"I don't even know you. Why are you taking me away? Let me go." The woman kept struggling and refused to let the man touch her, hugging the child in front of her tightly.

The man and the old woman had no other choice but to have the man pull the woman while the old woman picked up the child and the two of them moved forward.

"Wait, she said she doesn't know you. Are you going to take her away by force?" Just as Ye Ziyu was about to speak out to stop them, a voice rang out. She looked in the direction of the voice and saw Ling Bingqing coming out.

"Girl, I've told you that she is really my wife, and this is also my son. My wife fell and broke her head two years ago, and sometimes she can't recognize people." The man answered helplessly.

"Do you have any evidence to prove that she is your wife?" Ye Ziyu came out, and Liu Zhizhi followed.

"These are my own wife and child. What evidence do I have to give you?" the man said helplessly.

"Little girls, if you don't understand, don't get involved. This is our family affair." The old woman next to them spoke.

"Yes, yes, little girl, this is other people's business." People around began to talk.

"Ayu, why don't we just ignore this." Liu Zhizhi pulled Ye Ziyu's arm.

"After all, this woman said she doesn't know you. We can't just watch a woman and a child being taken away casually. If you really don't know them, then the woman's family will be very worried." Ye Ziyu said.

"Yeah, I think this woman really doesn't know those two people." Some people around changed their minds.

"How about this, you say this baby is yours, and you tell the girl your name and your baby's name. I'll ask the baby some questions here, and if the information matches, I'll believe you for now." Ye Ziyu said.

"Okay, okay, girl, come here and I'll tell you." The man waved at Ling Bingqing, Ling Bingqing walked over, and Ye Ziyu squatted down and asked the child.

"Little boy, don't cry. Here is candy. We can't cry after eating the candy." Ye Ziyu took out a candy from the bag and gave it to the little boy.

The child took the candy, ate it and nodded.

"What's your name? Is this person your mother?" Ye Ziyu asked gently.

"My name is Tiedan, this is my mother, she took me out of home." Tiedan answered in a baby voice.

"Is that your father? Do you know your father's name?" Ye Ziyu pointed at the man.

"He is my father. My father's name is Tie Erniu. Next to my father is my grandmother."

"Okay, that's good." Ye Ziyu touched Tiedan's head and stood up. He exchanged some information with Ling Bingqing and found that they all matched.

"Alas, my wife accidentally tripped while working in the fields and fell on her head. Since then, she doesn't recognize anyone except Tiedan. This time I came to Beijing to find a famous doctor to see if he can help my wife recover."

Ye Ziyu noticed that Liu Zhizhi had been trying to comfort the woman, and the woman seemed to trust Liu Zhizhi as well. "Let's take you back. Where do you live?"

"Ah, no, no, no, I'd better not trouble you." Tie Erniu refused.

"In this situation, I think it would be better for us to send you back than forcing her to go back by yourself." Ye Ziyu gestured to the man to look at the woman.

"Then thank you for your help, young lady." Tie Erniu picked up Tiedan, the old woman followed beside them, and Liu Zhizhi helped the woman up and walked side by side with Ye Ziyu and others.

"Where are you from? Why do you come to Beijing to see a doctor?" Ye Ziyu asked intentionally or unintentionally.

"We are from Qingcheng County. It doesn't mean that all doctors in Beijing are good. We just wanted to try and see if we can cure my wife's illness."

"You seem to love your wife very much. What did you do at home before?"

"We are farmers, but there is nothing to plant in this season, so our whole family came here," said Tie Erniu.

"Yeah." Ye Ziyu nodded.

Tie Erniu's route was getting more and more remote. "The house we rented is quite remote because it's cheap. After all, we have to spend money on medical treatment, so we save as much as possible in other places."

After walking for a while, they arrived in front of a courtyard. Tie Erniu pushed open the gate. It was not big, but it was tidy. "Thank you for sending us back, ladies. Come in and have a cup of tea before you go. My mother just made some local specialties. You can try them. If you like them, you can take some back. It will be our gift to thank you for your gift."

"Hehe, sit down, hehe, play." The woman pulled Liu Zhizhi to go in. Liu Zhizhi was a little afraid and looked at Ye Ziyu.

"Okay, sorry to bother you then." Ye Ziyu walked in, followed by Liu Zhizhi, Ling Bingqing and others.

Tie Erniu brought them into the house, asked them to sit wherever they wanted, and then went out with his mother to prepare things. The woman and Tiedan were playing in the house. Ye Ziyu looked around, "Ayu, do you also feel something is wrong?" Ling Bingqing approached Ye Ziyu and whispered in her ear.

"Well, I asked Yifeng to contact the authorities." Ye Ziyu replied in a low voice.

"What's wrong?" Liu Zhizhi saw the two people whispering and walked over curiously and asked.

"Nothing, I just think their family is having a hard time, we are discussing whether to help them." Ye Ziyu said in a normal voice. She didn't tell Liu Zhizhi because she didn't want her to be scared, but Ling Bingqing also felt it herself.

"Indeed, they have no source of income. It is not easy to treat this woman with a child. Is there anything we can do to help them?" Liu Zhizhi thought it made sense.

"We are still thinking about it." Ye Ziyu smiled and said, "It's okay, maybe they don't necessarily need it."

"Ah?" Liu Zhizhi was confused. Tie Erniu brought a few cups of tea and cakes, "These cakes are the specialties of my hometown, made by my mother herself, you can try them." Tie Erniu put them on the table, and then also took water and cakes to several maids who were accompanying them.

Everyone drank a sip of water and ate the cakes. Ye Ziyu and Ling Bingqing drank water but did not eat the cakes. Liu Zhizhi noticed that Ye Ziyu did not eat the cakes: "Ayu, this cake tastes good, you can try it."

"I'm not hungry, so I won't eat. We still have to go shopping, so let's not disturb them. Let's go." Ye Ziyu prepared to get up.

"I'll go with you." Ling Bingqing said when she saw Ye Ziyu was about to leave.

"Girls, why don't you have dinner at home?" Tie Erniu stopped in front.

"It's no trouble. We have enough people..." Before he could finish his words, Ye Ziyu fell down.

"Ayu..." Liu Zhizhi screamed and fell down. Then one after another, everyone fainted on the ground.

"It's great, it's great. I didn't expect so many people would come this time. How much silver does this require?" The old woman walked in.

"These guys are so stupid, they act like they are smart and stand out." Tie Erniu mocked, "You performed well today."

"Of course not. Come here, Tiedan, come to your mother. Tiedan was so good today and behaved really well. Your mother will buy you candied haws in the evening." said the woman.

"But how are we going to transport so many people? Moreover, these people seem to be of distinguished status. Will we get into trouble?" The old woman was a little worried.

"It's okay. If it was a wealthy family, the people around would have told them. But those people didn't know them. As for how to transport them away, I'll go to Jin Jiu's house tonight to ask them."

"Knock knock knock." There was a knock on the door outside.

"Who?" Tie Erniu asked vigilantly.

"Open the door, we are here to register a household." said the person outside the door.

"Why are the tenants coming to my house now?"

"You guys stay inside, I'll go check it out."

Tie Erniu walked out, closed the door, and opened the door to the yard: "Sir, what's going on?"

"Kuhu, you have arrived here recently, right? How many people are there? Who are you? Where are you from?"

"We came from Qingcheng County. There are four of us: my mother, my wife, my son and me." Tie Erniu answered respectfully.

"What about the rest?"

"My wife is sick and is lying in the house. My mother has gone out with her grandson."

"We need to go inside and take a look."

"Sir, it's not that I don't want to cooperate with your work. It's mainly because of my wife's illness. It's a little dangerous, and I'm afraid of infecting you with the disease." Tie Erniu smiled naively.

The two people who were in charge of the household registration looked at each other and prepared to leave.

"Bang." A noise was heard from inside the house. "Bang, bang."

"what sound?"

"Maybe I tried to take something from my wife, but my hands were too weak and I dropped it. I'll go and clean it up later. I'll see you two out." Tie Erniu bent his waist and stretched out his hand to see them off.

"Bang." Tie Erniu had just sent the two people away and had not yet closed the gate.

A figure flew out of the room, "Ouch, ouch my old waist." The old woman fell to the ground.

Tie Erniu hurried over to help the old woman up, "Mom, what happened?"

"Erniu." The woman also hurried out of the room holding Tiedan.

"What's wrong?" Tie Erniu noticed that the woman's hair was messy.

"What's wrong? I beat you." Ling Bingqing walked out of the room, and Ye Ziyu followed behind.

"You...why didn't you faint?" Tie Erniu looked at the two people in front of him, shocked.

"Because we didn't drink your water at all." Ye Ziyu smiled. She noticed some white powder at the bottom of the water when she drank it just now, so she didn't drink it.

At that time, she was not sure what kind of medicine it was. Later, she noticed that the first few people who drank water at the beginning of autumn and summer looked a little drowsy, so she guessed that it was a drug.

"Oh, then why not pastries?" Tie Erniu asked.

"Because not everyone eats cakes, and the cakes are so dry, people who eat cakes will definitely drink water in the end, so I guessed that there was something wrong with the water. It seems that I was lucky and guessed right."

"Hehe, so what? There are only two of you and we have three." Tie Erniu picked up his weapon.

"Nonono, we are not just two people." Ye Ziyu tilted her head and looked at Tie Erniu with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Tie Erniu felt something was wrong.

Ye Ziyu pointed at the gate of the courtyard. Tie Erniu looked over and saw a group of officials running in. The last ones to arrive were Yifeng, Qin Luoheng and Fang Jingxiu.

Qin Luoheng waved his hand, and the police stepped forward to control Tie Erniu and the other two. The woman collapsed to the ground, holding Tiedan and trembling.

"Miss, I'm late." Yifeng returned to Ye Ziyu.

"No, you're just in time. Lixia and the others in there must have been drugged. Go get a doctor to check their bodies." Yifeng took the order and went back to find a doctor.

Qin Luoheng and Fang Jingxiu also walked in. "Brother Luoheng, Brother Jingxiu, why are you here?" Ling Bingqing asked.

"Master Qin, Young Marquis Fang." Ye Ziyu bowed.

"Miss Ye San." Qin Luoheng bowed, and Fang Jingxiu nodded.

"There just happened to be a case that the Second Prince wanted us to investigate, so we went to the government office to see if there was any information. We met Miss Ye San's servant who came to report that he had encountered human traffickers and mentioned you, so we came to see if you were okay?" Qin Luoheng said.

"Oh oh oh, Ayu and I are fine. The others drank their water and got knocked unconscious. They are lying down now." Ling Bingqing replied.

"Did they reveal any information?" Fang Jingxiu asked.

"Ah, yes. We pretended to faint at that time, and then I heard them say that they would send us away and we could get a lot of silver." Ling Bingqing replied.

"Jin Jiu's family." Ye Ziyu spoke.

"Mo Yu, go check it out." Fang Jingxiu said.

"What?" Qin Luoheng asked back.

"The man said he wanted to go to Jin Jiu's house to ask how to transport us away, so I think Jin Jiu's house should be a place where we can transfer our belongings." Ye Ziyu explained.

"Oh~ Ah Xiu, you react quickly." Qin Luoheng hit Fang Jingxiu's arm, then turned to Ling Bingqing and the others and said, "Do you want me to send someone to send you back?" Qin Luoheng and Fang Jingxiu had something else to do and could not send them back.

"Could Mr. Qin please arrange a few people to send us back after the doctor comes to check? We don't know what dosage Tie Erniu gave us, and when they can wake up." Ye Ziyu said.

"Aqing, what about you?" Qin Luoheng looked at Ling Bingqing.

"No, I'll stay here with Ayu. I'm worried about her being alone."

"Okay, you, you, and you, a few of you stay to escort the young ladies back to the mansion, and the rest of you follow me." Qin Luoheng pointed to a few people.

"Young Marquis Fang." Ye Ziyu called out when Qin Luoheng and Fang Jingxiu turned around to leave.

"Hmm?" Fang Jingxiu turned his head and looked at her.

"It's okay." Ye Ziyu bowed and turned back to the house.

“??? What’s going on between you two? Why did Miss Ye San call you?” Qin Luoheng had an expression as if he was watching a show.

Fang Jingxiu glanced at Qin Luoheng and left without saying a word.

"What's wrong, Ayu? Why did you call Jingxiu brother just now? Is there something wrong?" Ling Bingqing felt that Ye Ziyu seemed to have something to say.

"It's nothing. I originally wanted to see if Young Marquis Fang could tell me if he found out any news about Jin Jiu's family, but then I felt like I wasn't familiar with him, so forget it." Ye Ziyu said.

"You want to know the news about Jin Jiu's family?"

"Ah."

"That's easy. I'll just ask my brother when he comes back. The three of them are together."

"Okay, thank you, Aqing."

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