Inside the prison, several bearers who had been detained for several days were already in a state of depression...

Although he was not given a severe sentence, he was still badly beaten.

Meng Jifei sat on a chair and asked expressionlessly, "Where did Madam Jiang get off the sedan chair?"

A shadow guard raised a steel whip and lashed it out. Several sedan bearers screamed loudly and groaned intermittently, "In... in... Hongbin Building..."

"Please spare my life, sir... I really don't know anything..."

Meng Jifei asked again: "But are there any others?"

"Yes... there was a young man waiting at the door. The two seemed to be old acquaintances. They walked into the restaurant together..."

"Do you remember what that person looked like?"

"He's about twenty years old... He looks clean, and at first glance he looks like the son of an official..."

The Shadow Guard raised the steel whip and with a "swish" sound, he whipped it hard again!

Amid the screams of ghosts and wolves howling, there were voices begging for mercy: "This is absolutely true! I dare not lie!"

Meng Jifei looked at Jiang Yaonian who was standing aside and said, "I have sent someone to the restaurant with the young lady's image to ask. The waiter there said that he did see her and a man."

Jiang Yaonian listened silently...

After a moment, he stood up and said, "Take the portraits of Miao Wuchen, Miao Wuhen, Miao Shengning, and Minister Li's youngest son to the restaurant to ask who went with her!"

According to Jiang Yaonian's judgment, Qinghe only knows a limited number of young men, and that young man is most likely one of these people!

Not long after he returned home, the Shadow Guard sent someone to deliver a message saying that according to the identification of the restaurant waiter, the young man who went to the restaurant with Qinghe was none other than Li Jian, the second son of Minister Li!

Jiang Yaonian was taking a hot spring bath in Yanxue Hall at that time.

In the white mist, he was lost in thought with a gloomy face...

Recalling the grief and pain when Qinghe quarreled with him, Jiang Yaonian couldn't help but close his eyes tiredly!

He loved her so much, but she completely broke up with him because of his past relationship experience!

On the day when they had an argument, he actually thought about telling her the whole truth...but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.

This matter not only concerns Jiang Jianian's true identity, but also the fate of the four major families and the Jiang family. It must not be leaked...

He was confident that after Qinghe calmed down, the two of them would be able to reconcile, so after hesitating for a moment, he did not say anything.

Now it seems that he was wrong...

He shouldn't have gone out of town alone, leaving her alone in the mansion, thus giving the bad guys an opportunity to take advantage of her...

The guard outside reported back, "Sir, Lord Meng sent someone to say that the restaurant recognized the man who went with the young lady, and it was none other than Li Jian, the second son of the Li family!"

When Jiang Yaonian heard this, he immediately opened his eyes!

He picked up a bathrobe and wrapped himself up, then walked to the door and said to the guard, "Have someone take a few more portraits of women to the restaurant and have the waiters identify them to see if the woman they saw that day was the young lady!"

"Yes." The guard turned and left.

At midnight, when Jiang Yaonian was about to go to bed, the Shadow Guard came back and said, "Mr. Jiang, according to the restaurant waiter's identification, the person who went there that day was the young lady!"

Jiang Yaonian was stunned for a long time when he heard this, and he couldn't believe this result...

How could Qinghe meet Li Jian? Could this matter be related to Jingying?

After he changed his clothes, he ordered, "Bring someone with me to the Li Mansion now!"

"Yes!"

……

In the middle of the night, a team of sturdy guards in distinctive armor quietly surrounded the Li family.

Someone went up and knocked on the door.

After a while, the servant came to the door of the upper room in panic and shouted, "Master, it's bad! Someone wants to see you now!"

Li Gang, who had already fallen asleep, was awakened and asked impatiently, "Who is it?"

"You'll know if you go out and take a look. They're here to look for the Second Young Master."

"Looking for Jianer?" Li Gang was stunned after hearing this. What trouble had this kid gotten into outside again?

Li Gang hurriedly put on his clothes and trotted to the gate, only to be stunned!

Under the illumination of hundreds of torches, a tall, handsome and upright man asked him coldly, "Master Li, is your son home now?"

Li Gang said cautiously: "Mr. Jiang, what do you want from me..."

Jiang Yaonian did not answer him, but waved his hand gently, and the hundreds of guards rushed into the Li Mansion in an instant...

Li Gang was so frightened that he said in a trembling voice with a panicked look on his face: "Mr. Jiang, I don't know what mistake my son made. Please tell me..."

Jiang Yaonian looked at him expressionlessly without saying a word.

After the guards entered, they searched each room with torches, and finally came to the courtyard where Fu Suna lived in the back house.

When Fu Suna heard that this group of people were looking for her son, she hurriedly came to the gate with her maid and said to Li Gang: "Master, Jian'er said he had something to go out today, and he hasn't come back yet..."

Li Gang was shocked and asked anxiously, "Where did he go?"

"He didn't say it at the time. I don't know where he went..."

Li Gang was so anxious that he stamped his feet and cursed: "Alas! This unfilial son, instead of studying hard at home, he just keeps getting into trouble outside all day long!"

Fu Suna hurriedly asked in panic, "Master, what happened to Jian'er?"

Li Gang sighed deeply and ignored her!

A while ago, someone introduced Li Jian to a marriage. The other party was the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the city. The girl's family was quite satisfied with the handsome and polite Li Jian, and promised that after the two got married, they would be willing to donate money to give him an official position.

The Li family was very happy after hearing the news!

Especially Li Gang and Li Yue, father and son, who were eager to find a rich relative!

Unexpectedly, Li Jian himself was not very enthusiastic, which made Li Gang so angry that he scolded him with a sullen face!

He knew that his proud youngest son still could not forget Princess Jingying, but what was the use? If she looked down on you, it would be useless no matter how infatuated you were!

He asked his concubine Fu Sunado to persuade his son not to be too ambitious and to think about things that are out of reach!

In the end, he had no idea what terrible disaster he had caused outside, causing the Jiang family to search his house and arrest him in the middle of the night!

The guards came out one after another and replied to Jiang Yaonian: "Sir, no one was found inside!"

Jiang Yaonian's face gradually turned pale, and he said in a cold voice: "Master Li, when your son comes back, please ask him to go to Yingtian Mansion!"

Li Gang nodded and agreed quickly: "Yes! Yes! Please rest assured, Mr. Jiang, I will personally escort my son back when he comes back!"

Although he didn't know what happened specifically, judging from the massive search tonight, that brat must have caused a big disaster outside! Otherwise, Jiang Yaonian would never personally bring people to search the mansion in the middle of the night!

……

Jiang Mansion.

After getting off the carriage in front of the second gate, Jiang Yaonian did not return to the study, but went all the way to Chuping Villa.

At this time, the whole yard was silent and dark, and the maids and old women were all sleeping in the side rooms.

Jiang Yaonian quietly walked into the bedroom, turned on the light, and sat down beside the bed.

He looked around at everything familiar in the room, and couldn't help but feel a surge of sadness and grief in his heart...

Where is that little girl now? Is she suffering? Is she being tortured?

Who kidnapped her?

Why haven't you come to ask for the ransom yet?

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