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Chapter 611 The Person Has Been Found

They hadn't been hiding anything from anyone. The other villagers, who were being held elsewhere, immediately understood what was going on when they saw the village chief and his group had changed their clothes. They immediately knelt on the ground and began to beg for mercy.

"Village chief, please save us! We don't know anything, and we don't want to die."

"Yes, village chief, the men in the family go out to work, and we women know nothing about it. Why should we women have to suffer all this in the end?"

“We’re all from the same village. We’re innocent people who know nothing. You people who know the inside story can survive, so why can’t we?”

The scene was somewhat chaotic. A constable standing to one side lashed his whip against the wooden fence, yelling, "Stop arguing! Are you all just trying to die too slowly?"

Some people stopped immediately, afraid of the whips in the hands of the yamen runners. Others were still unwilling to give up, but seeing that the yamen runners were ready to leave, hatred gradually rose in their eyes.

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault."

None of the village chiefs or the others who were changing clothes had any compassion. They changed their clothes and were about to leave when a constable said, "You can't leave now. There are people outside. You can go out after these prisoners are taken away."

The village chief wasn't in a hurry and immediately agreed, "Okay."

Seeing this, Du Mingxian was filled with resentment.

Then someone brought food over. Everyone was hungry while in prison, and the food brought over was not much. Today was said to be their last meal, so the food was not bad.

Upon seeing the food, the people stopped cursing and immediately went to eat, since only by eating their fill could they have the energy to do other things.

Du Mingxian kept an eye on things from inside the space, and also fed An'an milk.

After the villagers finished eating, the yamen runners came in, carrying black hoods. They chained the villagers together one by one before putting the hoods on them.

Du Mingxian was positioned so that she could reach inside and touch the person inside, but Hu Zi's mother was a bit far away, so she couldn't save her.

These people didn't just obediently wait to be tied up or trapped; they did resist, but their resistance was ultimately futile. Anyone who dared to resist was beaten until they begged for mercy, or they were simply beaten to death and no one dared to say anything.

After a struggle, Hu Zi's mother happened to be next to Du Mingxian. She threw some sleeping pills at Hu Zi's mother and took her into her spatial dimension when she saw that the person was about to fall down.

One by one, the other villagers left the prison cell like skewers of candied hawthorns. The yamen runners also went out. Soon, when the village chief and his men heard that there was no more noise outside, they prepared to go out.

Du Mingxian appeared at this moment. Her appearance was silent and unnoticed by anyone, but she moved extremely quickly.

All of these people had been locked up in prison and hadn't come out yet. Now, Du Mingxian picked up the chains on the ground, fastened the cell door again, and threw a handful of sleeping pills at them.

When the village chief saw Du Mingxian appear, he didn't recognize her. "You are..." Before he could finish speaking, he saw Du Mingxian throwing things inside. He tried to call for help urgently, but before he could even utter a sound, he had already fainted.

The sleeping potion was an enhanced version made by Ling Silang. These people were planning to leave, and since they were close to the door, it was convenient for her.

After everyone had fallen, Du Mingxian stepped forward, grabbed the village chief by the collar, and pulled him out. She then dispatched the others who were lying on the ground one by one with her knife.

They were originally sentenced to death, and even if someone took their place, Du Mingxian would not agree.

She spared only the village chief, stuffed the sack into her spatial storage, quietly slipped away from the cell, and then found a place to release the sack.

After giving Xia Yu a signal, the interrogation began.

The village chief was woken up by the splash and was momentarily stunned to see Du Mingxian in front of him. It was dark in the prison cell, but now it was bright and dazzling in the deserted alley.

He opened his eyes several times before his eyes adjusted to the light and he could finally see Du Mingxian's face clearly. He wasn't flustered at all; instead, he asked, "I don't know you. You are…"

"How could you not recognize me? When I was staying at my third aunt's house, you were always watching me until right after I gave birth, when you took the baby away. Just because I look different, you don't recognize me?"

The village chief's eyes widened. "You...it's you! You're not dead?"

"How could I die? You're still alive." Du Mingxian lightly patted the village chief's face twice with the dagger. "I'll give you some news: the child you took away back then wasn't mine. He's your family's child, the eldest grandson that Third Aunt has been longing for day and night."

"Trying to use that child to threaten the Crown Prince? You're so naive."

The village chief, thinking about what they were about to do, refused to believe Du Mingxian's words. "I don't believe it. My third sister-in-law carried it to me herself. How could she have made a mistake?"

"Why can't things go wrong? Don't you even consider what kind of person your third sister-in-law is? If I were to give birth tonight, she wouldn't even agree to hire a midwife. If you knew me, you wouldn't have just switched the babies if I gave birth on my own?"

The village chief felt as if a giant hand had grabbed his heart. "You...you're just talking nonsense."

“I’m telling you the truth. And I’ll also tell you that I’m not one of the Crown Prince’s men. Since you’re here, you must have already met the court officials. My husband is the one leading them this time.”

The village chief suddenly laughed, "Great, great, you arrest me, we arrest him, that's perfectly normal."

"What do you mean?" Du Mingxian pressed her dagger against the village chief's neck and squeezed it hard, causing blood to flow immediately from his neck.

"That's what I meant. The people who came to surround and kill us this time seemed to be very successful, but that's not actually the case. It was just a means for us to escape. Only some insignificant people died."

Du Mingxian pressed harder again, "Explain yourself clearly."

The village chief could feel the stinging pain in his neck, but he didn't want to talk about it. "What can you do to me if I don't tell you? At worst, I'll just die. After I die, they will avenge me."

"If you don't tell me now, I promise that in a few days I'll send your child and wife down to live with you."

"Bullshit."

"You think I can't do anything just because there are only some women and children left in that village? The Crown Prince gave me manpower, so I just arrested all the women and children in the village you were supposed to protect. What do you say to that?"

"It doesn't really matter, they're all insignificant people anyway."

Du Mingxian was about to say something threatening when Xia Yu quickly came over and said, "Madam, the masters are at the inn."

Du Mingxian turned around, as if she saw a ray of light, "What did you say?"

"The lords are at the inn; they only suffered minor injuries."

Du Mingxian sheathed her dagger. "Take him away. Which inn are they at?"

"The news came from Yuelai Inn."