The next day, the news of Geqiu's mysterious disappearance in Yanyun Tower came out.

Many officials thought that Yanyun Tower was haunted, and they were so frightened that they didn't even dare to approach.

It is even rumored that Geqiu was sucked by a fox spirit and then thrown into the wilderness.

It is not uncommon to have such rumors, after all, Zhan Xinglan's disguised peach blossom lady also disappeared in Yanyun Tower with Geqiu.

The Peach Blossom Lady came out of nowhere, and disappeared without a trace, coupled with her bewitching soul, which is very in line with the character of the fox spirit.

Li Qingchen also lived up to expectations, and secretly took King Qi's dark nest that night.

A total of twenty-six little girls were rescued.

When they were rescued, they wept silently.

Only a little girl was very calm and walked silently in front of Li Qingchen.

"Big brother, did my father ask you to save us?"

Li Qingchen squatted down, put away his cold appearance in the past, and tried his best to look gentle.

"Who is your father?"

"His name is Ding Wei, and he is a blacksmith."

"Are you, Ding Tian?"

Ding Tian nodded.

Some of these little girls are orphans, and some of them were sold in a daze like Ding Tian.

Ling Yuge's subordinates arranged these little girls together in a nunnery outside the city, and it was up to them to decide whether they would go home or stay in the nunnery.

Li Qingchen remembered Zhan Xinglan's instructions and brought Ding Tian back to Qianerzhuang.

Along the way, Ding Tian kept pulling the corner of Li Qingchen's clothes without saying a word.

Li Qingchen turned his head to look at her several times, wanting to speak but didn't know what to say.

After arriving at Qianerzhuang, Li Qingchen placed her in a room next to Zhan Xinglan's room.

"Stay here for a while, and I'll go get you some food and a change of clothes."

Li Qingchen's tone was as soft as possible, for fear of scaring her.

Ding Tian hesitated for a moment, and then silently let go of the hand that was pulling the corner of his clothes.

"Thank you, big brother."

After a stick of incense, Li Qingchen walked into the room with food and new clothes.

saw that Ding Tian was still standing motionless.

"Why don't you sit?"

Li Qingchen wondered.

Ding Tian hung his head crampedly, "I'm dirty, I'm afraid of getting dirty." ”

Li Qingchen suddenly remembered how he looked when he was just rescued by Zhan Xinglan, and he was so cautious, for fear of getting dirty and damaging something.

"From now on, this is your home, don't be so careful."

What Li Qingchen said was exactly what Zhan Xinglan said to him back then.

Ding Tian looked at Li Qingchen gratefully, and a teardrop the size of a bean fell from the corner of his eye.

"Hmm."

After eating, Li Qingchen gave Ding Tian a hot bath to make her feel more comfortable.

Ding Tian looked at the steaming bath tub, turned his head to look at the figure standing outside the door, and tiptoed to untie his clothes, revealing his arms and back full of whip marks.

She suffered a lot in that hellish place.

The slightest disobedience is a violent beating.

The whips were specially made, and the pain of hitting a person was like tearing the flesh apart, but after a few days, the whip marks would disappear naturally.

They are all going to enter Yanyun Tower in the future, and naturally there can be no scars on their bodies.

But these beatings have already formed an indelible scar in their hearts.

An hour later, Ding Tian opened the door in a peach-pink skirt.

Li Qingchen turned around after hearing this.

I didn't expect to wash off the sludge on my face and change into a beautiful dress, Ding Tian was so cute.

The small face was round, and under the neat and clean eyebrows were a pair of large, black and round eyes like grapes.

Her wet hair was still dripping, and she opened her eyes wide and asked, "Big brother, what about my father?" ”

"He'll come to see you in a while."

Li Qingchen said soothingly.

This girl has lived hard enough, he doesn't want her to know the truth about his father being imprisoned for kidnapping the good family's wife, and he doesn't want to ruin the image of her only relative in her heart.

In the next few days, Ding Tian lived in Qianerzhuang.

In order to prevent King Qi from discovering Ding Tian's whereabouts, Li Qingchen never let Ding Tian walk out of the backyard of Qianerzhuang for half a step.

Fortunately, Ding Tian also listened to Li Qingchen's words.

In order to pass the time, she begged Li Qingchen to teach her to read and write.

Life is also comfortable.

Early one morning, Zhan Xinglan entered through the back door of Qianerzhuang with some small sweets and delicate and gorgeous little dresses.

As soon as she arrived at the door of Ding Tian's room, she saw Li Qingchen pacing around the room with a scroll in his hand.

And a petite and cute girl was sitting quietly at the table, writing something with a pen.

I didn't expect Li Qingchen to have such a gentle side.

Zhan Xinglan stood at the door and watched for a while, not wanting to spoil the comfortable and peaceful atmosphere.

"Pavilion Master?"

Li Qingchen saw Zhan Xinglan and hurriedly put down the scroll to help her carry the things in her hand.

Ding Tian also put down the pen very obediently, jumped out of the chair and walked over.

"Ding Tian greets the pavilion master."

Zhan Xinglan was quite surprised, this Ding Tian was really smart and clever.

"Come on, I've never liked red tape, and you don't have to be as conformist as Ah Chen. In the future, Tian'er will call me Sister Xinglan. ”

"Yes."

Ding Tian smiled and there were two small pear vortices, which looked even sweeter.

Zhan Xinglan liked Ding Tian very much when he saw him.

She walked over and took Ding Tian's hand, and with her other hand, she couldn't help but touch Ding Tian's soft little face.

"I heard that Ah Chen said that you like sweets, so I bought you some snacks, come and try them. There are also a few small dresses made to your size, so try them out later when you're done. ”

Ding Tian blinked his big eyes, and his nose suddenly turned red.

She has been displaced with her father since she was a child, and she has lived a hard life of eating the last meal without the next meal.

The world was too sinister, and all she had seen was evil and sin.

These experiences brought great hurt and shock to her at a young age, and she thought that there were no good people in this world anymore.

But God let her meet two people who were so good to her.

Her original world-weary heart seems to have secretly sprouted a small green shoot.

The three of them were seated.

Ding Tian took small bites of the snack.

It's really sweet.

After eating, Ding Tian looked at Zhan Xinglan cautiously.

"Sister Xinglan, when will my father come to see me?"

"It may take a while. Until then, you can stay here with peace of mind, and Brother Qingchen will protect you. ”

Zhan Xinglan touched her head lovingly.

"Hmm."

Ding Tian responded obediently.

"Tian'er, I saw that you were just learning calligraphy, can you give the piece of rice paper you learned to Sister Xinglan?"

"Tian'er doesn't write well, wait for Tian'er to write better, and then give it to Sister Xinglan."

"You already write very well, Sister Xinglan likes it very much."

Ding Tian was a little embarrassed, but it was difficult to excuse himself, so he said:

"It's good that Sister Xinglan doesn't dislike it."

"Don't dislike it, don't dislike it."

Zhan Xinglan folded Ding Tian's neat writing and put it in his arms.

Coming out of Qianerzhuang, she went straight to Jingzhao Mansion.

In prison in Jingzhao Mansion.

Zhan Xinglan took out the piece of rice paper, passed it through the wooden fence and handed it to Ding Wei.

"Tian'er has been rescued, and she is now in a safe place. This is Tian'er's handwriting, although it is crooked, but it is good to be able to write like this in just a few days. ”

"It's, Tian'er wrote."

Ding Wei took it tremblingly, tears gushing out.

This fierce man who was so fierce when he abandoned the armory was filled with bitterness when he saw his daughter's writing.

He recalled that Tian'er had followed him from place to place over the years, and he had followed him to eat the bark of the tree when it was the hardest.

The young Tian'er was very sensible, never complained, and even chewed on the dry bark and said to him with a smile, "It's delicious." ”

Ding Wei hated himself for being incompetent, and he also hated the injustice of heaven.

"Tian'er, it's me who is sorry for her, it's my incompetence as a father that made her suffer so much with me at a young age."

Ding Wei knelt on the ground and cried silently.

Zhan Xinglan's eyes were slightly red when he saw him like this.

In Ding Wei's body, she saw the helplessness of being a father who loved his daughter deeply but was powerless.

"Brother Ding, I will definitely reunite your father and daughter as soon as possible."

The man in the prison had tears in his eyes, and his face full of stubble and vicissitudes of life had removed all his dignity and defense as a man.

In fact, Zhan Xinglan is not completely sure yet.

King Qi is planning to bring down the crown prince, and he has the handle of many officials in the court, if he wants to bring down King Qi in one fell swoop, he must bring the case of Weiwei Temple back to the table.

This matter is widely implicated, and it is not just a personal grudge between Ding Wei and Geqiu.

In the absence of conclusive evidence, Zhan Xinglan will not act rashly.

She had sent Ling Yuge to Geqiu's residence to search for evidence of his collusion with the King of Qi, as well as the deed of sale on which he had forcibly sold Ding Tian.

But Geqiu's mansion has already been looted.

They searched for nothing but a few panicked rats.

As Zhan Xinglan expected, it should be King Qi who took away all the evidence before them.

Now Zhan Xinglan has no other substantial evidence in his hands, except for Ding Wei's father and daughter and Hepingsi, as well as Geqiu, even if he makes a fuss, he can't take advantage of it.

Once they show their faces, Qi Wangyan can keep them alive.

However, although she can't bring down King Qi now, it doesn't mean that she can't do things.

Empress Yue begged Emperor Jing to reduce the period of the prince's confinement from the original three months to one and a half months.

After the crown prince lifted the grounding, he knew that most of the officials under his command were under the control of King Qi, so he must not be indifferent.

A sly smile appeared on Zhan Xinglan's shrewd face.

"I'm looking forward to this kind of dog-eat-dog drama."

On the day of the Shangyuan Festival, the female officials arranged by the palace to go to Shunhua Prison were also on standby.

Inside the Rizheng Palace.

Empress Yue wore a cherry red phoenix crown, showing magnificence and dignity.

"The day after tomorrow is the day when the ladies of each family go to Shunhua Prison, are you all ready?"

In the hall, six women dressed in different colors of female official uniforms stood respectfully.

One of the older women stepped forward and replied:

"Back to Her Royal Highness the Queen, everything is arranged in Shunhuajian, please rest assured."

"You are all the most outstanding people in the six innings, you must do your best to teach all the ladies well."

The six of them said in unison: "The ministers obey the order." ”

"Alright, you guys should step back first."

Empress Yue waved her hand whimsily.

Since the crown prince was grounded and Fu Xuanlin once rose, Empress Yue was always depressed.

She knew in her heart that Emperor Jing would never forget Bai Rongyue's slut.

Even if Bai Rongyue is a water-based poplar woman, Emperor Jing loves her.