Chapter 503: Chapter 469, One Hand
After breakfast, Xiao Yeyang said to Daohua, “Get ready, I’ll send you to meet up with Miss Dong and the others later, and then you’ll all head back to Ningmen Prefecture together.”
Daohua nodded. Today was November 27th, and she needed to get back before her grandmother’s birthday on the 29th: “By the way, someone helped me before, and I would like to see him before leaving.”
Xiao Yeyang readily agreed, “Is it a villager? What’s the name? I’ll send someone to fetch him.”
Daohua: “His name is Yongwang.”
Xiao Yeyang summoned De Fu and had him go call the person.
Not long after, De Fu returned, saying he couldn’t find anyone in the village.
Daohua frowned, “That can’t be right, he entered the Stone Tomb with me before; could he still be inside?”
Hearing this, Xiao Yeyang spoke up, “If he was in the Stone Tomb yesterday, he’s probably been detained by now.” Everyone in the Stone Tomb, whether they were Prince’s men or villagers caught for forging weapons, had been locked up.
At that moment, Ang Yi came over, looking as if he had something to say to Xiao Yeyang. Daohua stood up, “You go about your business; I’ll just go take a look myself, just assign someone to show me the way.”
Xiao Yeyang was a bit uneasy: “How about this, wait for me a while, and I’ll go with you?”
Daohua waved her hand dismissively, “No need, it’s just meeting someone, and now that this place is under your control, it’s very safe. There’s nothing to worry about.”
Xiao Yeyang paused for a moment, then said to De Fu, “You go with Daohua.” After finishing speaking, he turned to Daohua, “Be careful and don’t carelessly aggravate the wound on your hand.”
Daohua nodded, “Got it.” With that, she walked outside.
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De Fu hurriedly followed.
On the way, seeing that De Fu was leading her towards the village center, Daohua couldn’t help but ask, “You’re detaining people directly in the village?”
De Fu smiled, “There’s a special prison built behind the village ancestral hall, where those people are locked up.”
Daohua nodded, “Although the villagers in the Stone Tomb were involved in the iron smelting and weapon forging, the majority were forced. Now that you’ve detained them, what are you planning to do with them?”
De Fu: “The master hasn’t said, but I guess we’ll have to wait for the Emperor’s response on this matter.”
Daohua thought it made sense and didn’t ask further.
Soon, the two of them arrived at the village ancestral hall.
The entire area around the ancestral hall was tightly guarded by Xiao Yeyang’s men, each bodyguard armed with swords, presenting a stern and solemn sight.
Daohua followed close behind De Fu to the back of the ancestral hall.
De Fu: “Miss, the prison inside is a mess; you wait here, I’ll go call the person out for you.”
Daohua nodded, but after De Fu went in, she heard the noise from inside the cell and, driven by curiosity, stood at the doorway, craning her neck to look inside.
The layout of the prison was simple, with a corridor down the middle and cells on either side. Xiao Yeyang’s people had separated the assassins from the villagers, with assassins on the left and villagers on the right.
Seeing the swathes of people inside the cells, Daohua realized how many she had knocked out with sleeping powder the day before in the Stone Tomb. She felt grateful and relieved, yet also frightened at the thought.
Thankfully, she’d had enough sleeping powder, and it was potent enough. If the assassins hadn’t been knocked out, she and the villagers’ fates could have been very different.
Daohua didn’t look long. Knowing the situation inside the prison, she stepped back outside.
Although Daohua had only glanced inside the prison cells from the doorway, some of the people inside had noticed her, including One-Eye and Bald.
One-Eye, seeing De Fu’s dismissive manner towards the guards when he entered and left the prison, knew that his status must be fairly high. And seeing him personally come to take Yongwang out, he immediately began to think.
The girl who had escaped hadn’t been found by them, probably because of Yongwang’s involvement.
Thinking of his son who had just turned one year old, One-Eye’s eyes filled with intense reluctance. As Yongwang passed by his cell, One-Eye lunged over, sticking his hand out to stop him, pulling Yongwang closer, and whispered:
“Yongwang, in light of the good I’ve done for you and the villagers over the years, please pass a message to that young lady for me. If she’s willing to save me and the few like Bald, our lives are hers.”
One-Eye had inquired about the Yan Family’s situation. They came from a humble background with little foundation, and it was only in recent years that they had begun to rise. Such a family had yet to amass its own power, and to the Yan Family, they could be incredibly useful.