However, the door was stuck and the lock was on the outside. Shui Ling could not enter the space in front of so many children.

She immediately contacted Butler Qian and said, "Butler Qian, help me open the door."

But Butler Qian said: "If you go out like this, people will not admit it at all. Instead, they will say that you came on your own."

"Ah this..." Shui Ling was dumbfounded, yes, there is no evidence.

"Don't worry, miss, I will help you. All you have to do now is wait with peace of mind." Butler Qian said.

"Okay." Shui Ling could only do this. She took back the dagger and looked at the children, "We can't get out."

The children's eyes were full of disappointment, and they huddled in the corner farthest from the body. They didn't speak or cry. They had probably cried enough.

Shui Ling punched the door, and reluctantly used a dagger to pry the gap in the board, trying to pry a hole.

But after a quarter of an hour, she gave up. There was actually a layer of iron sandwiched between the wooden boards!

Shuiling found a place to sit down and took out a bottle of water from her bag. Seeing the children looking at her eagerly, she handed the water out and said, "Give it to the younger ones to drink."

The boy just took the water and gave it to each of the five or six-year-old children. Although the older children were greedy, no one grabbed it.

Time passed little by little, and the candles on the ground were almost burned out. All the children stared at the big light, as if they could survive as long as it was lit.

Finally, the flame flickered and went out, and the children couldn't help crying anymore.

Shui Ling was very irritable and hated it when her children cried. However, she did not lose her temper. Instead, she fumbled and gave each of them a small piece of mint candy.

"Please be patient, my mother is up there treating the mistress. If she finds out that I have lost it, she will definitely find it."

The boy said: "My name is Lan Mocheng. If I can borrow your mother's hand to go out, I will definitely repay you."

Shui Ling pouted, cunning guy, "No, it's good to be able to go out. Who cares about your reward?"

Lan Mocheng chuckled, "Seeing that you are not afraid at all, you must be confident."

"Don't be nagging, or I'll beat you up." Shui Ling was annoyed.

Lan Mocheng chuckled again and said nothing.

Shui Ling discovered that in the dark, if you are not asleep, time will pass very slowly, and finally realized what it means to live like a year.

At the same time, Butler Qian came out of the space, transformed into a little fox, and quickly rushed into the Yamen with a letter in his mouth.

The gatekeeper felt a gust of cold wind blowing by. He trembled and said in confusion: "There is still a sinister wind in the Yamen? Aren't all demons and ghosts afraid of the Yamen?"

The person next to me said: "Don't scare me, this yamen has killed many people before."

Now the two of them looked at each other and closed their mouths at the same time, no one dared to speak.

Housekeeper Qian bit the envelope and found Lin Jinhui in the back house. She was looking for gifts and was about to apologize to Su Qin.

She didn't feel it was shameful for her to apologize as the prefect's wife. She had to know that without the Shui family, her man would be a fugitive. Not to mention being promoted, his head would not be saved.

"Ah... there's a ghost..." a maid cried.

She saw a snowball on the ground rolling past her, pushing a letter.

Lin Jinhui lowered her head and saw the snow fox on the ground. She picked up the letter on the ground, opened it and read it. She immediately became furious, picked up the little fox and put it on her shoulder, and then ran out with her skirt in her hand.

"Master...it's not good...master..."

Hu Tu in the study was reading official documents. When he heard his wife's shouting, he quickly got up and ran to the door, asking anxiously: "What happened?"

If there was no big event like the sky falling, my wife would never make such a fuss.

Lin Jinhui ran closer and handed the letter to Hu Tu, "Look at it quickly."

Hu Tu read it over and said angrily: "This is unreasonable. No wonder so many children have been lost recently. Let's go!"

He walked a few steps and then stopped, "Give me the little fox fairy, I have to let him lead the way."

Butler Qian automatically jumped onto his shoulder and pointed his front paw outward.

Hu Tu's heart trembled. He was really a fox who could understand what he said.

He immediately called all the government officials and headed to the Zhao Mansion in a hurry. When he got to the door, Hu Tu waved his hand and said, "Knock it open!"

Wei Chenglin had already learned what happened on the way here. He immediately ran up, cut the doorbolt from the crack of the door with a big knife and kicked the door open.

"Let's go!" He rushed in with others.

Although Hu Tu had lost a lot of weight, his physique was not as good as that of Wei Chenglin, and he was already panting by the door.

Seeing his dedication to the Shui family, Butler Qian gave him the smallest seedless date.

Hu Tu found something falling into his arms. He reached out and took it out and found it was a jujube carved as red as jade, with a strong fragrance exuding from it.

He couldn't resist the temptation at all and just stuffed it into his mouth...

As you can imagine, the smallest dates in the space were the size of ping pong balls. Hu Tu’s mouth was full, but he couldn’t bear to spit it out.

After eating the dates, he suddenly felt a shock all over his body, a warm current flowing through his limbs, and all fatigue was gone.

He looked up at the sky with wide eyes. There were no birds. Where did the dates come from?

Seeing his stupidity, Butler Qian couldn't help but scratch him and urged him to go in quickly.

Hu Tu's eyes narrowed, and he thought that Shui Zheran's family was protected by the gods, so the gods rewarded him with dates because he was doing things for them.

His respect for the Shui family reached a new level, so he lifted up his clothes and trotted in.

There were not many maids in the Zhao family, so the government servants rushed in and gathered them all in the courtyard, shouting and yelling.

Seeing Su Qin's confused look, Wei Chenglin said, "A lot of children have been lost in Fucheng recently. I received a secret report that it was the Zhao family, and I came here to search today."

The aunt and Zhao Yu huddled behind, and they looked at each other and exchanged information.

Zhao Fugui raised his hand and said, "Did the official make a mistake? We are all good citizens, how can we kidnap and traffic children?"

Wei Chenglin snorted coldly, "Search."

The government officials immediately dispersed and searched everywhere.

Hu Tu turned to look at the little fox on his shoulder, "Can Master Fox Fairy lead the way?"

Butler Qian had no choice but to jump to the ground and run to the backyard on the left.

Hu Tu raised his foot to chase after her, but her aunt pulled Zhao Yu to stop Hu Tu. Both of them smiled flatteringly.

"My lord, please stay." My aunt said in a cooing voice.

Zhao Yu took the opportunity to stuff a small stack of banknotes into Hu Tu's hand.

The aunt deliberately leaned towards Hu Tu, "Sir, what happened? Why did you want to search my yard?"

As she spoke, her white hands touched Hu Tu's skirt.

Hu Tu took three steps back in fright and said angrily: "You woman is so shameless."

He opened the banknote in his hand and smiled sarcastically, "Hey, one hundred taels, I'm really willing to give it up."
Chapter completed!