Chapter 1: The Double Flower Red Club

  At this question, all the girls in the house burst into tears - they were indeed not from their hometown and were all abducted. Of course, those who were favored by the kidnappers were all beautiful women.

  Confirmed the fact that she was kidnapped, Chu Niang reduced her suspicion of Huang E's strange behavior, perhaps it was a panic after a big disaster. The two were placed together by the kidnapper, the man was naked, and they stayed together... maybe there was some secret between them, which is understandable. It's not easy for a girl to keep a clean reputation, so let's bear with it a bit more.

  So, when Zhu Su Zhen led the girls out of the house, even if she felt that Shi Cheng's attitude was very suspicious when talking to Huang E, such as seeing her appear, Huang E would desperately avoid her, and they deliberately kept their distance... She pretended not to see.

  The miserable scene in the courtyard immediately made the girl vomit until she was dizzy and dark, seeing that they vomited more severely than herself at first, Chu Niang's mood improved a little, she shouted loudly: "Shi... Lang Jun, take care of these awakened girls, I will go wake up the rest of the children."

  At this time, he nodded slightly. Before he could say anything, Huang E added hastily: "Don't worry, Sister Chu, I'll gather them all in the main house, you go ahead and attend to your business."

  Chu Niang led the servants into another room, and as she entered, she thought of those girls who had just woken up, seeing the scene in the courtyard, they were also scared to stand still, but Huang E, how could she remain so calm? Chu Niang couldn't help but mutter to herself: "At such a young age, she's as cunning as a fox spirit! Such a brutal scene, even Shi Yi Nei, that man, was shocked and moved, yet she can calmly chat with people at the door, I don't know what kind of family could raise such a Diaochan!"

  After walking through several rooms, the kidnapped girls had all woken up. Chu Niang walked into the last room - in this back-and-forth rush, every time she walked out of the door and returned to the courtyard, Chu Niang was always stirred up with fear and nausea by the miserable scene in the garden. She couldn't help but feel her legs go weak, couldn't help but want to escape from this yard. But she continued to rush about, going to rescue those women who had been drugged.

  When she was busy running around the house, he was very loyal to his duty. He didn't know where he found a red-tasseled spear and stood guard in the yard with a long gun.

  What's even more astonishing is that even Shi Ya Nei made an excuse to arrange for her companions and was unwilling to enter the courtyard again, but Huang E, that little girl, didn't mind the corpses scattered all over the ground or the thick smell of blood. She kept holding onto Shi Chang's empty left hand, chatting with him in a non-stop stream of conversation.

  The two of them conversed in a staccato manner, and whenever they saw someone approaching the courtyard, Huang E would cautiously stop talking. The person who came over had a smile on his face, but he looked dull and always reacted half a beat late. However, Chu Niang was not bothered by this at all; she just wanted to hurry up and wake up all the girls, then... escape from this courtyard.

  Jia Ding went to fetch water again. While waiting for the cold water, Chu Niang anxiously paced back and forth in the house. Occasionally, she heard a few drifting words, which were Shi Chuan's voice: "The lies you made up sound like..."

  Chu hurriedly stopped in her tracks, but the sound was gone. After a moment of hesitation, she walked to the window and looked out through the gap.

  This Taoist temple has money, the windows are pasted with silk gauze instead of paper. The silk gauze is not rotten, and Zhu's daughter can only look out from the window slit, seeing two people in the courtyard opening and closing their mouths, but she can't hear any sound.

  Chu's daughter recalled - as one of the top talents in Haizhou City, she had read many miscellaneous books and was slightly familiar with the rumors of the drum hall and the echo wall. After a little consideration, she began to slowly retrace her steps along the path she had just taken. When she reached a certain spot in the house, another sentence floated into her ears, which was Huang E's voice: "... Only by saying so can..."

  Zhu Niangniang moved her body slightly, and her ears only moved a few centimeters away, but she couldn't hear anything again.

  The girl stood still, moving her ears back and forth, adjusting her posture. After a brief pause, the little girl's voice entered her ears again, soft and faint, as if someone was whispering in her ear: "...... You promised, you promised to take care of me ...... Heaven sent you to save me, you can't abandon me ...... I've prayed countless times behind my back, asking heaven and earth, didn't expect that there really is a divine spirit three feet above, you really came, let all the scoundrels suffer retribution......"

  At this moment, the voice suddenly stopped, and Chu Niang hurried to the door, and indeed saw the family servant carrying a bucket over.

  The last room had three girls lying in it, Chu Niang was distracted while doing things, fortunately, after a long time of practice, she was already skilled, and when she mechanically rescued the three girls, led the three children to the courtyard, the time had disappeared, at the entrance of the main hall, Huang E held hands with a girl, sitting on the threshold chatting, that girl was the youngest among all the kidnapped girls, also the seven or eight year old little girl who Chu Suojin had once carried.

  Before Chu Niang could ask, Huang E immediately explained: "Shi Dalang has gone to take a bath. The blood on his body has scabbed over and he's feeling uncomfortable all over. He smells too. I told him to hurry up and change into new clothes."

  As soon as the words fell, Shicun wearing a very ill-fitting and ridiculous outfit, holding an account book, slipped out: "Found it, found it, this is their account book, all the abducted girls are recorded, we can check against the account book."

  He paused for a moment and said with a hint of regret: "Unfortunately, it's all recorded in cryptic language, so we need to decipher it."

  Chu's eyes lit up: "Really, great, let me take a look."

  Huang E rushed over and waved her hand: "Darling, your clothes are on inside out, squat down, I'll help you adjust them."

  Time wore a gentle expression as he walked over, squatting down to let Huang E tidy up his clothes, while the other hand held high, handing the account book to Chu Niang.

  The girl Chu took it over and looked at it, but they were all incomprehensible codes, such as this line which read " 壬申乙卯丙午戊辰淮南东黄州阳逻黄二……"

  "What does this mean?"

  "Time, location, person in charge, number of kidnapped girls, how much was paid to the person in charge, where the relay points are along the way, and how much was spent - these are all that need to be recorded on the account book. After careful consideration, it can be inferred one by one, and then verified with the date and location of the girl's disappearance, and immediately find out where their hometown is."

  Chu's daughter let out a sigh of relief: "Now that's done, we can help these children find their relatives."

  Zhu Su Zhen was so happy because most people in this era had no geographical knowledge. In this era, maps were military secrets of the country, let alone ordinary people, even officials could not see maps unless they reached a certain administrative level.

  For ordinary people, many can know the name of their hometown and the famous county nearby, which is already very good. The names of parents are even more taboo for children. As a junior, not only cannot say this name for life, but also when encountering the same character during the imperial examination, writing must be missing one stroke to show obedience to filial piety.

  When saving those girls just now, Chu Niang had asked them one by one. It turned out that most of the girls couldn't even say their father's name. The youngest girl, who was only seven or eight years old, didn't even know her own surname and only knew she was called Huan Niang (Ring Girl).

  Now with this account book, even if the abducted girls can't say their hometown's name or the street where their parents live, by tracing back from the date they went missing, it is also possible to roughly infer where they were abducted.

  Chu Suzhen counted again, and with a look of surprise, she raised her head: "Eighteen, there are eighteen girls recorded here, but there are nineteen children in the yard. How is this possible? One, no, two people were not recorded - you, Shi Dalang, your name is not on the list either?"

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