The woman stood there, staring at Xiao Ting for a while.
Then she turned around silently, and when she stepped out of the threshold, she suddenly looked back and said: "If Ma'am remembers something, please let me know as soon as possible. If we talk in a different environment, Ma'am will not be so relaxed."
"OK."
Xiao Ting poured herself a cup of tea indifferently, and muttered to herself in a not-so-small voice: "My husband said that it is necessary to guard against others. This tea should not be poisoned, right?"
Although she said so, she still poured herself a cup of tea and poured it directly into her mouth.
The woman inadvertently turned her head and saw this scene, a little speechless.
Little Six woke up quickly, not long after the woman left, he woke up.
Knowing that he was taken to the magistrate's yamen, he panicked instantly.
"Miss, why did the prefect arrest us? We haven't broken the law."
Xiao Ting touched his forehead and saw that he was fine, so she comforted him: "What is arrest? The magistrate invited us here, okay? You didn't expect to serve us with good food and drink."
At this moment, the maid outside knocked on the door and brought in some food.
Little Six immediately widened his eyes and looked at Xiao Ting.
"Miss, can we eat now?"
Obviously Little Six believed Xiao Ting's words.
"Of course it's fine." Xiao Ting took Xiao Liuzi and sat down on the table: "If it's cheap, you're a bastard, eat it quickly, lest they regret it later."
As he spoke, he had a chicken in his left hand and a duck in his right hand, and Xiao Liuzi couldn't wait to gnaw the chicken's claws until there were no bones left.
The two maids stood outside the door, watching the two eating, muttering to themselves.
"Your Excellency also said that this lady looks like she came from a wealthy family, but this eating looks like she has been hungry for eight lifetimes."
"That's right, let's report this matter to the adults."
After finally being full with wine and food, Xiao Ting pulled Xiaoliuzi over and muttered in a low voice.
Little Six nodded.
Not long after, the magistrate arrived in person.
"Your name is Xiaoliuzi, right?" He ignored Xiao Ting, but went straight to the little boy.
Little Six nodded, then knelt down respectfully.
"Okay, you don't need to see Fushan, your mayor is here, follow me to meet him."
Little Six looked back at Xiao Ting, Xiao Ting smiled brightly, waved to him, and signaled him to leave quickly.
"My lord, can I go back?" He asked innocently.
The magistrate answered the question and said, "I will take you to see your mayor right now."
"What about big brother and little sister?" Little Six asked the magistrate innocently, with a look of hope on his face.
"This young master still needs to rest for a few days." The implication is that he can't leave now.
The little six sons were brought to the front, and sure enough, they saw the mayor. The mayor kowtowed and bowed three times to thank him, "Master Zhifu, this child has been well-behaved since he was a child, and now he has no parents. Your lord has given him a lot to let him go. Thank you."
"I'm not a person who doesn't know right from wrong." The magistrate said frankly: "The bamboo forest was used by Madam to suppress demons and evil spirits, but now it has become an ordinary bamboo forest. The monsters in it have been released, and there may be troubles."
"Ah, then, what should we do?" The mayor was anxious. If there were any evil spirits, their town would be the first to bear the brunt.
The magistrate sighed, and looked at Xiaoliuzi, "The three of them were the only ones who went into the bamboo grove. The lady said she didn't know, so tell me, Xiaoliuzi, what did you see in there? What have you experienced?"
"You have to know, those two people are not from this family, even if what happens, it has nothing to do with them, at worst, they will pat their buttocks and leave, but you, you are different, you are born and raised here, do you really want to help outsiders, and disregard the lives of your own clansmen and relatives?"
The magistrate's words were so serious that Little Six was so yelled at that he froze on the spot.
Little Six blinked, then seemed to come back to his senses, knelt down respectfully, and replied with a trembling body: "Return, Xiaomin will not lie when you answer the words of the adults. The elder brother and the younger sister said to go to the bamboo forest. I told them that the forest can eat people. They didn't believe it. They insisted on going to see it. I was worried, so I followed."
"And after that." Little Six's trembling words and expression reassured the magistrate.
"After that, we didn't go far into the woods, and it seemed that there was an earthquake, yes, it was an earthquake, and then there was a loud sound coming from the ground, and then I passed out."
What he said was exaggerated, the expression on his face was very rich, and he was still gesturing there.
The prefect's face darkened completely.
"You don't know it when you are an official, and you still want to fool this official?"
"My lord, what Xiaomin said is true, and I dare not lie to my lord."
The little six kowtowed again and again, and the mayor also chimed in: "Master Zhifu, please forgive me, this child has been sensible and well-behaved since he was a child, and he has never lied."
"Never lie. As far as I know, they have been in for a long time."
The magistrate stood up with his hands behind his back, came to Xiaoliuzi, and looked down at him, "And you told me that you fainted not long after you entered?"
"There was an earthquake? If nothing else happened, how could there be an earthquake? Moreover, according to other people's confessions, the tremor happened twice. It wasn't an earthquake at all."
The prefect roared out the last sentence.
Let him say anything else, Xiao Liuzi just shook his head, and finally started crying, but he still insisted that he was not lying, what he said was true.
In the end, Little Six would naturally not be put back, and he was sent back to Xiao Ting.
"Hey, why are you back again? Didn't you say that the mayor over there wants to take you back?"
"Miss Sister." Xiao Liuzi ran in crying directly, the officers and soldiers who sent her here were a little speechless, such a small child didn't look like a liar.
"The adults said I can't go back now, they said I lied, I didn't lie."
Xiao Ting knelt down, helped him wipe away the tears, and comforted him: "It's okay, sister trusts you, we Xiaoliu will never lie."
"Then why did the magistrate say that I lied to him? I didn't lie!"
"Hey, generally speaking, grown-ups who have no skills want to scare children and put all the blame on them. When you grow up, you will know that such people are idiots."
The two officers and soldiers guarding outside looked at each other, hehe, they are idiots.
"But, but I told him everything, and he wouldn't let me go home. He also said that if I didn't tell the truth again, I would be locked up. I didn't lie to him, little sister, why did I lock me up? I want to go home, woo woo..."
Xiao Liu became more and more sad as he talked, and began to cry again. Xiao Ting coaxed him for a long time before coaxing him well.
That night, several officers and soldiers came to invite them respectfully.
Xiao Ting left without saying anything.
The three were locked in an extremely secret cell.
The identity of the guest was changed all of a sudden, and he became a prisoner.
It was still the woman who came.
"I said that if you don't tell the truth, you will pay the price." Her arrival brought this innocuous sentence.
Xiao Ting curled her lips, placed the Ninth Prince next to the haystack, and let the little six go over to lie down next to the Ninth Prince.
Then he turned around and looked at the woman in front of him.
"To be honest, you don't look like the magistrate's wife, but his mother."
"You don't need to provoke me. I won't kill you, and I don't want to hurt you. I just want to get what belongs to me."
Xiao Ting leaned against the wall beside the cell.
"You must have checked all the things we packed, but did you find what you wanted?"
The woman shook her head upon hearing this.
"Then why are you sure that what you want is in our hands?"
If Red Spoon and Green Locust were here, they would definitely be amazed that their princess could have such a smooth logic, which was absolutely impossible in the past.
"Except that you haven't been in that bamboo forest." The woman just said so.
"It's just a bamboo forest. What's in the bamboo? Why don't you chop up all the bamboo and see what's hidden inside?"
He does not mean that.
The woman froze slightly, then turned and left, ignoring Xiao Ting and the others.
"Miss, are we going to die?"
Xiao Ting winked at him.
"Don't worry, with my sister here, you will be fine."
"But those people are so hateful, they won't let us go, they are officials."
Xiao Ting hooked her little finger and beckoned him to come over.
"Do you know who your sister is?"
"The mayor said, you and big brother are not ordinary people." Little Six said truthfully.
"Of course we are not ordinary people. Let me tell you, your eldest brother is much older than the prefect, and a lot of officials."
Little Six opened his mouth, seeing Xiao Ting's extremely exaggerated gestures, and then quickly lay down beside the Ninth Prince, next to the Ninth Prince.
"When will big brother wake up?"
"I don't know either!" Xiao Ting was very helpless, with the burden of the Ninth Prince, she couldn't leave for the time being.
"If the big brother wakes up, he will definitely take us out of here."
Xiao Ting: "..." She should blow herself up to the sky, why is she blowing up others now? It doesn't fit her personality.
It was another night with a bright moon and clear wind, everything was silent, and all the sounds seemed so earth-shattering in the night.
Just like the snoring and grinding of teeth in the prison...
Xiao Ting opened the cell door and quietly left the so-called prison.
She patted her small chest and said to herself, fortunately this place is not as strict as entering the prison, otherwise it might not be so easy for her to figure it out.
As for what you said about breaking the lock? For dignified spiritualists, there is no need to open it at all, okay
She was rampant in the government office, and she was illiterate, so she couldn't understand where it was, so she could only rely on luck.
Fortunately, the buildings here are not weird, so Xiao Ting ran directly to the courtyard that looked taller than the side.
Originally, she planned to steal something valuable.
After all, this magistrate doesn't seem like a good person, so she will do justice for the heavens. Of course, the most important thing is that even if she leaves here to treat the Ninth Prince's wounds, it still needs money.
(end of this chapter)