Exile? A mad, wicked woman empties the national treasury to escape famine.

Not long after the two left, suddenly, several figures crept up the stairs in the inn's corridor.

Each person carried something in their hand, quietly approached several doors, poked a hole in the paper on the window, took out something, and blew the contents of the hole into the room.

Before long, the group found their way to Ji Yunshu and Xie Moyao's room.

At that time, Ji Yunshu and Xie Moyao had just entered the room and had just fallen asleep.

Ji Yunshu lay on the bed. As soon as she turned her head, she saw a figure flash by outside the window. She exchanged a glance with Xie Moyao and remained lying on the bed without making a sound.

They were right; there was indeed something wrong with this inn. They just didn't know what these people were up to in the middle of the night.

Ji Yunshu turned to Xie Moyao and asked, "Can you smell what they're blowing into the room?"

Xie Moyao leaned closer to Ji Yunshu and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be some kind of sleeping potion."

After Xie Moyao finished speaking, Ji Yunshu also felt a bit sore and weak.

It seems that what Xie Moyao said was true; what was blown in was indeed a sleeping potion.

What exactly do they want to do?

With such a large inn and so many people, did they put sleeping pills in every room?

I wonder how my mother and Li are doing.

Mother and Li were not skilled in martial arts, nor were they as vigilant as them, so they probably didn't notice that these people had put sleeping pills on them.

Fortunately, these people only used sleeping pills, so they wouldn't harm her for the time being. She wanted to see what these people were up to.

Ji Yunshu and Xie Moyao were lying on the bed when they noticed that the person outside the door had not left. Ji Yunshu quietly took out a towel from her spatial storage, which was already wet with spiritual spring water, and gently covered her and Xie Moyao's mouths and noses with the towel.

With the towel dampened by the spiritual spring water and breathing in its fragrance, Ji Yunshu finally felt a slight relief from the soreness in her body.

The drug was really strong; in just a short while, she felt weak and sore all over. Fortunately, she had the spiritual spring water in her spatial dimension. Breathing in the spring water helped her regain her senses.

Xie Moyao was already highly skilled in martial arts, so this amount of sleeping potion had little effect on him. In addition, with the spiritual spring water that Ji Yunshu gave him, he was no different from usual.

The two lay quietly on the bed. After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the door to the room creaked open.

Several men sneaked into the room, rummaged around inside, and came to the bedside.

"Hey, do you want this guy with the leg disability too? It'll be such a hassle to take him along!"

"Of course I want him! He's a guy, and he's not bad looking! Even if he can't do any work, he can lie there and be a feast for the eyes, and everyone can have some fun with him!"

In this desolate wilderness, to find someone this good-looking is already quite good; it's better than the ugly and deformed people in those villages.

"Hahahaha, that's right, take him back, take him back! I'm already tired of those people in the village. Even if this guy can't do any work, it'll be good for everyone to admire him."

"Haha, I wonder if his limp will affect our sex life. I've never played with someone so good-looking before, I wonder what it'll feel like!"

"Not only this man, didn't you see how beautiful the woman next to him is too? Let's grab her and take her back so we brothers can have some fun with her, then throw her into a brothel to make money for us."

The rest of the people will be thrown into the mines; they'll make money for us too! So many people came this time, and they've all fallen into our hands; we're really going to strike it rich!

"That's right! Our inn hasn't been this lively in ages. If we pull off this job today, the payout will be enough for us to live it up for a long time. It's been ages since I've been to Yixiang Garden. Once I get the money, I'm definitely going to go and have some fun!"

"You idiot, so many people came today, aren't there any women in the line?"

Why don't you just play with these free ones first? They all seem pretty good-looking, and the one in bed is quite attractive! Why waste your money on them!

The group talked amongst themselves, their words becoming increasingly nauseating to listen to.

Ji Yunshu gritted her teeth. What on earth were these bastards saying?

What kind of business are they doing?

Hearing them say things like "just for fun" and "she's pretty," and even making advances towards Xie Moyao, she wanted to jump up and tear their mouths apart.

Xie Moyao lay beside her, his hands clenched tightly, the veins on the back of his hands bulging.

In the pitch-black night, others couldn't see his face clearly. If it were daytime, the people who came in would definitely have seen the bulging veins on Xie Moyao's forehead.

The two were angry, but they lay motionless in bed.

Before long, I felt my body being gently moved, and then several people carried me downstairs and threw me onto a cart.

Ji Yunshu and Xie Moyao were carried downstairs together and thrown onto a flatbed cart. They were still warm to the touch, and then they were thrown onto other people.

Using each other's bodies as cover, Ji Yunshu and Xie Moyao gently opened their eyes and looked around at their surroundings.

The inn, which had previously only been lit by a large red lantern, was now brightly lit with torches everywhere, and many people were standing around it.

Ji Yunshu glanced around and recognized many of the people as those she had seen when she entered the hall from outside. Among them was the innkeeper, who was currently standing at the inn's entrance, directing the others.

Before long, everyone in the room was carried out one by one and thrown into cages on a cart.

There were about four or five carts in total, each piled high with people and chained up.

Other people were still coming and going, I don't know what they were busy with.

After a while, a waiter hurriedly approached the innkeeper and whispered:

"Second brother, everyone has been moved down. Just like before, everyone has been drugged and is fast asleep, showing no reaction at all!"

We've searched through most of the stuff; it's all junk, nothing of value!

"Shall we set off right now, like before? With so many people this time, the pay will be really good if we send them all over, especially since there are so many young, strong men. They'll be great at the work, so we should make sure to collect as much money as possible this time!"

The innkeeper nodded and continued, following the waiter's words:

"Not bad, not bad, the quality this time is really high. I initially thought it was just the few people who were exiled, but I didn't expect so many of them to come!"

Especially those two leading men, and their gang of men—each one looked strong and sturdy; they could easily do the work of two men in the mine!

"Hehehehe, that's right! But, Second Brother, what about those officials? I told my men to make sure they didn't get the drugs on the officials, but they don't know how to do it!"

By the time I found out, those officials had also been drugged by us! Look, the person is right there, still pinned down. Should we get him out? After all, they're government officials; wouldn't it be bad if word got out?"

The innkeeper looked in the direction the waiter pointed and, sure enough, saw several men dressed as government officials at the very bottom of the third cart.