Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 106: Join Forces (1)_1

Chapter 106: Chapter 106: Join Forces (1)_1

They searched all night, but the eighteen young women and twelve children who went missing at the Lantern Festival seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth, not a single one could be found, nor any clue to their whereabouts.

The parents and relatives who had lost children waited in agony at the restaurant all night, yet what they waited for was deep despair. As dawn broke, they went to the Government Office together, clinging to a last shred of hope that Jingzhao Yin would dispatch more people to continue the search.

Inside the Bureau of Military Office, Xiao Ruiyuan didn’t sleep all night, his eyes were bloodshot. Listening to the reports from his subordinates, his gaze bore an indescribable anxiety.

"Increase the manpower at several city gates for inspections, we must not let a single one slip through; as for the others, conduct a city-wide search, and see if you can get any unusual information from yesterday night from the public..."

One after another, the instructions were passed down. Xiao Ruiyuan closed his eyes briefly, then stood up abruptly and said to Xiao Eleven standing beside him, "Send someone to invite Young Master Yan, tell him I’m waiting for him at the usual place, there are important matters to discuss."

"Yes!"

Xiao Eleven quickly withdrew, his master and Young Master Yan didn’t get along on the surface, so naturally, he couldn’t invite him openly.

Xiao Ruiyuan entered the inner room, and when he came out again, he had changed into casual clothes. He rode his horse out of the Bureau of Military Office and through the streets, making several turns to ensure no one was following before dismounting and entering a tea house named White Clouds.

The Shopkeeper of the tea house clearly recognized him and, with a nod, respectfully guided him into a private tea room.

Yan Junyu arrived sooner than Xiao Ruiyuan had expected. After pouring himself a cup of tea, he lazily leaned back in his chair and asked nonchalantly, "What, General Xiao has caught the assassin?"

Xiao Ruiyuan was preoccupied and had no time for banter, directly voicing his suspicions, "You had me order a check on people leaving the city last night, did you know that someone would go missing?"

Yan Junyu looked at him with a half-smile, his slender eyes full of jest, "What, is General Xiao’s sweetheart from the Lantern Festival gone missing?"

The fact that eighteen young ladies and twelve children had gone missing at the Lantern Festival, others might not know, but how could he not? Besides, this guy had mobilized the entire Bureau of Military Office in his name; he had been greeted hundreds of times first thing in the morning by all sorts of messy people.

It just never occurred to him that among those who went missing, there was someone that Big Ice Cube cared about, which was surprisingly curious!

Xiao Ruiyuan had no time to pay attention to his nonsense, his expression turned even colder and more solemn, "Do you know who abducted them?"

Seeing him like this, Yan Junyu also became serious, "I have no idea. At the Lantern Festival every year, children go missing. I happened to encounter that chaos yesterday, so, worried about a major disturbance, I had people notify you. I just didn’t expect that there wouldn’t be a major disturbance, but so many people have gone missing."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ruiyuan’s face turned extremely grim.

They had searched all last night but found no clues; the only certainty was that the kidnappers and the thirty people they had taken hadn’t left the city the night before.

Yan Junyu was taken aback by his icy expression. It seemed that Big Ice Cube was indeed very concerned about that unnamed sweetheart!

"You shouldn’t worry too much; those kidnappers can hide for a while but not forever. As long as we keep the city gates tight, the kidnappers will not last, and they will show up on their own."

Xiao Ruiyuan looked at him with annoyance; by the time the kidnappers showed up on their own, Miss Mo’s reputation would be utterly destroyed.

Yan Junyu, not having achieved his aim, thought for a moment and said, "Jing City is only so big. You send people to search every house, and I’ll lend you Little Flower too, after all, it’s about catching the ’assassin’ to avenge me, huh!"

As he said the last part, he reverted to his flippant demeanor.