System [I am in a horror dungeon]

After a while, someone came to report to He Linyu.

The final result was that the person met the requirements and the mermaid belonged to her.

When Lu Nanyin looked at the mermaid again, she looked at the house next door with an inquiring look. She just sat cross-legged quietly at the bottom of the water tank and was taken away.

"Master, who do you think will take the mermaid away?"

An Chexu was silent. He had a guess in his mind, but he was not sure if it was correct. The two of them could only turn their eyes to Lu Xiaozhuo again.

"There are not many families and sects that can afford purple jade spirit stones, but there are so many of them. They are probably the Golden Crow and Black Bird clan, the Su royal family of the Yuling Kingdom, the strongest of the three major countries, and our sect that has long been in hiding. But this one is ruled out. I don't sense the aura of a sect from that person."

"Then there are only the Su royal family and the Golden Crow and Black Bird clan."

An Chexu thought for a moment and said, "If it's the Golden Crow and Black Bird clan, then there's no need to worry. They will treat the merman well. But if it's the Su royal family, then..."

Lu Nanyin didn't know any of this, and asked curiously, "What will happen?"

"They might die, or they might die after being tortured. There won't even be a complete body."

Lu Nanyin thought of the blue bead. There was no complete body. Did that mean the eyes would be dug out?

But she underestimated the greed of those people. Not only would their eyes be dug out, but they would also use many other cruel means to squeeze out all the value of the mermaids.

Lu Xiaozhuo paid for the blue beads and medicinal herbs, and the three of them left the auction house.

When they returned to the Liu Mansion, something big happened again. Liu Yuanqi was missing.

Everyone in the mansion went out to look for her. When Liu Wenzhuo heard the news, his eyes rolled back and he fainted. He just woke up when several people came back.

Lu Xiaozhuo took his pulse briefly and found out that it was just due to anger, and he couldn't breathe smoothly for a while, but he would be fine after resting for a while.

Liu Wenqing was guarding his elder brother, but the first thing Liu Wenzhuo said when he woke up was, "Yuan'er is missing. What if the eldest prince blames us?"

"Mr. Liu, do you need our help to find Miss Liu?" Lu Xiaozhuo asked.

"No, no, I've already troubled the doctor today, why should I trouble him to do these again?" Liu Wenzhuo declined.

The few of them didn't say anything more and returned to the yard.

The yard is not big, with only two rooms. Men and women are not allowed to touch each other. Lu Nanyin said "I love you during the holiday", while An Chexu can only share a room with Lu Xiaozhuo.

Lu Nanyin had experienced too many things today and fell asleep while thinking. However, things were not going well in the other room, with two people fighting for a seat.

In the end, Lu Xiaozhuo failed to snatch the ball from An Chexu and had to sleep on the floor.

Early the next morning, someone knocked on their door. Lu Nanyin opened the door in a daze. The maid told them that the young lady had been found, but her mental state was very bad, so they asked Lu Nanyin to go and check on her.

Lu Nanyin was anxious, so she followed her. After she had walked a few steps, An Chexu came out and called her to go with her.

Lu Nanyin didn't notice that the maid's eyes were not right.

On the way there, the maid kept talking about what happened to their young lady, and Lu Nanyin could recite it all by heart.

"Does Master Liu know about this? Does everyone in the mansion know about this? Why is it so quiet?" An Chexu observed that there were almost no people passing by along the way. If it was true as the maid said, then the area around the yard shouldn't be so quiet.

The maid was silent. She walked to the gate of the yard, pushed the two of them in, quickly closed the door, and locked it in one go.

Then he took out a medicine bag, lit it, threw it over the courtyard wall, and ran away immediately.

Then, Lu Nanyin watched An Chexu extinguish the burning medicine bag with water magic, and then walked forward, took the medicine bag in her hand and smelled it. It was a drug incense.

Then the two of them climbed over the courtyard wall and saw a group of people coming towards them from afar. They quickly hid to the side and watched the group of people coming towards them in a mighty manner.

The leader was the maid, who brought Liu Wenzhuo, Liu Wenqing, and a large group of people behind them to the yard.

When I got closer, I heard the maid say, "Master, those two men are trying to take the young lady away. You should go and check quickly. If something happens to the young lady, then..." As she spoke, the maid began to sob softly.

Lu Nanyin:? ...

An Chexu: ...

This guy really speaks without thinking!

Lu Nanyin caught the question from the maid's mouth: Miss Liu is missing again?

An Chexu also noticed it. The master and disciple went around to the backyard and saw Liu Yuanqi who had just climbed over the courtyard wall.

The two looked at each other and climbed over the wall together to find Liu Yuanqi.

Not long after, they found Liu Yuanqi sneaking around the alley entrance and grabbed her by the back of the collar.

Liu Yuanqi was about to yell when she turned around and saw Lu Nanyin's smiling face. "Where are you going, Miss Liu?"

The two men dragged Liu Yuanqi to a teahouse and used a spell to immobilize her on a chair.

An Chexu wrote down what happened here on a piece of paper, folded the paper into the shape of a paper crane, and let it fly out of the window to find Lu Xiaozhuo.

Meanwhile, Lu Nanyin had already started asking Liu Yuanqi various questions.

"Miss Liu, you want to run away because you don't want to marry the eldest prince?"

Liu Yuanqi looked at her and nodded.

"Because of those rumors?"

Liu Yuanqi shook her head.

"Can you talk?"

Liu Yuanqi stared at her, and An Chexu unsealed her mouth. "Now she can speak."

Lu Nanyin:...coughed a few times and continued asking.

"What's the reason? She would rather be disfigured than marry him. It seems like she is determined."

Liu Yuanqi pursed her lips, said nothing, and avoided looking.

"Any other lovers?"

Liu Yuanqi snorted and rolled her eyes.

"Then why? Is it because you don't want to enter the palace or don't want to be associated with the royal family?"

Liu Yuanqi looked at her and asked, "Do you know about the fire in the palace a few days ago?"

Lu Nanyin nodded. Of course she knew that. It was she who set the fire, how could she not know?

"I heard that the ninth princess lived in that courtyard before. She died in the fire. No one was willing to find out the cause of the fire, nor did they care about the woman who died in the fire and whose body was burned to ashes. They were so cold and heartless. And my father and uncle who wanted to climb up the social ladder, I don't want to stay here at all. I certainly don't want to marry the eldest prince, and I don't want to see anyone in the palace at all.

I want to see the outside world. My mother died young. She told me that women should not stay in this backyard. I want to fulfill her wish and see the vast ocean, the desert with long rivers and sunsets, and the snow-capped mountains that tower into the clouds. I don't want to stay here forever."

Liu Yuanqi shouted the last sentence, with red eyes and a look of unyielding determination.