Jiang Wan's eyes warmed up and he gave Zhou Suting a kind smile.

Zhao Wei glanced at Zhou Suting inconspicuously and said, "Brother, I think we should torture them. Maybe they can reveal some clues about Xie Lan."

Luo Hai seconded the proposal, "Captain Escort, I think he should be severely tortured, otherwise it would be an easy opportunity for Xie Lan, the traitor."

Feng Lei stroked his beard and thought for a moment, then made the decision, "Listen to Su Ting. After all, we are not the government. We cannot convict people without any evidence and abuse private punishment. Come, take the three of them away and lock them up. Arrange a few people to keep them under strict guard, and send two more people to Lushui Village to inquire about Xie Lan's news."

"Yes!"

Jiang Wan did not resist and obediently followed the escorts out.

In a remote courtyard in the backyard of the Dragon and Tiger Escort Agency.

Jiang Wan and two other people were locked in three rooms.

Jiang Wan was lucky as he was locked up in the woodshed, but Xie Erzhu was unlucky as he was locked up next to the toilet.

Many escorts came to use the toilet, and the smell went straight into Xie Erzhu's nose, making him vomit several times.

"Sister-in-law, what should we do? And Xiao Lan, how did he become a spy and traitor?"

Xie Erzhu shouted to Xie Dazhu who was on the other side of the wall, and Xie Dazhu passed the message to Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan said: "There must be a misunderstanding here, don't worry, let me think about it."

Xie Dazhui passed the message back, and Xie Erzhui stuffed two strips of cloth into his nose and sat down on the ground resignedly.

When Jiang Wan thought about this, he thought about darkness.

Several people had not eaten or drunk anything and were thirsty and hungry.

Jiang Wan is better off, she has a trading mall and doesn’t have to worry about food and drink.

The Xie Dazhui brothers were unlucky. Not only were they hungry, but they were also shivering from the cold and huddled in the corner, not moving.

Jiang Wan confirmed that neither of them was in danger of life, then swallowed a powerful pill and prepared to use brute force to break a hole in the corner of the wall, then sneak into the escort agency to find out the truth.

Just as she was about to start digging, she heard the lock on the door being opened.

She quickly walked over to the dry firewood and sat down, pretending to be weak.

"Miss Jiang."

A gentle voice came from above.

Jiang Wan looked in the direction of the voice and saw the woman who had spoken for her in the inner hall during the day standing in front of her.

"Miss Jiang, this is not the time to talk. Please follow me."

After saying that, Zhou Suting took Jiang Wan and hurriedly left the woodshed.

In Zhou Suting's room.

"Miss Jiang, eat something first. You haven't eaten anything all day. You must be starving, right?"

Zhou Suting kept putting food into Jiang Wan's bowl and also served her a bowl of steaming winter melon soup.

Jiang Wan held the bowl and pretended to eat a few bites, then put down the bowl and chopsticks, looked at Zhou Suting and said, "Sister Suting, how do you know I'm not a bad person?"

Zhou Suting looked exhausted, but she still pulled herself together and said, "Miss Jiang, I heard Yuan Fei talk about you and Master Xie. He never lies. He said that you and Master Xie are both good people, and Master Xie is very skilled. There is no need for him to covet our Dragon Tiger Escort Agency."

She looked at Jiang Wan and said, "You and Master Xie have enough food and clothing, so why would you collude with the bandits who are in danger of losing their lives?"

Zhou Suting's family is in the cloth business, so she could naturally accurately identify the fabrics of the clothes worn by Xie Lan and Jiang Wan.

Leaving aside Xie Lan, the material of Jiang Wan's clothes is the green gauze that is now hot-selling in the Qian family.

This kind of material is top quality at Qian's Cloth Shop, and one piece costs dozens of taels.

Anyone who has no connection with the Qian family cannot order this cloth.

Jiang Wan wore it as if it were ordinary clothes, which shows how extensive the connections and network of people behind her are.

Furthermore, the pattern on the cuffs of her clothes is very rare.

Zhou Suting didn't look carefully during the day, but now that she looked closely, she realized that the crabapple flowers on Jiang Wan's cuffs were embroidered on both sides.

Unfortunately, now is not the time to ask about double-sided embroidery.

Zhou Suting suddenly stood up and pretended to kneel down.

Jiang Wan was startled and quickly reached out to help her.

"Sister Su Ting, what are you doing?!"

Zhou Suting shed tears and said, "Miss Jiang, please save Yuan Fei!"

"Sister Su Ting, let's talk it out. Don't keep asking me to kneel down or something. Otherwise, how embarrassing will it be for me?"

Jiang Wan pushed the person to sit on the stool and said slowly: "Sister Su Ting, what is going on? Can you tell me everything from beginning to end?"

Zhou Suting nodded, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and told Jiang Wan everything that had happened since the day Zhao Wei and the others returned until today.

Finally, she said, "Actually, I don't really trust Master Zhao. Yuan Fei had a conflict with him because of me before."

"Contradiction? What contradiction?"

Zhou Suting was a little embarrassed, but she answered truthfully: "Master Zhao has an apprentice named Luo Hai, who is the one standing next to Master Zhao today. Luo Hai, he used to peek at me taking a bath... and when Yuan Fei found out, he beat him up and kicked him out of the escort agency."

"But Luo Hai was Master Zhao's favorite student. He had a quarrel with Yuan Fei over Luo Hai, but in the end, my father stepped in and punished Luo Hai with 20 strokes of the stick, and the matter was settled."

Jiang Wan recalled and remembered the appearance of Zhao Wei and Luo Hai.

Both of them have a pair of small eyes that turn around cunningly, and they don't look like good people.

The five of them returned safely, but Xie Lan, Feng Yuanfei and four others were kidnapped by bandits?

How could it be such a coincidence?

There must be something fishy going on.

Jiang Wan pondered for a moment and comforted her, "Sister Su Ting, listen to me, Xie Lan would never collude with the bandits. He and Young Master Feng must have been framed. You don't have to be too sad. Maybe Young Master Feng is safe now, and they didn't fall into the hands of the bandits as Zhao Wei said."

Zhou Suting forced a smile, but the smile did not contain much sincerity.

She couldn't stop worrying until she saw that Feng Yuanfei was safe and sound.

Jiang Wan comforted her a few more times, then stood up and said, "Sister Su Ting, I should go back, otherwise it will arouse other people's suspicion."

"Miss Jiang, tomorrow is the fifth day. Dad is going to take 5,000 taels to Rising Sun Mountain to redeem the person. Do you think I should persuade Dad not to go?"

Zhou Suting looked hesitant.

Jiang Wan thought for a moment and said, "Captain Feng trusts Zhao Wei a lot. Even if you tell him, you can't persuade him. Why not just let him go?"

"But……"

Zhou Suting wanted to say, if Feng Yuanfei and his companions had not been kidnapped by the bandits, wouldn't the five thousand taels that Feng Lei brought have been wasted?

But she wasn't sure.

She was afraid that Feng Yuanfei was really in the hands of the bandits.

Jiang Wan said solemnly, "Sister Su Ting, anything is possible. Maybe our calculations are wrong, and Xie Lan and Master Feng were really abducted by the bandits. But I can assure you of one thing, Xie Lan is definitely not a spy."

She took a few deep breaths and said, "Sister Su Ting, do you have a way to get me out?"

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