Mind Reading: The villain wins after hearing the princess's inner voice

"Go back and tell the master that there are unusual movements in the palace. That matter will be temporarily stopped."

"Okay, is there any news you want me to bring to the master?" Two figures were talking in the room in the darkness.

"Noble Concubine Huo has been active in the cold palace recently. It seems that she is contacting someone and wants to get the Fourth Prince out of the clan residence."

The person who spoke had a hoarse voice that sounded a bit harsh. If Qingzhu were here, he would definitely be able to recognize this person's voice.

"Okay, you should also be careful in the palace. I will go back and report to the master."

A figure pushed the door open first, left the room, and disappeared into the yard.

Not long after, another figure appeared in the yard.

However, this person was standing in the yard, looking up at the moon in the sky, with a very scary expression on his face.

If he waited a little longer, he could get his revenge.

At the same time, in the General's Mansion.

Tao Yuwei hasn't slept yet.

She was connecting with the consciousness of the bats in the city.

【Little girl, I have some bad news for you, do you want to listen? 】

A flock of black bats circled several times around the top of her hand-held lantern.

[Of course I want to listen. Tell me what the bad news is so I can be prepared.]

While Tao Yuwei was having dinner with her family, she received a letter from her elder brother who was far away at the border.

Her eldest brother, Tao Zipeng, is nineteen years old this year and is already a young general in the northern border.

He wrote a letter to everyone in his family.

He told her in the letter that he would be able to come back to visit his family in three months.

Tao Yuwei's heart skipped a beat when she thought of her brother's ending.

Last time, Second Aunt proposed to the old woman that her brother should marry her niece, but her mother blocked her idea under the banner of the Empress Dowager. As long as she was around, no one from the second house would be allowed to set their sights on her eldest brother again.

[There is a large compound near Xiajia Temple in the south city where people are bought and sold. Almost all of the people there are children, with a few adults as well.]

[They gathered the deceived people together and usually moved at night, using vehicles to take them out of the capital overnight and sell them to other places.]

After hearing this, Tao Yuwei's delicate little face was filled with murderous intent.

Regardless of the era, human trafficking is a heinous crime.

Now that she knows about this, there is no reason for her to stand idly by.

She simply extinguished the lantern and found Tieshan, his father's subordinate, to explain the reason.

She only said that the person she was looking for, Cui Ming, seemed to have been cheated after being redeemed by someone.

She was going to investigate with the human traffickers to find Cui Ming's whereabouts.

Regarding Cui Ming's matter, she had already found an excuse to get back to Minglu when she was having dinner with her father in the evening. The whole family knew the importance of Cui Ming.

It’s a pity that none of the people sent out by the General’s Mansion to find the whereabouts of Cui Ming.

After hearing this, Tieshan took it very seriously. He took two people with him to investigate, but was stopped by Tao Yuwei.

"Uncle Tieshan, I want to go with you."

How could it be that she told him the news, but he didn't take her with him?

Tieshan reluctantly advised, "Princess, since those people are doing such shameful things, it must be very dangerous, so you should not follow them."

Tao Yuwei felt that his words were a little unpleasant to the ear.

It seemed like if she went along, she would be a burden. After all, she was a capable fighter, not a weak lady who knew nothing.

"Uncle Tieshan, I will go with you to help you. If you encounter danger, I will not cause any trouble for you."

When Tieshan heard her use the catchphrase "this princess", he knew she was angry.

In this general's mansion that protects the country, this little ancestor is the most difficult to deal with.

Thinking that she had studied martial arts with General Weiyuan for several years, he nodded and agreed to her request.

They took advantage of the night and rushed to Xiajia Temple in the south of the city.

There is no curfew in the city, and except for the busy areas, other places are also pitch black.

It took them more than half an hour to finally arrive at the location the bat told her.

Not far from Xiajia Temple, a beam of fire more than one meter high emerged from a large courtyard.

Standing outside the yard, you can hear voices inside.

"Uncle Tieshan, this is exactly what I'm talking about. We have to find a way to go into the courtyard and find out what's going on."

Tao Yuwei pointed at the yard and said coldly.

Taking advantage of the light coming out of the courtyard, Tieshan gestured to the two guards beside him.

A breeze passed by and the two figures disappeared.

Not long after, a figure jumped over the wall from inside and landed in front of them.

"Princess, the courtyard is full of carriages. They are forcing those people to line up and get on the carriages. When every carriage in the courtyard is full of people, they will take these people out of the capital."

The guard reported in a very low voice.

"How many carriages are there?"

Tao Yuwei frowned, she hated the actions of these human traffickers to the extreme.

"Princess, there are seven carriages in total."

A carriage can carry about ten people if they are crowded together, so they can carry nearly a hundred people on this trip.

These damn human traffickers are able to make such a thriving business in the capital, they must have powerful backers behind them.

It is easy to eradicate these parasites, but the most difficult thing is how to find out the masters behind them.

"We will split into two groups. You will follow their carriages out of the city and find out where they are transporting the people. By the way, find out if there is a man named Cui Ming among these people.

After you leave the city, remember to leave signals along the way. Tomorrow, remember to send a pigeon to pass on the message to me. Uncle Tieshan will be responsible for finding out their movements in the capital."

The guard bowed in response, then jumped into the wall again to meet the person inside.

Tieshan was also sent out.

Without wasting any time, Tao Yuwei immediately followed a man who had just come out of a slum and headed somewhere else.

The two of them had already agreed that after he came back from tracking the people, he would go back home with Tao Yuwei.

Tao Yuwei was not idle either. She waited for a person to hide in the dark alley. After the seven carriages full of people in the slum had all left the yard, she jumped into the yard swiftly.

Perhaps because a group of people had just been transported away, the courtyard was very quiet at this time.

Tao Yuwei bent down and trotted to the window of the main house in the courtyard, and heard several people drinking inside.

With her kung fu, it would be no problem for her to knock down the people inside, but she alerted the enemy.

It would be better if someone comes out first, kidnaps someone without anyone noticing, and takes him for interrogation. We will definitely be able to find out something.

Tao Yuwei thought about it and decided to wait patiently for the opportunity outside.

An hour later, a man staggered out to use the toilet, and Tao Yuwei attacked him from behind.

At this moment, a tall figure jumped down from the wall outside. Looking at the figure, Tao Yuwei recognized it as Tieshan.

She crouched and walked forward. In the darkness, they communicated with hand gestures. Tieshan followed her to the man who had fainted on the ground, carried him on his back, and they quickly left the compound.

After walking quickly all the way, they finally brought people to a small courtyard in the city.

This is one of Wu's dowry courtyards, and there are people specifically responsible for taking care of it. Tao Yuwei temporarily arranged the abducted people here.

Tieshan took the man to the woodshed. He was very good at tying people up.

He tied the man up very tightly with thick hemp rope. After doing all this, he turned around and said to Tao Yuwei, "Princess, it's getting late. Why don't you rest in the yard and talk about it after dawn."

As for the information he obtained from tracking that person, it would not be too late to report it tomorrow.

Tao Yuwei was indeed very sleepy. She nodded in agreement, "Okay, let's arrange it this way!"

She raised her head, yawned, and went to rest.

The two guards were not as calm as Tao Yuwei and the others.

They secretly followed the seven horse-drawn carriages carrying people all the way through the South Gate and out of the capital.

Normally, the city gates should be closed at night unless there are special circumstances.

But I saw the person sitting in the first carriage took something and showed it to the soldier guarding the city gate. After the soldier looked at it, he immediately let him go.

Being able to obtain the pass that allows them to leave the capital freely at night shows that the masters behind these people have very strong backgrounds.

The two guards quietly took note of this scene.

Both of them were good at martial arts, but for safety reasons, the two guards discussed and divided the work.

Zhang Hu hid under one of the seven carriages and followed closely all the way.

Liu Tao used his lightness skills and reconnaissance abilities to observe the movements of the carriages from a distance.

And they left special marks along the way to make it easier for Tao Yuwei and the others to find them.

They followed the carriage along like this for most of the night.

At this time Liu Tao discovered that these carriages suddenly turned a corner and changed direction. They no longer went south, but headed towards Lingzhou.

Lingzhou, located in the northwest of the Great Zhou, is the fief of your Majesty's uncle, King Junshan Xiao Long.

There is a part of land there that is close to the territory of the northern barbarians.

The entire Lingzhou area is sparsely populated, has a vast territory, suffers from perennial drought, and is extremely short of water.

His heart suddenly skipped a beat and his scalp went numb for no apparent reason.

Lingzhou is the world of King Junshan. I wonder if this trip can successfully complete the task assigned by their princess.

The carriage finally got out of the deep mountains and forests when it was almost dawn, which was a tough time for Zhang Hu.

He hid under a carriage, pressed tightly against the wall, and was in pain from the shaking for nearly the entire night.

He wanted to move around, but he couldn't. He was hoping in his heart that he would stop and rest as he could not hold on any longer.

After leaving the mountains and forests, the carriage finally got on the official road leading to Lingzhou.

Now, the driving is much smoother.

"Stop, I need to go to the toilet." An anxious male voice suddenly spoke in the carriage where Liu Tao was, and the carriage suddenly stopped at this time.

The coachman and a tall, bearded man sitting next to him stopped the carriage reluctantly after hearing the request of the person in the carriage.

"There are so many things to do. Don't waste everyone's time."

The people in the car were drugged before getting on the car. They were completely powerless and had no ability to escape.

The bearded man was responsible for guarding the people in the car. There was a thug assigned to each of the seven cars.

He turned around, stood up, opened the curtain, bent over and pulled the person sitting at the door of the car out.

The man who was using the toilet was in his twenties and quite tall. However, he was now completely exhausted. With the rough support of the bearded man, he had just landed when he was roughly told by the man, "Hurry up and solve it right here!"

The young man looked at them standing on the road next to the car, with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Brother, I need to go to the bathroom. It's not good to be here!"

When the bearded man heard that the man wanted to go to the toilet, he looked impatient.

"This is really troublesome. Let's go to the bushes over here." The bearded man supported the man, got off the road, and went to the bushes next to him to solve the problem.

Seeing this, Liu Tao, who was hiding not far away, quickly guessed that this carriage was the only one with several adult men sitting in it.

The other six carriages were filled with children.

Judging from the young man's words and actions, he seemed to know something and wanted to find an opportunity to escape.

At this moment, Cui Ming, who was squatting in the bushes pretending to be a big man, kept looking around.

He should not have believed the man's words so easily. The other party deceived him, saying that he was a businessman and was going to the Jiangnan area to do business. He urgently needed someone with experience in horse breeding. Because he knew the secret, he was afraid that something bad would happen if he stayed in the capital, so he wanted to leave.

Who could have thought that after redeeming him, the other party would actually sell him again at a high price to these human traffickers who specialize in doing shady things.

By the time he learned the truth, it was too late. He had already boarded the carriage leaving Beijing.

Although leaving Beijing achieved his goal, he did not want to let these human traffickers arrange his destination.

Judging from the actions of these people, they were not up to any good, and he was unwilling to allow them to influence him to do something illegal.

Being sold to human traffickers is one thing, but following them is another. He will not sit still and wait for death!

"Young man, are you ready? If you keep on wasting time, I won't be polite to you."

After the bearded man quickly released himself, he kept urging Cui Ming, who was squatting, to get up quickly.

"Brother, please be kind. I have had diarrhea these past two days. Please wait a little longer."

As soon as Cui Ming finished speaking, he was greeted with shouts and curses from the thugs sitting in other vehicles.

"There are so many things to do. Don't let everyone miss the time."

The other vehicles stopped to wait for their car.

At this time, the children sitting in other vehicles suddenly burst into tears for no apparent reason.

This made the thugs so anxious that they went into the carriages they were responsible for and started threatening people.

In the car where the bearded man was, two adult men also started making trouble.

"Hurry up, I'll go back and take a look."

The bearded man gave a fierce warning, and Cui Ming, who was squatting, nodded honestly, "Brother, go quickly, I'll be fine soon."

The other party thought that he was too weak to stand up without help, so he walked towards the carriage parked on the road with confidence.

Cui Ming seized this opportunity, and using all his strength, he barely stood up, picked up his clothes, and with soft steps, he desperately fled into the woods by the roadside.

He had only taken a few steps when he was discovered.

The bearded man chased after him and easily caught up with the fleeing Cui Ming. The bearded man punched him fiercely in the face.

Nosebleed started instantly.

At this moment, on the official road, the sound of horse hooves came from far away.

However, the next day, Tao Yuwei did not receive any news from the two guards who had left the city, as they had disappeared.