218 Husband and Wife
Qian Jiu was speechless.
Xiao Juan looked at him coldly. “You only have two choices now. Either you kill the hostage and we torture you until you wish you were dead, or you let the hostage go. At that time, I can consider giving you a quick death.”
Qian Jiu said hatefully.
“Since I’m going to die anyway, I might as well drag someone down with me!”
Xiao Juan nodded. “That makes sense.”
Shen Xu broke down and shouted, “How is that reasonable? Try harder!”
Xiao Juan said, “I’ve tried my best, but it’s useless. He doesn’t listen to me.”
Shen Xu said, “Is that called hard work? You were just perfunctorily completing the mission! You didn’t put in any effort at all!”
Xiao Juan seemed to be quite surprised.
“You saw through it?”
Shen Xu was speechless.
He wasn’t blind!
Shen Xu was seriously suspicious. “Are you possessed by the woman next door? Otherwise, why did you suddenly speak like that woman?!”
Yu Niaoniao responded through the wall.
“This is what it means to be husband and wife! Do you understand, you single dog?”
Xiao Juan quickly caught the main point and nodded slightly. “Yes, husband and wife.”
Shen Xu cried.
Why was he still being fed copious amounts of public displays of affection when he was about to die?
Qian Jiu interrupted. “Isn’t the person locked up next door a kid? Why is it a woman?”
Shen Xu cursed bitterly.
“That’s why I said you’re blind! The person next door was clearly a woman, but you couldn’t tell! If you had kidnapped her as a hostage, I guarantee that Duke Lang will immediately let you go without any hesitation! But you kidnapped me as a hostage instead! I have an old grudge against Duke Lang. He doesn’t care about my life at all!”
Qian Jiu felt a little dizzy.
He had spent a lot of effort to kidnap a man and a woman. He originally thought that the woman could be sold for a high price, but he did not expect that this woman was actually a man in disguise.
And the man he had casually thrown aside as a companion was actually a woman. Moreover, that woman was Duke Lang’s wife!
It turned out that everything was the opposite.
His eyes were red with anger, and the veins on his forehead bulged.
“You guys are deliberately hiding your identities to play with me!”
No wonder the Eagle Guards had suddenly found this place. These two must have deliberately lured them over.
Shen Xu hurriedly defended himself. “It’s none of my business! I never thought of lying to you. I just wanted to wear female clothes. It’s your eyes that are wrong. You can’t blame me!”
However, Qian Jiu did not believe him.
“You’re in cahoots with them! I didn’t expect that I, Qian Jiu, had been in the martial world for many years and had seen many storms. In the end, I actually lost to you two weaklings.”
Shen Xu was unconvinced. “I’m not a weakling…”
Qian Jiu said, “Shut up!”
He didn’t want to hear another word from this crossdresser.
Now he was at the end of his tether. There was nowhere to run.
With his last hope, he grinned.
“Since you don’t care if this kid lives or dies, I’ll kill him now and see if you can really do nothing?”
With that, he tightened his grip on the dagger and prepared to cut Shen Xu’s throat.
At the critical moment, Xiao Juan suddenly looked at Qian Jiu and asked.
“Miss Chen, what are you doing?”
Qian Jiu paused. Before he could react, his head had already turned and looked behind him.
There was indeed a girl standing behind him.
However, Miss Chen’s hands were empty and she did not have any weapons. Naturally, there was no possibility of her ambushing him.
Just as he relaxed a little.
Xiao Juan suddenly grabbed his arm and broke it.
With a crack, Qian Jiu’s right arm was dislocated!
He could no longer exert himself with his right hand. The dagger slipped from his grasp.
Shen Xu felt as if he had been pardoned. He stood up and wanted to escape.
However, his hands and feet were tied, so he could not maintain his balance at all.
He used too much strength and fell straight to the ground. His face landed on the ground and he fell flat on his face in a bow to all the Eagle Guards present.
Qian Jiu endured the pain and wanted to retaliate, but his other arm was also crippled by Xiao Juan.
As for Qian Jiu’s two lackeys, they did not dare to resist anymore when they saw that the situation was bad. They knelt down to Duke Lang and begged for mercy.
The Eagle Guards stepped forward and tied up Qian Jiu and his two lackeys before dragging them out roughly.
Yu Niaoniao had been released.
She hurried to the cell where the girls were being held.
The girls were terrified. They hugged each other and trembled. From time to time, someone would sob.
Meng Xizhou wanted the Eagle Guards to bring these girls out, but because this group of Eagle Guards looked very fierce, the girls were afraid and curled up into a ball, unwilling to go with them.
Meng Xizhou did not know what to do. When he saw the County Princess, he hurriedly begged her as if he had seen his savior.
“Please help us. Tell these girls that we’re really not bad people.”
Yu Niaoniao told him to calm down.
She asked the girls, “Which one of you is Chen Niu’er?”
A young lady with big eyes looked up at Yu Niaoniao and replied softly.
“It’s me.”
Yu Niaoniao walked over and squatted down in front of her. She smiled and said, “I told you just now that I could definitely save you. Now, I’ve done it. These big brothers are the reinforcements I brought over. They’re here to save you.”
Chen Niu’er was skeptical. “Really? You’re not taking us to another place to sell us, are you?”
Yu Niaoniao stroked her head.
“I’m a woman too. I won’t lie to you.”
Chen Niu’er looked at her in surprise. “Are you a woman?”
Yu Niaoniao raised her chin. “Look, I don’t even have an Adam’s apple.”
Chen Niu’er carefully reached out and touched her neck. Indeed, she did not touch her Adam’s apple.
Now Chen Niu’er finally believed her.
Yu Niaoniao reached out to her.
“Come with us.”
“Yeah.”
Girl Chen placed her small hand in Yu Niaoniao’s palm.
Yu Niaoniao led her out step by step.
The other girls saw Miss Chen walk out of the cell safely, and the Eagle Guards did not stop her or attack her. Hence, they stood up and carefully moved out.
Most of these girls were pale and listless. A few of them had been locked up for too long and were so thin that they were almost out of shape. They were also in a daze.
It wasn’t until they walked out of the dungeon and saw the sunlight that they suddenly felt alive again.
Chen Niu’er started crying excitedly.
“We’re finally out! I’m not dreaming, am I?”
The other girls hugged each other and cried tears of joy.
Seeing this, Yu Niaoniao could not help but smile.
At this moment, Xiao Juan walked to her side and asked in a low voice.
“I suppose you’re relieved now?”
The smile on Yu Niaoniao’s face quickly faded. “Although these girls were saved, some of them have been transported away. I wonder if they’re dead or alive.”
Xiao Juan raised his right hand and placed his palm on her head, rubbing it gently.
“I’ve already asked County Magistrate Liu to investigate. There should be a result soon.”