Not long after, everyone came back. Lin Dai looked at An Yi and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"We did find something. We saw the Taoist priest again at midnight yesterday. He and Qin Qi seemed to be discussing something in the study. We don't know the details. We didn't dare to get too close for fear of alerting the enemy. The Taoist priest was too alert." An Yi thought for a while and said, "I also heard something that was not a big deal. I heard the servants in the prefecture discussing that there would be a happy event in a few days. I wonder if there will be any unexpected events."

After hearing this, Shen Qing and An Jiu burst out laughing and looked at Lin Dai: "Well, it is indeed a happy event."

"If you keep laughing, I'll make you a bride." Lin Dai threatened Shen Qing, "I'll let you two spend your wedding night together." She also glanced at An Jiu.

The two were so scared that they shut their mouths immediately. Seeing that they shut their mouths obediently, Lin Dai was about to say something, but the system told her that Qin Qi had gone to his private residence.

"I'm going back to Qin Qi's private residence now. He's gone there. I'll come back in the afternoon. You all come over because I have something to say." After saying that, he disappeared from the room, scaring An Yi and An Si. He pointed to the place where Lin Dai disappeared and asked Shen Qing: "Master Shen, what's going on with Miss Lin?"

"I've already said that she is not an ordinary person. Well, let's each do our own things first and talk about it after Lin Dai comes in the afternoon."

Lin Dai returned to Qin Qi's room in his private residence, waiting for Qin Qi to come find her, while thinking that Qin Qi had better not do anything rash or he would regret it.

After a while, there was a knock on the door. Before Lin Dai could speak, the door was opened from the outside. Qin Qi walked in and walked up to Lin Dai: "Miss Wu, are you all right?"

"Good or bad, don't you know? I didn't expect that a prefect like you would do such a thing as robbing a woman. You look so good. Tell me, what do you want to do by arresting me?"

"Didn't I tell you? I want to take you as my concubine. I promise you that I will take good care of you after you enter the mansion."

"Why is it that Magistrate Qin's family is so poor that he can't even afford to buy a mirror? Why doesn't he look at himself? An old toad wants to eat swan meat, bah!" Lin Dai spat in Qin Qi's face with disgust.

Qin Qi touched his face and was not angry: "It's useless for you to disagree. I have already checked you. You came to Jiangyang City from another place with a maid. This is my territory. No one can save you."

"Humph, aren't you afraid that you can't afford to offend me because of my identity? Do you think I look like someone from an ordinary family?"

"Don't worry. As long as we are in Dayan, there is no one that our Qin family cannot afford to offend. You will only get what you want if you obey me obediently. Otherwise..."

"Really? So you are the Qin family member in Beijing?"

"That's right. I'm not an ordinary person. If you follow me, I guarantee you'll have a good life." Qin Qi said proudly. He thought Lin Dai would definitely try to get close to him after knowing about it. Unfortunately, he was disappointed.

"Then I'd like to know, why are you not in the capital being your noble son, but being a small prefect in Jiangyang City so far away? The Qin family has given up on you, right? You are nothing but a waste."

"Nonsense, I came to Jiangyang City for something important to do, if you don't know, don't talk nonsense."

"Oh, really? A big deal, is it human trafficking?" Lin Dai deliberately scared him.

"How do you know?" Qin Qi blurted out in surprise, secretly guessing Lin Dai's identity in his heart.

"How should I know? Are you blind? You have kidnapped me, do you still need to ask?"

"Oh, you are talking about this. You can't blame me for this. I have been looking for an opportunity to get to know you guys, but you didn't give me the chance, so I had no choice but to do this."

It seems that Qin Qi is also a fool. Qin Yan would never give him such an important task. Apart from him, there is only the Taoist priest. It seems that the Taoist priest should be the one who makes the final decision.

"Go ahead. I'm going to have lunch soon and I won't keep you here." Lin Dai didn't want to waste any more words with Qin Qi and ordered him to leave. The host and guest roles were reversed.

Qin Qi originally wanted to have lunch with Lin Dai, but seeing that Lin Dai looked unhappy, he had to leave first and said he would come to see her tomorrow.

After Qin Qi left, Lin Dai stayed in the room alone, holding her chin with one hand and knocking on the table with the other, muttering to herself: "I wanted to play with you slowly, but Qin Qi, you succeeded in angering me, so don't blame me for being rude."

"Chubby, check where the people abducted by the traffickers are?"

"Okay, I have already checked where those people are hiding. It's a place you would never expect, Sister. It's Zuixianlou!"

"What? It's in Zuixianlou."

"Yes, there is a woodshed in the backyard of Zuixianlou. There is a secret room in the woodshed. Every time they kidnapped someone, they hid them inside."

"Didn't An Jiu see the human traffickers kidnap someone and leave the city before?"

"They did this on purpose. They just went outside the city and then came back to the city, just to create a mystery."

"So what is the relationship between Zuixianlou and Qin Qi?"

"This Zuixianlou belongs to the Qin family. It didn't exist in Jiangyang City before. It was only opened after Qin became famous."

"Well, that would make things much easier."

In the afternoon, Lin Dai lied to Qin Qi's people and told them not to disturb her because she wanted to sleep. In a blink of an eye, she arrived at the inn and Shen Qing and his people were already waiting for her.

When Shen Qing saw Lin Dai coming, he immediately stepped forward and asked, "Are you okay? Did Qin Qi do anything to you?"

"I'm fine. Now I have something to tell you. Do you know where the traffickers hide the kidnapped people?"

Everyone shook their heads, "Shen Qing, do you know who owns Zuixianlou?"

"I know, it's Qin Qi's. He invited me to dinner there before. What do you mean? You're not saying that he's hiding in Zuixianlou!"

"Yes, it is Zuixianlou, the Zuixianlou that no one wants to visit. There is a secret room in the woodshed in the backyard of the restaurant, and everyone is there."

An Jiu couldn't help but say: "Oh my god, Qin Qi is too bold. If others knew about this, the consequences would be unimaginable."

"That's right, but although this is a bit bold, it is also the safest. The largest restaurant in the city is owned by the prefect, and who would have thought that human traffickers would hide people there. But An Jiu also said that if others knew about this, the consequences would be very serious, so let's have someone open up Zuixianlou."

Lin Dai waved her hand, gathered everyone together, and after a brief chat, she explained everything.

Finally, Lin Dai asked everyone: "Do you understand? Then we will wait and see tomorrow."

That night, everyone was sleeping soundly, except for a minor accident that occurred in one place.

At about 9:00 p.m. the next morning, there was a loud knock on the prefectural door, and the visitor shouted that he wanted to see the prefect.

At this time, Qin Qi was drinking tea with Shen Qing. They were originally planning to go to the private residence, but Shen Qing suddenly came to the mansion, so Qin Qi had to send Shen Qing away first. However, before he could send Shen Qing away, someone came to report that they had something to ask the prefect, so he had to go there to check.

Shen Qing came out with Qin Qi. How could he be missing from such a good show?

Arriving at the door, Qin Qi questioned the visitor: "Who are you? Why are you shouting at the door of the prefect? ​​Do you know that you are openly provoking the prefect?"

The man immediately approached Qin Qi to take credit for the incident and said, "Your Excellency the prefect, my name is Qian San, and I have found the people that the traffickers abducted."

"What? How is this possible!" Qin Qi's first reaction was that it was impossible. He knew very well where the person was being held, so how could this person know that?

"Really, Your Excellency the Prefect, I really know where it is. I can take you there now." Qian San had no idea how much trouble he had gotten into. His mind was full of the reward, which was enough to keep him drinking for a long time.

Shen Qing also echoed, "Master Qin, why don't we go over and take a look? After all, the traffickers have abducted many people. If they are really the missing people, Master Qin will have done a great deed."

At this time, there were already many people watching, and they all agreed to ask Prefect Qin to go. Qin Qi had no choice but to take a few people with that person.

When they reached Zuixianlou, Qin Qi was horrified. How could this happen? Was this place really discovered? Qian San led everyone to the backyard of Zuixianlou. When he wanted to enter the firewood room, Qin Qi stopped him.

"Qian San, do you know where this place is? You actually brought so many people to Zuixianlou to cause trouble. Someone take him away and put him in jail."

"Sir, I didn't cause any trouble on purpose. The traffickers are just..."

"Shut up." Qin Qi couldn't let him continue talking at this time. He just wanted to catch him and kill him secretly immediately.

"Lord Qin, why don't you continue investigating?" Shen Qing would not let Qin Qi go so easily, otherwise how could he perform the drama he had arranged for him.

Qin Qi then remembered that Shen Qing had also come along. He was everywhere. He explained, "Mr. Shen may not know, but I know Qian San. He is a drunkard who always owes money and drinks on credit. I don't know why he got drunk and dared to cause trouble in Zuixianlou today. And you also know that this tavern is related to me, so isn't this a slap in my face and the face of the prefect?"

Just as he finished speaking, a few people came out of the woodshed and panicked when they saw many people gathered in the yard. Qian San saw them and immediately shouted, "Look, sir, I didn't lie. The human traffickers are out."

Those people didn't understand the situation. They just heard someone shouting "human traffickers" and thought they were out to arrest them, so they immediately started looking for ways to escape.

When the people outside saw them running away in panic, they instinctively felt that something was wrong and that they must be human traffickers, so they immediately worked together to grab the traffickers and pin them to the ground.

Qin Qi was so angry that he almost vomited blood when he saw this, and cursed him inwardly as a waste.

Shen Qing looked at this perfect scene and secretly exclaimed, "Well done."

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