu, I found that the secret grid was covered up like this, and I didn't find anything inside, but I found a handkerchief on the floor of the study that had not been embroidered." The man who returned handed him a handkerchief. Shang Wei frowned again, his eyes rolled, and he knew that Qiu Sheng's wife or daughter had run away with them, and he wanted to block their escape as soon as possible. After a few words, he hurried back to Wuyu Mansion and found Heyuan Province to close the nine gates and four roads of the capital.
"And the adults, and where are the adults?" Shang Wei came back from Qiufu and rushed directly to the inner hall, and some of the captains and servants in the inner hall couldn't stop him.
"The eight thousand household leaders in Wuyu Mansion belong to you Shangwei."
"Yes, fourth brother, he is the person next to the regent, so naturally it is different."
Two people dressed in very similar official uniforms happened to come out of the inner hall, one of them holding a steel knife in front, and the other holding a knife in front of his chest and behind him, just in front of Shang Wei. In the former, Su Jian, the leader of the thousand households of the Tiger Camp, and Su Gu, the leader of the thousand households of the Wolf Howling Camp, are brothers of the same sect.
Shang Wei relied on the background of the regent to enter the Wuyu Mansion, and he was considered an outsider, and he had no contact with several other thousand households, so he naturally didn't want to deal with these two people.
"I have something important to report to you, get out of the way." With a word, Su Jian and Su Gu actually got out of the way.
"And the adults know that you will be looking for him, and I will wait for you inside for a while." Su Jian said.