"What kind of man are you asking a girl to stand up for you?" Ling Yufei snorted disdainfully and ignored him. At this time, the shopkeeper came out from behind and asked Ling Yufei what he needed.

Ling Yufei said he wanted to buy food, and the shopkeeper said there was wine, tea, and noodles. Finally, he nodded to Lan Qiao with his chin and said, "Of course, if the guest has the ability to cook chicken by himself, our chicken can also be sold."

of."

"I don't know how to cook noodles or roast chicken." Ling Yufei didn't know anything about cooking, and he was too embarrassed to take it back and let Li Zhuer think of a solution, and said with some embarrassment, "But we won't be full just by eating it.

"

"Let me cook for Brother Ling." Lan Qiao put down his chopsticks and stood up, saying, "This is for Miss Zhuer's sake."

Lan Qiao cooked a handful of noodles for Ling Yufei, and Ling Yufei went out with the noodle bowl in his hands. When he returned to the small hot spring courtyard surrounded by fences, he found that Li Zhuer was nowhere to be seen, and only a pool of spring water was still steaming.

Ling Yufei was startled and quickly put down the bowl and looked around, but there was still no sign of Li Zhuer.

He was really anxious now. He returned to the bamboo house and wanted to ask Lan Qiao again, but was told by the shopkeeper that they had finished eating the chicken and went back to the soup.

"The young couple are having a private conversation together, sir, it's best not to disturb them." At the end of the sentence, the shopkeeper advised with a smile.

Ling Yufei probably didn't know if he wanted to ask them, so he walked outside the door to check.

As soon as he walked out of the courtyard of Wuling Tangquan, he was shocked to see dense footprints on the snow. Horse hoof prints and ruts were not there when he brought Li Zhuer here.

He followed the mark all the way forward, and soon a woodcutter came towards him through the snow, and he asked the woodcutter.

The woodcutter said that he saw a carriage passing by with a servant from the Hezhou County Government sitting on it, and he should have gone back to Hezhou County.

Ling Yufei felt relieved and soon returned to the county seat and rushed to the magistrate's office.

The gate of the county government office was locked tightly. The guards on duty were afraid of the wind and snow and had already hid in the concierge. Ling Yu flew and banged the gate loudly before someone came out with his hat on his hands and asked, "Who are you? Are you calling the door to complain or to file a complaint?"

The man was holding his sleeves and stomping his feet in the snow, with an impatient look on his face.

Ling Yufei asked with a gloomy face, "Did your county government bring someone back just now?"

"We caught a girl. She's pretty and pretty." The man looked at Ling Yufei suspiciously and cursed, "How do you know if she's the criminal's accomplice?"

Ling Yufei held back her anger and asked again, "What crime has she committed?"

"I don't know what the crime is. I only know that the county government has the approval of the Ministry of Punishment to arrest him. It can't be wrong." The man glanced at Ling Yufei, lowered his voice and said, "If you are that girl's friend, give money to the county magistrate."

For those who are in charge, be smart and use the back door, and don't make so much noise, for fear that no one will see you."

Ling Yufei knew that he had been misunderstood by the man as coming to the county government to pay bribes to settle the relationship, but he did not point it out and only asked coldly, "Where is the back door?"

The man pointed, stopped talking, bundled up his clothes and ran back to the concierge to warm himself by the fire.

Ling Yu flew around to the back door of the county government office, but did not call the door again.

He looked around and saw that there was no one around, took advantage of the wind and snow to jump up the wall, and then climbed into the county government office.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and everyone in the county government office was keeping warm in their rooms, which gave Ling Yufei the convenience of sneaking. He found the county government prison, sneaked in when no one was prepared, and searched around inside, but didn't see anything

Li Zhuer.

He thought that Li Zhuer might be being interrogated, so he went to the lobby of the county government office and looked in both halls, but no one was there.

He felt strange, but it was inconvenient to ask people in the county government office to ask questions, so he had to go to the county government office again.

Remembering that he could look for clues through footprints, he walked around the outer wall of the county government office, but to his surprise, he only found that the carriage entered the rut of the county government office and there was no trace of exiting again.

Ling Yufei walked into the county government office again and found the carriage. He confirmed that the wheelbase was consistent with the ruts outside the county government office. He opened the curtain and checked inside the carriage. Sure enough, he could smell something unique to Li Zhuer.

Girly scent.

In this way, it can be confirmed that Li Zhuer was arrested and brought to the county government, but where is she now?

Either she was imprisoned in a secret room like a cellar in the county government office, or she was taken away by someone.

If it is the latter, since there are no other suspicious footprints outside the county government office, that person must be a master who can fly over walls and walls.

With this in mind, Ling Yufei walked out of the county government office again and wandered around the streets near the county government office.

A woman walked from an alley next to the county government office with two green onions in her arms.

She looked to be in her fifties, wrapped up like a ball of flesh, lowered her head to avoid the wind and snow, and almost ran into Ling Yufei's arms.

Ling Yufei supported her and asked, "Did you see anyone coming out of the county government office?"

The woman looked at his heroic face, then at the seven-hole dingyin sword on his back, and asked without answering, "You are the so-called hero, right?"

Ling Yufei frowned, but could only nod lightly.

"Someone did pass by there just now. He was a handsome young man with a little girl in his arms. They flew over the wall. I almost thought it was my eyesight." The woman turned back and pointed to the east of the county government office.

He looked at the courtyard wall on the side and said with a worried look on his face, "That little girl is naked. She is not afraid of freezing in this weather."

Ling Yufei pressed the woman's finger and flew up the wall, and sure enough he saw some tiny footprints on the wall.

"They seem to have entered the yard over there." The woman raised her head and said to him, "That man is probably a flower picker. If you are really a hero who punishes rape and eliminates evil, go and save that little girl."

"

Ling Yufei thanked the woman and walked into the courtyard the woman mentioned.

There were only three broken houses in the courtyard, two of which were empty. Ling Yufei was about to sneak into the third broken house when he heard the faint sobbing of a woman coming from inside the house.

Ling Yufei heightened his vigilance and broke in through the door, expecting to see the "young man" the woman said had kidnapped Li Zhuer. However, the scene he saw shocked him so much that he was speechless for a long time.

Or rather than being surprised, it would be more accurate to say that he was shocked like never before.

A brazier was burning in the corner of the dilapidated house, and the surrounding windows were covered with thick felt cloth. The room was as warm as spring. A young girl stood in the middle of the dilapidated house, with tears on her face.

The girl had a graceful figure, and her fine material dress was torn to tatters. Under the firelight, only her face was beautiful and her features were picturesque.

She lowered her head slightly, spread her arms, and had iron hoops on her wrists. She was hung from the beam by two iron chains, and her whole body showed a "Y" shape.

The iron chain was pulled very high, and the girl's wrists were bleeding from the iron hoop. She had to stand on tiptoes to support the weight of her body.

Her posture was obviously very laborious, her whole body was tense, and her skin was covered with fine beads of sweat. Under the hazy light, it seemed to have a thrilling and almost eerie beauty.

There are many scars on the girl's body, all of which are marks of being whipped. Some of the scars are old and new. The old ones are estimated to be three or four months old, while the new ones seem to have been beaten just recently. Her dress may have been on it.

torn to pieces when whipped.

"Sir," the girl raised her head with difficulty, and begged with tears in her big eyes that seemed to be filled with the mist of Jiangnan, "Can you let me down?"

Ling Yufei's heart seemed to be stabbed hard by something. He quickly opened the iron hoop on the girl's hand and slowly helped her sit down.

The girl gasped lightly and rubbed the scars on her wrists caused by the iron hoop and whispered, "Thank you, sir."
Chapter completed!