The village is an ordinary village. The head of the village is surnamed Wang, but the village is called Lijia Village.
After searching for fifty years, it turned out that most people in Lijia Village were indeed surnamed Li. However, due to a plague, several people in Lijia Village died, and the entire village moved away one after another.
But there were still some families left. At this time, a family with the surname Wang came, and gradually, the whole village was filled with people from the Wang family.
There are more than a hundred households and about four to five hundred people in the village, so it is considered a large village.
The main occupation is farming. During the slack season, the men in the village go to the city to do odd jobs, while the women stay at home and weave cloth. They live a very peaceful life.
Even when King Xiang went to war, it seemed to have no impact on the village.
Liu Qiaoer couldn't find any clues, so she asked someone to go back to the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion to find out about this person.
The person hasn't returned yet and there are no clues, but the child is still in their hands.
Liu Qiaoer decided to go over and check it out at night...
Late at night, Liu Qiaoer and Lou Wei returned to the village again. In addition to bringing food to the two guards who stayed behind, Liu Qiaoer also briefly explained the clues of the investigation.
"Anyway, this is an ordinary village, and that family is an ordinary family. Go ahead as planned tonight. The two of you go to the city and prepare a comfortable carriage with some food and toys in it."
"We will start the operation at midnight. Once the child is taken out, we will go into the city immediately."
At the city gate, Liu Qiaoer had already made arrangements and would open the gate as soon as their carriage arrived.
The plan was very thorough, and Liu Qiaoer even used drugs to avoid harming innocent people.
Before the hour of Chou, the carriage had arrived. When it was dark, they hid beside a big tree.
Liu Qiaoer and Lou Wei went into the village, but they didn't expect that there was a dog next door to the house. As soon as they approached the yard, the dog started barking.
Liu Qiaoer was anxious, so she took a meat bun, stuffed the sleeping pills into it and threw it over.
The problem with the dog was solved, and Liu Qiaoer and Lou Wei entered the yard.
There are only two houses in the yard, so it should be easy to find. Liu Qiaoer will look for the bigger one, and Lou Wei will look for the smaller one.
As the weather was still cool, the door was bolted and the window ajar.
Liu Qiaoer gently opened the window and tried to climb in through the window, but she found that there was a dressing table behind the window.
I climbed in through another window. The other one was empty and contained a few bags of food.
Going into the inner room, she saw an old couple. Liu Qiaoer did not disturb them and went back the same way.
Looking at Lou Wei, he also quietly retreated from the room and gestured to Liu Qiaoer.
"There was only a woman sleeping inside, no children, and no men."
This is very strange. They were clearly staring at the carriage and watched them carry the child into the yard. How come you were nowhere to be seen
The carriage was still in the yard. Liu Qiaoer went on the carriage and checked it, but still found nothing.
Could it be that this yard has a back door
Liu Qiaoer searched around the yard again and finally found it. There was a small door at the back. When she pushed it open, there was a dirt road and behind it were houses lined up side by side.
What is certain is that the child should still be in the village, but with so many villagers around, where is the child
Liu Qiaoer had no choice but to enter the space to search, and Long Batian pointed out the location to her.
On the left hand side at ten o'clock.
There were two households at the ten o'clock direction. Liu Qiaoer waved her hand and asked Lou Wei to follow.
What’s really annoying is that there are too many families with dogs in the village. Before you take a few steps, you’ll hear a dog barking.
This time Liu Qiaoer decided to kill the dog by shooting an arrow from her sleeve.
Another dog was barking again, and another one was shot dead. In order to avoid attracting attention, Liu Qiaoer asked Lou Wei to put all the dogs on the carriage. Dog meat is very nutritious.
Finally they arrived at the two families' homes. Liu Qiaoer jumped into one of them first to take a look. One of the families lived a very ordinary life. The house was a bit short, and they raised chickens and ducks in the yard.
Looking next door, there is a large house made of blue bricks and tiles. The yard is clean and the wall is high. There is a chicken coop and a pigpen in the yard. When it gets dark, the chickens go into the coops and the pigs fall asleep.
Liu Qiaoer felt that this family was very likely the one.
So, Liu Qiaoer and Lou Wei went straight into the house.
There is a main house, two wing rooms on the left and right, a kitchen, a woodshed, a well, and a jujube tree in the yard.
"This family actually has two courtyards, and it seems that they live a good life. They must have two sons, one courtyard for each son."
Liu Qiaoer analyzed, and Lou Wei nodded in agreement.
"It seems that the guard and the nurse are indeed like a couple, and the young master is like her son."
Liu Qiaoer and Lou Wei had no idea how Zhu Zhengzheng was taken care of by the wet nurse on a daily basis.
The Marquis of Zhenbei found three wet nurses for Zhu Zhengzheng, and this one was just one of them. There were seven or eight maids. With so many people in the yard, there was no chance to take action in the mansion. If they had to, they could only do it outside.
But robbing someone on the street is a bit risky.
Liu Qiaoer and Lou Wei looked for people separately, and finally, in the east wing, Liu Qiaoer found Zhu Zhengzheng.
Just as he was about to jump out the window, the person sleeping in the bedroom was awakened.
"Who is it?"
Liu Qiaoer rolled on the ground and placed the sword on the wet nurse's neck.
"Don't move. Leave the young master to me. I won't kill you."
The nurse exclaimed, "It's Miss Liu. Didn't you follow the Xiongnu spies to Lancheng? Why are you here?"
Liu Qiaoer snorted coldly: "Of course you want me to go to Lancheng, but our purpose is to find the young master. How can we find you if we don't do this?"
The nurse turned pale with fear: "Miss Liu, you misunderstood. We are not on the same side as the Xiongnu spies. The little boy they kidnapped has been exchanged back. The Marquis asked us to take the little boy and hide for a while. They kidnapped someone else's child."
"Ah?" Liu Qiao'er was confused. "You mean this is the Marquis's plan? Then what exactly is he planning to do with this plan? And he's using the young master as bait."
The nurse shook her head: "Brother Dong knows, I don't know, I only know that the Marquis asked me to take good care of the young master."
Liu Qiao'er didn't quite believe her and asked her to get off the bed: "Go and call Guard Dong over. I want to ask him carefully."
Not long after, Dong Lun came and bowed when he saw Liu Qiaoer.
Then he told the story of how the Marquis of Zhenbei devised a strategy to find the Huns.
It turned out that after Cui Boxiao defeated the Huns, a part of them fled to the west and north, but their spies who had been ambushing in Kyoto had also started to act long ago.
The main purpose of Zhenbei Hou's return to the capital this time was to root out the spies in the capital. Many of them had been killed, but Zhenbei Hou found out that the leader of the spies in the capital was actually the youngest son of the Xiongnu Khan.
The mother of this youngest son was a Han Chinese. He was handsome and had both Han and Xiongnu blood. He was looked down upon by the Xiongnu Khan's brothers, so the Xiongnu Khan sent him to the capital as a spy.
And the people Liu Qiaoer saw chasing after him were most likely his men.