OBS Chapter 205 still managed to get her to take advantage of him!
Chapter 205 still managed to get her to take advantage of him!
Huangfu Qianxiang: If he wants to take things a step further, he probably needs to first become like family with Xia Mo.
Huangfu Qian looked at the jade bottle in his hand, used a silent whistle to summon the female eagle, and asked the female eagle to deliver the medicine to the garrison camp.
Huangfu Qian returned to his desk, glanced at the pile of documents, and buried himself in his official duties once again.
In the military camp a few miles away from Lingzhou Prefecture—
The military camp was tightly guarded, and no one was allowed to enter or leave at will. Even a female eagle needed permission from the soldiers to land.
Jiang Dian, who was in the main tent, soon learned of the arrival of the female eagle.
Jiang Dian was pushed out of the tent by his subordinates in a wheelchair, signaling that the female eagle could fly down.
Fearing she might break the jade bottle in her talons, the female eagle slowed her descent as she landed, tossing the bottle to Jiang Dian the instant it passed over his head.
Jiangdian took over.
The female eagle landed immediately after the other eagle, and on her other claw was a small bamboo tube with a note written on it. After dropping the bamboo tube on the ground, the female eagle looked at Jiang Dian.
Jiang Dian's subordinates picked it up and handed it to him.
When Jiang Dian learned how to use the medicine in the small jade bottle, he was surprised, but then gave a wry smile.
His legs were shattered due to the betrayal of his subordinates; how could they possibly recover?!
But since this was medicine bestowed by his master, Jiang Dian returned to his tent, lay down on his bed, and took the medicine.
Half an hour later—
Jiang Dian landed on both feet and didn't feel any pain in his bones. He was surprised to stand up and took two steps carefully. He found that apart from his feet not being as flexible as before, he didn't feel any discomfort!
Jiang Dian ran and jumped around inside the tent a few more times, his eyes widening in surprise.
His shattered leg bones were actually... completely healed!
Jiang Dian was too excited to speak, and said, "Prepare quickly, take twenty trusted men, I'm going to Lingzhou Prefecture!"
Actually, Jiang Dian's legs still have some minor problems.
For example, Jiang Dian took the medication with the mindset that his legs were destined to be useless, and the bones were not completely aligned. As a result, the healed bones were slightly crooked, but not obviously so.
It wasn't until Jiang Dian mounted his horse that he realized his bones were slightly crooked!
Jiang Dian realized that he hadn't listened to the notes and made the necessary preparations. He immediately felt a pang of regret, but for now, he was content that his shattered legs could be restored!
When Jiang Dian walked out of the tent with both legs intact, the garrison soldiers were all shocked.
Didn't they say their general's leg was crippled?! The news has even reached the capital; this is going to be quite a show.
* * *
Inside the prefectural government office—
The fifteen rescued girls were placed in three guest rooms behind the yamen (government office), five to a room. There weren't enough beds, so they slept on the floor.
The girls are hoping that their case will lead to the arrest of the murderer!
The authorities did indeed arrest several human traffickers, and they also arrested the lead boatman on that boat.
The Cao family stated that Cao Kai was unaware that anyone on the ship was transporting people for human traffickers; it was all done privately by the lead boatman.
Since the Cao family had all said so, Prefect Feng thought that the Cao family was a major taxpayer in Lingzhou Prefecture, and they had people from the capital as their backers. Without any doubt, he accepted the answer that it was the lead boatman who did it.
As for the human traffickers who were thrown out, they knew very well that they were just expendable pawns, and they all confessed without struggling.
With the case now solved, the next step is to consider how to provide for the fifteen murdered girls.
Prefect Feng sent his advisor, Zhao, to handle the matter.
When Master Zhao met the fifteen girls, a barely perceptible mocking smile flashed in his eyes.
Master Zhao said, "The case is closed. The human traffickers have been caught, and the boatmen who helped transport you have also been caught. Now, there's just one problem: you were arrested by human traffickers, so even if you're still innocent, no one will believe you anymore. Do you want to go home, or do you want the government to step in and help you find a decent job?"
When Master Zhao mentioned the "respectable jobs" that followed, a malicious glint flashed in his eyes.
"I want to go home! I want to go home! I want my parents! I want my parents!"
Of the fifteen girls, five jumped out, crying and begging to go home.
“Alright,” Master Zhao nodded in agreement, then looked at the other ten girls: “And you?”
When Master Zhao said, "Even if you are still innocent, no one will believe you anymore," he did it on purpose, just to break the spirits of these girls.
Sure enough, it worked.
“If we go back… we won’t get away with it either. We… want to find a job to support ourselves, so we’ll settle down in Lingzhou Prefecture,” one of the girls said cautiously.
“Very well,” Master Zhao said, quite satisfied with the latter’s statement. “If you agree, we’ll sign a work contract in a couple of days.”
Master Zhao turned around, a greedy look in his eyes.
As for the five girls who suggested going home, Master Zhao had no intention of letting them leave!
He has plenty of ways to make them stay obediently!
Having made up his mind, Master Zhao went to the prefect in a cheerful mood to report back.
* * *
at the same time--
In the Cao family's side courtyard, in the courtyard where Cao Kai lived—
The screen in front of Cao Kai switched from the live stream to the task interface.
The side quest prompt above indicated that Cao Kai had obtained a shipbuilding blueprint.
Cao Kai was excited and couldn't wait to take the shipbuilding blueprint out of the live broadcast system, hold it in his hand, and look at it over and over again.
"Hahaha……"
Cao Kai thought about how he could achieve his goal with the shipbuilding blueprints, and he couldn't help but laugh heartily with delight.
The blueprint was quite large, but Cao Kai only opened it to look at a corner before taking it back and hiding it in a corner of the wall, among his usual hiding places.
Cao Kai dug open a brick, took out a box from inside the wall, hid the blueprints inside the box, and then stuffed the brick back in tightly. He raised the corners of his mouth, thinking he had hidden it very well.
Cao Kai retreated, put the palace tub back in its place, and then left the room.
The moment Xia Mo's divine sense transmitted the message back, she was silent for a moment: "..."
No one would ever guess that Cao Kai hid things in this way.
Xia Mo extended her divine sense and entered the wall from the other side. She attached her divine sense to the blueprints and with a thought of "collecting," the blueprints and a pile of silver notes in the box were all collected into her soul space.
She didn't use the silver notes; they had special serial numbers, and using them would be discovered. But this blueprint…
Xia Mo, holding the blueprints, happily went to find the busy Huangfu Qianqu.
She can now take advantage of Huangfu Qian again.
In Huangfu Qian's private study—
When Huangfu Qian saw Xia Mo, he got up from behind his desk and stood instead of sitting, so that Xia Mo could not jump into his lap and sit in his lap.
Xia Mo smiled slyly. She couldn't sit in Huangfu Qian's arms anymore, but she could still "crash" into them.
Huangfu Qian: "..."
She still got to take advantage of me!