A beautiful daughter came to the Xiangfu

King An poured a cup of boiling water out of the window.

"Aiya!" There was a scream, and outside the window was a servant of the post station.

He quickly pulled up his clothes and fanned himself.

"Hey, is there anyone here?" Prince Xiao An looked at the servant coldly.

The servant rolled his eyes and said, "Your Highness, it's hot, I fell asleep in the shade."

Lin Qingyang glanced outside and saw that the sun was indeed out, but the direction seemed to be wrong. It was really funny that a lazy servant would be slacking off right under his master's nose.

"Oh, I see. Then you can go find another place to cool off!" There was some sarcasm in Prince An's tone.

The servant left in embarrassment.

Lin Qingyang and Xiao An Wang looked at each other. It seemed that there were a lot of spies in this post station?

A day later, after meeting with Tao Boyan, Prince Xiao An returned home and brought Lin Qingyang a shocking news: Su Siyan was dead!

"How could he die suddenly?" Lin Qingyang was puzzled. Didn't he come to her place to perform a play just two days ago?

"I'm not sure. Tao Boyan announced to the public that he died of illness. He only said it was an emergency and he would be buried soon." Xiao Wang An said to Lin Qingyang.

"This is too strange. What happened to this lively person?" Lin Qingyang wondered.

Could it be that what Su Siyan said when he came to see him was true, and Tao Boyan really treated him badly? If so, then it would be reasonable for Su Siyan to be discovered by Tao Boyan when he went back to prepare evidence, and then be silenced. However, Tao Boyan has only been here for a few months, so what evidence could he have to take someone's life?

"Could it be possible that she really knew something?"

Lin Qingyang asked.

Prince Xiao An neither nodded nor shook his head.

"When a person is dead, there is no way to know anything even if we know anything. We will leave in two days, so we won't care about him."

Lin Qingyang nodded. The purpose of this trip was not Jiangnan Town, and all actions were just to cover up the truth.

After Su Siyan was buried, the spies sent by King Xiao An reported that he was indeed buried in secret, and the Tao family seemed to be hiding something, being mysterious.

When the day came, Prince Xiao An and Lin Qingyang left Jiangnan Town and continued to move forward.

The reason why the first stop was set in Jiangnan Town was because the waterway ended here, so they went from south to north.

It takes relatively time to travel by land, but fortunately the two towns are not far apart.

Not far from the town, the carriage of Lin Qingyang and Xiao Anwang encountered trouble. Two burly men were whipping three ragged girls on the side of the road. The girls wanted to escape and blocked their way.

The carriage stopped and the guard driving it told the owner of the carriage what had happened.

"Your Majesty, there are rioters ahead."

Prince An lifted the curtain and looked forward.

When the two strong men saw the carriage, their expressions were panicked, and when the three fleeing women saw the carriage, they grabbed at straws and shouted as they ran:

"Help, help!"

hoarse.

The three women tried their best to get to the front of the carriage. The two strong men wanted to pull it, but when they arrived in front of the carriage, they did not dare to act rashly.

"What's going on?" Lin Qingyang asked.

King Xiao An asked Wang Shun to go and ask.

The two strong men replied respectfully: "Master, these people are criminal slaves and will be sent to Haicheng to be sold..."

Lin Qingyang and Xiao Anwang looked at the three girls. Their faces were a little dirty and their appearances could not be seen clearly, but they could vaguely judge that they were not ugly. One of the three was seriously injured. When they ran over here just now, one of them staggered.

"We are not slaves of sin, help!"

The maids shouted desperately.

Xiao An Wang looked at the strong man and asked, "How much are these three?"

After hearing this, the three women kowtowed and said, "Thank you for saving our lives, sir..."

The sturdy man blushed and said, "My Lord, according to the price in Haicheng, it's about two taels each."

Prince Xiao An ordered Wang Shun who was standing beside him, "Give them ten taels of silver."

Wang Shun paid the money as instructed. The two strong men took the money, said "Thank you, sir," and left happily.

The three women were still sobbing.

"You are free, go!"

Prince Xiao An said to the girl kneeling outside.

"Master saved us, we are willing to work like slaves for you." One of them said, looking at the girl with the least injuries, and the other two nodded.

"We don't need cattle and horses, just go back to where you came from!" The voice of King Xiao An continued to be heard from the carriage.

"To answer the master's question, although you bought us, they might come back after you leave," the girl continued.

The three people were still kowtowing. Lin Qingyang glanced at them and was about to speak when the girl who was most seriously injured by the three girls fainted.

The other two girls rushed forward and shook her: "What's wrong with you? Wake up!"

Lin Qingyang quickly got off the carriage and went to see the girl who had fainted.

Lin Qingyang checked the girl's body and found fresh wounds from being whipped, including injuries on her fingers. She felt the girl's pulse and found she was very weak.

"This girl is too weak. It would be better to send the three girls to the town ahead."

Lin Qingyang said to King Xiao An, and King Xiao An nodded in agreement.

The other two girls looked at the fainted girl anxiously, and the three of them were arranged into a carriage and followed them.

"Could these three girls be arranged for us on purpose?" Lin Qingyang asked in a low voice.

Xiao An Wang smiled and tapped her forehead. He said, "Why are you so nervous now?"

"I just think it's a coincidence." Lin Qingyang sat down and stopped talking.

The carriage slowly moved along the planned route, and nothing strange happened along the way.

When we arrived at Jiangbei Town, we still stayed at the post station first.

The two girls spontaneously took care of the girl who fainted. After they washed up, the girls looked pretty.

Of the two girls, one said she couldn't remember her home and was sold when she was young; the other said she was abducted from another province. The three girls didn't know each other.

They all said that the fainted girl was covered in wounds when she was brought in. The strong men said that it seemed like she was a maid who was driven out of someone's family, but the girl could not speak.

The two girls were handed over to local officials by Prince Xiao An, those from other provinces were sent back home, and the rest might have stayed in the local area or gone somewhere else, leaving only the fainted maid.

Wait until the fainted girl wakes up, then ask her about her background. If her identity is also unknown, there is nothing we can do.

After being in a coma for three days and three nights, the injured girl finally woke up.

Her eyes changed from fear and anxiety to grievance. Perhaps when she saw Lin Qingyang and the maid beside her, the little girl remembered her own experience and burst into tears.

"Whose family are you from and where is your home?" Lin Qingyang asked her with gentle eyes.

The girl opened her mouth but no sound came out. She gestured beside her neck with her hands, made a drinking motion, pinched her neck, and tried hard to make a sound, but she couldn't utter a single word.

The girl looked in agony.

Lin Qingyang looked at her, his eyes changed, and he pointed at her and said, "Are you saying that you were poisoned and became mute?"

The girl looked up at her and nodded painfully.