In Cier Ridge, a counselor wearing a green robe looked at the mountain road, his face darker than the pitch-black sky.
According to the plan, the guard should have brought Wei Laosan to Ci'erling long ago, but he took the people until midnight and Wei Laosan did not come.
"Mr. Lin, why haven't Wei Laosan and the others arrived yet? Is something going to happen?"
One of the dead soldiers frowned and asked.
The dignitaries attach great importance to the hot air balloon and also to Wei Laosan. If something goes wrong with Wei Laosan, all of them will be punished.
"How do I know?" the counselor asked impatiently: "Have the people sent to inquire for information come back?"
"It's too dark to leave, I guess I won't be able to come back until late at night," the dead man replied.
A group of people waited around until dawn, and finally a spy came back.
"How about it?"
The counselor, who had not slept all night, immediately called the spies over.
"Sir, I followed the route you mentioned until I reached Xihe Bend, but I found nothing."
The spy shook his head and said: "Xihe Bay is now very strictly inspected. I won't be able to get in for a while, and I'm afraid that sir will get impatient and come back to report the situation first."
The counselor knew that the spies did not dare to approach Xihewan, but he did not point it out and nodded to signal the spies to retreat.
This spy left for less than a stick of incense when the second spy came back.
He took another route and also found the outskirts of Xihewan, but also found nothing.
At dawn, all the spies returned, but the hands and feet of Wei Laosan's kidnapper were very clean, and none of the spies found anything.
"Sir, do you think Liang Chong will run away with Wei Laosan?"
The dead man looked around and asked in a low voice.
The powerful people not only instigated the rebellion against Jin Feng in Xihewan, but also did the same to other powerful families.
Before coming here, someone had found the dead man privately, hoping to bribe the dead man and let him pick up Wei Laosan and secretly escape with Wei Laosan.
The price offered by that man was very attractive, and the dead man was also very moved. However, his wife, concubines, and children were all in the hands of powerful people, and he was living a good life now, so he did not agree.
If someone bribed him, wouldn't there be someone who bribed Wei Laosan's bodyguard?
The counselor glanced at the dead man and said confidently: "Don't worry, Liang Chong will never betray the master!"
In fact, the dead man didn't know that the person who bribed him was sent by the counselor.
This is also one of the daily assessments of the dead soldiers by the powerful. If he had agreed at that time, he would probably have turned into a corpse by now.
Liang Chong was also a dead soldier and underwent the same test.
Although the dead man didn't know why the counselor was so sure that Liang Chong would not rebel, he did not ask for the reason. Instead, he asked: "Sir, what should we do now? Is the master still waiting?"
"What else can you do? Check it out for me!" The counselor said: "Send all your men out. I don't care what method you use. Even if you dig up the ground in Jinchuan, you have to find Wei Laosan!"
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"Yes!" The dead man nodded in agreement.
In fact, Wei Laosan was not the only one who was instigated by the powerful to rebel in Xihewan. There were other villagers who were also corrupted by the powerful's hidden secrets. However, most of them were ordinary people and had no access to the core secrets.
But the secret agent did not give up on them, and would secretly send some money to them every month.
All industries under Jin Feng are developing rapidly. What if one day someone like Wei Laosan is reused by Jin Feng?
Although Xihewan was heavily sealed, spies still used secret codes to contact the traitors in the village.
After the traitor confirmed that Wei Laosan had indeed escaped, Guan Xiaorou was furious about this. Not only did she send a large number of escorts to block all the main intersections in Jinchuan overnight, but she also set off to the county government before dawn and asked the Jinchuan County Magistrate to dispatch government soldiers to assist.
Although Chen Ji died, the fourth prince also ordered that Jin Feng be deprived of all his titles and official positions, but he did not deprive Guan Xiaorou of the title of princess. I don't know whether he forgot or felt it was unnecessary.
At this time, the fourth prince had just seized the throne, and the official news had not yet reached Jinchuan. With Jin Feng's influence, Guan Xiaorou personally came to the door. The county magistrate dared not say a word, and obediently sent out soldiers to cooperate with the escort.
In less than a day, all intersections around Jinchuan County were blocked by bodyguards and government soldiers.
The Bell Team also mobilized countless civilians to launch a large-scale search throughout the county.
Unfortunately, Wei Laosan had been transferred out of Jinchuan long ago. The search continued for several days and found nothing.
Guan Xiaorou was anxious, and the powerful people who got the news were also anxious, and they used all their available connections to investigate secretly.
Unfortunately, nothing was found either.
Wei Laosan disappeared out of thin air as if he had evaporated from the world.
"Madam, the results of the second round of searches are out, and nothing was found."
Xiaoyu found Guan Xiaorou: "What should we do next? Will we continue the search?"
"It's been several days. I'm afraid Wei Laosan has left Jinchuan long ago. There's no need to search anymore."
Guan Xiaorou rubbed her brows and said, "Let the people do what they have to do. Let one group cooperate with your two groups to expand the scope of the search and continue the search!"
Zhong Ming's group is responsible for external affairs, with Zhang Liang and Han Feng in charge. However, Han Feng has not returned from the East China Sea yet, so Xiaoyu will lead them for the time being.
"Okay!" Xiaoyu nodded, turned around and left.
Guan Xiaorou sent Xiaoyu out of the study and went to the backyard.
For safety reasons, Guan Xiaorou sent someone to take Princess Ninth and Concubine Qing to the backyard last night.
Entering the backyard, I happened to see Zhuer coming out of the Ninth Princess' room carrying a tray.
Guan Xiaorou saw that the food on the tray was not touched at all, frowned and asked, "Wuyang still refuses to eat?"
The Ninth Princess woke up in the middle of the night last night, but she refused to eat.
If she hadn't asked about the situation in the village, Zhuer would have thought that she was going crazy like Guan Xiaorou some time ago.
"I don't want to eat it," Pearl replied, shaking her head.
"Then what did she say?" Guan Xiaorou asked again.
"I just asked Wei Laosan this morning if he had been caught, and asked about Qin'er's condition, but I didn't say anything else."
"How is Qin'er?"
"Mr. Wei said his life was saved, but he hasn't woken up yet."
"Then you go take care of Qin'er, and I'll go see Wuyang."
Guan Xiaorou touched the porcelain bowl on the tray and found that it was still warm, so she took the tray and walked into the room.
In the room, Princess Ninth was lying on the bed, staring blankly at the roof.
Concubine Qing sat aside, her eyes as swollen as jujubes.
In just a few days, her man was killed and her daughter had a miscarriage. Concubine Qing cried her eyes dry. She no longer had the momentum and pomp she had when she first came to Xihewan, and she lost a lot of weight.
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Seeing Guan Xiaorou holding a tray in her hand, Concubine Qing's eyes turned red again: "Xiaorou, please try to persuade Wen'er. She has lost so much blood. How can she not eat?"
"Wu Yang, your Majesty is right, you have lost so much blood, you can't go without food."
Guan Xiaorou picked up the chicken soup on the tray and said, "For the sake of your Majesty and me, please take a few bites."
"Sister, I really can't eat it." Ninth Princess shook her head: "Is there any news about Wei Laosan?"