After marrying the vegetative prince, the doctor concubine killed people randomly

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Pei Zhiyi praised her without hesitation, "Princess Ye, you look so beautiful when you smile."

"I have been in the military camp for two years and have never seen a woman. I have been dealing with soldiers all day long."

"You are the first person I met after returning to the capital. Can I be friends with you?"

When she said this, she was afraid that Ji Yuntang would reject her, so she immediately explained:

"I know it's a bit presumptuous of me to say this, but I really like you as a person. I think you're very smart, and I like to be friends with smart people."

She had a very straightforward personality, and the look she gave Ji Yuntang was open and sincere.

Ji Yuntang could not refuse such a look.

She extended her hand to Pei Zhiyi, "Nice to meet you, Miss Pei."

Pei Zhiyi was stunned for a moment before she reacted. She immediately placed her hand on Ji Yuntang's palm.

She smiled brightly, "That's great, Pei Zhiyi has a friend now too."

Ji Yuntang looked at her with a smile but said nothing.

The group took a horse-drawn carriage and soon arrived at Guihua Village.

It was autumn at that time, the harvest season for crops. At a glance, one could see many villagers in Guihua Village working in the fields, a scene of a great harvest.

Qin Lizheng walked to Ji Yuntang's side and asked cautiously:

"Princess Ye, could this be a mistake? There doesn't seem to be anything unusual in our Osmanthus Village today."

"If you want to leave the village, you have to go through this road. The man that Widow Yang took in is from another place. He definitely wouldn't dare to steal the two children out in broad daylight. If he really dared to do that, the villagers of Guihua Village would definitely have discovered it. I'm afraid they would have tied him up long ago."

Pei Zhiyi asked: "What if he disguised himself as one of your villagers?"

"Your village is busy with the autumn harvest now, so how could anyone possibly notice him?"

Ji Yuntang pursed his lips and said slowly: "Go to Widow Yang's house and see if the child is at home."

No one had any objection to this proposal.

"Da Ya and Er Ya, mother is back."

As soon as she opened the door to the yard, Widow Yang started shouting, calling the names of her two children as usual.

But after shouting many times, no one responded, so Widow Yang immediately ran into the room to look for him.

The room was in a mess. The furnishings and wardrobe looked like they had been turned over, and there were a lot of children's clothes scattered on the floor.

Widow Yang was shocked when she couldn't find her two daughters, and she quickly ran to her money jar to look for them.

When she opened the jar, it was empty, even the cloth bag where she had put her money was gone.

Widow Yang slapped her thigh and started crying, "It's all gone, all gone. His father only gave us three people fifteen taels of silver, and it's all gone. How am I going to live in the future?"

Qin Lizheng had a stern face and said in a deep voice: "Today, Brother Wang Sheng found me and asked me to bring him to your house. When we came in the afternoon, we didn't enter your house. Your two daughters were crying in the yard. It was Brother Wang Sheng who spent money to buy some food for your daughters at the entrance of the village and stuffed it in through the crack of the door."

"It seems that this was most likely done by the man you took in."

Ji Yuntang looked solemn and said in an orderly manner: "Qin Lizheng, organize some villagers to look around Guihua Village to see if you can find any suspicious people."

"Miss Pei and I will go to the village to see if we can find any clues."

Qin Lizheng agreed immediately.

The group divided the work clearly and started to act.

Ji Yuntang found an aunt working in the fields and asked her if she had seen anyone passing by, preferably someone pulling a cart or driving a horse-drawn carriage.

After some questioning, the aunt told her.

"It rained recently, so the road is still a little wet and muddy, so it's hard to walk on. This afternoon, I saw only an old man pulling firewood on a cart, and no one else."

"This road is the main thoroughfare of our village. Whether you go up the mountain to chop firewood or go out of the village to the city, you have to pass through here. There are countless people walking here every day. It is not uncommon for one or two villagers pulling carts to pass by occasionally."

Pei Zhiyi glanced at Ji Yuntang and said, "He went up the mountain to chop wood on a rainy day. I think he is suspicious."

Ji Yuntang also said: "I think so too."

The two children were that big, and if Zhu Mian wanted to take them out of the village without alerting the villagers, he would have to make some changes to their appearance.

It is possible to dress up as an old man chopping wood.

"Aunt said he walked along this road. There are some wheel marks on the ground. Let's go over and look for them. Maybe we can find some clues."

After Ji Yuntang finished speaking, he followed Pei Zhiyi and started looking along the road.

The road in the mountains was not easy to walk on and was very rugged. When passing a fork in the road, Pei Zhiyi unexpectedly discovered that the wheel marks had disappeared.

"The tire marks are gone. How come?"

"Princess Ye, can you find anything?"

Ji Yuntang narrowed her eyes, slowly squatted down, and ran her fingertips over the wet soil on the ground.

This is a three-way intersection, but there are high slopes everywhere. It stands to reason that the tire tracks should not disappear here.

Suddenly, a bright red color appeared in Ji Yuntang's peripheral vision.

She stood up, walked over quickly, and picked up the thing from the grass.

It is a red head flower, and it looks very simple.

Pei Zhiyi said angrily: "This is obviously used by a little girl, how could it fall here? Will the two children encounter any accidents?"

It's no wonder she thought too much. The road below was a hundred-meter-high slope with so many dense trees that you couldn't see the end at a glance.

If Zhu Mian really killed someone and dumped the body here, it would be very difficult to track him down.

Ji Yuntang analyzed it in his mind and said calmly: "He wants to use the child as a hostage. The child should still be safe. Let's look here first to see if there are any other clues!"

Pei Zhiyi nodded, and the two of them, one looking to the left and the other looking to the right, really allowed Ji Yuntang to discover a clue.

The grass on one slope collapsed, looking like it had been flattened by something.

Just then, Wang Sheng and the government officials rushed over.

When the officials from the yamen saw that it was Princess Ye and Miss Pei who showed up in person, they knew that this was a serious matter.

After all, these two are so famous in the capital that ordinary people dare not offend them.

Widow Yang rushed over and knelt on the ground, crying, "Sir, you must save my two daughters. They have been kidnapped and are now missing. You must help me find them."

The leading officer comforted Widow Yang with a few words, then came over and saluted Ji Yuntang and Pei Zhiyi.

"Your humble servant greets Princess Ye, Second Miss Pei."

Ji Yuntang hummed softly and pointed at the flattened grass path under the cliff:

"I suspect Zhu Mian is down there. Please take someone down to look for him."