After breakfast, Xiao Yeyang said to Daohua: "Get ready, I will send you to meet Miss Dong and the others later, and then you will go back to Ningmen Mansion together."

Daohua nodded, today is November 27th, and she has to go back before her grandmother's birthday on the 29th: "By the way, there was someone who helped me before. I want to see him before I leave."

Xiao Yeyang admitted it without hesitation: "Is he a villager? What's his name? I'll send someone to call him."

Daohua: "His name is Yongwang."

Xiao Yeyang invited Defu and asked him to call someone.

After a while, Defu came back and said he couldn't find anyone in the village.

Daohua frowned: "It's impossible. Didn't he come out of the stone tomb that he entered with me before?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yeyang spoke: "If he was in the stone tomb yesterday, he would have been detained." The people in the stone tomb, whether they were the Eighth Prince's people or the villagers who were captured to make iron and soldiers, were all detained.

Locked up.

At this time, An Yi came over and saw that he seemed to have something to tell Xiao Yeyang. Daohua stood up and said, "You are busy with your business. I will go and take a look myself and send someone to guide me."

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Xiao Yeyang was a little worried: "How about you wait for me for a while and I will go with you?"

Daohua waved her hand: "No, I just went to see someone. Now that you have controlled this place, it is very safe. There is nothing to worry about."

Xiao Yeyang was silent for a moment and said to Defu: "You and Daohua go there together." After saying that, he looked at Daohua again, "Be careful and don't accidentally pull the wound on your hand."<

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Daohua nodded: "I know." After saying that, she walked out.

Defu hurriedly followed.

On the way, seeing Defu leading her towards the center of the village, Daohua couldn't help but ask: "You just locked people up in the village?"

Defu smiled and said: "There are special cells built behind the ancestral hall in this village, and those people are locked in the cells."

Daohua nodded: "Although the villagers in the stone tomb participated in smelting iron and forging soldiers, most of them were forced. Now that you are locking them up, what are you going to do?"

Defu: "Master didn't say anything, I guess everything here will have to wait for the emperor's reply."

Daohua thought about it and didn't ask any more questions.

Soon, the two came to the village ancestral hall.

The entire ancestral hall was closely guarded by Xiao Yeyang's people. Each of the guards wore swords and looked awe-inspiring.

Daohua followed Defu to the back of the ancestral hall.

Defu: "Girl, the cell is a mess. Just wait here and I'll call you out."

Daohua nodded, but after Defu entered, she heard the noise in the cell and curiously stood at the door, craning her neck to look inside.

The cell layout is very simple, with a passage in the middle and cells on the left and right. Xiao Yeyang's people separated the killers from the villagers, with the killers on the left and the villagers on the right.

Looking at the dark crowd of people in the cell, she realized how many people she had fainted in the stone tomb yesterday, and she felt happy and scared at the same time.

Fortunately, she injected enough of the drug and the drug was strong enough. If the killers had not been stunned, I don’t know what would have happened to her and the villagers.

Daohua didn't look much, and after knowing the situation in the cell, she left.

Although Daohua just stood at the door of the cell and looked at her, some people in the cell noticed her, including one-eyed and bald.

When Dueye saw Defu entering and exiting the cell, he didn't look at the guards much. He knew that this person's status was probably not low, and when he saw him coming to take Yongwang out in person, he suddenly started thinking.

The girl was able to escape before but was not found by them. I am afraid it is related to Yongwang.

Thinking of his one-year-old son, there was deep reluctance in his one-eyed eyes. When Yongwang passed by the cell where he was, he pounced on him, stretched out his hand on the block, pulled Yongwang over, and whispered

Tao:

"Yongwang, for the sake of how good I have been to you and the people in the village over the years, please tell me and that girl that as long as she is willing to save me and the bald ones, our lives will be hers.

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He inquired about the Yan family. He came from a poor family and had a weak foundation. They only grew up in the past few years. Such a family is not enough to accumulate their own power. They are definitely useful to the Yan family.

Yongwang glanced at the one-eyed and bald head, and under Defu's half-smiling gaze, he neither nodded nor spoke, and hurried out with his head lowered.

"Girl, I brought him out for you!"

Defu brought Yongwang to Daohua.

Daohua glanced at Yongwang, then smiled at Defu and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Defu immediately smiled and said: "What did the girl say? It's my blessing to be able to help you with things. You say it first, while I walk around. If there is anything you need to say, I will come over immediately."
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Daohua nodded and waited until Defu walked away to talk to the guard before looking at Yongwang: "Are you okay?"

Yongwang shook his head.

Daohua took out a pill: "This is your antidote."

Yongwang glanced at Daohua and took the antidote.

Daohua said again: "Do you need my help with anything? You have helped me before. As long as I can do it, I will try my best to satisfy you, just as a favor to you."

Yongwang pursed his lips and was silent for a long time before murmuring: "Can I follow you?" His voice was a little soft and his confidence was a little lacking.

Daohua didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"

Yongwang mustered up his courage and raised his eyes to look at Daohua: "Girl, I want to follow you. I can do anything and endure any hardship. Please accept me."

If Master Cao hadn't reminded him, he would not have dared to make such a request.

Daohua was a little surprised. She thought this man would beg her to help him leave here, but she didn't expect that he wanted to follow her. She pondered for a while and asked: "Don't you want to go home?"

Yongwang smiled bitterly: "My father and brother died of exhaustion in the weapons factory, and now I am the only one left in my family." Seeing Daohua lowering his eyes and saying nothing, he thought for a while and said again.

"I have read books, can read, and can do arithmetic. Over the years in Sishan Village, because of my relationship with the bald brother, I have been helping Mr. Cao take care of the account books, and I have never made any mistakes during this period."

Daohua raised her eyebrows: "Really?" She said, paused, "Let me ask you a question, why did you help me before?"

Yongwang: "...You are very much like my benefactor. When I was eleven years old, I was kidnapped by human traffickers and brought to Zhongzhou. It was a little brother who rescued me and others and gave us silver to go home."<

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If it weren't for this, he wouldn't risk his life to help her.

Daohua was stunned.

What a coincidence?

Isn't she the one who can't tell?

Daohua took a closer look at Yongwang, hmm... I really have no impression.

Yongwang looked at Daohua with heart in his heart, very worried that she would not agree. In fact, when he saw the young prince at the stone tomb last night, he had already confirmed that this was his benefactor.

Now that he has nothing to worry about, it would be the greatest blessing for him to be with his benefactor.

Daohua was silent for a while: "You can follow me, but..."

Yongwang was overjoyed at first, and when he heard the word ‘but’, he thought: “But what?”

Daohua: "I can't make the decision on this matter. I have to ask the people responsible for taking care of you. If they think you are okay, they can let you go. You can come to Ningmen Mansion and Yan Mansion to find me."

Yongwang felt relieved and grinned: "Okay."

Daohua: "Okay, you went to the stone tomb with me yesterday. I have already told others about this. You don't need to go back to the cell, just go back to the village."

After saying that, he was about to turn around and leave.

"Girl!"

Daohua turned around and saw that Yongwang was hesitant to speak, so she asked, "Do you have anything else?"

Yongwang hesitated for a while and finally spoke: "Master Cao asked me to give him a message. Are you willing to listen?"

Daohua raised her eyebrows: "He asked you to bring me a message? What message?"

Yongwang said quickly: "He said that as long as you are willing to save him and the bald brothers, their lives are yours."

Daohua sneered: "What do I want their lives for?"

Yongwang moved his lips, struggled for a moment, and said, "Girl, I know I'm going too far, but I still want to say a few words for Mr. Cao and the bald brother."

Seeing Daohua being silent, he continued.

"Master Cao and Brother Bald didn't follow Mr. Fan and the others from the beginning."

"Master Cao used to be a boat operator. Later, he got into an argument with someone while delivering goods and was blinded in one eye. He couldn't find anything to do to make a living, so he took refuge with Mr. Fan."

"As for the bald brothers, they all come from the same village as me. There was a severe drought in the north a few years ago and our family really had no food, so they worked with Mr. Cao."

"Master Cao is quite a loyal man, but Mr. Fan and others don't regard the lives of the villagers at all. If he hadn't been secretly taking care of them in recent years, more people would have died."

Yongwang still didn't respond when he saw Daohua, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, Xiao Yeyang came over.

Seeing Daohua standing with a young man, Xiao Yeyang walked over quickly, looked at Yongwang, and looked at Daohua: "Is he the person you want to see?"
To be continued...